846 – Green Lantern and Flash Team Up

Speaking of teamups and crossovers, DC decided to feature a crossover event of sorts between the Silver Age Green Lantern and The Flash in Green Lantern #13 (April 1962). Iris West needs to go interview that famous test pilot Hal Jordan on the west coast, so off Barry Allen goes to vacation with her. At […]

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845 – The Flash and the Justice Society

In Flash #129 (April 1962), Barry Allen gets his second crossover with the Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick. We start on Earth-2 (just called “Another Earth” in this issue) with Jay Garrick reminiscing with his wife Joan about his adventures with the Justice Society years ago. There’s a couple nice pages where the Golden Age […]

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842 – Abra-Kadabra!

Another month, another new Flash rogue: Abra-Kadabra makes his first appearance in Flash #128, March 1962. This time, it’s a stage magician in the 64th century, who laments that no one likes stage magic anymore because future science is so fantastical. He wistfully pines for an audience to applaud for him. He gets the bright […]

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838 – Grodd for Governor

In Flash #127, we meet up again with Grodd the Super-Gorilla, after a year’s absence in the comic books. Previously, Grodd’s consciousness was placed in that of a human, but managed to still get captured by The Flash. Now the human has been paroled and his gorilla mind is starting to re-assert itself. He makes […]

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830 – The Cosmic Treadmill

In Flash #125 (October 1961), Wally West, aka Kid Flash, goes to visit his aunt and ends up spending time with Barry Allen, aka the Flash. We learn that since time travel has become an important part of being a speedster, that Barry has invented a “cosmic treadmill”. Barry explains that the treadmill helps a […]

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814 – Flash of Two Worlds

Flash Comics #123 (July 1961) has the official birth of the DC multiverse in the landmark story “Flash of Two Worlds”. After super-speed vibrating during a show for charity, Barry Allen’s Silver Age Flash finds himself in a similar-but-different world, where Central City is replaced by Keystone City. Remembering that Jay Garrick, the “fictional” inspiration […]

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783 – Sue Dibny

By the Elongated Man’s third story in Flash #119 (January 1961), the writers had decided to marry Ralph Dibny to debutante Sue Dearbon, making him the second DC super-hero to be married (Hawkman/Hawkgirl being the first). On their honeymoon they run into a strange underwater world and Sue calls for help from the Flash. I […]

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780 – The Silver Age Hawks!

DC continues to attempt Golden Age revivals of their characters in The Brave and the Bold #34 (Dec 1960) with Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Drawn by none other than the amazing Joe Kubert and written by none other than the pretty cool Gardner Fox, this Hawk-couple are alien police officers from the planet Thanegar. Katar and […]

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768 – Captain Boomerang

A new Flash rogue is introduced in Flash #117 (Oct 1960): Captain Boomerang. Conceived as a spokesman for the W. W. Wiggins Game Company to publicize boomerangs in the United States, “Digger” Harkness takes up the mantle and is given a costume, which suits him just fine because he was already looking for an opportunity […]

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740 – Olimpus Aliens

The second story in Flash #113 (April 1960) re-surfaces an old idea: the ancient Greek Gods were actually aliens who interacted with mankind in the past. We have seen this storyline before with Captain Comet back in 1952. This time we have Zus, Po-Siden, Boreas from “the Galactic Universe of Olimpus in the fourth quadrangle […]

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