WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
first Silver Age Flash
Dates
- Cover date
- September-October 1956
- On sale
- July 3, 1956
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Showcase 4 (Facsimile Edition) (2026). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Creators
Stories
- Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt! · 12 pages
By a freak accident involving lab chemicals and lightning, Barry Allen becomes the fastest man alive and originates a costume based on the comic adventures of the Flash from the 1940's. And it's a good thing too: for he must now face the Turtle Man, termed "The Slowest Man Alive".
- Wonders of Speed! · 1 pages
- The Man Who Broke the Time Barrier! · 10 pages
The criminal Mazdan was tried for his crimes and sentenced to be sent to a future time period where he could harm nobody but was accidentally sent backwards to the 20th century, where he is captured by the Flash.
- 100-Yard Dash · 1 pages
Reprinted in
DC Finest: The Flash: The Human Thunderbolt (2024), Showcase 4 (Facsimile Edition) (2026), The Flash (1959), The Essential Showcase 1956-1959 (1992), DC Silver Age Classics Showcase 4 (1992), The Flash Archives (1996), Millennium Edition: Showcase 4 (2000), Showcase Presents: The Flash (2007), The Flash Chronicles (2009), Showcase Presents: Showcase (2012), The Flash Omnibus (2014), The Flash: The Silver Age (2016), The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus (2017), Legends of the DC Universe: Carmine Infantino (2023), The Hundred Comic Monthly (1956), Secret Origins (1961), Secret Origins (1973), Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (1976), Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (1976), The Super Heroes (1980)