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Flash Foreshadowing
To this day it’s not really clear how far ahead the 2007 death of Bart Allen and return of Wally West (not to mention the subsequent return of Barry Allen in 2008) were planned. Interviews with Mark Waid and Marc Guggenheim at the time made it ...
An Earlier Identity Crisis
A brief exchange from The Flash 80-Page Giant #1 (1998). The setup: The DCU version of comic book writer Mark Millar is interviewing the Flash to get ideas for his next script. Apparently DC Comics exists in the DCU, but they publish stories about &...
Flash Smash Crash!
Hmm, I wonder how many newsstands displayed these books next to each other: An explanation: A while back, I stumbled across a mention of Smash Comics, a series from Quality Comics that ran more or less concurrently with the more familiar Flash Com...
Is There Demand for More Flash Archives?
Note: The discussion is from 2007, and while the Silver Age material has gotten a fifth archive volume, three Showcase books and the start of a Chronicles line, the situation for the Golden Age Flash books has not changed. Newsarama reports that duri...
Dead Flash Covers
Looking back at the cover for Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13, it wasn’t promising for Bart Allen, especially with the Flashes’ history of death. We know now that it ended badly for him (though he got better). Of course, there’s ...
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 t...
Extinguishing a Speedster’s Smokes
Comic Coverage 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 hi...
The Dimwits and 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 hi...
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...
Flash and the Happy Pills
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 ...
High-Speed Déjà vu: Race Noble & the Flash
A repost from 2005. 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 Fantas...
Super-Hero Weddings
Originally posted way back in 2003, long before the infamous Green Arrow/Black Canary wedding! Over the past few weeks I’ve been going through the Silver Age Flash series, cataloging character appearances. I’m almost done – only 25...
50 Years of the Flash at Comic-Con 2006
Flashback Post from 3 years ago. Some of the stuff is old news about the launch of Flash: The Fastest Man Alive, but a lot of it is also a look at Flash history with a number of writers and artists who have worked on the character: Geoff Johns, Carm...
Super-Speed Shipping!
I could not believe I managed to spot these next to each other. I mean, Bart and Keystone? It’s right up there with this one, which I also saw on the back of a truck: Check out the design: Red as the main color Sans-serif capital italics (ju...
Remembering Mike Wieringo
Today’s the second anniversary of artist Mike Wieringo’s death. ’Ringo, as he was known by friends and fans alike, only worked on a handful of Flash issues with Mark Waid in the late 1990s, but in that time he set a new standard for ar...
On the Hunt: Finding Back Issues, Then and Now
How I searched for back issues of comics in… 1989: Look at the local comic store. Wait for a convention that my parents were going to. 1999: Look at the local comic store. Drive around to other stores. Save up for San Diego Comic-Con. Look o...
