Panels from All Star Comics #4 (March-April 1941), script by Gardner F. Fox, pencils and inks by Everett E. Hibbard
Flash leads by example! I mean, not the dressing up in red and blue tights and wearing a salad bowl on your head example, but by teaching how to resist the snakes within our midst! In other words, he's rousing up the general public by teaching them about the terrors of loathsome hate literature. Also: knowing is half the battle!
Remember: to successfully and morally resist the forces of fascism in our great country, do not have the wool pulled over your eyes. (Exception: the great hero Sheep-Man.) Also, play darts with guns! No, ignore that last one. Just don't stand still twiddling your thumbs when you hear hate speech, no matter who it's coming from. (There is no exception for the "highest office" in the land, by the way.) Isn't that right, Flash?
And that's what the Flash will always believe in: truth, equality, and tolerance for all people regardless of nationality, with zero tolerance for racial slurs
OH FOR PETE'S SAKE JAY YOU WERE DOING SO WELL UNTIL THAT LAST PANEL
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Oh, I hope you'll tap Golden Age Captain America's battle against The Reaper (reprinted in one of Marvel's trade paperbacks but I can't remember which one). A wizened old man literally stalking around in a full-body robe and wielding a scythe almost destroys democracy, simply by holding rallies and telling people what they want to hear.
Up to about a year ago, I thought it was hilariously goofy in my it-could-never-happen-here naivete.
Billy, thanks for the suggestion! I'm gonna look for it now!
Cool! If it helps, I finally found my original source: The Golden Age of Marvel Comics Volume One TPB. Wikipedia (he has his own Wiki page!) says the story was reprinted in Invaders #10 (1976) as well.
That is actually very helpful, thanks you, Billy! The original (in Captain America Comics #22) I've only ever seen in a bad microfiche copy, and the Marvel Masterworks it's reprinted in is out of my price league. But I've definitely got Invaders #10 around here somewhere! Thanks!
Oh yes! I knew I'd read it before once I saw this classic panel!
You're a fine one to chastise others for their spelling. You couldn't even spell "word." :)
In my defense, Terrence, typing is more difficult with hooves.
"Aiiieeeee! No, Flash, no!" — Groot
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