Hey Berlanti! Hey Johns! I dare you to adapt this issue for TV. All total in this issue, Grodd used a mind swapping pill and a fat gun. He then dehydrates himself to get rid of the weight and defeats Grodd. Another side effect of the gun was amnesia so the confused Flash becomes a circus freak now that he looks like a scarlet blimp. When fatty Flash passes a funhouse mirror, he remembers who he is and sadly doesn’t get a reality cable show. Anyway, Grodd zaps Flash who now looks like Homer Simpson in that episode where he got really fat and wore a Mumu. Grodd uses the monkeys to commit petty crimes instead of, I dunno, the President of the United States or the Flash never occurs to anybody, but hey…Silver Age!Īs Dawson, Grodd creates a gun that will increase a target’s weight by 1000 pounds, so he’s now like the opposite of the gypsy from Stephen King’s Thinner. Grodd chooses and pill possesses a man named Willie Dawson and gets a job in a circus so he can communicate with and have access to apes. You see, Grodd has a pill that allows his mind to leave his body and take over a human of his choosing. So “The Day Flash Weighed 1000 Pounds!” began with our ape of the hour, Grodd, sitting in his cell in Gorilla City contemplating how the Flash always defeats him when he clearly has a superior intellect. It’s like a crossover between The Flash and The Biggest Loser. Flash #115 (1960) by John Broome and Carmine Infantino And it worked, becoming one of the strangest but constant locales in the DC Universe. It was like Edgar Rice Burroughs meets…I don’t know what. Yeah, Flash defeated Grodd in this, the gorilla’s debut, by running around the ape so fast that Grodd couldn’t think straight and passed out, but Grodd would return, again and again.īefore we leave this issue, just think about what an insane concept Gorilla City truly is, a city where a race of gorillas gained sentience through exposure to a UFO (later retconned into a meteor) and built a super secret advanced society. But it was the look in Grodd’s eyes that made the character so enduring…a look of malevolent intelligence to go with his raw brute strength. Infantino’s renderings of Grodd rippled with raw sinew and power as the legendary artist established Grodd’s physical presence. Why Grodd thought the secret of mind control was located in Central City is anyone’s guess, but hey, it was 1959, just go with it. In this issue, Grodd invades Central City to learn the secret of mind control in order to take control of Gorilla City’s mighty army. Now keep in mind, that back in the early Silver Age, most comics contained two or three stories, so in like half a comic, John Broome and Carmine Infantino introduced the world to Grodd, Gorilla City and Solovar, the wise king of the gorillas. How much is that homicidal, despotic, feral gorilla in the window?īefore Gorilla Grood made his debut in The Flash #106 in 1959, Flash fought his fair share of gimmicky human criminals and non-descript aliens, but when a certain super gorilla debuted, the insanity of the Silver Age can be said to have truly begun. Flash #106 (1959) by John Broome by Carmine Infantino The Prime 8: 8 Moments that Prove That, Grodd Damn It! That’s One Awesome Gorilla! 1.
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