The Flash #303

The Scarlet Speedster races against a chilling threat on this November 1981 cover, where the ghostly green specter of the Top looms large in the background, declaring vengeance against Flash's own father — an older man in a green-and-yellow striped suit who holds a gun to his own head while a masked woman stands at his side. Carmine Infantino and Bob Smith deliver a genuinely unsettling scene that puts Flash on the back foot, sprinting desperately toward the confrontation as the cover text promises the terrible Top is "back from the dead." As a bonus, a starburst announces a Firestorm versus the Hyena backup story, making this a packed double-threat issue from DC's expanded 1981 lineup.