Super-Speed Shipping!

2 trucks: Bartwood Construction & Keystone Freight

I could not believe I managed to spot these next to each other. I mean, Bart and Keystone?

It’s right up there with this one, which I also saw on the back of a truck:

Flash Transport

Check out the design:

  • Red as the main color
  • Sans-serif capital italics (just like the longest-running versions of the Flash logo)
  • A lightning bolt that runs from the upper right to the lower left.

Hmm…

It got me thinking about commercial applications of super-speed. Not something that turns up often in the super-hero genre, but it shows up occasionally. Kapitalist Kouriers is the first one that comes to mind. They were a trio of Soviet defectors who decided to sell their services as couriers and, from time to time, heroes for hire.

Reposted from K-Squared Ramblings: Bart? Keystone? & Flash Transport.

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5 thoughts on “Super-Speed Shipping!

    1. Kelson Post author

      IIRC he arranged for health insurance in exchange for delivering the heart — which might have been a better deal than just asking for cash, even in the 1980s.

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  1. IP

    I’ll have to remember to take a photo of my local comic book store, the owner is a big Flash fan (it was his house seen in an issue, I think the house was in Hawaii?)

    His store is called Central City comics.

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