- I'm assigned to protect this space sector--and protect it I will! If I catch you in it again, I'll do more than wreck your equipment! Got me?
The Flash #243 is an issue of the series The Flash (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1976. It was published on May 24, 1976.
Synopsis for "If I Can't Rob Central City, Nobody Can!"
The Top, dead as a result of his last encounter with the Flash, leaves a prerecorded message with his fellow villains informing them that he has planted six bombs in Central City, to find which they must repeat his same robberies--and risk capture by the Flash.
Appearing in "If I Can't Rob Central City, Nobody Can!"
Featured Characters:
- The Flash/Barry Allen (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Iris Allen (Flashback only)
Antagonists:
- Rogues
- Abra Kadabra
- Captain Boomerang
- Captain Cold
- Heat Wave
- Mirror Master (Flashback and main story)
- Pied Piper
- The Top (Dies in flashback)
- The Trickster
- Weather Wizard
Other Characters:
- Central City Police Department (Flashback only)
Locations:
- Central City
- Chicago (Mentioned only)
Items:
Synopsis for Green Lantern: "Dust of the Earth!"
Green Lantern demands answers from the captive Ravager for the reason behind their attacks. The Ravager explains that they are trying to join a certain federation, and this federation, after learning the Biblical story of how Earth was created in six days, tasked the Ravagers to do the inverse of that story, following the same pattern of creation but to destroy six different planets: on planet Zerbon, getting rid of their light; on the artificial planet of Vivarium, making the skies fall; on Archos, making the water flood the entire planet; on Jotham, cooling the sun; and on Earth, reversing the natural order of the animals. For their final target, they use a Reversion Ray to devolve mankind back to dust. Green Lantern is already affected by this ray, and he turns into a caveman. But on his last moments of rational thought, Green Lantern brings the Ravagers spacecraft down and destroys their Reversion Ray, turning himself back to human.
With the Ravagers defeated and their six tasks foiled, Green Lantern threatens them to get out of his space sector and never return.
Appearing in Green Lantern: "Dust of the Earth!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Ravagers of Olys (Flashback and main story)
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
- Olys Spaceship
Notes
- "Dust of the Earth!" was reprinted in Showcase Presents: Green Lantern Vol 5.
- This was the last issue of this series to feature Green Lantern back-up stories with Mike Grell as artist, as Green Lantern (Volume 2) resumed publication the same month with issue #90. There were two more Green Lantern back-up stories with Dick Dillin as the artist
See Also
Recommended Reading
- The Flash Recommended Reading
- Green Lantern Recommended Reading
- Green Lantern (Volume 1)
- Green Lantern (Volume 2)
- Green Lantern (Volume 3)
- Green Lantern (Volume 4)
- Green Lantern (Volume 5)
- Green Lantern (Volume 6)
- Green Lantern (Volume 7)
- The Green Lantern (Volume 1)
- The Green Lantern: Season Two (Volume 1)
- Green Lantern Corps (Volume 1)
- Green Lantern Corps (Volume 2)
- Green Lantern Corps (Volume 3)
- Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors (Volume 1)
- Green Lantern: New Guardians (Volume 1)
- Green Lanterns (Volume 1)
- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (Volume 1)