would have been nice to have a shootout and a standoff for a couple of days or so, with the Tops making good a surreptitious escape to fulfill their first appearances in the future with Tracy, leaving Dick scratching his head wondering how they escaped and who they were… and their escape was made good with Dick never seeing their faces or hearing their voices, and if he DID, then something would have struck a chord in Dick’s mind when he meets each of them face to face eventually, which he did NOT, because at that point, when they DID finally meet, this flashback story had never happened… but NOW, this flashback has been retro-conned into canon and Blow and Flat will have remembered their unofficial almost-encounter with Dick in this flashback, but will keep shut about it and Dick will be none the wiser that it was the Tops he ran into in that near-first encounter during the Wolfe/Zeck affair… this kind of stuff can be tricky to play with, but this is how I see it being played out to some degree of logicality… I THINK… LOL…
(did I just save Mike’s-ass with this POSSIBLY plausible explanation?)
would have been nice to have a shootout and a standoff for a couple of days or so, with the Tops making good a surreptitious escape to fulfill their first appearances in the future with Tracy, leaving Dick scratching his head wondering how they escaped and who they were… and their escape was made good with Dick never seeing their faces or hearing their voices, and if he DID, then something would have struck a chord in Dick’s mind when he meets each of them face to face eventually, which he did NOT, because at that point, when they DID finally meet, this flashback story had never happened… but NOW, this flashback has been retro-conned into canon and Blow and Flat will have remembered their unofficial almost-encounter with Dick in this flashback, but will keep shut about it and Dick will be none the wiser that it was the Tops he ran into in that near-first encounter during the Wolfe/Zeck affair… this kind of stuff can be tricky to play with, but this is how I see it being played out to some degree of logicality… I THINK… LOL…
(did I just save Mike’s-ass with this POSSIBLY plausible explanation?)