Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally West are the best-known exemplars of the identity. The signature wingdings are never absent. ===Jay Garrick=== Jay Garrick was a college student in 1938 who accidentally inhaled heavy water vapors after taking a smoke break inside his laboratory where he had been working.
Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in Flash Comics #1 (cover date January 1940/release month November 1939).
Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in Flash Comics #1 (cover date January 1940/release month November 1939).
The various incarnations of the Flash also feature in animated series such as The Animated Series, Justice League, The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice, as well as the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series. ==Publication history== ===Golden Age=== The Flash first appeared in the Golden Age Flash Comics #1 (January 1940), from All-American Publications, one of three companies that would eventually merge to form DC Comics.
When re-introduced in the 1960s Garrick's origin was modified slightly, gaining his powers through exposure to [water]. Jay Garrick was a popular character in the 1940s, supporting both Flash Comics and All-Flash Quarterly (later published bi-monthly as simply All-Flash); co-starring in Comic Cavalcade; and being a charter member of the Justice Society of America, the first superhero team, whose adventures ran in All Star Comics.
The Justice Society's final Golden Age story ran in All Star Comics #57 (1951; the title itself continued as All Star Western). ===Silver Age=== In 1956, DC Comics successfully revived superheroes, ushering in what became known as the Silver Age of comic books.
When re-introduced in the 1960s Garrick's origin was modified slightly, gaining his powers through exposure to [water]. Jay Garrick was a popular character in the 1940s, supporting both Flash Comics and All-Flash Quarterly (later published bi-monthly as simply All-Flash); co-starring in Comic Cavalcade; and being a charter member of the Justice Society of America, the first superhero team, whose adventures ran in All Star Comics.
Soon, there were crossovers between the entire Justice League and the Justice Society; their respective teams began an annual get-together which endured from the early 1960s until the mid-1980s. Allen's adventures continued in his own title until the event of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
In the 52-Earth Multiverse, the Tangent Universe is designated Earth-9. ===Superman & Batman: Generations 2=== In Superman & Batman: Generations 2, three different Flashes appear: Wally West as Kid Flash in 1964, Wally's cousin Carrie as Kid Flash in 1986, and Jay West, the son of Wally and his wife Magda as the fifth Flash in 2008.
Barry Allen makes a cameo appearance out of costume in 1964. ===Green Lightning=== Ali Rayner-West, aka Green Lightning, is a descendant of both Kyle Rayner and Wally West.
The Flash has been included in multiple animated features, such as Super Friends and Justice League, as well as his own live action television series and some guest star appearances on Smallville (as the Bart Allen/Impulse version.) There are numerous videos that feature the character. In the Challenge of the Super Friends series which ran from 1978–1979, he appears in every episode and has spoken lines in only twelve out of the sixteen episodes of the series.
In live-action, Barry Allen has been portrayed by Rod Haase for the 1979 television special Legends of the Superheroes, John Wesley Shipp in the 1990 The Flash series and Grant Gustin in the 2014 The Flash series, and by Ezra Miller in the DC Extended Universe series of films, beginning with Dawn of Justice (2016).
Allen's life had become considerably confused in the early 1980s, and DC elected to end his adventures and pass the mantle on to another character.
As with most of the other characters of that Earth, she sports an Anime-inspired costume. ===The Crash=== The 1980s series Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! presented the parallel Earth of "Earth-C-Minus", a world populated by funny animal superheroes that paralleled the mainstream DC Universe.
1) #309, May 1982), he travels back further in time and uses the chemicals from the clothes Barry Allen was wearing when he gained his powers to give himself super speed.
In his civilian identity, he stores the costume compressed in a special ring via the use of a special gas that could compress cloth fibers to a very small fraction of their normal size. Barry sacrificed his life for the universe in the 1985 maxi-series Crisis on Infinite Earths, and remained dead for over twenty years after that story's publication.
In the 52-Earth Multiverse, the Tangent Universe is designated Earth-9. ===Superman & Batman: Generations 2=== In Superman & Batman: Generations 2, three different Flashes appear: Wally West as Kid Flash in 1964, Wally's cousin Carrie as Kid Flash in 1986, and Jay West, the son of Wally and his wife Magda as the fifth Flash in 2008.
In live-action, Barry Allen has been portrayed by Rod Haase for the 1979 television special Legends of the Superheroes, John Wesley Shipp in the 1990 The Flash series and Grant Gustin in the 2014 The Flash series, and by Ezra Miller in the DC Extended Universe series of films, beginning with Dawn of Justice (2016).
The Justice League left, but 39 seconds later, Earth-D perished. Rei made his only appearance in Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths (February 1999).
2) in January 2006 at #230.
A new series, The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive, began on June 21, 2006.
Warner Brothers released the series in a 6-disc DVD box set on January 10, 2006. The series' main musical theme was composed by Danny Elfman, with the remainder of the episodes' music being composed by Shirley Walker (this collaboration would also occur on The Animated Series).
When a coffee shop waiter notices the notes of FBI agent Carl Hanratty, he reveals that Barry Allen is the Flash, giving Carl a vital clue to his unknown subject's identity. In 2006, a near-pristine copy of Flash Comics #1 was sold in a Heritage Auction for $273,125.
2) series, which resumed with issue #231 in August 2007.
With the 2008 series Final Crisis, Barry returned to the DC Universe and returned to full prominence as the Flash in the 2009 series Rebirth, which was soon after followed by a new volume of The Flash ongoing series, where Barry's adventures as the Scarlet Speedster are currently published. ===Wally West=== Wallace Rudolph "Wally" West is the nephew of both Iris West and Barry Allen, by marriage, and was introduced in The Flash (vol.
In the 52-Earth Multiverse, the Tangent Universe is designated Earth-9. ===Superman & Batman: Generations 2=== In Superman & Batman: Generations 2, three different Flashes appear: Wally West as Kid Flash in 1964, Wally's cousin Carrie as Kid Flash in 1986, and Jay West, the son of Wally and his wife Magda as the fifth Flash in 2008.
The first official render for The Flash was released to the public on Monday July 7, 2008.
The covers and cover artists were as solicited by DC, and the information text released was devoid of any plot information. In 2009, Barry Allen made a full-fledged return to the DCU-proper in Rebirth, a six-issue miniseries by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver. ==Fictional character biographies== While several other individuals have used the name Flash, these have lived either on other parallel worlds, or in the future.
With the 2008 series Final Crisis, Barry returned to the DC Universe and returned to full prominence as the Flash in the 2009 series Rebirth, which was soon after followed by a new volume of The Flash ongoing series, where Barry's adventures as the Scarlet Speedster are currently published. ===Wally West=== Wallace Rudolph "Wally" West is the nephew of both Iris West and Barry Allen, by marriage, and was introduced in The Flash (vol.
It subsequently ends with issue #247, and West, along with all the other Flash characters, play a large role in 2009's Rebirth.
The same book was then sold privately for $450,000 in 2010. Renan Kanbay wears a Flash costume while playing Carrie, the manager of a comic book store, in Joe Lipari's Dream Job (2011). The band Jim's Big Ego wrote the song "The Ballad of Barry Allen" detailing the hardship having to watch time moving so slowly from the perspective of Allen.
In live-action, Barry Allen has been portrayed by Rod Haase for the 1979 television special Legends of the Superheroes, John Wesley Shipp in the 1990 The Flash series and Grant Gustin in the 2014 The Flash series, and by Ezra Miller in the DC Extended Universe series of films, beginning with Dawn of Justice (2016).
Shipp also portrays a version of Jay Garrick in the 2014 The Flash series.
His appearance set up the character for his own series in 2014.
He had cameos in the 2016 films Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, and a larger role in Justice League (2017).
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