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Flash vs. Superman Races
Race #1: Superman Vol. 1 #199 (Aug. 1967)
Superman and the Flash race an obstacle course around the Earth to benefit a United Nations charity. Organized crime cartels place their bids and attempt to cause the opponent to lose the race only to be foiled by a tie.
Race #2: Flash Vol. 1 #175 (Dec. 1967)
Superman and the Flash are blackmailed by Abra Kadabra and Professor Zoom (masquerading as a pair of extraterrestrial gamblers upset by the results of the first race) into racing a course across the Milky Way Galaxy.
Race #3: World's Finest Vol. 1 #198 & 199 (Nov. - Dec. 1970)
Superman and the Flash are summoned by the Guardians of the Universe to use their speed to correct the flow of time which has been disrupted by the Anachronids - apparent aliens from anther dimension that travel at the speed of light. The Anachronids are exposed to be automatons created to by Kryptonian criminals attempting to escape the Phantom Zone.
Race #4: DC Comics Presents #1 & 2 (Aug. & Oct. 1978)
Investigating a UFO Superman and the Flash are captured by two alien races who have been at war for millions of years. The two races, which were once one race, had been at war for so long they had forgotten what started the acrimony. Deciding it was time to end the war one race sent a soldier forward in time making use of time's circular nature - thereby arriving before the beginning of the war. Threatening to destroy the Earth the Flash was forced to travel ahead in time to insure the soldier's mission was successful. The competing alien race sent Superman to foil the Flash because if time were to change then their organic space travel technology would not have seeded Krypton with life and thus Superman would not exist. The two heroes race to the end of time dodging obstacles and eventually defeating the aliens.
Race #5: Adventures of Superman #463 (Feb. 1990)
Bored, Mr. Mxyzptlk decided a race between Superman and the Flash would break the tedium. Promising to return to his home dimension for ninety days the Man of Steel was more than willing - although the fifth-dimensional imp had lied as was secretly rooting for the Flash, confident that his foe Superman could beat the Scarlet Speedster. Although the Fasted Man Alive wanted nothing to do with the race Superman used reverse psychology to goad the Flash into agreeing to the race - which was run on a obstacle course racetrack devised by Mxyzptlk. Stretched to the ends of their endurance the two heroes finished the race with the Flash barely winning and Mxyzptlk banished by his own deception.
Race #6: DC First: Flash/Superman #1 (July, 2002)
The magician from the future Abra Kadabra escapes from Iron Heights Prison and plots to return to his own time in the 64th Century. Casting an aging spell upon the citizens of Metropolis and Wally West the newest Flash, Abra-Kadabra compels Superman and the original Flash - Jay Garrick to race after the young hero in order to stop the spell from killing him, but at the cost of spell being transferred to the swiftest. Borrowing the speed from Superman, Garrick is able to catch his protégé, but Abra-Kadabra uses the resulting energy to escape to the future brining the heroes with him to use as a means to return to their time. At the moment Garrick touches West and the spell is transferred, Superman is able to see the "spell" as nothing more than parasitic nanites. West uses his ability to manipulate molecules to make Garrick intangible while Superman uses his heat vision to destroy the microscopic robots. Meanwhile Abra Kadabra restocks his arsenal of "magic" tricks from the future, but is defeated by the trio of heroes and returned to his prison cell in the 21st Century.
Race #1: Jim Shooter & Curt Swan
Race #2: E. Nelson Bridwell & Ross Andru
Race #3: Denny O'Neil & Dick Dillin
Race #4: Martin Pasko & Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Race #5: Dan Jurgens
Race #6: Geoff Johns & Rick Burchett
