Landmark Flash #750 issue features 8 decades of variant Flash covers
On March 4, the landmark The Flash #750 hits comic book stores and participating digital retailers. The issue will spotlight the Scarlet Speedster and include incredible stories from Flash’s past, present and future. This oversized tribute to one of pop culture’s speediest heroes is almost certainly guaranteed to become a collectors’ item.
The collectability will be further enhanced by some of comics’ most talented
artists, honoring the Flash in a series of variant covers that celebrate The
Fastest Man Alive throughout the decades:
- 1940 – Nicola Scott and Annette Kwok
- 1950 – Gary Frank and Brad Anderson
- 1960 – Nick Derington
- 1970 – José Luis García-López and Alex Sinclair
- 1980 – Gabriele Dell’Otto
- 1990 – Francesco Mattina
- 2000 – Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair
- 2010 – Francis Manapul
The Flash #750 is a 96-page prestige format one-shot comic book, debuting in comic bookstores and participating online retailers on March 4 for $9.99. Be sure and check with your local comic book retailer for details on any of the decade variant covers it might carry.
Scroll down to see those iconic covers and their attributed artists, compliments of DC Comics. Also see some Flash historical notes and the video “History of the Flash!”
1940,
Nicola Scott and Annette Kwok
1950,
Gary Frank and Brad Anderson
1960,
Nick Derington
1970,
José Luis García-López and Alex Sinclair
1980,
Gabriele Dell’Otto
1990, Francesco Mattina
2000,
Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair
2010,
Francis Manapul
Flash History Notes:
Three men have held the title of “The Fastest Man Alive”—Jay Garrick, Barry Allen and Wally West. Each of them redefined the word “hero.”
The mysterious power known as the Speed Force is an energy field that has, over the centuries, granted incredible powers of velocity to certain heroes. The most famous of these is the Flash, also known as the Fastest Man Alive. Ever since the days of World War II, there has been a man clad in red who can run at impossible speeds, using his power to save lives and defend those who cannot defend themselves. All between the ticks of a second.
In the 1940s, college student Jay Garrick acquired his super-speed abilities in a random lab accident and became the first DC Superhero to go by the name the Flash. Years later, Jay was succeeded by police scientist Barry Allen, until Barry’s former kid partner Wally West took up the mantle at a time when Barry was considered dead. But, when Barry returned, he became the Flash once again. All three generations of speedsters have been cornerstone members of both the Justice Society and Justice League.
The Flash has mastery over not just speed, but time itself, and he has often used his powers to travel though different eras and even into other dimensions. Although the Flash has not always been fast enough to outrun personal tragedy when it has come for him, he always does his best to prevent the same from happening to the people of Central City and Keystone City.
In so doing, he’s earned himself a spot among the greatest Superheroes the DC Universe has ever known.
(Source: DC Comics)
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