The Flash #284
(April 1980)

DC, 1959 Series
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Volume
32
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1980-01-08
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893048504
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Len Wein (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #176.
This issue has variants:

Run for Your Life, Flash! (Table of Contents)

The Flash / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ross Andru (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
?
Job Number
C-262
Genre
superhero
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

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Run, Flash... Run for Your Life! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Cary Bates
Pencils
Don Heck
Inks
Frank Chiaramonte
Colors
Gene D'Angelo
Letters
Milt Snapinn
Job Number
J-6387
Genre
superhero
Characters
Flash [Barry Allen] (also views his birth via time travel); Reverse Flash [aka Professor Zoom; Eobard Thawne] (Villain); Henry Allen (at Barry's birth); Nora Allen (at Barry's birth); Iris Allen (cameo, as time travel through Barry's life); Flash [Jay Garrick] (cameo, as time travel through Barry's life); Lord of Limbo (introduction); Lord of Limbo's prisoners (introduction)
Synopsis
Flash leaves Reverse Flash to the time stream, and ends up in limbo, a prisoner of the Lord of Limbo, then goes on a run through his life trying to escape.
Reprints
Keywords
birth; Time travel

An Arrow in Time (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Green Arrow; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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

Flash-Grams / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-483

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Volume 80 Issue 1 - Week of January 7, 1980 (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Daily Planet / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Run for Your Life, Flash!
    The Flash
  2. 1. Run, Flash... Run for Your Life!
    The Flash
  3. 2. An Arrow in Time
    Green Arrow; Hostess Fruit Pies
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Flash-Grams
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. Volume 80 Issue 1 - Week of January 7, 1980
    Daily Planet
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Lars Brueder
  • Peter Croome
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Dave Marchand
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Karsten S.
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
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