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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #220 - The Slowest Man on Earth/Duel for a Death-List

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2009

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The Slowest Man on Earth/Duel for a Death-List tomkaters@gmail.com Music by Dexy's Midnight Runners

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0:00.0

Tom versus Flash Number 220 or customized Turtle Train car?

0:05.0

Tusha.

0:08.9

Welcome back for the Flash number 220, the February, March, 1973 issue featuring a cover

0:14.9

by Dick Giordano with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz.

0:19.3

The first story in this issue is the slowest man on earth

0:22.4

written by Kerry Bates, penciled by Irv Novick, inked by Joe Giella. We begin on a Sunday in the Allen

0:28.4

household where lo and behold, it is Barry who is making breakfast. See, that's tradition. He makes

0:34.1

breakfast for Iris on Sunday. She lays in bed and he brings it to her.

0:38.5

It's probably not very good.

0:40.1

Barry doesn't seem like a great cook to see.

0:41.9

Iris makes breakfast the other six days of the week, so this is her day.

0:46.3

So as Barry is bringing her very special breakfast, he starts shaking so hard that he drops it.

0:52.5

Of course, Iris has to be disappointed. Her breakfast is gone.

0:56.2

Why? Why did this happen? Well, it's because Barry is shaking on control B. Can't do anything about it,

1:02.3

and he's going to have to check it out as the flesh throws on his costume, and we assume he leaves.

1:07.4

We go to Blue Valley where Wally West has just returned from a dynamite prom night.

1:13.7

If it was anything like mine, people got drunk, they vomited, a window got broken, there was awkward

1:20.3

attempts at making out, things didn't go as well as planned. Very tiring, though, very tired

1:26.6

when you got home. So he's ready to get a good

1:28.8

Sunday sleep. Suddenly, he starts vibrating, and he's going to have to check it out as Kid Flash

1:34.0

throws on the costume. He heads out. We have a nice split screen of both of them tracking the

1:39.8

vibrations that have been causing them to shake to some location. We see the flash running along a country road,

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