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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published May-June 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes 2nd Flash appearance. Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

Cover Details

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes 2nd Flash appearance. Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).
Reprinted in Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #1 ([June] 1996)

12 page Flash story "The Secret of the Empty Box!"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris West
Genre Superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Frank Giacoia
Reprinted in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #1 ([June] 1996)

12 page Flash story "The Coldest Man on Earth!"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Captain Cold [Leonard Snart](first appearance; origin; villain)
Synopsis Flash faces off against Captain Cold, who commits crimes by using a cold-gun to freeze things and create mirages. But once Flash figures out what Captain cold can do, he ignores the mirages and takes the villain in.
Genre Superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Frank Giacoia
Reprinted in Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1990 series) #nn; in Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #1 ([June] 1996)

3 page story "The Race of Wheel and Keel"

Genre western; period
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Harry Lazarus
Reprinted from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #53 (June-July 1950)