Flash #149

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The Flash's Sensational Risk!A violent explosion rocks Blue Valley. Wally West investigates, as Kid Flash. Discovering a massive crater on the edge of town, Kid Flash explores it's interior. Suddenly, Kid Flash is caught in powerful vortex, that draws him, ever deeper. into the crater. Word of West's disappearance makes headlines across the country. Mysterious explosions continue to occur across the world. The Flash comes to Blue Valley, to personally investigate his protege's disappearance. After spending the entire day searching, the Flash returns to his laboratory in Central City. There, he finds Kid Flash waiting for him. The vortex had drawn Kid Flash across dimensional space, to the alien world, Ikora. Kid Flash learned that a band of criminals, the K-10 Gang, had been using a new explosive to commit crimes.While the explosive's effects were considerable on Ikora, the force, as it breached the dimensional barrier between Ikora and Earth, was exponentially more powerful. Kid Flash ran down the K-10 Gang, in the act of committing another crime. In hot pursuit of the fleeing criminals, Kiid Flash was winged by the their blaster fire. Though not seriously injured, it occurred to Kid Flash that, were he to be killed, no one on Earth would ever learn the truth about the mysterious explosions. Immediately, Kid Flash returned to Earth, to enlist the aid of his mentor, the Flash. Having finished his tale, Kid Flash suddenly passes out. When the Flash revives him, he finds Kid Flash suffering from amnesia, a delayed result of the hit he took on Ikora.The Flash carries Kid Flash to the sites of some of their past adventures, but Kid Flash remembers nothing. Taking Kid Flash, as West, to see a doctor, the Flash learns that a sudden shock might cause West's memory to return. The Flash returns West to his parents. Taking note of the television show they are watching, the Flash races to the television studio, and then reveals his identity on live television. The shock of the...