The Flash #336

The anguish on the Scarlet Speedster's face says everything — the cover of The Flash #336 (August 1984) shows him bursting through rocky debris, one hand desperately outstretched toward a limp, bloodied arm disappearing into the rubble below. The cover speech balloon cuts right to the heart of it: "What good is all my speed — when I couldn't save the one woman who could clear my name?" It's a striking, emotionally charged image from penciler Carmine Infantino and inker Klaus Janson that sets up "Murder on the Rocks" as a story where the fastest man alive is haunted not by a villain he couldn't outrun, but by a failure no amount of speed could prevent.