![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peppercatvia https://ift.tt/349uJRC
gorogues:
peppersandcats:
…is that actually what happened? (I mean, obvs he didn’t die, but…)
Also, is that a ray gun? That looks like a ray gun. I am weirdly less odded-out by James’s current six-shooters and holsters.
(off to get three weeks worth of comics today, whooo)
gorogues:
That time James and Digger tripped the Flash and he died.
unstable-molecules:
The Flash #209, Sept 1971. Cover by Dick Giordano.
I somewhat misrepresented it for dumb laughs, but they tripped him and some interdimensional being pulled his soul/spirit out of his body to fight an alien threat, and so from James’ and Digger’s POV he’d simply died when he hit the ground. The other being claimed it couldn’t put Barry’s soul back in his body so he was truly dead, though when Barry pressed it to try, his body returned to life and James and Digger freaked out about his apparent resurrection.
It probably was a ray gun. In the Silver Age he had various guns and at least one of them worked (Barry made he and Len shoot each other), so him having guns isn’t unprecedented. It’s possible some of the guns were fake or just gag props though, such as perhaps the handgun he used to hold up the plane in his first appearance. We never saw whether it was real or not, and it might have just been part of the Jesse James gimmick…certainly it would have been a bad idea to fire it in an airplane!
Hooray for comics and catching up! :D
…okay, “tripped him and he died” sounds like a 100% workable summary, I would not worry about that being a misrepresentation at all.
I am always amazed by the sheer number of useful images and bits of information that you have. Thank you for sharing them.
gorogues:
peppersandcats:
…is that actually what happened? (I mean, obvs he didn’t die, but…)
Also, is that a ray gun? That looks like a ray gun. I am weirdly less odded-out by James’s current six-shooters and holsters.
(off to get three weeks worth of comics today, whooo)
gorogues:
That time James and Digger tripped the Flash and he died.
unstable-molecules:
The Flash #209, Sept 1971. Cover by Dick Giordano.
I somewhat misrepresented it for dumb laughs, but they tripped him and some interdimensional being pulled his soul/spirit out of his body to fight an alien threat, and so from James’ and Digger’s POV he’d simply died when he hit the ground. The other being claimed it couldn’t put Barry’s soul back in his body so he was truly dead, though when Barry pressed it to try, his body returned to life and James and Digger freaked out about his apparent resurrection.
It probably was a ray gun. In the Silver Age he had various guns and at least one of them worked (Barry made he and Len shoot each other), so him having guns isn’t unprecedented. It’s possible some of the guns were fake or just gag props though, such as perhaps the handgun he used to hold up the plane in his first appearance. We never saw whether it was real or not, and it might have just been part of the Jesse James gimmick…certainly it would have been a bad idea to fire it in an airplane!
Hooray for comics and catching up! :D
…okay, “tripped him and he died” sounds like a 100% workable summary, I would not worry about that being a misrepresentation at all.
I am always amazed by the sheer number of useful images and bits of information that you have. Thank you for sharing them.
