Godspeed
- Harry Lampert, the man who drew and co-created the “Golden Age” version of DC Comics’ The Flash, has died.
I remember somewhichway unfairly trading a kid I was in daycare with, sometime in the mid-‘70s, out of one of those “Secret Origins of the superheroes” collections. And that’s where I first saw this orginal version of the fleet-footed superhero.
A time would come when ‘Flash’ was my favorite comic, and though that time was decades after Lampert left the book, I’ve always appreciated his artwork.
- Quoth the magpies nevermore: A voiceover performer named Dayton Allen has also died. Mark Evanier writes, in his obit, “He was heard in many of the Terrytoons animated shows, voicing both Heckle and Jeckle, and almost all the characters on the Deputy Dawg series, including the star of the show.”
Niether of those would likely make my animation top 10 these days. But I still remember the warm glow I used to get when a thieving magpies cartoon would come on, and getting up early to watch Deputy Dawg before school.
(“It’s possible! It’s possible!”)
I probably wouldn’t have known either of these mens names if you asked me yesterday. But they represent two more chunks of my childhood.
