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Jay Garrick was the first Flash not Barry Allen!! |
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Jay Garrick was the first Flash not Barry Allen!!
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Perhaps instead of "Original version" they should've said "Silver Age".
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Perhaps instead of "Original version" they should've said "Silver Age".
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The Golden Age characters are always overlooked. It really irritates me, particularly since I prefer Jay to Barry any day. Likewise, Alan Scott is still the original and best Green Lantern.
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The Golden Age characters are always overlooked. It really irritates me, particularly since I prefer Jay to Barry any day. Likewise, Alan Scott is still the original and best Green Lantern.
I should say that I'm speaking as somewhat of an outsider as I've never actually read any Flash comics althought I have read ABOUT the various Flashes and Rogues |
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How many non-comic book fans would understand what that meant??
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If we were talking Bronze Age (80s) or Modern Age (90s) then yeah, but surely everyone knows that Golden Age is the 40s and Silver Age is the 60s?
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but surely everyone knows that Golden Age is the 40s and Silver Age is the 60s?
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I guess i'm in the minority that doesn't have a clue what your saying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Age_of_Comic_Books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_of_Comic_Books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Age_of_Comic_Books |
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Would Captain Cold and the rest of the Rogues have worked as well against Jay as they do against Barry??
I should say that I'm speaking as somewhat of an outsider as I've never actually read any Flash comics althought I have read ABOUT the various Flashes and Rogues Quote:
I would argue that only Marvel and DC fans would know about the various "Ages"
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Well, the Rogues have fought Jay, more than once-and yes, I'd say they work just as well with him. The thing about Flash stories is that, Golden Age or Silver, they were almost always fun and fairly lightweight, and the Rogues tend to work well in those kind of stories as they were originally fairly goofy characters.
I think almost any comics fan would know Golden Age and Silver Age, really. |
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Interesting trivia fact no. 1, 8889, 765: the original Star Sapphire was a Golden Age Flash villain before the character was reinvented for the Silver Age Green Lantern.
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Interesting trivia fact no. 1, 8889, 765: the original Star Sapphire was a Golden Age Flash villain before the character was reinvented for the Silver Age Green Lantern.
![]() I'm more of an expert on Judge Dredd and 2000AD
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If you say so
![]() I'm more of an expert on Judge Dredd and 2000AD ![]() http://britishcomics.wikia.com/wiki/..._Database_Wiki Our 2000AD section could use expanding (open to all who wish to add or edit, providing they know their stuff!) |
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Aha! Then you might well be of assistance with this little project:
http://britishcomics.wikia.com/wiki/..._Database_Wiki Our 2000AD section could use expanding (open to all who wish to add or edit, providing they know their stuff!) ![]() I'm not a total novice as I'm part of this collective effort http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday |
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I'll certainly take a look
![]() I'm not a total novice as I'm part of this collective effort http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday |
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Hey, interesting stuff! Thanks for that-I'll check it out more fully tomorrow.
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As with the wider Wikipedia it can be very addictive
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I know. I started the British comics wiki after I got hooked on editing the Marvel and DC Database wiki's. I actually spent 10 minutes on the DC one earlier today, creating an entry for Plastic Man of Earth Two...
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Earth Two was the original home of the Golden Age characters right??
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"Complicated" would be more fitting
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"Complicated" would be more fitting
![]() All except Earth C, damn them! I miss Captain Carrot...
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OK: all you need to know is that any DC character published before 1954 was based on Earth Two (except Superboy, who's something of an anomaly), and the majority of the Silver Age/Bronze Age characters were on Earth One. The significant exceptions were the Captain Marvel Family (Earth S), the Freedom Fighters (Earth X, all former Quality characters) and the Crime Syndicate of America, arch foes of the heroic Alex Luthor (Earth 3). Less significant were Earth 12 (Inferior Five, Son of Plastic Man), Earth B (hypothetical world where a lot of problematic Batman stories crafted by the continuity eschewing Murray Boltinoff, Bob Haney and E Nelson Bridwell were posited to have happened), Earth C (home of DC's funny animal characters) and the later Earth Four (home of the former Charlton Comics heroes). Then, they all blew up, leasving just New Earth. Now, they're all back, but with some diferent numerical designations.
All except Earth C, damn them! I miss Captain Carrot... ![]() |
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If they're all back it makes you wonder why DC ever bothered with Crisis On Infinite Earths
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Supposedly to straighten out and streamline fifty years worth of continuity, but I think it quickly became apparent that all they'd really done was confuse longtime readers and new fans alike and stifle writers' creativity. Pity it took them twenty years to try and rectify it and then they still couldn't simply revert to the former status quo due to editorial edict (writers have now been told not to use the multiverse even though it's been restored).
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