The Flash: Can he outrun Superman — or Supergirl? We may get an answer in
the Mar. 28th episode of the latter’s CBS series.
Just as the CW network did in homaging the 1961 cover of The Flash #123 for the meeting of the Earth-One and Earth-Two scarlet speedsters (which I blogged on last year), CBS has released a promotional image based on the 1967 cover of Superman #199 to hype Barry Allen's cross-channel, transdimensional encounter with Kara Zor-El/Danvers and friends.
I’m not entirely sure why they carried over the issue number and 15¢ price tag yet
kept that awful current DC logo (which I blogged on a few years earlier).
There have been plenty of covers touting a race between a Flash and Superman,
most based on that 1967 cover — penciled by Carmine Infantino and inked by Murphy Anderson — to at least some extent, plus even more stories depicting one. Earliest in the internal continuity of the day — reboots and multiverses, people — was shown in a DC 1st special from 2002, involving the original, Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick, previously assigned to Earth-Two despite his primacy in actual publication. Before that as we reckon time in the real world, Superman raced the first and only Earth-One Flash, Barry Allen, in the aforementioned Superman #199, in The Flash #175 later that same year, in 1970’s World’s Finest Comics #198-199, and in 1978’s DC Comics Presents #1-2. Barry’s successor in the merged world that followed Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wally West, the former Kid Flash, took up the challenge in 1990’s Adventures of Superman #463. A variant cover to Action Comics #892 celebrating DC’s 75th anniversary in
2010 homaged Superman #199 as a milestone but without any Flash inside.
Infantino’s layout for Superman #199 was revisited for the front cover of 1976’s
Limited Collectors’ Edition #C-48, an oversized tabloid reprinting the stories from that issue and Flash #175, whose back cover let readers willing to cut up their copy turn the image into a diorama. Every cover and story noted above up to its release were reprinted in the Superman vs. Flash trade paperback in 2007.
Chances are good that Grant Gustin’s Flash and Melissa Benoist’s Supergirl will have
a Misunderstanding Fight before teaming up to battle a greater threat — and that in similar tradition we won’t quite get the big question answered.
Logos and characters TM/® DC Comics.
Front cover to Superman vs. The Flash TPB © 2005 DC Comics. Pencils, Painting: Alex Ross.
Cover to digital edition of Superman #199 © 1967 DC Comics. Pencils: Carmine Infantino. Inks: Murphy Anderson. Letters: Ira Schnapp. Colors, Script: Unknown. [enlarge]
Cover to digital edition of DC 1st: Flash / Superman #1 © 2002 DC Comics. Pencils, Inks, Colors: Kevin Nowlan. Letters, Text: Unknown. [enlarge]
Cover to digital edition of The Flash #175 © 1967 DC Comics. Pencils: Carmine Infantino. Inks: Mike Esposito. Letters: Ira Schnapp. Colors: Jack Adler. Script: Unknown. [enlarge]
Cover to digital edition of World’s Finest Comics #198 © 1970 DC Comics. Layout: Carmine Infantino. Pencils: Curt Swan. Inks: Murphy Anderson. Letters: Gaspar Saladino. Colors, Script: Unknown. [enlarge]
Cover to digital edition of DC Comics Presents #1 © 1978 DC Comics. Pencils: José Luis García-López. Inks: Bob Oksner. Letters: Gaspar Saladino. Colors: Tatjana Wood. Script: Unknown. [enlarge]
Cover to digital edition of The Adventures of Superman #463 © 1990 DC Comics. Pencils: Dan Jurgens. Inks: Brett Breeding. Letters: Todd Klein. Colors, Script: Unknown. [enlarge]
Variant cover to digital edition of Action Comics #892 © 2010 DC Comics. Pencils: Ivan Reis. Inks: Oclair Albert. Colorst: Alex Sinclair. [enlarge]
Front cover to Limited Collectors’ Edition #C-48 © 1978 DC Comics. Layout: Carmine Infantino. Pencils: José Luis García-López. Inks: Bob Oksner. Colors: Sol Harrison. Letters, Text: Unknown. [enlarge]
Related: Swap Things • The Heroic Versus • Cover Album(s)
• Panel to Frame • One Flash, Two Flash, Red and Blue Flash
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