We begin with our cover-story, "Million-Dollar Dream" by Robert Kanigher, Irv Novick and Murphy Anderson. The Flash meets Pablo Hernandez, a teen basketball star, who is also known as the Spanish Flash. After witnesses Pablo's basketball skills, he takes Pablo to Puerto Rico to visit his grandparents. On the way, they cross paths with a ship on fire. The Flash leaves Pablo on the ship while he puts out the fire. A broken mast falls on Pablo crushing his legs.
The Flash takes Pablo to the hospital. Pablo is unable to walk, but the doctors believe the damage is psychological not physical. The Flash is blamed for ruining Pablo's career. The speedster blames himself too. As a result, he loses concentration while battling criminals and is also injured.
The Flash is taken to the same hospital as Pablo and is also unable to walk. When a fire breaks out, the Flash encourages Pablo to walk and get out of the building. Pablo is able to walk, but instead of leaving he drags Flash out of harm's way. However, with the fire closing in, the Flash must overcome his own psychological trauma to get them both to safety.
Next we have "Finale for a Fiddler," a seven-page back-up featuring the Golden-Age Flash, Jay Garrick, or The Flash of Earth 2, if you like. It is written by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Murphy Anderson. It is always fun to see Murphy both pencil and ink. The Flash stops a robbery and apprehends the Turtle Man and his gang. He is exhausted after the fight, but his wife Joan convinces Jay to take her to an outdoor music festival.
The concert is interrupted when the Fiddler makes an appearance and tries to rob the box office, controlling the crowd with his hypnotic fiddle playing. The Flash goes into action, but he is too tired to reach his opponent. The Fiddler laughs. When he does, he stops playing his hypnotic song. This allows the Flash a moment to grab the Fiddler's bow and make the capture. This pretty silly story was reprinted in Justice Society of America 100-Page Super Spectacular #1.
Padding out the page-count is the four-page "The Man with Future-Vision" by Gardner Fox, Carmine Infantino and Bernard Sachs and reprinted from Strange Adventures #73. An accident gives a man vision that sees events three months from now.
Edited by Julius Schwartz.
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