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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #177 - The Swell-Headed Super Hero!

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2009

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The Swell-Headed Super Hero!

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0:00.0

Tom versus the Flash number 177 or you can't get a cave for your layer, a lakehouse isn't a bad second choice.

0:09.8

Welcome back for the Flash number 17th, the March 1968, issued entitled The Swell-headed Superhero, written by Gardner Fox, penciled by Ross Andrew, inked by Mike Esposito, edited by Julie

0:22.3

Schwartz featuring a cover, penciled by Ross Andrew and inked by Mike Esposito.

0:27.6

Great cover.

0:28.6

Dry and headed flesh, you can't beat that.

0:30.4

It's funny.

0:31.2

This is a funny issue, and because it's Gardner Fox writing it, we get the trickster.

0:35.8

It fits right into his whimsical sense of humor.

0:38.0

We start with a very suspicious and a puzzling crime in Central City, so puzzling that they

0:44.4

brought the Labmobile and Barry Allen to check it out. Now, we know Barry Allen is a forensic

0:49.7

scientist, but we don't often see the fact that he might be really good at it. We just don't

0:54.0

really know because he's just sitting in the lab most of the time, and he's got this Lab see the fact that he might be really good at it. We just don't really know

0:54.6

because he's just sitting in the lab most of the time. And he's got this labmobiles. He might

0:58.4

well show up. It's a locked room mystery in the classic tradition, according to one of the cops.

1:04.2

A gangster in the name of Rolo Jackson, perhaps involved in the classic caramel candy

1:10.6

of Rolo Fortune? I don't know, just guessing in the classic caramel candy of rollo fortune i don't know just guessing in the

1:14.5

dc universe well he was found dead inside his house there was no gun in the room every window

1:19.7

and door was locked no one knows what happened we see barry allen get right into action he

1:25.4

figures it out right away. It had to involve the

1:28.4

fireplace because it was the only way into the room. He gets up there. Well, first he looks,

1:33.0

you know, in the room, looks up through the chimney, figures this is the only way it could

1:37.5

have worked. He had to have gotten some gadget down through the chimney, climbs up onto the roof,

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