CATALOG RECORD
Showcase #8
first appearance of Captain Cold
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) — introduction · origin
Dates
- Cover date
- May-June 1957
- On sale
- March 5, 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Secret of the Empty Box! · 12 pages
Under cover of fog, a giant mystery box appears in Central City. While the police have their attention on opening the box, a trio of burglars commits robberies around town.
- The Coldest Man on Earth! · 12 pages
Flash faces off against Captain Cold, who commits crimes by using a cold-gun to freeze things and create mirages. But once Flash figures out what Captain Cold can do, he ignores the mirages and takes the villain in.
- The Race of Wheel and Keel · 3 pages
A race between a stagecoach and a clipper ship. The stagecoach leaves from Saint Louis for California and the clipper leaves from New York for California.
Characters
Reprinted in
Showcase Presents: Showcase (2012), DC Finest: The Flash: The Human Thunderbolt (2024), The Flash Archives (1996), Showcase Presents: The Flash (2007), The Flash Chronicles (2009), The Flash Omnibus (2014), The Flash: The Silver Age (2016), The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus (2017), The Hundred Comic Monthly (1956), The Brave and the Bold (1956), Limited Collectors' Edition (1972), The Super Heroes (1980), The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (1990), The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (1992), The Flash vs. the Rogues (2009), Flash Rogues: Captain Cold (2018)