Enjoy vintage comics with sound! Flashlight Audiobooks features English speaking words, spoken aloud as we follow along with high-quality comic books from the 1940s, 1950s and beyond. In the old days, we would sit in the dark with a flashlight and read our comic books. Now with RU-vid, we can enjoy comic books from yesteryear-complete with English narration and sound effects!
LEARN ENGLISH: reading along with an English speaker is a great way to learn English. Improve your English pronunciation, inflection and vocabulary!
HAVE FUN: comic books have great stories! Follow along as we go on adventures. There's lots here like romance comics, science fiction, westerns, horror and superhero comics.
This is one of your best videos. Great story, art, and very moody, atmospheric narration, music, and sounds. Can I ask what is the title of the wonderful spooky music playing in the background of this video?
@@flashlightaudiobooks Thank you so much I will look it up!! I’ve been a fan of 1950s pre-code horror comics since the 80s. Collected a lot of them too! I also write & draw a horror comic called Wulf & Batsy. Very inspired by old horror comics & old horror movies! Check out my channel for more info!🙂👍🏻
Thanks for doing this video John Byrne is one of my top five artists of all time my number one favorite top artist is Alex Ross. But, John Burns in my top five for sure
I absolutely appreciate this very very much. ...and all the other horror comic vids ...I loved to collect them as a teenager.....Thank you for posting this kinda stuff.
I remember reading this. But Smithers instead of Watson? I know this series brings Holmes into the present day of the time (1950s), but if they could modernize Holmes, why not Watson, too?
The thing about romance comics is you never really know if they're just going for the obvious, or if they're setting you up for a twist ending. I half expected her to realize she was in love with Johnny and go to South America with him. When I first got into comics as a teen, I gravitated towards the superheroes, but even then it was nice read the occasional genre comic, westerns, horror, war, or even romance, to see stories about more or less ordinary people, as a change of pace. . And even though the stories weren't too long or sophisticated, sometimes you had some really great artists drawing them.
I can see how terrible it would be to be stuck in a doll's body. But I don't understand why he needs to be locked away like that. Suicide watch to prevent him from destroying himself?
A happy ending! Did the original story end like this? I don't think it did. But the story of King Midas has certain morals to it, but sometimes you need to be a little more explicit about it. The most obvious point is that gold or money is pretty much intrinsically worthless. Money is a medium of exchange, and its value lies in what goods and services you can exchange it for. Another point that's not so obvious is that gold is a good form of money because it is relatively scarce with a limited quantity, among its other features that make it good for money. If King Midas turned too many things into gold, then gold would no longer be scarce and would be devalued as a medium of exchange. A lot of people seem to favor government fiat money (like the US Federal Reserve Notes) and scorn commodities like gold for money precisely because they can just produce more fiat money any time they like with no natural limit. They've failed to learn the second point that limits and scarcity help make money more useful and valuable. They've failed to learn that monetary inflation leads to price inflation, and causes a variety of harms in our economy. Heady stuff for a fairy tale maybe, but then we're *supposed* to learn lessons from them!
CGC lists the artists as Fred Guardineer, Max Elkan, King Ward and Al Ulmer (although they don't specify who did what in the issue, and there are multiple stories in Adventures Into The Unknown #1).
