Friday, January 11, 2013

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 11


House ad for The Flash #105 (first issue; February-March 1959); printed in Lois Lane #7 (February 1959)
Comic cover art: pencils by Carmine Infantino, inks by Joe Giella
Ad designed and lettered by Ira Schnapp


8 comments:

Michael Jones said...

Rhea Perlman, the fastest waitress at Cheers.
btw was that a QI reference?

Bully said...

Bingo, Michael! As I like to say, I don't worry about if people will get the jokes. The right people will get the joke.

Dave said...

I loves me some QI. Wish they ran it over here.

SallyP said...

The "Duck Hawk?" Seriously?

Blam said...

I'm with you, SallyP. "Peregrine" sounds so much cooler. And neither "Peregrine" nor "Falcon" were even Marvel trademarks yet. 8^)

Blam said...

Also, I'm pretty sure that Mirror Master is wrong.

Sphinx Magoo said...

It's been a while since I've felt this informed after reading an advertisement!

wordsmith said...

To paraphrase Dave Barry:
"Science has proven that the fastest creature in the Animal Kingdom is a cow that's been pushed out of a helicopter."