The Flash #287

Two Flashes streak across a city street in a collision of speed and disbelief — one red-suited figure confronting another while speech bubbles crackle with shock and the ominous tagline teases "the shattering secret of the Man in the Alchemist's Mask." Don Heck and Dick Giordano's cover for this July 1980 issue perfectly captures that wide-eyed, jaw-dropping moment as the cornered Flash cries "It can't be — YOU?!" Cary Bates scripts the interior adventure, with art from Don Heck and inks by Frank Chiaramonte, making this an appealing slice of the Scarlet Speedster's early-'80s run.