The Flash #270
(February 1979)

DC, 1959 Series
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Volume
31
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1978-11-07
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893048502
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Ross Andru (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #162.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Flash / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rich Buckler (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
Todd Klein
Job Number
C-885
Genre
superhero
Characters
Flash [Barry Allen]; Clown
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Color credit provided by Anthony Tollin. Klein lettering per his blog: http://kleinletters.com/1980Covers.html

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A Fast Way to Die! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Flash / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Bates
Pencils
Irv Novick
Inks
Frank McLaughlin
Colors
Gene D'Angelo
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
J-5564
Genre
superhero
Characters
Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris Allen; Melanie (unnamed psychic girl, introduction); Clown [Lyle Corley] (introduction); Clive Yorkin (prison inmate test subject, introduction); Dr. Gilbert Nephron (prison doctor, introduction); Detective Frank Curtis (introduction); Captain Harvey Paulson (Barry's boss, introduction)
Synopsis
Flash deals with a new villain, using Clown tricks to rampage across Central City, while Barry Allen learns of Professor Nephron's plans to rehabilitate prisoners with mind experiments.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Chief Paulson's first name is Harvey on his door.

An Unbeatable Power! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Twinkies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script
Bob Rozakis
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
S-3038

Indexer Notes

Letters from Thomas Krasker, Jeff DeMos, Tony Edwards and Dave Blanchard.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The Flash
  2. 1. A Fast Way to Die!
    The Flash
  3. 2. An Unbeatable Power!
    Hostess Twinkies; Superman
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Flash-Grams
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