Millennium Edition: Showcase 4

DC Comics

United States

Published
January 2000
Page count
36
Cover price
$2.50
Colour
Black & white
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/229660

Credits

Editing
Julius Schwartz (original)
Dale Crain (collected edition)
Michael Wright (assistant, collected edition)

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover The First Appearance of the Silver Age Flash (The Flash) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
The Flash
Genre
Superhero
Characters
The Flash [Barry Allen]

Credits

Pencils
Carmine Infantino
Inks
Joe Kubert
Editing
Julius Schwartz (original)
Dale Crain (collected edition)
Michael Wright (assistant, collected edition)

Reprint history

Printed in
from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #4 (September-October)
Show/hide 1. Untitled Text article, 2 pages

Featuring

Genre
Fact

Credits

Author
Robert Greenberger
Letters
typeset

Synopsis

Discusses the creation of the Silver Age Flash.

Notes

Printed on inside front and back covers.

Show/hide 2. Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt! (The Flash) Comic story, 12 pages

Featuring

Feature
The Flash
Genre
Superhero
Characters
The Flash [Barry Allen]; Iris West; The Flash [Jay Garrick] (on a comic book cover); The Turtle Man

Credits

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
Carmine Infantino
Inks
Joe Kubert

Reprint history

Based on
United States
Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #4 (September-October 1956)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt!
 
Australia
The Hundred Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1956 series) #3 ([December 1956?])
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
 
Australia
The Flash (KG Murray, 1975 series) #131 ([June 1976?])
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
Also printed
United States
Secret Origins (DC, 1961 series) #1 (Summer 1961)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
 
United States
Secret Origins (DC, 1973 series) #1 (February-March 1973)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
 
United States
Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown, 1976 series) (1976)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt!
 
United Kingdom
The Super Heroes Monthly (Egmont Publishing, 1980 series) v1#8 (May 1981)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
 
United States
The Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told (DC, 1991 series) (1991)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
 
United States
The Essential Showcase 1956-1959 (DC, 1992 series) ([November] 1992)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
 
United States
The Flash Archives (DC, 1994 series) #Volume 1 ([June] 1996)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt!
 
United States
Secret Origins Replica Edition (DC, 1998 series) (1998)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
Printed in
United States
Showcase Presents: The Flash (DC, 2007 series) #1 (May 2007)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt!
Also printed
United States
Showcase Presents: Showcase (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([September] 2012)
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt!

Synopsis

An accident in a lab makes Barry Allen the fastest man alive.

Show/hide 3. The Man Who Broke the Time Barrier! (The Flash) Comic story, 10 pages

Featuring

Feature
The Flash
Genre
Superhero
Characters
The Flash [Barry Allen]; Mazdan

Credits

Script
John Broome
Pencils
Carmine Infantino
Inks
Joe Kubert

Synopsis

A thief is mistakenly sent from the future back to today.


Status

AusReprints ID

  • 39536

Entry created

  • 08/01/2010

Cover added

  • 08/01/2010

Index completed

  • 08/01/2010

Last updated

  • 08/01/2010