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Showcase Presents: The Flash, Vol. 1

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A must purchase for any DC collector...if he does not already own the Flash Archives 1 - 3. If so, this title is redundant. Still for non-Archives owners, we have here a bargain book reprinting from Showcase and Flash 105 - 111. Enjoy. Volume 2 will be a keeper going beyond Archives #4. The Showcase Presents series is well worth looking at!

This one, in my opinion, is the best one I have read so far. I have seven of the showcases and one of the essentials, and this one is the best one so far that I have read. The stories of Barry Allen, aka The Flash, display all the excitement and fun of the comics. From the love story with Iris West to the origin of Wally West aka Kid Flash, the excitement never ends. It is 500 pages plus of awesome comics!

I realized this collection of Flash stories are the earliest, and which means it was first intended for kids, instead of adults. This is my feeling, since there are some Kid Flash tales who is exactly like Flash except is a kid. And the bad guys always seem to rob banks and jewelry stores. The plots are simple. But being a Flash fan, I wasn't concern of the storytelling as much as seeing how the first issues of Flash is like. So I guess this collection is no different than DC Archives except in black and white. I enjoy the first appearances of some of the Rogue's Gallery. We even get to see origin of Elongated Man who makes appearances.

Loved the flash as a kid . . . this is great for my kids, even though in black and white.

This collection, like the others in the line, provide many hours of good, old-fashioned, forget-about-your-worries, escapist fun. Just be sure to turn off your brain. Just like the showcase Superman, and the showcase Green Lantern I bought previously, these stories are the most insipid, logic-defying, pieces of stupidity ever published... but I guess that's what they're supposed to be. Just once I'd like to find one of these books where there isn't a supposedly "strong" woman character who loves the super-hero and his alter ego without knowing both are the same man, and acts like a goofy love-struck teenager.

This is my first exposure to the Flash and he's got to be the dumbest of the major superheros. Waving his arms to create a vortex, running so fast he travels through time (and without obliterating the guy he's carrying!) How get gets back, I'm not sure. I'll stop now, my brain is hurting.

End rant. Like I said - a good deal for hours of escapist reading fun.