Previous Post Personally, I always saw Cold as leader post-CRISIS... but that's after Scudder died. Mirror Master I, on the other hand, seems like the sort that WOULD lead the team before that... without ever reading this original appearance, I had him as organizer of the Rogues in my home DC Heroes campaign. So, yeah, I'm excited to see this. TJB

And my, it was brilliant stuff. Grodd using his mental powers to gradually drain Barry's speed, for example, is a clever enough plot gimmick without the assembled villains turning up. And the series of battles in the department store remains one of the best action sequences of the Silver Age.

One of the more interesting bits in the story for me has always been Captain Boomerang and Heat Wave arguing Rogue privilege over who gets to take out the Flash. For all that Cary Bates and, later, Geoff Johns did to make the Rogues' inner organization and personalities distinctive, John Broome was doing it almost from the start.