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Issue Details

Issue #300
Published August 1981
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 52
Editing Len Wein

Cover Details

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Weather Wizard [Mark Mardon]; Dr. Alchemy [Albert Desmond]; Abra Kadabra; Rainbow Raider [Roy Bivolo]; Trickster [James Jesse]; Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]; Captain Cold [Len Snart]; Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]; Gorilla Grodd
Genre superhero
Pencils Carmine Infantino (signed)
Inks Dick Giordano (signed)
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes Wrap-around cover. Letters credits from Carl Gafford via the GCD Error Tracker, July 2010.

2 page Flash story "Flash-Grams"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Abra Kadabra; Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]; Fred Hembeck
Synopsis Fred Hembeck spoofs some classic Flash covers.
Genre Superhero; Humor
Script Fred Hembeck
Pencils Fred Hembeck
Inks Fred Hembeck
Letters Fred Hembeck
Notes Inside front and back covers.

48 page Flash story "1981 -- A Flash Odyssey"

Characters Flash [Barry Allen]; Dr. Petrou; Dr. Fredrick Wyngarde; The Turtle; Henry Allen; Nora Allen; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Garrick (Cameo); Justice Society of America [Wonder Woman; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; The Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Midnite [Charles McNider]; Flash [Jay Garrick]] (Earth 2, Cameo); Shade [Richard Swift] (Earth 2, Cameo); Thinker [Clifford DeVoe] (Earth 2, Cameo); Fiddler [Issac Bowin] (Earth 2, Cameo); Vandal Savage (Earth 2, Cameo); Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]; Pied Piper [Hartley Rathaway]; Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]; Clyde Mardon (Cameo); Weather Wizard [Mark Mardon]; Ira West; Kid Flash [Wally West]; Dexter Myles; New Teen Titans [Kid Flash [Wally West]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Wonder Girl [Donna Troy]; Cyborg [Victor Stone]] (Cameo); Gorilla Grodd; Solovar (Cameo); Abra Kadabra; Heat Wave [Mick Rory]; Captain Cold [Len Snart]; Golden Glider [Lisa Snart]; The Top [Roscoe Dillon]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibney]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Sue Dibnet (Cameo, picture on book cover); Mr. Element [Al Desmond]; Dr. Alchemy [Al Desmond]; Rita Desmond; Trickster [James Jesse]; Rainbow Raider [Roy Bivolo]; Reverse Flash [Professor Adrian Zoom]; Iris Allen; Wally Summers; Sasha Summers; Jeffrey Summers;
Synopsis Flash wakes up in a hospital where the reality seems to be that he never inherited super power but instead was horribly wounded when lightning struck the cabinet of chemicals to being his career.
Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Bob Smith
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters John Costanza
Notes Origin of the Flash, Kid Flash, Elongated Man and many of Flash's Rouges Gallery. Most of the story is a recounting of the Flash comic. Colors and letters credits noted by Carl Gafford via the GCD Error Tracker, July 2010.