The Flash #281 (1980) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Dick Giordano; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tatjana Wood	Flash [Barry Allen]; Professor Zoom [Reverse Flash]
2	Deadly Games!	comic story	17	script: Cary Bates; pencils: Don Heck; inks: F. Chiaramonte; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Ben Oda	Flash [Barry Allen]; Frank Curtis; Mitch; Charlie; Deke; Chief Paulson; Iris Allen (on videotape only); Clive Yorkin (on videotape only); Reverse-Flash [aka Professor Zoom, Eobard Thawne]
6	Double Dynamite!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
9	One Mighty Magazine Is Now Two!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1		Superboy
12	By Overwhelming Popular Demand -- Green Lantern Goes Solo!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Gil Kane; inks: Gil Kane	Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
13	You Can't Beat This Halloween Treat!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1		Cain
14	-	letters page	1	script: Mike W. Barr	The Flash [Barry Allen]
15	-	in-house column	0.6	script: Bob Rozakis
16	Number 54 Gene D'Angelo	in-house column	0.4	script: Bob Rozakis, Mike Catron
17	From the Blazing Battlefields of World War 2	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5

Plus 11.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.15 GBP

Collection	Year
The Flash: The Death of Iris West #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-967-3	2021	On eBay ›

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