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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #158 - Battle Against The Breakaway Bandit!/The One-Man Justice League!

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2009

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Battle Against The Breakaway Bandit!/The One-Man Justice League!


The second story is reprinted in:

DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #2
Justic League of America #92


tomkaters@gmail.com

music by Dexy's Midnight Runners

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tom versus the Flash number 158 or nobody respects Aquaman.

0:08.8

Welcome back for the Flash number 158 to February 1966 issue featuring a cover

0:14.5

penciled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Joe Giella. Our first story is The Battle Against

0:20.3

the Breakaway Bandit written by John Broome, penciled by Carmine Infantino, inked by Joe Gala. Our first story is The Battle Against the Breakaway Bandit, written by

0:22.2

John Broom, penciled by Carmine Infantino, inked by Joe Gila, and edited by Julie Schwartz.

0:27.4

We start in the park in the central of central city where a strange object has fallen from the

0:33.7

sky. Looks like a fancy weather vein spinning around, something my father would install on top of the house. It falls into the sky. It looks like a fancy weather van. It's spinning around something my father would install

0:39.0

on top of the house. It falls into the park and it starts spinning. And everyone starts freaking out.

0:45.1

The cops are telling him, don't touch it, don't touch it. A cop goes up to it. When a sudden,

0:49.1

these strange green beams start to come out of this device. And it's spinning so the beams are

0:54.1

going everywhere.

0:54.7

It hits the cop, changing the cop into this twirling sort of vapor of energy just standing there.

1:01.8

All of a sudden, the machine starts spinning faster, faster, faster, the beams starting getting

1:06.0

wider and stronger, and they start hitting more and more people in the square in the center of Central City,

1:13.9

changing them all into these strange energy wisps. Public spaces are not safe in Central City. Everyone

1:19.4

should know. Of course, the media finds out about it, starts freaking out, warnings going across the

1:24.4

country that something unusual is happening in central city the beams are

1:27.6

getting even bigger and stronger where's barry allen well he he hears it while he's having a picnic

1:32.9

with iris it's the picture news picnic in central city park equally dangerous of a place

1:38.9

barry says they better get back to town as quickly as possible round up all the kids and put him back

1:44.0

on the bus.

1:45.2

Why are there so many kids at the picture news picnic? Why is Barry in charge of driving the bus?

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