Cover: Carmine Infantino & Dick Giordano

The Flash #300

Aug 1981 · DC · 1.00 USD

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In "Flash-Grams," The Flash wakes up in a hospital to a reality where he never gained his powers—instead, he’s a victim of a lightning strike that scarred him and destroyed his life. Written by Cary Bates and brought to life by Carmine Infantino’s dynamic art, this landmark issue explores a haunting alternate version of the hero’s origin, with inks by Bob Smith, colors by Carl Gafford, and letters by John Costanza. The cover, penciled by Infantino and inked by Dick Giordano, captures the moment with striking intensity.

Contains 2 stories

Flash-Grams

2 pp · Humor, Superhero

Flash [Barry Allen]Abra KadabraMirror Master [Sam Scudder]Fred Hembeck

1981 -- A Flash Odyssey

48 pp · Superhero

Flash [Barry Allen]Dr. PetrouDr. Fredrick WyngardeThe TurtleHenry AllenNora AllenFlash [Jay Garrick]Joan Garrick (Cameo)Justice Society of America [Wonder WomanGreen Lantern [Alan Scott]The Atom [Al Pratt]Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]Hawkman [Carter Hall]Dr. Midnite [Charles McNider]Flash [Jay Garrick]] (Earth 2, Cameo)Shade [Richard Swift] (Earth 2, Cameo)Thinker [Clifford DeVoe] (Earth 2, Cameo)Fiddler [Issac Bowin] (Earth 2, Cameo)Vandal Savage (Earth 2, Cameo)Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]Pied Piper [Hartley Rathaway]Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]Clyde Mardon (Cameo)Weather Wizard [Mark Mardon]Ira WestKid Flash [Wally West]Dexter MylesNew Teen Titans [Kid Flash [Wally West]Robin [Dick Grayson]Wonder Girl [Donna Troy]Cyborg [Victor Stone]] (Cameo)Gorilla GroddSolovar (Cameo)Abra KadabraHeat Wave [Mick Rory]Captain Cold [Len Snart]Golden Glider [Lisa Snart]The Top [Roscoe Dillon]Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]Sue Dibny (Cameo, picture on book cover)Mr. Element [Al Desmond]Dr. Alchemy [Al Desmond]Rita DesmondTrickster [James Jesse]Rainbow Raider [Roy Bivolo]Reverse Flash [Professor Adrian Zoom]Iris AllenWally SummersSasha SummersJeffrey Summers

In "1981 — A Flash Odyssey," Barry Allen wakes in a hospital where the world remembers him as a man broken by a lightning strike—never a hero, never a Flash. As memories fray and reality warps, he must confront a past that never was, a future that might be, and the echoes of heroes both real and imagined, from Jay Garrick to the Justice Society, all caught in the storm of a timeline that shouldn’t exist.