| Issue | #4 |
| Published | September-October 1956 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
| Notes | Cover pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (9 January 2008) |
| Characters | Flash [Barry Allen] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Carmine Infantino |
| Inks | Joe Kubert |
| Notes | Cover pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (9 January 2008) |
| Reprinted | in DC 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1971 series) #DC-11; in Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in DC Silver Age Classics Showcase 4 (DC, 1992 series) #nn (1992); in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #1 ([June] 1996); in Showcase Presents: The Flash (DC, 2007 series) #1; in Flash Annual (DC, 1963 series) #1 |
| Characters | Flash [Barry Allen] (first appearance; origin); Flash [Jay Garrick] (on a comic book cover); Iris West (first appearance); The Turtle Man (villain; later The Turtle) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Robert Kanigher |
| Pencils | Carmine Infantino |
| Inks | Joe Kubert |
| Notes | First appearance of Barry Allen as the Flash. |
| Reprinted | in Secret Origins (DC, 1961 series) #1 (Summer 1961); in Secret Origins (DC, 1973 series) #1 (February-March 1973); in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976 series) #nn; in DC Silver Age Classics Showcase 4 (DC, 1992 series) #nn (1992); in Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1991 series) #nn (1991); in Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #1 ([June] 1996); in Secret Origins Replica Edition (DC, 1998 series) #1; in Millennium Edition: Showcase 4 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (January 2000); in Showcase Presents: The Flash (DC, 2007 series) #1; in Hundred Comic Monthly, The (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #3 |
| Characters | Flash [Barry Allen]; Mazdan (villain) |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | John Broome |
| Pencils | Carmine Infantino |
| Inks | Joe Kubert |
| Reprinted | in Flash, The (DC, 1959 series) #215 (May 1972); in DC Silver Age Classics Showcase 4 (DC, 1992 series) #nn (1992); in Essential Showcase 1956-1959, The (DC, 1992 series) #nn; in Flash Archives, The (DC, 1996 series) #1 ([June] 1996); in Millennium Edition: Showcase 4 (DC, 2000 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents: The Flash (DC, 2007 series) #1 |