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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #295 - In Grodd We Trust/By The Sea, By The Sea, By The Dangerous Sea

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2010

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In Grodd We Trust/By The Sea, By The Sea, By The Dangerous Sea

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Music by Dexys Midnight Runners

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0:00.0

Tom versus Flash number 295, or I don't know where they got that rang from.

0:07.7

Welcome back to the Flash number 295, the March of 1981 issue featuring a cover pencil by Don Hack inked by Dick Gerardana with the issue being edited by Len Ween.

0:15.7

Our first story in this issue is, in Grodd we trust, written by Carrie Bates,ates illustrated by don hack colored by gene d'angelo

0:22.2

lettered by ben oda illustrator not artist in this issue for don hack and this is one of the

0:27.9

goofiest guffiest lee is that a word drawn issues of the flesh we've done so far poor don

0:34.3

heck i think was really behind the eight ball on this issue time-wise,

0:42.0

because it looks rushed, and there's just some weird stuff going on that I'm going to point out.

0:47.4

But this is not to pile on Don Hack, who's a fine artist. It's just to point out some of the sort of goofy fun stuff that goes on in here. We begin East 51st Street, the rather flashy

0:53.0

looking townhouse that served as the embassy for

0:56.2

the diplomats from Gorilla City, which is now empty. Last issue, Solivar wanted to make

1:00.8

everyone forget that Gorilla City existed because the guerrillas were getting lazy that had gone

1:05.9

there, so they set up a mitronic array that sent out rays and made everyone forget about

1:11.2

girl let's see problem is that there's this giant townhouse that looks very cool

1:15.5

that no one could remember what the hell is going on there no one remembers why it's there

1:20.4

who built it why it's empty what's going on is drawn suspicions from everyone including the

1:25.4

police who are now investigating what's going on with

1:28.0

this empty building that no one remembers why it's there.

1:31.1

They're looking around.

1:32.9

The detective in charge is asking all the officers that they found anything.

1:37.1

The officer says, we still haven't found any clues except one rather odd thing.

1:41.5

The trash bin was filled with banana peels, a few hundred pounds worth of banana peels,

1:47.2

which causes the main detective to drop his cigarette. We know why. It's the gorillas of Gorilla City.

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