Tom versus Flash number 199 or Park Bench Sleeping Ain't Good Sleeping.

Welcome back to the Flash number 199, the August 1970 issue with the cover by Gil Kane,

edited by Julie Schwartz. Our first story in this issue is flash, death calling, written by Robert

Canninger, penciled by Gil Cain, inked by Vince Colleta. We opened this issue in the situation

I'm familiar with, you may not be familiar with, a man sleeping on a park bench covered in

newspapers. I've fallen asleep on a park bench. It's happened.

I haven't been awakened by a police officer tapping on my yellow boots with his nightstick,

but this is central city. The cops are out. You can't let people be doing weird stuff in the

park, just dangerous stuff. So someone's sleeping wrapped in papers.

You gotta wake him up, but who's underneath all of the newspapers?

It appears to be the flash.

And what is written all over these newspapers?

A headline of Flash Dead, Entire World Morned Scarlet Speedster.

So who's this Flash sleeping on a park bench?

It's unbelievable, and the language is poetic.

Kanegar.

He goes all out, some real lyricism going on.

And this, of course, the Gulkaner's art is fantastic.

So as this flash with tears running down his face wanders through Central City, everyone looking at him a bit weird, he's crying, everyone's freaking out, and he's just sort

of stumbling around town. Someone comes running out of a store with some sort of case,

probably with goods inside of it, someone yelling, thief, stop. This thief, he's got a beard,

kind of looks a little hippier, sees the flash, calls him a loony lawman and challenges him.

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