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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. The Flash #311 - Captives of the Boom-Boom-Boomerang/Rogue Gods

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Captives of the Boom-Boom-Boomerang/Rogue Gods

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Music by Dexys Midnight Runners

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0:00.0

Tom versus the Flash number 311, or he doesn't really understand what a Boomerang does,

0:05.1

doesn't?

0:09.0

Welcome back for the Flash number 311, the July 1982 issue featuring a cover done by Jim

0:15.3

Aparo.

0:16.1

I think that's the only Flash cover he does in this run, so make sure to take a look at it. I always loved Jim Aparo's art. And there is not just one editor for this whole issue. Oh, no. There's an editor for the Flash story and an editor for the Dr. Fade story. So let's get straight to the Flash story. Captives of the Boom, Boom, Boom, Boomerang, written by Carrie Bates, penciled by Carmen and Fantino, inked by Frank Chiachoa, colored by Gene DeAngelo, lettered by Todd Klein,

0:41.2

and theino, inked by Frank Chiachoa,

0:38.8

colored by Gene D'Angelo, lettered by Todd Klein, and the editor of this story is Mike W.

0:43.7

We begin at the Wiggins Toy Factory.

0:46.3

Well, not the factory, but the corporate headquarters.

0:48.5

The factory is ugly.

0:49.9

It's on the outskirts of town where all the other abandoned toy factories are.

0:54.2

It's corporate headquarters.

0:56.0

Wiggins, the corporate leader himself, has gathered his employees altogether,

1:00.7

showing them a giant picture of Colonel Computron.

1:03.2

The Flash is standing next to him.

1:04.9

Wiggins explains that the Flash is tracked Colonel Computron to the employee entrance of Wiggins via a radiation trail

1:13.7

that Colonel Computron leaves behind.

1:16.3

The Wiggins explains he's horrified by what's going on.

1:18.5

He treats his employees so well.

1:21.3

It horrifies him to think that one of his employees could turn against him.

1:24.2

Of course, the molecules, the radiation is very communicable. So it could be a member of one of the employee's families or a friend that could

1:32.5

have gotten on to them. And maybe that's what happened. He obviously couldn't be because an

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