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The Flash Archives vol.1
Cover by Carmine Infantino
Reprinting:
The Flash #109-116
October 1959-November 1960
(First Printing: 2000; 240 pages)
ISBN (1-56389-606-0)
***Information for this page submitted by James Friel

Highlights:
  • The first appearances of The Weather Wizard (The Flash 110), Wally West/Kid Flash (The Flash 110), Elongated Man (The Flash 112), and The Trickster (The Flash 113).
Contents:
Foreword by Bob Rozakis
The Flash #109
October-November 1959
(25 Pages + Cover)
Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella

"Return of the Mirror Master!"
(13 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Flash’s second duel with the Mirror Master.

"Seret of the Sunken Satellite!"
(12 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Flash rescues a space capsule that has fallen into a war between two sub-oceanic species.
The Flash #110
December 1959-January 1960
(25 Pages + Cover)
Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella

"Challenge of the Weather Wizard"
(13 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson
Synopsis: Introducing the Weather Wizard, who uses control of the weather to commit robberies.

"Meet Kid Flash!"
(12 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Iris West’s nephew Wally suffers an identical accident in Barry Allen’s lab to the one that turned Barry into The Flash.

The Flash #111
February-March 1960
(25 Pages + Cover)
Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella

"The Invasion of the Cloud Creatures!"
(13 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson
Synopsis: Flash thwarts an invasion by living clouds from inside the earth.

"The Challenge of the Crimson Crows!"
(Starring Kid Flash)
(12 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Kid Flash takes on a teenage gang.

The Flash #112
April-May 1960
(25 Pages + Cover)
Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella

"The Mystery of the Elongated Man!"
(13 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Introducing Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man.

"Danger on Wheels!"
(Starring Kid Flash)
(12 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Kid Flash versus unscrupulous local businessmen and their teenage henchmen.

The Flash #113
June-July 1960
(25 Pages + Cover)
Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella

"Danger in the Air!"
(12 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Introducing James Jesse, The Trickster, one of Flash’s most formidable foes.

"The Man Who Claimed the Earth!"
(13 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Aliens resembling the Olympian gods claim Earth as a lost colony.

The Flash #114
August 1960
(25 Pages + Cover)
Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella

"The Big Freeze!"
(13 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson
Synopsis: Captain Cold returns, and not only does he want to kill The Flash, but to marry Iris!

"King of the Beatniks!"
(Starring Kid Flash)
(12 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Kid Flash rescues a teenager and breaks up a burglary gang of phony beatniks.

The Flash #115
September 1960
(25 Pages + Cover)
Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella

"The Day Flash weighed 1000 Pounds!"
(13 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Grodd apparently dies, but actually projects his consciousness into the brain of a man who then gives Flash a difficult time—including causing him to gain 800 pounds!

"The Elongated Man’s Secret Weapon!"
(12 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Murphy Anderson
Synopsis: Flash and thenElongated Man are shrunk to tiny size by invading aliens.

The Flash #116
November 1960
(25 Pages + Cover)
Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella

"The Man who Stole Central City!"
(14 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Aliens in a neighboring dimensional world who can see one hour into Earth’s future create problems that The Flash must deal with.

"The Race to Thunder Hill!"
(Starring Kid Flash)
(11 Pages)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Carmine Infantino/Joe Giella
Synopsis: Wally West participates in a road rally with his dad at the same time that Kid Flash has to be tracking down bank robbers.

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