The Flash #251

A gut-punch of a cover from 1977 — the Flash reels in horror, crying out that for the first time in his life he wasn't fast enough to save the woman he loves, while a massive blue-clad figure dominates the foreground and a masked, golden-costumed woman wields what appears to be an icy weapon at lower right. Cover pencils by Rich Buckler and inks by Jack Abel give the scene a raw, urgent energy that sets up "Vengeance on Ice!" as a deeply personal crisis for the Scarlet Speedster. Interior work from the creative team of Cary Bates, Irv Novick, and Joe Giella promises the kind of emotionally charged superhero storytelling that made this era of DC Comics so compelling.