Flash #152

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Synopsis

The Trickster's Toy Thefts!Police Forensics Scientist, Barry Allen, and his fiancee, Picture News reporter Iris West, present her niece, Inez, with a rocking horse. As Inez prepares to mount the rocking horse, it launches itself into the sky. Allen pursues the rocking horse, and spies the Trickster closing on it. The Trickster mounts the rocking horse, and proceeds onward to a floating art gallery, housed in a dirigible. Allen, as the Flash, generates a tornado, that he then rides up to the dirigible. The Trickster emerges, his saddle bags filled with rare canvases. To distract the Flash from capturing him, the Trickster destroys the dirigible, endangering the lives of the art patrons trapped inside the cabin.By the time the Flash has safely lowered the cabin to the ground, on a super-speed generated cushion of compressed air, the Trickster has made good his escape. The Flash, as Allen, revisits the toy store where he purchased the rocking horse. There, Allen learns that the Trickster made two other purchases, which means two more crimes are in the offing. The first of these crimes occurs at sea, where the Trickster, riding a jet-powered surfboard, robs a luxury liner. To distract the Flash from capturing him, the Trickster uses his jets to kick up an enormous tidal wave. The Flash evacuates the liner, carrying all of it's passengers to shore, before the wave capsizes the vessel.Once again, though, the Trickster has made good his escape. The Flash, as Allen, spends the next day in his laboratory, preparing for his next encounter with the Trickster. Alerted by police bulletin that the Trickster has just robbed a bank, Allen, as the Flash, races after his foe. With dollar bills trailing behind him, the Trickster flees on a motorized tricycle. As the Flash closes on the Trickster, he finds himself being repelled backwards. Undeterred, the Flash hurls magnetized thumb tacks at the the Trickster's tricycle, immobilizing it. Tearing off the tricycle's horn, the Trickster...