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Wednesday Trending Topics: The Case Of The Disappearing Flash

Published Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:31:22 -0600

Last updated Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:32:40 -0600

Poor Jay Garrick. Not unlike one of today's mysterious topics, his already-drawn adventures have had a way of not making it to the printed page since the 1940's, it seems. Take the case of the page fragment shown below: It's part of a Carmine Infantino Flash story drawn in 1949, which was written off and slated to be destroyed by DC after his titles had been cancelled in the waning days of the Golden Age. Fortunately, the crafty staffer who was told to do the deed opted to cut the pages into salvageable strips, leaving us with a few hints as to what might have been. Coincidence? I think not.

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