DC has posted an image of Tony Harris’ alternate cover for The Flash #1, coming April 14.
Interestingly, it was a tweet by the artist that first alerted this site to the Flash Secret Files and Origins book coming out in two weeks.
Remember that placeholder cover DC used when they solicited Flash: Rebirth #6 to avoid spoilers? Apparently Ethan Van Sciver scrapped that one unfinished, because he’s offering it on Facebook in an art contest.
To the right of the fully-drawn figure of Barry Allen, he’s added the new Impulse, a sketchy figure who appears to be Kid Flash, and a really sketchy figure who could be anyone (though I’m guessing Wally West — he may have scrapped the cover before he finished designing the new costume). The left side of the page is still empty.
Edit: Apparently not everyone can see the image, so here’s a smaller copy of what he’s posted.
Way back when DC first solicited Flash: Rebirth #6, they used a placeholder cover: Barry Allen in costume, taking his mask off, on a background of swirly colors. Artist Ethan Van Sciver mentioned around that time that all of the covers in solicitations for issues #4–6 had been altered to hide spoilers, and fans speculated that he would be surrounded by other speedsters in the final version.
DC has updated the listing for the issue with the final cover, and it’s completely different:
The variant cover was revealed two weeks ago. Flash: Rebirth #6 arrives in stores next week.
Over at The Source, DC has posted the variant cover for Flash: Rebirth #6 by Ethan Van Sciver.
More importantly, they’ve listed the release date…and it’s still February 24, 2010…just three weeks away!
We still haven’t seen the full standard cover yet. The one used in solicitations is clearly modified to hide the background and/or other characters. Most likely it’ll appear sometime in the next few weeks, when DC posts a preview of the issue.
DC has posted the main covers to three Blackest Night books including Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, and Scott Kolins’ cover to Blackest Night: The Flash #3. (The variant was posted last week.)
What do you know? It turns out they were keeping it under wraps to avoid spoiling Blue Lantern Barry Allen.
DC has posted three variant covers at The Source, for upcoming issues of Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, and Blackest Night: The Flash. Francis Manapul’s cover for Blackest Night: The Flash #3 features the Rogues.
Oddly enough, we still haven’t seen the standard cover for the issue (scheduled for February 17). It was originally solicited using the variant cover for #1, and that cover still appears on DC’s website. I briefly wondered whether they might be hiding a giant picture of Blue Lantern Barry Allen for spoiler reasons (the solicitations went up in November), but the costume is similar enough that they could easily redraw the symbol and color his costume red for the preview, like they disguised Professor Zoom as the Black Flash on the preview image for Flash: Rebirth #5.
Update: Francis Manapul has posted the inks and watercolor version of this cover.