Volume four marked Barry Allen's entrance into the New 52, DC's reboot. THE FLASH #1 (Vol 4) by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato. THE FLASH #1 (Vol 4) by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato Whatever happened to Lex Luthor's fatray? The world may never find out, but moving forward with a silly, but incredibly memorable cover is this one, yet again from Infantino. THE FLASH #115 (Vol 1) by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella. THE FLASH #115 (Vol 1) by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella Moving away from the depressing and onto the absurd, something DC did extremely well, cover wise, in the Silver and Bronze age, here's Barry with a gigantic head and some shocked citizens. THE FLASH #177 (Vol 1) by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. THE FLASH #177 (Vol 1) by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito Infantino is responsible for a lot of great covers in Flash's history, but this one just strikes a pretty sad cord, especially considering its the second to last issue in the volume and months before Barry's death. THE FLASH #349 (Volume 1) by Carmine Infantino and Klaus Janson. THE FLASH #349 (Volume 1) by Carmine Infantino and Klaus Janson This is also the first appearance of Mirror Master. What better way to celebrate Barry Allen than the cover to his first issue of his own solo-series, continuing the numbering from FLASH COMICS. THE FLASH #105 (Volume 1) by Carmine Infantino. THE FLASH #105 (Volume 1) by Carmine Infantino This is a lovely piece from the late, great Nick Cardy. Barry has to decide whether to keep being The Flash or become one of his rogues, Captain Cold.
This cover has Barry holding the dead body of Psycho Pirate. He gave his life to save everyone else's. Spoiler alert: This issue is the death of Barry Allen. It's CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #8 by George Perez. CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #8 by George Perezįirst on the list is an iconic issue and cover for Barry Allen. After sifting through the hundreds of covers Barry was featured on, here's out favorites.
It makes sense because it is Barry as the Flash on the CW show. The Flash returns to the CW on October 6, ad what better way to celebrate the return of a show that had an insane amount of success than looking at some iconic and sometimes hilarious moments on the covers of the many appearances of The Flash.Īs we went through all the Flash-related covers we could, we had one rule in mind: Only use covers that feature Barry Allen.