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Flash 80-Page Giant 1

FLASH 80-PAGE GIANT #1

Cover Date: August 1998
Cover Price: $1.50

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Cover Credits:
Inks: Chris Ivy (signed)


Story: "The Speed of Life" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMark Waid
PencilsPop Mhan
InksChris Ivy
LetteringGaspar Saladino
ColorsTom McCraw
Assistant editingL.A. Williams
EditingPaul Kupperberg

Feature Character(s):

Wally West (imagines at super-speed what his life may have been like under different circumstances)

Supporting Character(s):

Jay Garrick
Joan Garrick
Bart Allen
Hartley Rathaway
Iris Allen
Linda Park-West (see Comments)

Guest Appearance(s):

James (Hartley's boyfriend)

Comment(s):

Since chronological placement of this one of Wally's birthday is not possible, Linda and Wally may not have married yet.
There is one other, blonde woman present at Wally's party, but it is hard to identify her.


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Second Story: "Dark of the Sun" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn Byrne
ArtJohn Byrne
LetteringJohn Byrne
ColorsMike Danza
Assistant editingL.A. Williams
EditingPaul Kupperberg

Feature Character(s):

Flash II
Flash I (next in Justice League of America #29)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Garrick (in between Flash Vol. 1 #137 and #151)
Iris West

Villain(s):

Shade (in between Flash Vol. 1 #123 and #151)

Comment(s):

This story takes place on the one year anniversary of the story in Flash #123.


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Third Story: "The 5,000 Rats of Bartholomew Allen" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryTodd DeZago
ArtEthan Van Sciver
LetteringAlbert De Guzman
ColorsTom McCraw
Assistant editingL.A. Williams
EditingPaul Kupperberg

Feature Character(s):

Impulse
Max Mercury

Supporting Character(s):

Carol Bucklen
Helen Claiborne
Many of Bart's classmates

Villain(s):

Gorilla Grodd
two unnamed gorilla henchmen

Other Character(s):

two hyper-intelligent white mice (one bent on world domination; first appearance of both)


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Fourth Story: "The Professional" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryChristopher Priest
PencilsMike Collins
InksTom Palmer
LetteringGaspar Saladino
ColorsJohn Kalisz
Assistant editingL.A. Williams
EditingPaul Kupperberg

Feature Character(s):

Jesse Quick (next in DC One Million #1)

Villain(s):

Captain Boomerang

Guest Appearance(s):

Libby Lawrence-Chambers (last in Wonder Woman Plus #1; on the phone only, no actual appearance; next in Titans #21)
Impulse (candy-thief)

Other Character(s):

Jake (first appearance; a paramedic)

Comment(s):

This story takes place about a year after Wonder Woman Plus #1.


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Fifth Story: "Thunder and Lightning" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMichael Jan Friedman
PencilsCraig Rousseau
InksVince Russell
LetteringChris Eliopoulos
ColorsTom McCraw
Assistant editingL.A. Williams
EditingPaul Kupperberg

Feature Character(s):

Lightning (Max Mercury's identity in 1922)

Villain(s):

Big Jack McNulty (first appearance; a kidnapper in 1922)

Other Character(s):

George Herman "Babe" Ruth (first chronological appearance; in 1922, appears next in Young All-Stars #7)


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Sixth Story: "Split-Second" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBrian Augustyn
InksEduardo Alpuente
LetteringGaspar Saladino
ColorsTom McCraw
Assistant editingL.A. Williams
EditingPaul Kupperberg

Feature Character(s):

Flash (John Fox; last in Flash Vol. 2 #118; in Central City in 2945 AD; next in JLA #23)

Other Character(s):

Eric and Fran Russell (Iris West Allen's birth parents)
Iris West (as an infant)
Nadine West (Iris' adoptive mother)
Ira West (Iris' adoptive father)

Comment(s):

This story reveals that John Fox aided the Russells in sending their infant daughter, Iris, back into the 20th Century.


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Seventh Story: "Your Life is My Business" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMark Millar (and Wally West)
ArtAriel Olivetti
LetteringBob Lappan
ColorsTom McCraw
Assistant editingL.A. Williams
EditingPaul Kupperberg

Feature Character(s):

Flash III

Villain(s):

Rainbow Raider (seen on television; last in JLA 80-Page Giant #1/5; next in DC Universe Holiday Bash #3/5)

Other Character(s):

Mark Millar (first appearance; a comic book writer)


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