Comic Book Archaeology

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 […]

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 […]