The Flash #268 (1978) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Al Milgrom; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tatjana Wood	Barry Allen, The Flash
2	Riddle of the Runaway Comic	comic story	17	script: Cary Bates; pencils: Irv Novick; inks: Frank McLaughlin; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Mike Stevens	Flash [Barry Allen]; criminal dressed as Wildcat [Ted Grant]; criminal dressed as Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Barney Sands; unnamed comic book collectors; unnamed criminals
4	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
8	Next Month...This Month...and Every Month!	promo (ad from the publisher)	2	pencils: ?; ? (photo); inks: ?; ? (photo)	Superman (photo of Christopher Reeve)
9	Subscribe	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
17	-	public service announcement	0.125	letters: typeset
18	-	letters page	1	script: Bob Rozakis	Flash [Barry Allen]
19	Volume 78 Issue 36 - Week of September 4, 1978	in-house column	0.8	script: Bob Rozakis; editing: Bob Rozakis, Anthony Tollin	Superman; Sinestro; Bob Rozakis; Madame Xanadu
20	-	comic story	0.2	script: Fred Hembeck; pencils: Fred Hembeck; inks: Fred Hembeck

Plus 11.875 pages of advertisements and other matter across 15 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Whitman	See the GCD record for identification notes.
British	price 0.12 GBP

Collection	Year
Comic Reader #160	1978	On eBay ›

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