Flash #76 [Newsstand]

(May 1993)

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Script

Mark Waid (credited)

Pencils

Greg LaRocque (credited)

Inks

Roy Richardson (credited)

Colors

Matt Hollingsworth (credited)

Letters

Tim Harkins (credited)

Job Number

G-8106

Genre

superhero

Characters

Flash [Wally West]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Captain Cold (cameo); Martian Manhunter (cameo); Captain Atom (cameo); Lady Quark (cameo); Psycho Pirate [Roger Hayden] (cameo); Jay Garrick [Flash]; Joan Garrick; Linda Park; Flash [seemingly Barry Allen, but actually Eobard Thawne]; Johnny Chambers [Johnny Quick]; Max Mercury

Synopsis

While Jay Garrick recruits Johnny Chambers and Max Mercury to confront a mysterious threat, Wally and Barry are lured into a trap atop the Broome building. But after Barry escapes the trap he refuses to help Wally and leaves him to die.

Reprints

• in Os Novos Titãs (Editora Abril, 1986 series) #119 (Fevereiro 1996)
• in Flash: The Return of Barry Allen (DC, 1996 series) ([August] 1996)
which is reprinted
• in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #49 - The Flash - Die Rückkehr von Barry Allen ([Januar 2016])
• in Flash by Mark Waid (DC, 2017 series) #2 ([June] 2017)

Indexer Notes

The Broome building is an homage to classic Silver Age Flash writer John Broome. Jay and Johnny mention other names Max Mercury has worked under: Lightning, Blue Streak, and Quicksilver. Jay also mentions a case he worked on with Max in 1949 involving "The Screaming Skull."

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