![]() And with him, the semi-official beginning of the Silver Age of comics. ![]() But it’s issue #4 that really hit the stride.įor Showcase #4 is the first appearance of Barry Allen, the Silver Age Flash. The second and third issues featured animal stories (one with great Joe Kubert art) and frogmen respectively. Sadly, this was not turned into a continuing series, but Fireman Farrell has made cameo appearances in DC comics ever since. Then he battles a circus blaze, and appears on a TV program modeled after Edward R, Murrow’s “See It Now.” The foils in each story are foolish men who ignore Farrell’s wise advice about fire safety and must be rescued. In the first story, he graduates from firefighter school. “Fireman Farrell” was about the son of a famous firefighter who follows in his father’s footsteps. The first issue featured the subject they’d gotten an overwhelming demand for–firefighters! ![]() ![]() ![]() So they came up with Showcase, a series where a concept would be tried out for an issue or three, and if all went well, would be promoted to its own continuing title. In Ouroboros fashion, DC’s line of black and white reprint comics returns to its roots.īack in 1956, National Comics (DC) had more ideas for comic books than they had publishing slots to put them in, and readers asking for dozens of different concepts. ![]()
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