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Issue: The Flash #140
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
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)
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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
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Cover, Front
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The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold!

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superhero
Flash [Barry Allen]; Captain Cold [Leonard Snart]; Heat Wave
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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)]
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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Your United Nations at Work

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
opinion
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Inside front cover.
The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
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)
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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FlagDC Special #14 published September 1971
as The Heat Is on... for Captain Cold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: The Flash #2 published August 2008
as The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Flash Archives #5 published May 2009
as The Heat Is On... For Captain Cold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
14.34
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)
Try a Tongue Teaser!

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0.33
At the bottom of page 8 of the previous story sequence.
[untitled]

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superhero
Giant Flash Annual
The Flashiest news of the year...
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On the page immediately following page 8 of the previous story sequence.
[untitled]

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Get these favorite, exciting and entertaining comics magazines...
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On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the precious story sequence.
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Your eyes may play tricks... but not your taste!
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[untitled]

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non-fiction, science and technology
Meteors with velocities up to 26 miles per second...
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[untitled]

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The Brave and the Bold
Here it is, fans--
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0.5
100 Toy Soldiers $1.25

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0.5
[untitled]

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Letters from Alden Stallings, Joe Finley, and Judith Player.
The Metal-Eater from the Stars!

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

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For party fun!
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0.33
[untitled]

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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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Skinny or fat, 15, 20, 30, or 40 years of age...
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Inside back cover.
Make Your Own Monsters

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Ad for plastic model of the Frankenstein monster.
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