([October] 2007)
DC,
2007 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 19.99 USD; 23.99 CAD
- Pages
- 212
- On-sale Date
- 2007-08-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [swirl]
- ISBN
-
978-1-4012-1372-5
- Barcode
- 9781401213725 51999
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (editor - original series); Brian Augustyn (editor - original series); Bob Joy (editor - collected edition)
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Modern Age US
- Paper Stock
- cardstock cover
- Binding
- softcover
- Publishing Format
- collected edition
Issue Notes
Collects stories from:
Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #86, 104
The Flash (DC, 1959 series), #123, 155, 165, 179
DC Special Series #11
Flash (DC, 1987 series) #91
No covers are included.
Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #86, 104
The Flash (DC, 1959 series), #123, 155, 165, 179
DC Special Series #11
Flash (DC, 1987 series) #91
No covers are included.
[Title Page]
credits, title page / 1 page
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]
Indexer Notes
Title page with illustration taken from the cover.
[no title indexed]
credits, title page / 1 page
- Characters
- Flash [Wally West]
Indexer Notes
Indicia and publisher information with illustration from Flash (DC, 1987 series) #91.
Introduction
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It only makes sense that the Fastest Men Alive are always the first at something.
Stone Age Menace
The Flash / comic story / 13 pages
- Job Number
- AF 32 A
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Flash [Jay Garrick]
- Synopsis
- The sudden appearance of a prehistoric dinosaur in Keystone City lands Jay Garrick in prison when the Police fail to believe his story. So, the Flash must save him!
- Reprints
- from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #86 (August 1947)
-
The Rival Flash!
The Flash / comic story / 12 pages
- Job Number
- FL 110
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Flash [Jay Garrick] (origin recap); Joan Williams; The Rival (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- The Flash is captured and forced to breathe in the by-product of hard water gasses so that he loses his speed. His place is then to be taken by a mysterious masked Flash with criminal tendencies.
- Reprints
- from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #104 (February 1949)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits from GCD index for original issue. The table of contents for this collection credits the script to Robert Kanigher and the inks to Frank Giacoia.
Flash of Two Worlds!
The Flash / comic story / 24 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]; Flash [Jay Garrick] (Earth-2); Iris West; Joan Garrick (Earth-2); Edward Jarvis (millionaire); un-named butler of Jarvis; The Fiddler [Isaac Bowin] (Earth-2 villain); The Thinker [Clifford Devoe] (Earth-2 villain); The Shade [Richard Swift] (Earth-2 villain)
- Synopsis
- Barry Allen appears at the Community Center in Central City to perform for kids and during one of his amazing tricks is mysteriously transported to Keystone City...a place that he recalls that the original Flash once lived. The two meet and team-up to stop a crime wave by The Thinker, the Fiddler, and the Shade.
- Reprints
- from The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #123 (September 1961), #123 (September 1961), #123 (September 1961)
-
Indexer Notes
Story in three chapters: unnumbered chapter 1 (10.67 pages), Chapter 2 (7.67 pages), Chapter 3 (5.67 pages)
The Gauntlet of Super-Villains!
The Flash / comic story / 23 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Gorilla Grodd; The Top; Captain Boomerang; Heat Wave; Pied Piper; Captain Cold; Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]; Flash [Barry Allen]; J. M. Leach (tailor); Solovar; Pola
- Synopsis
- Gorilla Grodd uses his powers to switch bodies with a gorilla in the Central City zoo and from there he uses Flash's greatest foes to battle Flash until he can take control of Barry Allen's mind.
- Reprints
- from The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #155 (September 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Story across 24 pages in three parts of 10.67 pages, 5.67 pages, and 6.67 pages.
One Bridegroom Too Many!
The Flash / comic story / 23 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris West; Reverse-Flash [aka Professor Zoom; Eobard Thawne]; Pee Wee (Bank Robber); Longo (Bank Robber); Rudy West (Wally West's father, Cameo); Mary West (Wally West's mother, Cameo); Henry Allen (Barry Allen's father); Nora Allen (Barry Allen's mother); Al Desmond (not in his Mr. Element identity, Cameo); Mrs. Rita Desmond (Cameo); Daphne Dean (Cameo); Dexter Miles; Professor Ira West (Iris West's father); Kid Flash [Wally West];
- Synopsis
- Barry Allen marries Iris West with a few complications.
- Reprints
- from The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #165 (November 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Story across 24 pages in three parts of 5.67, 9.67, and 7.67 pages.
The Flash -- Fact or Fiction?
The Flash / comic story / 21.5 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]; Julius Schwartz
- Reprints
- from The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #179 (May 1968)
-
Indexer Notes
Story across 23 pages in three parts of 9.5, 7.5 and 4.5 pages.
Beyond the Super-Speed Barrier! Prologue
The Flash / comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- S-2832
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Turtle Man; Grodd; Solovar; Gorilla City; Flash [Barry Allen] (Cameo); Secret Society of Super-Villains [Copperhead; Star Sapphire [Carol Ferris]; Wizard] (Cameo); Trickster [James Jesse] (Cameo)
- Synopsis
- Solovar and the other gorillas execute Grodd for his crimes against Gorilla City.
- Reprints
- from DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #11 - Flash Spectacular ([May] 1978)
-
Part One
Kid Flash / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates
- Pencils
- José Luis García-López
- Inks
- Wally Wood
- Colors
- Carl Gafford
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn
- Job Number
- S-2832
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Kid Flash [Wally West]; Mary West (Wally's mother); Leslie; Lightning (Wally's dog); Bob West (Wally's father)
- Synopsis
- Wally and his date Leslie are secretly attacked by a gorilla with a gun that causes Leslie to move at super-speed.
- Reprints
- from DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #11 - Flash Spectacular ([May] 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Kid Flash reveals his secret identity to his parents, Bob and Mary West.
Part Two
The Flash / comic story / 21 pages
- Job Number
- S-2832
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]; Trydd (Gorilla); Solovar; Gorilla City; Patty; Turtle Man; Iris West
- Synopsis
- Turtle Man tries to rob a bank but is defeated by the Flash, even though he is secretly helped by a strange Gorilla with a super-speed gun.
- Reprints
- from DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #11 - Flash Spectacular ([May] 1978)
-
Part Three
The Golden Age Flash / comic story / 12 pages
- Job Number
- S-2832
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Jay Garrick]; Johnny Quick [John Chambers]; Tubby; Joan Garrick
- Synopsis
- A strange gorilla with a super-speed gun causes Johnny Quick to accidentally prevent Jay Garrick from stopping several calamities.
- Reprints
- from DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #11 - Flash Spectacular ([May] 1978)
-
Beyond the Super-Speed Barrier! [Part Four]
The Flash / comic story / 13 pages
- Job Number
- S-2832
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]; Kid Flash [Wally West]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Iris West; Mary West; Bob West; Jroyy; Grodd; Solovar; Gorilla City
- Synopsis
- Grodd's displaced mind combined with actions by the three Flashes caused his body to come back to life. After being defeated, Grodd was sentenced to life in prison in Gorilla City.
- Reprints
- from DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #11 - Flash Spectacular ([May] 1978)
-
Epilogue
The Flash / comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- S-2832
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Kid Flash [Wally West]; Bob West; Mary West; Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris West; Professor Ira West; Edgar Rhodes (Wally's uncle); Mrs. Rhodes (Wally's aunt); Inez Rhodes; Stacy Conwell; Dexter Myles; Harlequin [Duela Dent]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Wonder Girl [Donna Troy]; Aqualad; Mal Duncan; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Sue Dibny
- Synopsis
- Kid Flash gratuates from High School.
- Reprints
- from DC Special Series (DC, 1977 series) #11 - Flash Spectacular ([May] 1978)
-
Out of Time
The Flash / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Wally West]; Iris West (cameo); Bart Allen (cameo, introduction)
- Reprints
- from Flash (DC, 1987 series) #91 (June 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
Flash recites Johnny Quick's magic formula for extra speed.
He Is the Fastest Man Alive
The Flash / illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alex Ross (painting)
- Inks
- Alex Ross (painting)
- Colors
- Alex Ross (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]
Indexer Notes
Back cover with text on contents of collection, includes illustration taken from the front cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Flash -
1.
[Title Page]
-
2.
[no title indexed]
-
3.
Contents
-
4.
Introduction
-
5.
Stone Age Menace
The Flash -
6.
The Rival Flash!
The Flash -
7.
Flash of Two Worlds!
The Flash -
8.
The Gauntlet of Super-Villains!
The Flash -
9.
One Bridegroom Too Many!
The Flash -
10.
The Flash -- Fact or Fiction?
The Flash -
11.
Beyond the Super-Speed Barrier! Prologue
The Flash -
12.
Part One
Kid Flash -
13.
Part Two
The Flash -
14.
Part Three
The Golden Age Flash -
15.
Beyond the Super-Speed Barrier! [Part Four]
The Flash -
16.
Epilogue
The Flash -
17.
Out of Time
The Flash -
18.
He Is the Fastest Man Alive
The Flash
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- John Monagle
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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