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Issue Details

Issue #226
Published March-April 1974
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details - "I can't decide... am I a hero or a villain?"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]
Genre superhero
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Colors Tatjana Wood
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [August 2007]. Credits for colors and letters provided by Carl Gafford via the Error List [June 2010].

12 page Flash story "Hot-Cold War In Central City!"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Captain Cold [Len Snart]; Heat Wave [Mick Rory]; Officer O'Neil
Synopsis Heat Wave is paroled from prison but he goes on a crime spree once free. From inside prison, Captain Cold tries a plan that requires Barry Allen's help.
Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Dick Giordano; Frank McLaughlin
Notes This is the first time that Heat Wave's civilian identity - Mick Rory - is used. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. The credits in the issue itself list Frank McLaughlin along with Dick Giordano but the editorial records only list Dick Giordano.

8 page Green Lantern story "The Powerless Power Ring!"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
Synopsis Green Lantern struggles with a power ring that appears to be malfunctioning due to a spectacular cosmic phenomenon, but the real cause of the malfunction is much more Earth-bound.
Genre superhero
Script Denny O'Neil
Pencils Neal Adams; Dick Giordano
Inks Dick Giordano
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (April 2007).

1 page Flash-Grams letters page

Script Marty Pasko
Letters Typeset
Notes Letters from Scott Paton, Richard Baron, Guy H. Lillian and Joe Peluso.