Dc Comics Justice League Animated Series Flash

Dc Comics Justice League Animated Series Flash

Several superheros in the DC Comics universe

The Wink
Characters who accept associated with the name "The Flash": Barry Allen at the heart, and counterclockwise from upper left are Iris West II, Bart Allen, Jesse Chambers, Wally West, Jay Garrick, and Max Mercury. Art by Ethan Van Sciver.
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Wink Comics #one (January 1940)
Created past	Gardner Fox Harry Lampert
Characters	Jay Garrick Barry Allen Wally West Bart Allen Avery Ho

The Flash (or simply Wink) is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and creative person Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in Wink Comics #1 (comprehend date January 1940/release month Nov 1939). ^[1] Nicknamed the "Scarlet Speedster", all incarnations of the Flash possess "super speed", which includes the power to run, movement, and recollect extremely fast, use superhuman reflexes, and seemingly violate certain laws of physics.

Thus far, at least five unlike characters—each of whom somehow gained the power of "the speed strength"—have causeless the mantle of the Flash in DC'southward history: college athlete Jay Garrick (1940–1951, 1961–2011, 2017–nowadays), forensic scientist Barry Allen (1956–1985, 2008–present), Barry'due south nephew Wally West (1986–2011, 2016–present), Barry'southward grandson Bart Allen (2006–2007), and Chinese-America Avery Ho (2017–present). Each incarnation of the Wink has been a key member of at least 1 of DC'due south premier teams: the Justice Lodge of America, the Justice League, and the Teen Titans.

The Wink is 1 of DC Comics' well-nigh pop characters and has been integral to the publisher'southward many reality-changing "crisis" storylines over the years. The original meeting of the Gold Age Flash Jay Garrick and Silver Age Flash Barry Allen in "Wink of Two Worlds" (1961) introduced the Multiverse storytelling concept to DC readers, which would become the basis for many DC stories in the years to come.

Similar his Justice League colleagues Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman, the Flash has a distinctive cast of adversaries, including the various Rogues (unique amid DC supervillains for their code of accolade) and the various psychopathic "speedsters" who become by the names Reverse-Flash or Zoom. Other supporting characters in Wink stories include Barry's wife Iris West, Wally'south wife Linda Park, Bart's girlfriend Valerie Perez, friendly fellow speedster Max Mercury, and Fundamental City police department members David Singh and Patty Spivot.

A staple of the comic book DC Universe, the Flash has been adapted to numerous DC films, video games, blithe series, and live-activity television shows. In live-activity, Barry Allen has been portrayed by Rod Haase for the 1979 television set special Legends of the Superheroes , John Wesley Shipp in the 1990 The Flash serial and Grant Gustin in the 2014 The Flash series, and by Ezra Miller in the DC Extended Universe series of films, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Shipp besides portrays a version of Jay Garrick in the 2014 The Flash serial. The various incarnations of the Flash likewise feature in blithe serial such equally Superman: The Animated Series , Justice League , Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice , as well equally the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series.

Publication history

Golden Age

The Wink showtime appeared in the Gilt Age Flash Comics #1 (January 1940), from All-American Publications, ane of 3 companies that would eventually merge to form DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Play a trick on and artist Harry Lampert, this Wink was Jay Garrick, a higher pupil who gained his speed through the inhalation of hard water vapors. When re-introduced in the 1960s Garrick's origin was modified slightly, gaining his powers through exposure to heavy h2o.

Jay Garrick was a pop graphic symbol in the 1940s, supporting both Flash Comics and All-Flash Quarterly (later published bi-monthly as but All-Wink); co-starring in Comic Cavalcade ; and existence a charter member of the Justice Lodge of America, the first superhero team, whose adventures ran in All Star Comics . With superheroes' postal service-war decline in popularity, Flash Comics was canceled with result #104 (1949) which featured an evil version of the Flash called the Rival. The Justice Guild'southward final Golden Age story ran in All Star Comics #57 (1951; the title itself continued as All Star Western).

Argent Age

In 1956, DC Comics successfully revived superheroes, ushering in what became known as the Silver Historic period of comic books. Rather than bringing back the same Gilt Age heroes, DC rethought them as new characters for the modernistic age. The Wink was the showtime revival, in the tryout comic book Showcase #4 (Oct 1956).

This new Flash was (Barry Allen), a police scientist who gained super-speed when bathed by chemicals after a shelf of them was struck past lightning. He adopted the proper name The Scarlet Speedster later on reading a comic volume featuring the Gilded Age Wink. ^[1] After several more appearances in Showcase, Allen's character was given his own championship, The Wink, the first issue of which was #105 (resuming where Flash Comics had left off). Barry Allen and the new Wink were created by writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome and cartoonist Carmine Infantino.

The Silverish Age Flash proved pop plenty that several other Aureate Age heroes were revived in new incarnations (run into: Light-green Lantern). A new superhero team, the Justice League of America, was also created, with the Flash as a chief, charter member.

Barry Allen's title likewise introduced a much-imitated plot device into superhero comics when information technology was revealed that Garrick and Allen existed on fictional parallel worlds. Their powers allowed them to cross the dimensional purlieus betwixt worlds, and the men became good friends. Flash of Two Worlds (The Flash #123) was the first crossover in which a Golden Age graphic symbol met a Silverish Historic period grapheme. Shortly, there were crossovers between the entire Justice League and the Justice Guild; their corresponding teams began an annual go-together which endured from the early 1960s until the mid-1980s.

Allen'southward adventures continued in his own title until the event of Crisis on Infinite Earths . The Flash ended as a series with issue #350. Allen's life had become considerably confused in the early 1980s, and DC elected to stop his adventures and laissez passer the mantle on to some other grapheme. Allen died heroically in Crisis on Infinite Earths #8 (1985). Thank you to his ability to travel through time, he would continue to appear occasionally in the years to come up.

Modernistic Historic period

The third Flash was Wally Due west, introduced in The Flash #110 (Dec 1959) as Child Flash. West, Allen's nephew past wedlock, gained the Flash's powers through an accident identical to Allen's. Adopting the identity of Child Flash, he maintained membership in the Teen Titans for years. Following Allen'south decease, W adopted the Flash identity in Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 and was given his ain series, showtime with The Flash (vol. two) #1 in 1987. ^[one] Many issues began with the catchphrase: "My name is Wally West. I'k the fastest homo alive."

Due to the Infinite Crisis miniseries and the "One Year Later" jump in time in the DC Universe, DC canceled The Flash (vol. 2) in January 2006 at #230. A new series, The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive, began on June 21, 2006. The initial story arc of this serial, written by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo with art by Ken Lashley, focused on Bart Allen'due south acceptance of the role of the Wink.

Flash: Fastest Man Alive was canceled with consequence #13. In its identify The Flash (vol. two) was revived with issue #231, with Marker Waid as the initial author. Waid as well wrote All-Flash #1, which acted as the bridge betwixt the two series. ^[ii] DC had solicited Flash: Fastest Man Alive through effect #15. All Flash #ane replaced issue #xiv and The Flash (vol. 2) #231 replaced outcome #15 in title and interior creative squad only. The covers and embrace artists were equally solicited by DC, and the information text released was devoid of any plot information. ^{[3] [4]}

In 2009, Barry Allen made a full-fledged return to the DCU-proper in The Flash: Rebirth , a six-issue miniseries by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver. ^[5]

Fictional graphic symbol biographies

While several other individuals accept used the name Flash, these have either on parallel worlds or in the future. Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, and Wally Due west are the best-known exemplars of the identity. The signature wingdings are never absent-minded.

Jay Garrick

Jay Garrick was a college student in 1938 who accidentally inhaled heavy water vapors subsequently taking a fume break inside his laboratory where he had been working. ^[six] As a result, he plant that he could run at superhuman speed and had similarly fast reflexes. After a brief career as a college football star, he donned a red shirt with a lightning bolt and a stylized metal helmet with wings (based on images of the Greek deity Hermes), and began to fight crime as the Wink. His first case involved battling the "Faultless Four", a group of blackmailers. Garrick kept his identity secret for years without a mask past continually vibrating his body while in public so that whatever photograph of his face would be blurred. Although originally from World-Two, he was incorporated into the history of New Earth following the Crisis on Space Earths and is still active every bit the Flash operating out of Keystone Urban center. He is a fellow member of the Justice Guild.

Barry Allen

Barry Allen depicted in Justice #1 (August 2005). Art past Alex Ross.

Barry Allen is an banana scientist from the Criminal and Forensic Scientific discipline Partition of Central Metropolis Constabulary Section. Barry had a reputation for being very slow, deliberate, and frequently belatedly, which frustrated his fiancée, Iris Westward. One nighttime, as he was preparing to leave work, a freak lightning bolt struck a nearby shelf in his lab and doused him with a cocktail of unnamed chemicals. As a effect, Barry found that he could run extremely fast and had matching reflexes. He donned a set of red tights sporting a lightning bolt (reminiscent of the original Fawcett Comics Helm Marvel), dubbed himself the Flash (after his childhood hero, Jay Garrick), and became a crimefighter active in Central City. In his civilian identity, he stores the costume compressed in a special ring via the utilize of a special gas that could compress cloth fibers to a very pocket-size 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 xx years after that story'due south publication. With the 2008 series Last Crunch , Barry returned to the DC Universe and returned to full prominence as the Flash in the 2009 series The Wink: Rebirth , which was soon after followed by a new volume of The Flash ongoing series, where Barry'south adventures as the Ruby-red Speedster were published until 2022. ^{[vii] [8]}

Wally West

Wally West in his principal Wink costume, on the embrace of The Flash vol. 2 #207, (April 2004). Art by Michael Turner

Wally's Rebirth costume as the Flash. Promotional art for DC Rebirth past Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund (2016).

Wallace Rudolph "Wally" West is the nephew of both Iris West and Barry Allen, by union, and was introduced in The Wink #110 (1959). When West was about ten years onetime, he was visiting his uncle'southward law laboratory, and the freak accident that gave Allen his powers repeated itself, bathing West in electrically charged chemicals. Now possessing the same powers every bit his uncle, West donned a copy of his uncle'due south outfit and became the young, crime fighter, Kid Flash. After the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths where Barry Allen was killed, Wally took over as the fastest man live. Following the events of Infinite Crisis, Wally, his wife Linda, and their twins left Earth for an unknown dimension.

Wally, his wife and twins were pulled back from the Speed Forcefulness past the Legion of Super-Heroes at the conclusion of The Lightning Saga . ^[nine] This gear up the stage for Wally West's return every bit the Flash later the events of The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #13 (see Bart Allen), in All Flash #one, and with The Flash (vol. 2) series, which resumed with effect #231 in Baronial 2007. Information technology subsequently ends with issue #247, and West, along with all the other Flash characters, play a big role in 2009's The Wink: Rebirth . ^[7] He briefly appears in the Blackest Night story arc but shortly later on the New 52 was launched and the grapheme was nowhere to be seen. He is back equally the Flash in DC Rebirth with a new red and silver costume, and joined the Titans. Later a serial of events, Wally is restored as the central character of The Flash series, condign the chief Scarlet Speedster once again since The Flash #771 (2022), where Wally's adventures as the Fastest Man Live are currently published, and returned to his main ruby and gold Flash costume.

Bart Allen

Bartholomew Henry "Bart" Allen Two is the grandson of Barry Allen and his wife Iris. Bart suffered from accelerated aging and, as a issue, was raised in a virtual reality machine until Iris took him back in time to become aid from the then-electric current Flash, Wally West. With Wally's assistance, Bart's crumbling slowed, and he took the name Impulse. After he was shot in the genu by Deathstroke, Bart changed both his attitude and his costume, taking the mantle of Kid Wink. During the events of Infinite Crisis, the Speed Force vanished, taking with information technology all the speedsters salvage Jay Garrick. Bart returned, iv years older, and for a year claimed that he was depowered from the result. Still, the Speed Force had non disappeared completely, just had been absorbed into Bart's body; essentially, he at present contained all of the Speed Forcefulness.

Bart'southward costume as the Wink was a clone of his grandfather'southward, similarly stylized to Wally W'due south. Not long later on taking the mantle of the Wink, Bart was killed past the Rogues in the thirteenth (and final) issue of The Wink: The Fastest Man Alive. However, he was later on resurrected in the 31st century in Concluding Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #three past Brainiac five to gainsay Superboy-Prime and the Legion of Super-Villains. Bart returned to the past and played a large part in The Flash: Rebirth . ^[x]

Avery Ho

Avery Ho is a Chinese-American woman, who while living in Central Urban center, was caught in the same Speed Force Storm that created Godspeed. This resulted in Avery gaining a connectedness to the Speed Force and super-speed powers. ^[11] After gaining control of her new powers, Avery joined the Justice League of China as The Flash. ^[12] After Barry Allen went missing, Avery was recruited to take his place on in multi-dimensional team Justice League Incarnate. ^[xiii]

Others to conduct the mantle of the Flash

Jesse Chambers

Girl of the speedster Johnny Quick, Jesse Chambers becomes a speeding superhero like her father. She afterward meets Wally West, the Flash, who asks her to be his replacement if something were to happen to him (as part of an elaborate plan on his part, trying to force Bart Allen to take his part in the legacy of the Flash more seriously). She briefly assumes the mantle of the Flash, after Wally enters the Speed Strength. ^[14]

John Fox

John Fox was a historian for the National University of Science in Central Urban center in the 27th Century. He was sent back in time to get the assistance of one or more of the iii Flashes (Garrick, Allen, West), in society to defeat the radioactive villain Mota back in Fox's ain time menstruation. (Each Flash had individually fought Mota over the class of several years in the 20th century.) Flim-flam's mission was a failure, just during his render trip, the tachyon radiations that sent him through the time stream gave him superspeed. He defeated Mota every bit a new iteration of the Wink and operated as his century'due south Flash for a time. Shortly after, he moved to the 853rd century and joined "Justice Legion A" (likewise known as Justice Legion Blastoff) every bit seen in the DC 1 Million series of books. The name "John Fox" is combined from the names of seminal comic book writers John Broome, who co-created the Barry Allen and Wally Westward Flashes, and Gardner Play tricks, who co-created the Jay Garrick Flash.

Unnamed Allen of the 23rd century

The father of Sela Allen, his wife and girl were captured past Cobalt Blue. He is forced to watch his wife dice and his girl become crippled. As he and Max Mercury kill Cobalt Blue, a child takes Cobalt Blueish'southward power gem and kills Allen. This Wink is one of the two destined Flashes to be killed by Cobalt Blueish.

Sela Allen

Sela Allen as the Flash of the 23rd century

Sela Allen is an ordinary human in the 23rd century until Cobalt Blueish steals electrical impulses away from her, causing her to get as ho-hum to the globe as the earth is to the Wink. Hoping to restore her, her father takes her into the Speed Strength. When her father is killed, she appears as a living manifestation of the Speed Force, able to lend speed to various people and objects, but unable to physically interact with the world. ^[1]

Blaine Allen

Blaine Allen and his son live on the colony earth of Petrus in the 28th century. In an attempt to end the Allen blood line, Cobalt Blueish injects Allen'southward son Jace with a virus. Defective super speed, Jace was unable to milk shake off the virus. In despair, Blaine takes his son to the Speed Strength in the hopes that it would accept him. It takes Blaine instead and grants super speed to Jace then that he tin can milk shake off the sickness. ^[15]

Jace Allen

Jace Allen gains super speed when his father brings him into the Speed Forcefulness to endeavor to cure him of a virus injected into his trunk by Cobalt Blue in an attempt to end the Allen bloodline. ^[15] In memory of his father, Jace assumes the mantle of the Wink and continues the feud confronting Cobalt Blueish. ^[xvi]

Kryiad

Blaine Allen as the Flash of the 28th century

After an conflicting creature invades Earth, a history buff named Kriyad travels back in time from the 98th century to larn a Green Lantern power ring. He fails, so he tries to capture the Flash's speed instead. Afterward being browbeaten past Barry Allen (The Flash #309, May 1982), he travels dorsum further in fourth dimension and uses the chemicals from the clothes Barry Allen was wearing when he gained his powers to requite himself super speed. Kryiad later sacrifices his life to defeat the alien fauna.

Bizarro Flash

Bizarro-Wink was created when Bizarro cloned Flash. He had a costume the reverse colors of Flash'southward, yet he had a mallet symbol because Flash was holding one when he was cloned. The modern version of Bizarro Wink has the symbol of a thunderbolt-shaped mustard stain. He has the powers of the Wink only he is completely intangible.

Powers and abilities

All incarnations of the Wink can move, call up, and react at light speeds also every bit having superhuman endurance that allows them to run incredible distances. Some, notably after versions, can vibrate so fast that they can pass through walls in a process chosen quantum tunneling, ^[17] travel through fourth dimension and tin besides lend and borrow speed. Speedsters tin can likewise heal more than rapidly than an boilerplate human. In addition, most incarnations accept an invisible aureola around their respective bodies that protects them from air friction and the kinetic effects of their powers.

On several occasions, the Flash has raced against Superman, either to make up one's mind who is faster or as part of a mutual try to thwart some type of threat; these races, however, ofttimes resulted in ties because of outside circumstances. Writer Jim Shooter and artist Brusque Swan crafted the story "Superman's Race With the Flash!" in Superman #199 (Aug. 1967) which featured the kickoff race between the Wink and Superman. ^[18] Writer Due east. Nelson Bridwell and artist Ross Andru produced "The Race to the Terminate of the Universe", a follow-up story four months later in The Wink #175 (Dec 1967). ^[19] Nonetheless, after the DC Universe revision after Crisis on Infinite Earths , the Flash does successfully beat Superman in a race in The Adventures of Superman #463 with the explanation that Superman is not accepted to running at high speed for extended periods of time since flying is more versatile and less strenuous, which means the far more than expert Flash has the reward. After Terminal Crisis in Flash: Rebirth #3 the Wink is shown as beingness significantly faster than Superman, able to outrun him equally Superman struggles to go on up with him. He reveals that all the shut races between them before had been "for charity". In the Smallville episode "Run", Wink is non merely able to run faster than a pre-Superman Clark Kent merely can friction match Clark'south top speed while running backwards.

While diverse incarnations of the Flash accept proven their ability to run at light speed, the ability to steal speed from other objects allows respective Flashes to even significantly surpass this velocity. In Flash: The Homo Race ^[20] Wally is shown arresting kinetic energy to an extent enabling him to move faster than teleportation and run from the end of the universe back to earth in less than a Planck instant.

Speedsters may at times use the power to speed-read at incredible rates and in doing and then, process vast amounts of data. Whatever knowledge they acquire in this mode is usually temporary. Their ability to think fast also allows them some amnesty to telepathy, as their thoughts operate at a rate too rapid for telepaths such as Martian Manhunter or Gorilla Grodd to read or influence their minds.

Flashes and other super-speedsters also have the ability to speak to one another at a highly accelerated charge per unit. This is often done to accept individual conversations in front of non-fast people (as when Wink speaks to Superman almost his ability to serve both the Titans and the JLA in The Titans #2). Speed-talking is besides sometimes used for comedic effect where Flash becomes and then excited that he begins talking faster and faster until his words go a jumble of dissonance. He also has the ability to alter the vibration of his song cords making information technology then he can change how his voice sounds to others.

While not having the physical strength of many of his comrades and enemies, Wink has shown to be able to use his speed to exert incredible momentum into physical attacks. In Injustice: Gods Among United states, Flash uses these kinds of attacks as many of his special moves.

The Flash has also claimed that he tin can process thoughts in less than an attosecond. At times he is able to throw lightning created by his super speed and make speed vortices.

Some flashes too accept the power to create speed avatars (i.due east. duplicates) and these avatars have sometimes been sent to different timelines to complete a particular mission. (Barry Allen exhibits this ability in the live action serial "The Wink").

He tin can also be seen negating the effects of the anti-life equation, when he freed Iris-West from its control (probably due to his connection with the speed strength).

Information technology is said that Wally Due west has reached the velocity of 23,759,449,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (near 24 tredecillion) × c (the speed of light) and he could only do this with the help of every man on earth moving then the speed force was joined through everyone. ^[21] With that speed he was able to not only run from planet to planet just unlike galaxies and universes at what would be considered a glimmer of an centre.

Unlike Flashes

Tanaka Rei from Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths. Art by Paul Ryan and Bob McLeod.

In the terminal issue of 52 , a new Multiverse is revealed, originally consisting of 52 identical realities. Among the parallel realities shown is i designated "Earth-2". Equally a result of Mister Mind "eating" aspects of this reality, it takes on visual aspects similar to the pre-Crisis Globe-ii, including the Wink among other Justice Guild of America characters. The names of the characters and the squad are non mentioned in the panel in which they appear, simply the Flash is visually like to the Jay Garrick Flash. ^[22] Based on comments by Grant Morrison, this alternate universe is not the pre-Crunch Earth-2. ^[23]

A variant of the Wink—a superfast college pupil named Mary Maxwell—was seen in the Elseworld book Only Imagine Stan Lee Creating The Wink.

Tanaka Rei

The Wink of Earth-D, Rei was a Japanese man who idolized Barry Allen, whose stories only existed in comic books on this world. Rei was inspired by Allen to go the Wink, much similar Allen was inspired to get the Wink by his idol, Jay Garrick. Allen and Rei met during the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" when Barry was coming back from the 30th century and arrived in the wrong universe. Equally Earth-D was under assail by the shadow demons, Barry called on the Justice League and Tanaka called on the Justice Alliance, his world's version of the Justice League. They built a cosmic treadmill and were able to evacuate much of Earth-D's population. The Justice League left, but 39 seconds later on, World-D perished.

Rei made his only appearance in Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths (Feb 1999). The story was written by Marv Wolfman, with art by Paul Ryan (pencils) and Bob McLeod (ink).

Lia Nelson

Lia Nelson, the Tangent reality'southward Flash

The young, female Flash of the Tangent Universe is not a speedster, but instead "the first kid built-in in space" and a being made up of and able to command light. As a side effect, she can motility at the speed of light, which actually makes her faster than most of the other Post-Crisis Flashes, equally only Wally West has ever survived a low-cal-speed run without becoming trapped in the Speed Forcefulness. ^[24] She recently reappeared in Justice League of America vol. 2 #16, somehow summoned out of the paper 'green lantern' of her universe—an artifact that survived the Crisis that erased the Tangent Universe from existence. ^[25] Lia Nelson also appeared in Countdown: Arena battling 2 versions of the Wink from other Earths within the Multiverse. ^[26] In the 52-Earth Multiverse, the Tangent Universe is designated Globe-9.

Superman & Batman: Generations two

In Superman & Batman: Generations 2 , 3 different Flashes appear: Wally West equally Kid Flash in 1964, Wally's cousin Carrie as Child Flash in 1986, and Jay West, the son of Wally and his married woman Magda as the fifth Flash in 2008. Barry Allen makes a cameo advent out of costume in 1964.

Green Lightning

Ali Rayner-West, aka Green Lightning, is a descendant of both Kyle Rayner and Wally West. She has both a power ring and superspeed, as seen in Light-green Lantern: Circle of Fire . She was a living construct created by Kyle Rayner's subconscious, who afterward re-fused into his listen. ^[27]

Ame-Comi

A teenage version of Jesse Chambers appears every bit the Flash of the Ame-Comi universe. As with most of the other characters of that Earth, she sports an Anime-inspired costume. ^[28]

The Crash

The 1980s serial Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! presented the parallel Earth of "World-C-Minus", a world populated by talking beast superheroes that paralleled the mainstream DC Universe. Earth-C-Minus was the dwelling of the Crash, a turtle with super-speed powers similar to those of Barry Allen's, and a member of his world'southward superhero squad, the Just'a Lotta Animals. The Crash as a youth had read comics about World-C's Terrific Whatzit, similar to how Barry Allen enjoyed comics nearly World-Two's Jay Garrick. ^[29]

Danica Williams

Danica Williams, the Flash Beyond

An African-American teenager of World 12 named Danica Williams appears equally the Flash in the Justice League Across serial, acting equally Wally Due west'south successor during the 2040s (following the events of Batman Across ). She is employed at the Flash Museum in Key City, and like Barry Allen, is chronically late. ^[xxx] She afterwards enters into a relationship with Billy Batson, who is the secret identity of the superhero, Captain Marvel.

Writers

The following writers accept been involved in the ongoing The Wink and Wink Comics series:

Writer	Issues written	Years
Gardner Fox	Flash Comics #1–80, The Flash #117, 123, 129, 137–138, 140, 143–146, 149–152, 154, 157–159, 162, 164, 166–167, 170–171, 177	1940–1947, 1960–1968
Robert Kanigher	Flash Comics #84–91, 93, 96–97, 103–104, The Flash #160–161, 192, 195, 197–204, 206, 208, 214	1947–1949, 1966, 1969–1972
John Broome	Flash Comics #91–104, The Flash #105–128, 130–142, 146–149, 152–156, 158–161, 163–166, 168–169, 172–174, 176, 178, 182, 187–194,	1948–1949, 1959–1970
Eastward. Nelson Bridwell	#175	1967
Cary Bates	#179, 209–212, 216, 218–305, 307–312, 314–350	1968, 1971–1985
Frank Robbins	#180–181, 183–185	1968–1969
Mike Friedrich	#186, 195, 197–198, 207	1969–1971
Steve Skeates	#202, 204, 207, 209–211, 216	1970–1972
Len Wein	#208, 212, 215, 217	1971–1973
Dennis O'Neil	#217–224, 226–228, 230–231, 233–234, 237–238, 240–243, 245–246	1972–1977
Gerry Conway	#289–299, 301–304 (Firestorm backup stories)	1980–1981
Dan Mishkin	#306	1982
Gary Cohn
Martin Pasko	#306–313 (Doctor Fate backup stories)
Steve Gerber	#310–313 (Doctor Fate backup stories)
Mike West. Barr	#313
Mike Baron	Vol. 2 #one–14, Annual Vol. 2 #i	1986–1987
William Messner-Loebs	Vol. 2 #15–28, 30–61, 80-Page Giant #two, Almanac Vol two #2–3, Special #1	1987–1992
Len Strazewski	Vol. 2 #29, Special #1	1989
Mark Waid	Vol. 2 #0, 62–129, 142–159, 231–236, 1000000, fourscore-Page Giant #1, Annual Vol. ii #4–6, 8, Special #1, Wink Plus Nightwing #1, The Flash Secret Files and Origins #1–2, The Flash TV Special #1, The Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends #1, The Wink & Greenish Lantern: The Dauntless and the Bold #i–6	1992–1997, 1998–2000, 2007–2008
Marking Wheatley and Allan Gross	Annual Vol. 2 #7	1994
Mark Millar	Vol. ii #130–141, 80-Page Giant #1	1997–1998
Grant Morrison	Vol. 2 #130–138
Brian Augustyn	Vol. ii #142–143, 148–149, 160, 162, 80-Page Giant #1–2 Almanac Vol. 2 #10–12, Flash Plus Nightwing #one, The Flash Secret Files and Origins #ane–ii	1996–2000
Pat McGreal	Vol. 2 #161, 163	2000
Chuck Dixon	Annual Vol. two #thirteen
Geoff Johns	Vol. 2 #one/2, 164–225, The Flash Secret Files and Origins #iii Iron Heights, The Wink: Our Worlds at War #1, Vol. 3 #1–12, The Flash Undercover Files and Origins 2010, The Flash Rebirth #i–6	2000–2005, 2009–2011
Stuart Immonen	Vol. 2 #226	2005
Joey Cavalieri	#330–331, Vol. 2 #227–230	1984, 2005–2006
John Rogers	Vol. ii #233–236	2007–2008
Keith Champagne	Vol. 2 #237	2008
Tom Peyer	Vol. 2 #238–243, The Flash eighty-Page Giant #2, Almanac Vol. 2 #eight, The Flash Cloak-and-dagger Files and Origins #2	1995, 1999, 2008–2009
Alan Burnett	Vol. 2 #244–247	2009
Francis Manapul	Vol. iv #ane–25, 0, 23.two: Reverse-Flash #one, Almanac Vol. iv #1	2011–2013
Christos Cuff	Vol. 4 #26	2013
Brian Buccellato	Vol. 4 #i–25, 27–29, 0, 23.1: Grodd #i, 23.2: Reverse-Flash #1, 23.3: The Rogues #1, Annual Vol. 4 #one–2	2011–2014
Robert Venditti	Vol. 4 #thirty–49, Futures Cease #1, Annual Vol. four #three	2014–2016
Van Jensen	Vol. 4 #30–52, Futures Cease #i, Annual Vol. four #3–4
Josh Williamson	Vol. five Rebirth #one, #1–	2016–

Awards

The comics and characters take been nominated for and won several awards over the years, including:

• 1961 Alley Honor for Best Encompass (The Flash (vol. 1) #123)
• 1961 Aisle Laurels for Best Single Comic (The Flash (vol. 1) #123 by Gardner Play tricks and Ruby-red Infantino)
• 1963 Alley Laurels for Cross-Over of DC Heroes for The Brave and the Bold (with Hawkman)
• 1964 Alley Award for All-time Short Story ("Doorway to the Unknown" in The Wink (vol. 1) #148 by John Broome and Scarlet Infantino)
• 2001 Eisner Laurels for Best Cover Artist (The Wink, by Brian Bolland)
• 2008 Salou Award for Best Super Hero (Flash – Danny Holmes by BUAFC)

In other media

Throughout his lxx-year history, the Flash has appeared in numerous media. The Wink has been included in multiple blithe features, such as Super Friends and Justice League , as well as his own live activeness television serial 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 to 1979, he appears in every episode and has spoken lines in but twelve out of the xvi episodes of the series. He also had ii arch enemies from the Legion of Doom, Helm Common cold and Gorilla Grodd.
• The Flash appeared for ane season (1990–1991) on the CBS Network, starring double-Emmy Award winner John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen. Produced by Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, the serial was a mild amalgamation of the Barry Allen and Wally W versions of the comics in that the female lead was Tina McGee (portrayed by Amanda Pays) and Wally's need for large amounts of food later expending then much energy running all over Central City was transferred to Barry. Afterward his lightning-induced chemical accident, Barry got into criminal offence fighting after the expiry of his police officeholder brother, Jay; it is presumed that Jay was named for the original comic book Flash, Jay Garrick. A handful of the Ruby-red Speedster's rogues gallery made guest appearances throughout the series: Captain Common cold (Michael Champion) ("Captain Cold"), Mirror Master (David Cassidy) ("Done With Mirrors"), and the Trickster (Mark Hamill) ("The Trickster" and "Trial of the Trickster"). The Flash as well fought a clone of himself who wore a blue costume.

A few episodes were written by comics legend Howard Chaykin and the TV costume was designed by Dave Stevens ( The Rocketeer ). While a disquisitional success and vigorously backed past the network, the serial had the dubious distinction of beingness aired confronting ratings powerhouses The Cosby Show on NBC and Fox's The Simpsons . The Flash was preempted by Christmas specials and the Desert Storm war in Republic of iraq, and was cancelled after its first flavour. Warner Brothers released the series in a vi-disc DVD box set on January ten, 2006.

The serial' main musical theme was composed by Danny Elfman, with the remainder of the episodes' music being composed by Shirley Walker (this collaboration would as well occur on Batman: The Animated Series ). When the Flash fabricated a invitee appearance in the Superman: The Blithe Serial episode 'Speed Demons', Walker incorporated some of the themes from the live-activity series into the episode.

• Wally Westward is the Flash who appears in the DCAU, voiced by Michael Rosenbaum. He has Wally's personality like telling bad jokes and beingness attracted to most women. He does have some Barry Allen traits too similar being in Central Urban center and working equally a forensic scientist. He is the just Flash to appear in the DCAU; however, Jay Garrick's helmet is seen on display in the Flash museum in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Wink and Substance".
• Kid Flash (Wally West) appears in the Teen Titans episode Lightspeed and protects Jump City while the Titans are away. He refers to a previous partnership with The Wink (presumably Barry Allen). He soon reforms Jinx and enters a romantic human relationship with her.
• The Flash is a playable character in the Mortal Kombat and DC Comics crossover game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe . The starting time official render for The Flash was released to the public on Monday July 7, 2008. His bio reveals that this version is Barry Allen. He is also a playable graphic symbol in Injustice: Gods Amongst Us and its sequel, developed past NetherRealm Studios.
• Two versions of the Flash brand appearances in DC Universe Online . Barry Allen fights alongside the heroes confronting Gorilla Grodd's army, and is a bounty for the villains. Jay Garrick appears in the Watchtower, selling powerful armor to Level 30 Heroes with the Metapower origin.
• Impulse is shown in Young Justice: Invasion as the grandson of Barry Allen and Iris West. He comes from the future to relieve his grandpa from Neutron (A.Yard.A. Nathaniel Tryon). One time he travels back he does succeed in saving Barry Allen, and stopping Neutron, this was supposed to salve the future, merely it is shown that the futurity remains the aforementioned. When he tries to travel dorsum to his time (2056), his time machine doesn't piece of work, it is shown in a backstory that he knew he was going to be stuck in the past, considering the wires would exist fried, though he doesn't reveal this to anyone on The Squad, at that moment, he is considered an official fellow member.
• Grant Gustin portrays Barry Allen every bit the Wink in the CW's Arrowverse. In the Arrow episode titled "The Scientist", Fundamental Metropolis CSI Investigator Barry Allen partners with Felicity Smoak to find the thief that broke into one of the Queen Consolidated Applied Sciences building. Barry claims that he was sent from Central City to Starling City to investigate since there were connections to a instance in Central City. Oliver Queen soon finds out that Barry was actually an assistant who came to Starling to investigate this strange occurrence in the hope that he would find an respond to who murdered his female parent when he was a kid. His appearance set upwardly the character for his own series in 2014. ^[31] This Flash makes guest appearances in episodes of Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl .
• The Flash made his first theatrical movie advent in The Lego Moving picture . He was part of Metalbeard's pirate crew. He later made a brief advent in The Lego Batman Flick .
• Ezra Miller portrays Barry Allen as the Flash in the DC Extended Universe. He had cameos in the 2016 films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad , and a larger role in Justice League (2017) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2022). A film centered on the grapheme is scheduled for release on Nov iv, 2022. ^[32] The moving-picture show is set up to be directed past Andy Muschietti from a screenplay written by Christina Hodson. ^{[33] [34]} The film will also draw elements from the Flashpoint storyline. ^[35]
• The Barry Allen version of the Flash appears in Justice League Action .
• In the fine arts, and starting with the Pop Art flow and on a standing footing since the 1960s, the character of the Flash has been "appropriated" by multiple visual artists and incorporated into contemporary artwork, virtually notably by Andy Warhol, ^[36] Roy Lichtenstein, ^[37] Mel Ramos, ^[38] Dulce Pinzon, ^{[39] [40]} and others.

In pop culture

Ever since the Wink has been published as a comic, many TV shows and films have been making references to the popular character. As you'll encounter below, there are some notable references to the Flash that appear in The Big Bang Theory and The Simpsons.

Numerous references to the Flash are presented on the goggle box prove The Big Bang Theory . A particular reference is main character Sheldon Cooper'due south Flash t-shirt, which has get a staple of merchandise clothing. In the season 1 episode The Middle-Earth Image, the four main male person characters on the show all independently dress upwards for a Halloween party every bit the Flash before deciding that they can't all be the Flash and then no ane gets to. In the flavor 10 episode The Birthday Synchronicity, Sheldon bought a Flash onesie for Howard & Bernadette'due south newborn.

In season 3 of Lost , in the episode "Catch-22", Charlie and Hurley fence over who would win a footrace betwixt The Flash and Superman.

The false name Barry Allen is used by character of con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr.(posing every bit a Hole-and-corner Service Agent), in the pic Catch Me If You Can . 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 inkling to his unknown discipline'south identity.

In 2006, a near-pristine copy of Flash Comics #1 was sold in a Heritage Auction for $273,125. The same book was and so sold privately for $450,000 in 2010. ^[41]

Renan Kanbay wears a Flash costume while playing Carrie, the manager of a comic book shop, in Joe Lipari'south Dream Task (2011). ^[42]

The ring Jim'south Large Ego wrote the song "The Ballad of Barry Allen" detailing the hardship having to watch time moving and so slowly from the perspective of Allen. The frontman of the band, Jim Infantino is the nephew of Flash artist Carmine Infantino.

In the film Daddy Day Intendance , one of the mean solar day intendance kids named Tony wore a Flash costume for the majority of the film.

In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Power Ponies", Pinkie Pie becomes a superhero based on the Wink called Fili-Second.

In an episode of The Simpsons , Comic Volume Guy dresses as The Wink while running in a marathon. He says "No 1 can outrun the Flash" but ends up falling in a pothole and gets stuck.

Rogues

Like Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern, the Wink has a reputation for having fought a distinctive and memorable rogues gallery of supervillains. In the Wink's case, some of these villains have adopted the term "Flash's Rogues Gallery" every bit an official title, and insist on being called "Rogues" rather than "supervillains" or similar names. At times, diverse combinations of the Rogues accept banded together to commit crimes or take revenge on the Flash, usually under the leadership of Captain Cold.

The Rogues are known for their communal fashion human relationship, socializing together and operating under a strict moral code, sometimes brutally enforced by Captain Cold. Such "rules" include "no drugs" and, except in very dire situations or on unique occasions, "no killing".

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External links

• Official website
• The Wink at IMDb
• The Flash at Curlie
• Crimson Lightning – An online index to the comic volume adventures of the Flash.
• Alan Kistler's Profile On: The Flash – An analysis of the history of the Wink by comic book historian Alan Kistler.
• Alan Kistler's Guide To The Crisis
• Alphabetize to Barry Allen's Earth-One adventures
• comicfoundry.com Chat with Flash writers Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo about Bart Allen every bit the new Flash.

Dc Comics Justice League Animated Series Flash

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_%28DC_Comics_character%29