The Flash - Flashpoint - DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection #59 (Eaglemoss) - Book - (Zbox July 2020)
FLASHPOINT Originally published as Flashpoint #1-5, June-October 2011.
Barry Allen is a hero. He protects the innocent and battles evil as The Flash - the world’s fastest man. But this is not the world he knows. This is a world where Wonder Woman and Aquaman have plunged millions into war, where Batman has as much blood on his hands as his enemies, where no one has ever heard of Superman. Barry Allen must convince this reality’s strange, dangerous heroes to rally to his cause and set the world to rights. But whether he succeeds or fails, the world will never be the same.
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Flashpoint is a 2011 comic book crossover story arc published by DC Comics. Consisting of an eponymous core limited series and a number of tie-in titles, the storyline premiered in May 2011. The core miniseries was written by Geoff Johns and pencilled by Andy Kubert. In its end, the series radically changes the status quo for the DC Universe, leading into the publisher's 2011 relaunch, The New 52.
Flashpoint details an altered DC Universe in which only Barry Allen seems to be aware of significant differences between the regular timeline and the altered one, including Cyborg's place as the world's quintessential hero, much like Superman is in the main timeline, with Superman himself being held captive as a lab-rat by the United States government within an underground facility in Metropolis. In addition, Thomas Wayne is Batman, and a war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman has decimated western Europe.
Consisting of a 61 issue run, the series crossed over with Booster Gold, sixteen separate three-issue miniseries, and a number of one-shots beginning in June 2011. DC announced that Flash #12 would be the last in the series; a thirteenth issue had been announced for sale on May 25, 2011, but was withdrawn.
The storyline is adapted in the film Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox as well as in the third season of The CW network television series The Flash. At the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Flashpoint will be adapted into a feature film as part of the DC Extended Universe.
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DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection is a fortnightly partwork magazine published by Eaglemoss Collections and DC Comics in the UK. The series is a collection of special edition hardback graphic novels, collecting significant DC Comics superhero story-arcs as well as bonus origin stories for the characters within.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics_Graphic_Novel_Collection
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