Flash #5

From the team of Baron, Guice, and Torrance comes this delightfully awkward October 1987 chapter of Wally West's ongoing adventures. The cover — penciled by Butch Guice and inked by Karl Kesel — captures a perfectly timed disaster: Flash is caught mid-embrace with a dark-haired woman just as a yellow-and-purple costumed villain comes crashing through the wall behind them, wood splintering everywhere, while she shouts "Oh, no! It's… my HUSBAND!" It's a clever, humor-tinged image that promises the "Speed McGee" story inside balances action with the kind of soap-opera complications that made this era of Flash so entertaining.