Tom vs. The Flash #159 - The Flash's Final Fling/Big Blast In Rocket City
Tom vs. Comics
Thomas Katers
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2009
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tom versus the Flash number 159 or quick, get me my comically large piece of parchment. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome back for the Flash number 159, the March 1966 issue featuring a cover pencil by Carmine and Fantino and inked by Joe Gael. |
| 0:17.2 | It's one of my favorite covers. I just like the imagery of the giant note, |
| 0:22.0 | which we'll get to later. The costume hung from a tree, the checkerboard top. Classic, |
| 0:27.6 | classic cover. And our first story in this issue relates to that very cover. It is called |
| 0:33.2 | The Flash's Final Fling, written by Gardner Fox, penciled by Carmine and Fantino, inked by |
| 0:38.4 | Joe Giella, and edited by Julie Schwartz. We start with a hand knocking the door of a Dr. Charles |
| 0:44.9 | McNider. Confused? Don't be. We'll get to it in a second. A nurse opens the door, |
| 0:51.3 | well, if you don't know, Dr. Charles McNider is Dr. Midnight of the |
| 0:55.6 | Justice Society. His nurse opens the door to find Kid Flash and an angry-looking blonde man with a |
| 1:02.4 | bow tie on. Kid Flash says he desperately needs to see Dr. McNider and tell him that Kid Flash |
| 1:08.7 | and Barry Allen are there. Once Dr. McNatter finds out that Barry Allen's there, tells Nurse to let him write in. They come in and they see what the problem is. Barry's acting like a dick. Charles McNair says, why aren't you dressed as the Flash? Barry says, I'm the X Flash now, which Dr. McNighter gives along. What? And then Kid Flash starts to explain what's going on. |
| 1:30.1 | It all started that morning. |
| 1:31.3 | Kid Flash was staying at Barry Allen's house. |
| 1:34.7 | When you heard a commotion downstairs as Barry is getting dressed. |
| 1:38.1 | He walks into the main room downstairs of an apartment. |
| 1:41.2 | I thought he lived in an apartment. |
| 1:42.3 | Who knows how this house works? |
| 1:44.4 | Walks downstairs to see Barry getting getting ready for work, but also with a giant piece of paper |
| 1:50.4 | pinned to the wall, writing a note saying, I'm through being the Flash. He's writing his giant |
| 1:56.2 | resignation as the Flash. It must be a superhero thing that when you resign, you got to leave a giant |
| 2:01.8 | note comically large to say what it is. Well, Kid Flash doesn't understand what's going on. |
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