The Flash
#172
(August 1967)
DC,
1959 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly, with the exception of Jan., July, & Oct.
- On-sale Date
- 1967-06-06
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Grodd Puts the Squeeze on Flash!
The Flash / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (signed)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Gorilla Grodd
- Reprints
-
in Lynet (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1967 series) #2/1969 ([april] 1969) -
in Showcase Presents: The Flash (DC, 2007 series) #4 ([December] 2012) - in The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([September] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Grodd Puts the Squeeze on Flash!
The Flash / comic story / 12.5 pages
- Script
- John Broome (credited)
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (credited)
- Inks
- Sid Greene (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our story starts with a startling, super-swift incident
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iris Allen; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Gorilla Grodd; Dr. Torrence (Physicist); Solovar
- Synopsis
- Gorilla Grodd speeds up the citizens of Central City and uses them to force Flash to free him from his prison in Gorilla City.
- Reprints
- in Lynet (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1967 series) #2/1969 ([april] 1969)
-
in Flash (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #26 (novembre 1975) [N&B [B&W]] - in Super-Heroes Battle Super-Gorillas (DC, 1976 series) #1 (Winter 1976) [half a page cut]
-
in Roter Blitz (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #12 (April 1977) -
in The Flash (K. G. Murray, 1975 series) #136 ([Circa 1976-1978]) - in Showcase Presents: The Flash (DC, 2007 series) #4 ([December] 2012)
- in The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([September] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
[no title indexed]
Flash-Grams / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Frank Klein, Horace LaBadle, Jr., Dave Truesdale and Lesley Scott.
The Machine-Made Robbery!
The Flash / comic story / 9.5 pages
- Script
- John Broome (credited)
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (credited)
- Inks
- Sid Greene (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Would the crooks escape from the dazed and shaken Flash?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Flash [Barry Allen]; Professor Ira West; Phil (Central City lab technician)
- Synopsis
- Three criminals use Professor West's new computer to plan the perfect crime.
- Reprints
- in Top Comics Blitzmann (BSV - Williams, 1970 series) #117
- in Lynet (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1967 series) #7/1968 ([juli] 1968)
- in Flash (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #26 (novembre 1975) [N&B [B&W]]
- in Showcase Presents: The Flash (DC, 2007 series) #4 ([December] 2012)
- in The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([September] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Grodd Puts the Squeeze on Flash!
The Flash -
1.
Grodd Puts the Squeeze on Flash!
The Flash -
2.
[no title indexed]
Flash-Grams -
3.
The Machine-Made Robbery!
The Flash -
4.
[no title indexed]
Direct Currents
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Juan Gonzalez
- Merlin Haas
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Dave Marchand
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Jason Sacks
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
- Bjorn Wallin
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