Mail Call For 2.16.24

As is often the case, the latest Mail Call was inspired by something I saw on Bluesky.

Back in the early ’80s, I was picking up The Flash as regularly as I could for a while, and that was 100% for the Doctor Fate backup stories.

Over the years, I’ve thought about reacquiring those Flash comics for the sake of the backups, but then I learned that they were reprinted in this 1984 collection of Doctor Fate stories.

And why buy those boring-ass, late-period-Carmine-Infantino-illustrated Flash stories when all I wanted was the backups?

I remember seeing the ads for it at the time, and I wanted it, even not knowing what it was about or that it reprinted the backup stories, but I didn’t have access to a comic shop, so there was no way for me to grab them at the time, then I just forgot about it.

Until now. And so, here we are.

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