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Issue: The Flash #140
Publication Date: November 1963
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Issues: #140 of 246 Issues (392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/12/1963
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of September 19 in ad in Flash Annual #1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (most issues); squarebound (#160, 169, 178, 187, 196, 214, 229, 232)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Captain Cold [Leonard Snart]; Heat Wave
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The Flash #2 published August 2008
as The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Flash Archives #5 published May 2009
as [Cover - The Flash #140]; The Heat is On... for Captain Cold! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Your United Nations at Work

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris West; Dream Girl [Priscilla Varner] (first appearance); Henry Willens (first appearance); Captain Cold [Leonard Snart] (villain); Heat Wave [Mick Rory] (first appearance, villain)
Synopsis: Captain Cold teams up with a new villain... Heat Wave, to take down the Flash and prove their worth to the Dream Girl.
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In Content Item: FlagDC Special #14 published September 1971
as The Heat Is on... for Captain Cold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The Flash #2 published August 2008
as The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Flash Archives #5 published May 2009
as The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14.34
Disclose Notes: Vs Heat Wave, 1st. Also in 155, 166, 174, 193, 226. Heat Wave's id as Mick Rory will be revealed in The Flash (DC 1959 series) #226 (March-April 1974)
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Try a Tongue Teaser!

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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: At the bottom of page 8 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Giant Flash Annual
First Line: The Flashiest news of the year...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the page immediately following page 8 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Get these favorite, exciting and entertaining comics magazines...
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Disclose Notes: On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the precious story sequence.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Your eyes may play tricks... but not your taste!
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[untitled]

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Genres: non-fiction, science and technology
First Line: Meteors with velocities up to 26 miles per second...
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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Brave and the Bold
First Line: Here it is, fans--
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Pages: 0.5
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100 Toy Soldiers $1.25

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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Alden Stallings, Joe Finley, and Judith Player.
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The Metal-Eater from the Stars!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris West
Synopsis: Flash stops an alien energy being.
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The Flash #2 published August 2008
as Metal-Eater from the Stars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Flash Archives #5 published May 2009
as Metal Eater From The Stars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9.67
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[untitled]

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First Line: For party fun!
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Pages: 0.33
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[untitled]

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First Line: 104 classic racing foreign modern cars only $1.49 postpaid
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132 Roman Soldiers

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[untitled]

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First Line: Skinny or fat, 15, 20, 30, or 40 years of age...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Make Your Own Monsters

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Disclose Notes: Ad for plastic model of the Frankenstein monster.
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