Tom versus the Flash number 123 or I didn't realize that Hardwater could do that too.

Welcome back for the Flash number 123, the September 1961 issue entitled Flash of Two Worlds,

written by Gardner Fox, pencil by Herman Amfantino, inked by Joe Giella, and edited by Julie Schwartz,

featuring a cover, Pencil by Carmen Amfantino and inked by Joe Giella and edited by Julie Schwartz featuring a cover, Pencil by Herman Amphantino and inked by Joe Giella.

That's right.

Gardner Fox is writing this issue, as will become traditional with the flash.

Whenever Jake Garrick shows up, Gardner Fox will be writing the issue.

Gardner Fox wrote a lot of the original Justice Society adventures back in the 40s. He, of course,

wrote the JLA for years and years, I believe, like the first 62 issues or so. And he has a very

different style from John Broome. He is extremely economical. There are no loose ends in his

stories. There's also very little character,

sort of character interaction, really. Everyone's sort of interchangeable in what they say.

In a lot of ways, Gardner Fox's style of writing is probably aged worse than just about

anyone else's writing from that time period in the superhero comics. Well, Broom also was, I mean, Broom tied things up,

but Broom had a lot of weird stuff going on,

and reading this story really accentuates some of Broom's weirdness that he had in there.

You know, characters like Anton, the fashion design,

which kind of shows up for no reason,

and a lot of the arguing between Barry and Iris

that doesn't really come through in Gardner's style of writing. Gardner Fox, of course,

it's very formulaic. They meet up, they split up, they fight the villains, the villains win,

then the good guys win at the end. It's very straightforward. I do want to mention an anecdote involving the villains. The villains win. Then the good guys win at the end. It's very straightforward.

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