Flash Fridays – The Flash # 320 April 1983

Flash Fridays – The Flash # 320 April 1983

This issue opens where the previous one left off – with the Flash heading off to finally deal with the Eradicator. Except that writer Cary Bates is merely toying with us. What we’re seeing instead is the Eradicator dressed up as the Flash and breaking into...
Flash Fridays – The Flash # 319 March 1983

Flash Fridays – The Flash # 319 March 1983

Behind a Hannigan/Giordano illustrated cover, the story of The Eradicator moves on. As the previous issue ended, the unconscious Flash and Captain Invincible were falling from a tall apartment building following an explosion in the apartment of Creed Phillips aka the...
Flash Fridays – The Flash # 318 February 1988

Flash Fridays – The Flash # 318 February 1988

This is one of the better Flash issues in this part of the run primarily because it deals with one story, the unmasking of the Eradicator. Peripherally it also includes Barry/Flash’s boss Captain Frye as the bumbling Captain Invincible, but as part of the main...
Flash Fridays – The Flash # 317 January 1983

Flash Fridays – The Flash # 317 January 1983

As I sit here in my attic studio, the window is open and glancing outside as the smell of cut grass wafts in I can see that a summer afternoon is in full bloom, which to me always includes a whiff of melancholy. Back when summer vacations meant all summer long,...
Flash Fridays – The Flash #316 December 1982

Flash Fridays – The Flash #316 December 1982

This issue sports one of the oddest Flash covers of the entire run. Does it show the Flash in peril at the hands of a costumed criminal? No. Does it draw the reader in with some kind of flashy gimmick? Nope. Does it have any direct connection to the story at all?...