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Category Archives: Covers
Presidential Race!
Here’s a reminder, courtesy of the late Mike Wieringo and Jose Marzan Jr., to all U.S. readers: Remember to vote in today’s election!
Trick or Treat!
Happy Halloween, everyone! Here’s the cover to Impulse #44 (January 1999) by Craig Rousseau and Wayne Faucher, featuring everyone’s favorite hyperactive teen speedster bringing home treats from around the world… much to his guardian Max Mercury’s dismay. (cover image via GCD)
Flash vs. the Pirate Torpedo
Arr! Barry Allen may not know how to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day, but he do celebrate Jog Like a Pirate Day!
From Showcase #13, it’s “Around the World in 80 Minutes,” a tale of the Flash. (Mostly he runs around the world, helps people out, and gets kissed by women. Aye, it be good to be a superhero.)
(Cover via GCD. This story appears in Showcase Presents: The Flash vol.1 and The Flash Archives vol.1. And yeah, it’s a repost, but it’s from a year ago on my other blog, so I figure it’s fair game.)
Classic Covers: Flash v.2 #51
I hope Dixon of Crimson Lightning won’t mind me picking up this theme. (Come to think of it, he’s probably used this cover on that blog.)
Anyway, today’s classic cover is Flash v.2 #51 (June 1991), for reasons which should be obvious to US residents.
The other characters running with the Flash haven’t been seen for a while: the three dressed in white and red are the Kapitalist Kouriers, a trio of Soviet expatriates (originally called Red Trinity) who defected to the United States and went into business as super-speed couriers. To the best of my knowledge, they haven’t been seen since Dead Heat (1995).
The woman in the Flash outfit is Christina, originally a member of Red Trinity’s predecessor team, Blue Trinity. She’s had a long history of working for various villains including Vandal Savage, Savitar, and Kobra (sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not — her history with Savage is particularly twisted), but at this time she’d latched onto Wally West and was calling herself Lady Flash. She has been seen recently, albeit in a different costume, among Vandal Savage’s faction/harem in Salvation Run.
Flash Pieta Covers
Comics Should Be Good has a feature on the top 10 Pieta covers — covers inspired by Michelangelo’s statue, Pietà , of Mary holding the lifeless body of Jesus. The most famous of these covers is probably George Pérez’ cover for Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, the death of Supergirl.
One Flash cover made the cut: Flash v.1 #305, in which Barry Allen and Jay Garrick each hold their dead wives. (It turned out Joan wasn’t actually dead. And Iris got better…eventually.)
There’s at least one more Flash cover that fits the bill: The full cover for Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13, featuring the Black Flash carrying the lifeless body of Bart Allen.
This was the cover that set me looking for examples of dead Flash covers last year — and it’s amazing how many there are!