Comic Title: Showcase #8
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May/Jun 1957
Approx. On Sale Date: March 7, 1957 Copyright Date March 5, 1957
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1957
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Coldest Man on Earth"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Flash (Barry Allen of Earth-1)

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Frank Giacoia

Reprinted In:
Limited Collectors' Edition C-39 (1975)
Super Heroes #10 (1981)
Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told HC (1990)
Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told TPB (1992)
Flash Archives Vol. 1 HC (1996)
Showcase Presents:The Flash Vol. 1 TPB (2007)
Flash Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB (2009)
Flash Vs. the Rogues TPB (2010)
Showcase Presents:Showcase Vol. 1 TPB (2012)
Flash Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2014)
Flash:The Silver Age Vol. 1 TPB (2016)
Flash Rogues:Captain Cold TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Showcase #8; next appearance in Showcase #13)

Villain(s)

• Captain Cold (Leonard Snart; first appearance; next appearance in Flash #114)

Other Character(s)

• Stan (Barry Allen’s co-worker; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Captain Cold walks the streets of Central City with his cold-gun. He uses the weapon to freeze a building and everything inside. With everything frozen, Cold cracks the vault using a hammer which shatters the vault door.

Barry Allen is alerted to the trouble in his police lab. He rushes to the scene as the Flash. Captain Cold uses his cold gun on his foe but the vibrations of the swift moving Flash overcome the blasts. However, Cold freezes the ground underneath his opponent. The slippery footing slows down Flash and allows Cold to escape.

Captain Cold is really, Len Snart, an ambitious criminal. Snart’s weapon was created while he was attempting to construct a weapon to stop the Flash. He planned to use a cyclotron to irradiate a specially built gun. However the experiment instead gave the weapon the property to freeze object with ice.

After his successful robbery, Cold further experiments with his new weapon. It seems that when using liquid helium with the gun, he can create cold-induced hallucinations.

Luring his opponent to a nearby lake, Cold uses the newly configured device to confuse his opponent with illusions. However, the Flash is able to think his way past the illusions and capture Captain Cold.