World Famous Comics: Showcase Presents The Flash VOL 02
Showcase Presents The Flash VOL 02
By: John Broome Publisher: DC Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: DC Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 552 Publication Date: July 01, 2008 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: July 01, 2008
The Silver Age at its best! This collection might be my favorite of all DC's Showcase volumes I've read (and I've read a lot). The first story where the Silver Age Flash (Barry Allen) encounters the Golden Age Flash (Jay Garrick) is one of the greatest superhero tales of all-time. It's worth picking this volume up just for that! The rest of the stories feature lots of appearances by classic Flash villains like Professor Zoom, Captain Cold and the Mirror Master! Kid Flash gets an updated costume and we even get to see a couple guest-appearances by Elongated Man. Highly recommended!
A wonderful book featuring a magnificent fallen star Flash of Two Worlds is as great a comic story as we'll ever see. For sheer inventiveness, nothing beats it. That it managed to wreak havoc throughout comics for 40 years is just a bonus. The Flash was fun -- that was his greatest problem. His shtick was silly and two dimensional. When readers decided that super-heroes had to be real -- something more than the fictitious avatars they were intended to be -- the Flash turned out to be too improbable to survive. What a shame, and what a loss. This book contains so many delightful fantasies that it is worth an afternoon of anyone's time. Make it a sunny afternoon -- he was the last of the sunshine boys, and comics haven't been the same, or nearly as much fun, since he dashed off the stage more than 20 long years ago.
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