The Flash 1959 #140 - 6.0 - $40.00
0 1- First app: HeatWave
Burmese Lin Tan goes to WHO nursing school in Rangoon. She then is able to diagnose the bubonic plague in her home village.
Captain Cold teams up with a new villain... Heat Wave, to take down the Flash and prove their worth to the Dream Girl, a local television celebrity.
Flash stops an alien energy being.
On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of September 19 in ad in Flash Annual #1.
- Your United Nations at Work - Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
- The Heat Is On... for Captain Cold - First meeting with Heat Wave. Also in 155, 166, 174, 193, 226. Heat Wave's real name as Mick Rory will be revealed in The Flash (DC 1959 series) #226 (March-April 1974)
- Try a Tongue Teaser! - At the bottom of page 8 of the previous story sequence.
- - House ad for Flash Annual (DC, 1963 series) #1. On the page immediately following page 8 of the previous story sequence.
- - Subscription ad for DC comics. On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the precious story sequence.
- Here It Is, Fans - House ad for The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #50 (first team-up story).
- - Letters from Alden Stallings, Joe Finley, and Judith Player.
- - Inside back cover.
- Make Your Own Monsters - Back cover; ad for plastic model of the Frankenstein monster.
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