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Cover: Nick Cardy

The Flash #216

Jun 1972 · DC · 0.25 USD
📊 ~43,616 copies sold its debut month
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In "The Curse of the Dragon's Eye!", Kid Flash and Hildy team up to rescue a stranded campus trapped in a two-dimensional realm, where its inhabitants are enslaved by an unseen force. Written by Steve Skeates and brought to life by Dick Dillin’s dynamic art with inks by Dick Giordano and lettering by Joe Letterese, this 1972 Flash classic delivers a mind-bending mystery with a touch of sci-fi flair. The cover, a striking piece by Nick Cardy, captures the eerie dimensionality of the threat.

Contains 4 stories
The Curse of the Dragon's Eye!
14 pp · Superhero
Flash [Barry Allen]Mr. Element [Al Desmond]Rita Desmond
A Matter of Size!
2 pp · Non-Fiction, Math & Science
2D?
8 pp · Superhero
Kid Flash [Wally West]Hildy

Kid Flash and Hildy race to save a campus trapped in a two-dimensional realm, where its people are enslaved by forces beyond their understanding. As the speedster and his ally navigate a world of flat planes and impossible geometry, they must uncover the truth behind the dimensional shift before the entire school vanishes into the flatness.

Anything Can Happen!
12 pp · Superhero

In "Anything Can Happen!", Jay Garrick races to stop a murder he witnesses—a man thrown from a bridge into a river—only to be arrested for the crime. When the same scene replays moments later, a second Jay Garrick is arrested, leaving the real Flash to unravel a mystery where identity, time, and reality itself seem to be breaking down.

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Fine) $4
CGC 9.8 · 5 in census $1,090*
CGC 9.6 · 9 in census $323*
CGC 9.4 · 9 in census $187*
CGC 9.2 · 5 in census $131*
CGC 9.0 · 8 in census $108*
CGC 8.5 · 5 in census $88*
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CGC 8.0 · 3 in census $80*
CGC 7.5 · 3 in census $71*
CGC 7.0 none in existence
CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $53*
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $39*
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
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Full credits

letterer Joe Letterese
cover pencils, inks Nick Cardy

Reprints

↩ Reprints All-Flash #30 (1947), Strange Adventures #22 (1952)

Reprinted in Flits Classics #2628 (1973), Flits Classics #2630 (1973), Superman Presents World's Finest Comic Monthly #95 (1973), Gigant #3/1976 (1976), Gigant #3/1976 (1976), Flash #40 (1978), Super Action avec Wonder Woman #1 (1979), Flash #45 (1980), Top Comics Blitzmann #121

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