The Flash #279 (1979) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Dick Giordano; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tatjana Wood	Flash [Barry Allen]; Clive Yorkin
1	Death-Feast!	comic story	17	script: Cary Bates; pencils: Alex Saviuk; inks: Frank Chiaramonte; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Ben Oda	The Flash [Barry Allen]; Clive Yorkin (villain); Heat Wave [Mick Rory] (villain); Detective Frank Curtis; Melanie; Patterson (man in Sandman costume); Dolby; Officer Riker
3	-	letters page	1	script: Mike W. Barr
4	-	in-house column	0.6	script: Bob Rozakis
5	Number 49 Tatjana Wood	in-house column	0.4	script: Michael Catron

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.15 GBP

Collection	Year
The Best of DC #5	1980	On eBay ›
The Flash: The Death of Iris West #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-967-3	2021	On eBay ›

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