Allen's Flash has been around since 1956, when he ushered DC Comics into its celebrated Silver Age. However, it did take him more than fifty years to finally change his costume. Once he got ...

Barry Allen returned to the Flash mantle decades later in the Final Crisis storyline, sharing it with Wally from then on. Now ...

Every Flash has an opposite number, even the original speedster, Jay Garrick. But his dark doppelgänger is not terribly memorable in look or in name. Dr. Edward Clariss was a professor at the ...

Barry Allen: The Baby Boomer Flash DC Comics. Writer Julius Schwartz and artist Carmine Infantino introduced Barry Allen as a straight-laced, upstanding guy in 1956’s Showcase #4.

But all of that changed in 1956, when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz decided to reboot superheroes with new sci-fi based powers, starting with Barry Allen aka The Flash.

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Even though he’s the second hero named the Flash, for years, DC Comics has positioned Barry Allen as the “Prime Flash.” He set the stage for DC Comics’ Silver Age revival , and carried his ...

In DC's comics universe, Nora Allen was initially depicted as being murdered when Barry was a child. This tragic event significantly impacted Barry's life and motivated him to become the superhero ...

The Flash is a comic superhero with decades of great reading material. Here are the best Flash comic books to read ahead of DC's 'The Flash' movie. The 10 Best Flash Comics In This (Or Any) Universe ...

Showcase #4 The Flash (DC, 1956) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages. An unbelievable copy of this Silver Age Super Key! CGC's awarded a scant eight issues with a grade as high as VF/NM 9.0, and no other with ...

Collected evidence from DC Comics confirms that Wally West is faster than Barry Allen's Flash. Wally West, the third individual to embrace the Flash mantle, emerged on the scene in 1959 as Kid Flash.