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The Golden Age Archives
The Golden Age Flash Archives, Vol. 2
The original super-speedster returns in this long awaited second collection of his Golden Age adventures. Thrill to the electrifying exploits of Jay Garrick, the Fastest Man Alive, as he faces off against the Monocle, the Super-Mobster, the Racket King and a host of other menaces
220 pages, Hardcover
First published February 15, 2006
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Gardner Francis Fox
1,192 books90 followersGardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics.
Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story "Flash of Two Worlds!"
Pseudonyms: Gardner F. Fox, Jefferson Cooper, Bart Sommers, Paul Dean, Ray Gardner, Lynna Cooper, Rod Gray, Larry Dean, Robert Starr, Don Blake, Ed Blake, Warner Blake, Michael Blake, Tex Blane, Willis Blane, Ed Carlisle, Edgar Weston, Tex Slade, Eddie Duane, Simon Majors, James Kendricks, Troy Conway, Kevin Matthews, Glen Chase
Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story "Flash of Two Worlds!"
Pseudonyms: Gardner F. Fox, Jefferson Cooper, Bart Sommers, Paul Dean, Ray Gardner, Lynna Cooper, Rod Gray, Larry Dean, Robert Starr, Don Blake, Ed Blake, Warner Blake, Michael Blake, Tex Blane, Willis Blane, Ed Carlisle, Edgar Weston, Tex Slade, Eddie Duane, Simon Majors, James Kendricks, Troy Conway, Kevin Matthews, Glen Chase
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January 10, 2021
The same deal as my Vol. 1 review. Pretty much the same silly, I mean dumb script and dumb plot. Dumb dialogue and pretty much for kids of the 1940s I guess.
The highlight of this book you ask?
The Flash FORCE FEEDING bad guys a turkey (in 2 seconds), I mean, if that's not justice, what is?!
The highlight of this book you ask?
The Flash FORCE FEEDING bad guys a turkey (in 2 seconds), I mean, if that's not justice, what is?!
February 8, 2014
This selection of Golden Age Flash stories collect tales features Jay Garrick's Flash from Flash Comics 18-24 and the All Flash Quarterly 1 and 2.
This book was just a lot of fun. The Flash doesn't have any legendary opponents in this book but the stories done with a lot of humor and style. There are protection racket gangsters who harass a restaurant and are made to eat their just desserts, there's the Flash building a brick wall around criminals harassing a group of bricklayers, and the book concludes with the Flash battling the Spider-men from Mars in Flash #24.
While Flash Comics contained multiple features, All Flash Comics was the Flash's own Quarterly magazine. Issue #1 of All Flash noted Flash's departure from the Justice Society under the rules that if a character got his own magazine he had to leave. Issue #2 is a full-fledged book length saga of revenge following a criminal's twisted path to revenge as it poisons him and puts everyone around him at risk. This story like most of the other Flash stories in this book feature a solid moral.
The book is delightful and represent a huge step forward from Volume 1, and it's too bad that there's not likely to be a Volume 3.
This book was just a lot of fun. The Flash doesn't have any legendary opponents in this book but the stories done with a lot of humor and style. There are protection racket gangsters who harass a restaurant and are made to eat their just desserts, there's the Flash building a brick wall around criminals harassing a group of bricklayers, and the book concludes with the Flash battling the Spider-men from Mars in Flash #24.
While Flash Comics contained multiple features, All Flash Comics was the Flash's own Quarterly magazine. Issue #1 of All Flash noted Flash's departure from the Justice Society under the rules that if a character got his own magazine he had to leave. Issue #2 is a full-fledged book length saga of revenge following a criminal's twisted path to revenge as it poisons him and puts everyone around him at risk. This story like most of the other Flash stories in this book feature a solid moral.
The book is delightful and represent a huge step forward from Volume 1, and it's too bad that there's not likely to be a Volume 3.
August 8, 2018
I have tried to review this book twice only to have the browser close. F- it. I'm done.
June 4, 2014
there is one story in here that's kinda creepy. the bad guy kidnaps the DA's son and raises him as his own and tells him the DA killed his mother. the bad guy marries a widow w/a young daughter that becomes the older sister to the kidnapped boy. the bad guy loves the daughter, the only person/thing in life he really loves. after several failed (because of the flash) attempts to kill the DA and lots of time in jail he finds out who his daddy really is. flash captures bad guy, DA and wife discover their long lost son and forgive him for trying to kill them several times and big sister is thrilled to find out they are no longer related so they can get married.
this is that whole greg and marcia brady thing. add to it the boy (roy revenge) is taken in by his sister when he gets out of jail and works on her farm shirtless.
this is that whole greg and marcia brady thing. add to it the boy (roy revenge) is taken in by his sister when he gets out of jail and works on her farm shirtless.
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