Tom versus Flash number 227 or this Boomerang launcher is eventually going to pay for itself.

Welcome back for the Flash number 227, the May June 1974 issue featuring a cover by Nick Hardy with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz.

The first story in this issue is Flash. This is Your Death,

written by Kerry Bates, penciled by Irv Novick, and inked by Frank McLaughlin. I don't usually go

over the splash page at the beginning of the issue, because I sometimes feel it gives away a

little bit of the story. But I do truly enjoy this one. I'm going to quote the words

exactly as they're said. So you got a little yellow text box saying depicted below are sections of a pair

of pages from a scrapbook, a souvenir album being kept of the long running battle between the

Flash and his arch enemy Captain Boomering. I don't know if it's his arch enemy. He is a

enemy. Another yellow

text box below. Of course we see Flash tied to boomerings, always with boomerings, getting

launched in space via boomerang. Another text box says, while we are unable to show you the final

page of this album, we have been given permission to reproduce the book's grim title, Flash,

This is Your Death. Quite a scrapbook. I love that beginning. We start, and it's important to note

that at the beginning of this issue, the story is sort of told past tense by a third party watching

what's going over. It's like a scrapbook. In the corners, there's little

placeholder things. You know, if you were to tuck a photo into it, that's where it would go. It's

all over this issue at the beginning, which I think is a cool little artistic choice. So we start

with a police wagon pulling up to the Central City Police Station, opening up, bringing in a prisoner. Unexpectedly, we're supposed to be going to the central city police station opening up bringing in a prisoner unexpectedly he was

supposed to be going to the state penitentiary for some reason they've had to stop and it's captain boomering

see there was a bomb threat called in that there was a bomb on board that police wagon so they had to

stop a central city police station while they checked the van for bombs.

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