Showcase #14

A giant hand clutches an enormous hourglass on this striking 1958 cover by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella, with the scarlet-suited Flash trapped inside — one figure tumbling through the sand in the lower chamber, another straining upward in the upper half, conveying a wonderfully unsettling sense of helplessness for the Fastest Man Alive. DC's Showcase #14 spotlights the Flash in "Giants of the Time-World!," a story from writer John Broome and interior artist Carmine Infantino that promises the kind of imaginative Silver Age storytelling this series did so well. For a dime, readers in 1958 got a cover that stops you cold and a hero whose whirlwind adventures were clearly just getting started.