Flash Annual #1

Billed right on the cover as "The First All-New Flash Annual," this 1987 DC oversized issue arrives with real momentum behind it — the creative team of Baron, Guice, and Mahlstedt delivering extra-sized storytelling for Wally West's era. The cover by Butch Guice and Ed Hannigan puts the Scarlet Speedster front and center, charging straight at the reader in full red-and-gold costume against a dynamic burst of orange, red, and blue speed lines that practically hum with kinetic energy. It's a confident, cleanly composed image that captures exactly what a Flash annual should feel like — fast, forceful, and impossible to put down.