Comic Cavalcade #19

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Wonder Woman: "The Battle for Eternal Youth"

A girl called Roba is used by a gang of criminals to discover the location of the Fountain of Youth. She is taken to the island of the Amazons when Wonder Woman accidentally strikes her in a swimming pool. While Hippolyta and Wonder Woman are alone on a beach she captures them using the Lasso, and places a Venus Girdle on Wonder Woman meaning she must obey her, after hearing they have both been called Wonder Woman by Hippolyta, as they are both wearing identical clothing, she thinks they are twins who take each other's place. She hides the Girdle under a scarf, binds and blindfolds Hippolyta, gags her with a rock and cloth, and leaves with Wonder Woman, taking her to Reform Island. Hippolyta is able to crush the rock that gags her and get other Amazons for help. Wonder Woman is bound with the lasso with the criminals about to kill her with helicopter blades, but Roba unties her and Wonder Woman defeats the crooks.

| StoryTitle2 = Flash: "The Race through Time" | Synopsis2 = Jay Garrick is at the Annual Meeting of the Liar’s Club and decides to regale them with a tall-tale about the Flash, wherein he runs through *time itself*!

Some months ago, a crazy old mad scientist created a serum to accelerate muscle reaction and motor controls, only to have it stolen at gunpoint by fugitive gangster and **evil bald man**, “Tag” Madden. Having necked it down, he found that he was seemingly *as fast as the Flash*! The Flash, moving at super-speed, didn’t even notice him leaving. The old man had a breakdown about how he’d doomed the world, but the Flash insisted that he’d stop him and that he was more experienced with super-speed, so he’d probably win. In the process of chasing him, the Flash and Tag Madden ran counterclockwise to the Earth’s rotation… which enables them to **travel back in time**. They soon found themselves in Pre-Colonial America and accidentally got involved by throwing Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas, atop Capt. John Smith before Powhatan could kill him. The Flash quickly disarmed him and the Flash soon ran off to the time of William Shakespeare, who had all his folios dumped on the ground when Tag ran into him. The Flash asked if he used shorthand while writing plays like *The Merchant of Venice*, but Shakespeare points out *he hadn’t written that one yet* and demands to know what shorthand is or he won’t tell him where Tag went. Naturally, the Flash was forced to take a full hour to teach William Shakespeare the basic principles of shorthand, then **carried him back in time one hour** to save time and then received the directions. Soon, he raced after Tag Madden and found him hiding in **Jericho**, which was being attacked by the Israelites, led by Joshua (who are dressed like Romans?) as **the Flash destroyed the walls of Jericho with a single ax to get to Tag Madden**. At top speed, the Flash managed to throw Tag Madden through a tree trunk like a bit of straw in a hurricane.

One of the Liars asks if this story is getting done soon, but the Flash says that he hasn’t explained how they also **built the Alps**. He quickly explains that the Flash and Tag basically got into a rock throwing fight that built the entire Alpine Ridge. The Flash soon chased Tag to Baghdad in Ancient Mesopotamia and their movements were so fast, that a man’s carpet let him fly, making him think it’s a “flying carpet.” He soon chased Tag into the future, where the Earth will be a bleak wasteland of ice, then found the Sun dying as a red giant. Some bald triangular-headed future people consulted them by blasting them with a Gravity Ray to drag them underground and confirm that Earth is dying because the Sun is out of heat and also resources are scarce too. They have a big machine that will send them via radio beam to a planet that isn’t dying and the Flash and Tag Madden are moved enough to call a truce for now to help out the residents of the Dying Earth. One of them mentions that the Earth would be *really* powerful is they could tap into its geothermal power and offers that they can drop a pipe directly into the center of the Earth. They soon dig a hole to get to the Earth’s core and drop the pipe into it, only for Tag to decide to throw the Flash into lava. The Flash is able to spin himself fast enough that it creates a vacuum that sucks him into the pipe and emerges out of the top of the pipe. Using this pipe, the Future People are able to charge up their ark to a New Earth and leave forever. Tag begs not to be left abandoned there as the last man on Earth and promises to return. The Flash takes him back to the scientist it all began with and says that Tag will have to sweat out the chemical and then he’s going to jail.

As usual, Jay Garrick is named Champion Liar at the Liar’s Club… resisting telling them that he’s the Flash.

| Writer3_1 = Ed Wheelan | Penciler3_1 = Ed Wheelan | Inker3_1 = Ed Wheelan | StoryTitle3 = Foney Fairy Tales | Synopsis3 =

| Writer4_1 = Howard Purcell | Penciler4_1 = Howard Purcell | Inker4_1 = Howard Purcell | StoryTitle4 = Mr. Nobody: "The End" | Synopsis4 = Johnny Peril (identified only as "Mr. Nobody") is wanted by the police by a murder he didn't commit. He meets a little runaway girl and buys her a milk glass. When Nobody is taking her to his hide... I mean, place, the little girl helps an elderly lady cross the street. The old woman thanks her, and says that she will have three wishes, and Nobody's trouble will pass... and then, she disappears.

| Writer5_1 = Jon L. Blummer | Penciler5_1 = Jon L. Blummer | Inker5_1 = Jon L. Blummer | StoryTitle5 = Hop Harrigan: "The Fog-Shrouded Doom" | Synopsis5 =

| Writer6_1 = | Penciler6_1 = Harry Lampert | Inker6_1 = Harry Lampert | StoryTitle6 = Cotton-Top Katie: "The Ball Game of the Year" | Synopsis6 =

| StoryTitle7 = Green Lantern: "Grin and Bear It" | Synopsis7 = Alan Scott comes home, mentally exhausted from fighting crime all day. Doiby Dickles comes home complaining about exhaustion from putting up with rude customers in his taxi all day. Frustrated by his own exhaustion, Alan tells Doiby off, saying the cabbie's got nothing on a crimefighter like him. Doiby bets Alan can't be a cabbie from sun up to sundown without losing his temper at the customers, and Alan accepts. Alan finds out cabbies do have to put up with a lot of spitfires, but even worse is when he gets attacked by gangsters from a taxi protection racket. The crooks are eventually caught, with Alan accepting he lost the bet but Doiby insisting he won. They make so much noise arguing over it the neighbors start throwing trash at them from the windows.

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Wonder Woman) **Supporting Characters:** * Steve Trevor) * Amazons of Paradise Island ** Hippolyte) ** Mala) **Antagonists:** * Ambrose Venture) * Roba Jewel) **Other Characters:** * Milor Milliken, philanthropist * Aphrodite) **Locations:** * Paradise Island ** Fountain of Youth **Items:** * Lasso of Truth * Wonder Woman's Tiara * Venus Girdle **Vehicles:** * Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane

| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Flash) **Antagonists:** * "Tag" Madden **Other Characters:** * Liar's Club members * Unnamed scientist * Pocahontas) * John Smith) * Shakespeare) * Joshua) * Dinosaurs * Father Time * Future men **Locations:** * Keystone City, 1947 ** Liar's club * Jamestown Colony, Virginia, 17th Century AD * Stratford-on-Avon, England, 16th Century AD * Jericho, 16th Century BCE * Alps, unknown geologic era * Baghdad, Arabia, ancient times * Far Future **Items:** * Speed Serum **Vehicles:** * Magic Carpet **Concepts:** * Magic * Time Travel

| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Uncle Foney **Supporting Characters:** * The Sorcerer * The Sorcerer's Apprentice

| Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Mr. Nobody) **Supporting Characters:** * Joan Fleming * An elderly lady (See Notes) **Antagonists:** * Ma Flack * Biff Flack * Cops * Real killer **Other Characters:** * Judge * Orphanage female workers * Joan's parents **Locations:** * New York ** orphanage ** prison ** court **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Hop Harrigan) **Supporting Characters:** * Tank Tinker) **Antagonists:** * Mr. Aldwin **Other Characters:** * Mr. Dryk * Professor Twink **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Cotton-Top Katie) **Supporting Characters:** * Cotton-Top's Cyclones ** Perfessor ** Myrtle the Kangaroo **Antagonists:** * **Other Characters:** * Third Street Tigers ** "Iron Head" Mulligan **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Appearing7 = **Featured Characters:** * Green Lantern) **Supporting Characters:** * Doiby Dickles) **Antagonists:** * Unnamed Gangsters **Other Characters:** * Prince Yush Dawz **Locations:** * Gotham City **Items:** * Green Lantern Ring * Green Flame of Life Lantern **Vehicles:** * *Goitrude*

| Notes = * Published bi-monthly by National Comics Publications, Inc. This 76-page magazine sold for fifteen cents a copy, in an era when almost all other comics were 64 pages, for ten cents. * "Mister Nobody" appears in this issue, and his real name is not given. Justice League of America Vol 1 116 retroactively established Nobody as an alias of Johnny Peril), making this his first appearance. The identity of the elderly lady is left to the reader's imagination. She can be a djinn, an angel or even the Fairy Godmother. | Trivia = * Wonder Woman's story: ** The first name of the character Roba Jewel means "to steal" in Spanish. The end of the story implies that Roba became permanently one of the Amazons, living in Paradise Island. * Flash's story: ** The story mentions that Joshua rose in his "stirrups". One problem with this is that the Scriptures indicate that the period of the Judges was about 400 years (1400–1000 B.C.). Since the earliest known saddle-like equipment were fringed cloths or pads with breast pads and cruppers used by Assyrian cavalry around 700 BC, it would be impossible to have stirrups in Joshua's lifetime.

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Creative credits

Writers: William Moulton Marston, Gardner Fox, Alfred Bester, Ed Wheelan, Howard Purcell, Jon L. Blummer

Interior art: Harry G. Peter, Everett E. Hibbard, Paul Reinman, Ed Wheelan, Howard Purcell, Jon L. Blummer, Harry Lampert

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