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| Publisher |
DC |
| Writer |
Robert Kanigher |
| Cover Artist |
Ross Andru |
| Inker |
Mike Esposito |
| Cover Artist |
Murphy Anderson |
| Artist |
Ross Andru |
| Published | September 1969 |
The Day the Flash Failed! Flash and Iris ate at a lighthouse at Land's End and they are listening to the lighthouse keeper, Phil Anderson. he says he is maintaining the lighthouse so that his missing wife Phyllis can return to him "walking on the waters." The story then flashes back to several hours earlier when Barry Allen gets up to go to an urgent appointment. Iris wakes up and urges him to "pay a little attention...to your wife..." He runs through Gotham City on his way out to see to meet up with the destroyer USS Centaur. The Fastest Man Alive is late: the nuclear sub Trident left on its deepest test dive without him. Flash watches on the ship's scanners as the Trident makes its dive and things are going well until they lose contact with the sub. Flash dives into the sea in pursuit of the sub, but along the way he encounters exploding sharks, an electrocuting octopus, and he is delayed and unable to find the missing sub. He returns to the ship with the bad news and the Commanding Officer and the news media on board blame him for the submarine's loss and the loss of the "irreplaceable crew and scientists." Flash is confronted upon his return by a large crowd and he is slapped by a woman holding an infant because her husband was one of the ninety-nine people lost on board the Trident. Barry Allen and Iris are devastated by the loss and his failure to rescue the sub. Unable to stand it any longer, Flash offers his help to the Navy to try and locate the missing sub, but his "request to help--DENIED!" Barry and Iris decide to go and visit her friend Phil Anderson, the keeper of the lighthouse. Phil has heart problems and he recounts how he and his wife Phyllis met in the Army. Phil went to Viet Nam and he threw himself on a grenade. He survived his injuries and married Phyllis with Iris acting as maid of honor. At some point after their marriage, the government asked them to go on a secret mission crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat under the guise of a "second honeymoon."...
