Flash Vol 1 #110 - 1st Weather Wizard

Rough Grade: 1.8-2.0 

Having an impending date with Iris West in an hour, Barry is determined to make it on time. Iris gave him a 12 date minimum where he must be on time every date. The police scanner alerts Barry of a rain storm on a sunny day. Barry decides to investigate as the Flash.

Flash discovers a new villain called the Weather Wizard. The Weather Wizard uses his Weather Wand to summon fog to distract the Flash as he escapes.

A U.S. Marshal finds a confused Flash emerging from the fog. He informs him that the Weather Wizard is the common crook named Mark Mardon, who escaped police custody while being transported to prison. He was familiar with where he jumped off the train and headed towards a lake area where his brother, Clyde Mardon, lived on an island. Mark discovers his brother was conducting weather control experiments. Combining his brother's research with his own, Mark creates his Weather Wand to help him carry out his 'special project'.

Weather Wizard uses his wand to create colored snow and rainbows to distract people as he executed a robbery, and hailstorms to destroy a police station. The police station attack gives the Flash an idea as he takes off to investigate.

Arriving at a secluded house, Flash finds a huge glacier approaching a house. Using an Acetylene Torch to melt the ice, and then spinning his arm around as a windstorm to deflect the water, he saves the house and Central City.

The Flash turns Mark over to the police. He explains he deduced that the Weather Wizard would strike at police officer Jim Harvey's home who had previously arrested Mark when he saw his other attacks had attacked previous officers involved in Mark's arrests. Realizing that it's almost time to meet with Iris, Flash speeds to where they are to meet. Telling her that he's on time for once, he realizes that he had arrived as the Flash and not Barry Allen, raising Iris's suspicion of the Flash's identity.