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Issue: The Flash #270

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Publication Date: February 1979

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Issues: #270 of 246 Issues (392 Printings)

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Variant: U.K. Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 31

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893048502

Price: £0.12 GBP

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Ross Andru (editor)

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Format

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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2 The Flash #270 [U.S. Cover Price]

The Flash #270 [U.K. Cover Price]

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Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Clown

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-885

Notes: Color credit provided by Anthony Tollin. Klein lettering per his blog: http://kleinletters.com/1980Covers.html

A Fast Way to Die!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris Allen; Melanie (unnamed psychic girl, introduction); Clown [Lyle Corley] (introduction); Clive Yorkin (prison inmate test subject, introduction); Dr. Gilbert Nephron (prison doctor, introduction); Detective Frank Curtis (introduction); Captain Harvey Paulson (Barry's boss, introduction)

Synopsis: Flash deals with a new villain, using Clown tricks to rampage across Central City, while Barry Allen learns of Professor Nephron's plans to rehabilitate prisoners with mind experiments.

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Pages: 17

Job Number: J-5564

Notes: Chief Paulson's first name is Harvey on his door.

An Unbeatable Power!

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: superhero

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Job Number: S-3038

Notes: Letters from Thomas Krasker, Jeff DeMos, Tony Edwards and Dave Blanchard.