The march of new DC supervillains continues with the introduction of a Golden Age Flash rogue: Thorn from Flash Comics #89 (September 1947). Thorn is the split personality of Rose, who gained her powers in the jungles of Tashmi while helping a professor conduct secret botanical experiments. In this first story it is not fully […]
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In another “Liar’s Club” story, the Flash relates the story of “The Race Through Time!” in Comic Cavalcade #19 (December 1946). Gangster Tag Madden steals a serum which gives him super speed and The Flash must race him through the ancient past and the distance future. In it, we also get the first occurrence and […]
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In All-Flash #23 (April 1946), we actually get a genuine science fiction story in which the Flash is transported to the Planet Karma, has to time travel into the future of that planet, battle aliens and alien dinosaurs, and correct his own mistakes by doing even more time-traveling. I like how the Flash is still […]
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The Flash’s comic relief supporting characters (Winky, Blinky and Noddy – cheap knockoffs of the Three Stooges) make their first solo appearance in All-American Comics #73 (March 1946). This is another signal of non-superhero / humor comics becoming more prominent. Phew! only a few more years of this stuff to go through before the Golden […]
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The Flash experiments a little more with time travel in Comic Cavalcade #11 (May 1945). This time, seeking a vacation, he travels back to the time of Robin Hood and accidentally becomes the Will Scarlet character of those stories. I’m taking a couple days off for Christmas – be back Thursday!
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In Flash Comics #65 (April 1945), scientist Hartford Jackson creates a Thinking Cap – basically a colander with wires – which can unlock the unused potential in a human brain to perform acts of telekenesis and more. Of course, Tricky O’Rickey, some gangster criminal type, gets ahold of it and plagues the Golden Age Flash […]
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Superman uses his super-speed to become move so fast that he becomes invisible to a normal human for the first time in Action Comics #83 (February 1945). The Flash was doing that five years ago!
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The Golden Age Flash finally gets a slightly memorable villain in the form of The Thinker in All-Flash Comics #12 (September 1943). The Thinker is Clifford DeVoe, an attorney whose career is ended by a criminal and decides to work on the other side of the law, out-thinking everyone with his tremendous brainpower. This version […]
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The Golden Age Flash time travels for the first time in Flash Comics #44 (June 1943). The explanation is ludicrous, but then again, so are comic books in general! 😀 The Flash eventually helps save the Earth of 2443 by bombarding a visiting sun that was over-heating the Earth with “atomic bullets” and using his […]
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In All-Star Comics #7 (August 1941), we finally see an in-story meeting of Batman and Superman. The Justice Society of America decides to raise a million dollars for the world’s war children. At the end of the story, Johnny Thunder wishes in the honorary members of the JSA: Superman, Batman and the Flash, who bring […]
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