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Issue Details

Issue #228
Published July-August 1974
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details - "Now do you believe you can't make a move without me, Flash?"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Trickster
Genre superhero
Pencils Nick Cardy (signed) [as NC]
Inks Nick Cardy (signed) [as NC]
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 from Carl Gafford, provided via the Error List [June 2010].

12 page Flash story "The Day I Saved the Life of the Flash"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris Allen; Cary Bates; Trickster [Jesse James]
Synopsis Cary Bates drives into a fog and ends up on Earth-1, having to help the Flash defeat the Trickster.
Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Tex Blaisdell
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. In the story, Bates remembers a previous Flash story where the Flash visited Julius Schwartz on Earth-Prime (from Flash #179).

8 page Green Lantern story "My Enemy--Myself"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
Synopsis Green Lantern has to rescue six kids and their counselor from a forest fire, but every time he uses his ring he gets angrier and angrier.
Genre superhero
Script Denny O'Neil
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Continued from previous issue. 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

Synopsis Letters from David Dasch, Clint Thomas, William Brewer, Scott Paton and Tom Bierbaum.
Script Marty Pasko
Letters typeset