Flash, The #209
(September 1971)

DC, 1959 Series
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Volume:
?
Price:
0.25 USD
Pages:
52
Editing:
Julius Schwartz
Format: 
Color; Standard Silver Age & Modern Age US; Saddle-Stitched (Squarebound #160, 169, 178, 187, 196, 214, 229, 232); Newsprint; Ongoing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Beyond the Speed of Life
    Flash
  2. 2. Coincidence Can Kill!
    Kid Flash
  3. 3. Flash-Grams
    Flash-Grams
  4. 4. Flash Facts
    Flash Facts
  5. 5. Elongated Man's Undersea Trap
    Elongated Man
This issue was most recently indexed by:
  • Gregory Fischer
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Bob Klein
  • David Southwood
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Ed Boner
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Issue Notes

Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Flash / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Dick Giordano (signed)
Inks:
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
S-892

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Flash [Barry Allen]; Captain Boomerang [Digger; George Harkness]; Trickster [James Jesse]

Indexer Notes

[Cover story notes are the same as the issue notes (see Issue Notes above). This may mean that one or both set of notes need editing as a result of our recent migration to having separate issue and cover notes.]


Beyond the Speed of Life (Table of Contents)

Flash / story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Cary Bates
Pencils:
Irv Novick
Inks:
Dick Giordano
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
S-843

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris Allen; The Sentinel (first appearance); Captain Boomerang [Digger; George Harkness] (villain); Trickster [James Jesse] (villain); Gorilla Grodd (villain); The Devourer (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis:
Flash is pulled into another plane of existense to help fight the Devourer, leaving his physical body behind. Trickster and Captain Boomerang think they are responsible for Flash's "apparent" death.

Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.


Coincidence Can Kill! (Table of Contents)

Kid Flash / story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Steve Skeates
Pencils:
Dick Dillin
Inks:
Dick Giordano
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
S-745

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Kid Flash [Wally West]; George Simpson; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis:
A ring mix-up almost results in a fellow classmate's death.
Reprinted:
  • in Justice League of America (K. G. Murray, 1980 series) #[nn]

Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (May 2007).


Flash-Grams (Table of Contents)

Flash-Grams / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Julius Schwartz
Letters:
typeset
Job Number:
S-899

Content Information

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - John D. Warner, Scott Gibson, Mike W. Barr, Martin Pasko, Matt Emrick, Michael Great and Gary Kuhlmann - and responses from Julius Schwartz.


Flash Facts (Table of Contents)

Flash Facts / story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
Job Number:
S-924

Content Information

Indexer Notes

4 facts about lightning flashes, a radiosonde, a stroboscope and the jet stream.


Elongated Man's Undersea Trap (Table of Contents)

Elongated Man / story / 14 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
John Broome
Pencils:
Carmine Infantino
Inks:
Joe Giella
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
S-907

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Flash [Barry Allen]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Sue Dibny (formerly Sue Dearbon); Bredans (villains)
Synopsis:
Elongated Man goes on a honeymoon with his new bride, debutante Sue Dearbon.
Reprinted:
  • from Flash, The (DC, 1959 series) #119 (March 1961)

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