Tom vs. The Flash #192 - The Day Flash Failed!
Tom vs. Comics
Thomas Katers
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2009
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tom versus the Flash number 192 or never let your woman make you miss a date with a submarine. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome back for the Flash number 192, the November 1969 issue entitled The Day the Flash |
| 0:16.0 | Failed by Robert Cannigure, pencilled by Ross Andrew, inked by Mike Esposito, edited by Julie |
| 0:22.7 | Schwartz, and featuring a cover, penciled by Carmine Infantino, and inked by Murphy Anderson. |
| 0:28.8 | We starred at a lonely, lonely lighthouse with a solitary beam shooting across the ocean. |
| 0:35.9 | It's at land's end, Inside this lighthouse, we see the lighthouse |
| 0:39.5 | keeper, of course. Then we see Barry Allen, well, the flash, he stresses the flash, and Iris |
| 0:45.4 | Alan's in there listening to him talk. Talk, the lighthouse keeper talking about how he has to keep |
| 0:50.9 | the light on for his wife, Phyllis, but she promised she would follow the light |
| 0:54.8 | anywhere from wherever she is. He looks distraught. He's convinced that she'll show up any minute now. |
| 1:00.9 | What the hell is he talking about? How did we get here? They'd like to use the technique of dropping |
| 1:05.6 | you in in the middle of the story. And I will say most kids, but I wouldn't be terribly excited |
| 1:09.9 | about this high action scene of a lonely of a lonely man in a lighthouse waiting for his wife to return. |
| 1:16.4 | It doesn't quite set up the same cliffhanger as, you know, if aliens were invading. |
| 1:21.2 | How did it end up like this? |
| 1:23.0 | Well, we see early in the day in Central City, Barry Allen's getting out of bed early. |
| 1:27.2 | Oh, they have one bed now. |
| 1:29.3 | He's got an important appointment to get to. But Iris grabs him, making him give her a little sugar in the morning, maybe a little something else. |
| 1:38.4 | Barry saying, I got to get to this appointment. She said, you're fast enough. You don't have to worry about it. |
| 1:43.1 | You can run around the world and |
| 1:44.5 | still kiss me and still get there it's how they make a little bit something happens he throws on his |
| 1:50.3 | flash costume and on his way he's on his way to his appointment he runs through gotham city we get a little |
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