Object label
DC Comics · Comics · Showcase · 1956
Showcase #4
Showcase · 1956
The first appearance and origin of the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, and his wife, Iris West! This issue officially begins the Silver Age of comics with Barry Allen serving as the first DC Silver Age superhero!
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Showcase #4 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, and John Broome, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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Showcase #4 is a comics collectible connected to DC Comics and Showcase. Useful collector signals include release year 1956, issue #4, and artist context from Carmine Infantino, John Broome, and Julius Schwartz. Showcase has 2 catalogued releases on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Showcase #4 is a comics entry for issue #4 in Showcase from 1956. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
DC Comics pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Flash (Barry Allen), Iris West Allen, and Mazdan.
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Showcase
Showcase groups related comics entries from DC Comics, so collectors can move from this object into nearby releases instead of treating it as a standalone record.
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- Release span
- 1956-1959
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- Source ID
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