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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #133 - The Plight of The Puppet-Flash!/Secret of the Handicapped Boys!

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2008

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Plight of The Puppet-Flash!/Secret of the Handicapped Boys!

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Audacity can eat it.

Music by Dexy's Midnight Runners

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Tom versus the Flash number 133 or Barry Allen is not a big fan of the First Amendment.

0:08.0

Welcome back for the Flash number 133 the December 1962 issue featuring a cover,

0:14.2

penciled by Carmen and Pantino and inked by Murphy Anderson. It's an iconic cover, of course,

0:19.1

featuring the Flash turning into a puppet

0:21.1

and thinking to himself

0:21.9

I've got the strangest feeling

0:23.5

I'm being turned into a puppet

0:25.3

one wonders how someone

0:27.4

would get the experience enough

0:28.8

to recognize the fact

0:30.9

that they're turning into a puppet

0:31.9

without having been turned into a puppet

0:33.9

previously

0:34.7

I love this cover

0:36.0

I could look at this cover all day. I'm pretty sure I

0:38.4

probably have at some point in my life. Our creative teams for both stories are the same writer,

0:43.5

John Broom Penciler, and Fantino, Inker, Joe Giella, editor Julie Schwartz. The first story is

0:49.5

the plight of the puppet Flash. I would like to note that in the introductory paragraph,

0:55.7

we get a little bit of a vocabre lesson,

0:58.0

since it deals with Abbotabra,

0:59.9

the magician extraordinaire from the 64th century,

1:03.7

who, and I quote, utilizes fantastic powers of legurjamain.

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