This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com Showcase #4 was a big hit, you could say it sold out in a “flash” if you wanted to be a real unfunny prick about it. Point is, DC Comics knew they had something on their hands with the Silver-Age Flash. DC rushed to get Flash back into the pages of Showcase , and fit in two Flash stories in issue 8. In a sure sign that DC wasn’t sure who or what would sell a comic, the cover story for Showcase  #8 is for the Flash story Th

This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com Harry Donenfeld was the CEO of National Allied Publications, which was best known for publishing the ever exciting adventures of Superman in Action Comics , as well as the CEO of Detective Comics, which published… well you don’t need to be Batman to solve that mystery. Overall, he was happy with the way things were going, but Harry was worried about one thing - he feared that his partner, Jack Liebowitz, would leave Nation

This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com As I’ve mentioned before, one of the things I really love about the history of DC Comics is the way they handled their Golden Age heroes as time moved on. DC reveled in the idea of legacy characters while accepting that some characters like Superman and Batman could never be legacy*. Atom Smasher is one of the more interesting, and dark, legacy characters. To start off, we need to talk a little about Al Pratt, the Golden A

This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com I’m going to be honest, this chapter of Flash  Facts will taking me out of my wheelhouse. We’re dealing with two characters who are not part of Flash lore in the comics, and one who has rarely appeared and, in those appearances, is nothing like his TV counterpart. As with last week, I do want to make it clear that there may be spoilers for things that will happen in The Flash  as time goes on. I can’t say for sure, since I

This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com WARNING - I have no idea where things may go with The Flash in season 2 or beyond. Some of the things I’m going to discuss here may be spoilers. A lot of Flash history is being covered here, with a lot of things touching on weird aspects that have been hinted at in the show. When people talk about the great villains of comics books, the average person will mention Joker and Lex Luthor. Comic fans will bring up Darkseid, No

This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com Every week, I’m going to take a character from the fantastic Flash TV series and give you a quick history lesson on their comic origins. This week we’re looking at the first lady of the Flash Family, Iris West... Barry Allen wasn’t the only important character to make his first appearance in Showcase #4 , along with the fastest man alive came another in a long line of characters who would be Lois Lane rip­offs, but Iris W

This Article Originally Ran On Birth.Movies.Death.com You may have noticed that The Flash  TV series has a lot of fans here at Birth.Movies.Death. , with Meredith being the major voice for the show around these parts. I like the show, I like it a lot, but I tend to come at it from an angle that Meredith doesn't know much about - as a lifelong fan of the character, I've spent more time learning about Barry, Iris and the gang than I have spent on anything of actual importance i