Tom vs. The Flash #191 - How To Invade Earth...Without Really Trying!
Tom vs. Comics
Thomas Katers
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2009
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tom versus the Flash number 195 or selling toys is a man's business. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome back to the Flash number 191, the September 1969 issue entitled How to Invade Earth, |
| 0:15.2 | without really trying. Written by John Broome, penciled by Ross Andrew, inked by Mike Esposito, with a cover by John |
| 0:23.6 | Broome, and edited by Julie Schwartz. Again, empty costume on the cover. They get a lot of mileage |
| 0:30.0 | out of that empty costume image. Because you always wonder what could have happened to the flash? |
| 0:34.7 | Why is the costume empty? Well, we start this issue with the |
| 0:37.5 | same costume, empty in a dark alley, a pair of hands searching around, confused by what's going on. |
| 0:44.2 | You think it's Barry Allen, but no, this figure is wearing a tight white t-shirt, and Barry is not |
| 0:48.5 | a tight white t-shirt type of guy, but you know who is? Hale Jordan, Green Lantern, that's the |
| 0:53.9 | type of man that will wear |
| 0:55.4 | a tight fitting shirt he picks up the costume wondering what happened to his green lantern costume |
| 1:00.8 | leaving us the reader wondering what could have happened didn't knock them out of their costumes it's |
| 1:05.8 | insane what we see earlier that evening at the allen household, Hal Jordan had come over for dinner. |
| 1:12.0 | Good friend of Barry's, they don't seem quite as often, but there's a toy fair in town, |
| 1:17.5 | and Hal Jordan has recently become a toy salesman. |
| 1:20.7 | I know what you're thinking. |
| 1:22.4 | He was a fighter pilot. |
| 1:24.8 | Boring. |
| 1:25.7 | Jet fighters are boring. |
| 1:28.0 | Pilots boring. |
| 1:29.2 | He became an insurance adjuster. |
| 1:31.0 | A step up in the world of excitement. |
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