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Issue: The Flash #288
Publication Date: August 1980
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Issues: #288 of 246 Issues (392 Printings)
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/13/1980
Volume: 32
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893048508
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #179.
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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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The Day It Rained Flash!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Dr. Alchemy [Alvin Desmond]
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In Content Item: FlagRoter Blitz #12/1980 published December 1980
as Dr.Alchemy vernichtet Roter Blitz mit dem Stein der Weisen [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-365
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Day It Rained Flash!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Dr. Alchemy [Alvin Desmond] (also in flashback to birth, childhood and criminal life); Captain Darryl Frye; Fiona Webb; Rita Desmond (in flashback); Mr. Element [Albert Desmond] (also in flashback to birth, childhood); Troy Nathan; Mack Nathan; Chuck; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Desmond (in flashback, Alvin's parents); Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Desmond (in flashback, Albert's parents)
Synopsis: Flash faces the new Dr. Alchemy and his attack on S.T.A.R. Labs, while Albert Desmond learns of his psychic twin, Alvin, and decides to take up arms against the evil Dr. Alchemy the best way he knows how.
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In Content Item: FlagRoter Blitz #12/1980 published December 1980
as Der Tag, an dem es Blitze regnete! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: J-6650
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The Bobsled Run

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Job Number: L-544
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Volume 80 Issue 18 - Week of May 5, 1980

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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