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The Golden Age Flash Archives, Vol. 2 by Gardner F. Fox

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This selection of Golden Age Flash stories collect tales featuring Jay Garrick's Flash from Flash Comics 18-24 and the All Flash Quarterly 1 and 2.

This book was just a lot of fun. The Flash doesn't have any legendary opponents in this book but the stories done with a lot of humor and style. There are protection racket gangsters who harass a restaurant and are made to eat their just desserts, there's the Flash building a brick wall around criminals harassing a group of bricklayers, and the book concludes with the Flash battling the Spider-men from Mars in Flash #24.

While Flash Comics contained multiple features, All Flash Comics was the Flash's own Quarterly magazine. Issue #1 of All Flash noted Flash's departure from the Justice Society under the rules that if a character got his own magazine he had to leave. Issue #2 is a full-fledged book length saga of revenge following a criminal's twisted path to revenge as it poisons him and puts everyone around him at risk. This story like most of the other Flash stories in this book feature a solid moral.

The book is delightful and represent a huge step forward from Volume 1, and it's too bad that there's not likely to be a Volume 3.



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