The Flash: Born to Run [Paperback]

Mark Waid (Author), Tom Peyer (Author), Greg Larocque (Illustrator), Jim Aparo (Illustrator), Pop Mhan (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563895048
• ISBN-13: 978-1563895043
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark Waid, a New York Times bestselling author, has written a wider variety of well-known comics characters than any other American comics author, from Superman to the Justice League to Spider-Man to Archie and hundreds of others. His award-winning graphic novel with artist Alex Ross, KINGDOM COME, is one of the best-selling comics collections of all time. (Secretly, however, he prefers SUPERMAN: BIRTHRIGHT and his IRREDEEMABLE collections as his favorite works he's produced.)

With over twenty years of experience in his field, Waid maintains a blog at www.markwaid.com that is full of advice for beginning writers and experienced authors both.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful read, July 2, 2001

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Vernon Clark Mayo "Fastest gun, comic god" (Allen Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flash: Born to Run (Paperback)

This is a wonderful read, you start out with the Flash going ot his grandfathers place and while looking at his old pictres he thinks back to his first year as "Kid Flash". And that's where the story takes place, it shows you how he got his powers and his adventures with the Flash (then Barry Allen) facing people like mirror master. I just love this story because it's fun and you get a to see a New Barry Allen story and if your a fan you can't miss. A fun read tht has it's share of drama, if your a flash fan please get this book because you will love it like i do.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended!, May 13, 2005

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Flash: Born to Run (Paperback)

This graphic novel tells the story of Wally West, who first became Kid Flash, and the lessons he learned that would prepare him to one day take over the Flash mantle. Overall, I found this to be a very good graphic novel, and a worthy addition to my Flash library. It covers everything from Wally's transformation on, but not up to the death of Barry Allen.

The stories were uniformly great, and the illustration work was mostly great. The fly in the ointment is the Kid Flash: Day Two story, in which the people are drawn in a disturbingly caricature-like manner that really helps break down the believability.

But, that said, it is a very good Flash graphic-novel, one that I highly recommend!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent book in a Flash Line Story, June 3, 2006

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JUAN "Jmanu" (Bogota, COLOMBIA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flash: Born to Run (Paperback)

In January I bought this book and it is simply astonishing!
It clarified me many doubts of the life of Wally but overalls of their fears and thoughts
For everybody who wants to know all for the fastest man alive