World's Finest Vol 1 199

Superman and the Flash: "Race to Save Time"

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Superman and the Flash: "Race to Save Time"

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Hey! Guess what? I won!... I guess that settles it! I am the Fastest Man Alive!

— Flash

World's Finest #199 is an issue of the series World's Finest (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1970.

Appearing in Superman and the Flash: "Race to Save Time"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Phantom Zoners
- Professor Va-Kox
  - Anachronids
- General Zod
- Jax-Ur
- Kru-El
Spanish Inquisition
- Tomás de Torquemada

Other Characters:

Alfred Pennyworth (Cameo)
I-Ching (Cameo)
Kryptonian Science Police (Mentioned only)
Lois Lane (Cameo)
Perry White (Cameo)
Peter Fonda (Mentioned only)
Rudolph Valentino (In picture only)

Locations:

Earth-One
- Andromeda Galaxy
  - Unnamed Orange Sun
- Milky Way Galaxy
  - 15 B.C.
    - Rome
  - 15th Century
    - Spain
  - 1970
- Oa
- Phantom Zone Border Land

Items:

Green Lantern Medallion (Destroyed)
Jimmy Olsen's Signal Watch
Vortex Sun (Unnamed)

Vehicles:

Vintage Trolley Car

Synopsis for Superman and the Flash: "Race to Save Time"

Superman and Flash, on a race to save the universe, are captured by the Anachronids and taken to the edge of the Phantom Zone. They find themselves under the vacillating light of the Vortex Sun and prisoners of Phantom Zoners Jax-Ur, General Zod, Kru-El, and Prof. Vakox, who are using the Anachronids to escape the Phantom Zone.

Jimmy Olsen is lost in time, and escapes from a barrage of Roman arrows, before appearing in the magistrate of the Spanish Inquisition. Time is out of joint.

The Zoners tell the heroes that the Anachronids are causing the time disruptuon, and will rupture the barrier between the Zone and the rest of the universe; freeing them while destroying Earth's solar system. Though the Vortex Sun is currently red for the moment, Superman and Flash use their willpower to draw the Green Lantern Medallion and break free and defeat the villains. What began as as a galactic footrace ends with the two heroes crawling in the dirt to shut off the Anachronids. And the Flash wins the race.

After the Vortex Sun goes yellow, Superman uses his newly returned powers to knock out Kru-El and smash the machine that created the Anachronids, inadvertently freeing Jimmy Olsen and returning the timestream to normal.

Notes

Reprinted in Superman vs. the Flash.

Trivia

Superman returns to the Phantom Zone borderland and the Vortex Sun in The Phantom Zone #3.

Links and References

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