Yeah, there were a few good stories in that issue. The three or four issues leading up to it were pretty good, too. (I’m particularly fond of the Bouncing Boy origin. )

And I’m not gonna spoil it, but the identity of the kid writing the story was a great twist.

(By the way, the Bouncing Boy story was in issue 48 or 49, as I recall.)

Yes, I also recall that it was in the issue 48.

For a minute I thought that Barry was throwing the eraser into the crowd.

Is the kid Wally West?

At the time, I thought this was an odd story: the attempt to bring in an seemingly redundant (although classic) silver age story back into continuity. After all, if the two Flashes are from the same earth, how hard is it to have them meet? How do you retain the essence of the story, but more importantly, why?
Now we can see that this might be the earliest example of Morrison’s desire to bring in old out-of-continuity stories into the mainstream.

Was the kid Wally West? I mean can someone just tell me instead of beating around the bush I’m not gonna pick it up.

It’s not Wally. Honest.

to bad this is another example of DC’s ineptitude at creating new characters people actually want to read, and just having ‘reinvent’ old ones.

Oh man, I need to find this. I had no idea Morrison and Parobeck had worked together.

The entry at the Great Comics Database gives the reveal away for those who don’t want to rifle through their back issue bins (but why wouldn’t you?).

Oh…I wasn’t even close.

Didn’t that character already have his powers by that age?

Bill, it’s reprinted in the Flash TPB : the Human race.

arrgghh, damn fingers… that was me just above.

Great choice, Brian : Mike Parobeck did an impressive job at re-drawing some panels from the original issue and still keeping his wonderful style.

The Infinite Earths were such a cool concept in the right hands.

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What I loved about this story was Morrison’s approach to continuity — basically saying, “We can have a unified universe and still have these great old stories — it just takes a little creativity.”

Given the teller’s adoptive father’s riches, would he have even been in a school, or would he have been tutored?

I’m sure I read that story, as I bought every issue of that comic (and I faintly remember the Dolphin story), but I don’t want to try to dig it out of my wasp-infected storage building.

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