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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Comics News (a rather nasty rumor)
Message-ID: <688@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 09:38:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: vax2.688
Posted: Thu Jun  6 09:38:18 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Jun-85 03:42:55 EDT
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Well, a whole slew of news, with a nasty rumor at the end.

Well, it looks like _Flash_ ends with issue #350.  Cover shows Barry
walking off hand-in-hand with a women on the cover (her back is
to the reader, so we can't tell who it is (but it's by Carmine
Infantino, so we couldn't anyway)).  All it says is that Flash is
re-united with his "true love", and that the character ends here. 
Looks to me like maybe Mr. Whiz finally traverses the dimensional
barrier into Heaven ("Whoops!  I knew I should have taken a left
turn at Albequerque!").  On the other hand, maybe CRISIS leaves
him with a nice, peaceful Universe with an Iris clone on it....

Marvel's two Graphic novels being released look like the
re-incarnation of Marvel Team-Up.  Toss in a bunch of heroes for a
slam-bang fight, and price it at $6.50.  The cover for "Revenge of
the Living Monolith" is really hysterical -- reminds me of "Revenge
of the 40-foot Woman"... 

And now, the bad news:  Tucked away somewhere, it indicates
rumors that Howard Chaykin is thinking of leaving
_American_Flagg!_ in some capacity -- at the very least, art, and
possibly scripting.  Again, these are only rumors, but if they get
into _The_Comic_Buyer's_Guide_ they usually have something to
them.  And while AF isn't as fresh as it was two years ago, it's still
one of the things I can count on for solid entertainment.  After
seeing some of the fill-in issues, I'd as soon that Chaykin just
stopped the series except for an occasional new Graphic novel. 
Anyway, Mike Gold, editor for First Comics, makes it sound as if
he'll stay with them.  Nothing lasts forever...

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