Flash Fridays – The Flash #333 May 1984

Oct 4, 2024

When we see the Flash Museum about to be attacked by some costumed vandals, we know what the next stop on the Flash trope tour is going to be as well as the character who’ll get a turn onstage for perhaps a final time. Sure enough, when the trio of vandals breaks in they are confronted by the former thespian and current docent of the Flash Museum Dexter Myles. Myles is knocked out and the museum is set ablaze. The Flash arrives on the scene in time to save Dexter and prevent a total immolation of the museum. 

Dexter Myles is an interesting example of a one-off character who turns out to have some real legs. I don’t think that when the Flash’s original writer John Broome created Dexter for a Kid Flash backup story that he expected him to still be a part of the Flash mythos more than two hundred issues later. You never really know when you create a character just what that character’s journey is going to be. You may think you do, but you don’t. My own experience with that was with my character Mason Jarre, who popped into my head one summer night as my wife and I were leaving a restaurant. Initially, Mason Jarre was nothing more than an interesting pun name to be used for an actor if the need ever arose. Well, the need showed up and so did Mason. He became a major part of Funky’s “Hollywood stories”, and is still around today as the Hollywood angel who owns the Valentine Theater in Crankshaft. It’s something when it happens under a single writer’s hand, let alone in work that has been created my many hands. So it is nice to see The Flash’s final writer (and former twelve yeqr old letters page hack) Cary Bates taking care to see that Dexter receives his due.In a similar fashion, we’re given a brief glimpse of the Pied Piper to indicate that he was behind the attack on the Museum and we’re left with obviously much more to come. The Flash then takes his new lawyer Cecile Horton to see her law firm partner Peter Farley in the Hospital. They agree to meet in front of the police station later. The Flash then visits Fiona and finds her doing much better and pretty much recovered. Meanwhile, as Cecile waits at the police station, she’s confronted by the mega lawyer N.D. Rednik who realizes that she’s taken over as Flash’s defense lawyer when the Flash picks her up. As they leave, Cecile informs the Flash that she’s only defending him because she’s Peter’s law firm partner, and that in actuality, she despises him with a hatred that will never die. Not the words your hoping to hear from the person who’s going to be fighting in court for your life.

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