Flash #106

The tagline "Speed Kills!" sets a tense tone for this 1995 chapter of Mark Waid's run, with the cover by Jimenez and Marzán Jr. showing the Flash urgently pulling a dark-haired woman out of the path of an oncoming truck. Perched atop that same speeding vehicle is a blond woman in black — cape streaming behind her — who looks every bit the threat the title promises. It's a kinetic, well-composed scene that captures the series at its mid-'90s stride, with "Back with a Vengeance" suggesting the story inside more than delivers on that cover's sense of danger.