"A...Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the DC Universe? Localized entirely within Coast City Woods?" "Yes." "....may I see it?" "......no."
So we're just going to ignore how fast the postal service is in Central City. Snarts' letter made it through the prison mail, the USPS, and the police mail to Barry in under a day.
If there's one thing I felt the CW did well on, it's the casting of Mick Rory and Leonard Snart in The Flash. Love those two characters because of that show. I would also really love to know who was the one chode that disliked this video?
I still don't know why The CW took villains like Cold, Heat Wave and Grodd off the Flash show and put them on Legends of Tomorrow. I think them taking out most of the rogues gallery was one reason I lost interest after Season 2. Along with the show being turned from a superhero show to a bad romantic drama to pander to shippers. I have no problem with shippers if they keep it to fanfiction, don't obsessively demand their ships become canon and don't want a show where romance is either a minor subplot or there is none to be all about it. The selfishness of the CW Barry put me off in later seasons too. In Seasons 1 and 2 he actually wanted to do good and help people. But starting at the end of Season 2 whenever the slightest thing goes wrong in his life he goes back in time to change it. He's also incompetent and can't do anything without his team. Comic Barry can do things on his own. I don't think CW Barry would be able to stop a common crook who stole somebody's wallet without Caitlin,Cisco and the various versions of Wells holding his hand. CW Barry has this scarily obsessive mindset where he doesn't seem to care if the rest of the world dies as long as he and Iris don't.
I was a little kid in the Bronze Age and LOVED these! It really felt like you were getting a huge deal when you found a comic book on the spinning metal rack that had an "extra free" story in it.
You should do the story when Green Lantern met Aaron Burr! Also, I loved Cary Bates’s run on the Flash.. at least until Iris died. The Flash was my favorite comic
not even just that... in Comedy the 'Straight Man' is the 'normal' guy who the 'Funny one' works off of, setting up jokes, and/or not getting the joke when it's made... so it can also be used for a 'stick in the Mud' or a Boring person as well
we should also have a conversation about.... superman pretending to be reflecto superman pretending to be gangbuster superman pretending to be batman And now, for a new concept.... a Kryptonian with multiple personalities.
Wow Cap doing meth. GL Doing shrooms. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone from either DC OR MARVEL Blaze up a joint lol. Also captain cold is a great 👍🏾 super villain who doesn’t get enough credits that he deserves.
Ooh, better idea: hide the speaker's face on the cover and let people THINK it's Barry, then have it turn out to be Captain Cold thinking he's the Flash! And add in Flash thinking he's Captain Cold just because! And only Heat Wave can sort it all out! 😊
I read *_The Flash_* for most of the book's run, and I did think that in the early 1970s the book was, well, _running in place._ When Iris was killed in 1979, I recognized it as an attempt to shake up the status quo. I'd been thinking myself that it would be a good time for Iris to become pregnant, preferably with some colorful complication to the pregnancy that would require the intervention of the advanced medical science of her parents' time period. That would have led to the child being forced to remain in the future, with Iris saying she wanted to stay also, and Barry persuading Wally to take over and become the Flash of the 20th Century so the family could stay together. Oh, I also figured out how to resolve the confusion about Iris' birth parents living in a world so different from the Legion of Super-Heroes: "What, did I say 2971, Wally? Must have been a slip of the tongue. No, the Russels live in 2791. I've never been to the 30th Century. Superman says it's beautiful, though." But instead, Iris just died. And stayed dead for more than five years.
Thank you for finally discussing a comic I can honestly claim to be too young to have read! I can't say I ever found Flash to be dull but I did prefer when Wally was the man in red rather than Barry. At least a small part of that though is that when I first read Flash comics wally was a popularly used term for a foolish person and I like childish jokes the writer wouldn't have been aware of. I only really got into comics when I moved to London in 1988 and could get my hands on them easily. There was a shop in Notting Hill that sold second hand comics too so I was able to get up to speed on most things back to the early 80's. Mostly DC as my wages weren't all that high as a student psychiatric nurse and I had to choose my form of rationing. I still spent far more than I should have- it was a fun time. Anyway, I was able to get a pretty full run of Green Lantern comics too and I have to say I never liked Hal. The man's a prick. I always preferred Guy- still a dick but at least an entertaining one. My point is, if ever there was a character who might have benefited from having his mind expanded by magic mushies it was Jordan. Shame it doesn't seem to have worked. I'm away now to look up when Captain America"accidentally" took meth- sounds fun!
Definitely didn't find Hal Jordan or Barry Allen boring back in the day, but then, I was a kid, so what did I know? LOL I love that you point out how clumsy Hal is, it cracks me up! You deliver just the right blend of snark and love that makes these videos very watchable. LOL You know another trait of Hal's I've been noticing lately as I've been rereading the old bronze age DC comics, which you touched on in this video, is that Hal is going to be a super hero whether his ring is working or not. Granted, it's not as funny a trait as his clumsiness, but I've seen it more than once and it really endears Hal to me. He's not defined by his ring or his powers, he's defined by the type of person he is.
True. Except Batman’s rouge are mental ill and If not backstab, and flash’s rouges are all sort a family ala juggalo. ( even the one that is not part rouges minus grodd and professor zoom )
Late to the party but I did read this issue... And most of the Flash comics of the time. He was my favorite superhero for a time, despite the subpar rogues gallery.
Sasha, you're adorable. You crack me up. Keep on keeping on. I'll be watching. Through the 'net. Not like a creepy stalker. I have no life is all. It's why I read comics...at over fifty.
It's been decades since I've read this issue! What confused me about it was that it wasn't about The Flash at all but Captain Cold. Of course I believe that this was around the time that Marvel did Supervillain Team-Up and DC released the nine-issue Joker title. Bad guys with their own stories would be a good topic to cover some time...
Can we hear about the “Uoh” Green Lantern period? Pls. Also, it’s interesting to hear about past trends. What “dead” comic trends/troupes do you or anyone reading like/wish were still popular?
I owned a copy of this back in the 70's. Love the Irv Novick artwork on this series. Really would love to see these collected and/or on DC Universe Infinite.
Green Lantern and Flash were my second and third favourite heroes as a kid, based solely on my perception of them as the second and third most powerful DC heroes (after Superman, of course). Wonder Woman had yet to achieve her demigod-level powers, Batman was just a rich guy with a utility belt and Aquaman talked to fish.
I did read Flash when these stories were new. One of my first comics was Flash 229, but I was 8, so... However, I do remember reading the 3 parter spanning 235, 236, and 237...and loving it. It still holds fond memories. So, check that out.
Yes, old stories from the ?silver? age, and the story about Barry in the future serving out his punishment... I would love some more information on that arc... Which ended with Crisis on Infinite Earths in the comics... I believe it was almost 10 years that Barry (and Iris, apparently a super big plot twist) were living in the future, and raising the twins.
Man imagine gl getting the munchies and accidentally eating some of Ollie's famous chilli 🌶 🥵 do you think the scovals would sober him up or make him have a really bad trip?
The first issue of Flash that I bought was #264, but you can bet I was picking up back issues of Flash when I could find them, including the issue you reviewed here. The Cary Bates/Irv Novick team ran for quite a while on Flash, and it was a lot of fun. Bates would come up with some ridiculous idea, and Novick would make it look believable, somehow. Plus, Flash's Rogues Gallery was so good. The Green Lantern backup stories in Flash weren't that great. I don't think Denny O'Neil was very good at doing 6-8 pagers; he really needed a full-length comic to do his stories. But the Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Black Canary team was great! And was even more fun when they re-introduced Air Wave into the mix, although he didn't stick around too long. DC had several B-list writers and artists in the 1970s, those who just never became really big, but who were still fun and enjoyable. People like Bob Rozakis, Gerry Conway, Alex Saviuk, Romeo Tanghal, Don Heck, Ramona Fradon, E. Nelson Bridwell, etc. Most of their work was never going be reprinted, but they still made enjoyable comics anyway.
Oh yes there's some bad ones, like Haljor the Barbarian.😒 Man,that was bad. Plus I always wondered how the Guardians let Chukkis stay a lantern since he killed, stole the ring and ate the lantern of his sector...weird.
🙂🙂🙂 Sasha you are tripping me out with these vids! Please continue! Not sure if you stick with DC only, but I would love to hear your analysis of Cap and the dude who used superglue as a weapon 😂 I think Zemo was the name.
I have this issue! Or, I have a version of it. Here in Australia, post-war censorship regs meant that the original comics couldn't be published here - we had to make do with black-and-white reprints conjured up in Singapore. Great story though - I was, like, 9 when it came out...
I have this particular issue and have most of the Flash and Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics from that time period. I definitely enjoyed them back in the day, but I haven't re-read them in quite some time to know what my take would be on them now.
Im not old enough to have collected these when they came out, but you said "silver age stories in the bronze age" or similar... running a retro comic is going to be boring. Flash had an outstanding Silver Age, no wonder the character could get stuck there. Green Latern was pretty boring until they fully embraced the grim side of the Bronze Age, and then maybe they took it too far and basically killed the character for decade(s)
Is it "your" head canon if I had the same idea, and that was just watching this video mind you. ;-) Sasha, it is now OUR head canon, and thus it is now fact... Or something. Shrooms are ban mmkay? If it is not Mario taking 'em. :-P
If this was 1970... what makes it bronze age? I mean in 1970 the Silver and Bronze age overlap.. and so this title/issue could be Silver especially considering the art, and storyline.. So I'm wondering what made you decide to call it Bronze rather than Silver? Even in the Description you say ' today we're talking about the Silver Age' , which furthers my confusion.
"A...Aurora Borealis!?
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this part of the DC Universe?
Localized entirely within Coast City Woods?"
"Yes."
"....may I see it?"
"......no."
Steamed Hals
So we're just going to ignore how fast the postal service is in Central City. Snarts' letter made it through the prison mail, the USPS, and the police mail to Barry in under a day.
The Flash moonlights as a mailman. They don't call it snail mail in Central City.
"Rivalry, frenemyship, whatever is happening here." The kids these days call it bitter exes.
Lol Mick's not bitter though
@@CasuallyComics on Legends he is
Truth
Jafar is in the background just casually creeping. Lol
That’s that guy from that episode of the Hercules animated series right?
@@dg9444 The villain from Aladdin.
N4T1V3 T3J4N0 google Hercules season 1 episode 44
@@dg9444 He made a cameo? Cool.
Is Jafar creeping or just super high?
If there's one thing I felt the CW did well on, it's the casting of Mick Rory and Leonard Snart in The Flash. Love those two characters because of that show. I would also really love to know who was the one chode that disliked this video?
I still don't know why The CW took villains like Cold, Heat Wave and Grodd off the Flash show and put them on Legends of Tomorrow. I think them taking out most of the rogues gallery was one reason I lost interest after Season 2. Along with the show being turned from a superhero show to a bad romantic drama to pander to shippers. I have no problem with shippers if they keep it to fanfiction, don't obsessively demand their ships become canon and don't want a show where romance is either a minor subplot or there is none to be all about it. The selfishness of the CW Barry put me off in later seasons too. In Seasons 1 and 2 he actually wanted to do good and help people. But starting at the end of Season 2 whenever the slightest thing goes wrong in his life he goes back in time to change it. He's also incompetent and can't do anything without his team. Comic Barry can do things on his own. I don't think CW Barry would be able to stop a common crook who stole somebody's wallet without Caitlin,Cisco and the various versions of Wells holding his hand. CW Barry has this scarily obsessive mindset where he doesn't seem to care if the rest of the world dies as long as he and Iris don't.
@@Xehanort10 Grodd was still in the Flash show. He only made one apperance in Legends.
I was a little kid in the Bronze Age and LOVED these! It really felt like you were getting a huge deal when you found a comic book on the spinning metal rack that had an "extra free" story in it.
Suddenly their depiction in Legends of Tomorrow makes a lot more sense...
You should do the story when Green Lantern met Aaron Burr! Also, I loved Cary Bates’s run on the Flash.. at least until Iris died. The Flash was my favorite comic
So,
Cap did Meth
Batman did Venom
Now Hal does Shrooms?
i'm dead when i forgot straight used to mean good.
not even just that... in Comedy the 'Straight Man' is the 'normal' guy who the 'Funny one' works off of, setting up jokes, and/or not getting the joke when it's made... so it can also be used for a 'stick in the Mud' or a Boring person as well
your romantic readings of heat waves lines brought tears to my eyes! lol
we should also have a conversation about....
superman pretending to be reflecto
superman pretending to be gangbuster
superman pretending to be batman
And now, for a new concept.... a Kryptonian with multiple personalities.
I just cringed so hard. Heat wave was longing for Snart.
Wow Cap doing meth. GL Doing shrooms. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone from either DC OR MARVEL Blaze up a joint lol. Also captain cold is a great 👍🏾 super villain who doesn’t get enough credits that he deserves.
Ooh, better idea: hide the speaker's face on the cover and let people THINK it's Barry, then have it turn out to be Captain Cold thinking he's the Flash! And add in Flash thinking he's Captain Cold just because! And only Heat Wave can sort it all out! 😊
I read *_The Flash_* for most of the book's run, and I did think that in the early 1970s the book was, well, _running in place._
When Iris was killed in 1979, I recognized it as an attempt to shake up the status quo. I'd been thinking myself that it would be a good time for Iris to become pregnant, preferably with some colorful complication to the pregnancy that would require the intervention of the advanced medical science of her parents' time period.
That would have led to the child being forced to remain in the future, with Iris saying she wanted to stay also, and Barry persuading Wally to take over and become the Flash of the 20th Century so the family could stay together.
Oh, I also figured out how to resolve the confusion about Iris' birth parents living in a world so different from the Legion of Super-Heroes:
"What, did I say 2971, Wally? Must have been a slip of the tongue. No, the Russels live in 2791. I've never been to the 30th Century. Superman says it's beautiful, though."
But instead, Iris just died. And stayed dead for more than five years.
1974, Gretna, Louisiana, Time Saver convenient store. Blew my 9 year old mind. Loved Irv Novick pencils!
Thank you for finally discussing a comic I can honestly claim to be too young to have read!
I can't say I ever found Flash to be dull but I did prefer when Wally was the man in red rather than Barry. At least a small part of that though is that when I first read Flash comics wally was a popularly used term for a foolish person and I like childish jokes the writer wouldn't have been aware of. I only really got into comics when I moved to London in 1988 and could get my hands on them easily. There was a shop in Notting Hill that sold second hand comics too so I was able to get up to speed on most things back to the early 80's. Mostly DC as my wages weren't all that high as a student psychiatric nurse and I had to choose my form of rationing. I still spent far more than I should have- it was a fun time. Anyway, I was able to get a pretty full run of Green Lantern comics too and I have to say I never liked Hal. The man's a prick. I always preferred Guy- still a dick but at least an entertaining one. My point is, if ever there was a character who might have benefited from having his mind expanded by magic mushies it was Jordan. Shame it doesn't seem to have worked.
I'm away now to look up when Captain America"accidentally" took meth- sounds fun!
I mean who really in joys a old story the way the author wanted?
Definitely didn't find Hal Jordan or Barry Allen boring back in the day, but then, I was a kid, so what did I know? LOL
I love that you point out how clumsy Hal is, it cracks me up! You deliver just the right blend of snark and love that makes these videos very watchable. LOL
You know another trait of Hal's I've been noticing lately as I've been rereading the old bronze age DC comics, which you touched on in this video, is that Hal is going to be a super hero whether his ring is working or not. Granted, it's not as funny a trait as his clumsiness, but I've seen it more than once and it really endears Hal to me. He's not defined by his ring or his powers, he's defined by the type of person he is.
Green Lantern doing shrooms is amazing and screw the comics authority for not letting that be blatantly canon
Megamind: *p r e s e n t a t i o n*
Heatwave and Cold are such a fun couple
The "SLAP" sound efx keeps coming!! Awesome!!
The irony. Captain Cold can’t stand a straight man. Actor who played him is gay in real life.
And Capt. Cold is gay in at least one universe in the Arrowverse.
The flash with a freaze gun and having a double life .
Now this is sweet .
Not a Big table.
I feel like there is a call back, there, in the DC Zombie start; where Dina and Ollie were camping with Hal.
Maybe just flip one of those plastic pizza box thingies that everyone pretends is a mini-table.
You know you did it!
Bonus points for referencing the severely underrated Megamind.
The flash’s rouges 🤝 Batman’s rouges
Being dramatic bitches
True. Except Batman’s rouge are mental ill and If not backstab, and flash’s rouges are all sort a family ala juggalo. ( even the one that is not part rouges minus grodd and professor zoom )
Fastest man alive..
.... also always late. Still gets me every time!
Late to the party but I did read this issue... And most of the Flash comics of the time. He was my favorite superhero for a time, despite the subpar rogues gallery.
Hal Jordan accidentally got high 😂😂😂😂
Sasha, you're adorable. You crack me up. Keep on keeping on. I'll be watching. Through the 'net. Not like a creepy stalker. I have no life is all. It's why I read comics...at over fifty.
Right with you, Ben...except I'm creeping up on 60 🙂
I split the difference for ya. I’m 55 this month and still read them.
You’re so amazing. Love your channel!
It's been decades since I've read this issue! What confused me about it was that it wasn't about The Flash at all but Captain Cold. Of course I believe that this was around the time that Marvel did Supervillain Team-Up and DC released the nine-issue Joker title. Bad guys with their own stories would be a good topic to cover some time...
If I ever get sent to a penitentiary, that's the one I want to go to.
Can we hear about the “Uoh” Green Lantern period? Pls. Also, it’s interesting to hear about past trends. What “dead” comic trends/troupes do you or anyone reading like/wish were still popular?
I owned a copy of this back in the 70's. Love the Irv Novick artwork on this series. Really would love to see these collected and/or on DC Universe Infinite.
Green Lantern and Flash were my second and third favourite heroes as a kid, based solely on my perception of them as the second and third most powerful DC heroes (after Superman, of course). Wonder Woman had yet to achieve her demigod-level powers, Batman was just a rich guy with a utility belt and Aquaman talked to fish.
I did read Flash when these stories were new. One of my first comics was Flash 229, but I was 8, so...
However, I do remember reading the 3 parter spanning 235, 236, and 237...and loving it. It still holds fond memories. So, check that out.
I cannot hear the words aurora borealis without thinking of the Simpsons.
Yes, old stories from the ?silver? age, and the story about Barry in the future serving out his punishment... I would love some more information on that arc... Which ended with Crisis on Infinite Earths in the comics... I believe it was almost 10 years that Barry (and Iris, apparently a super big plot twist) were living in the future, and raising the twins.
I'm in my 40s, I love your history vids. I got that DCEU channel... Comic book heaven!!
My earliest Flash comic has a Firestorm backup. And I've got an Action Comics with the Atom as the backup story.
I assume Snart is smoking Kools...
If Heatwave had realy been trying to go straight, that would have made the story too sad.
Oooh I am not happy today.
I agree Darling! I LOVED them both back then...
Man imagine gl getting the munchies and accidentally eating some of Ollie's famous chilli 🌶 🥵 do you think the scovals would sober him up or make him have a really bad trip?
That was one of the first Flash story I read when I was a kid
Yay! Flash comics
The first issue of Flash that I bought was #264, but you can bet I was picking up back issues of Flash when I could find them, including the issue you reviewed here. The Cary Bates/Irv Novick team ran for quite a while on Flash, and it was a lot of fun. Bates would come up with some ridiculous idea, and Novick would make it look believable, somehow. Plus, Flash's Rogues Gallery was so good. The Green Lantern backup stories in Flash weren't that great. I don't think Denny O'Neil was very good at doing 6-8 pagers; he really needed a full-length comic to do his stories. But the Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Black Canary team was great! And was even more fun when they re-introduced Air Wave into the mix, although he didn't stick around too long.
DC had several B-list writers and artists in the 1970s, those who just never became really big, but who were still fun and enjoyable. People like Bob Rozakis, Gerry Conway, Alex Saviuk, Romeo Tanghal, Don Heck, Ramona Fradon, E. Nelson Bridwell, etc. Most of their work was never going be reprinted, but they still made enjoyable comics anyway.
Maybe Mick stayed in prison and then immediately committed a crime because he wanted to stay in jail.
Is Green Lantern deadly allergic to.....
YELLOW FEVER
Wait, if he was the coldest person on earth, why is he wearing a coat instead of running around naked?.......hehe the FLASHer
I love this channel, Excellent work Casually Comics!
Love this story Hal tripping balls
Oh yes there's some bad ones, like Haljor the Barbarian.😒 Man,that was bad. Plus I always wondered how the Guardians let Chukkis stay a lantern since he killed, stole the ring and ate the lantern of his sector...weird.
🙂🙂🙂 Sasha you are tripping me out with these vids! Please continue! Not sure if you stick with DC only, but I would love to hear your analysis of Cap and the dude who used superglue as a weapon 😂 I think Zemo was the name.
I want Ollie’s chili
I really do love these two
That's funny, geen lantern on shrooms.
I’ve never seen that hyper sexist green lantern panel. It’s so out there it’s fucking hilarious.
I have this issue! Or, I have a version of it. Here in Australia, post-war censorship regs meant that the original comics couldn't be published here - we had to make do with black-and-white reprints conjured up in Singapore. Great story though - I was, like, 9 when it came out...
why do the captions not lign up with what she's actually saying?
I have this particular issue and have most of the Flash and Green Lantern/Green Arrow comics from that time period. I definitely enjoyed them back in the day, but I haven't re-read them in quite some time to know what my take would be on them now.
Green Lantern did shrooms!!!
OMG THE NEXT VIDEO IN QUEUE IS LITERALLY THE CAP DOING METH VIDEO YOU *LITERALLY JUST MENTIONED* 😁
I read some of these as a kid and never realised Hal and Olly had Brokeback subtext. It's so obvious know though, in hindsight.
Hi there fellow random comic lover. I hope you have a good day!
Wait, how did Hal find a bar of soap in a forest?
Flash cost 12 cents but wasn't worth it back then.
I was reading the flash comics in 1974, and no, I didn't think they were boring. Of course, that may have been because I was 9 years old then. 😀💀😀
Silver age is hilarious
Thank you for a great channel. And when did Captain America do math?
I think 1974 is still The Silver Age.
Well, look at that? You DO have your own channel! Should have guessed. Subscribed this promised! 😊
Who is closer captain cold or mister freeze
"Police scientist" you mean like... Forensics? This could have been before that was a term maybe
This was fantastic! Now cover Cap doing meth, I need to know! Pleaseandthankyou.
Like 3 vids later lol
Im not old enough to have collected these when they came out, but you said "silver age stories in the bronze age" or similar... running a retro comic is going to be boring. Flash had an outstanding Silver Age, no wonder the character could get stuck there. Green Latern was pretty boring until they fully embraced the grim side of the Bronze Age, and then maybe they took it too far and basically killed the character for decade(s)
*brozne age*
Please tell me your doing/did a video on Cap "accidentally" doing meth.
Oh you know it lol
Is it "your" head canon if I had the same idea, and that was just watching this video mind you. ;-) Sasha, it is now OUR head canon, and thus it is now fact... Or something. Shrooms are ban mmkay? If it is not Mario taking 'em. :-P
This is why Marvel dominated the market for years and years.
Remember Mopee?
If this was 1970... what makes it bronze age? I mean in 1970 the Silver and Bronze age overlap.. and so this title/issue could be Silver especially considering the art, and storyline.. So I'm wondering what made you decide to call it Bronze rather than Silver? Even in the Description you say ' today we're talking about the Silver Age' , which furthers my confusion.
I always thought the Silver Age ended with the Crisis, I.e. Barry's death.
So uh... Whats a Captain Cold?
A Captain Cold is like a regular cold, but it gets paid more.
Wait, Cap did meth? That I have to know more about.
as a WWII era soldier and the Product of 'Science' he wasn't the only one... I'm just shocked it's apparently canon
Every time you same "the bronze age" I do a double take because I hear "Lebron's age" and I'm like Lebron doing comics now??
All the dislikes come from salty Marvel fans
I'm a marvel fan 😪 and dc fan, I like both..... both, both is good..... well....... both is good at times
Second!!!!! C:
1st