Monday, September 5, 2016

Manic Labor Day Bonus--When The Flash Met Einstein! Or, Why Barry Is Always Late!

No one has been quicker to pick on Silver Age DC stories for their...questionable use of "science" than I have.

So, it's only fair that when they get a story pretty much right--no matter how unlikely that may seem--I should praise them.

Barry, because of some Flash shenanigans, is late for his dinner with Iris and her scientist father...





Hmm...well, he is kind of absent-minded and nutty...

All right, what's going on?!?!



Patronizing much...?


[Editor's note: later experiments using super-accurate atomic clocks showed that time indeed did move more slowly on a plane compared to a stationary clock. SCIENCE!]





But a plan is hatched when Professor West finds himself at the scene of a bank robbery:




So, after some pretty astonishing calculations for pencil and paper, Professor West is ready to spring his trap:


So how did Barry overcome the theory of relativity?



...or maybe just not wear a watch while crime-fighting?

And of course, what's a Silver Age Flash story without Iris trashing her fiancee?

"Slow old lazy Barry." Oh, Iris...

From The Flash #141 (1963)

4 comments:

Mista Whiskas said...

Yes, of course the *only* explanation for someone's watch to run slow is that the wearer has super speed.

snell said...

Well, there's super-magnetism, time travel powers, tactile telekinesis, your body turning to sand gums up the gears...

SallyP said...

Why does Iris have to be so... obnoxious? She's not in Jean Loring's category... quite... but gee, cut the guy some slack!

Dan said...

"Relatively speaking," *sigh*