Tom vs. The Flash #178 - Reprint Madness! with Aquaman!
Tom vs. Comics
Thomas Katers
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2009
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tom versus the Flash number 178 or a man with an octopus as a friend is a lucky man indeed. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome back to the Flash number 178, the April 1968 issue featuring a cover penciled by Ross Andrew inked by Mike Esposito. |
| 0:17.3 | The issues edited by Julie Schwartz. It is an 80-page giant reprint issue featuring the |
| 0:23.2 | following stories, Land of Golden Giants from the Flash number 120. Double danger on Earth, |
| 0:29.0 | a J. Garrick Barry Allen team up featuring the other Justice Society members and Vandal Savage from |
| 0:34.4 | Flash number 129 and a held Jordan Barry Allen team up, |
| 0:38.6 | Captives of the Cosmic Ray reprinted from the Flash number 131. |
| 0:43.4 | So it's a reprint issue. |
| 0:45.0 | So what am I going to give to you? |
| 0:48.3 | Well, what I'm going to give to you is one of my all-time favorite. |
| 0:52.5 | I mean favorite Silver Age stories. It is a Green Arrow pre-go-tee |
| 0:59.2 | Aquaman team up from way back in Adventure Comics number 267 from December 1959. The one I'm reading it in |
| 1:10.6 | an issue of Super Team Family, number three. |
| 1:14.5 | It was like a 70s book. |
| 1:15.9 | It featured original tales. |
| 1:18.1 | This one has Flash versus an ape Hawkman on the cover, but also has reprints in it. |
| 1:22.9 | But the original story is from way back in 1959. |
| 1:26.9 | It's a bit of a split story. |
| 1:28.3 | It's a team-up that's not really a team-up, |
| 1:31.3 | as Aquaman and Green Arrow don't really share any page time together. |
| 1:35.3 | The story is written by the same person. |
| 1:37.3 | It's split into two with one artist doing the Aquaman section |
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