Comic Title: Flash #23
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1989
On Sale Date: December 13, 1988 Shipping Date December 13, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #11

Shipping Date December 15, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #154

Direct Market Date December 15, 1988
Source: Comic Shop News, #75, #76

Copyright Date December 13, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Barbara J. Kesel (Randall)

Title: "The Clipper Returns"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Flash (Wally West Post-Crisis)

Writer: William Messner-Loebs
Penciller: Gordon Purcell
Inker: Larry Mahlstedt
Inker: Timothy Dzon
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Michele Wolfman

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Invasion #3; next appearance in Justice League International #24)

Supporting Character(s)

• Chunk (last appearance in Flash #22; next appearance in Flash #24)
• Mary West (last appearance in Manhunter #9; next appearance in Flash #24)
• Mason Trollbridge (last appearance in Flash #20; next appearance in Flash #24)
• Pied Piper (transformed in to a puppet in this story; last appearance in Flash #20; next appearance in Secret Origins #41)

Villain(s)

• Abra Kadabra (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• A suicide bomber (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The Clipper (in flashback to the 1930s; last appearance in Flash #20; no further appearances)
• A robbery victim (no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Mason Trollbridge (during the 1930s; last appearance in Flash #20; next appearance in Flash #15)

Synopsis:
Wally West returns home after being cured of the effects from the alien meta-gene bomb. However, he has lost his powers. He soon learns that Mason Trollbridge has assumed the identity of his old mentor the Clipper and is trying to fight crime. Despite his lack of powers, Wally tracks down Mason and tries to convince him to stop.

Mason and Wally then fall under the attack of Abra Kadabra. Wally hides, which causes the 64th century magician to give up pursuit. Instead he goes after Chunk. When Chunk tries to use his powers, Abra Kadabra separates him from his singularity. Wally and Mason arrive to help Chunk. When Mason nearly runs the villain over with a truck, Abra Kadabra vanishes. When he does his spell wears off, returning Chunk to normal.