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Issue Details

Issue #114
Published August 1960
Frequency monthly, with the exception of January, April, July and October
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details - "The Big Freeze!"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Captain Cold
Genre superhero
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella
Reprinted in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #2 ([March] 2000)

13 page Flash story "The Big Freeze!"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris West; Captain Cold [Leonard Snart](villain)
Synopsis Captain Cold breaks out of jail and proposes to Iris West, after turning everyone in the city into frozen statues.
Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Murphy Anderson
Reprinted in Wanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains (DC, 1972 series) #8 (June-July 1973); in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #2 ([March] 2000)

Half page filler "Fleet-Footed Proghorn"

Synopsis Facts about an antelope.
Genre fact
Notes Between pages 8 and 9 of the main story.

1 page Superman public service announcement "Lend a Friendly Hand!"

Characters Superman
Synopsis Superman advises two boys to welcome war refugees like Sandor. Commemorates the United Nations World Refugee Year.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Schiff ?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Credits from other GCD indexes of same Public Service Announcement. Appears between pages 8 and 9 of main story.

1 page filler "Amazing Speeds!"

Synopsis Facts about the human nervous system, Neptune, baseball and reaction times.
Genre fact

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Presenting the Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told!"

Synopsis Ad for Giant Superman Annual, on sale June 23rd.

1 page Flash-Grams letters page "Flash-Grams"

Synopsis Letters from Claire Hergen, Paul Hays, Ronnie Zodda, Mitchell Weisberg, Fred Blosser and Alan Holzman.
Letters typeset

11 page Kid Flash story "King of the Beatniks!"

Characters Kid Flash [Wally West]; Mr. Mason; Miss Grant; Jimmy King; Beatnik Gang (villains)
Synopsis Jimmy King, one of Wally's classmates, runs away after being accused of cheating. He meets up with his cousin, who is one of the members of the Beatnik Gang, and it's up to Kid Flash to rescue him and stop the Gang.
Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino (signed)
Inks Joe Giella (signed)
Reprinted in Flash, The (DC, 1959 series) #160 (April 1966); in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #2 ([March] 2000)