The Flash Vol 1 310



 Colonel Computron Strikes Back -- With a Vengeance 

Summary
Volume: 1 Issue: 310 Month: June Year: 1982

Credits
Editor in Chief: Jenette Kahn Head Writer: Cary Bates Cover Artists: Carmine Infantino Pencilers: Carmine Infantino Inkers: Dennis Jensen Colorists: Carl Gafford Letterers: Ben Oda Editors: Mike W. Barr

Synopsis
Cast of Characters:
 * Flash (Barry Allen)
 * Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness)
 * Colonel Computron
 * Basil Nurblin
 * Captain Frye
 * Francine Nurblin
 * Frank Curtis
 * Luna Nurblin
 * W. Willard Wiggins
 * Willard Wiggins, Jr.

Locations:
 * Central City
 * * Captain Computron Toy Company
 * * Central City Hotel
 * * Willard Estate

Items:
 * Barry's costume ring
 * Captain Boomerang's expanding, boomerang glider
 * Colonel Computron's armor

First Appearances: Luna Nurblin (Basil and Francine's daughter); Willard Wiggins, Jr. (W.W. Wiggins' son) Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis: Barry Allen attends the birthday celebration of ten-year-old Willard Wiggins, Jr., son of W.W. Wiggins, president of the Wiggins Toy Company. The house servants wheel out a gigantic Devil's Food Cake for the young boy's celebration. Inside the cake however, resides the computerized villain, Colonel Computron. Computron bursts free of the cake and grabs onto W.W. Wiggins.

Barry races off to change into the Flash. He returns and snatches W.W. from Computron's clutches. Colonel Computron releases two-guided missiles that home in on the Flash. The Flash circles around, quickly changing directions until the missiles eventually collide with one another. During the confusion, Colonel Computron escapes.

Later, W.W. Wiggins addresses a symposium announcing his latest series of Computron toys – General Computron. Suddenly, the Computron mini-gliders begin flying on their own and attack Wiggins. W.W. finds support from an unlikely ally however – Captain Boomerang. Boomerang wants to repay Wiggins for helping him to establish his own criminal enterprises, and now acts as the millionaire’s bodyguard.

The Flash arrives and drives off Computron's mini-robot fighters. He tries to grab Captain Boomerang, but the Rogue escapes upon an expanding glider-boomerang.

Later, Captain Boomerang encounters Colonel Computron. Computron convinces him to betray Wiggins and instead join up with him in a scheme to destroy the Flash.

Dr. Fate
 American Gothic 

Credits
Head Writer: Steve Gerber Writers: Martin Pasko Pencilers: Keith Giffen Inkers: Larry Mahlstedt Colorists: Tatjana Wood Letterers: Andy Kubert Editors: Mike W. Barr

Synopsis
Cast of Characters:
 * Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson)
 * Inza Nelson
 * Judy
 * Vern Copeland

Locations:
 * Massachusetts
 * Boston
 * Bostom Museum of Natural History
 * Salem
 * Tower of Fate

Items:
 * Cloak of Destiny
 * Helmet of Nabu
 * Orb of Nabu

First Appearances: Judy (Vern Copeland's secretary) Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis: At the Tower of Fate, Kent Nelson observes the Orb of Nabu and sees visions of global catastrophe. Inza wants him to remain at home, but he knows that he must answer these emergencies as Doctor Fate. Fate flies tracks the mystic signatures to a cornfield in Iowa. There, he finds a strange red jewel embedded inside of an ear of corn. A farmer approaches and levels a shotgun at Fate, demanding that he leaves the property. Fate attempts to immobilize the farmer so that he can return to his analysis, but there is more to this man than meets the eye. The being sheds his appearance as a common farmer, and opens up a mystic portal, which draws Doctor Fate inside.

Meanwhile, Vern Copeland, the director at the Boston Museum of Natural History attempts to contact Kent Nelson concerning a twenty-year old excavation known as the Nimrud dig. Unable to find Kent, he instead arranges to have dinner with Inza Nelson.

Trivia

 * The Doctor Fate story in this issue takes place on a Tuesday in the month of May.

Recommended Readings

 * Fury of Firestorm, The
 * Flash (Volume 2)

Related Articles

 * Flash (Volume 1) cover art gallery
 * Flash image gallery
 * Flash appearances list
 * Captain Boomerang appearances list
 * Doctor Fate image gallery
 * Doctor Fate appearances list
 * Inza Nelson appearances list
 * Lords of Chaos
 * Lords of Order
 * Nabu
 * Rogues Gallery