Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold [Paperback]

Mark Waid (Author), Tom Peyer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563897083
• ISBN-13: 978-1563897085
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 0.3 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #999,795 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark Waid, a New York Times bestselling author, has written a wider variety of well-known comics characters than any other American comics author, from Superman to the Justice League to Spider-Man to Archie and hundreds of others. His award-winning graphic novel with artist Alex Ross, KINGDOM COME, is one of the best-selling comics collections of all time. (Secretly, however, he prefers SUPERMAN: BIRTHRIGHT and his IRREDEEMABLE collections as his favorite works he's produced.)

With over twenty years of experience in his field, Waid maintains a blog at www.markwaid.com that is full of advice for beginning writers and experienced authors both.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mark Waid at his best, July 21, 2002

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Jay Dickson (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold (Paperback)

One reason old DC fans love Mark Waid so much is because of his real attention and devoted care for the company's old Silver Age icons, like the Hal Jordan Green lantern and the Barry Allen Flash. Both characters were killed off by the company years ago in favor of hipper new versions, but Waid shows what a mistake this was by showing enormous depths behind this old pair of Justice Leaguers. The cocky, skirtchasing Hal Jordan and the staid, reliable Barry Allen always seemed like the most unlikeliest of pairings, but Waid gives a plausible account for how two such dissimilar men could actually become the best of friends. The best story, by far, is the last, which analyzes the differences between Barry's utter devotion to his dead wife Iris and Hal's neurotic ongoing longtime relationship with his troubled boss Carol Ferris; it builds beautifully off of years of characterization and plotting by former FLASH and GREEN LANTERN scripters (in particular Cary bates and Steve Engelhart), and offers the return of one of most greatly missed Silver Age DC villains, Star Sapphire.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth every penny and more!, December 18, 2001

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold (Paperback)

This book is a collection of six stories involving the Barry Allen Flash and the Hal Jordan Green Lantern, telling of the great friendship that existed between these two super-heroes.

The first story is Those Who Worship Evil's Might, in which our heroes battle an alien who wishes to steal mankind's evil, destroying us in the effort. In the second story, Lightspeed, Flash and Green Lantern team up with Kid Flash (Wally West) to defeat the machinations of the Mirror Master and Black Hand. The third story, A World of Hurt, is quite unique, when our Flash and Green Lantern go on a camping trip with the Jay Garrick Flash and Alan Scott Green Lantern (!), and find themselves in an adventure (I guarantee you'll never guess who's behind it all). The fourth story, How Many Times Can a Man Turn His Head, teams up our heroes with Green Arrow to stop Central City's new mayor from imposing a police state. The Man Without Fearlessness is the fifth story, and it pits Flash and Green Lantern against a powerful force that has already destroyed nine other Green Lanterns. The final story, Running on Empty, pits a bereaved, widower Flash and Green Lantern against an old enemy...a very old enemy indeed!

I have been introducing my son to my old passion of comic books, and he and I both love this book. The book is made to a high quality, so you don't sweat the price; it's worth every penny and more! A World of Hurt was great, and all of the other stories were very good, except for the fourth story. The story with Green Arrow was very weak, seeming to be more of a political polemic than a good adventure. That said, though, this is a great book, and my son and I highly recommend it to you!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only problem with it is it has to end..., July 8, 2001

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Vernon Clark Mayo "Fastest gun, comic god" (Allen Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold (Paperback)

Yeah i love this book and Flash is my favorite hero of the DC heroes (better then supes even). This book tells the story of two very different heroes Hal "Green lantern" Jordan and Barry "The Flash" Allen and how even though they don;t seem to have anything in common other then being heroes are the best friends in the DC Universe. This reprints all six issues of the Brave and the bold mini series that made new "old stories", Since both are dead now this is the only new stories we will see. If you are a fan of either or just love a good story then get this book because it is one of the best only i wish it was longer then six issues in fact i could read an ongoing series like it!

(Also this has guests like Green Arrow, Kid Flash, The Original GL and Flash and others.)

a story of two buddies.