We begin with the Flash in "The Evil Sound of Music" by Mike Friedrich, Irv Novick, and Murphy Anderson. Barry and Iris Allen attend a rock concert where the group, the Washington Starship perform. Grace, the lead singer, is the niece of Sargon the Sorcerer. Sargon has used the concert to lure the Flash into his control.
Casting a spell on the music, Sargon conjures demons that attack the crowd. The Flash leaps into action to save them, but once the crowd is safe, Flash falls under Sargon's control. The mystic sends the Scarlet Speedster to the Flash Museum to retrieve Sargon's Ruby of Life. Sargon regains the ruby and escapes, but he regrets having put his niece in danger. There is, of course, an Earth-1/Earth-2 problem with all this, but the lines were very loose back in the day.
The backup features Kid Flash in "Phantom of the Cafeteria" by Steve Skeates, Dick Dillin, and Dick Giordano. Wally West observes the disappearance of food in the school cafeteria. Some students panic because they think a ghost is responsible, but Wally suspects another speedster.
His theory turns out to be correct. He follows the speedster to the outskirts of town. where he learns that the speedster is a member of a subterranean race who came to the surface after a series of landslides. The creature has a fast metabolism which required him to steal food to save himself from starving. Wally helps him return home, then he seals the entrance to the tunnel.
Edited by Julius Schwartz.
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