{"id":35244,"date":"2026-04-11T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=35244"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:56:02","slug":"dc-finest-the-flash-the-fastest-man-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2026\/04\/11\/dc-finest-the-flash-the-fastest-man-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Finest: The Flash – The Fastest Man Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Robert Kanigher<\/strong>, Mike Friedrich<\/strong>, Steve Skeates<\/strong>, Dennis O\u2019Neill<\/strong>, Bob Haney<\/strong>, Len Wein<\/strong>, Cary Bates<\/strong>, Gil Kane<\/strong>, Irv Novick<\/strong>, Don Heck<\/strong>, Dick Dillin<\/strong>, Bob Brown<\/strong>, Murphy Anderson<\/strong>, Dick Giordano<\/strong>, Joe Giella<\/strong>, Nick Cardy<\/strong>, Frank McLaughlin<\/strong>, Tex Blaisdell<\/strong>, Carmine Infantino<\/strong>, Neal Adams<\/strong>, Jack Adler<\/strong>, Tatjana Wood<\/strong>, John Costanza<\/strong> & various (DC Comics)<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-1-77952-836-0 (TPB)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another compelling DC Finest<\/strong> edition: chronologically curated paperback archives (generally around 600 pages) highlighting past glories. Whilst primarily concentrating on the superhero pantheon, there are genre selections including horror, sci fi, western and war books, but sadly none yet available digitally. However, we live in hope\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

The Silver Age of US comics is formally and forever tied to Showcase <\/strong>#4 and the rebirth of The Flash<\/strong>. That epochal issue was released in the late summer of 1956 and from it stems all today\u2019s print, animation, games, collector cards, cosplay and TV\/movie wonderment. No matter which way you look at it, the renaissance began with The Flash<\/strong>, but it\u2019s an unjust yet true fact that being first is not enough: it also helps to be best and people have to notice. MLJ\u2019s The Shield<\/strong> beat Captain America<\/strong> to the news-stands by over a year yet the former is all but forgotten today. I mention that here as it pertains to this collection, which sees the advent of original Shield co-creator Irv Novick (Bob Phantom<\/strong>; Hangman<\/strong>; Steel Sterling<\/strong>; Silent Knight<\/strong>; Robin Hood<\/strong>, all DC war books, Captain Storm<\/strong>; Sea Devils<\/strong>; Batman<\/strong>, The Joker<\/strong>; Lois Lane<\/strong>; Tomahawk<\/strong> and more) as the Scarlet Speedster\u2019s regular illustrator; a run (oh. Ha-Ha.) spanning Flash<\/strong> #200-270 and close to a full 10-year stretch with him only absent for #205, 213-214 & 264…<\/p>\n

For the early trendsetting sagas and situations you should catch DC Finest: The Flash – The Human Thunderbolt<\/a><\/strong> and take as read that here the (second) Flash is Barry Allen<\/em>, a police forensic scientist simultaneously struck by lightning and bathed in exploding chemicals from his lab. Supercharged by the accident, Barry (a lifelong fan of comic books) took his superhero identity from his favourite childhood reading – and eventually his acknowledged alternately Earth predecessor. Once upon a time there was a \u201cfictional\u201d scientist named Jay Garrick<\/em> who was exposed to the mutagenic fumes of Hard Water and promptly became the \u201cfastest man alive\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

Wearing a sleek, streamlined, tricked-out bodysuit (courtesy of \u00a0Carmine Infantino – a major talent approaching his artistic and creative peak), Barry was point man for the spectacular revival of a genre and an entire industry. He also became a renowned intergalactic champion, wholesome family man and paternalistic elder statesman of the superhero set after marrying his longtime fianc\u00e9e Iris West<\/em>…<\/p>\n

With Infantino safely elevated to DC\u2019s current publisher, this splendidly tempting full colour paperback of Seventies hits displays the glorious work of the last replacement illustrators before the Flash landed in Novick\u2019s hands, just as changing tastes rejected the previously paramount, rationalistic science fiction worlds touched by the Vizier of Velocity. Now high speed action involved issues of social relevance and themes of supernatural horror and makes for some weird moments as this copious compendium covers The Flash<\/strong> #197-229 (May 1970 – October 1974) plus guest shots in World\u2019s Finest Comics <\/strong>#198-199 (November & December 1970) and The Brave and the Bold<\/strong> #99 (December 1971\/January 1972).
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\nGil Kane & Vince Colletta capture all the fun and thrills of Mike Friedrich\u2019s \u2018Four-Star Super-Hero\u2019 <\/em>in the opening yarn of Flash<\/strong> #197 as a sharp cop spots a private communication tic only shared with his lab partner Barry Allen. Attempts to save a secret identity and convince Charlie Conwell<\/em> otherwise are further hampered by blizzard conditions in Central City, canny crooks with jetpacks and skis, a flu epidemic and Barry\u2019s dedication to Amateur Dramatics, which see him take time out to play every part in the local presentation of Hamlet. All\u2019s well that ends well and after that show goes on, it\u2019s back to cosmic basics with Robert Kanigher\u2019s \u2018To the Nth Degree\u2019<\/em> showing the Crimson Comet catapulted across the universe to save fire-beings on an exploding planet, courtesy of another wild invention of his father-in-law Professor Ira West<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Kanigher, Kane & Colletta open #198 where \u2018No Sad Songs for a Scarlet Speedster!\u2019<\/em> has three orphan kids aid a gun-shot and temporarily brain-damaged Flash regain his lost mojo before neophyte superhero Zatanna<\/strong> guests in \u2018Call it …Magic\u2019<\/em> (by Friedrich, Don Heck & Colletta) and requires swift rescue after being abducted across arcane dimensions by macabre body-snatcher Xarkon<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Kanigher, Kane & Colletta\u2019s \u2018Flash? Death Calling!\u2019 <\/em>in #199 focuses on the ordeals of scientist Dr Hollister <\/em>who dons the scarlet skin-tights to punish himself after apparently accidentally killing the hero. However that guilt also saves the day and resurrect the speedster – just in time for Flash to meet superspy Colonel K<\/em> (of US-IN-T Agency) and stop a Chinese energy missile smashing into \u2018The Explosive Heart of America!\u2019<\/em> (Kanigher, Kane & Colletta)<\/p>\n

Novick and inker Murphy Anderson join Kanigher for anniversary celebration \u2018Count 200 – and Die!\u2019<\/em> as the Monarch of Motion succumbs to mind manipulation and is manoeuvred by sinister siren Dr. Lu<\/em> into \u00a0assassinating the US President. Thankfully our hero (Flash of course, not PotUS!) is faster than his own fired gunshot and is back in all-American action for #201, enduring Kanigher, Novick & Anderson\u2019s \u2018Million-Dollar Dream!\u2019<\/em> and applying tough love to wheelchair bound sports star Pablo Hernandez<\/em>. The treatment restores the player but that\u2019s only fair as the hero was responsible for initially crippling the kid…<\/p>\n

Many issues offered second stories at this time, and the policy of guest shots for other Flash-family favourites was solidly in place. Here Kanigher, Novick & Anderson take us to Earth Two and swift encore for an old villain as Jay Garrick produces – eventually – the \u2018Finale for a Fiddler!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Although costumed hero capers were waning in general appeal, Flash was still hugely popular. Thus when World\u2019s Finest Comics<\/strong> began a run of Superman team-ups with #198, the Red Runner was the clear first choice and allowed editors to return to a thorny topic which had bedevilled fans for years.<\/p>\n

The comic book experience is littered with eternal, unanswerable questions. The most common and most passionately asked always begin \u201cwho would win if\u201d or \u201cwho\u2019s strongest\/smartest\/fastest…\u201d Here, crafted by Denny O\u2019Neil, Dick Dillin & Joe Giella, \u2018Race to Save the Universe!\u2019<\/em> and concluding instalment \u2018Race to Save Time\u2019<\/em> (WFC<\/strong> #198-199) upped the stakes on two previous competitions as our high-speed heroes are conscripted by the Guardians of the Universe <\/em>to circumnavigate the entire cosmos at their greatest velocities to reverse the rampage of the mysterious Anachronids<\/em>: faster-than-light creatures whose pell-mell course throughout galaxies is actually unwinding time itself and unravelling the fabric of creation. Little does anybody suspect that Superman\u2019s oldest enemies were behind the entire appalling scheme, but the battle was swiftly won and reality saved in the end…
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\nIt was a far more grounded but no less chilling situation in Flash<\/strong> #202 where Kanigher, Novick & Anderson despatch reporter Iris Allen to Hollywood where she is kidnapped by murderous cultist creeps \u2018The Satan Circle\u2019<\/em> and her frantic husband confronts the unknown and the worst aspects of human nature to save her. Kid Flash<\/strong> then endures his own eldritch overload as \u2018The Accusation!\u2019<\/em> (by Steve Skeates, Dillin & Anderson) finds college-age comet Wally West<\/em> tormented by visons of impending death that come appallingly true…<\/p>\n

With Kanigher, Novick & Anderson at the helm #203 augured a huge change in the cosy domestic set-up as \u2018The Flash\u2019s Wife is a Two-Timer!\u2019 <\/em>reveals that Iris is actually a foundling sent through time to escape atomic armageddon and only the adopted child of scatterbrained super-genius Ira West. When the process reverses itself and she is dragged back to the future – Central City 2970 AD – The Flash follows and is caught up in a war that has been all but won by oppressive East-bloc tyrant Sirik the Supreme<\/em>. Of course his intervention is enough to reset the scales before he returns baffled bride Iris Russell (n\u00e9e West)-Allen<\/em> to her immigrant time period.<\/p>\n

Once there though, repercussions of the revelation continue as a recovered 30th<\/sup> century keepsake turns her into an uncontrollable, secret-exposing blabbermouth in #204\u2019s \u2018The Great Secret Identity Expos\u00e9!\u2019<\/em> with the Justice League understandably irate that Flash talks in his sleep and his wife knows all their civilian identities…<\/p>\n

Back up tale \u2018The Mind-Trap\u2019<\/em> (Skeates, Dillin & Anderson) then sees Kid Flash chasing a body-stealing Egyptian pharaoh\u2019s ghost to end the issue on a lighter note…<\/p>\n

The Flash<\/strong> #205 was another hugely popular reprint collection of the era, sporting a cover by Dick Giordano (and included here) before it was back to spooky business in #206 for Kanigher, Novick & Anderson\u2019s \u201824 Hours of Immortality!\u2019 <\/em>as haughty alien superbeings resurrect a recently killed surgeon and young mother to attend to unfinished business, but for the most mean-spirited motives – until Flash intervenes with a lesson all could benefit from.<\/p>\n

With the supernatural now fully unleashed at DC, Flash<\/strong> #207 led with Friedrich, Novick & Anderson\u2019s \u2018The Evil Sound of Music!\u2019<\/em>, as former mystic hero Sargon the Sorcerer<\/em> exploits his own family and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll-loving kids to restore his lost powers, before confronting the Scarlet Speedster, his own inner demons and rapacious external devils on the path back to the light. Grounding that journey to hell, Kid Flash then faces \u2018The Phantom of the Cafeteria!\u2019<\/em> ending the depredations of a superfast, hyper-hungry alien in a quick but satisfying yarn from Skeates, Dillin & Giordano.<\/p>\n

In #208, Kanigher, Novick & Anderson exposed \u2018A Kind of Miracle in Central City\u2019 <\/em>as wayward kids exploited by drug pushers are saved by prayer, the timely intervention of nuns and invisible superspeed before Flash<\/strong> #209 debuted new regular writer Cary Bates. He would run with the Vizier of Velocity for the rest of the series, only missing #213-214, 217, 293, 306 and 313 between 1970 through 1985.<\/p>\n

Fresh from the starting blocks, Bates, Novick & Giordano took the speedster into higher, weirder realms \u2018Beyond the Speed of Life!\u2019<\/em> where Flash and reality shielding Sentinel<\/em> stopped existence from being devoured. Meanwhile, on mundane Earth old Rogues Trickster<\/em>, Captain<\/em> Boomerang<\/em> and Gorilla Grodd<\/em> squabbled over bragging rights for who had finally killed the hero. At the back, Kid Flash saved a student troubled by gangsters in \u2018Coincidence Can Kill!\u2019 <\/em>courtesy of Skeates, Dillin, Giordano.<\/p>\n

A visit to 2971 came with #210 as Bates, Novick & Giordano expanded the Earth East-Earth West \u201cwarm\u201d war in \u2018An Earth Divided!\u2019<\/em> with Flash seeking to save man-made President Abraham Lincoln (II) <\/em>from belligerent occidental tyrant Bekor<\/em>. Science fiction surrendered to spooky tales next as Flash teamed up with Batman <\/strong>in Brave and the Bold <\/strong>#99. Here Bob Haney, Bob Brown, & Nick Cardy revealed how an attempt to resurrect Bruce Wayne\u2019s parents opened the door to the Dark Knight\u2019s possession by an unquiet spirit. \u2018The Man Who Murdered the Past!\u2019 <\/em>almost ensured an invasion of angry ghosts until superspeed and smart thinking saved the day…<\/p>\n

Comics were always about popular trends, and in Flash<\/strong> #211 Bates, Novick & Giordano contrived alien invaders who used the fad of rolling derby to fuel the destruction of Earth via constantly \u2018Flashing Wheels!\u2019 <\/em>However, Kid Flash was on far more stable ground as he exposed corrupt officials covering up toxic dumping in \u2018Is This Poison Legal?\u2019<\/em> by Skeates, Dillin & Giordano. Equally bold and topical the next issue saw \u2018The Flash in Cartoon Land!\u2019<\/em> with Novick & Giordano depicting how manic 64th<\/sup> century magician Abra Kadabra<\/em> trapped the hero and a little lad Barry Allen was babysitting in a graphic madhouse where scientific rules did not apply.<\/p>\n

The next two issues – #213 & 214 – were reprint specials represented here with the original covers by Neal Adams & Cardy before #215 saw Bates, Novick, Frank McLoughlin & Giordano detail the \u2018Death of an Immortal!\u2019<\/em> The eons are catching up with undying villain Vandal Savage<\/em> who attempts to trick Barry Allen and Jay Garrick into remedying the crisis for him. However their mission is intercepted by chronal cop Tempus<\/em> and the end is not what Savage anticipated…
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\nFor Bates at least, Flash was all about his signature Rogues Gallery<\/em> and in #216 the writer revealed the shocking truth about multiple personality villain Al Desmond\/Dr. Alchemy\/Mr. Element<\/em>. Seemingly cured and reformed, Desmond was afflicted by \u2018The Curse of the Dragon\u2019s Eye!\u2019 <\/em>(Novick, Frank McLoughlin & Giordano), astrally connected to an unstable star in the constellation Draco and vacillating between manic and passive, and Good and Evil as it built to cataclysmic detonation. Now that time had come and Flash had to save his friend and hopefully prevent him destroying Earth when his patron star died. Its counterbalanced by Skeates & Dillin\u2019s Kid Flash fable \u20182D?\u2019 <\/em>as Kid Flash goes after extradimensional slavers abducting workers who stare at certain paintings for too long…<\/p>\n

Hard times for superheroes saw Green Lantern<\/strong> take up residence in the anterior pages of The Flash<\/strong> from #217 and shorter tales began with a fill-in from Len Wein for Novick & McLoughlin. \u2018The Flash<\/em> Times Five is Fatal!\u2019 <\/em>saw the hero attacked by a rogue AI built by Ira West. It preferred sabotage, reality warping and murder to rescinding its categoric statement that no one as fast as the Scarlet Speedster could possibly exist…<\/p>\n

Bates and the Pied Piper returned in #218 as a cunning sonic ambush was foiled by speed vibrations generating \u2018The Flash of 1,000 Faces!\u2019<\/em> whilst in #219 (with Joe Giella inking) \u2018The Million Dollar Deathtrap\u2019 <\/em>saw the hero targeted by wagering rivals Mirror Master<\/em> and The Top<\/em> and only triumphing after applying the proven principle of \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d…<\/p>\n

Flash literally and grotesquely joined prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Kid Flash in #220 as The Turtle<\/em> (Barry\u2019s very first super-foe) returned to alter Earth\u2019s internal vibrations and cure \u2018The Slowest Man on Earth\u2019 <\/em>of his unique condition no matter the cost to everyone else. Thankfully two heads proved better than one in this instance and the shaking shakedown was averted.
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\nCo-scripter John Warner joined Bates, Novick & McLoughlin for #221\u2019s \u2018Time-Schedule For Disaster!\u2019<\/em> as techno-bandit Cipher<\/em> attempts – and ultimately fails – to harvest Flash\u2019s speed vibrations to power his weapons before #222\u2019s \u2018The Heart That Attacked the World!\u2019<\/em> (Novick, McLoughlin & Giordano) offers a full-length team up with Green Lantern as Weather Wizard <\/em>and Sinestro<\/em> join forces to end their enemies. Sadly, born betrayer Sinestro secretly linked the Speedster\u2019s racing heartbeat to the continued existence of Earth…<\/p>\n

In #223, Bates, Novick & Giordano \u2018Make Way for the Speed-Demons!\u2019<\/em> as another old enemy rigs races between Flash and three mechanical racers of land sea and air, with the expressed intention of humiliating the speedster whilst hiding his true intentions, before #224 introduces \u2018The Fastest Man Dead!\u2019 <\/em>after Barry\u2019s friend and mentor Charlie Conwell is murdered. That doesn\u2019t stop the veteran helping Flash close the last case on his docket and save his pal Barry one last time…<\/p>\n

Another Scarlet-Emerald team-up sees Flash again battle Professor Zoom, the Reverse-Flash<\/em> before discovering\u00a0 \u2018Green Lantern, Master Criminal of the 25th<\/sup> Century!\u2019<\/em> (#225, Bates, Novick & Giordano) is the villain\u2019s unwilling slave. Of course, it all plays out successfully in time, after which Captain Cold<\/em> and Heatwave<\/em> embroil Barry Allen in their psycho-drama rivalry, thereby inadvertently subjecting Flash to \u2018The Hot-Cold War in Central City!\u2019 <\/em>(inked by Giordano & McLoughlin). Immediately afterwards (with McLoughlin inking) #227 reveals \u2018Flash – This is Your Death!\u2019<\/em> as Captain Boomerang ( and his dad!) rerun past fast & furious clashes whilst seeking to end the hero\u2019s career and existence forever, before Tex Blaisdell inks #228\u2019s \u2018The Day I saved the Life of the Flash!\u2019 <\/em>Here Bates injects himself into the story as a comic book writer from Earth-Prime accidentally slips across dimensional divides; arriving on Earth-One in time to aid the \u201cfictional\u201d speedster he scripts in a deadly duel with the Trickster…<\/p>\n

This compendium closes with the pertinent original material from 100-Page Spectacular Flash <\/strong>#229 which led with a Golden Age Flash team up as \u2018The Rag Doll Runs Wild!\u2019<\/em> Here Bates, Novick, Giordano & McLoughlin detail how a seeming resurgent rampage by a 1940s thieving contortionist is merely a mask for a far more sinister scheme perpetrated by a hidden vengeful mastermind. Closing proceedings are two teaser treats from that giant compendium: specifically a \u2018Flash Puzzle\u2019<\/em> by Bob Rozakis, Infantino & Anderson and an unattributed \u2018Flash Trivia Quiz and Answers\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

With covers by Kane, Infantino, Anderson, Neal Adams, Colletta Giordano, Jack Adler, Cardy and Tatjana Wood, this splendid selection is a must-read item for anybody in love with the world of words-in-pictures and fast-paced fantasy fables. Ready. Steady, Go get it!
\n\u00a9 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 2026 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

Today in 1906 was the birth date of cartoonist Dale Messick<\/strong> (Brenda Starr, Reporter<\/strong>) followed ten years later by comic book\/ad exec Irv Novick<\/strong>, and author Peter O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> (Modesty Blaise<\/strong>, James Bond<\/strong>, Romeo Jones<\/strong>) in 1920. In 1954 Jamie Delano<\/strong> (Captain Britain<\/strong>, Doctor Who<\/strong>, Hellblazer<\/strong>, Animal Man<\/strong>) joined the party as did Matt Kindt<\/strong> (Poppy and the Lost Lagoon<\/strong>, Dept. H<\/strong>, MIND MGMT<\/strong>, BRZRKR<\/strong>) in 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Robert Kanigher, Mike Friedrich, Steve Skeates, Dennis O\u2019Neill, Bob Haney, Len Wein, Cary Bates, Gil Kane, Irv Novick, Don Heck, Dick Dillin, Bob Brown, Murphy Anderson, Dick Giordano, Joe Giella, Nick Cardy, Frank McLaughlin, Tex Blaisdell, Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams, Jack Adler, Tatjana Wood, John Costanza & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-77952-836-0 (TPB) This … <\/p>\n

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