Crisis on Infinite Earths #8

Nov 1985 · DC · 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP

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“A Flash of the Lightning!”

★ Death — Death of the Flash (Barry Allen)

Part eight of Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, and Jerry Ordway's 12-part maxi-series arrives with one of the most striking covers of 1985: the Flash, battered and straining against a blaze of yellow energy, surrounded by jagged wreckage and darkness as if the very universe is tearing apart around him. The bold cover text — "The Final Fate of the Flash" — hangs over the scene like a thunderclap, making it impossible to look away. Pérez's cover art channels real weight and exhaustion into the Scarlet Speedster's expression, turning what could have been pure spectacle into something genuinely moving.

writer Marv Wolfman · artist George Pérez · inker Jerry Ordway · colorist Anthony Tollin · letterer John Costanza · cover George Pérez

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writer Marv Wolfman

artist George Pérez

inker Jerry Ordway

colorist Anthony Tollin

letterer John Costanza

cover pencils, inks George Pérez

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The 5 earths and their universes are temporarily safe, as a captive Flash and Psycho Pirate witness the reemergence of the Anti-Monitor with a new plan to create an antimatter cannon. Using the Pirate to emotionally control the Anti-Monitor's Qwardian Thunderers as a diversion, Flash enters the cannon and runs counterclockwise to cause its energies to build up, thus exploding and destroying the cannon. The Anti-Monitor throws Flash throughout time (accounting for the images seen in issues 2, 3, and 12), killing him, and absorbs the entire energy of the anti-matter universe for a final attack.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).