The Flash #346

The trial of the Flash continues in this June 1985 installment, and the cover — penciled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Klaus Janson — makes quite an impression: a towering, blurred Flash looms in yellow and red, lightning crackling at his heels, while a terrified man in a suit staggers backward clutching a gun, crying out "It can't be you! You're dead! I saw you die!" That collision of disbelief and dread sets a perfectly tense stage for "Dead Man's Bluff," with Cary Bates steering the ongoing courtroom saga into unmistakably dramatic territory. A vivid snapshot of mid-'80s DC storytelling at its most charged.