Tom vs. The Flash #314 - Look Upon the Eradicator!
Tom vs. Comics
Thomas Katers
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2010
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thomas is the Flash number 314 or I didn't know that state senators had that type of game. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome back to the Flash number 314 in the October 1982 issue, |
| 0:13.0 | issue feature a cover pencil by Carmen Infantino, inked by Frank Giacoa, |
| 0:17.0 | with the editor of this issue being Len Wien. |
| 0:19.1 | Our story is Look upon the Eradicator, written by Carrie Bates, penciled by Carmen Infantino, |
| 0:24.9 | inked by Dennis Jensen, colored by Gene DeAngelo, lettered by Ben Oda. |
| 0:28.7 | Whenever this character shows up, The Eradicator, or any character named The Eradicator, |
| 0:33.6 | I always think of the kids in the hall skit about The Eradicator, which I'll put a link to the YouTube video of that on Tomversus flash.blogspot.com. |
| 0:44.1 | I can't help think of it every single time I read this issue. |
| 0:48.7 | Or the Superman character, The Eradicator. |
| 0:51.4 | We begin, sort of a nice looking penthouse in Central City. There's a bad guy |
| 0:56.7 | there buying cocaine from some distributor. They refer to it as snow. That's the lingo in Central |
| 1:03.1 | Center. We know that this bad guy, this guy who's buying it, Mr. Yarnel, is a top flight criminal |
| 1:08.8 | because he has a goddamn panther as a pet. You don't get that unless |
| 1:13.6 | you are a high roller in the criminal world. It's just casually seen there. He's talking to his |
| 1:18.4 | distributor of the cocaine and what the street value is. It's about $7 million. He pays off his |
| 1:25.1 | fedora wearing contact with some cash. The contact's going to |
| 1:28.9 | the elevator. He's going to take it downstairs. One of a sudden it dings. Someone else has arrived. |
| 1:32.9 | They both seem confused. Mr. Yaronel said he wasn't to be disturbed by anybody. He told the guards |
| 1:38.3 | that. The door opens. A strange-looking figure. A blue superhero suit with a blue cape and a hood and metallic |
| 1:47.3 | looking eyes walks out saying, look upon the eradicator and blasts both crooks with a strange |
| 1:53.4 | energy beam that hits him in the face, seemingly turning their faces into soap bubbles. |
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