The 1960s adventures of the Flash that introduced the Scarlet Speedster to his Golden Age predecessor, Jay Garrick, are collected in DC's Deluxe Edition format for the first time.
The super-speedsters of two worlds race into adventure in this new collection of tales! Learn how police scientist Barry Allen, the Flash of the 1960s, first crossed paths with his predecessor, Jay Garrick, the Flash of the 1940s, in this hardcover featuring THE FLASH #123, #129, #137, #151 and #173, collected in DC's Deluxe Edition format for the first time.
These are the stories that first established the science fiction concept of parallel universes in DC Comics, as the Flash learned of a way to use his super-speed to travel across dimensions to Earth-2, home of an older generation of heroes who began their crime-fighting careers in the 1940s. It all begins in Flash of Two Worlds, one of the most famous tales from the Silver Age of Comics, and led to subsequent tales in which the two super-speedsters teamed up to battle Captain Cold, the Trickster and more of the Flash's Rogues Gallery of villains.
Born in 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, Gardner Fox was probably the single most imaginative and productive writer in the Golden Age of comics. In the 1940s he created or co-created dozens of long-running features for DC Comics, including the Flash, Hawkman, the Sandman and Doctor Fate, as well as penning most of the adventures of comics' first super-team, the Justice Society of America. He was also the second person to script Batman, beginning somewhere around the Dark Knight Detective's third story. For other companies over the years Fox also wrote Skyman, the Face, Jet Powers, Dr. Strange, Doc Savage and many others--including Crom the Barbarian, the first sword-and-sorcery series in comics. Following the revival in the late 1950s of the superhero genre, Fox assembled World's Greatest Super Heroes once more and scripted an unbroken 65-issue run of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. Though he produced thousands of other scripts and wrote over 100 books, it is perhaps this body of work for which he is best known. Fox passed away in 1986.
ISBN: 9781401294595
Author: Gardner Fox
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 3 March 2020
Publisher: DC
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (mm): 376 x 188 x 13
Weight (kg): 0.494
