Flash Fridays – The Flash #340 December 1984

Behind one of the better recent covers, the story continues as the Rogues go on a crime rampage in Central City following Big Sir absconding with the Flash and whisking him off to to a cave in some strange mountainous area (I’ll say it again, I had no idea Central City was apparently ringed by mountains). Big Sir shackles the Flash with some energy shackles. He then spots a bear cub in trouble and his tender heart sends him off to rescue it. A cliff face breaks off and Big Sir hangs onto a ledge with one hand as he holds onto the bear cub with the other. The Flash manages to escape and also manages to save both Big Sir and the cub. Big Sir then realizes that the Flash is no menace to small mammals after all and they shake hands as friends.

B plots and C plots collide as the psychic Ludlow Dreed (yes, I know, his named changed. Continuity was apparently the least of writer/editor worries at this point) shows up at the destroyed house of the Flash’s attorney Cecile Horton where he finds her rummaging for personal possessions in the wreckage. He’s there because the ring has led him to the a place where Barry Allen last appeared, not realizing that Barry had been there as the Flash. Horton tells him that he’s struck out because she’s never seen Barry Allen before. 

The story closes with the Flash showing up in the just in the nick of time for the start of his trial.