The Flash #296 (1981) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Crimson Comet Battles the Elongated Man!	cover	1	pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Flash [Barry Allen]; Elongated Man
1	The Man Who Was Cursed to the Bone!	comic story	17	script: Cary Bates; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Bob Smith; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: John Costanza	Flash [Barry Allen]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]
3	Rain Rain Go Away... Come to Kill Us Another Day!	comic story	8	script: Gerry Conway; pencils: Jim Starlin; inks: Bob Wiacek; colors: Jerry Serpe; letters: John Costanza	Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Martin Stein]; Typhoon
4	-	letters page	1	script: Ted P. Skimmer

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0709893048504
British	price 0.15 GBP

Collection	Year
DC Through the '80s: The End of Eras #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-087-8	2021	On eBay ›

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