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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #200 - Count 200 -- and Die

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2009

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Count 200 -- and Die

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Music by Dexy's Midnight Runners

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0:00.0

Tom versus the Flash number 200 or your evil plan didn't work because you're a woman.

0:07.9

Welcome back for the Flash number 200.

0:10.0

The September 1970 issue, a special event Flash story entitled Count 200 and Die, written by Robert

0:18.6

Kanigr, penciled by Irv Novick, inked by Murphy Anderson, featuring a cover

0:24.0

penciled by Carmine and Fantino, with a crying flash on the cover, which I don't like, inked by

0:30.3

Murphy Anderson, edited by Julie Schwartz.

0:33.3

That's a 200th issue, and the only real thing goes on.

0:36.7

There's lots of mentions of the number 200 all throughout the issue.

0:40.6

Otherwise, pretty standard Robert Kanigar's story, which means it's a little crazy.

0:46.0

We start with Washington, D.C. tanks lined up outside the Capitol for no apparent reason.

0:51.3

And a flash zooming past him happens to be the 200th armored

0:55.1

artillery. Why is he running past him so fast? He bolts through the White House, past the infantry,

1:02.2

past the guard. The White House have guards that look like that? It's like this, like a beef eater

1:08.8

costume mask. Flash runs through the White House,

1:11.8

through the door, vibrating right through the door

1:13.7

that has a office of the president right above it,

1:16.4

as I'm sure the White House actually does,

1:19.9

runs in, comes up behind the president,

1:22.1

pulls out a laser gun,

1:23.6

and blast him through the back of the head.

1:26.3

But at this moment, we see that it's not the real president.

1:29.3

The laser beam goes through a dummy's head,

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