Cover: Rich Buckler & Jack Abel
The Flash #256
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This late-1977 DC issue presents a genuinely unsettling cover by Rich Buckler and Jack Abel: the Flash's face fills the foreground in anguished close-up, wide-eyed and overwhelmed, while above him a ghostly circular scene shows him locked in battle with the Top — a villain the cover boldly declares is already dead. The blurbs frame it as a psychological crisis, with the Scarlet Speedster mentally trapped in his own past and driven "right out of his mind." Writer Cary Bates and artist Irv Novick promise a story that pushes the Flash into territory far more harrowing than any physical race.
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writer Cary Bates · artist Irv Novick · inker Frank McLaughlin · colorist Jerry Serpe · letterer Ben Oda · cover Rich Buckler, Jack Abel
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writer Cary Bates
artist Irv Novick
inker Frank McLaughlin
colorist Jerry Serpe
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils Rich Buckler
cover inks Jack Abel
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