Comic Title: Flash #117
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1960
On Sale Date: October 20, 1960 Newsstand Date October 20, 1960
Source: House Ad, All-Star Western #116, Page 19

Copyright Date October 20, 1960
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1960

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of January, April, July and October
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Madcap Inventors of Central City"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Flash (Barry Allen of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted In:
Flash Archives Vol. 3 HC (2002)
Showcase Presents:The Flash Vol. 1 TPB (2007)
Flash Chronicles Vol. 3 TPB (2012)
Flash Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2014)
Flash:The Silver Age Vol. 2 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #117; next appearance in Justice League of America #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Iris West (last appearance in Flash #117; next appearance in Flash #118)

Villain(s)

• Toughy Boraz (no further appearances)
• An unnamed bandit (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Winky, Blinky and Noddy (of Earth-1; Winky Moylan, Blinky Boylan, and Noddy Toylan; no further appearances)
• Two unnamed children (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Winky, Blinky and Noddy are three dimwits who are fired from their most recent jobs. The trio put there heads together to build a strange machine. The machine, which is simply an assemblage of spare parts including a rock n’ roll record, gives them a message to "Buy dirt cheap and sell it high". Winky throws a dart at a map to determine where to buy, and the dart lands outside the window.

The dimwitted trio dig up the front lawn and sell the dirt from atop a ladder. A man offers to buy the dirt just as Blinky has found a treasure chest that was buried. The buyer is Toughy Boraz, a crook, and the chest was his stolen loot.

Boraz pulls a gun on the trio, but Noddy using an ultrasonic whistle which he thought was a police whistle. The sound of the whistle is heard by the Flash. Flash rushes to the scene and stops Boraz.

Using the reward money for recovering the stolen money, the boys open an inventing business. Their first invention is a jumping bean for their car. This causes the car to jump up and down across traffic. While trying to escape from their bouncing vehicle, a bandit uses it to escape his pursuers. Noddy again alerts the Flash who finds the car, but the bandit has escaped.

Later the boys spot the bandit again. The whistle call gets Flash’s attention, and this time he is able to catch the crook.