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The Flash #300

DC · Series began 1959 · August 1981

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Dates

Cover date: August 1981
On sale: April 14, 1981
Pages: 52

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Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #300 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Newsstand edition

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 0709893048508
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Creators

pencils: Carmine Infantino, Fred Hembeckinks: Dick Giordano, Fred Hembeck, Bob Smithcolors: Tatjana Wood, Carl Gaffordletters: Gaspar Saladino, Fred Hembeck, John Costanzascript: Fred Hembeck, Cary Bates

Stories

Flash-Grams · 2 pages
Fred Hembeck spoofs some classic Flash covers.
1981 -- A Flash Odyssey · 48 pages
Flash wakes up in a hospital where the reality seems to be that he never inherited super power but instead was horribly wounded when lightning struck the cabinet of chemicals to begin his career.

Publisher’s description

Special double-sized 25th Anniversary issue! Barry Allen awakens in a hospital after being doused in chemicals and struck by lightning to discover he never received super powers and never became the hero known as the Flash!

Characters

Barry AllenThe Flash

Reprinted in

The Flash: 80 Years of the Fastest Man Alive The Deluxe Edition (2019)