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- Did the Flash Save Comics?
Yesterday’s article about the Flash (warning: major spoilers for this week’s DC Universe: Zero) in the New York Daily News brings up the hero’s key role in launching the Silver Age of Comics. Superheroes had fallen out of favor in the early 1950s, and comics were exploring genres like westerns, horror, romance, etc. When DC […]
- Cataloging Worlds
What’s the best way to catalog a fictional multiverse? Clear definitions, or fluid? Names or numbers? How do you choose the numbers?
- Finding Back Issues: Then and Now
I’ve had parts of this in draft form for at least 2 years. Last night, while brushing my teeth, I decided to pick it up with a new approach. This morning, I jotted down a couple of notes. And earlier this evening I saw Comics Should Be Good’s post, Where do you buy your comics?—and […]
- Bart? Keystone? Hmm…
I could not believe I managed to spot these next to each other. I mean, Bart and Keystone? It’s right up there with Flash Transport.
- Not the Flash
Speedster? Check. “World’s fastest man?” Check. Skin-tight costume? Check. Wings on head? Check. Lightning motif? Check. Round insignia on chest? Check. Yellow boots? Check. I first saw this ad for movietickets.com with 3:10 To Yuma a few months ago. He’s trying to impress his date by running and buying the tickets for their movie while […]
- Flash vs. the Pirate Torpedo
Arr! Barry Allen may not know how to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day, but he do celebrate Jog Like a Pirate Day! From Showcase #13, it’s “Around the World in 80 Minutes,” a tale of the Flash. (Mostly he runs around the world, helps people out, and gets kissed by women. Aye, it be […]
- Is there demand for more Flash Archives?
Has the Flash exhausted the material for which collectors are willing to pay a premium? Or are there still stories that are worth the effort to reprint?
- Mike Wieringo (1963-2007)
This weekend I re-read Tellos, a fantasy comic book that ran from 1999-2000. Writer Todd Dezago and artist Mike Wieringo took a 6-month hiatus to prepare the next story arc, but that arc never materialized. Just a few one-shots and an anthology mini that explored backstories and aftermath, with a few hints at the upcoming story. Though […]
- Who Named Impulse?
Superman, Batman, and Max Mercury have all been cited as giving comic-book speedster Bart Allen the name Impulse. Batman most famously in Impulse #50, and Superman just recently in the previews for next month’s All-Flash #1. But who named him originally? The name first appears on the cover of Flash #93 (August 1994), with an […]
- Flash Foreshadowing
The very first issue of Flash: The Fastest Man Alive starring Bart Allen features the Black Flash and a hint that death may already be stalking the hero.
- Dead Flash Covers
The Flash has a long tradition of appearing dead on the covers of his comics, and most of the time he gets back up again.
- Extinguishing a Speedster’s Smokes
Comic Coverage recently posted a humorous look at the role smoking had in the Golden-Age Flash’s origin. Jay Garrick was working late, took a cigarette break, and knocked over a beaker of “hard water.” Interestingly, later retellings of his origin downplayed and finally deleted the cigarette. First, here are the original 1940 panels from Flash […]
- Pro(to)zac
One of the characters I encountered early in my exploration of Golden Age Flash stories was Ebenezer Jones, the Worry Wart. In fact, All-Flash #24 (1946) was one of those first two GA Flash books I bid on just to see if I could win. The story in that book referred to previous meetings. If it […]
- Who’d’a thunk it? (Uncovering the origin of the Thinker)
After almost 1½ years, my Golden-Age back-issue hunt finally netted a relatively cheap copy of All-Flash #12, the first appearance of the Flash villain, the Thinker. It’s an odd read, because the origin of the Thinker (a mob boss who plans his heists very meticulously) is interwoven with a slapstick story of the Three Dimwits. […]
- 50 Years of the Flash at Comic-Con 2006
Carmine Infantino, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns, Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo & Brian Bolland talk about their parts in the history of Barry Allen, Fastest Man Alive.
- When it has to be there in a Flash
A while back I was driving on the freeway and noticed a truck with this logo: OK, so I’m maybe a bit focused on the Flash, but then I started looking at the design. Red as the main color Sans-serif capital italics (just like the longest-running versions of the Flash logo) A lightning bolt that […]
- One-Man Team
Something I’ve noticed as I read through various Golden-Age Flash Comics is a repeated subgenre in which the Flash plays an entire team. “Nine Empty Uniforms” (Flash Comics #90, 1947) is the first one I read, since it was reprinted in an 80-page Giant. The bad guys cause problems for a baseball team, so the […]
- Early Flash (and Jim Membership)
In the first year and a half of the golden-age Flash Comics, Jay Garrick runs into five of his old college pals – and four of them are named Jim.
- Deadly Nightshade After Closing Time
Comic Cavalcade was an anthology series that ran from 1942 until 1954, publishing super-heroes and other adventures for the first six years. Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Green Lantern were the headliners. Earlier this year, DC reprinted the first three issues as The Comic Cavalcade Archives, Vol. 1. (At 100 pages per issue, it’s still […]
- High-Speed Déjà vu
I’ve never really considered Noble Causes’ Race Noble to be a reference to the Flash beyond sharing the speedster archetype—especially since the Nobles owe a lot to the hero family concept pioneered by the Fantastic Four—but a scene from Noble Causes #6 has me ready to change my mind. The Nobles are both heroes and […]
- An Earlier Identity Crisis
With Identity Crisis just finished, and news breaking about DC Countdown, Crises are in the news in comics right now. That makes this exchange from The Flash 80-Page Giant #1 (1998) all the more interesting. The setup: The DCU version of comic book writer Mark Millar is interviewing the Flash to get ideas for his […]
- Super-Hero Weddings
Over the past few weeks I’ve been going through the Silver Age Flash series, cataloging character appearances. I’m almost done – only 25 issues left – but it reminded me of something: Why is it that super-hero weddings are almost always interrupted by super-villains – even when the hero’s identity is secret? Is it just […]