History: While working in his lab police scientist Barry Allen was hit by lighting. The lightning hit both him and a cabinet of chemicals, giving Allen the power of superspeed. Inspired by Flash I he took on the identity of Flash II and became a superhero.

(Showcase #13) - Barry and Iris went to see “Around The World In 80 Days,” and she wondered how long it would take the Flash to run around the globe. Iris reminded Barry they had a date the next day, and chided him for constantly being late. Barry tinkered around in his lab, finishing a radio-scanner watch that would let him tune into police bands from around the world. The next day he got ready for his date when he picked up a signal from the Paris police about a hostage situation at the Eiffel Tower. Barry changed into Flash and raced to Paris where Le Chat Noir stood atop the Eiffel Tower and was threatening to destroy the city with an atom bomb. Flash raced up the tower, grabbed Noir’s hostage and lept from the building, using his free arm to create a downdraft that broke their fall. He created another downdraft under Le Chat Noir, disorienting him and allowing Flash to grab the bomb. Flash fretted about getting to Iris in time, but got a signal from Cairo, where Princess Tara was being help captive by the bandit El Claw atop the Khufu Pyramid. The bandit chief coated the pyramid in oil, so Flash couldn’t run up it. Flash vibrated until the pyramid started collapsing, knocking the bandit off his feet and allowing Flash to save Tara. He repaired the damage to the pyramid at superspeed when he picked up an alert about an avalanche at Mt. Everest. He saved the Everest monitoring station by heating up the oncoming snow until it turned to steam. A call about an attacking pirate ship came in as Flash was running across the Pacific Ocean, and although extremely irritated he took out the pirates. Flash changed back to Barry and made his date with Iris just on time, pleased with himself for having traveled the globe in 80 minutes.

(Showcase #13) - Barry was running late for a date with Iris when they heard a police car responding to a request for assistance at the Palladium Jewelry Store. Iris went to cover the robbery for her paper, and Barry let her race ahead of him so he could turn into the Flash without her noticing. The store was being robbed by Mr. Element and his henchmen, and element said he’d not only anticipated flash’s arrival he looked forward to matching wits with him. Flash ran into the store but was entangled in nearly-invisible strands of gold Element had strung throughout the corridor, giving him time to escape. The Harrow Company received a large supply of platinum, and Flash suspected Mr. Element would make the company his next target. Flash ran into the building after hours only to find Mr. Element waiting for him behind a wall of vanadium, which was so hard Flash couldn’t vibrate through it. Element crowed that his henchmen had already stolen the platinum, and he’d just stayed behind to show Flash was fruitless it was to oppose him. Flash rubbed the wall at superspeed melting it, then grabbed Mr. Element, preparing to take him to prison, but the criminal dropped a sodium pellet into water on the ground, causing an explosion that allowed him to escape. Barry was on a date with Iris, but she noted how distant he was, but he couldn’t tell her he was distracted because of his frustration at being unable to nab Mr. Element. Mr. Element made a neon sign in the sky challenging Flash to a final confrontation. Flash met him in a dark alley, and Element shot him with a blast of elemento, an element he discovered that was a form of magnetic light. The elemento made Flash shot helplessly into space, and as he escaped Earth’s orbit he feared colliding with the moon or being sent further into the reaches of space. Flash managed to catch the moon’s gravitational field and slingshotted himself back to Earth. Mr. Element was shocked to see Flash escape his trap and said he had a radium bomb in his watch, but Flash had already noticed the odd glow from his watch and slipped it off the criminal. Flash took Mr. Element to prison.

(Flash II #182 (fb)) - Flash II apprehended Leonard Snart and his friends while they were robbing a store. While in jail Len did research on possible ways to slow the Flash down, the most promising of which was using absolute zero to affect kinetic motion, an after acquiring a cold gun he took the identity of Captain Cold.

(Flash: Iron Heights) - <9 years ago> Barry Allen gave his first court testimony as a forensic scientist, testifying against serial killer Dr. Michael Amar. Amar was convicted, and after seeing the senseless murders Amar had committed Barry couldn’t help but be glad that he would never again see the light of day.

(Flash I #105) - Barry Allen had to postpone a lunch date with Iris because he was busy in the lab investigating a series of strange robberies. Iris told him he should be more like the Flash and actually catch crooks instead of tinkering in a lab. A newspaper reported the latest robbery, describing the perpetrator as a man made of metal who robbed an electrical plant and carried away a three-ton transformer. When the robber was spotted in Central City Park Barry changed into the Flash and went to investigate. The robber had used the parts he stole to construct a mind-control gun and was testing it on the park-goers. Flash wasn’t fast enough to avoid being zapped by the gun, and when he woke he found himself in a cylinder in the robber’s cavern headquarters. The robber introduced himself as Katmos, the last survivor of an ancient civilization that once ruled the Earth. Katmos intended to conquer the world again, and told Flash the cylinder he was in would activate machinery that would make him 1,000 times heavier than normal and unable to move once it was struck by the rays of the sun through a hole in the cavern ceiling. Flash vibrated his feet, building up the air pressure in the bottom of the cylinder and launching it into the sky. He crashed to earth, freeing himself of the cylinder, and after managing to avoid Katmos’ blasts from his mind-control ray knocked him out and handed him over to the police. Afterwards he made it in the nick of time for a dinner date with Iris, but she was more interested in reading the evening newspaper’s coverage of Flash’s latest adventure.

(Flash I #105) - Barry was puzzled by a string of bank robberies where no one knew when or how the money vanished. He went to his bank and saw the usual teller Wilkins heading out, but suspected something was amiss because his hair was parted to the left instead of the right and he was wearing his wedding band on his right hand. He followed Wilkins, who put on a burst of speed, and even after changing to the Flash he had a hard time keeping up. Wilkins went into a strange house on the outskirts of town. The house belonged to the villainous Mirror Master who used a special camera mirror to capture images and develop them into 3-D constructs. He’d been using his duplicates of bank tellers to rob their places of employment. Mirror Master sent a giant mosquito after Flash, but when the hero approached light speed it broke apart. Flash realized Wilkins and the mosquito were both made of light, so when Mirror Master sent a Minotaur after Flash he defeated it by turning the light out out in the room. With his bag of tricks exhausted Flash easily detained Mirror Master.

(Flash I #106) - When King Solovar of Gorilla Citty was taken by a human expedition to the Congo his rival Gorilla Grodd knew the time was right to fulfill his dream of taking over first Gorilla City and then the world. He flew his nuclear-powered craft to Central City, hiding out in the park. Gorilla Grodd couldn’t help but being spotted on occasion, and his rumors of his existence frightened the citizens of Central City. Actor Fred Perason, start of “The Great Gorilla” play, called his friend Barry Allen, saying he was worried he was the mysterious gorilla because he’d been playing the role of one for so long it might have affected his mind. He had no memory of his last stage performance, which was supposedly his most realistic one yet. Pearson didn’t realize that Gorilla Grodd, looking for a place to hide out for a few hours, knocked him out and took his place on stage. Barry promised he’d investigate. Gorilla Grodd was searching for Solovar, hoping to steal his power of force of mind so he could mind control others. He spotted a circus traveling through town and by luck Solovar was one of the animals being kept in a cage. Grodd used his telepathy to learn force of mind from Solovar, bragging about what he’d do with his new power. When Grodd left Solovar knew he had no choice but to escape his cage and find Flash, who he believed was the only man capable of stopping Grodd. Flash was shocked to be speaking to a talking gorilla, but after Solovar explained the situation Flash agreed to help. Flash sped Solovar back to Africa and confronted Grodd. Grodd had already mind controlled the residents of Gorilla City, planning on using them as soldiers to conquer the rest of the world. Flash created a whirlwind under Grodd before he could use his force of mind on him, and Solovar, rightfully restored to his throne, had Grodd imprisoned. Solovar told Flash that the whirlwind he created had knocked the knowledge of force of mind out of Grodd’s head and he no longer possessed the power. Solovar said he feared what would happen to Gorilla City if the outside world ever learned of them and Flash promised to never reveal the location of Solovar’s secret city.

(Flash I #106) - For once Barry was on time for a date at Iris’ apartment for some home cooked dinner. He regretted not being able to explain that he was always late because of his adventures as the Flash. The day before Pied Piper made his debut in Central City, breaking into a jewelry store and the safe of a skyscraper office, but left all the money and valuables untouched. Piper sent out a radio message challenging the Flash to try and stop him from completing the crimes he started. Barry regretted having to leave Iris in the lurch, but he changed into Flash and sped out of her apartment without her noticing. Iris was fuming that her fiancee was finally on time but had walked out on her. Flash confronted Piper and his gang at the skyscraper office but Piper used vibrations from his pipe to freeze Flash in place. The crooks made their getaway, but hadn’t counted on Flash using his own vibrations to free himself and pursue them. Piper used his pipe to stir a tidal wave from the Central city Lake, knocking him out. Flash recovered and sped to the jewelry store to go another round with Pied Piper. Piper’s pipe caused an earthquake that opened a crevasse under Flash. Flash used his superspeed to run up the side of the crevasse and then created a windmill by whirling his arm at superspeed, knocking out Pied Piper and his gang. Barry returned to his date with Iris, saying he just had to pick up the evening newspaper covering Flash’s defeat of the Pied Piper.

(Flash I #107) - Gorilla Grodd had only pretended to lose his force of mind power, and used it to escape captivity. Solovar sent a distress signal to Flash, who ran to Africa in seconds, but was confused when he saw no sign of Gorilla City,. Solovar used a device to keep Gorilla City on a vibrational plane that couldn’t be observed by humans, and turned the device off to allow Flash entry. Solovar kept a register of the vibrational frequency of everyone in Gorilla city, and used it to determine that Grodd was miles underneath the city. Flash used his supserpeed to drill himself underground until he found Grodd, who’d discovered an underground world populated by Bird-People. Grodd had already used his force of mind on them, planning on making them into an army to conquer the world. He’d also developed a devolutionizer ray that would turn Solovar and the citizens of gorilla city into ordinary apes. Grodd fired the devolutionizer at Flash using a setting that caused the Mola, the strange underground atmosphere, to crystallize around Flash’s body. The encased Flash toppled forward, damaging the devolutionizer and Grodd cursed him for delaying his plans of conquest while he repaired it. Grodd instructed the Bird-People to place Flash in the town square as a warning to all who would oppose Grodd’s plans. Flash couldn’t move in the crystalline Mola, but managed to rock himself back and forth on the pedestal he’d been placed on until he fell over and the Mola shattered. Flash confronted Grodd again, and created a whirlwind around him, but Grodd was strong enough to break free. Flash was worried about his size and strength, but with his speed he was able to punch Grodd a hundred times before the villain could lay a hand on him, felling him. With Grodd unconscious the Bird-People regained their senses and thanked Flash for freeing them. Flash handed Grodd over to Solovar, who promised to keep a closer eye on him.

(Flash I #107) - Flash spotted a parked truck rolling out of control downhill and sped to the rescue, but a stranger in strange garb appeared and outran him, stopping the truck from crashing. The stranger told Flash he had no memory of who he was, and his only memory was wandering around the outskirts of town earlier that afternoon. Flash took him to seek medical treatment, but the doctors could find nothing wrong with him. Iris got wind of the story and convinced the Picture News to propose a race between the stranger and Flash, to prove who really was the fastest man alive, with proceeds going towards charity. Flash couldn’t refuse, fearing his reputation would suffer if he did, and the stranger agreed to the race. The stranger, to the shock of everyone, handily beat Flash. Flash took the stranger to the doctors again, and after a round of electroshock therapy he regained his memory. His name was Kyri, and he was an android created by the Rulers of the Galaxy to keep the universe safe. His spaceship crashed on Earth, disrupting his energy. The electroshock treatments took away his superspeed, so he asked for Flash’s help completing his current mission, and the Scarlet Speedster agreed. Flash repaired his ship and Kyri piloted them to planetoid F203. F203 was near the center of the galaxy and a dimensional nexus where every several years the forces of another dimension threatened to break through. As they approached the planetoid they observed the dimensional rift had already begun to open, and Kyri told Flash he need him to repair the barrier around the nexus. At the dimensional weak spot Flash melted a number of rocks and minerals in a specific order described by Kyri to seal the barrier. Kyri thanked Flash for his help and returned him home while he went to rendezvous with the Rulers of the Galaxy. Flash was happy to give Iris the scoop about his latest adventure, and told her that because Kyri was an artificial lifeform he was still the fastest man alive.

(Flash I #108) - Flash responded to a newspaper ad placed by Dr. Hirachi, who claimed to have invented a device that could accurately measure Flash’s speed. Hirachi had Flash run on a treadmill while a beam fired radiation at him. Flash found that he couldn’t slow down or get off the treadmill, and Hirachi took off his human disguise, revealing himself as Kee Feleg, a being from the dimension Mohru. The treadmill kept Flash trapped while the radiation sped him up, and Flash knew that before long his body would give out from the strain. Feleg gloated about dooming Flash and left his lab, saying he had other business to attend to. Flash couldn’t slow down, so he sped up, running faster than the speed of light to escape the treadmill. Flash learned that Feleg and a band of criminal Mohruvians were stealing fulgurites, objects struck by lightning, to give them superspeed to commit crimes on Mohru. He broke the speed of light to shift to the dimension of Mohru, captured the thieves, and handed them over to a Mohruvian police chief. Barry and Iris celebrated their anniversary by going to Central City Park, where they had their first date on the Forth of July. Iris wondered what happened to the tree stump struck by lightning that marked where they had their first date, and Barry couldn’t tell her it was one of the objects struck by lightning that the Mohruvians stole.

(Flash I #108) - Gorilla Grodd foresaw the possibility of his capture and established a mental link with his nuclear-powered quadromobile. He summoned his craft, which crashed into his prison, destroying it and freeing him. Grodd invented an evolution-accelerator, which advanced him on the evolutionary track past modern man. In his new human identity of Drew Drowden he made millions in the stock market and built a lab, having engineers develop a pill that gave him the power of telekinesis and mind over matter. Barry Allen went on a date with Iris West, and she told him Picture News was about to name their man of the year. Flash had been a shoo-in, but with Drew Drowden making the scene it was a toss-up. Drowden tested his new powers by uprooting trees with his mind and then raising his own factory into the air. Flash investigated, and Drowden used his mind over matter powers to freeze Flash in his tracks. The effects of the evolution-accelerator wore off, returning Gorilla Grodd to normal. He couldn’t access his mind over matter powers as a gorilla, and was about to use his evolution-accelerator again, but Flash melted it by rubbing his hands on it at superspeed and fashioned the device into a pair of handcuffs. He returned Grodd to gorilla City, and was pleased that with Drowden’s disappearance Flash was named Picture Time’s man of the year.

(Flash I #109) - Iris West and her photographer Hank went to Central City Penitentiary to do a story on Sam Scudder, the Mirror Master. When Hank took Scudder’s photo he mysteriously vanished. Mirror Master had several mirrors secreted on his person when he was taken to jail, and used then to shrink himself to inches high, allowing him to easily slip between his cell’s bars. Mirror Master robbed a bank, cloaking himself in an aura of light that blinded the tellers, but Flash got word of his prison break-out and was on his trail. Flash took back the money Mirror Master stole, but he was able to blind the hero and escape. Barry was late for yet another date with Iris because of his scuffle with Mirror Master, and she left a note for him breaking off their engagement because she was sick of being stood up. Mirror Master decided he needed to eliminate the Flash and used his mirror-reducer to shrink the hero down to size. Flash made a perilous trip back to his police lab, narrowly avoiding being stepped on by civilians, to use a Polaroid light machine he’d experimented with and found that increased the growth of cells in plants to return himself to normal size. Confident that Flash was no longer a threat, the Mirror Master robbed the Central City Bank again, but Flash apprehended him, rolling him up in a rug so he couldn’t use his mirror devices. Flash kept one of Mirror Master’s mirror image-projectors to make Iris see Barry Allen wherever she went. Iris decided that she couldn’t keep Barry off her mind and gave him one last chance, offering to go on a date with him. Barry, in his excitement to get ready for the date, slipped on the image-projector mirror and knocked himself out. Iris was disappointed but not surpised that she was stood up, and made up her mind to never see Barry again.

(Flash I #109) - Astronaut Fred Jensen went up in a satellite and orbited around Earth, but his guiding mechanism jammed, plunging him into the sea. A navy vessel recovered the satellite and Jensen was unexpectedly found alive. Fred called his good friend Barry Allen and they went out for dinner. Fred said he couldn’t recall anything that happened after his satellite crashed, but he had a recurring dream that it was discovered by the Saremites, a race of undersea dwellers. They were at war with a hostile fishlike race called the Maugites and begged Fred to send help. Barry wondered if Fred’s dream actually occurred, and as Flash he raced to the bottom of the sea, encountering the Saremites. He stopped a Maugite incursion and followed them out into the sea, incapacitating them by creating a whirlpool. The Saremites finally had hope that their enemies could be defeated and one of them showed off his new invention, a primitive bow and arrow, to the Flash. Flash decided it best to let the Saremites handle their own problems, satisfied that he’d properly inspired them. The Saremites were so grateful to Fred Jensen for sending the Flash their way that they fashioned a ring made of the luminescent rock that lighted their city. Barry Allen presented the ring to Fred, telling him his dream was real, and Fred said he’d value the gift for the rest of his days.

(Flash I #110) - Iris agreed to forgive Barry if he could be on time for a dozen dates in a row. He was punctual for the first elev, but before their twelfth date he heard a report of a cloudburst on a sunny day endangering people downtown. He responded as Flash and saw Weather Wizard, who shot a bolt of lightning at him from his weather-stick for trying to ruin his fun. Flash dodged the bolt, so Weather Wizard created thick fog so he could make his getaway. A U.S. Marshal who’d been tracking Weather Wizard approached Flash and explained that in the last few weeks he’d created a hailstorm to destroy a police station and attacked the sheriff’s office of a nearby state. Flash caught up with Weather Wizard after he’d created a glacier to destroy a house in the Central City suburbs. Flash used his superspeed and an acetylene torch to melt the glacier, then whirled his arms at superspeed to create a mighty wind that harmlessly dispersed the water. Weather Wizard was furious at the Scarlet Speedster for interfering in his plans, but before he could respond Flash ran at him at superspeed, creating a wave-front that knocked him out. Flash told the Marshal he remembered Weather Wizard, back when he was Mark Mardon, had been arrested for burglary in Central city by police lieutenant Jim Harvey, whose house he tried to destroy with the glacier. He figured Weather Wizard’s pet project was getting back at the officers that busted him when he was a small-time criminal. Flash realized he was seconds away from missing his date with Iris, so he sped to the concert hall, but forgot to change out of costume, which made Iris very curios as to why Flash thought they had a date together.

(Flash I #110) - Iris introduced Barry to her nephew Wally West, the president of the Flash Fan Club in his home town. Iris told Barry she was hoping he could introduce Wally to the Flash, and left the boy with him for the afternoon. Barry made a quick change out of sight and introduced himself as Flash, delighting the boy, who said this was the coolest moment of his life. Wally wanted to do a report on Flash when he got home and asked Flash how he got his superspeed powers. Flash said he’d do better than tell Wally, he’d show him. Flash showed him the chemical lab in Barry’s apartment, and explained that two years ago he was in an almost identical lab when lightning stuck, splashing a number of chemicals on him and giving him superspeed. In a billion-to-one coincidence the accident was recreated when a lightning bolt came through the window, splashing the same chemicals on young Wally West. Flash tested Wally and found that he’d also acquired the power of superspeed. Decidingto mentor the boy Flash presented him with a ring like his own that released a miniature Flash costume that expanded on contact with the air. Wally tried out the suit, and Flash dubbed him Kid Flash, making him promise to only use his powers for good and never self gain. Flash had to go to his day job as police scientist and left Kid Flash alone in the apartment to test his new powers. Kid Flash heard a news report about dangerous zoo animals being set loose by a disgruntled former zoo employee and went into action. Flash had heard the same news report, but by the time he arrived at the zoo Kid Flash had already taken care of the situation. Flash was pleased he’d always have someone to help him in his fight against evil and injustice. Wally had to return home, but was thrilled at becoming Flash’s friend and sidekick.

(Flash II #130 (fb)) - The Suit Dell Meriwether slaughtered a number of police officers and citizens before Flash and Green Lantern teamed up to defeat him. Dell was later sent to the electric chair, but the Suit vanished.

Flash II had a long and legendary career, joining the Justice League of America and taking his nephew Wally West as a sidekick after Wally was hit by lightning and took on the identity of Kid Flash I.

(Justice League of America I #1) - Flash came upon Saranna and Jasonar, two refugees from Kalanor. The tyrant Despero had conquered their home dimension, and Jasonar had perfected an anti-weapon device to disable Despero's arsenal. Flash summoned the JLofA and they prepared to use Jasonar's dimensional traveler to go to Kalanor, but Despero had ambused the JLofA and held them in stasis in their hq. He planned to banish them to other dimensions, but couldn't affect Flash, who'd been exposed to the radiation of the dimensional traveler that made him immune to Despero's teleport beam. He challenged Flash to a variation of chess, using the JlLofA as pawns. he rigged the game with his mental powers, and each time Flash lost a pawn, a leaguer was teleported to another dimension. Flash lost and entered a dimensonal traveler to the world of Narx. The planets the JLofA were on were targeted for destruction by Despero, but the League saved the planets and returned to Earth. Despero caught up with Jasonar and was about to take his anti-weapon device, when Snapper, who'd stowed away on Despero's traveler turned the anti-weapon on him, sapping his energy. The League allowed Jasonar to take Despero back to Kalanor as a prisoner.

(Justice League of America I #4) - Flash and the JLofA nominated Green Arrow as their new member when they received a message from the alien Carthan, who'd kidnapped the Arrow. he told the team he'd placed three engines of destruction around the world, and that it was up to them to disable them and free Arrow. Carthan was only posing as a villain, the tyrant Xandor had exiled him from his planet Dryanna, and the engines prevented him from leaving Earth. Flash and Aquaman disabled the engine in the Pacific Ocean that was causing Australia to sink into the ocean. The rest of the JLofA disabled the other two engines and freed Arrow, but Carthan imprisoned the team in a hollow diamond so he could explain that he was not a villain. Batman, who wasn't trapped, knocked him into the control panel of his ship, and Carthan couldn't dissipate the diamond. he showed Green Arrow the stress point of the diamond, and the archer used his skills to shatter the prison with a diamond-tipped arrow.

(Justice League of America I #5) - A gang of criminals escaped imprisonment, and the JLofA were challenged by them. Wonder Woman, Flash and Green Arrow confronted King Clock, Professor Menace and Captain Cold in an ice palace. After avoiding Clock's quicksand clock trap they forced the villains to flee. On the verge of capturing them Green Arrow shot arrows that caused an explosion, and his teammates thought he purposely sabotaged their capture. Aquaman, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern dealt with the Getaway Mastermind, Electric Man and the Puppet Master, who caused deadly weather to slow down the heroes. As they pursued the villains’ plane, Green Arrow arrived, show more arrows that caused an explosion and knocked out the Leaguers. At hq the League accused him of being a traitor. He told them that he observed that Captain Cold, King Clock and Menace were robots rigged to explode, so he destroyed them before his teammates got in range. The Getaway Mastermind's ship had an explosive forcefield, so he activated it before the JLofA could reach it and be killed. The exonerated Arrow had already captured all the villains, but told the League he knew there was a real traitor among them. Green Lantern had been captured by Dr. Destiny and replaced by him, so they subdued "Green Lantern" and took him to the police. They walked into Destiny's trap, as he had a ship nearby that hit the League with an anti-gravity and will-deadener ray. He prepared to put them aboard a rocket ship, and with their wills gone they'd be helplessly floating in space forever. His prisoner Green Lantern escaped, because using the will-deadener on the League sapped power from the ray aimed at him. The League apprehended Destiny and closed the case.

(Justice League of America I #6) - Flash and the other members of the JLofA had an incident of bad luck on standard cases, but didn't realize their difficulties were caused by Prof. Amos Fortune, who was testing his Stimoluck that caused either good or bad luck in anyone it was aimed at. Letters to the JLofA came in requesting the League's help, and they found two worthy causes. Flash, Green Arrow and Martian Manhunter handled one case in which Hazel Deeping sought the fortune on her farm hidden by her grandfather because she needed the money to aid her grandparents. The grandfather left a clue in the form of a poem, but by the time they realized the treasure was in the farm's antique gateposts Fortune, with his luck boosted by the Stimoluck, had purchased them from Deeping. Fortunately the League had also found a valuable painting by Gilbert Stuart and a reservoir of oil on the farm. Aquaman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman went to Sea Dunes to solve a series of robberies to a museum. The museum was built from an old castle and impenetrable, but the custodian Charles Hobart was using a fishing reel to steal pieces from the barred window. The put him in custody, but spotted Fortune taking off with other pieces Hobart had stolen and hidden in a cliff face. They pursued him, but Fortune managed to capture all the members of the JLofA through sheer luck, and he tied them to a Wheel of Misfortune that would destroy the human glands that gave people good luck and would cause the League to forever after have bad luck. The Wheel only affected human physiology, so Martian Manhunter was able to escape, disable the machine and defeat Amos Fortune.

(Justice League of America I #15) - Stone giant Untouchable Aliens stole military weapons and tried to eradicate Brasilia, Tokyo and Central City, but were foiled by Flash and the JLofA. Green Lantern probed their minds and brought the League to their world, an Earth separated from ours because it existed one minute into the future. The Aliens set off a cobalt bomb at the same time our Earth tested a nuclear bomb, weakening the barrier between world. The Alien's cities were going to merge with the three Earth cities they tried to destroy, because two objects occupying the same time and space would be disastrous. They could not move their own cities because the cities were rigged to explode if tampered with, a failsafe against invasion. Green Lantern used his ring to completely separate the Alien's Earth from ours, preventing catastrophe.

(Identity Crisis #3 (fb)) - The Secret Society switched bodies with the JLA. They took time to document the JLA’s secret identities. After being defeated Flash and the JLA erased their memories with Zatanna’s help.

(Justice League of America I #117) - Hawkman applied for readmission into the JlofA, and Flash and the other Leaguers unanimously voted yes.

(Justice League of America I #118, 119) - Dr. Hubble sent out signals to outer space from his observatory in Central City. His continued failures led him to switch off the machine, but his last message was garbled and received by an alien from Arcturus. He concluded from the scrambled message that Earth was being overrun with superhumans, and sent his Adaptoids to destroy Earth’s superheroes. The Adaptoids arrived in Central City, where they were confronted by the Flash. Hawkman was observing from the JlofA satellite, and his separation from Thanagar and Hawkwoman made him need a new League adventure, so he hit the JlofA emergency signal. The League responded, and after adapting to an Earth environment the creatures attacked the League and adapted to counter all of their powers before returning to their spaceship. Their master sent out a broadcast to the JlofA, telling them they could either abandon Earth, or face three groups of Adaptoids stationed in Hong Kong, San Francisco and Venice. The heroes saw the Adaptoids as a threat, and confronted them, but left Hawkman behind, feeling his grief for his loss of Thanagar would make him a liability. The battle went against them, and after being infected by the Adapotoids they retreated back to the JlofA satellite. Hawkman left a note saying he’d returned to Thanagar, and they were all steamed at his selfishness. The Adaptoids decided that the entire human race was viral, spreading too fast and destroying the planet Earth. They were no longer satisfied with forcing superheroes to leave Earth, they promised to exterminate the human race to save the planet, and broadcast their intentions on a TV transmission. Batman, Atom, Elongated Man and Green Arrow tried to defeat hem, but were bested and teleported back to the JlofA satellite alongside their fellow beaten Leaguers. The Adaptoids started toppling world governments when Hawkman returned from Thanagar, along with Hawkgirl, and teleported the Adaptoids to their satellite. The League questioned his motivations, but his plan soon became clear. Hawkgirl’s Equalizer Disease that made everyone around her equal gave the JlofA the edge over the aliens, enabling them to defeat the Adaptoids and imprison them on an abandoned planet halfway between Earth and Thanagar. The Adaptoids settled into their new home, building cities and prospering, while Hawkman and Hawkgirl vowed to monitor them.

(Justice League of America I #120, 121) - Flash and the JlofA foiled a mad scientist on New Guinea who tried to wipe out the southern hemisphere with an aqua-bomb. On Guinea Flash discovered a cave painting of Adam Strange, and  the team was then transported to Adam’s adopted home of Rann by a zeta-beam. The League helped Adam disable a giant remote-controlled ray-gun, and after introductions were made Adam told them how his wife-to-be had seemingly been vaporized by a flying lens. The League realized the gun and lens were both more powerful recreations of past threats Adam had faced. Just then Sardath appeared, and informed the League that someone had summoned them with his new Zeta-Plus Beams, which could be connected with Earth instantly, instead of taking years of advance planning.  Two more threats from Rann’s past attacked, the giant Kalulla bird, and the robot Borg. Borg apparently disintegrated the League, and Adam used the Zeta-Plus Beam to return to Earth and gather the rest of the League to avenge their comrades and deal with the mastermind behind the attacks. Kanjar Ro, the villain responsible, looked on in glee. He’d orchestrated everything so he could destroy the league for having defeated him in the past. Before the League could form a plan of action they were alerted to a freak electric storm in Long Island, and left their satellite to respond, with Adam staying behind because Earth’s surface was poisonous to him. The storm turned out to be a Cloud Creature, another revamped threat from Rann, and it defeated the League. Kanjar confrontred Adam Strange and explained his schemes, but Adam responded by stealing the energi-rod he’d used to recreate the Rannian menaces and zeta-beamed back to Rann. Sardath used the brain waves on file from Kanjar Ro’s time as a prisoner on Rann to allow Adam control over the energi-rod. Adam correctly reasoned that Kanjar’s ego demanded that he destroy the entire JlofA in one fell swoop, so the seemingly murdered Leaguers must have been in captivity on Rann. In an ice cave he found the five black spheres that Kanjar had turned the League into, and undid the transformation with the energi-rod. He found an additional black sphere, and it turned out to be Alanna. She told Adam that Kanjar kept her alive as insurance to have leverage against Adam if his plan failed. The JlofA returned to Earth and defeated the Cloud Creature. Without his energi-rod Kanjar was easy pickings, and Black Canary knocked him out with a karate chop. The League went to Rann with Adam and attended his wedding to Alanna.

(Justice League of America I #125, 126) - Lugons of energy built up in the Dronndarians dimension and threatened to reach critical mass. To siphon off the energy three Dronndarians used their transmission facilities to send their minds to Earth. Their intellects inhabited statues of Julius Cesear, Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon, and offered underworld figures a chance for a one-time use of unlimited power. Each time a criminal used the transmitted lugons of energy to murder a ruival or commit a crime, Dronndarr gained more time before exploding. The Dronndarrians approached Batman nemesis Two-Face, but his schizophrenic personality made him turn down the offer in hopes pof saving Earth. He alerted the Justice League of America, and they were initially skeptical, but the details of his story panned out; Flash was currently investigating the theft of the Napoleon statue, which had been on loan to the Central City Museum. They allowed him to help them quell a riot at Oceanside Prison led by “Bull” Langdon and other criminals powered by the Dronndarians. Aquaman figured out that the lugon energy was short-circuited by water, and commanded whales to splash the criminals, ending the riot. They confronted the Dronndarrians, who fled from their animated statues and returned home. The Dronndarrians realized they had failed, even if the League hadn’t intervened they hadn’t siphoned off nearly enough energy to save their world. They went to the Anti-Matter Universe and contracted the Weaponers of Qward to save their world by destroying Earth with a massive burst of lugon energy. The Qwardians employed Two-Face, who’d decided to turn against the League, to attach Dronndarian power blast devices to each of the Leaguers, and tell them about their planned attacks on Bomnn, Sydney and Toronto. The JlofA released more and more lugons of energy into Earth as they battled and overcame the Qwardians, but Atom realized the Qwardian scheme and Two-Face’s betrayal. He alerted his teammates and they allowed the Qwardians to beat them until the last of their lugon energy was siphoned back to Dronndar. GL used his power ring to observe the Dronndarians final fate, as their world exploded they evolved into gbeings of pure energy to survive.

(Justice League of America I #127) - The Anarchist kidnapped several world leaders in the name of bringing chaos to the world’s governments, and challenged the JlofA to stop him from kidnapping a group of U.N. delegates. Superman, Green Arrow, Flash and Red Tornado responded, but the Anarchist and his cronies fought them to a standstill and snatched the delegates, leaving the U.N. furious with the Justice League. Clark Kent covered a performance by Simon Elis, faith-healer, and was convinced that he was the Anarchist. The JlofA followed Elias, but he foiled them with a burst of energy, and managed to teleport away with League members Batman, Black Canary and Elongated Man. Green Lantern told Superman that someone was mind-controlling him, forcing him to recharge his power ring and siphoning off the energy, and they deduced that the Anarchist was the culprit. The next time the Anarchist tried to make GL recharge, GL convinced Superman to knock him out with a punch. The JlofA tracked down the Anarchist, and he revealed that he was using Green Lantern’s powers and creating chaos so that he could restore the world order as Simon Elis and become a dictator. Without GL’s power to draw off, the Anarchist and his cronies were easy pickings for the League.

(DC Comics Presents #1, 2) - Superman came upon a spaceship that landed in the small town of Rosemont just as a beam from space destroyed it and proceeded to obliterate Rosemont. Flash arrived, and together the heroes saved the townies from being obliterated. Superman investigated the source of the beam and found two ships firing at each other. The ships called a cease fire, capturing Superman in a cage of Q-Energy and imprisoned Flash in an ultra-dense cage. The captains were Aylem of Zelkots and Islayn of the Volkir, two races that had been at war for billions of years. Aylem wanted to end the war and sent his servant Iylar to Earth to travel to the past and prevent the original cause of their civil war that occurred there, while Islayn was trying to stop him and preserve the war. They onkly called a cease-fire because they knew Superman and Flash were capable of stopping them, and the heroes did indeed escape their cages and take out the leaders. The Zelkot crew threatened to destroy Earth if Flash didn’t help Iylar achieve his goal. Iylar was traveling into the future to pierce the Cosmic-Curtain, a time barrier that would return him to the past, and Flash raced into the future to find him. He collided with Reverse-Flash in the 25^th Century as he was preparing to travel into the past. The Volkir revealed that after the civil war they colonized Krypton and stabilized its internal pressure, so if Iylar succeeded in preventing the races split, Krypton would have exploded millions of years earlier and Superman would not exist. They sent him after Flash to stop him, and he saw Zoom running a circle around the speedster trying to disperse his molecules, and helped his ally defeat and imprison Zoom. The heroes couldn’t let the Zelkot destroy Earth, but if the civil war was prevented, not only would Krypton have perished, but they would never have left Earth and left behind exhaust from their organic ships that left behind the first unicellular life on Earth. Superman got stuck in the 30^th century, but got unstuck and destroyed the communicator that allowed the aliens to monitor him by forcing a head-on collision with Superboy, his past self that was visiting the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Flash’s communicator was lost battling a savage turtle tribe in the far-flung future. Free from monitoring the heroes passed the Cosmic-Curtain, knocked out Iylar and returned to the present day. They defeated the Zelkot and Volkir and flung them into another star-system to continue their battle where Earth would be unaffected.

Flash married his longtime love Iris West. Iris was seemingly murdered by Flash's arch nemesis Reverse-Flash.

(Flash I #286) - Police captain Darryl Frye started loading up Barry Allen with overtime shifts, and he began to worry that his late nights at the lab and lack of sleep were affecting his performance as the Flash, but he saw no way out of it. Flash responded to a robbery at the Centrex Museum perpetrated by the Rainbow Raider, who was color-blind and stole great works of art out of spite, reasoning that if he couldn’t fully enjoy them no one else should either. The Raider was elated that his debut was attracting so much attention. He hit Flash with black light, draining all the color from his body and enervating him. Rainbow Raider was convinced he’d already hit the big-time since he got away from the Flash. Back at his apartment his neighbor Fiona Webb knocked on his door, saying she’d received some mail for him. He didn’t want to be seen in his colorless state, and asked Fiona to slip the mail under the door, feigning illness, saying when he was feeling better he’d invite her in for coffee. Fiona said she didn’t drink coffee, and she didn’t accept invitations from strange men. Barry did some research on the nature of color and light and realized Rainbow Raider’s black light saturated him with radiation that prevented him from reflecting light. Barry was late to work, and got reprimanded by Frye, but when he saw a news story about the opening of the Skytop Art Gallery he left work and changed into the Flash, betting the Raider couldn’t pass up the opportunity to rob another art gallery. Raider used red light to turn the soirée into a brawl, and flew off on his rainbow. Flash ran up his rainbow, but Raider blinded him with light, causing him to fall to the city streets. Flash vibrated his molecules so the impact wouldn’t hurt him when he landed on a car below, and passing through the green car turned him green. Flash sped through a junkyard, vibrating through a number of objects until all his colors returned to him. Raider confronted him, but Flash kicked up dust into his eyes and stole his goggles, leaving him powerless and defeated.

(Flash I #287) - The newly discovered element dyrithum possessed the density of diamond and the Central City police were interested in using it to make improved bulletproof vests. The snag was that dyrithium was a heavy element, causing a weight problem when used to make bulletproof vests, so Barry Allen and Patty Spivot were tasked with coming up with a formula for a lightweight dyrithium alloy. Patty went to work while Barry stepped out to get coffee and donuts. Dr. Alchemy used his Philosopher’s Stone to melt a hole in the police lab’s wall, knocked out Patty with ether, and stole the dyrithium. Barry was disappointed to see that Al Desmond had returned to a life of crime, and changed into Flash and confronted him, but Alchemy knocked him out with a cloud of carbon monoxide. When Flash recovered he changed back into his civilian identity to find Darryl Frye checking in on the recovering Spivot. He demanded to know where Barry had been for the past 20 minutes, and Barry said he witnessed the robbery and followed Flash, helping him recover after the carbon monoxide attack. Barry visited Al Desmond’s wife Rita, and she admitted things looked bad for her husband, who was pulling up in the driveway. He told Barry someone had clearly adopted his MO, but Barry was unconvinced, saying the Dr. Alchemy he confronted had his voice and mannerisms. Al said he’d spent all morning cleaning up at home after the washing machine overflowed, but Rita said he was lying, having left the house at 6 AM. The police arrived, and after finding the dyrithium vest in his garage they arrested him. Barry still hoped there was a way to help his friend, convinced that his split-personality had resurfaced. The next day Flash stopped a taxi from crashing and the passenger was Fiona Webb, who asked him to take her to the police station for a personal matter. Flash was thrilled with getting to talk to Fiona, and noting she was near tears he wondered if her standoffish attitude towards Barry Allen was because she had a lot on her mind. The police station had been transformed into pure sodium, making every surface dazzling and blinding, and Flash told Fiona to stay put,. He found Desmond gone from his jail cell, with the bars having been turned to gold and bent apart. Dr. Alchemy had Al Desmond shackled in a cave outside town. He took off his hood, revealing himself as another man named Al Desmond and boasted that after he’d finished pinning his crimes on Al he’d be in jail for life while Alchemy was living it up on a beach somewhere.

(Flash I #288, 289) - Captain Frye gave the squad a briefing on Dr. Alchemy and how Al Desmond had reformed in the past only for his criminal personality to resurface in times of stress and return to a life of crime. Barry Allen gave a scientific talk, theorizing that Al had escaped police custody because he now had a telepathic link with the Philosopher’s Stone. Barry knocked on Fiona’s door to give her some roses, but she refused to answer the door, sobbing that he was tormenting her and demanding he leave. She revealed that she’d gone to the Central City precinct to report him for harassing her, surprising Barry. Barry’s neighbor Troy was in a panic because the S.T.A.R. Labs where his dad Mack worked had been targeted by Alchemy, who turned the steel girders to rubber, causing the building to start to collapse. Barry changed to Flash and rushed to the scene, getting all the scientists out of the building, including Mack, who was thrilled to see him. Flash created an updraft under the building to stabilize it until the girders returned to steel, and Alchemy used the distraction to rob a bank. The new Dr. Alchemy told Al they were psychic twins, with Albert being born at the exact minute Alvin had been. They were both obsessed with chemistry, but when Albert turned to crime as Mr. Element Alvin kept his urges under control with therapy. He noticed that when Albert was committing crimes his own criminal instinct subsided, but when Albert reformed those urges came on stronger, and he had to undergo psychotherapy and take anti-aggression drugs. The last time Al reformed to good and Alvin could no longer control himself, so he used his psychic link to Al to find the Philosopher’s Stone to become the new Dr. Alchemy. Alchemy discovered a new element that he named desmondium in honor of both of them, and used its’ hypnotic properties to convince Rita that Al had no alibi. Alchemy told Al his next goal was to kill the Flash. Alchemy released noxious sulfur in Central City Park, luring in the Flash, and then turned him into water vapor, which started to blow away. Alchemy couldn’t help but gloat and took off his mask to reveal himself as Alvin and brag about framing Flash’s friend. After Alchemy left Flash sped up his molecules to turn his water vapor body into a cloud, regaining enough molecular stability that he was able to vibrate his molecules back to normal. Albert Desmond escaped captivity and once again donned the costume of Mr. Element. Dr. Alchemy tracked Mr. Element to an abandoned warehouse, where Element blasted him with a stream of niobium acid. Alchemy dodged in the nick of time, but realized he could have been killed, and said Al had outlived his usefulness and planned on killing him. Alchemy set the air ablaze, but Element slipped away. The fire department responded to the blazing warehouse, but the roof collapsed, trapping a number of firefighters inside. Flash managed to rescue most of them, with Mr. Element saving the last man inside by forming a cocoon of oxygen around him surrounded by nitrogen to keep out the fire. The firefighter told Flash what happened and Flash was puzzled as to why Al had adopted his Mr. Element identity again. Flash visited Rita Desmond, who admitted she’d just met with her husband, and explained that the new Dr. Alchemy was his psychic twin. Al blamed himself for the existence of the new Dr. Alchemy, and was determined to take him down, despite Rita trying to talk him out of it, and asked Flash to help her husband. Alchemy froze a train and stole a hundred pounds of nuclear waste material. Mr. Element got a telepathic flash of Alchemy’s location, and Flash, disguised as Mr. Element using a spare costume from the Flash Museum, confronted Alchemy in an abandoned mine. He allowed himself to be captured to learn Alchemy’s plan. The mine was used to store nuclear waste, and alchemy had added his stolen cache, revealing that he needed uranium to create desmondium, and intended to create enough for him to hypnotize vast populations of people and conquer the world. “Mr. Element” revealed himself as Flash, and Alchemy turned his body to cavorite, an anti-gravity element. Flash rapidly floated into the air and was soon in the stratosphere. Mr. Element confronted Alchemy in the mine, but was defeated. Once Flash was in space he vibrated his body until he turned his matter into anti-matter, expelling the cavorite from his system, and floated back to Earth. Flash defeated Dr. Alchemy and Al Desmond said he hoped that was the last the world would ever see of Dr. Alchemy or Mr. Element. Fiona returned to the police station, saying she believed her life was in danger because a man in her apartment building was trying to kill her. She said he went by different aliases, but was currently known as Barry Allen.

(Identity Crisis #2 (fb) - Flash and the JLA defeated Hector Hammond, and then received a distress call from Sue Dibny from the JLA satellite. They found Sue being savaged by Dr. Light and quickly defeated him. Elongated Man took Sue to the hospital, but Light threatened the rest of the JLA, telling them he’d find their loved ones and do to them what he did to Sue. Hawkman proposed that they mindwipe Dr. Light and make him less of the threat. Flash, still consumed with Iris’ death, cast the deciding vote and Zatanna used her magic to erase Light’s memory, but in trying to alter her personality she magically lobotomized him, making him a minimal threat.

(Catwoman III #50 (fb)) - The Justice League of America went behind Batman's back, and kidnapped Catwoman, who was quite close to him even though she was a criminal. Zatanna, reluctantly taking orders from Hawkman, planted a seed in Catwoman's mind to turn her from villain to hero.

(Flash II #215 (fb)) - Top possessed a new body, threatened Flash’s parents and tried to dig up Iris Allen’s grave. Flash had had enough, and after pummeling Top he brought him to the JLA Satellite an asked Zatanna to alter Top’s mind and make him a hero. Zatanna consented, and with the Top’s help Flash defeated the Rogues, who were robbing gold bars. Top’s horrendous past filled him with guilt, and he eventually went mad, brutally attacking the Rogues. Flash prevented him from killing anyone, and then Top once again died.

(DC Comics Presents #38) - Flash was about to foil a robbery, and save Fiona Webb from a stray bullet, but suddenly time slowed to a crawl. The villain responsible disguised herself as Superman, taunted Flash about slowing time, and ran off. Flash followed, and met up with the real Superman, who’d had a similar encounter with the villain disguised as Flash. They fought until they started talking to each other, and realize they’d been duped. The extra dimensional villain Syrnya and her cohorts revealed themselves. They were royalty in their dimension, and rebels set a bomb on their ship that shunted them to Earth, tearing a hole in spacetime and freezing time. Syryna realized the energy produced by the heroes using superspeed could take her home, so she tricked them into fighting, but since they ruined that plan she captured them and bound them to her ship’s power source. They were forced to power her ship and return it to the dimension of Elykarr, but they soon escaped and handed her over to the rebel alliance. They found the dimensional gateway where her ship broke through to Earth, and returned home, but found time still frozen. They realized one of Syryna’s henchmen had been left behind, and his mere presence caused the problem. Flash brought the henchman home by vibrating at superspeed, and time unfroze. Flash saved Fiona, and congratulated Superman on a job well done.

Flash fell in love with Fiona Webb, but on the day of their wedding Reverse-Flash tried to kill her. 

(Flash II #224, 225) - Flash traveled into the future tracking Professor Zoom. He met Wally, who’d assume the mantle of the Flash and helped him in his battle against Reverse-Flash and Zoom. Flash removed Reverse-Flash from the situation, sending him back into the past, and left Wally to deal with Zoom.

Flash stopped his foe, but also killed him in the process. Flash was disbarred from the JLofA and put on trial for murder. After being found guilty he was brought to the 30th Century by Iris, who was still alive. 

(Flash II #215 (fb)) - Flash wrote a letter to Kid Flash before his departure for the future. He confessed to voting with the JLA to have Zatanna alter Dr. Light’s mind an later having Zatanna alter Top’s mind, making him into a madman. Flash felt these were mistakes and he was plagued with guilt, an he asked Kid Flash to find a way to undo what he did to the Top. He gave the letter to Green Arrow to deliver to Kid Flash when the time was right.

(Flash II #200) - Living in the future, Flash learned that he was destined to die during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. He traveled to the past and met with his successor Flash Wally West after Wally’s wife Linda Park miscarried after being attacked by Zoom. He told Wally this was the first of the three hardest days in his life, and he was there to support him. Flash then returned to the future.

After some months of wedded bliss in the future Flash was called back into the present to fight the Anti-Monitor during the Crisis. Flash died saving the multiverse from the Anti-Monitor's antimatter cannon.

(Green Arrow III #7) - Flash and Oliver Queen spent quality time together in Heaven. Spectre introduced Flash to the soulless resurrected Green Arrow, who he wanted to have Queen's soul meet. Arrow told Flash he'd seen Wally West, the new Flash, and Flash told him Wally was honoring the costume and had in fact surpassed him by tapping into the Speed Force.

Comments: Created by Robert Kanigher & Carmine Infantino. 

Flash received profiles in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #8, Flash Secret Files #1 and Silver Age Secret Files #1. Flash received a profile in Silver Age Secret Files #1 under the Justice League of America entry. He received profiles in JLA-Z #2 under the JLA (Year One) and JLA (“The Satellite” Era) entries.

Flash's appearance in Flash I #105 was reprinted in 80 Page Giant Magazine #4, Limited Collectors’ Edition #C-45.and Flash Annual I #1, Flash I #106 was reprinted in 80 Page Giant Magazine #9 and Flash Annual I #1, Flash I #107 was reprinted in Flash I #160,  Flash I #108 was reprinted in 80 Page Giant Magazine #9 and Flash I #196, Flash I #109 reprinted in Flash I #187,  Flash I #110 was reprinted in 80 Page Giant Magazine #4, Flash Annual I #1.

Flash had a cameo in Action Comics #554, 650, Aquaman Secret Files #1, Batman Plus #1, DC Comics Presents #26, 30, Flash II #141, 190, 199, 205, 214, 219, 230, Flash Secret Files #3, Green Arrow III #8, Green Lantern IV #4, Identity Crisis #1, 7, Impulse #1, JLA #9, 24, 27, JLA / JSA: Virtue  and Vice, Justice League of America II #0, 5, 7, Martian Manhunter II #12, Other Side #2, R.E.B.E.L.S. Annual #1, Spectre III #54, Swamp Thing #70 and Titans II #4.

Flash II #184, 186, 196, 198, Green Arrow III #17 and #19, and Impulse #21 showed a statue of Flash outside the Flash Museum. A picture of Flash was shown in the New Flash Museum in Flash II #208.

A memorial statue of Flash was seen in Green Lantern III #30. Identity Crisis #6, JLA #5 and 52 showed a statue of Flash in Valhalla.

A portrait of Flash and the Justice League of America was seen in Martian Manhunter's apartment in Green Lantern III #63.

Flash was shown in a flashback sequence in Green Arrow III #11 and JLA #117.