FLASH III

Real Name: Wallace "Wally" West

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Superhero, KCPD car mechanic

Group Affiliation: JLA, formerly Teen Titans, Justice League Europe, Justice League of Adventure, Titans I, Titans II

Known Relatives: Barry Allen (Flash II, uncle, deceased), Bart Allen (Impulse / Kid Flash II, cousin), Dawn Allen (cousin), Don Allen (cousin), Iris West Allen (aunt), Rhodes (aunt), John Park (father-in-law), Lisa Park (mother-in-law), Edgar Rhodes (uncle), Inez Rhodes (cousin), Eric Russell (grandfather), Fran Russell (grandmother), Jai West (son), Charlotte West (aunt), Ira West (adoptive grandfather), Iris West (daughter), Linda Park West (wife), Mary West (mother), Rudolph Robert West (father)

Aliases: Kid Flash I

Base of Operations: Keystone City, Kansas, Central City, Missouri, formerly Blue Valley, Nebraska

First Appearance: (Kid Flash) Flash I #110 (December, 1959-January, 1960), (Flash) Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (March, 1986)

Powers: All of Flash's powers derived from his ability to tap the Speed Force. Flash could run at superhuman speeds, at top speed he surpassed the speed of light. He possessed superhuman endurance and had an aura that protected him from friction heat. He could vibrate his molecules at superspeed, enabling him to phase through solid objects. By varying the vibration of his atoms he could travel to other dimensions or through time.

History: (Flash I #110) - Young Wally West was the nephew of Iris West and the president of the Flash Fan Club in his home town. Iris introduced Wally to her boyfriend Barry Allen and hoped he could arrange a meeting between Wally and his idol Flash. 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. Deciding to 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 #210 (fb) - Robin took Kid Flash on a tour of the Batcave. Flash commented that his mentor Flash always said Batman was a bit off, which was why all his enemies were lunatics. Batman was standing right behind Kid Flash, who then ran off, embarrassed at his first introduction to Batman.

(Titans II #23 (fb)) - Wonder Girl went on a date with Speedy, but he blew it with her, and she returned to Titans hq furious and in no mood to talk to her teammates. Kid Flash had feelings for Wonder Girl, and disliked her going after the “bad boy.“ Kid Flash punched Speedy, and wanted to know what he did to Wonder Girl. Aqualad broke up the fight, and Robin told Speedy that he was having enough of a hard time convincing Batman to let him stay on the team without the kid parents didn’t want their children hanging around with. He told Speedy the Titans were better off without him, and Speedy left. Days later Wonder Girl found Speedy in Star City; Green Aroow thought the bruises he’d received from Kid Flash were from a villain, and wanted him to stick to stakeouts. He told Wonder Girl he’d blown it because he was afraid oif strong women, but she decided to give him another chance.

(Teen Titans III #32 (fb)) - Superman gave Kid Flash and the Teen Titans a tour of the Fortress of Solitude. Unbeknownst to him Speedy stole a piece of a Phantom Zone Projector that he would make into a Phantom Zone arrow.

(The Hawk and the Dove I #5) - Hawk and Dove chased a thief and ran into Kid Flash and the Teen Titans.

(DC Comics Presents #26 (ff)) - The New Teen Titans were called in by S.T.A.R. Labs after Prof. Stone opened up an extra dimensional gateway and released a giant protozoan that was trying to convert Earth’s atmosphere to methane to suit its needs. The Titans battled the alien without much success before the battle returned to the lab where the dimensional gateway was stored. Prof. Stone sucked the air from the room, giving it no atmosphere to breathe, and Starfire blasted it back to its own world before destroying the gateway at Stone’s request.

(Titans East Special #1 (fb)) - Joker, with his hired goon Bizarro, crashed pop star Jenn’s concert in Central Park. He held her hostage, but the New Teen Titans responded and took Jenn to safety. Kid Flash took away Joker’s gun, be realized the gun contained a bomb, Joker’s actual plan involved blowing up all of Jenn’s fans. He ran at superspeed to toss it into the ocean, and Raven tried to confront Joker with his worst fears and nightmares, but they only made him laugh convulsively. Flash and Robin secured Blue Kryptonite from S.T.A.R. Labs to defeat Bizarro, and Robin took out Joker with one punch. The Teen Titans were impressed with themselves for having taken out such heavy hitters, and knew they’d always suceed as long as they stuck together.

(Titans II #23 (fb)) - Robin and Kid Flash investigated when someone set off the alarm in their old Teen Titans hq, and found Speedy, strung out on heroin. Robin told Speedy to get help, or he’d get it for him.

(Titans II #23 (fb)) - Speedy met Wonder Girl after being clean for a month, and she said his place was with the Titans. Speedy said the Titans hated him, and he could care less about them. He admitted that he still loved her, and she said that she knew that. Kid Flash visited Speedy at home, and told him to stay away from Wonder Girl and the Titans. Speedy told him that he knew Wonder Girl deserved better, so he’d get his wish.

Kid Flash retired when he learned his superspeed was killing him, although he returned to action in the Crisis. When Flash died saving the universe during the Crisis, kid Flash continued his legacy as the new Flash.

The newfound responsibility of being Flash wore on Wally, he abused his fame to be a womanizer, and often sought monetary rewards. In time he matured and acted more like the hero his uncle was.

(Adventures of Superman #463, New Gods III #13) -

(Action Comics I #650) - Flash bragged to his JLI teammates about beating Superman in a race, and Martian Manhunter told him his bravado was unbecoming. He gave Flash a rundown of Superman's rich history serving with the Justice League.

(Flash II #40) - Tina and Jerry McGee were working on their artificial intelligence project when they got a call from Wally. His friend Linda Park had seemingly been possessed by the ghost of an Irish bard named Seamus O’Relkig, and he needed them to look through university employment records to find out the current address of Al Desmond, the former Dr. Alchemy, since he was the only expert in magic that Wally knew of. Mason made Linda some cocoa and she thanked him again for looking after her. The next day Wally and Linda approached Desmond’s crumbling home in Morningside Heights when O’Relkig took possession of Linda, and he came on strong to Wally, telling him Linda fancied him and they could make love. Wally was having none of it, and was relieved when Linda regained control of herself. They met with the disheveled Desmond, who was disheveled and intensely working on a lab project. Wally didn’t realize he wasn’t talking to Albert, he was talking to evil “psychic twin” Alvin who’d learned they were coming over and had tied up Albert Desmond and locked him in the closet. Alvin told them he was furtively trying to transmute elements, but found it impossible without the Philosopher’s Stone. He believed Linda’s story of possession, saying psychic energy like what he shared with his “twin” was similar to the spiritual energy that would explain a ghost. He used an instrument of his own invention that detected energy pouring off Linda, and started getting handsy with her. She yelled at him to back off, and he disappeared into another room. Linda was furious at Wally for taking her to see a madman, and Wally changed into Flash, hoping to shake some sense into Desmond. Desmond emerged from the other room as Dr. Alchemy, armed with his Philosopher’s Stone, and tried to kill Flash, first by turning him into chalk, and then by turning everything in sight into boiling steam. Flash tossed lab equipment ta him, distracting Alchemy, and giving him time to run behind him and knock him out. Flash found the captive Albert and freed him. Albert bemoaned that anytime his life got on track Alvin showed up and ruined everything. Flash tried to reassure him that with Alvin going to jail his troubles would be over.

(Flash II #41) - Linda’s morning talk show was supposed to feature Albert Desmond talking about his life as a reformed supervillain with Flash as another guest to give his perspective. Desmond no-showed, and Linda was fuming. The network was about to bump her show to cover a hostage situation when Flash came up with the idea of handling the situation live on Linda’s show. He zipped back and forth between the station and the hostage standoff, bringing police Lt. Cleveland and the hostages in for interviews with Linda before disarming the hostage-taker Wilfred Petty and bringing him in. He said his sister had been turned to solid gold during a bank robbery, causing him to snap and decide to kill his tax attorney Benjamin Harrison Hughes. Flash suspected Dr. Alchemy, and he and Linda went to check in on him in prison. The only thing in Desmond’s jail cell was a salt figure, and O’Relkig possessed Linda, informing Flash that the salt figure was never alive. Flash wasn’t convinced, fearing Albert had gone rogue again and killed Alvin, so he called up Tina McGee, who said there was something fishy about the whole “psychic twin” business. Tina tried to tell Flash there was something wrong with the A.I. project, and everyone around her seemed to be turning into a stranger, but Flash brushed her off. Flash decided to call up Harrison, asking if he could help with his tax situation. Harrison said Flash’s taxes might be a bit too much for him to handle, but Flash insisted he’d be fine. Flash asked Linda if he could talk to Seamus, who took over her body and led Flash straight to Dr. Alchemy. Alchemy turned the road under Flash to tar, and then the air around him to stone, crushing him. Albert Desmond, having once again taken the identity of Mr. Element, freed Flash with his element gun. He fought Alchemy, but was overwhelmed, with Dr. Alchemy proclaiming that he didn’t just use the Philosopher’s Stone, he was the stone. Flash realized that when Albert reformed a part of him missed his old ways, and the Philosopher’s Stone responded by creating Alvin Desmond. No jail could hold him because the Stone could just let him crumble to dust and create a new Alvin elsewhere. Mr. Element reconciled himself with his darker instincts and wrested the Stone away from Dr. Alchemy, who in a flash of light was turned into the concrete from which the Stone last created him. Albert used the Philosopher’s Stone to return the teller Alchemy had turned to gold to normal. She hugged Albert, and Flash said he’d really proved he could be a hero.

(Green Lantern III #25) - Flash and the Justice League were on hand to watch Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner battle to determine who'd become Earth's one Green Lantern. The League initially wanted to interfere, but the Green Lantern Corps held them back, saying the fight was necessary Corps business. Hal won, and the Justice League rejoiced.

(Green Lantern III #30, 31, Flash II #69, 70) - Flash used the money he inherited from Icicle to invest in a new house. On the way to a television interview with Linda Park, Flash was mentally controlled by Hector Hammond, who forced him to run him to Gorilla City. Flash met Green Lantern II and Rex the Wonder Dog there, and they witnessed Grodd and Hector Hammond mentally warring over control of an evolutionary meteorite. The meteorite exploded, turning Lantern into a Neanderthal and Flash into a mental giant with an atrophied body. The near-mindless Lantern attacked Flash, but Flash used his mental powers to exert willpower over Lantern's ring and ordered it to turn the heroes back to normal. Together they stopped Grodd from taking over Gorilla City. Green Lantern told Flash he'd grown up a lot, and was proving to be a mature hero.

(Showcase '93 #3) - Flash was called by the police when everything and everyone in a five-block radius stopped moving. Flash entered the time-free zone, and found that he was slowed down to a crawl. He found the culprit, the alien Adaigo, who was inspecting the frozen citizens, checking behind their ears. He didn't want Flash to bother him, and blasted him with a raybeam. Adagio found the target he was looking for, an extraterrestrial disguised as a human woman, who got the drop on him with a gun, but Flash recovered in time to disarm her and help Adagio apprehend her. Adaigo explained that he was law enforcement sent to Earth to retrieve an escaped prisoner, and had used his frame-reference field to slow time. He restored everything to normal, and left with his captive

(Green Lantern: Mosaic #16-18) - Moses Rockwell and a Peeper forced Green Lantern John Stewart to send out an interstellar S.O.S. requesting aid in sending the cities of Mosaic World back to their home planets. Flash was among the heroes of Earth to respond to the signal. Once on Mosaic he found the majority of its’ inhabitants did not want to return to their home planets. Flash and the other Earth heroes agreed to take back only those Mosaic inhabitants who wanted to return home.

(Green Lantern III #63, 64) - Ganthet appeared to Flash and told him he was needed to fight Parallax. Ganthet, Flash, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Hawkman and Martian Manhunter confronted Parallax as he took away Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's power ring. Parallax defeated the heroes, but Kyle talked him down and convinced him to give up the power ring.

(Green Arrow III #16 (fb)) - Flash attended Oliver Queen's funeral.

(Impulse #11) - Flash and the speedsters destroyed Savitar's avatars and destroyed his castle, but Johnny Quick lost his life during the confrontation. Savitar vowed to go after the speedster's loved ones.

(Impulse #22) - Flash, Max Mercury and Iris Allen planned Impulse's surprise birthday party, but they needed a way to keep him away from the house. Max fooled Impulse into thinking he was being blackmailed by some shady characters, and Impulse ran to NYC and Las Vegas to follow Max and the hoodlums, all actually a disguised Flash. By the time Impulse returned home he was greeted by Max's party.

(Final Night #1, 2, 4) - Superman organized a summit of superheroes, including Flash, to listen to an alien named Dusk. She'd seen the Sun-Eater snuff out the sun of countless planets, and she was there to warn the heroes that the Sun-Eater was headed towards Earth. Flash and a team of heroes formed a ground crew to deal with the panic that the Sun-Eater's approach would cause. The Sun-Eater attacked the sun, causing an unseasonable chilling of Earth. Flash responded to riots in Metropolis, where a mob was trying to kill Dusk, blaming her for the Sun-Eater's attack. At S.T.A.R. Labs Lex Luthor designed miniature forcefield units that would hopefully shield the Earth from the sun going nova, and Flash built thousands of them at superspeed. Ferro piloted a ship with the forcefields aboard, but the sun started going nova before he could plant the forcefields. Parallax sacrificed himself to dispel the Sun-Eater and reignite the sun.

(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Flash was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan. He spoke at the service, remembering the friendship Hal had with his uncle Barry Allen.

(DCU Holiday Bash #1) - Flash overheard Linda telling her mother she was sick of the world’s fastest appliances that Flash got her for Christmas, and hinted that they had a conversation at a department store about what she really wanted. Flash wracked his brain, and visited several department stores across several time-zones, but couldn’t find anything she’d want. He remembered a disgusting multi-colored sweater was in the background when he talked to Linda in the department tore, and recalled her request, that he show he actually listened to her and wasn’t always distracted supervillains and alien invasions. To show her he remembered the conversation he got her the loud sweater for Christmas.

(Titans #15, 16) - Flash and the founding Titans went away on a camping trip to a deserted island to work out their differences. The team kept butting heads, with Nightwing blaming Flash for Dark Flash's actions when he was on the Titans. Tempers flared when a monsoon hit and the team had to seek shelter. They came to a cave, where they discovered the Gargoyle, who'd been exacerbating their negative feelings. The Titans were taken to Limbo, where they were de-aged to their thirteen year old selves from when they first became Teen Titans. After reliving some of their childhood memories they battled the Gargoyle, but the Gargoyle took a fall, he wanted them to stay angry at each other, which would ensue their imprisonment in Limbo. While the rest of the Titans worked out their problems Arsenal told them Limbo was about stagnation, and that sometimes friends had to disagree to make each other better. To make an example he told Nightwing he was sick of hearing about Batman all the time and decked him. With that they were transported out of Limbo.

(Titans #17-19) - Starfire obtained a spaceship and went with the Titans to the Vegan System to help Starfire's brother Ryand'r. Ryand'r and the Tamaranians were fighting the Gordanians on Karna, and had the Titans split up to deal with three Gordanian military outposts. Flash and Argent easily overtook the outpost they were assigned, but learned that the Tamaranians were the invaders, not the Gordanians. The Gordanians had taken Tempest hostage, and Flash and the Titans went to rescue him, but Tempest said he wasn't going anywhere, he was trying to negotiate peace between the races. Just then the main Gordanian army arrived on the planet, and the Titans were forced to surrender. Thanks to Tempests' diplomacy the Gordanians and Tamaranians agreed to become allies, and the Titans returned to Earth.

(Titans #20) - Flash razzed Nightwing about being Jesse Quick's "boyfriend," but knocked it off when Nightwing admitted he did like her. Flash told him he was going to get her to join the Titans. He talked to Jesse and told her he was leaving the Titans, and that she'd be a good replacement, and she agreed. Flash broke the news to his teammates, telling Nightwing he'd joined the Titans to make Nightwing feel comfortable, but that made Nightwing feel obligated to stay. He knew Nightwing was happy with the team now, so there were other things Flash needed to do.

(JLA #1-4) - Flash and other JLA members witnessed the arrival of the Hyperclan on Earth. The JLA convened, and after Batman and Superman gathered concrete proof that the Hyperclan were not the heroes they wanted the world to believe they were, the JLA planned a confrontation. Flash was paired with Green Lantern, his least favorite teammate, and they traveled to the Gobi Desert where the Hyperclan had set up a watchtower that beamed worldwide mind control rays. They were met by Zum, Armek and Zenturion of the Hyperclan, who, after two battles defeated the heroes and took them to the Hyperclan hq of Z’Onn Z’Orr and imprisoned them in the Flower of Wrath. The JLA escaped and defeated the Hyperclan, but they learned that the Hyperclan were White Martians, and they had summoned an invasion force towards Earth. Superman sent out a worldwide broadcast, telling the people of Earth that the Martians were on their way, and that their one weakness was fire. The JLA rounded up the invasion force, which had already been humbled by Earth’s populace, and Martian Manhunter hypnotized them into taking human form and becoming peaceful members of society. The JLA constructed their own Watchtower on the moon.

(JLA #5, JLA: Tomorrow Woman #1) - Flash and the JLA held a membership drive, planning on creating a twelve-member permanent roster. They went through many applicants, but were most impressed by Green Arrow, Aztek and Tomorrow Woman. Tomorrow Woman joined the team, and the JLA spent the week battling IF (Implicate Field), a renegade weapon from the Lord of Time’s arsenal that used electromagnetic pulses to destroy everything in its’ path. The JLA had to shift their attention to the Miracle Babies, ten million children under the influence of the Sole Jurisdiction empire, acting as their militia. Tomorrow Woman was capable of removing the hatred from their minds and making them normal children, but she could only act on a small scale. The JLA agreed to link minds with her, ending the rage of all the Miracle Babies on Earth once and for all. Tomorrow Woman later gave her life to deactivate IF, and the team learned that she was an android created by Professor Ivo and T.O. Morrow to destroy the team, but had disobeyed her programming after forming a will of her own. The JLA swept down on the mad scientist duo’s headquarters and apprehended them.

(JLA #6, 7) - Martian Manhunter summoned the JLA when he found Zauriel, an angel that had fallen to Earth. Neron and the Demons Three were watching the JLA’s movements, and when Flash tried to teleport from the JLA Watchtower to Earth they froze him inside the teleporter. While Superman tried to help him the Demons pulled the moon out of orbit towards Earth. The rest of the JLA assisted Zauriel against Heaven’s bull-host, who were intent on wiping him out. Asmodel, the leader of the host, arrived on Earth. After a titanic battle Flash, who’d escaped the teleporter, used his speed vibrations that could move matter across spacetime to send Asmodel and the Host back to Heaven. The JLA met aboard the Watchtower to induct Green Arrow, but they were attacked, and knocked unconscious by the Key.

(JLA #8, 9) - Key hooked Flash and the JLAers up to a machine and injected them with a neural virus that made each member dream of a replica reality, in hopes that they’d help him find the keys to creation in their dreams. He knew the JLA always won, and he was counting on it. When they escaped the dreams he made for them they’d generate enough psycho-electric energy to open a gateway to negative space. He planned to step through and become one with the center of the universe. Flash dreamed of the dying Fastbak giving him a suit of pure Speed-Force and contending with a world where everyone was superhumanly fast for one hour a day. The JLA shook off their dreams and woke up, but before Key could enter negative space new JLA inductee Green Arrow knocked him cold with a boxing-glove arrow.

(Aztek: The Ultimate Man #10) - Amazo trapped the JLA in the Watchtower using an energy bubble created by his Green Lantern power. He told them he had business on Earth with his creator Ivo, and didn't want to be interrupted. GL Kyle refused to accept that Amazo's willpower was stronger than his ring, and hated that he was using power based on Hal's. Wonder Woman remembered Hal's power's weakness against yellow, and destroyed the sphere. The JLA traveled to Earth, where Aztek had kept Amazo away from Ivo. Aztek held his own against the villain, who surrendered with the arrival of the JLA. Aztek was inducted into the JLA as their newest member, having already won the good graces of GL, Batman, and Superman.

(JLA #10) - The JLA Revenge Squad, hard-light duplicates of the JLA, wrecked havoc in Star City. Flash and the JLA responded and drove them off, but the Revenge Squad was deactivated and sent back to the Injustice Gang hq. The Gang was merely taking the new JLA’s measure before confronting them. Aztek was in the JLA Monitor Womb when he detected a massive amount of energy heading toward Earth, and Martian Manhunter chose to investigate it. He was devastated by the Genesis Wave and realized it was headed toward Earth.

(Flash II #130-132) - Flash took Linda to India to witness a beautiful sunset for her birthday. Jay Garrick and Max Mercury told him the Suit was loose, and he'd led them to Flash's apparent corpse from one hour in the future with a note saying his death was inevitable. Flash confronted the Suit, and told Jay and Max to go to the morgue and make sure they didn't perform an autopsy. The Suit froze Flash just as his future self woke up. He raced to his past self and countervibrated his molecular structure, sending him into a death-like coma. The Suit caused a number of explosions and thought they killed Flash, so he sent him an hour into the past, creating a time loop. Flash was hit by debris caused by the explosions after faking his death, and had to break his run, hitting a brick wall and breaking both his legs. While Flash was recovering Jay, Impulse and Max posed as him to confuse the Suit. The Suit fought them off, possessed Max and broke all the supercriminals out of Keystone Jail. Flash connected to the Speed Force and created a suit of armor from it. While Jay and Impulse put the supercriminals back in jail Flash unraveled the suit, freeing Max. The Suit reformed and took possession of Jay, so Flash offered himself up in trade. When the Suit possessed him Flash vibrated at superspeed, destroying it. He went home and found Linda and the Mirror Master waiting for him.

(Flash II #133) - Mirror Master sent Linda to a mirror dimension where time ran backwards. He knew she'd soon disappear from Flash's life, and Flash was appalled that one of his enemies went after his girlfriend, something the old school Rogues would never do. Mirror Master led Flash on a chase that resulted in Flash running into a giant prism at lightspeed and being split in seven. Mirror Master used the distraction to rob a bank vault, but Flash pulled himself together and destroyed Mirror Master's mirror gun. Mirror Master told him he couldn't save Linda without his gun, so Flash ran to Singapore to get replacement parts. Mirror Master returned Linda from the mirror dimension and tried to escape, but Flash caught up with him and sent him to jail.

(JLA #11-15) - The JLA tracked down the Injustice Gang, with Superman and Martian Manhunter traveling into space to find their satellite hq. The Gang them to a duplicate hq, and trapped them in a maze that was a manifestation of Joker’s mind. Metron approached Flash, Aquaman and Aztek, telling them Lex Luthor had the Philosopher’s Stone, and that Darkseid was after it. He altered the JLA teleporter with a Mother Box so they could make a transtemporal voyage to find the Stone, which existed in all times and places, before Darkseid. The heroes bounced through space and time, learning that if the Gang defeated the JLA the Philosopher’s Stone would be destroyed and Darkseid would enslave Earth. They ended up on Wonderworld, home of the Theocracy, who used Glimmer’s hyperwheel to try and get them home. Unfortunately they ended up in a hypertimeline 15 years in the future where Darkseid already ruled Earth and ruined it. They occupied their own future bodies, and Flash’s future self was a powerless and overweight laborer. They joined up with Earth’s last remaining heroes as a new JLA they broke into one of Darkseid’s warships and stole Metron’s Moebius Chair so they could return to the past. Metron was a pawn of Darkseid that sent the JLAers on their chase so Darkseid’s future would be assured. As Orion destroyed Darkseid’s world with the Genesis Box the JLAers returned to their own time. The JLA found the Gang’s satellite hq thanks to Arrow, who’d only pretended to betray the JLA, and Mirror Master, who was working for Batman, who’d paid him more than Lex. The JLA defeated the Gang and blew up their satellite. Joker was got hold of the Philosopher’s Stone, and prepared to use it on the JLA, but Martian Manhunter temporarily turned him sane. Lex convinced Joker to use the Stone to undo the deaths the JLA Revenge Squad caused in Star City, ensuring that Lex couldn’t be charged with any crime. The JLA gave the Stone to the real Metron for safekeeping. Aztek and Green Arrow quit the JLA, and Batman decided to devote more time to Gotham City. In the end the JLA decided to disband.

(Spectre III #62) - Corrigan decided to give up the mantle of the Spectre, at last seeking peace in death. Craemer arranged for his bones to be buried in a small grave, and performed a funeral service, with all of the friends Corrigan met as the Spectre attending, including Flash. The Spectre-Force vanished and Jim ascended to Heaven.

(JLA #16, 17) - Three months after the JLA disbanded the team was reorganized with a new lineup. They invited the press to the Watchtower to introduce the new team to the public, and had a “join the JLA for a day” contest that a man named Retro won. Retro was killed on his way to the Watchtower and replaced by Prometheus. Prometheus set fire to the hydroponic systems that provided the Watchtower with air, and defeated Martian Manhunter, Steel, Huntress and Batman as Hippolyta tried to evacuate the press. Prometheus threatened to kill the press unless Superman committed suicide, but Catwoman, who’d been disguised as reporter Cat Grant, defeated him and he was forced to flee. Prometheus had methods of defeating every hero on Earth, but didn’t keep files on villains, so the newly reformed Catwoman was capable of besting him.

(JLA #18, 19) - Julian September unhinged the universe’s laws of probability with his engine of chance, briefly warping history so that everything worked in his favor. He became Presaident and Flash and the JLA saved him from seven supervillains that tried to kidnap him. Batman destroyed the engine, leading to Julian’s disappearance, and several JLA members blinked out of existence. The universe fought against the probability cancer Julian unleashed, with disastrous results associated with the number seven. Atom, the seventh hero to join the Justice League met with the JLA by coincidence, and Oracle unlocked September’s research notes. He split seven pohotons to create the Engine of Chance, so Atom shrunk the team to subatomic height and repaired the photons, undoing all the Engine’s effects.

(JLA #20, 21) - Adam Strange teleported Flash and the JLA to Rann using zeta-beams, told them they were now his slaves, and forced them to rebuild Rann under the supervision of En’Taran Slavemasters. Strange’s actions were a pretense for having the JLA construct a giant zeta-beam that teleported the Slavemasters away from Rann.

(Green Lantern III #103)- Flash and the JLA were introduced to time-traveling Green Lantern Hal Jordan by Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. Hal was welcomed as a new inductee into the JLA. Kyle was worried about Hal taking his place, and Flash tried to calm him down.

(JLA #22, 23) - The Star Conqueror put most of the world to sleep, dreaming of a world in which its rule was absolute. The few JLA members still awake were met by Dream, who’d received the plea of Michael Haney, a young boy who still believed in heroes, even in the Conqueror’s world. Dream warned the JLA that the dreamers would wake to serve and nourish the Conqueror, and send Hippolyta, Green Lantern and Superman into the Dreaming to confront the Star Conqueror while Flash, Martian Manhunter and Zauriel watched over them. Continent-sized Star Conquerors orbited Earth, preparing to put the world to sleep when their spores sent a signal saying it was safe. Haney’s faith in the JLA allowed them to destroy the Conqueror’s dream and repulse the spores.

(Flash II #139-141) - Flash, Jay Garrick, Impulse, Max Mercury and Jesse Quick celebrated Iris Allen's wedding anniversary. Flash and Jay went on patrol in San Francisco and Flash told Jay he was ready to propose to Linda but was worried about dying in the line of duty and making her a widow. Jay told him their job was like being a policeman, and that the risk shouldn't stop him from getting married. Global weather patterns were in chaos, and Flash found Weather Wizard was responsible and punched him. Wizard told Flash he was trying to reform and revive the environment of a dead zone, but that the effort was screwing up weather patterns. Flash agreed to help him, and they replenished the dead zone. Max had taken pictures during Iris' party and saw a black shadow behind Flash. He recognized it from pictures he had of Flash Barry Allen and Johnny Quick before they died. It was Black Flash, the aspect death took when it claimed speedsters. Max and Jesse told Flash about the situation. They hoped that by delaying him from meeting Linda Park at the Flash Museum they'd saved his life, but the Black Flash claimed Linda. Flash held a funeral for Linda, and her parents showed up and blamed him for her apparent death. Flash retired from heroics and spent all his time mourning. He accepted a teaching position in Edinburgh, Scotland, a way to put all the Flash Facts to use, and a way to make a new start. Impulse met him at the airport and asked him to stay. The Black Flash arrived to claim Flash's life. Jay, Jesse and Max fought him, but were all defeated. Flash led him on a chase through time, and they eventually ended up billions of years in the future when there was no longer life in the universe. Since there was no life, there was no need for death, and the Black Flash dissipated. Flash rescued Linda from the Speed Force, and brought her to Paris, where he proposed.

(Martian Manhunter II #0) - The JLA had a meeting and Martian Manhunter told Flash and his other teammates he was taking a leave of absence to take a pilgrimage to Mars.

(DC One Million #1) - Justice Legion A invited Flash and the JLA to travel with them to the year 85,271 to compete in Olympic-style games and celebrate the return of Superman Prime to Earth. They accepted but when Hourman sent the JLA to their time, he was unable to retrieve them, because he’d been implanted with a virus by Vandal Savage and Solaris. The virus also took out all of the Justice Legion.

 (DC One Million #4) - Solaris was on a rampage decimating planets, and the JLA stopped him by having Green Lantern cause him to go super-nova. The JLA witnessed the return of Superman Prime before returning to their own time.

(Martian Manhunter II #1) - Flash was on JLA monitor duty, and connected Martian Manhunter to Steel and Oracle so he could solve the Headmen murders in Denver.

(JLA #24-26) - Flash and the JLA got a report of a alien invasion in Phoenix, Arizona, but when the team showed up in Arizona the invasion turned out to be a ruse. They were confronted by the Ultramarine Corps, who were under orders from General Wade Eiling to execute the JLA. The fight went badly for the JLA until they convinced the Ultramarines that Eiling had gone insane, and his orders no longer carried presidential approval. The JLA and Ultramarines fought Eiling, who had transferred his consciousness into the indestructible body of the Shaggy Man. Although they couldn’t defeat him, they transported the General millions of miles into uninhabited deep space.

(JLA #27) - Green Lantern and Flash went to Ivy Town University and offered Atom a spot on the JLA, but he refused it, telling them the life of a full-time superhero went at too fast a pace. Professor Ivo placed an upgraded Amazo in the Florida Everglades to free him from Belle Reve prison. Amazo instantly duplicated the powers of any active JLA member and defeated the JLA, and when they called in the reserves, his power only increased as he duplicated the abilities of the reserves. Superman, at the suggestion of Atom, temporarily disbanded the JLA, causing Amazo to lose his powers and shut down. Atom accepted a part-time gig as the JLA’s science consultant.

(JLA #28-31) - The 5th Dimensional invasion began, with genie Lxz causing havoc around the world. Flash and the JLA teamed up with the Justice Society of America, and tried to find J.J. Thunder, who was in possession of the 5-D genie Thunderbolt. Lkz tried to stop them by animating the buildings of Keystone City and killing citizens. The heroes fought him off the best they could, but it still came down to J.J., who, after some prodding, summoned the Thunderbolt, who began a titanic battle with Lkz. Qwsp revealed himself as the instigator of the battle between Lkz and Thunderbolt, a battle that threatened to throw the 5th Dimension into chaos and destroy Earth. Representatives of the 5th Dimension arrested Qwsp, because only mischief was allowed in the 3rd Dimension, and he’d gone way past that. Captain Marvel and Green Lantern convinced Thunderbolt and Lkz to merge into one being, ending their war.

(Martian Manhunter II #7-9) - Flash and the JLA asked Manhunter to surrender to them because they suspected him committing crimes against humanity. In truth Malefic that was responsible, and he’d framed Manhunter by shapeshifting and impersonating him. The JLA questioned Manhunter at the JLA Watchtower, and Malefic turned himself invisible and attacked the JLA. They assumed Manhunter was responsible, leading to a huge fight. Manhunter tried to extricate himself by flying off in a JLA shuttle, but Malefic had anticipated this, and rigged it to go up in flames. Malefic then started hunting down the individual members of the JLA. Manhunter revealed that he’d survived and challenged his brother to a one-on-one confrontation on Z’Onn Z’Orr. Manhunter piloted Z’Orr into the sun and left Malefic behind to burn alive. The JLA apologized to Manhunter for ever having doubted him.

(Impulse #49) - Impulse told Flash about Dr. Rudolph West's new venture, the Sunnyside Boys Camp. Flash knew that if his dad was involved it was probably dirty, but he had Titans business to take care of.

(JLA #32) - Flash and the JLA discovered that Locus was conducting disturbing genetic experiments in No Man's Land Gotham City. The JLA waged war against Locus to force them out of Gotham.

(Catwoman III #58 (fb)) - Flash defeated Angle Man, who claimed a moral victory having gone toe-to-toe with a major superhero. Angle Man prepared to clear out of town when Replicant ambushed him, absorbing his angle that bent spacetime into his body. Replicant said he was feeling generous and would let Angle Man live, but told him to leave town.

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(JLA #40, 41) - Mageddon approached Earth, causing worldwide war, and Flash brought Glimmer, the sole survivor of the Theocracy, who’d been wiped out by Mageddon, from Wonderworld to Earth to help the JLA. The JLA built an anti-war ray, a device powered by Glimmer that gave all of humanity the ability to resist Mageddon’s urgings for them to destroy each other, as well as temporary superpowers so that they could all help fight Mageddon, and the final blow was delivered when Superman absorbed the anti-sun that powered Mageddon.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1) - Flash and the JLA were among the superheroes that attended Young Justice’s Justice for All rally in Washington. It was interrupted by Klarion, who magically de-aged Flash and most of the heroes into children. Doiby Dickles pulled out an extraterrestrial aging gun to return the heroes to their proper age, but another of Klarion’s spells intercepted his shot. The result was that the younger heroes present were aged to adulthood, but the other heroes remained children.

(Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. #1, Sins of Youth Secret Files #1) - The de-aged Kid Flash and JLA fended off an attack by the Point Men, and returned to the Watchtower with Anarky's help. At Captain Marvel's suggestion they visited the wizard Shazam, but he couldn't undo Klarion's spell. They traveled to Young Justice's Justice Cave, where the JLA and JSA's childish tempers erupted in a battle that lasted hours. After everyone was too tired to fight, the heroes made up and decided to split up to find a way to reverse Klarion's magic.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2) - Doiby tried using his new raygun on Flash and the other heroes affected by Klarion’s spell but it had no effect. Since the heroes’ ages were skewed by a combination of magic and science, they would need Klarion’s cooperation to undo the transformation. The heroes attacked Agenda’s headquarters in Alaska, where Superboy, Superman, Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman were being held hostage. The hq was defended by the Junior Injustice Society, but the heroes prevailed, forced the Agenda to flee, and freed the prisoners. They then forced Klarion to team with Doiby and return everyone to their proper age.

(Flash III #162) - Flash, Linda and Billy Batson attended the American Broadcasters Expo and went to a Ken Blackwell speech. "Blackwell" was actually a demonic simulacrum created by Felix Faust that implanted a post-hypnotic suggestion in the audience. The next day Linda and Billy went to the airport, and Billy learned his flight was rescheduled to 6:57. When Linda and Billy heard "6:57" the hypnotic suggestion was activated and they incanted a spell that turned the airport temporarily into a dark ages castle. Felix chose 6:57 because that was when the new Golden Spike Network was scheduled to go on air, and when the announcers announced the time the nation would incant the spell, turning America into a medieval land. Flash and Captain Marvel took Spike off-air to foil Faust, and then apprehended the villain.

(Flash III #163) - Flash and Linda discussed how they'd make their marriage work in the long-term with both of them constantly called away to work. Flash promised Linda that at the end of the day he'd always be there for her. The Turtle sent them a marriage present, a bomb disguised as turtle doves. Flash disposed of the bomb, and received a digital transmission from the Turtle telling him his JLA friends were in trouble. The Turtle had bombs ready to destroy Aquaman, Batman, Green Lantern and Superman, so Flash moved at superspeed to dismantle all the bombs, and then raced to the Turtle's lair. Turtle had his own version of a time treadmill, and planned to go to the 1880s, a slower time, and live like a king after selling the stolen yellow diamond of Nepal. Flash disrupted the treadmill by speeding up as he approached the Turtle, and took back the diamond. The Turtle was hurled into the age of dinosaurs.

(JLA: A League of One) - Wonder Woman learned from the Delphic Oracle that the dragon Drakul Karfang in Switzerland that was destined to fall before the JLA, but kill them before dying. Wonder Woman was determined to cheat fate by taking the JLA out of action, so she knocked out her teammates with cheap shots while they were on missions. Flash foiled a terrorist attack in the Amazon by Poison Ivy when Wonder Woman confronted him and took him out of action. She placed them in lifeboats and sent them into orbit. Wonder Woman told Superman the JLA had a limited oxygen supply, and he flew into space to rescue them. Flash and the other JLAers met Wonder Woman after she destroyed Drakul, and they accepted that Wonder Woman had no choice but to do as she did to save the JLA from destruction.

(JLA #42) - Atom shrunk down Flash and the JLA so they could enter the brain of a young boy who’d developed a tumor. The tumor was actually a microscopic society of intelligent bacteria that were mining the boy’s dendrite to power their cities, and the JLA tried to convince the bacteria leaders to find an alternative energy source and stop harming the boy. The bacteria leaders refused to listen to reason and imprisoned the JLA. The JLA escaped in time to witness bacteria rebels destroy the power station that was mining dendrite. At this point the boy’s doctors removed the tumor, and the JLA rescued as many of the bacteria as they could. Once they left the boy’s brain the surviving bacteria were killed off by the boy’s immune system.

(Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #1, Green Lantern / Power Girl #1, Green Lantern: Circle of Fire #2) - Adam Strange informed Flash and the JLA that a villain named Oblivion had devastated Rann and was headed towards to Earth. The JLA went to intercept Oblivion before he reached their planet, but they were defeated and put in suspended animation inside a giant yellow crystal. Green Lantern defeated Oblivion, and as a result the JLA were freed from the crystal. Green Lantern admitted to the JLA that he had accidentally unleashed Oblivion; the villain was actually an aspect of his subconscious, and resigned from the League. The JLA refused his resignation, telling him they were proud he confronted his inner demon and triumphed.

(JLA #43-46) - Ra’s al Ghul stole Batman’s secret files, files he had hidden from even his own JLA teammates, which detailed ways to neutralize every member of the JLA if they ever went rogue, and began using those plans against the JLA. Ra’s agents shot Flash with a vibratory bullet that caused Flash to lapse into lightspeed epileptic seizures. After more attacks o the JLA they regrouped at the Watchtower, where Superma cured Flash’s condition by destroying the vibratory bullet with his heat vision. The JLA had to return to Earth, because Ra’s had activated the Tower of Babel, a device that scrambled the language center of every human mind on the planet, and the result was worldwide chaos. The JLA located Ra’s stronghold thanks to Batman, and Superman destroyed the Tower, but Ra’s had already accomplished one of his goals. While the Tower was in use Turkey and its neighbor Rhapastan went to war, and Ra’s agents in Rhapastan were ready to unleash biochemical weapons on Turkey. Flash and the JLA stopped Ra’s agents and confiscated the biochemical weaponry. Back at the Watchtower Superman called a meeting to decide if the JLA should expel Batman for keeping secrets and making plans that Ra’s was able to exploit to nearly destroy the JLA. Flash voted for Batman to stay, although he was angry at Batman he trusted that everything he did was for the cause of good. After the votes were tallied Batman was expelled.

(JLA #47-49) - The Queen of Fables transformed Manhattan into a medieval forest and kidnapped Wonder Woman, so Flash and the JLA entered the forest and rescued their teammate. Batman arrived in the forest and gave the JLA the enchanted tome from which the Queen escaped, and which could trap her once again. The JLA didn't want to subject the other citizens of the enchanted book to the Queen, so they made her realize that outside of her enchanted world she would age and die, then when she tried to renter the enchanted book Flash III switched it at superspeed, leaving her trapped in United States Tax Code Manuel. With the Queen trapped Manhattan returned to normal.

(JLA #50) - While battling Dr. Destiny’s dream-self, Flash and other members of the JLA who voted for Batman to stay on the JLA argued with their teammates who voted Batman off. The JLA defeated Destiny, but Superman realized that the team was in discord ever since Batman left; they no longer trusted each other. To solve this Batman was readmitted, but only after sharing his secret identity with the rest of the team. As another show of faith Flash and the other JLAers all bared their civilian identities to each other.

(JLA #51-54) - The Cathexis unleashed the sentient energy Id on Earth, which transformed wishes into reality, causing havoc all over Earth. When Superman wished he could separate his superhero and private lives the Id split him and the other members of the JLA with secret identities in two. The JLAers found the situation disastrous, as they were no longer felt complete. Linda Park was not happy with the laid back Wally West as her husband, and said she wanted the man she married back. The JLA figured a way to reunite their civilian and superhero selves. They captured the Id using Wonder Woman’s lasso and Flash’s vibrations, recombined their identities and sent the Cathexis packing back to the sixth dimension.

(Green Lantern III #134-136) - Green Lantern Kyle Rayner assembled Flash and the JLA to confront Nero. He warned them that it might be impossible to stop someone as powerful and insane as Nero without killing him. Nero unleashed a demonic army across NYC, and the JLA dealt with them all. Nero then attacked Times Square, but was defeated by Kyle Rayner.

(Flash II #170-173) - Flash attended the Keystone Combines hockey play-offs with his wife, but he had to leave the game to help Chyre and Jackam of the KCPD defeat Children of Cicada cultists that had committed a murder at Keystone Motors. Flash also received help from Magenta, who assured him she was cured of her violent impulses. After defeating the cultists Flash tried to be polite to officer Julie Jackam, who he’d remembered as an old girlfriend that he’d broken up with on bad terms, but she was having none of it. At the KCPD precinct Detective Morillo told Flash that all the murders committed in Keystone by the Children of Cicada targeted people whose lives had been saved in the past by Flash. Morillo brough Flash into his investigation, and Flash learned that Julie Jackam was one of the victims. Flash visited Magenta, who’d been taken into police custody, and told her he blamed himself for her psychotic breaks because he’d tried to mold her into a superhero and what he thought a superhero’s girlfriend should be when he was Kid Flash. Magenta revealed herself as one of the Children of Cicada and after defeating Flash brought him to Cicada. Cicada told Flash he’d killed to sustain his immortality, and his insane justification for killing people Flash had saved was because both he and Flash were given powers after being struck by lightning. He plunged a knife into Flash, stealing enough of Flash’s energy to resurrect his wife, but not enough to kill Flash. Cicada overloaded himself trying to absorb all of Flash’s energy, and was taken into police custody by Chyre and Morillo Cicada told Flash he worshipped him as he was being dragged away. Flash returned home to find a bomb planted by the Children had destroyed his house. He told his wife he wanted them to move away from the suburbs and into the heart of Keystone City where the working class lived, and she agreed.

(Green Arrow III #4) - Aquaman brought Green Arrow to the JLA Watchtower, and the team was in shock because he was back from the dead. Arrow was taken back by changes in the JLA because he didn't remember any of the last ten years of his career before his death. He was especially hostile toward Flash because he still remembered Barry Allen as the Flash. He turned against his teammates, and Batman knocked him out and promised to find out how Arrow came back from the dead and why he was suffering from amnesia.

(Flash II #174) - Flash and Linda moved into their new apartment in the heart of Keystone. They visited Linda’s parents for dinner, and Flash admitted to Linda that her father made him uncomfortable when he asked questions about his superhero career. On her advice he tried asking John park about the stock market, but this line of talk bored him to no end. He was grateful when he had to leave to stop Tar Pit from spoiling a Keystone Combines play-off game. He got assistance from Captain Cold, who was in attendance at the game, but after they defeated Tar Pit Cold vanished.

(Flash II #175, 176) - Flash and Linda attended Julie Jackam’s funeral. Officer Chyre told Flash about his suspicion that Flash was Josh Jackam’s father. Flash learned Chyre was wrong when Weather Wizard attacked Keystone and fought Flash in an effort to steal away his son Josh. After an intense battle Flash defeated Weather Wizard, and learned that he was part of a new group of Rogues.

(JLA #55-58) - When the JLA fought Id Martian Manhunter had a fleeting wish about not wanting to be lonely, so Id woke up Earth’s White Martians. They created a power base and kept the JLA busy with a number of distractions, including activating a nuclear power station in Murmansk while Flash and the JLA were there handing out food. Green Lantern contained the explosion, and Batman found the Martian’s lair in Phoenix, Arizona. The Martians captured both Batman and Martian Manhunter. The Martians set up Ion Stations that introduced viral subatomic particles into the atmosphere that attached to oxygen atoms and set them at slow combustion so there’d be no fire on Earth, eliminating the Martians one weakness. Superman located one of the stations, but was attacked by the Martians. Martian Manhunter escaped the Martians and destroyed the Ion Stations, but it would take time for the atmosphere to heal. The JLA took a stand at Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, using the armaments Superman had stored there. They were defeated, and tricked the Martians into exiling the JLA to the Phantom Zone using Superman’s projector. Here they came up with a plan to defeat the Martians without being scrutinized by their telepathy. Atom was hidden at microscopic size in the Fortress, and freed the JLA. The JLA lured the White Martians to the Moon, and a number of heroes with sorcerous abilities created an oxygenated atmosphere on the Moon so that the JLA could create fire there to use against the Martians. Martian Manhunter sent the defeated Martians into the Phantom Zone. Manhunter was badly injured in the exchange, and Batman reminded him that he was never alone, despite being the last Green Martian, because the JLA was always there for him.

(Flash II #177) - Plunder shot Chunk in the chest with a bullet was made of white dwarf star matter that caused Chunk’s powers to go haywire. Chunk started absorbing everything around him, people, buildings even light, until Flash removed the bullet from his body. Flash then sent him to S.T.A.R. Labs for treatment.

(Action Comics #780) - Flash and the JLA went to Metropolis when Darkseid and his forces gathered in Apokolips. President Luthor assured them Darkseid was an ally in the coming war against Imperiex, and told the JLA they'd have their part to play in the war.

(JLA: Our Worlds at War #1) - Flash and the JLA fought a group of Imperiex Probes in space, and although victorious the explosions caused by the defeated Probes severely injured the team. While they were recovering in the Alien Alliance's space ark. Imperiex seized the opportunity to send more Probes to Earth to hollow out the planet and absorb its energy.

(Flash: Our Worlds at War #1) - On President Luthor’s orders the Keystone unions built the Tunnel, a device that would short out the battlesuits of the Parademons attacking Earth by utilizing Flash’s speed. Flash supervised its construction and fought Parademons attacking Keystone at the same time. Flash saved a young girl named Karen from the Parademons, but the Black Racer appeared from nowhere and told Flash she was marked to die so he had to kill her. Flash picked up Karen and tried to run her to safety, but the Racer was close behind, and swore to kill Flash for impeding his duties. Flash used one of the Parademon’s Mother Boxes to open a Boom Tube and teleport away the Racer. Flash then powered the Tunnel, crippling the worldwide Parademon invasion.

(Flash: Iron Heights) - When Murmur unleashed the frenzy virus on the population of Iron Heights Flash III and Flash I were called in by Detective Morillo to help. Flash III and Pied Piper were sent to Iron Heights to obtain a sample of the virus while Flash I worked at superspeed in a laboratory to find a vaccine. After battling some escaped inmates including Murmur, Flash brought Jay a sample of Murmur’s blood, which contained antibodies that would ward off the frenzy virus, and Jay had Flash add his speed to a vaccine made from the blood so it would work within seconds. Flash and Jay cured every surviving person afflicted with frenzy. Flash was disturbed by the inhumane conditions of Iron Heights, and gave warden Gregory Wolfe his frank impression of the Heights.

(Flash Secret Files #3) - Flash met the latest member of the KCPD, Rogue profiler Hunter Zoloman. Murmur had slaughtered the employees of radio station KKEY, and Hunter did a profile on him that led Chyre, Morillo and Flash to his next target, radio station KKSS. They interrupted Murmur’s attack, but he escaped with help from the Rogues.

(Flash Secret Files #3) - Flash spoke to Chase of the D.E.O., who was collecting data on Gorilla Grodd. He he warned Chase that Grodd was a monster and not to be underestimated. His warning went unheeded, and most of the D.E.O. team that went after Grodd was slaughtered before his capture.

(Flash II #178) - Flash dropped Linda off on her first day of med school, then fought Gorilla Grodd, who’d broken out of a prison transport on his way to Iron Heights. When Grodd destroyed an apartment complex, Flash rushed to save all the residents from the collapsed building, and then used a power cable that used to be the building’s power supply to stun Grodd. Flash handed Grodd over to Gregory Wolfe and urged him to send Grodd back to Gorilla City where they could properly contain him. Wolfe ignored him, but did tell him that the Pied Piper was in custody on murder charges.

(Flash II #179) - Flash learned that Pied Piper had been arrested for murdering his parents. Flash visited him in Keystone City Jail, and Piper told him he honestly didn’t know if he was guilty. The Jokerized Killer Elite broke into Piper’s cell and infected him with joker-juice. The Jokerized Piper and Captain Boomerang attacked Flash, but Piper was only infected with a small dose. He shook off its’ effects and helped Flash defeat Boomerang.

(JLA #59) - Flash and the JLA rounded up a number of villains that had been Jokerized and gave them the antidote to the Joker Venom. They fought the Jokerized Dr. Polaris, who had absorbed the electromagnetic energy of the South Pole, threatening worldwide catastrophe. He held them back, until they had Plastic Man, who was not vulnerable to Polaris’ power, confront him. Plas defeated Polaris, and he was given the antidote to the Joker Venom.

(Flash II #180) - Flash tried to expose Gregory Wolfe’s inhumane treatment of prisoners, and brought Morillo to Iron Heights to show him that the prisoner Fallout was powering the jail. By the time they got there Fallout was gone, and Wolfe warned Flash to butt out of his business. Flash visited Linda at Central Medical School when Peek-A-Boo attacked the school to steal a kidney. Flash and Cyborg, a recent Keystone transplant, teamed up to tracked her down, so they could return the organ, which was meant to save a dying woman. They defeated her and Flash learned Peek-A-Boo stole the kidney to save her father’s life. There was nothing he could do to get her father moved up the organ waiting list, and Flash didn’t feel like much of a hero.

(JLA #61) - Flash and the JLA fought the mythic Cyclopicon and Kraken, whose battle was causing massive tidal waves. They next confronted an army of creatures from Pandora’s box. Abra Kadabra, who was under the influence of a Burrower alien with mysterious motivations, had awakened all these creatures. Kadabra was defeated, the JLA took the Burrower to the Watchtower to examine it, and the mythic monsters went back to where they came from.

(Flash II #181) - Fallout was unintentionally causing death and destruction in Keystone, so Flash confronted him and stuck him with a control rod to contain the radiation he was emitting. Flash promised him he’d receive more humane treatment in the Heights if he let Flash take him in. Flash had Jerry and Tina McGee construct a cell for him that used the radiation Fallout emitted to power Iron Heights without putting Fallout in pain like his previous containment cell. Flash spent Christmas Eve with Linda and Iris Allen, who’d returned from the future to care for Josh Jackam, who’d one day be a great hero.

(JLA #62-64) - Eudia and Venelia of the Wonder Woman Foundation helped Ailani flee Jarhanpur and brought her to the JLA Watchtower. Ailani told them her son was being held in Jarhanpur, and Flash and the JLA went there to investigate. They met the country’s leader Rama Khan, who treated them as guests. He explained that Ailani’s son had been chosen to become the new Rama Khan, who connected the people to the land and harnassed the powerof the land. If there was no Khan the land would perish and he refused to give up custody of the child. Wonder Woman persisted in Ailani’s right to have custody of her child and forced a fight. Khan harnassed the power of Jarhanpur’s land,and Wonder Woman used her lasso on him, finding that he’d told the JLA the complete truth. Wonder Woman doubted the truth, and her lasso broke. The JLA was sent away, but with the Goddessof Truth’s lasso broken truth became subjective, altering the world. Anything that some people held to be true became true, Earth became the center of the universe, and became flat. The JLA quelled riotes when the South rose again and when Vishnu manifested they kept him asleep so the world would not end. Wonder Woman journeyed to the Land of the Shades to meet the Fates and ask them to repair her lasso. They told her it was her fault it broke, and without truth, fate began to deteriorate. Wonder Woman asked forgiveness of Jarhanpur, the land granted it, and truth was restored. Rama Khan refused to accept this and attacked Wonder Woman and trhe JLA, but the misuse of his powers caused Jarhanpur to crumble. The JLA reunited Ailani with her son.

(Flash III #183) - Hunter Zoloman gave Flash a rundown on the new Trickster, who then broke into Zoloman’s office. Flash couldn’t stop him from erasing Hunter’s Rogues database and escaping. Linda, Iris and Flash visited the Garricks. Jay Garrick told them Joan ha been diagnosed with leukemia after Fallout’s attack on Keystone City.

(JSA #34-37) - The Ultra-Humanite used Johnny Thunder’s Thunderbolt to conquer the world, and imprisoned Flash and virtually every superhuman on Earth in stasis tubes, only reviving them when he needed mind-controlled slaves to serve in his personal guard the Thunderfront. Flash served as a member of the Thunderfront when they attacked the JSA, the only heroes not under the Humanite’s control. The JSA used a device that disrupted the braincaps Humanite used to control the Thunderfront, leaving them unconscious but freed from Humanite’s mental domination. When Flash and the other heroes awoke they aided the JSA in defeating the Humanite.

(Flash II #184-188) - Flash talked to Linda about all of his allies that had been targeted and taken out recently. He learned his worry was justified when he visited the KCPD, only to find Cyborg and all of the KCPD trapped in a mirror by Mirror Master. Mirror Master demanded he have a showdown with the Rogues in Central City. Flash fought valiantly, but the Rogues soon had him on the run. He ran to Keystone, which had been taken over by the Thinker. Thinker and the Rogues both claimed Flash for themselves. Flash fled, and the Thinker caught up with him first. He threatened to erase the minds of everyone he’d taken over in Keystone, including Linda, unless Flash let him take over his mind. The Thinker saw Flash’s brain as the world’s fastest data processor, and wanted it for his own. Flash relented, and let Thinker take over his mind just as the Rogues found them. Although the Rogues separated Flash from the Thinker, Keith Kenyon rescued Flash and brought him to safety before the Rogues could kill him. Chyre and Morillo had freed Cyborg, who gave Flash an idea of how to beat the Thinker. Flash again let Thinker enter his mind, speeding up his thinking process to the point that the Thinker couldn’t cope and was unraveled into raw data, erasing him for good. The Rogues attacked Kenyon and Flash, defeating them. Blacksmith knew she had to leave the city with her Network because Kenyon had tipped off the FBI about the Network, but intended to cause as much destruction as she could before leaving. The Union attacked the city, but Kenyon gathered his unions to battle the Network, buying Flash time to defeat the Rogues. Blacksmith knew she was defeated and tried to destroy the Van Buren Bridge connecting Central City to Keystone City. Flash rebuilt the bridge stronger than before, and defeated Blacksmith. Flash sent Linda to Jerry and Tina McGee to get a check-up to make sure she didn’t suffer any side effects from having her mind taken over by the Thinker. She was fine, but the McGees let Flash know she was pregnant.

(Green Lantern III #149) - Flash attended a JLA meeting to detail the restructuring of the JLA watchtower when the JLA were alerted to a fleet of Crystal Invaders of Karalyx preparing to invade Earth. The JLA scrambled to take out the Crystal Invaders, but Ion told them not to worry, as he'd already sent them back to their homeworld. Ion noticed he was getting some odd looks from his teammates now that he was omnipotent.

(JLA #66-68) - Flash and the JLA investigated a rain of deep-sea life that fell over Daytona Florida, when they discovered Tezumak, one of the Ancients who’d traveled from 1,000 B.C. to kill the JLA because the Ancients believed the heroes to be destroyers. His teammate Manitou Raven joined the fight, temporarily taking the JLA out of commission. Green Lantern freed his teammates as Manitou prepared to sacrifice Wonder Woman. With the tide turning against them Manitou and Tezumak returned to Atlantis in the past, revealing a ruined Atlantis above water where the Atlantic Trench was. When Atlantis was threatened during the Imperiex War Tempest sent it into the past, and the JLA was determined to bring it back to the present to replace the ruins before them. Tempest cast another spell, sending the JLA into the past.

(JLA #70, 72-75) - Flash and the JLA found an Atlantis that Gamemnae of the Ancients had rose from the sea floor, and kept themselves hidden among the population because Rama Khan, leader of the Ancients, still wanted them dead. The JLA discovered a mystic pool where Aquaman, who’d been transformed into water, was being held prisoner. He told them his people were underwater, kept as slaves for the glory of the Atlantis above water. The JLA learned that Gamemnae was responsible for Aquaman’s condition, the enslavement of Aquaman’s Atlanteans, and the Ancient’s false belief that the JLA were evil. The JLA confronted the Ancients, but were slain in battle withg them. Manitou Raven realized that Gamemnae was evil, not the JLA, and cast a spell to preserve them. Manitou cast a containment spell that sealed off Atlantis from the rest of the world, so that Gamemnae could not conquer it. Thousands of years passed, and in the present, when the raised Atlantis had been revealed to the world, Gamemnae broke free, drained Earth’s water supply, and battled the JLA that Batman assembled as a contingency plan while his team was stuck in ancient Atlantis. Manitou animated the bodies of the JLA to battle Gamemnae, and her spell to absorb others into her only affected the living she fully resurrected the JLA. With this part of the plan complete Zatanna and members of the new JLA went to 1,000 B.C. where they freed Aquaman, who merged with the ocean, and sank Gamemnae’s Atlantis. Zatanna cast a spell that returned Aquaman’s Atlantis to the present day. Gamemnae, weakened by this change in history, was easy prey for Manitou Raven, and he sacrificed himself to destroy her.

(Flash II #189) - Flash wanted to check up on their friends hurt by the Rogues and spread the news that he was going to be a dad. Linda told him it was too early to tell people, and asked him to stay quiet for the time being. Flash met Kenyon and shook his hand, finally accepting that he was reformed. He then spent some time with Jesse Quick, Iris West, Morillo, Cyorg and Flash I, inviting them over for dinner. Hunter Zoloman gave Flash the details of how the Rogues framed Piper for the murder of his parents. They went to get Piper released from Iron Heights, but he’d already broken out.

(Flash II #190) - Hunter and Flash contacted F.B.I. agent and former Rogue James Jesse in hopes of locating Piper. Jesse told them he came up dry, but in truth Jesse put Piper in a secret F.B.I. program.

(JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice) - Flash attended the first annual JLA and JSA Thanksgiving celebration when the teams were called to Arusha, Tanzania to stop Doctor Bedlam from disrupting the Pan-African Conference on World Hunger. The JLA and JSA defeated Bedlam, but the attack was a ruse on the part of Johnny Sorrow to give him the opportunity to have Despero possess President Luthor, who was at the conference, and to have the Seven Deadly Sins possess members of the JLA and JSA. The possessed heroes destroyed JSA headquarters and incapacitated the unpossessed JLA and JSA members. Flash was among the heroes banished to Odin’s Ragnarok in Limbo by the possessed Mr. Terrific. Flash and the others figured out a way to return to Earth, and then the JLA and JSA helped Shazam re-chain the Deadly Sins in the Rock of Eternity, defeated Johnny Sorrow and freed Luthor from Despero. Luthor graciously built the JSA a new hq.

(Flash II #191) - Linda’s study buddy Cliff revealed himself as Brother Grimm, an took Linda hostage as his “princess.” He created a giant beanstalk in Keystone and brought an army of dragons and goblins in order to take over the city. Flash and Hawkman defeated Grimm, returning him to his home dimension of Eastwind. Flash had been nervous fighting aside the legendary Hawkman, but they came away from their team-up with a mutual respect. Hawkman told Flash Barry Allen would be proud of him.

(Green Arrow III #19) - Green Arrow went to the Flash Museum to retrieve the GA ring costume Barry Allen gave him, but Flash barred his way. Arsenal snuck past them and retreived the ring. Arrow could have asked for it, but it wasn't Flash's place to give it to him.

(Flash II #192-194) - Linda and Flash discussed their future together as parents when Flash was called away to deal with a break-in at Iron Heights. Mind-controlled Gorilla City gorillas were in the process of tearing apart the Heights and freeing the prisoners in order to find Gorilla Grodd’s cell. Flash brought Gregory Wolfe and Hunter Zoloman to a safe room, and then confronted an army of rogues freed by the gorillas. The villains ganged up on Flash and had him beaten when Gorilla Grodd escaped his cell and claimed Flash for his own. Grodd battered Flash until Fallout escaped his cell and forced him to retreat. Grodd wanted to hurt Flash through his friends, so he crippled Hunter Zoloman before leaving for Africa. Flash was outraged and followed him. Flash entered Gorilla City and met its’ new ruler Nnamdi. Nnamdi told Flash he was the first human allowed in the City under his rule, but sensed that Flash was willing to kill Grodd to avenge Hunter. He warned Flash to deal with his anger, and then Grodd attacked Nnamdi. Flash defeated Grodd and restrained himself from hurting the villain too badly. He wanted to take Grod back to the Heights, but Nnamdi insisted he stay in Gorilla City to pay for his crimes. Nnamdi was leary of Flash and mentally erased his memory of Gorilla City’s location, and sent him back to Keystone.

(JLA #76) - Martian Manhunter used telepathy to council Flash and the JLA on dealing with their deaths at the hands of the Ancients. The JLA recovered the scattered atoms of Plas from across the Atlantic and pieced him back together. He explained the trauma of not being whole for over 3,000 years, and quit the JLA to spend more time with his son.

(JLA #77) - Mnemon, a synthetic lifeform that recorded history by draining the memories of others, landed on the moon and Flash and the JLA investigated. Atom entered Mnemon, who was quick to start eating the memories of the JLA. Mnemon’s actions always led to planetwide destruction, which it considered its’ own form of art. With Atom’s guidance Superman destroyed the magnetic field that kept it cohesive with his heat vision, but this freed the miniature black hole that powered Mnemon. Through great force of will Superman held Mnemon and the black hole in his hands long enough to fly into space and toss it into a wormhole.

(Flash II #195) - Flash fought the Top, who was trying to kill Keystone’s mayor. With advice from Hunter Zoloman Flash played on Top’s arrogance and defeated him. The McGees gave Linda an examination and told Flash she was going to have twins.

(JLA #78, 79) - A large mass of Mirror Matter, previously thought to be only theoretical, was headed toward Earth, and Flash and the JLA disposed of it by having Firestorm transform it into marshmallow fluff. The JLA received an extraterrestrial video feed from Kylaq sent to them by Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, who was in deep space. The Peacemaker and his Paciforce deceed that Kylaq would join his forces or perish. The JLA debated handling a political situation so far from Earth that they didn’t know all the details about. Wonder Woman said the JLA had a responsibility to nay innocents in danger, and Superman said that handling the Peacemaker was a preemptive measure, because he could eventually target Earth, so the JLA traveled to Kylaq, but Flash and other members who objected staid behind to watch over Earth. On Kylaq the JLA defeated the Paciforce and arranged peace talks between the Kylaq and the Peacemaker.

(Flash II #196) - Hunter asked Flash to use the cosmic treadmill to undue the tragic event that started his downward spiral. Flash told him time travel was risky and he couldn’t change the past without fear of repercussions. Hunter got angry and told Flash he needed to experience tragedy to understand what he was going through. Peek-A-Boo caused chaos at Keystone’s general hospital in an effort to see her father before he died. Flash didn’t want to fight her, but after one teleportation and explosion Flash was temporarily paralyzed and Linda was hurt. Peek-A-Boo took Linda to get medical treatment and turned herself in. Linda told Flash she was ready to announce her pregnancy to their friends.

(JLA #80-82) - The commune Safe Haven, an organization protected by metahumans, was at a standoff with government forces A.T.F. and D.E.O. that wanted to investigate the commune when the JLA intervened. Flash and the JLA heard the case of Shepherd, who ran the Haven, and wanted to act as intermediaries. This went south when tensions led Haven members and government agents to fire at each other. An explosion seemingly killed everyone at the Haven, and the JLA were blamed. Superman, Major Disaster and Faith were all convinced that they were responsible, but Batman later examined the scene and found that no one had died. Axis America, led by Shepherd, aka Ubermensch, appeared to battle the JLA and revealed themselves as agents of Mr. Manson, the government operative behind Safe Haven who sacrificed it and used the metahuman the Mouth to convince the JLA they were responsible for hundreds of deaths. All this was so Manson could reclaim Faith for the U.S. government. Faith recognized the setup and forced Manson to leave her alone for the time being, and Axis America retreated.

(JSA #54) - Flash, the JLA and JSA celebrated Thanksgiving at JSA hq.

(JLA #84-89) - A wave of fear and remorse washed over the inmates of Arkham Asylum, the prisoners of Blackgate and President Luthor. Flash and the JLA investigated, and when Martian Manhunter, who’d rejoined the team after Scorch healed him of his fear of fire, tried to fix Luthor’s mind, he was assaulted by a powerful psychic force. Hostile nations and hate groups started feeling remorse and killing themselves. Firestorm’s powers were taken away, and realizing it was connected to world events, Manitou Raven guided the JLA to Vandal Savage’s mountain stronghold. Vandal recognized the world events as the attack of the Burning, a Martian he killed 20,000 years ago. He presented the Burning’s head to the JLA, and they brought Savage and the head to the Watchtower, only to discover Superman, who’d been attacked and bonded to the JLA meeting table. They freed Superman, but the revived Burning defeated the JLA and would have killed them if Major Disaster didn’t use evac protocols to teleport them to Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Superman suspected that the Burning was actually Martian Manhunter, and in preparation of combating him they entered the Phantom Zone to ask the White Martians for aid. The Burning was already in the Zone and had slaughtered the Martians. The Burning again defeated the JLA, but they were saved and spirited away by Green Lantern John Stewart, who’d been briefed on the Burning and how to deal with it by the Guardians of the Universe. The Burning was a dangerous, chaotic race that the Guardians genetically modified to become Martians, and gave them an innate fear of fire so they couldn’t acess the powers of the Burning. When Manhunter overcame his fear of fire, his race memory turned him into the Burning, who needed fear and fire in multitude to asexually reproduce. Batman contacted the amnesiac Plas as his backup plan and convinced him to confront the Burning while Manitou contacted Martian Manhunter on the spiritual plane and found his soul dominated by the Burning. Burning unleashed nuclear attack to create the chaos and flames he’d need to asexually reproduce, but the JLA stopped the bombs, except for one that hit Chongjin, North Korea, but Flash evacuated the population. Plas fought Burning to a deadlock because his mind was non-organic and not vulnerable to telepathy. Thanks to Manitou Martian Manhunter separated himself from the Burning, and Scorch sacrificed herself to sap the Burning’s flame. Manhunter confronted the Burning and destroyed him with his Martian-vision.

(Flash II #198-200) - Flash and Linda announced to Iris West, Flash Jay Garrick, Joan Garrick and Impulse that they were going to be parents. The Flashes were called away to deal with a collapsing building, and fought Zoom, who beat Jay unconscious and then unleashed a sonic boom on Linda. Linda was hospitalized, and Zoom attacked Flash. Zoom was winning the battle, and took the time to check on Linda. He announced that she’d miscarried because of his attack, and hoped this tragedy would teach Flash he had to risk everything to protect his loved ones. Zoom unmasked as Hunter Zoloman, and told Flash he’d failed as a hero when he didn’t use the cosmic treadmill to erase Hunter’s tragedies. He wanted Flash to kill him like Flash Barry Allen killed the Reverse-Flash to protect his fiancée, so he threatened to kill Linda. Zoom’s powers caused a window to the past to open showing the moment when Hunter’s mistake led to his father-in-law’s death, and Flash pushed him inside the window. As a result Zoom was frozen in suspended animation and force to relive his greatest mistake over and over again. Flash was visited by the time-traveling Barry Allen, who told him he was there to support him on the first of the three most trying days of his life. Flash blamed Linda’s attack on his public identity, so the Spectre offered to make the world forget that Wally was the Flash. Flash accepted, but he also forgot he was a hero. Wally and Linda lived life as a normal married couple, and Wally got a job as a car mechanic for the KCPD.

(Flash II #201-206) - After two months Wally earned respect as a car mechanic because he was never late and fully dedicated himself to his job, but his lack of time with Linda wore on their marriage. Linda was starting to recover from her miscarriage, but confided in Wally that she blamed Flash for her getting caught up in his battle with Zoom. Wally made friends with Len Snart, who frequented the same late-night diner as Wally. On his way home from work Wally was involved in a pile-up caused by Trickster, and his superspeed kicked in. He didn’t understand what was happening, but used his speed to keep the motorists involved in the accident from being injured. A man passed Wally in the street and gave him arry Allen’s old Flash ring. Wally tried to explain to Linda what happened, and he thought Flash was involved, but Linda didn’t want to hear it because she blamed Flash for her miscarriage. The next night Thugs attacked Wally after work, and his speed kicked in. He disarmed the criminals, but caused a building to collapse on them. No one was seriously hurt, but Wally finally remembered that he was the Flash. Flash confronted serial cop-killer Mr. Element at a steel mill, but was defeated. Captain Cold saved his life, but when Flash tried to bring him into police custody he fled. At work Wally met the new Rogue profiler Ashley Zoloman, wife of Zoom. She apologized for what Zoom did to Wally and Linda, but he snapped and told her to leave him alone. Flash returned home to find Linda gone. She went to see Iris Allen because she was distraught by the Flash’s return. Batman confronted Flash, revealed that he was the one who gave him Barry’s ring, and told him they needed to talk. He’d done some detective work to u7ncover Flash’s identity and understood that Flash wanted to protect his family, but he wanted Flash to level with the JLA. Flash told him he wasn’t ready yet. Linda and Wally talked, and she told him she was having a hard time breaking the news of her miscarriage to her parents. Wally promised her they’ get through their rough patch. Wally uncovered Mr. Element’s identity and defeated him. Captain Cold appeared and froze Flash so he could settle his business with Mr. Element, stabbing him through the chest with an icicle. Wally revealed he was the Flash to Linda, and apologized for having unintentionally erasing her memory. She stopped blaming Flash for her loss, but left him so she could sort through her emotions.

(JLA #92-93)- Flash and the JLA met the alien Pe-Paey, who told them he monitored Earth’s progress from time to time and needed to locate specimens of the silver-masked monkey. The JLA traveled with Pe-Paey to South America, but found a construction crew demolishing the monkey’s last habitat for grazing land. Superman spotted a silver-mask and tried to save it, but the crew’s explosives were already set and the blast killed the monkey, probably the last of its species. Pe-Paey was upset; his people’s Book of Lol predicted the silver-masks would become Earth’s dominant species. He asked to see all of Earth, and the JLA obliged, taking him to monuments, museums, an in the interest of full disclosure, and at Superman’s request, strife ridden countries like Santa Prisca and Minglia. The JLA foiled insurgents and terrorists in Minglia, and asked Pe-Paey what he thought. Pe-Paey assured them the silver-masks should have been the dominant species, and that humanity was choosing to become extinct, so he would help. He used his ship to bring meteors crashing toward Earth, but the JLA stopped any damage and told him their race was confused, not suicidal. Disheartened by the inaccuracies in the Book of Lol, the only thing he believed in, Pe-Paey returned to his ship and blew it up, killing himself.

(Flash II #207-209) - Flash tried to get back to normal despite the absence of Linda in his life. He demanded an explanation from the Spectre for his actions, and Hal told him he was just trying to protect him and his family, but everything in life came at a cost. Keystone threw a parade for Flash to honor his return, but it was disrupted by Abra Kadabra, Plunder, Tar Pit and the Trickster. Jay Garrick and Kid Flash helped him defeat the villains, an told him they hadn't been affected by the Spectre’s spell, and still remembered Flash as Wally. The heroes toured the New Flash Museum, when Wally was teleported to the JLA Watchtower, where the JLA demanded to know why they no longer remembered his secret identity. He initially refused to talk to team, and ran around the world looking for Linda. Superman followed him, and when he realized Linda wasn’t coming back he talked to Superman. Flash was ready to share his identity with the JLA as well as every other superhero he respected, including the JSA and Teen Titans.

(JLA #94-99) - Batman investigated a number of child abductions and murders that seemed to have a common perpetrator, and got Flash and the JLA involved. Manitou Raven had already learned that the Tenth Circle was responsible, so they spirited him away with vampire bats. Atom examined his telling stones at microscopic size looking for clues about where Manitou went, but soon after disappeared. They learned that most of the missing children possessed the metagene and could be powerful as a collective. Superman found children being taken into a van in Metropolis, and intervened, but the metahuman Nudge took control of his mind, and took him to her master Crucifer. Crucifer bit Superman, bringing him under his control, and sent him after his teammates. After defeating and abducting Faith Crucifer sent him back to the JLA Watchtower. Wonder Woman, in her research of the Amazon archives, matched a symbol found at the abductions to the Tenth Circle, a cult of vampires defeated by the Amazons in the early days of Greece. Superman surreptitiously destroyed the archives because they described how the Circle could be defeated, and lured Wonder Woman to Castle Crucifer. Superman attacked Wonder Woman, and Nudge, rebelling against Crucifer, tried to influence the battle, but when Superman briefly regained his senses Crucifer stabbed Wonder Woman with a sword. Crucifer dumped Wonder Woman on a highway, with the Tenth Circle calling card on her, a challenge for the JLA to oppose him. Batman didn’t want the team walking into a trap, and considered it misdirection. John Stewart had encountered the Doom Patrol while battling Tenth Circle members abducting more young metahumans, and the DP told him the Circle was their responsibility. Batman and the JLA went to the DP’s Key Mordaz hq to compare notes. Chief’s tech was able to find Atom in the telling stones, he’d found a side-door dimension that Crucifer used for transporting his cultists. The JLA and DP teamed up and confronted Crucifer in Barnes, Saskatchewan, where he prepared to transfer the souls of his vampire lords into the metahuman children he'd collected. The heroes drove him off, and Atom destroyed the vessel containing Crucifer’s heart he had stored in the side-door dimension. Crucifer was weakened enough for Superman to break Crucifer’s hold over him and destroy him.

(Flash II #210, 211) - Flash, Nighwing and the Teen Titans got together for a little catch-up. Flash and Nightwing defeated the Penguin, who was expanding his criminal operations into Keystone City with the help of Double Down and Girder. AT work Wally fixed the brakes on Ashley Zoloman’s car. Later Nightwing and Flash took a private tour of the New Flash Museum when Gorilla Grodd ambushed them. They defeated the villain, and promise to try to stay in touch more often. Wally was brought in for questioning after Ashley Zoloman was involve in a car accident thanks to his faulty break repair.

(JLA #100) - Manitou Raven sensed a disturbance in the Earth, and there were several volcanic eruptions, the hole in the ozone layer opened further, and other geothermal events signaled an extinction level event. Gaea, speaking through the earth-powered Major Disaster damned humanity for their abuse of her and their failure to get along. Sister Superior of the Elite v.2 had also realized that Gaea was ready to destroy humanity, and proposed a plan to Flash and the JLA, and although they doubted her trustworthiness they agreed. The Elite stormed Washington, demanded all governments dissolve and declared themselves rulers of Earth because humanity had proved themselves unfit to rule. After UN meetings and a staged defeat of the JLA by the Elite, every nation on Earth put aside their differences to tackle the Elite. Gaea once again believed in humanity, seeing them unite against a common enemy, and held back her wrath. The Elite allowed themselves to be defeated, and the cover story was that the JLA had them imprisoned on the moon. Sister Superior discussed forming a Justice League Elite, a black op force to make preemptive strikes. Batman had long considered the possibility, but didn’t trust Superior, and neither did Superman, who was an archenemy of her brother Manchester. Flash spoke out, saying she deserved a chance to be heard out.

(JLA #102) - Flash responded to an apartment building on fire, and saved almost all the residents, but came upon the bodies of two children that had already perished. He was unnerved and blamed himself for not doing enough. He bought truckloads of smoke detectors and installed them in hundreds of Keystone City homes. He snapped at one man with children who told him he'd been too busy to replace the batteries in his. The JLA offered their friendship to Flash, and told him he'd never forget the dead children, but that in time the rawness of his emotions would fade, and on some days he'd feel okay.

(Superman / Batman #13) - Flash and the JLA were among the heroes invited to Paradise Island to welcome Superman's cousin Supergirl into the superhero community

(Flash II #213) - Chyre and Morillo grilled Wally, but he told them he was innocent. They still suspected him, but didn’t have any evidence to keep him detained. All the citizens of Keystone except Flash became frozen in time thanks to the Turtle, so Flash confronted the villain. The Turtle stole most of Flash’s speed, but he maneuvered the Turtle below a truck suspended in mid-air that was slowly leaking its cargo of tar. The tar immobilized the Turtle, and Flash sent him back to the Heights. Wally returned to work where he found a pin from the combination valve that he should have put in Ashley Zoloman’s car. He was distracted by his fight with the Penguin, and never put back the pin when he finished fixing the car. He realized Ashley’s accident was indeed his fault.

(JLA #103) - John Stewart heard two calls for help from two apartments. He chose one and stopped a man from beating a woman, but when he responded to the second call he found the woman who yelled dead at the hands of her stalker. Stewart snapped and beat the man to death. His wrong decision reminded him of the planet he let die, and he worked nonstop fighting crime around the city, until he passed out from exhaustion. Flash and the JLA was there for him and he finally saw reason in Superman's argument that heroes did the best they could but weren't infallible.

(JLA #104) - Manhunter resumed his John Jones identity, taking a job at the Kennedy detective Agency. he was considered an excellent employee except for the fact that he was distant and made his co-workers uncomfortable. His boss had Detective Loony Linda try to learn more about them. John found her to be an intellectual, and she was interested in him despite his efforts to push her away. He gave his identity away by reverting to Martian Manhunter to save a woman from her abusive husband. Flash and the JLA, who were worried about Manhunter, visited his apartment, as did Linda. They all agreed that Manhunter pushed people away not because he felt uncomfortable, but because he had a hard time when he felt comfortable and friendly with people. Manhunter admitted that the wounds of his families death opened any time he felt anything for anyone.

(Enginehead #6) - Bones and the DEO were tracking new unpredictable metahuman Enginehead, who continually slipped away from them. Enginehead, trying to fix the flaw in humanity, had taken a woman whose car accident he'd caused and rebuilt her as a cyborg. Bones sent the Metal Men and JLA to battle Enginehead. Enginehead needed a final spark to create what he saw would be a new world that was without the flaws of the old, and after showing Tin his vision of the universe, agreed to give him his spark. Tin felt overjoyed and brave, telling his teammates he'd just saved the world. Enginehead ended up sacrificing part of himself to build Irontown, a new kind of engine and home for the disaffected of the world. The woman he transformed became one of the first residents.

(JLA #105, 106) - Wonder Woman fought a new villainess whose sword negated her strength and powers. After a hard fought battle Wonder Woman was victorious, but she was rattled because the battle almost cost her her life. She sought emotional support from the JLA, but she couldn't explain her feelings to them, and John Stewart and Flash were preoccupied with video games. She went to Superman, and told him she remembered her mortality, and was in fear for her life, so Superman comforted her. They looked in on Joey, son of the superhero that died on Superman's watch and saw him demonstrating superpowers, tossing around playground bullies. The JLA met with Mrs. Abernathy and discovered her whole family gained super powers from a meteor during a fishing trip. She wanted the JLA to leave them alone, but they soon discovered she was using vigilante methods to uncover the improprieties that led to the destruction of the apartment building where her husband died. She was ready to kill the landlord when the JLA talked her down, making her realize that if she killed him she'd go to jail and her children would have lost both parents. Batman, Superman and Martian Manhunter made her understand they'd lost loved ones as well and knew her pain. Together they all visited her husband's grave. Although she found peace Joey still blamed Superman for his dad's death.

(Identity Crisis #1-3) - Flash was among the number of heroes that attended Sue Dibny’s funeral. Flash and Green Lantern noticed that Elongated Man, Atom, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Hawkman and Zatanna stayed behind after Sue’s funeral and went back to see what was up. The surviving JLA Satellite Era members confessed that they thought Dr. Light was Sue’s killer, and told the story of how years ago Dr. Light savaged Sue Dibny and threatened to do the same to the other JLAers loved ones. They had Zatanna alter his personality, in effect lobotomizing him and making him a minimal threat. Flash and Lantern were shocked, but still went with the others to find Light, but they found him prepared, he’d hired Deathstroke as a bodyguard. They fought, and Dr. Light’s memories of what the JLA did to him returned. He unleashed his powers on the heroes, striking them unconscious, and fled. Superman wanted to know why they were pursuing Light, and Flash told him Elongate Man had a run-in with him years back, but didn’t give details. Green Arrow revealed to Flash that the JLA erased the memories of a number of villains over the years, including the Secret Society of Super-Villains, to protect their identities.

(Identity Crisis #4) - Flash and Green Arrow investigated an attack on Jean Loring.

(Firestorm II #5) - The new Firestorm used the communicator the JLA gave him after he gravely injured the supervillain Casey Krinsky during a battle. Superman and Flash responded, and Flash took Casey to S.T.A.R. Labs for care.

(Identity Crisis #5) - Flash and the JLA, who had been coming down hard on the supervillain community in the wake of Sue Dibny’s murder, stormed into Merlyn’s apartment and easily apprehended Merlyn, Monacle and Deadshot.

(Flash II #214-216) - Flash, still reeling from learning that Barry Allen was the JLA’s deciding vote in mind-wiping Dr. Light, visited Nightwing. He was worried about the attacks on family members of superheroes and asked Nightwing to find the whereabouts of Linda Park. Flash visited Iris Allen and learned that Barry left a letter with Green Arrow for him to read. Flash visited the JLA Watchtower and realized the JLA questioned him about the Spectre erasing his identity from their minds because they feared someone did to them what they did to Light. Arrow told him Barry had the guiltiest conscience about what they did to Light, and then gave him the letter Barry left to him. Barry tried to reform the Top by having Zatanna brainwash him. The change was temporary, and soon led to the Top’s mental breakdown. Barry asked Flash to undo his mistake, and find a way to give the Top back his mind. Nightwing checked in with Flash to tell him neither he nor Oracle could fin out where Linda was, but tried to reassure him that if he couldn’t find her, then neither could Sue’s killer. Flash then changed to his civilian identity to apologize to Ashley Zoloman when she woke from her coma. She knew Wally meant her no harm and forgave him. Flash then contacted Zatanna and told her she ad to help him. They gave Top his mind back, and he immediately attacked them. He fled, but not before warning Flash he’d done to the Rogues what Barry did to him, that the number of reformed Rogues was no coincidence. He told Flash one ay he’d surprise him by deprogramming them. Flash had a hard time taking that news and talked it over with Green Arrow. Linda surprised him by returning to her career as a reporter and asking him for an interview.

(Flash II #217, Identity Crisis #6) - Linda’d finished sorting out her thoughts, and decided to take advantage of Flash once again having a secret identity to resume her journalism career, knowing people would no longer think her prejudiced because she was a superhero’s wife. They had lunch in Paris and caught up, and Flash told her his month without her was one of the hardest things he’d ever gone through. Green Arrow admitted to Flash that Batman saw what the JLA did to Light and tried to stop them, forcing them to erase his memory. At work Batman confronted Flash about Flash’s Rogues being out of control after Captain Boomerang slew Tim Drake’s father. Flash told him the Rogues were more dangerous than people realized, and told Batman to be there for Tim and tell him he loved him.

(JLA #107) - On maintenance day the JLA monitored Krona’s cosmic egg and learned that a new universe was forming inside it. They agreed to not act, but just observe. Flash and Martian Manhunter checked in on JLA prisoner the Construct, whose electronic consciousness continued to evolve at an unprecedented rate. They entered his electromagnetic plane prison and were repulsed. Flash saw the Construct’s loneliness and enmity towards anything other than itself, so he suggested Manhunter build a signal-splitter. The splitter divided the Construct’s consciousness and taught it that “other” didn’t necessarily mean danger. Manhunter praised Flash for his contribution, but Flash was bored, looking forward to going to a Combines hockey game that night, and more interested in getting some exercise, so Manhunter sent him to apprehend Slab escapee Powderkeg.

(JLA #109) - Flash and the JLA fought a water creature in Madagascar, a seismic creature in the Arctic and an energy creature in Illinois, all manifestations of the aftershocks caused by the cosmic shift Krona was responsible for.

(Green Lantern: Rebirth #1-2, 5, 6) - Flash and Aquaman investigated Coast City, where the haven commune had disappeared and Hal Jordan’s old apartment had been reconstructed, leading the heroes to worry that Hal Jordan was involved and had returned to the dark side. Flash and the JLA confronted Hal, but he promised he wasn’t responsible for what they’d seen. Green Lantern John Stewart went berserk, having been possessed by Parallax through his power ring, and attacked and incapacitated his teammates. Ganthet free John from Parallax’s control, but Parallax then completely took over Hal Jordan. The JLA weakened him enough for the Spectre to separate Hal from Parallax, allowing Hal’s soul to return to his body, resurrecting him. Parallax possessed Ganthet, and Hal was ready to stop him, but Flash and the JLA stood in his way because they didn’t trust him using his power. Hal told them there was no time to argue and teamed with the other Green Lanterns to banish Parallax to the Central Power Battery, roving he was still a hero.

(Flash II #219, Wonder Woman II #214) - Flash learned that Zoom escaped the Heights, and ran to find Linda, who was covering the story. She told Flash she wasn’t going to let what Zoom did to her keep her from doing her job. Flash helped Wonder Woman defeat Giganta, then asked her about her old enemy Cheetah. She told him she’d help find them, and Flash reluctantly agreed. Touching her lasso he admitted he got annoyed with her preaching and thought that as a goddess she couldn't relate to the common man. They found Zoom and Cheetah and fought. The heroes prevailed, but the villains managed to escape.

(JLA #111-114) - The Crime Syndicate of Amerika, who’d been posing as the JLA, revealed themselves and attacked the heroes. Flash and the JLA were battered and forced to retreat. The essential differences between the anti and positive-matter universes that prevented the Crime Syndicate from ever being victorious on the JLA’s Earth no longer applied after Krona tampered with the universe, meaning Earth was theirs for the taking. The JLA knew there only advantage was that the Syndicate was small because they had a tendency for in-fighting and back-stabbing, so the JLA would raise all their reserve members. Qwardians traveled to the positive-matter universe and blamed Earth for the reality altering wave Krona unleashed. They prepared to attck Earth with the doomsday weapon Erdammeru. The JLA and their reserves split into three teams, one to fight the Qwardians, one to battle the Syndicate, and one to travel to the anti-matter universe to shake up the Syndicate’s Earth. Flash vibrated the molecules of his teammates so they could enter the anti-matter universe. The JLA informed the Qwardians that Krona was responsible for Qward’s destruction, and had been defeated by the JLA. The Qwardians returned to the anti-matter universe, but vowed to destroy the Crime Syndicate’s Earth for having dared try to invade their planet. Batman had planned for this to happen, and set his team on the anti-matter Earth into motion. Flash was contacted by the Construct, who was now at peace with others and grateful to the JLA, and who offered a way to end the conflict. The rest of the JLA entered the anti-matter universe, and forced the Syndicate to ask them for a favor, help in defeating the Qwardians. The Construct promised it could communicate with Erdammeru, the Qwardian doomsday weapon. Erdammeru still didn’t understand the concept of other and refused to make peace with the Construct, but their connection enabled Green Lantern John Stewart to absorb the weapon into his power ring, defanging the Qwardians. This was broadcast to the populace of anti-matter Earth, and when the people saw that the Syndicate was not invincible and began to rise up against them.

(Flash II #1/2) - Flash apprehended Trickster, who was vandalizing the New Flash Museum, but Captain Boomerang II and Mirror Master rescued Trickster. Flash talked to F.B.I. agent James Jesse, and hinted that it was the Top that was responsible for his reformation.

(Flash II #220) - Flash and Linda went to a Keystone Combines game. They went to the doctor to see if Linda had recovered fully from Zoom’s attack, but the doctor told them she still couldn’t have children.

(DC Countdown #1) - When someone broke into a Kord warehouse and stole the kryptonite stored there Oracle called in favors to Flash and a number of other heroes to investigate the crime scene, but the investigation turned up nothing.

(Flash II #221-225) - Flash interrupted a battle between the Rogues and Trickster’s group of reformed Rogues. Top arrived on the scene and told Flash it was time to undo the mental programming he’d used to turn some of the Rogues to the side of good. Top interrupted the battle to undo the mental programming he’d used to turn some of the Rogues to the side of good. He turned Trickster and Heat Wave back to the side of evil, but Pied Piper had legitimately reformed and stayed good. Top then had his own group of mind-controlled Rogues, consisting of Double Down, Girder, Murmur, Plunder and Tar Pit, attacked Flash. Flash defeated them, and with the help of Kid Flash defeated Dr. Alchemy and Gorilla Grodd, whom Cold called in as reinforcements. The Rogues recovered Boomerang’s body from the F.B.I. and Zoom and the time-traveling Reverse-Flash arrived with Flash Jay Garrick as their captive. Flash helped Jay escape but Zoom and Reverse-Flash used the cosmic treadmill to take him into the recent past. They beat him an made him watch Linda’s miscarriage at Zoom’s hand over and over again. Flash Barry Allen was tracking Reverse-Flash through the timestream and helped Flash by removing Reverse-Flash from the battle. Zoom tried to kill Linda, but Flash knocked him into the path of his own past self just as his past self unleashed a sonic boom on Linda. Zoom took the brunt of the hit, causing a ripple in time that led to Linda becoming pregnant again in the future. Zoom tried to use the cosmic treadmill to escape, but without Reverse-Flash there to power it it crumbled and Zoom found himself lost in time. Flash returned to the present in time to see Linda give birth to their twins.

(Blood of the Demon #3) - Zatanna sent a distress call to Flash and other members of the JLA when Batman confronted the Demon, but they were all occupied. Flash was busy fighting roboaliens.

(JLA #115-119) - Flash called the JLA to the Watchtower and told them that if they didn’t confess to Batman that they altered his memory he would tell him. The JLA was divided on what to do, but they were interrupted by distress signals from Happy Harbor and Opal City. Former members of the Secret Society of Super-Villains had their memory restored by Despero, and were seeking vengeance on the JLA for tampering with their minds. The picked off Red Tornado in Happy Harbor and Ralph Dibny in Opal City, and then defeated the JLAers that responded to their distress signals. They villains then turned their attention to Batman, presenting him with the unconscious bodies of the JLA. The JLA revived, and the villains chose to retreat. The JLA confessed to Batman, but he already knew they’d manipulated his mind. He was in a rage and decked Hawkman, who was very much behind all the JLA’s actions. The JLA presumed that the former Society members who had their minds intact remembered their secret identities, and went to look in on their loved ones. The former Society members made an attack on the Daily Planet, trying to kill Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Perry White. They planned to take out all the JLA’s loved ones. The JLA defeated them, and Superman revealed that Batman told him that the JLA mindwiped him. This treatment of Batman tempted Superman to quit the team, but first the JLA had to decide what to do with the villains who knew their identities. Hawkman was adamant about mindwiping them again, and called for a vote, but it was a draw. Zatanna told the team her past actions were an abuse of magic, and she refused to mindwipe anyone ever again. She told the JLA to take her off reserve status and disappeared. The JLA took the villains to the Watchtower to get a tie-breaking vote from Martian Manhunter, and see if he would mindwipe the villains, but Manhunter was gone and there was evidence of a struggle. Despero had confronted Manhunter and subjugated his mind. The JLA tracked Despero to the Batcave, where he’d already encountered Batman and taken his mind. Despero picked the JLA off one by one, and had them fight each other. Zatanna had a change of heart, and after putting Despero in suspended animation she mindwiped the Society members again. The JLA agreed that they were a shadow of their former greatness and disbanded.

(Green Arrow III #52) - Green Arrow was convinced whoever blew up his home knew his secret identity and talked to Flash and Batman. Flash noticed how uncomfortable he was around Batman, and told him that at some point he’d have to confess that he and Zatanna had manipulated Batman’s memory.

(Flash II #226) - Wally went mountain climbing with Piper to see if he could e self-reliant, but sent time away from the climb to go crimefighting and visit Linda. As a result he wasn’t acclimated to the altitude and suffered severe altitude sickness near the top of the mountain. A guide cared for him while the rest of the group went ahead, but a snowstorm put the rest of the group in danger and Wall changed to Flash and fought through his sickness to rescue them. As he rescued the last member of the group a light hit the top of the mountain and Flash felt he’d briefly been in contact with a higher power.

(JLA #120) - Aquaman invited Flash and other JLAers to Happy Harbor, where the League began, to finalize the team's dissolution. Aquaman hoped that the disagreements and lack of trust that led to the dissolution wouldn't last forever, and reminded them what the JLA once stood for.

(JLA #122) - Flash teamed with a covert new JLA led by Aquaman in investigating a mass murder perpetrated by Key. Their investigation was interrupted by an O.M.A.C. attack, and afterwards Flash got a gut feeling that something was wrong with Linda and his twins, and told his former teammates he had to go home.

(Flash II #227-230) - Wally started having nightmares about his children being threatened by the Rogues or growing up into criminals. His parents-in-law wanted to see their grandchildren have spiritual leadership, so they invited Linda and Wally to the opening of a new church. During the final phase of the church’s construction a number of accidents occurred, and Flash kept anyone from getting hurt. He noticed a member of the congregation who had super-strength and was also saving lives. He met the congregation, all of whom had superpowers and claimed to be from the dimension Parallax Point. One of their number was sick and needed the Summoner from the Flash Museum to save her, and Flash promised to bring it to them. Flash remembered the Summoner from an old case when he broke up the Refugees, a group of arms dealers who dealt in alien weaponry. It was in the custody of Cyborg at S.T.A.R. Labs because someone else had tried to steal it, and Cyborg warned him he might be falling in to a trap. Flash brought the Summoner to the congregation, who revealed that they were not from another dimension and that they worshipped Vandal Savage, who empowered them.  Savage showed Flash he had Kid Flash and Jay Garrick hostage and intended to use the Summoner to bring about end times. Savage had Flash shackled next to the other speedsters, but they escaped their bonds by vibrating until they were invisible, tricking their guards into unlocking the shackles. Savage used the Summoner to set an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, and While Jay and Kid Flash dealt with panic in the city Flash confronted Savage. Morillo and Chyre helped him defeat Savage’s acolytes and provided him with schematics for the Summoner from S.T.A.R. Labs. Flash reversed the Summoner’s polarity, sending the asteroid away. Savage stepped in front of the Summoner and was himself hurled into space towards the asteroid, but before he disappeared he told Flash he would ensure that Flash’s bloodline would last forever because he would be back to watch over Flash’s children. Flash told Linda he was ready to retire soon to spend more time as a husband and father.

(Teen Titans III #32) - Superboy Prime confronted Superboy because he wanted to take his place, and was willing to kill him to do it. Flash and the JSA and the Teen Titans were called in to combat Prime. There were casualties, but Flash Jay Garrick, Flash and Kid Flash took Prime out of action by running him into the Speed Force.

(Titans II #23 (fb)) - Red Arrow showed Flash his new identity, and got his approval. Flash was impressed that he had grown up, taking his mentor’s legacy, and taking the responsibility of raising his daughter Lian.

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Cyborg-Superman #1) - The Sinestro Corps planned their invasion of Earth, and intended to take out the JlofA. Cyborg-Superman and his Manhunters disabled the JlofA satellite’s defense systems, rendering the satellite inoperable, and the Sinestro Corps battered Flash and the League, allowing their Warworld to enter Earth’s orbit. 

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1) - An army of Earth’s heroes, including Flash and the Justice League appeared to take Superboy down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. Flash commented that he was surprised Superboy would ever show his face on Earth again after the carnage he wrecked during the Infinite Crisis. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn’t at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he’d be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy’s death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible for boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime.

(Nightwing II #141) - Flash dropped by Nightwing's NYC hq at the Cloisters, and they caught up on the recent events since Flash went missing. They also toasted a drink to Bart’s memory.

(Titans East Special #1, Titans II #1-4) - Cyborg recruited a new roster of young heroes and contacted his old friends to reform the Titans and train them. Flash said no, and it seemed like no one was interested in Cyborg’s idea. Trigon decimated Cyborg’s team, he was out to destroy every Titan, past and present. After Trigon’s demons attacked Flash he reunited with Starfire, Troia, Nightwing, Red Arrow, Beast Boy and Raven to investigate. The Titans saved Argent and a number of other former Titans from Trigon’’s horde, although they were adamant that they were not a team again. Cyborg was rebuilt, and wanted in on the case, to avenge the death of Power Boy. Raven contacted Trigon, and learned that although he had been decimated by demonic warfare he was still bent on destroying Earth, and he shared a secret with her, her brother would help him in his invasion. In an attempt to find Raven’s half-brother, Raven and the Titans tracked down Trigon’s other brides, only to find that they’d died years ago. Trigon’s three sons kept the Titans off balance by exposing them to the seven deadly sins, and then confronted them. They attacked the Titans and used Raven to open up a portal to Trigon’s dimension. The battle went for Trigon’s children and they used Beast Boy’s Trigon seed, the smallest spark of which was still in him, to finish the portal. Raven used her own ability to tap into the seven deadly sins, which greatly sickened her, to overcome her brothers with greed. They stole Trigon’s last vestiges of power, and then retreated to learn how to manipulate their newfound magic. Raven was pleased at having tricked them. In his dilapidated state Trigon could not have given them much of a magical boost. The Titans agreed that they still saw each other as family, and decided to remain a loose group in order to spend more time with each other.

(Titans II #5, 6) - Cyborg’s new body was finally finished, and Arsenal, Flash and Troia were present to support him. Beast Boy told the Titans that the Sons of Trigon had taken Raven, and that she’d been recruited to her father’s cause. Troia told the Titans that Raven had always planned for the worst, and given her a Ramat Stone that could locate magic-users. Beast Boy wanted to know why Troia was chosen to keep Raven’s secrets, and she replied that in addition to being the most magically adept Titan, she’d also proved that she’d never judge Raven. The Titans concentrated on the stone and Raven, and were transported to Trigon’s dimension. They met the rest of the Sons of Trigon, Greed, Gluttony, and Sloth, and were defeated. Raven turned against her brothers, proclaiming herself Pride, the sin from which all others sprung. She wanted to rule the Earth, but with the Titans at her side, and began imbuing them with the powers of the Seven Deadly Sins. This activated the Ramat Stone, Raven had given it a sliver of her pure essence, and the Raven that was loyal to the Titans emerged and merged herself with her demonic counterpart and returned the team to Titan’s Tower. Raven was starting to feel more like herself, ut told the Titans that the Ramat Stone wouldn’t work twice, and that she might me evil to the core. She presented her teammates with a set of magic talismans capable of ending her life if she wet to the dark side, and demanded that they learn to master them if she was to be comfortable on the team. Titan’s Tower security was breached, and the team responded, only to find that Superboy’s clone Match had broken in. The villain revealed that he was Jericho, trapped inside Match’s body.

(Titans II #7-9) - The Titans examined Match in hopes of freeing their friend. Cyborg isolated Jericho’s neuron patterns from Match, and prepared a radio-ectoplasmic pulse to free his astral form. Flash confided in Red Arrow that although he considered Jericho family and friend, he still didn’t trust him, remembering his past etrayal of the Titans. Jericho then had Match run berserk and attack the Titans, claiming he couldn‘t control him. After battering the team, Cyborg used the ecltoplasmic pulse to separate them. Raven probed Jericho’s mind and realized he was up to no good, but before the team could respond Jericho vanished, possessing one of the Titans. The Titans went into lockdown to keep Jericho from escaping, and Cyborg went with protocol for just such a situation, each Titan would take a security clearance interview with the Titans computer. The Titans kept an updated log of secrets only they and the computer would know. The Titans shared their secrets with the computer, and Flash admitted to it that he’d kissed another woman. Everyone passed, so Cyborg decided to use the ectoplasmic pulse on the Titans, one at a time. Jericho revealed himself to Nightwing, and forced him to inject himself with an LSD compound that made his mind a battleground, enabling Jericho to overcome his will. He promised to reveal what he was planning to do, and why. The Titans used the ectoplasmic pulse on Cyborg and Red Arrow, and waited for them to recover before testing the rest of the team. Jericho made Nightwing feel his thoughts, and revealed that everyone he’d ever possessed had left their memories and a part of their mind in him. It was the vicious villains he’d had contact with, like Deathstroke, that were now making his decisions for him, and he begged for Nightwing to help him. The Titans contacted S.T.A.R. Labs and learned that before Jericho had come to them for help he’d possessed Green Lantern Hal Jordan and tried to kill the candidates for president. The Justice League were right outside of Titans’ headquarters, demanding that Jericho be released to them.

(Titans II #10) - Jericho panicked and jumped into Flash’s body and vibrated out of Titan headquarters, but he couldn’t evade the Justice League. The Titans joined the League in battling Jericho as he lept from body to body, until he ended up in Superman. Previously he would never have been able to enter Superman’s mind, but his power had grown immensely. He still wasn’t strong enough to take control of Superman, who expelled his astral form from his mind. Jericho’s astral form dissipated into the wind. The whole experience left Nightwing shaken, and he desperately wanted to find a way to help Jericho.

(Titans II #10) - Nightwing called a meeting with the Titans to announce his resignation from the team, saying he needed to spend more time with his family in Gotham.

(Titans II #11) - The Titans decided to take some time off from each other at Beast Boy’s suggestion. Flash spent quality time with his family getting pancakes.

(Titans II #12) - Cyborg recovered from the injuries Jericho caused him, and revealed to the Titans that Jericho had uploaded himself into his OS, and then proceeded to use him to rig Titans Tower and try and kill the Teen Titans before fleeing his body. Troia took charge, and told the Titans they had to find a way to help Jericho. They contacted the Teen Titans, but they had no leads on either Jericho or his sister Ravager. The Titans decided to ask for Vigilante for help, because he was after Jericho as well, even though Changeling balked at the idea of working with a killer. Cyborg knew Vigilante had surveillance equipment monitoring Titans Compound, so if he thought Jericho was inside Cyborg that could work as bait to lure him in. Cyborg staged a fight against the Titans right outside the Compound, and Vigilante soon arrived. Before Cyborg could explain the situation Vigilante blasted him in the head with one of his firearms.

(Vigilante III #5) - The Titans restrained Vigilante, and he assured them Cyborg was alive, he’d used an EMP gun to force out Jericho. The Titans rushed Cyborg to his repair chamber, and revealed that Jericho was gone, and they’d used Cyborg as bait to bring Vigilante to them. They unmasked him, and fingerprinted him, telling him his short career was over. Vigilante set off concussive bombs attached to his security cameras in Titans Compound to create a diversion and free himself. Before the Titans could find him, Jericho, possessing a police officer, contacted them and asked for help with a hostage crisis at Union Federal. They headed to the bank, and Vigilante contacted his techie J.J. to wipe the memory banks of the Titans computer system containing his fingerprints. He knew the Titans would still eventually realize he was Adrian Chase’s brother since they’d seen him unmasked. The Titans disarmed mobsters armed with experimental government weaponry at Federal, and realized they’d been baited in. Vigilante was close behind them, and spied Jericho, who set off explosives inside the bank, killing his hired thugs and a number of police officers. Vigilante attacked Jericho, but Jericho kept jumping bodies, and then threw a grenade, damaging Vigilante’s suit, and made his escape. Vigilante reflected that it was no skin off his teeth if Jericho succeeded or failed in his maniacal plans, he wasn’t trying to save the world, only himself. Jericho called up the Teen Titans aboard their wing plane to tell them he was going to kill the Titans and use them to do it. They kept him on the phone to trace his call, and this allowed him to infect the wing ‘s computer system with a worm that gave him control over it. Jericho flew the wing to NYC and used it to attack the Titans.

(Teen Titans III #70) - The Titans and Teen Titans managed to disable the T-Wing and crash it into the East River without anyone getting injured. Ravager was stowed away on the T-Wing, and old he Titans she waned o help them stop her brother without him getting killed. Jericho possessed Raven and spirited away his sister. He told her he was trying to kill he Titans, but only because of the voices in his head. He asked for her help, and she turned him down. Jericho was disappointed in her, he thought she would always be on his side, and pointed out that she was working with heroes associated with Vigilante, who was trying to kill him. He returned her to the Titans and fled to Time Square. The Titans spotted Vigilante, who was following them, and subdued him, though Ravager wanted to keep beating him for trying to kill Jericho. Vigilante promised to not kill Jericho if they promised that Jericho’s killing days were over.

(Titans II #13) - Jericho entered the Hamilton Grande, prepared for a slaughter. He announced that he had rigged explosives throughout the restaurant, and every wealthy patron was his hostage. Using a cellphone video, he recorded himself shooting the hotel manager in the head, and promised to kill a patron every two minutes, unless the Titans arrived to stop him. The Titans confronted Jericho, and tried to reason with him, but he as having none of it, telling them he’d succeed in killing them here his father failed, finally allowing him to overshadow his dad. He’d strapped explosives to his hostages, and held the trigger, guaranteeing that the Titans would die trying to save them. He offered Ravager a chance to escape, but she wasn’t abandoning her teammates. They tussled, and Jericho set off the detonator, and escaped. Newscrews filmed what appeared to be the dead Titans. Cyborg heard the broadcasts, and ripped off his life-support system, vowing to make Jericho pay.

(Vigilante III #6) - Raven had actually created the illusion of the Titans’ death, and Miss Martian disguised herself as Deathstroke to confront and confuse Jericho. The Titans reached out to Jericho, and Raven tried to enter his mind to heal him, but all she found was darkness. They defeated him, but Vigilante made his presence known, and drew his guns, saying Jericho would kill again if not stopped. Ravager reminded him of his promise, and he slipped away. He later ambushed Jericho’s police convoy, and cut out his eyes so he could never use his power again. The Titans realized too late what Vigilante was up to, and they found Jericho in the back of his transport, bleeding and babbling that he was cured.

(Titans II #16 (fb)) - Intergang got their hands on a number of Justifier helmets, so Mon-El called in the Titans to deal with them. The heroes prevailed, but Starfire lost control and went berserk, still upset that she had once again been made a slave thanks to the Justifiers.

(Titans II #17) - The Titans had breakfast together, and Red Arrow asked Beast Boy why he changed his codename back from Changeling, which he deemed “less dumb.” Beast Boy rold him that when he forgot to re-register Changeling.com another guy got the domain, which he used to sell old Changeling merchandise, and Gar wasn’t about to give him free publicity. Flash and Red Arrow decided to razz him by buying Changeling shirts from this entrepeneur.

(Titans II #18) - The Titans had a picnic, and Flash brought along Jai and Iris for some horseplay and quality time.

(Titans II #21) - The Titans stopped Dark Nemesis from breaking into S.T.A.R. Labs. Troia took her frustration at Roy Harper being mutilated by Prometheus out on the villains, and had to be restrained. The Titans were all reeling from what happened to Roy, and Flash told Cyborg he was quitting active membership to spend more time with his family and the reborn Barry Allen.

(Titans II #23) - The Titans watched the Teen Titans unveil memorial statues for Hawk and Tempest following their deaths during Blackest Night. Flash said that he didn’t know if he was more disturbed by the fact that the hall of the dead was so full of statues, or the fact that there were empty spaces anticipating the future deaths of Titans. Cyborg called the Titans, and told them that as Arrow’s oldest friends it would be nice if they visited him in case he didn’t make it. They flew to see Arrow at S.T.A.R. Labs and reflected on their early days as Teen Titans. Flash had an idealized memory of their time together, but Troia and Batman reminded him of the tension Speedy and his on-again off-again relationship with Wonder Girl caused. At the hospital Red Arrow’s dire condition hit them, and Batman said he realized why Bruce Wayne never allowed himself to be close to people when he was Batman. Troia said that they’d all experienced tragedy, but the fact that they were there for each other as a family made all the difference. Flash told Dick not to get too wrapped up in the Batman persona.

Comments: Created by John Broome & Carmine Infantino

Kid Flash received a profile in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #12. Kid Flash received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #23 and JLA-Z #3 under the Teen Titans entry. Flash received a profiles in Who's Who Update '87 #2 and Who's Who in the DC Universe #2. He received profiles in JLA-Z #2 under the JLA (“The Magnificent 7” Era) and JLA (Current) entries. He received a profile in Sins of Youth Secret Files #1 under the JLA, Jr. entry.

Kid Flash's appearance in Flash I #110 was reprinted in Flash Annual I #1.

Aquaman Secret Files #1 recounted Aquaman's history from the Atlantis Chronicles, and featured Kid Flash.

When Resurrection Man attuned his mind to the cosmos in Resurrection Man #18 he caught a glimpse of Flash.

Mr. Dewitt was shown beating up holograms of the JLA, including Flash, in Resurrection Man #22.

Flash III was pictured on cover of JLA #33, 91 and 101.

Flash had cameo appearances in 52 / WWIII Part Three: Hell Is For Heroes #1, Aztek: The Ultimate Man #8, Batgirl I #71, Doom Patrol IV #1, 2, Doom Patrol V #6, Flash II #197, 212, Green Arrow III #1, 17, 47, Impulse #1, 5, 14, 19, Justice League of America II #0, 1, 2, 7, Power of Shazam II #10, R.E.B.E.L.S. #10, R.E.B.E.L.S. Annual #1, Showcase '93 #1, Spectre II #22, Titans II #15, 22, 38. and Titans: Villains For Hire Special #1.

Kid Flash had cameos in Batman Plus #1, Beast Boy #1, Green Arrow III #11, Green Lantern IV #8 and Titans II #34.

Green Lantern III #101 had a flashback of Flash’s appearance in Green Lantern III #81.

Mangha Khan brought up an image of Flash on his spaceship's view-screen in Formerly Known as the Justice League #4.

A poster of Flash and the JLA was shown in Green Lantern's (Kyle Rayner) apartment in Green Lantern III #146.

Impulse #38 had a cameo of Flash (same as his appearance in Green Arrow I #133)

In Impulse #48 Riddler gave a suspect account of his career, including having Flash as a servant.

In JLA #60 Plastic Man told his friend Woozy Wink’s nephew Wheezy a Christmas story in which Flash and the JLA saved Santa Claus from Neron, who wanted to replace Santa, giving out presents in exchange for boys and girls being naughty.

Flash III was featured in Superman’s subconscious therapy session in JLA #83. Superman envisioned President Luthor going to war with Quarac because they supposedly had W.M.D.s, and the American public felt betrayed that the U.S. declared war before they had proof. The JLA didn’t stop Luthor because Superman couldn’t make up his mind as to the justness of the war, but in the end Luthor proved to be a villain.

There was a pin-up of Flash in Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery #1.

A photo of Kid Flash and the Teen Titans was shown in the home of Nightwing in Outsiders III #0 and Teen Titans III #0.

Titans Titans #23 showed an image of Kid Flash in the Titans computer files.

In Villains United #1 Mockingbird showed his Secret Six images on a viewscreen of various heroes that had defeated them in the past, including Flash.

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