Flash through the Ages.

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Flash through the Ages.

• By Ian Scrimger

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Origins

• The original Flash first appeared in Flash Comics
  1 (January 1940).
• The Flash is a super quick superhero who has been
  passed down through the years.
• The Flash had made been remade several times but
  the main flashes chronologically are Jay Garrick,
  Bart Allen, Wally West, and Barry Allen.

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Jay Garrick

• Jason Peter Garrick is a college student prior to
  1940 (later changed to 1938) who accidentally
  inhales hard water vapors after falling asleep in
  his laboratory where he had been working (later
  stories would change this to heavy water vapors).
  As a result, he finds that he can run at
  superhuman speed and has similarly fast reflexes.
• The original Flash was a founding member of the
  Justice Society of America.

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Barry Allen

• One night, as he is preparing to leave work, a
  lightning bolt shatters a case full of chemicals
  and spills them all over Allen. As a result,
  Allen finds that he can run extremely fast and
  has matching reflexes. He dons a set of red
  tights sporting a lightning bolt, dubs himself
  the Flash (after his childhood comic book hero,
  Jay Garrick), and becomes Central City's resident
  costumed crime fighter.
• Barry Allen was one of the he founding members of
  the Justice League.

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Wally West

• During a visit to the Central City police
  laboratory where Barry Allen worked, the freak
  accident that gave Allen his powers repeated
  itself, bathing West in electrically-charged
  chemicals. Now possessing the same powers as The
  Flash, West donned a smaller sized copy of Barry
  Allen's Flash outfit and became the young crime
  fighter Kid Flash.
• In addition to his appearances within the Flash
  title, the character was used as a member of the
  newly created Teen Titans.

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Bart Allen

• Bartholomew "Bart" Allen is a superhero in the DC
  Comics Universe. Allen first appeared as the
  superhero Impulse. He would later go on to become
  the second Kid Flash and the fourth Flash.
• Allen was a member of the superhero teams Young
  Justice and Teen Titans.

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Crisis on Infinite Earths

• Barry Allen
• Following the trial, Allen retires and joins
  Iris in the 30th century. However, after only a
  few weeks of happiness, the Crisis on Infinite
  Earths intervenes, and Allen is captured by the
  Anti-Monitor and brought to 1985 according to
  the Anti-Monitor, the Flash was the only being
  capable of travelling to other universes at will,
  so the Anti-Monitor couldn't allow him to stay
  free. Allen escapes and foils the Anti-Monitor's
  plan to destroy the Earth with an anti-matter
  cannon, creating a speed vortex to draw the power
  in, but dies in the process as the power becomes
  too much for his body. After Allen's death, Wally
  West, his nephew and sidekick (known as Kid
  Flash), takes up the mantle of the Flash.
• Wally West
• During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry gave
  his life to save the earth. Initially unaware of
  this, Wally was coaxed by Jay Garrick into
  assisting the heroes against the Anti-Monitor's
  forces. During the final battle with the
  Anti-Monitor, Wally was struck by a blast of
  anti-matter energy, which put his disease into
  remission. In the aftermath of the conflict,
  Wally took on his fallen mentor's costume and
  identity.

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Infinite Crisis

• Jay Garrick
• Jay and his wife Joan have guardianship of Bart
  Allen after Max Mercury's disappearance. During
  the events of Infinite Crisis Jay states that the
  Speed Force is gone after a battle in which many
  speedsters, living and dead, wrestle
  Superboy-Prime into the Speed Force and
  disappear.
• Jay is left behind when he reaches his limit and
  cannot follow. Bart Allen returns, aged several
  years, and had absorbed the entire Speed Force
  during his pursuit of the escaped Superboy-Prime.
  
• Jay claims that without the Speed Force, his own
  power is less than before like Wally West in the
  Crisis on Infinite Earths aftermath, he can only
  run close to the speed of sound. He also stated
  that as the Speed Force is no longer retarding
  his aging, his speed is diminishing with time..
• Bart Allen
• During the Infinite Crisis, Superboy-Prime
  attacked Conner Kent (Superboy) and injured or
  killed several Teen Titans, thus prompting Bart
  to stop his rampage.
• He accomplished this by running him at top speed
  into the Speed Force with the help of veteran
  speedsters Wally West and Jay Garrick. The feat
  took its toll on Garrick, who reached his limit
  before entering the Speed Force, and West, who
  turned into energy and vanished, leaving Bart
  alone in the fight against a vastly more powerful
  Superboy-Prime.
• Luckily for the young speedster, Barry Allen,
  Johnny Quick, and Max Mercury, all of whom had
  been previously absorbed into the Speed Force,
  appeared and aided him.

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Blackest Night

• Barry Allen
• He witnesses the arrival of the Black Lanterns'
  demonic lord, Nekron, and his disciples Scar and
  Black Hand. The Justice League, the Titans,
  Wally, and Bart arrive to aid Barry to take a
  stand against Nekron. However, Nekron reveals
  however that all the resurrected heroes are tied
  to him, because he allowed them to rise again. As
  such they belong to him. Nekron then used a
  series of black rings to turn Superman, Green
  Arrow, Bart, and several other resurrected heroes
  into Black Lanterns.
• After being chosen as a Blue Lantern, Barry joins
  forces with the veteran Blue Corps member Saint
  Walker to continue battling the Black Lanterns
  alongside the understanding of the potentials and
  limitations of his new power ring.
• Barry and Bart temporarily joined the White
  Lantern Corps during the final events of Blackest
  Night.
• Bart Allen
• After his grandfather is chosen as a Blue Lantern
  by Ganthet of the Guardians of the Universe and
  leader of the Blue Lantern Corps, Bart
  immediately engages in battle with him. Barry's
  blue power ring detects that Bart is still alive,
  but will die if he is not freed from the black
  ring soon.
• Barry nearly releases Bart from the black ring
  using blue energy constructs crafted in the
  images of Bart as Impulse and Kid Flash, before
  interference by Black Lantern versions of
  Professor Zoom and Solovar stops him.

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The Speed Force

• The Speed Force is a vaguely-defined
  extra-dimensional energy force from which most,
  but not all, superspeed-powered heroes in the DC
  Comics universe draw their enhanced abilities.
  For example, the multiple heroes named the Flash
  (Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West, and Bart
  Allen), Johnny Quick, Jesse Quick/Liberty Belle,
  XS, the Tornado Twins, and Max Mercury all draw
  their powers from the Speed Force. The Speed
  Force is also seen as a physical space to which
  speedsters can travel. Max Mercury traveled
  through time as a result of his efforts to enter
  the Speed Force and ended up several decades into
  the future every time he made an attempt. Bart
  Allen could control the Speed Force and could
  "commune" with the spirits in the Speed Force
  through meditation. When speedsters die, they
  become one with the Speed Force, as it is an
  afterlife for them.Max Mercury's own spirit is
  trapped inside following his possession by The
  Rival.

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