Manic Labor Day Bonus--When The Flash Met Einstein! Or, Why Barry Is Always Late!

No one has been quicker to pick on Silver Age DC stories for their...questionable use of "science" than I have.

So, it's only fair that when they get a story pretty much right--no matter how unlikely that may seem--I should praise them.

Barry, because of some Flash shenanigans, is late for his dinner with Iris and her scientist father...

Hmm...well, he is kind of absent-minded and nutty...

All right, what's going on?!?!

Patronizing much...?

[Editor's note: later experiments using super-accurate atomic clocks showed that time indeed did move more slowly on a plane compared to a stationary clock. SCIENCE!]

But a plan is hatched when Professor West finds himself at the scene of a bank robbery:

So, after some pretty astonishing calculations for pencil and paper, Professor West is ready to spring his trap:

So how did Barry overcome the theory of relativity?

...or maybe just not wear a watch while crime-fighting?

And of course, what's a Silver Age Flash story without Iris trashing her fiancee?

"Slow old lazy Barry." Oh, Iris...

From The Flash #141 (1963)