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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #169 - Reprint Madness!

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2009

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Reprint Madness...so you get some Batman vs. a gorilla.


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music by Dexy's Midnight Runners

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0:00.0

Tom versus the Flash number 169 or reprint Madness.

0:06.1

Welcome back for the Flash number 169 to April 1967 issue featuring a cover pencil by Carmen

0:13.8

Infantino, inked by Joe Giella, and edited by Julie Schwartz.

0:18.0

This is an 80-page giant reprint edition, and it simply reprints

0:23.2

Barry Allen stories we've already done. So I'm going to do something a little different,

0:26.1

but first I want to list off the stories that are in this volume, in case you ever see it,

0:30.9

you want. There's stories in there you enjoyed hearing about. The first story is Beware of

0:35.8

the Atomic Grenade, which featured the top,

0:38.7

from Flash number 122. The second story is the Miramaster's Magic Bullet, of course,

0:44.9

featuring the Mirrmaster from Flash number 119. The next story is The Man Who Claimed the Earth

0:50.8

from Flash number 113. The fourth story is Return of the Super Gorilla, featuring Grad, from Flash number 107.

0:58.3

And the fifth and last story is the plight of the puppet flash featuring Abra-Kadabra from Flash number 133.

1:05.8

So since we got, I've done all these before, I'm going to do something a little different.

1:10.5

I'm just going to pick a DC story that I like talking about and just do that one.

1:15.1

So, you know, apologies for not having a flash story, but we'll get to new ones next time.

1:19.7

And the story I've picked is from one of my favorite reprint editions ever.

1:25.1

DC Special number 16 from spring

1:27.6

1975. It's DC Special presents superheroes battle super

1:32.9

guerrillas. DC Special was a series. It would reprint old stories, but

1:37.0

it started off with various themes such as battling Supergirlas or all Teen

1:41.8

Titan stories or in a win-around.

1:44.4

It was, you can find them for reasonable prices and they reprint old stories and they're

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