Comic Title: Flash Archives Vol. 4 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: April 26, 2006 Direct Market Date May 10, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #2 (#206)

Direct Market Date April 26, 2006
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Cover Price: $49.99
Page Count: 216
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Conquerors of Time"
Pages: 25

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

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Flash #125 (1961)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #124; next appearance in Justice League of America #8)

Guest Star(s)

• Kid Flash (last appearance in Flash #122; next appearance in Flash #127)

Supporting Character(s)

• Iris West (last appearance in Flash #124; next appearance in Flash #126)

Villain(s)

• The Dokris (an alien race; Mynher and Nekaf named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Humans from the 23rd Century (no further appearances)
• The Ornitho-Men (a prehistoric race of bird people; next appearance in Flash #162)

Comments:
Flash uses his cosmic treadmill for the first time in this story. The device allows Flash to control his time travel abilities with special vibrations. The machine can be set to travel forward or backwards through time.

Synopsis:
Flash has desgined a cosmic treadmill which allows him to better control his time travel ablities. He uses the machine to travel into the future and discovers Earth under attack from an alien race known as the Dokris. The Dokris have sent a hive device to prehistoric Earth which has eliminated all radioactive material. The Earthmen’s atomic weapons now are useless against the invaders.

Flash returns to his own time, where atomic power is also disabled. He enlists the help of Kid Flash to defeat the invaders. Kid Flash travels back through time to destroy the hive device. Flash travels back to the future to assist the human defenders.

When he arrives in the past, Kid Flash helps a trapped birdman escape from another creature. The birdman befriends Kid Flash and saves him from a giant bee. The boy speedster tries to get the help of the bird people to find the hive, but he is knocked unconscious from the bee sting of the giant bee.

In the future, Flash helps a group of humans avoid capture from the Dokris. He is captured in the process and kept in a cell from which he is unable to escape. He has an atomic pistol which begins to function again. Flash escapes his jail and assists the humans of ridding the world of the invaders.

The weapon worked only because Kid Flash was revived by the birdmen from the poison stinger. Together, he and the birdmen locate and destroy the hive machine. When he returns home he meets his mentor to compare notes.