The Flash #285
(May 1980)

DC, 1959 Series
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Volume
32
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1980-02-12
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893048505
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Len Wein (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #177.
This issue has variants:

The Trickster Spells Trouble! (Table of Contents)

The Flash / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Don Heck (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Job Number
C-321
Genre
superhero
Characters
Flash [Barry Allen]; Trickster [James Jesse]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

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If, at First, You Don't Succeed...! (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
Ben Oda
Job Number
J-6436
Genre
superhero
Characters
Flash [Barry Allen]; Trickster [Giovanni Giuseppe; alias James Jesse]; Mack Nathans; Troy Nathans; Frank Curtis; Fiona Webb
Reprints

The Borrower (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

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

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

Flash-Grams / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Len Wein (responses)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-484

Indexer Notes

Letters from Tony Edwards, John C. Murphy, Karen Wu, and Gary Thompson.

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

DC Puzzle / activity / 0.6 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Letters
typeset
Job Number
F-128

Indexer Notes

Crossword puzzle. Part of The DC Feature Page.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.4 page (report information)

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Trickster Spells Trouble!
    The Flash
  2. 1. If, at First, You Don't Succeed...!
    The Flash
  3. 2. The Borrower
    Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Flash-Grams
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    DC Puzzle
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
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  • Peter Croome
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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  • Lou Mazzella
  • Karsten S.
  • Alan Smith
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
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