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Issue: The Flash #279
Publication Date: November 1979
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Issues: #279 of 246 Issues (392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/07/1979
Volume: 31
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893048511
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #171.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (most issues); squarebound (#160, 169, 178, 187, 196, 214, 229, 232)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Clive Yorkin
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #5 published May 1980
as Best Covers of the Year [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-167
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Death-Feast!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Flash [Barry Allen]; Clive Yorkin (villain); Heat Wave [Mick Rory] (villain); Detective Frank Curtis; Melanie; Patterson (man in Sandman costume); Dolby; Officer Riker
Synopsis: Barry narrowly escapes death at Yorkin's hands, then must try to track Yorkin down.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagRoter Blitz #4/1980 published April 1980
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]splash page used as cover
In Content Item: FlagRoter Blitz #4/1980 published April 1980
as Der Greisemacher von Central City [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: J-6152
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Green Lantern vs Triclops Three-Eyed Keeper of the Cave

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Triclops
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-352
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.6
Job Number: F-107
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Number 49 Tatjana Wood

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: Script credit confirmed by Michael Catron.

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