It’s been 75 years since the Flash first appeared, and DC has put together a fun video featuring a picture of the Flash from each year from 1940 to the present, including Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West, plus a few alternate reality and future Flashes for good measure.
Don’t worry if you’re short on time; it goes by fast. š
As someone who grew up after the measles vaccine, I tended to think of it as not a big deal, just one of those childhood diseases that previous generations had to deal with. So back in the mid-2000s when I was tracking down every Golden Age Flash story I could find, I was surprised to see that Flash Comics #39 treated it as serious business (which, of course, it is).
In “Play of the Year” (March 1943), a theater producer sabotages a rival’s production by faking a measles outbreak among the cast. The boarding house where they’re all staying is immediately quarantined.
Of course, this is a Jay Garrick Flash story, so there’s a madcap solution: the Flash will perform every part in the play at once! (This was a recurring motif in the series, including stories where he played every position on a baseball team and replaced an entire hockey team.) Continue reading
The history of Henry and Nora Allen (best known as Barry Allenās parents) can be a bit confusing thanks to a long history of retcons. For those new to comics, a retcon is short for āretroactive continuityā, and refers to the changes inserted into a characterās or an eventās history by later writers. Hereās an explanation of the elder Allensā histories to date, with an emphasis on their interaction with the Rogues and other Flash villains.
Rainbow Raider (known as Chroma in the New 52)
Roy G. Bivolo
Roy was born with complete colour blindness, and saw the world in shades of grey. He was quite a talented young artist, but his inability to see colour meant that his work was often garish and ugly, something for which he was mocked. His father — who happened to be a brilliant optometrist — spent his life trying to find a cure for his son, but failed. However, on his deathbed he gave Roy some special goggles heād recently invented. The goggles didnāt give Roy colour vision, but he discovered they had all sorts of fantastic abilities, which he then used to become an art-thieving criminal.
More after the jump.
Hello new Flash fans and curious readers! Welcome to Flash fandom, and I hope you enjoy your stay š
Part One of this piece covers the Reverse Flashes and major Rogues (the more popular ones). This part covers Gorilla Grodd, as well as some more minor villains who may appear in the television series –Ā many of these characters were co-created by the show’s producer/writer Geoff Johns, and heāll probably revisit them at some point. It’s already known that Girder will appear.
Hello new Flash fans and curious readers! Welcome to Flash fandom, and I hope you enjoy your stay š
Recently Speed Force did a post about the basics of the Flash book and some issue recommendations, which are great introductions for new readers. I figured this could be an addendum to those pieces.
See the short biographies after the jump.