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FLASH #299
Cover Date: July 1981
Cover Price: $0.50
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Carmine Infantino
Inks: Dick Giordano
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Credits:
| Story | Cary Bates |
| Pencils | Carmine Infantino |
| Inks | Bob Smith |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Editing | Len Wein |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (Barry Allen)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Shade (next in Infinity, Inc. #34)
- Rainbow Raider (next in Brave and the Bold #194)
- The Top (his spirit secretly controlling the body of Henry Allen; next in issue #301)
Other Character(s):
- News reporters
- Chief of Police of Keystone City
- Cath and her boyfriend (two teenagers)
Comment(s):
- Story continued from previous issue.
Synopsis: - The Rainbow Raider launches a plan to eliminate his color blindness and give himself new powers. By "color-shifting" he causes all color to bleach out of Central City, to Keystone City on Earth-2, disrupting the criminal plans of the Shade there. The Flash and the Shade then have an uneasy pact to stop the Raider.
Credits:
| Story | Gerry Conway |
| Pencils | Denys Cowan |
| Inks | Dennis Jensen |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe |
| Lettering | Todd Klein |
| Editing | Len Wein |
Feature Character(s):
- Firestorm (Ron Raymond and Martin Stein; next in Justice League of America #192)
Villain(s):
- Bennie (would-be safecracker; first appearance)
- Sybil (Bennie's accomplice; first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Two would-be robbery victims
- New York City police officers
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Tom McQuinn (reporter on television)
- Marsha (reporter on television, voice heard only)
Synopsis: - Bennie, in his mind a hard-working if unsuccessful criminal, laments he is not as powerful as the successful super-villains. He tries and fails to break into the safe of a couple's house in Forest Hills. After a police chase he and his accomplice Sybil then try stealing toxic waste. Sybil thinks they can ransom it to the mayor for its safe return. The pair is intercepted by Firestorm who gets the barrel of waste away from person and property before it explodes. Though caught once again, Bennie has some consolation that even he matters to a superhero.