Flash #8

Dates

Cover date

January 1988

On sale

September 15, 1987

Pages

36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #8 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct edition75¢ cover

  Direct

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

  Source ↗
• Newsstand edition75¢ cover

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 0709893222201 · shared with another edition

  This edition’s page
• Canadian price edition1.00 CAD cover

  Canadian

  Printed cover price 1.00 CAD.

  Barcode 0709893222201 · shared with another edition

  This edition’s page

Story arc: Millennium

This is part 2 of 22. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Firestorm the Nuclear Man #67
2. Flash (1987) #8
3. Justice League International (1987) #9
4. Millennium (1988) #1
5. Wonder Woman (1987) #12
6. Batman (1940) #415
7. Blue Beetle (1986) #20
8. Legion of Super-Heroes (1984) #42
9. Millennium (1988) #2
10. Young All-Stars (1987) #8
11. Millennium (1988) #3
12. The Green Lantern Corps #220
13. Millennium (1988) #4
14. Suicide Squad (1987) #9
15. Detective Comics #582
16. Millennium (1988) #5
17. Wonder Woman (1987) #13
18. Millennium (1988) #6
19. Young All-Stars (1987) #9
20. Millennium (1988) #7
21. Millennium (1988) #8
22. DC Finest: Suicide Squad: Trial by Fire (2025) #nn

Creators

Stories

• Purple Haze · 22 pages

  On a mission to the Soviet Union, Flash is battling Blue Trinity until he collapses. Rescued and brought to the Green Lantern Citadel with many other heroes, he learns about the threat of the Manhunters and later learns that his father is one of them and has been working with Blue Trinity.

Publisher’s description

The Flash and Red Trinity take on Blue Trinity! Plus, the Guardians of the Universe summon Wally West to warn of the coming threat of the Manhunters and Wally receives some disturbing news about his father.

Characters

Reprinted in

The Flash: Savage Velocity (2020)