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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: Flash, A Remembrance
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 05:22:25 EDT
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> From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui)

> Well, what do you say about a comic that died?
>
> I've finished Flash #350, and perhaps a short eulogy is in order.

A nice tribute to a deceased comic. To be honest, I wasn't a real Flash
fan. When I was a kid, I loved the Fox/Broome/Infantino/Anderson-or-
whoever sf-oriented stories. And the "Flash of Two Worlds" story left a
lasting impression on me. When I got back into comics after a relatively
short hiatus, I found that FLASH wasn't quite the same. A different
writer (Cary Bates, I think), a different artist (Irv Novick), and a
different feel (this was circa #200). I continued half-heartedly with it
through the issues with the Green Lantern back-up feature, but somewhere
along the line, it got purged from my buy-list. I only picked up occasional
issues since then.

It's too bad that it had to go, but I can't say I'll mourn.

BTW, a nit-pick: though most people consider the start of the Silver Age
as being the first appearance of Flash in SHOWCASE #4 in 1956, he wasn't
really the first Silver Age hero. The Martian Manhunter appeared about a
year before, in DETECTIVE COMICS #225.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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