Checkered Past Episode 9: Flash 159!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Are you ready? [00:00:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:00:01] Speaker C: Are you with it? [00:00:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:00:02] Speaker C: Okay, let's go. You know what to do. The whole world's watching and counting on you. And all you people listening out there. Everybody everywhere. Hang on, hang on, hang on. [00:00:17] Speaker B: Welcome to Checkered Past, a loving postmodern examination of the. [00:00:20] Speaker A: Go. Go. [00:00:21] Speaker B: Check. Branded comic magazines published by DC Comics between February 1966 and August 1960. I'm Dr. Bob and each week I'll be your guide on this trippy tour through 535 mid century masterpieces of graphic noveldom. This week, Flash 159 cover date March 1966 cover price $0.12 Cover artists Carmine Infantano and Joe Giella Edited by Julius Schwartz. Featuring the Flash's final fling. Writer Gardner Fox. Artists Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella. D and Big blast in Rocket City. Writer John Broome Artists Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella. Are you ready? Are you with it? Then away we go. Go. [00:01:20] Speaker C: He's the monarch of motion. The sultan of speed. The wizard of wizzle. Yes indeed. Go from here to Ch. China in a no time flat. You beat the speed of light and you can't beat that. Meet the mighty Flash. In the Flash. In the Flash. In a fight he'll smash, thrash smash A whole gang of crooks or snooks hey. He'll just powder any kind of bad guy deep or rubber the world's fastest human, yeah man. The Flash the undefeatable Flash the undefeatable Flash. No one knows Barry Allen is his real name. Works with with the police justice is his aim. Wears a ring with the Flash's uniform in it. When danger threatens he'll switchin up in the fire Flash. The Flash. Meet the mighty Flash the Flash, the Flash. In a fight he'll smash flashing smash A whole gang of crooks or snooks hey. He'll just blabber any kind of hoodlum deep forever the world's fastest human, yeah man. The Flash. The unbeatable Flash. The undefeatable Flash. The mighty Flash. [00:03:02] Speaker B: When Barry Allen announces that he is quitting as the Flash and leaving Central City, Kid Flash tries to talk his mentor out of it. Wally brings Barry to Earth 2 to be examined by Dr. Charles McNider, aka Dr. Midnight. The doctor proves that Barry was hypnotized by a police officer for from the year 3780 because his super speed might trigger a bomb. In Central City, Flash and Kid Flash race to the year 3780 where they defeat a terrorist known as Fran Metar. The crook detonates the bomb in 1966. But flash and Kid Flash follow the signal back through time and prevent any damage. Flash is then honored for saving the city. Meanwhile, down south, Professor Ivor west is scheduled to meet some scientists from America's space program in Rocket City. While waiting for the men to arrive, the professor is mistaken. Taken for a criminal scientist by three hoods. West believes the crooks are the scientists and leaves with them. The crooks use the professor to create devices for crime. Flash learns about the criminal activity and follows them back to the lab, where professor west is unknowingly helping the crooks. The Flash apprehends the hoods and the professor is united with the real scientists. His daughter Iris is happy that her father was found, but is suspicious that Barry seemed to know that he was okay. Confused. Don't worry. I'll be right back to explain everything. Right after this message from the public Service announcement. Players. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Public Service announcement Theater presents Supaman says. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Lend a friendly Hand One day outside the elementary school. Aw, Jim, we don't want Sandor along. Those refugee kids can't talk English or play ball or anything. [00:04:49] Speaker A: Maybe there's a reason for that. [00:04:51] Speaker B: Superman, how about my taking you for. [00:04:55] Speaker A: A little trip across the ocean so you can learn something about refugees like Sandor? [00:05:00] Speaker B: And so shortly. [00:05:03] Speaker A: People who have fled to another country because of political events, war or disasters are placed in refugee camps like this one. This is where they live, in shabby, crowded barracks. Some of the children were born here and have never known what a real home was like. [00:05:21] Speaker B: G Gosh. Later. [00:05:26] Speaker A: Lots of international organizations have been helping during this World Refugee Year to find new homes in countries for these people. You can help, too, by being friendly toward boys like Sandor. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Presented as a public service in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly Coordinating Organization for National Health, Welfare and Recreation Agencies of the usa Flash. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Ah. [00:05:55] Speaker B: Fastest man in the universe. [00:05:56] Speaker A: Is that really how it goes? [00:05:58] Speaker B: No, no. Hey. Hi. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I haven't seen you in a while. [00:06:03] Speaker A: I know. We've been busy. [00:06:05] Speaker B: How you been? [00:06:06] Speaker A: Well, you know, we've been running around like a nut. [00:06:09] Speaker B: Like the Flash? [00:06:10] Speaker A: Like the Flash. [00:06:11] Speaker B: I wish we had super speed. Although I'm wondering. What? So the Flash runs at super speed? [00:06:18] Speaker A: Yes. [00:06:19] Speaker B: Does he still experience time relative to himself? I'm not explaining myself well. So if he's running a million miles to circumnavigate the Earth. [00:06:32] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:33] Speaker B: Does he experience it as running a million miles, or does he experience it as super fast time? [00:06:40] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:06:41] Speaker B: Well, I don't either. I think that's a question that's never been asked. [00:06:44] Speaker A: He can see certain things. He can see when bullets are hitting him. Right. [00:06:47] Speaker B: But is it just like me setting off to run a million miles, only it's fast because I would get bored. [00:06:57] Speaker A: Well, I imagine he does get quite bored waiting for people to finish sentences. [00:07:01] Speaker B: Like you're trying to make a slight at me right now because I'm stammering over my words. [00:07:06] Speaker A: Aren't you? [00:07:07] Speaker B: Quick, I see what you did there. Well, what do you think of the Flash? [00:07:14] Speaker A: Well, I, you know, I've never read a Flash comic in my life. Really. That's true. But I enjoyed this. And I was wondering about the whole parallel second Earth and time and shifting and time and all that such, because, you know, I tried to really get into the television show, but then once I started doing the whole parallel Earths or Earth 2 and going back and forth, I just was like, you know what? No. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Okay. Are you ready to dive into this? [00:07:49] Speaker A: I am. [00:07:50] Speaker B: We owe our entire superhero genre as it exists today to this character of the Flash. Would you like to know how? [00:08:01] Speaker A: Yes. [00:08:02] Speaker B: Well, you know that in the 1940s, the so called golden age of comics. Yes. There were plenty of superheroes. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman. [00:08:10] Speaker A: Yes. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Green Lantern. [00:08:13] Speaker A: Okay. [00:08:13] Speaker B: The original Flash. The original Green Lantern. I should also used to wear a. [00:08:17] Speaker A: Dog food bowl on his head. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Mm, that's right, that's what it was. A dog food bowl got put on his head. [00:08:22] Speaker A: It was a hubcap, actually. [00:08:23] Speaker B: Uh huh. Yeah, you've got it. So round about 1949 or so, those comics went out of style really well. Yes, there was a big push. A lot of people thought they were too violent and there was a push by the government to censor. And so we got more comics about teenagers and cowboys and things that weren't so graphically violent as people punching. Although now that I'm thinking about it, cowboys shoot people, don't they? [00:08:57] Speaker A: Yeah, they do. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Well, as long as they were shooting Indians, I guess it was all right. And bad guys. Anyway, in the 1940s, late 1940s, after World War II, superheroes went out of style for a little bit. So in 1956, Julius Schwartz, who was an editor at DC Comics, was tasked with bringing superheroes back. [00:09:25] Speaker A: Okay. [00:09:25] Speaker B: And the first superhero that he chose to bring back was the Flash in a new, sleek, streamlined space age uniform, Hip and now. And with it, I'd say they did a great job. They did do a fantastic job. Because as I said it then Launched a whole resurgence of the superhero genre, which has continued to the present day. [00:09:50] Speaker A: Wow. [00:09:51] Speaker B: Now, good for Julie Schwartz. Well, yeah, he was a great editor, widely regarded in the comics industry. Also kind of a dick because he sexually molested women. Allegedly. Do you call it molestation if it's in the workplace? [00:10:10] Speaker A: Harassment, Bob. [00:10:11] Speaker B: Harassment. Abuse. Sorry, it's late in the day. So the problem is, when he reintroduced the Flash in the origin story of Barry Allen, the New Flash, it showed Barry Allen reading a comic book featuring the original Flash and being inspired to take his name from that favorite comic book of his childhood. Then. [00:10:36] Speaker A: Oh, God, I'm bored. Is this story ever going to end? [00:10:43] Speaker B: No. Okay, so then that established the original golden. [00:10:48] Speaker A: It's like you're literally walking me through the history of the English Crown. I just don't care. [00:10:54] Speaker B: This is. You were asking about Earth, too. [00:10:56] Speaker A: I was, but I didn't realize the answer was going to be this long. Could we flash forward? [00:11:02] Speaker B: I see again what you did there. The answer is no. So the original Flash with the dog food bowl on his head. [00:11:11] Speaker A: Yes. [00:11:12] Speaker B: Was then established as an imaginary character in the world of the new Flash. [00:11:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:11:19] Speaker B: Right. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Right. [00:11:20] Speaker B: Now, here's the problem. Coexisting with the original Flash in the same imaginary universe were superheroes who had never stopped publication. Namely Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. [00:11:33] Speaker A: Wonder Woman. Right. [00:11:34] Speaker B: So what's a reader to think? Are this Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman imaginary in the world of the new Flash? No, because they're all being seen together. Teaming. [00:11:44] Speaker A: So what do they do? [00:11:45] Speaker B: Well, so they create a world called Earth 2, where the original superheroes, including different versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, existed with the original versions of Flash, Green lantern, Adam Hawkman, etc. [00:12:04] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:07] Speaker B: So now that solves two problems. Problems at once. It explains the two different versions of characters like Flash and Green Lantern. It also explains why Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman never seem to age. Because the original versions existed on Earth 2, and the new versions exist on Earth 1. [00:12:24] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:25] Speaker B: Which is the world we're currently reading about. [00:12:28] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:30] Speaker B: Now, for DC Comics, this caused a whole boatload of problems because they had to keep creating new earths to explain different characters that they had accumulated over the years. But we'll get into that at a different time. [00:12:41] Speaker A: It's kind of like when you really should have a shelf for all of your herbal teas. [00:12:46] Speaker B: Right. [00:12:47] Speaker A: And you just get like you're drunk one day or high, and you take a box of Celestial Seasonings teas and you tape it to the wall of your kitchen. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:57] Speaker A: And then you can't take it down because it's very convenient. So then you just continue to tape up boxes of Celestial Seasonings teas to your walls to create the look of an invisible tea dispenser, which actually is those tea boxes taped to your wall. [00:13:14] Speaker B: What do they call that? Hanging shelves. [00:13:16] Speaker A: Right, hanging shelves, except that the shelves are invisible. [00:13:19] Speaker B: Right. [00:13:19] Speaker A: And where have we seen this? [00:13:21] Speaker B: Well, we did see that at a relative's house one time. I see where you're going with that. [00:13:28] Speaker A: What I'm saying is like, you sort of make this mistake thinking it's a good solution, and then you have to commit to it. [00:13:33] Speaker B: Right, you commit it to it. [00:13:34] Speaker A: And everyone who sees the boxes of Celestial Seasonings tea taped to the wall goes, wow, what a stupid thing to do. They've got like 12 boxes of tea taped to their wall. Who does that? But you know, you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound. [00:13:47] Speaker B: Right, right, right, right, right, right. So yeah, that's exactly what it's like. Thank you for the succinct and relevant explanation. [00:13:57] Speaker A: Well, maybe it's also like when you start smoking and you get addicted and you just can't stop. [00:14:02] Speaker B: Uh huh. [00:14:02] Speaker A: Yeah. It's just as stupid as these mini Earths that they've created in DC Comics to justify one mistake, which was that Flash was not continuously written and then reintroduced and then they said, wow, well, let's just pretend the original Flash was an imaginary character. I mean, I got it. I don't think I'll ever forget it. But smoking's bad for you. [00:14:21] Speaker B: Okay, well, I think you're having some issues with associations. Associations today. So let's just move on. [00:14:31] Speaker A: I think I'll have a sip of my coffee. This should be vodka, but it's not. [00:14:35] Speaker B: So who else do we need to talk about? [00:14:39] Speaker A: Okay, well, let's talk about some characters. I'm going to talk to those of us who don't know anything about Flash. [00:14:43] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Okay, so the Flash is Barry Allen, right? [00:14:46] Speaker B: Yep. [00:14:46] Speaker A: And then Flash dates Iris west. That's his fiance. Right. Her father is Dr. Ira West. And then we have Kid Flash, He's Wally west. And he is Iris. Cousin. Nephew, Nephew, Nephew, nephew. So he's Kid Flash. So we got Flash and we have Kid Flash. So that's Barry Allen, Wally west, iris West and Dr. Ira West. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:10] Speaker A: And then in this first. Is it the first one that we're introduced? Yeah, we're introduced to Dr. Midnight, who is Dr. Mid McNydes. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Charles McNider. [00:15:21] Speaker A: Charles McNider. [00:15:22] Speaker B: Dr. Midnight of Earth 2. So now, here's another thing to keep in mind. Some Heroes on Earth 2 did not have Earth 1 counterparts. Oh, and Dr. Midnight is one such character who only was on Earth 2. So the issue opens with Kid Flash in costume and Barry Allen out of costume, arriving at the door of Dr. Charles McNider on Earth 2 to speak about Barry's psychological condition, his well being. Now, I should mention that Charles McNider is not a psychologist. He is a medical doctor. And he's also blind. [00:16:03] Speaker A: Oh, is he really? [00:16:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that's why he's holding the blind person cane and has sunglasses. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Oh, I just thought he was affected. [00:16:10] Speaker B: No, blind. [00:16:12] Speaker A: I mean, I thought it was an affectation, I should say. [00:16:14] Speaker B: No, I say he's blind. He can see in the dark. Oh, that's why he's Dr. Midnight. [00:16:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:16:19] Speaker B: Yeah. Dr. McNider says, good to see you again, Barry. But how come you're not here as the Flash? And Barry Allen says, why should I be? I'm the ex Flash. What? So that's the trouble, Barry. Back on Earth one, we have a flashback. He was sick of taking guff from the citizens of Central City. [00:16:46] Speaker A: You and the government. [00:16:47] Speaker B: Apparently, they're not appreciative enough. I'm glad public figures don't harp about not being appreciated anymore. [00:16:55] Speaker A: Oh, no, that never happens, not these days. [00:16:58] Speaker B: We're so much more advanced than in the 1960s. So Barry has had it up to here with being the Flash. He's quitting and leaving town with his suitcase and hat in hand. [00:17:10] Speaker A: Can you believe that? [00:17:12] Speaker B: Well, I can believe it. I watch it happen. [00:17:15] Speaker A: It seems silly. The silliest thing was when he nailed the outfit to the tree or hung the outfit on the tree. And it says, I'm through knocking myself out as the Flash. I quit. Goodbye and good riddance. Signed, the X Flash. [00:17:27] Speaker B: It's a poster size goodbye note nailed with two giant nails. Yeah, I think I'd like to quit a job like that. Just, just. I'm through. Poster board. I'm through. Nail it to a tree outside the office. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Hang your clothes up on the tree. [00:17:46] Speaker B: Yep. [00:17:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Walk away naked. [00:17:49] Speaker B: That's a nice little jalopy he's got though, isn't it? [00:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. [00:17:52] Speaker B: I'll say, Duesenberg. Is that what it is? I don't either. Now I'm gonna say something. It might be controversial. [00:18:00] Speaker A: What? [00:18:00] Speaker B: I think Kid Flash has the best superhero costume ever that's ever been. It's just the perfect color combination, yellow and red. That little V waist Thing that happens there and his unencumbered lightning bolt across his chest. Hair sticking out through the top. [00:18:23] Speaker A: It's pretty cool. [00:18:24] Speaker B: I love it. If I was a superhero, I'd wear a costume just like Kid Flash. [00:18:29] Speaker A: I bet you would. [00:18:31] Speaker B: I wouldn't look that good because I'm not. I'm not a runner. [00:18:35] Speaker A: No. [00:18:35] Speaker B: I don't know if you know. [00:18:37] Speaker A: No, no. I knew that. [00:18:40] Speaker B: So Kid Flash just spins like a top, takes Everybody to Earth 2 to visit Dr. McNider. Dr. McNider hypnotizes Barry Allen again. [00:18:51] Speaker A: He's a medical doctor. [00:18:52] Speaker B: Medical doctor. He's not a psychologist and he's blind. But he's putting Barry into a narcosynthetic state. What does that mean? Does he give him drugs? [00:19:02] Speaker A: I don't really know. I saw that too, and I thought, well, that's interesting. I wonder if he gave him an injection or if that's some sort of mental power that he has. I don't even know who this Dr. Midnight is anyway. This is the first time I've met him. [00:19:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:16] Speaker A: In my readings. [00:19:17] Speaker B: He's. I think we'll be seeing again in the Go go Check era. We'll talk about him when we get to him. Under hypnosis, Barry reveals that he was visited by a citizen of the future. Yes, the year 3780, to be precise. [00:19:35] Speaker A: Cronal officer. [00:19:36] Speaker B: Yes. Who came to the past to warn Barry that there's a bomb planted in Central City that can be triggered by super speed. So he urges Barry not to be the Flash. [00:19:52] Speaker A: Yeah. So don't, you know, don't. Don't try to find the bomb. No, just make him forget to be the Flash. Just make him not want to be the Flash. Does it not forget him, not want to be the Flash. Convince him that it's no longer important for him to be the Flash. So that apparently this bank teller from the 1920s whose an evil villain in the year 3780 can take over, can commit crimes. [00:20:23] Speaker B: Right. Where'd you get bank teller from? [00:20:24] Speaker A: Well, he's just got a little hat maybe, or soda jerk or, you know, maybe. I don't know. I was trying to think of what sort of. Who wears that kind of little jaunty little cap to the side here. [00:20:34] Speaker B: What are the people in the movie theater? [00:20:35] Speaker A: Oh, yes, the ticket takers. [00:20:38] Speaker B: Yeah. The ushers. [00:20:38] Speaker A: The ushers. The ushers. Yes. [00:20:41] Speaker B: Usherette. Usherette. [00:20:42] Speaker A: An usheret. That's what he looks like. [00:20:43] Speaker B: Except usherettes are not bald. [00:20:44] Speaker A: Well, he looks like a little usherette. [00:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:47] Speaker A: That's what I was thinking. [00:20:49] Speaker B: Little, you know, shoulder pad, jacket. Mm. [00:20:52] Speaker A: The nice little gloves we see here. Take your ticket, sir. [00:20:55] Speaker B: Yep, Just as we saw in Blow up your City. We do see consistency here in the time stream. When you're traveling in time, the years are helpfully marked out so you know where to get off. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Yes, it's a colorful display, isn't it? [00:21:11] Speaker B: I'll say. That's exactly what the time stream looks like. Rainbow circles. [00:21:15] Speaker A: Targets with the years flashing by in large digits. [00:21:19] Speaker B: Yeah, so you don't get out the wrong gear. Okay, so the man from the future continues hypnotizing Barry. Barry has no memory of being visited by the man from the future. [00:21:32] Speaker A: No, but he does. He does make him wipe his memory with a giant snowball. [00:21:35] Speaker B: Right? Yeah. So back on our. [00:21:39] Speaker A: I mean, I'm assuming that's a snowball. He's holding a pliable thing. [00:21:42] Speaker B: Some kind of a crystal or something. I don't know what it is, but it's emitting radioactive rays to hypnotize. [00:21:53] Speaker A: I'm sure it's like a putty. Yeah, we had Silly Putty back in the 60s, right? Sure. [00:21:58] Speaker B: Yeah. So, Dr. McNider, maybe it's a very small pin cushion. It does look pliable. Maybe it's proty, too. Chameleon boy's pet from the future. [00:22:09] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:22:11] Speaker B: Flash and Kid Flash decide they're gonna go into the future and handle this themselves. Dr. Midnight offers to go with them, but he wouldn't be much help. [00:22:20] Speaker A: No, he can't see a thing. You know, he's blind as a bat. [00:22:23] Speaker B: And look, we get to the future and it's broad daylight. [00:22:25] Speaker A: I know. It only works if they have to time it so that it's at night. [00:22:29] Speaker B: Well, now, Dr. Midnight does have blackout bombs with which he can make it dark so that he can see. [00:22:34] Speaker A: Does he inhale that gas? [00:22:36] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:22:37] Speaker A: Does he know that could give him cancer? Probably. [00:22:39] Speaker B: Well, he's a doctor. He probably knows that. Oh, it's the 60s. They didn't know that then. [00:22:44] Speaker A: Oh, no. He probably endorsed smoking. Dr. Midnight says make sure you have a Pall Mall after dinner. Ease of digestion and calms your nerves. We should do that for a public service announcement. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Theater, I would say. Superman says smoke Marlboro. So Flash and Kip Flash race to the future. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Yep. [00:23:07] Speaker B: To find the villain. Fran Matar. [00:23:10] Speaker A: I was wondering how you're going to pronounce that name. [00:23:12] Speaker B: I don't know how it's pronounced. Frandmatter. Frandmatar. [00:23:15] Speaker A: Frandmatar. [00:23:16] Speaker B: When I was growing up. [00:23:18] Speaker A: F R A N D M A. [00:23:19] Speaker B: T T A R. It reminds me of when I was growing up in the Italian neighborhood. And the lady across the street would use the word froongy to refer to a part of the male anatomy. Froongy. That's not a real Italian word either. [00:23:33] Speaker A: No, I don't really understand that. [00:23:36] Speaker B: So, Froongi matar. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Yeah, Froongi matar. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Flash and Kid Flash go to the. Where do Pulley's headquarters in the future. [00:23:45] Speaker A: Yes. [00:23:45] Speaker B: Should be easy to find. [00:23:46] Speaker A: See the chronal officers. [00:23:47] Speaker B: Right, Flash? We thought we'd fixed it so you couldn't use your super speed. [00:23:51] Speaker A: You did, but Kid Flash unfixed it for me. We're here to capture Franz Mentar. Where is he? [00:23:57] Speaker B: Well, people from the future are worried that Flash is going to foul everything up. [00:24:02] Speaker A: But Flash is smarter than that. [00:24:04] Speaker B: He sure is. [00:24:06] Speaker A: Don't you just love these sidewalks that swoop down from the buildings to the ground? Aren't they great? [00:24:11] Speaker B: I really love the design of the future city. Me too. This is art by Carmine Infantineau. He's known for sort of these broad expanses of public space with the buildings in the background. Even when he draws Central City. It looks like that in the present. Yes. [00:24:28] Speaker A: Do you think we'll live to the year 3780? [00:24:31] Speaker B: I. Probably not, but I mean, nothing's impossible. [00:24:36] Speaker A: Do you think we'll still be able to walk if we do? [00:24:39] Speaker B: Oh, you're thinking of like the Jetsons who ride those. [00:24:42] Speaker A: The Jetsons don't even walk to the bathroom. [00:24:44] Speaker B: No, they ride their. What do you call it? [00:24:46] Speaker A: Movable sidewalks. Moving sidewalks. [00:24:47] Speaker B: Movable sidewalks. Yes. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Well, these people walking the moving walkway is ending. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Look, I have a theory about the DC Comics future. We've seen that in the 30th century they have pneumatic mail tubes traversing the city we see here in the year 3780. There's a bank building. So they're still using cash. [00:25:12] Speaker A: Yes. I don't see that it's a drive through, though. I don't see an atm. [00:25:15] Speaker B: Well, everybody. They fly. [00:25:16] Speaker A: They don't have cars. I wonder if any of our listeners in radio land see how I picked up the line. [00:25:20] Speaker B: Good. [00:25:20] Speaker A: Any of our listeners in radio land remember the advertisement from Florida National Bank? Now, I doubt anyone remembers this but me, but it was when they first introduced ATM machines, okay? And there was an advertisement on television. And it would be a cartoon girl, and she had blonde hair and giant blue eyes. And she'd Sing I'm Tilda, the all time teller at Florida National Bank. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Oh, is that it? [00:25:52] Speaker A: Oh, the whole. The jingle went on and then it cadenced it at Florida National Bank. [00:26:01] Speaker B: So Frant Matar is stealing the entire bank building. Oh, back to my theory. I think hipsters took over the world in the late 1990s, sent everyone sort of Luddite ing back to the past. So they went back to mail tubes. Okay, maybe there was some kind of robot takeover in there somehow, because we've seen we have sentient robots, but they're not very clever, so that wouldn't have lasted long. Okay, but now we're stuck with all this old technology like mail tubes and. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Cash cache and remote clickers. I love how the guy Fran Matar, pushes his remote controlled clicker, which goes back from 3780 to 1966 and triggers a bomb. [00:26:50] Speaker B: Right, right. [00:26:51] Speaker A: It's basically a chronal remote detonator. [00:26:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, that makes sense to me. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Don't you love how Flash takes the takes Fran Matar and whips him around like a rag doll? [00:27:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:27:03] Speaker A: That's great. [00:27:04] Speaker B: Awesome. [00:27:06] Speaker A: But I don't like how Kid Flash gets caught up in all the bubblegum bubbles. [00:27:11] Speaker B: What? You don't? [00:27:12] Speaker A: Yeah, Mr. Bubble. I was thinking of Mr. Bubble. [00:27:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it is pink like Mr. Bubble, isn't it? So Kid Flash is getting surrounded, subsumed. [00:27:22] Speaker A: Nice. By a spray of frothy matter as it takes. [00:27:27] Speaker B: Well, but he's too smart for that. He just spins himself around, casts off all the bubbles, and then apparently he can just keep walking on air because about five or six panels. [00:27:38] Speaker A: Yeah, he's just suspended in the air. [00:27:42] Speaker B: Well, he's kicking his legs. Maybe he's doing kind of a like you kick in the water to stay afloat. [00:27:47] Speaker A: Like when you're playing like you're pretending you're Mira. [00:27:50] Speaker B: You shut up about that. That's a secret. Well, who wouldn't want to be Meera, queen of the sea? [00:27:59] Speaker A: Me. I like to be Aquaman. [00:28:01] Speaker B: Well, Meera is married to Aquaman, Jason Momoa, so back off. So Flash takes care of these other two henchmen. [00:28:12] Speaker A: I love how he spins them around as if they're wings. How do his arms not come out of their sockets? [00:28:18] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:28:19] Speaker A: He takes these two guys and spins them around in such a way that he's able to actually leave the ground. [00:28:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I'll put that in the show notes. So Flash and Kid Flash have timed exactly how much time they have to get back to the past to Stop the bomb. [00:28:34] Speaker A: They're so clever. They know all about time. [00:28:36] Speaker B: They sure do. Luckily, the time the years are marked in the time stream for them. They can get right back to where they want to be. The bomb goes off in 1966, Central City. And they race around it, creating a cyclone that shoves it up into the upper atmosphere. [00:28:54] Speaker A: Right. They do a little cyclone that just funnels the whole blast into the upper atmosphere. [00:29:03] Speaker B: Central City. [00:29:03] Speaker A: I'm sorry. [00:29:04] Speaker B: I just said the same thing you did. Yeah, I know. Well, that's. I'm used to that. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:08] Speaker B: Flash saves the city. Hooray. [00:29:10] Speaker A: Hooray. [00:29:10] Speaker B: Central City's very appreciative. As they should. [00:29:13] Speaker A: And Flash's ego gets a nice stroking. [00:29:16] Speaker B: Look at this Flash announcement. Don't miss the next issue for a comic book. First, it will feature an entirely different story based on the very same cover portrayed on this issue. Oh, that's what I was gonna tell you about Julius Schwartz. What? He often would just have the COVID drawn, and then he'd assign someone to write the story based on the COVID Oh, really? So this is a little gimmicky here. Yes. We're gonna get. Next issue. We'll get another story based on the same cover. [00:29:46] Speaker A: Wow. [00:29:46] Speaker B: But it'll be completely different. [00:29:48] Speaker A: I'm going to hold my breath. I'll just have to hold my breath till the next issue comes out. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Well, you do that. You don't have to hold your breath for the next story because we have a second Flash story right in this. [00:30:00] Speaker A: Very issue in my home state of Florida. [00:30:03] Speaker B: How do you know it's in Florida? [00:30:04] Speaker A: Because of the palm trees and. Because it says it's in Florida. And I love all the references to space. [00:30:09] Speaker B: Yes. [00:30:10] Speaker A: Oh, it's great. [00:30:11] Speaker B: It really is. [00:30:11] Speaker A: It kind of is the nostalgic Florida of my childhood. [00:30:14] Speaker B: This is when space was really something and people respected signs. Scientists. [00:30:18] Speaker A: Damn scientists. [00:30:20] Speaker B: But instead of Cape Canaveral, we're going to Rocket City, which is supposed to. [00:30:25] Speaker A: Basically be Cape Canaveral. [00:30:25] Speaker B: Yes, it is fantastic mid century design in Rocket City. I wish we lived there. [00:30:32] Speaker A: Love it. [00:30:32] Speaker B: This diner, the launching pad. [00:30:34] Speaker A: Oh, it's the best. [00:30:35] Speaker B: It really is. [00:30:36] Speaker A: Look at the waiter with a. With a poor waiter. He's wearing an actual, like, mock space. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Oh, yes. Like, yeah, yeah, that. [00:30:44] Speaker A: Yeah, that would not be comfortable. Could you imagine handling fried foods in that? And apple pie and all that syrupy stuff. Spilling a milkshake on that. Ugh. [00:30:56] Speaker B: God. So, well, remind me to show you the Flash's origin story, because when he first gets his super Speed. He goes to a diner to eat and there's a great panel where the waitress spills her tray and he cleans it up in super speed. But you get this great panel of the milkshake in mid spill. So Barry Allen, his fiance, Iris, she. [00:31:19] Speaker A: Is not drawn in any way whatsoever. Flatteringly, except for the one we're gonna get to a panel where there's a back view of her with her red blouse that has a V split down the back. And that is it. Otherwise she looks like. She looks like a bitchy mother the whole time. [00:31:36] Speaker B: She is described in the text as shrewish and as accustomed as I've become to apologizing to all women, I have to admit that she's written. She's kind of fish wifing Flash, they're not even married yet. [00:31:54] Speaker A: She doesn't even have her Mrs. Degree, but she's got advanced studies in fish wifing. [00:31:59] Speaker B: So Barry and Iris are driving Iris father, Professor west to Rocket City for some kind of. [00:32:05] Speaker A: Apparently he's like a brilliant idiot. [00:32:08] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a little absent minded always. Oh, well, I want to read the copy here on the splash page. The ineffable professor west is in the thick of it again, this time at a missile base in Florida. Somehow, wherever Iris West's absent minded savant father is. Oh, he's a savant. There's always action, danger and startling developments that never fail to lift us out of our seats. So I'm not altogether familiar with Flash's adventures at this time. So apparently professor west is a recurring character akin to Professor Keenbean in Richie Rich comics. [00:32:46] Speaker A: And Flash and Iris serves as babysitters. [00:32:49] Speaker B: Yeah, clearly. [00:32:52] Speaker A: You know, we have adult living communities for these people now where they have to have their names put on a card in their back and they're not. [00:33:00] Speaker B: Yes, but he's an active scientist that's being invited to speak at a. [00:33:06] Speaker A: He's being invited to do something, to meet some clever people, to do some work. [00:33:09] Speaker B: And he's apparently successful because he's paying Barry and Iris hotel bills. He announces from the back seat of. [00:33:16] Speaker A: The car, well, he thinks he is, maybe he isn't. Maybe they have given him a pretend credit card with a Weeble. A picture of a Weeble on it or something. Or maybe they gave him a Lincoln log and he carries around in his pocket and they say, this is your credit card. [00:33:36] Speaker B: Is that how you're going to treat me when I lose my mind? [00:33:38] Speaker C: No. [00:33:40] Speaker B: So they're in the diner. [00:33:41] Speaker A: I treat you like that now. [00:33:43] Speaker B: Not often. They're in the diner and Barry and Iris take off. [00:33:49] Speaker A: By the way, you said the word of T E N two times. [00:33:51] Speaker B: I know. [00:33:52] Speaker A: In two different ways. [00:33:53] Speaker B: Maybe I did it on purpose. Or maybe I'm losing my mind. Give me a Lincoln log. [00:33:59] Speaker A: Lincoln log. [00:34:00] Speaker B: I was just thinking of all the. [00:34:02] Speaker A: Toys from my childhood. [00:34:04] Speaker B: So, Barry, see you later, Professor. The fellows at the next booth overhear him called Professor. [00:34:10] Speaker A: Right. [00:34:10] Speaker B: You hear that? They called him Professor. Could that be the Brain himself? [00:34:15] Speaker A: All right, let's find out. Oh, wait. Let us see. Let's find out. [00:34:23] Speaker B: I don't know what I was thinking. That was great. [00:34:26] Speaker A: So the guys names are Duke, Stickpin and Slats. [00:34:30] Speaker B: Stick, Pin, Pete. [00:34:30] Speaker A: Stick Pin Pete. [00:34:31] Speaker B: Duke, Stickpin, Pete and Slats. It could be their cover names, the professor thinks, because sometimes sobriquets are used by important officials engaged in confidential government work. That's not true. If it is true, they don't use things like Stick, Pin Pete. [00:34:51] Speaker A: It's also true that when you drive a car, you don't actually drive on yellow sand. [00:34:55] Speaker B: Florida, Right. We know these guys are criminals because one has a cigarette holder and the other one has hairy arms. That's a sure sign of criminal. [00:35:03] Speaker A: Yes. And slicked back hair. [00:35:05] Speaker B: Slicked back hair. And they just look greasy. [00:35:08] Speaker A: They do. They look filthy. Yeah, like they bathe every other day. [00:35:14] Speaker B: They look like they don't wash. Right. They take the professor off in their car and take them out to their secret headquarters. An isolated dwelling on the edge of the city. Now, I've been to Florida. They're going out to swampland, aren't they? [00:35:27] Speaker A: Probably. There's probably alligators out there. Surely there's not one large body of water in Florida that doesn't have some sort of reptile in it that can kill you within seconds. [00:35:35] Speaker B: Right. Including swimming pools. [00:35:39] Speaker A: Well, yeah, you can see them there though. But we do get alligators in swimming pools in Florida. [00:35:45] Speaker B: The guy with the cigarette holder also has wrap around sunglasses which he never takes off. Maybe he's blind too. [00:35:52] Speaker A: I doubt it. [00:35:52] Speaker B: Maybe he's a doctor. Professor west is wearing a barbershop quartet outfit. [00:36:01] Speaker A: Yeah, what's that about? [00:36:02] Speaker B: He's got a. [00:36:02] Speaker A: He's got a cane too. [00:36:04] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got a cane and a vest. [00:36:07] Speaker A: And have you noticed the thing about professor west is he's drawn as a slim sort of character. [00:36:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:15] Speaker A: And then at the bottom of this page, he looks like he's just immediately put on 40 pounds, maybe 50 pounds. [00:36:21] Speaker B: And you know, maybe he's one of those fat, thin, Old men who have a really thin face, but then their stomach is giant. My grandfather was like that. He was. Yeah. Portly. They used to call it a portly gentleman. A straw hat and a vest. He might as well have a banker's armband. [00:36:42] Speaker A: And, you know, we lived in Florida. You can't wear that. [00:36:45] Speaker B: No. [00:36:46] Speaker A: That outfit in Florida without dying. [00:36:48] Speaker B: Right. [00:36:50] Speaker A: I mean, you do wear suits in Florida. But we're light suits. [00:36:53] Speaker B: Right. They're seersucker. [00:36:56] Speaker A: They could be, yeah. So he's got his. So here he is, laboring over his workbench. Making all sorts of chemicals and things to help the space program. [00:37:10] Speaker B: But these criminals go out, rob the richest department store in the South. It must be Dillard's or Belk. [00:37:18] Speaker A: Belk. Or Bells. Bells. Bells. [00:37:21] Speaker B: Bells. I didn't actually know the song. [00:37:24] Speaker A: I was just saying it's spelled B, E, A, L, S. B, E, A L, L, S. Apostrophe S. Apostrophe S. And people from Florida know that it's pronounced Bells. Everybody else calls it Beals. [00:37:34] Speaker B: Idiots. The criminals have some kind of weapon. A futuristic weapon that shoots gas bomb. Yeah. [00:37:42] Speaker A: Did you ever have lunch in a pharmacy? [00:37:47] Speaker B: Yes. We had lunch together at a Woolworths once. [00:37:51] Speaker A: In Florida. [00:37:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:54] Speaker A: When I was growing up, we still had lunch counters in pharmacies. [00:37:58] Speaker B: Sure. My older brother was a soda jerk at the drugstore. Colter's Drugstore. [00:38:02] Speaker A: Oh, of course. Your grandmother owned a candy shop. [00:38:06] Speaker B: She did, unbeknownst to everyone. Until I found secret letters and documents to that effect. [00:38:11] Speaker A: Back to the story. Anyway, I hope you don't mind my little asides. [00:38:14] Speaker B: No, that's great. The criminals are driving now to the Crater Bank. Which is in a building shaped like the moon. [00:38:21] Speaker A: Oh, it's the best. [00:38:23] Speaker B: With a ring around it. I wish we had architects like that nowadays. [00:38:26] Speaker A: We don't anymore. We know that because we've been trying to buy a house for about a month now. And we can't find what we want. [00:38:33] Speaker B: Good luck. [00:38:34] Speaker A: We should just take a picture. We should just take an issue of the Flash and say, can you design this? Right. Yeah, right. [00:38:38] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Sure. $1 million. [00:38:43] Speaker B: So, good morning, Mr. Crabtree. What are you talking about? [00:38:48] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I'm just, like, doing all sorts of ridiculous references. That was Pee Wee. [00:38:51] Speaker B: Okay. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Well, I love. I love this interior of the house. They're staying. It's a hotel. [00:38:56] Speaker B: It's a hotel. Are they staying in the same room? They're not married. [00:39:00] Speaker A: That's not a marriage bed, is it? [00:39:01] Speaker B: Oh, maybe they're in the lobby. Because there's other people in the background. [00:39:04] Speaker A: She looks hideous. Look at her face. She is in. She put on her pissed off mask a week ago and hasn't taken it off. Well, as I said, look at her fish wiping him. [00:39:15] Speaker B: Right. [00:39:16] Speaker A: Look at his face. How are they engaged? [00:39:19] Speaker B: Right, last panel. Iris, I wonder if you'd excuse me for a while. There are some things I have to, er, take care of. No, you can take care of your personal things later. [00:39:30] Speaker A: We're going out to search for my father right now. [00:39:32] Speaker B: In fairness, she is worried about her befuddled father, who honestly could wander off into the swamp and be killed by an alligator or something. [00:39:39] Speaker A: She just looks awful. [00:39:40] Speaker B: Now, I remind you, I told you this once before. [00:39:43] Speaker A: Go ahead. [00:39:44] Speaker B: Barry does not tell Iris that he's the Flash until after they're married. And the only reason she finds out is because he talks in his sleep. [00:39:54] Speaker A: And I've always asked her, is he a fast talker? [00:39:56] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I again see what you did there. So. But first, before going looking for father, Iris is going to the powder room. And he says Iris usually takes a good 10 minutes to powder up and all that. And all that. What is she doing there? What is she powdering? I mean, I, you know, don't. I don't want to get too personal, but I do powder in the morning so that I stay fresh all day. [00:40:27] Speaker A: That was personal. You're gonna have to edit that out. [00:40:29] Speaker B: No, I'm not. It doesn't take 10 minutes, I can tell you that. [00:40:33] Speaker A: Maybe she's very. [00:40:34] Speaker B: Just a. One, two. How do you do? [00:40:40] Speaker A: I'm dying. [00:40:41] Speaker B: Don't die. [00:40:43] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:40:44] Speaker B: Flash races off. Now, did you know that the Flash keeps his costume super compressed in a ring that he wears in his finger, which springs out. [00:40:51] Speaker A: I don't know how he gets it back in there. [00:40:53] Speaker B: Well, so it's compressed right? [00:40:56] Speaker A: Into a ring. [00:40:57] Speaker B: Into a ring. And then when the. When he opens the ring and the air hits it, it expands like a raft. [00:41:02] Speaker A: Okay, so you let me again, in case we would have to rewind. I don't know how he gets it in there. [00:41:07] Speaker B: That's what she said. [00:41:09] Speaker A: Does he just fold it really quickly? [00:41:11] Speaker B: I don't. I don't know. I have to do some research. [00:41:16] Speaker A: Is it like socks? Does he just roll it up and. [00:41:18] Speaker B: Oh, by the way, we didn't mention that one thing I was hoping you'd mention. [00:41:22] Speaker A: Oh, Wally West. [00:41:24] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll go back to that in a minute. [00:41:26] Speaker A: All right. [00:41:28] Speaker B: So Flash is racing after. [00:41:29] Speaker A: The car, which apparently he can't keep up with or something. I don't know. [00:41:34] Speaker B: Well, it's because the professor has given them a gimmick to make their car go at super speed. Which Flash can't. Well, it's because the exhaust blinds him. He can't race after. It's not the speed. [00:41:47] Speaker A: Dense burst of smoke. I can't see a thing. [00:41:51] Speaker B: So Flash chasing, chasing, chasing up the car. [00:41:56] Speaker A: Love. I love that house. Pictures of Florida. I just. I mean, it doesn't look like that, but I just love it. If it really did look like that, it's just. [00:42:04] Speaker B: You'd want to live there forever. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Oh, for God, yes. [00:42:08] Speaker B: So Flash is running faster and faster to see if he can find some trace of the radiation that made the car go super fast. [00:42:14] Speaker A: You know, I do the same thing in the morning. What, chase after cars? No, try to make coffee. I just. Super fast. [00:42:22] Speaker B: That doesn't always work out for you, does it? [00:42:23] Speaker A: No, it doesn't. I sometimes. [00:42:24] Speaker B: Sometimes you spill. [00:42:25] Speaker A: I know. [00:42:27] Speaker B: The Flash tracks down the criminals. And professor west, who is now in. [00:42:34] Speaker A: Captivity, has put on another £40. So do you think they just feed him butter and sugar? [00:42:43] Speaker B: I don't know. Well, that's what people ate in the 60s. Butter and sugar and cigarettes. My grandfather, bipolar. In the summertime, he would demand 12 ears of Gordon for dinner. Covered with butter. He died of a heart attack. [00:42:59] Speaker A: I wonder why. So this Flash tunneling underneath the house? [00:43:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:43:07] Speaker B: He did that in the first story, too. He tunneled under the criminals. [00:43:10] Speaker A: Where does the dirt go? [00:43:12] Speaker B: Did you read the text? He can easily penetrate the hardest materials by means of vibration. He vibrates the molecules of his body so that they pass through solid matter. Like Kitty Pryde. You know who that is? [00:43:27] Speaker A: Nutridation. [00:43:29] Speaker B: He tunnels up through the floor, punches out the criminals. And the professor gets in on the action, too. [00:43:37] Speaker A: He does? [00:43:37] Speaker B: Scientists or no scientists, I can't let anyone shoot the Flash. [00:43:41] Speaker A: Damn. [00:43:41] Speaker B: Scientists are scientists. Anti violence as a rule? [00:43:48] Speaker A: I don't know. I mean, there are lots of bad, evil scientists in the comics, aren't there? [00:43:51] Speaker B: Well, there are, but, I mean, I'm a professor. I have no problem punching criminals. [00:43:59] Speaker A: I know biology professors and they're really nice people. [00:44:01] Speaker B: They are, but I'm sure, you know, I'm sure they wouldn't have a problem protecting a superhero if they had the opportunity. [00:44:08] Speaker A: I don't know. Yeah, he should have said pacifist or no pacifist. [00:44:16] Speaker B: Is that how he talks? [00:44:17] Speaker A: I have no idea. [00:44:18] Speaker B: Flash races back to the hotel just in time to get Iris. Who's Done powdering and all. [00:44:24] Speaker A: Yes. And look at that look on her face. [00:44:27] Speaker B: Oh, dear. [00:44:29] Speaker A: Barry Allen, sometimes there are puzzling things about you that you're going to have to clear up after we're married. [00:44:36] Speaker B: Well, he doesn't, because he marries her without telling her who he is. That's not good, fellas. You shouldn't marry a gal if you've got a secret. [00:44:43] Speaker A: No way. [00:44:45] Speaker B: Look at that teenager. [00:44:46] Speaker A: I don't see. Just, I just, I don't. I don't understand how she thinks she's gonna control him. I mean, she looks nice and she's got a nice body. I'm sure she's very clever, but she is a bitch. [00:44:59] Speaker B: Well, she's got anger issues. Little controlling. You think? Yeah. I was looking at the TV screen. [00:45:06] Speaker A: Where they with the worried face, but. [00:45:08] Speaker B: It looks like Jon Stewart, doesn't it? [00:45:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Anyway, that's the end of the issue. We're done with the Flash. What I was going to mention was Kid Flash at the beginning of the story. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Kid Flash, the kid. [00:45:19] Speaker B: You usually point the Flash out. Well, it was inconsistency. [00:45:24] Speaker A: Subtle. Subtle change. [00:45:26] Speaker B: I noticed right away. [00:45:27] Speaker A: You did, didn't you? [00:45:28] Speaker B: What we're talking about, folks, is Wally West. In his identity as Wally west in civilian clothes, he's got red hair, but as Kid Flash, he's got brown hair. [00:45:39] Speaker A: That's true. [00:45:39] Speaker B: And I was waiting for doctor Husband to tried to tell me that was a mistake because guess what? It's not a mistake. [00:45:46] Speaker A: Well, I couldn't figure out why Wally west was wearing pajamas and a robe and slippers and socks because he stayed. [00:45:53] Speaker B: Over at Barry's house. [00:45:55] Speaker A: So what do you mean it's not. [00:45:57] Speaker B: A mistake in his identity as Kid Flash? He has a fast acting hair dye that comes out of the ring with his costume and dyes his hair brown to hide his secret identity. [00:46:07] Speaker A: My God. It wasn't a colorist. [00:46:09] Speaker B: No, that's on purpose. [00:46:11] Speaker A: I had no idea. [00:46:13] Speaker B: True. [00:46:14] Speaker A: Wow. [00:46:15] Speaker B: Now, later on, in later years, he stopped that. He just kept his red hair all the time. But to protect his secret identity, he had this hair dye. And then when he changed back to Wally west, he'd rub it out real quick. Rub it out. But when Kid Flash first appeared, he had a costume identical to the Flash's, only smaller. [00:46:38] Speaker A: Because he's a kid. [00:46:39] Speaker B: Because he's a kid. But that got confusing. [00:46:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:46:42] Speaker B: So in one story, Barry Allen gained, for literally one panel, gained super mental powers of some kind. And a beam shot out of his face and changed Wally West's costume To the yellow and red with the visible hair on which earth this is on Earth. When. [00:47:02] Speaker A: Okay. [00:47:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And from that time on, Wally west had the cool best costume ever invented. [00:47:09] Speaker A: Well, don't fuck with the Flash. [00:47:11] Speaker B: No, don't wear his costume because he's the fastest man alive. [00:47:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:16] Speaker B: Flash. Ah. Fastest man in the universe. Hey, guess what? [00:47:21] Speaker A: What? [00:47:21] Speaker B: We're gonna see more of the Flash next week. [00:47:24] Speaker A: We are? [00:47:24] Speaker B: We are in, in Green Lantern comics. [00:47:28] Speaker A: Green Lantern, finally. [00:47:30] Speaker B: Green Lantern and the Flash are good friends, you know. [00:47:32] Speaker A: Are they really? [00:47:33] Speaker B: They really are. [00:47:33] Speaker A: Hal Jordan and Barry Allen. [00:47:35] Speaker B: Yes. More of Iris next week. As well as Hal Jordan's gal pal, Carol Ferris. [00:47:41] Speaker A: Carol Ferris. Will Iris be tolerable? [00:47:45] Speaker B: Well, no. No, she won't. [00:47:49] Speaker A: Is that her thing? Yeah, it's like her thing keeping him under her thumb. [00:47:56] Speaker B: Yeah, a little bit, yeah. [00:47:58] Speaker A: Wow. [00:47:59] Speaker B: In these days at least. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:01] Speaker B: And Carol Faris is actually Hal Jordan's boss, Green Lantern. So she's a little. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Does she know about his identity? [00:48:09] Speaker B: No. Well, stay tuned, okay, because there's a twist next week. [00:48:15] Speaker A: I'm so excited to finally get to Green Lantern. [00:48:17] Speaker B: You love Green Lantern. [00:48:19] Speaker A: I do. I remember when I was reading and they had Parallax. Is it Parallax? Uh huh. [00:48:25] Speaker B: That was the 90s. [00:48:25] Speaker A: The 90s. I loved that. [00:48:27] Speaker B: Well, that was not good for Hal Jordan because he was evil and then he died. [00:48:31] Speaker A: I just thought it was great. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Okay. [00:48:32] Speaker A: It's great writing. That's when they had the stupid death of Superman and Superman 2 and all that bullshit. [00:48:38] Speaker B: Okay, well, you're not bitter or anything. [00:48:40] Speaker A: Well, it was silly, of course. I'm just a casual observer. What do I know, right? [00:48:45] Speaker B: Nothing. Don't forget to rate and review us on itunes. [00:48:50] Speaker A: Yes, please. [00:48:51] Speaker B: You can find us under checkered past. You can visit our Facebook page @GoCocheckPod, our Twitter feed @GoCocheckPod, and even Instagram ogocheckpod. Although I'm still very bad at Instagram. But Twitter and Facebook, I'm all about that. I'll post pictures from this issue that you can enjoy and we will see you back here next week. [00:49:15] Speaker A: Awesome. [00:49:16] Speaker B: Yay. [00:49:16] Speaker A: Thank you. Bye. [00:49:17] Speaker B: Bye.