by Tom Batiuk | Jun 26, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
The final 350th issue of The Flash arrives as a double issue with the art of Carmine Infantino and Frank Mclaughlin looking better than ever. As well, writer Cary Bates does a grand job of wrapping up the career of the superhero who ushered in the Silver Age of...
by Tom Batiuk | Jun 19, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Behind one of the finest covers of the entire Silver Age Flash run, we pick up the story with the jury foreman Nathan Newbury (whose body has been inhabited by what appears to be the Reverse Flash) announcing that the Flash is guilty as charged. The Flash is...
by Tom Batiuk | Jun 12, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
We pick up a nanosecond after Captain Frye has turned over his hard-won evidence showing that the Reverse Flash is still alive. After they’ve viewed the evidence at the police lab, the Flash takes off and, alone in the lab, Frye seems to be hanging up the Captain...
by Tom Batiuk | Jun 5, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
The issue kicks of with a caption over the first panel that reads: “It is a dark and stormy Central City Night…” (seriously, cross my heart and call me Snoopy, that’s what it was). We see a stranger at Cecily Horton’s door in the rain (there’s no rain in any other...
by Tom Batiuk | May 29, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Picking-up two or maybe three seconds after the closing events in the previous issue, we see the Flash who has been unmasked in the courtroom by his attorney Cecile Horton, and it’s definitely not the Barry Allen we’ve come to know and love, but a more rugged looking...