The Flash #288
(August 1980)

DC, 1959 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Volume
32
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1980-05-13
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893048508
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Len Wein (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #179.
This issue has variants:

The Day It Rained Flash! (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-365
Genre
superhero
Characters
Flash [Barry Allen]; Dr. Alchemy [Alvin Desmond]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

Cover Thumbnail for The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #288 Cover Thumbnail for The Flash (1959 series) #288 [British]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

The Day It Rained Flash! (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
John Costanza
Job Number
J-6650
Genre
superhero
Characters
Flash [Barry Allen]; Dr. Alchemy [Alvin Desmond] (also in flashback to birth, childhood and criminal life); Captain Darryl Frye; Fiona Webb; Rita Desmond (in flashback); Mr. Element [Albert Desmond] (also in flashback to birth, childhood); Troy Nathan; Mack Nathan; Chuck; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Desmond (in flashback, Alvin's parents); Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Desmond (in flashback, Albert's parents)
Synopsis
Flash faces the new Dr. Alchemy and his attack on S.T.A.R. Labs, while Albert Desmond learns of his psychic twin, Alvin, and decides to take up arms against the evil Dr. Alchemy the best way he knows how.
Reprints

The Bobsled Run (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

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

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

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

Script
Bob Rozakis
Pencils
Murphy Anderson ? (illustration)
Inks
Murphy Anderson ? (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-544

Volume 80 Issue 18 - Week of May 5, 1980 (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

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

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Day It Rained Flash!
    The Flash
  2. 1. The Day It Rained Flash!
    The Flash
  3. 2. The Bobsled Run
    Green Lantern; Hostess Twinkies
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Flash-Grams
  5. 4. Volume 80 Issue 18 - Week of May 5, 1980
    Daily Planet
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Lars Brueder
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Dave Marchand
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Karsten S.
  • Alan Smith
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.