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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #240 - Collision Course with Disaster/The Floods Will Come

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2009

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Collision Course with Disaster/The Floods Will Come tomkaters@gmail.com Music by Dexy's Midnight Runners

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0:00.0

Tom versus Flash number 240 or just doing push-ups in the living room, nothing weird going on.

0:08.8

Welcome back for the Flash number 240, the March 1976 issue featuring a cover by Ernie Chan

0:15.4

with the entire issue being edited by Julie Schwartz. The first story in this issue is

0:19.4

Collision Course with Disaster, written by

0:22.4

Carrie Bates, penciled by Irv Novick, inked by Tex Blaisdell. We begin in the typical suburban home

0:28.2

of the Allen's. Iris laying on the couch. Book? I don't know what kind of book she reads. She seems

0:33.9

like a non-fiction reader sitting talking to someone off panel.

0:38.2

It's her husband Barry, and Wally happens to be there as well.

0:41.1

And she is complaining about Stacey Conwell, the college student that's living with them.

0:46.0

She's an A student, but she's been having a lot of problems lately.

0:48.6

She's been sullen, hanging out by herself.

0:54.0

Everyone knows every college student wants to hang out with the weird, seemingly

0:57.7

boring, middle-aged couple that they're living with.

1:01.3

I mean, it's outrageous that Stacey wouldn't want to play bridge with the Barry and Iris

1:06.6

and their friends and Ralph and Sue.

1:09.1

She doesn't know their superheroes in their spare time.

1:16.0

Stacey won't even talk to Wally, who is a charming, a charming boy.

1:20.5

Well, Iris is talking all about this.

1:22.3

She gets a little frustrated.

1:24.4

We see, as the panel sort of expands, that it is Flash and Kid Flash while she's

1:30.8

having this conversation with them are doing super speed exercises which make them invisible.

1:36.2

Flash for some reason is doing push-ups at super speed, which is if I was having a conversation

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