KID FLASH II
Real Name: Bartholomew "Bart" Allen
Class: Human mutant
Occupation: Superhero
Group Affiliation: formerly Young Justice, Teen Titans
Known Relatives: Bartholomew "Barry" Allen (Flash II, grandfather, deceased), Don Allen (father, deceased), Dawn Allen (aunt), Henry Allen (great grandfather), Iris Allen (grandmother), Meloni Thawne Allen (mother), Nora Allen (mother), Owen Mercer (Captain Boomerang II, half-brother), Jenni Ognatz (XS, cousin), Eric Russell (father-in-law), Fran Russell (great-grandmother), Ira West (great step grandfather), Wallace West (Flash III/Kid Flash I, great-uncle)
Aliases: Impulse, Flash IV
Base of Operations: Manchester, Alabama, formerly 30th Century
First Appearance: Flash II #91 (June, 1994)
Powers: Flash could run at superhuman speeds by tapping into the Speed Force, 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.
History: As the grandson of the Flash Bart was born with superspeed and a superhumanly fast metabolism. By the age of three he was already physically a teenager, and he was placed in a virtual reality enviornment to hive him a superspeed education. Iris Allen brought the young boy to the 20th Century, where he was dubbed Impulse and made an understudy of Flash Wally West and Max Mercury.
(Adventures of Superman #522 (fb)) - Impulse, Superman and a number of heroes went to Metropolis after it had been decimated during Zero Hour. The heroes contained a group of DMN junkies and then set about rebuilding the city. They couldn't finish the job in one day so Zatanna linked minds with Perry White and Superman to rebuild the city from their memories, using Impulse and the other heroes as a power source for her spell.
(Impulse #1, 2) - Impulse and Max moved to Manchester, Alabama, with Max posing as Bart Allen's uncle. Before his first day of school Impulse found a weapons testing site where a vibroseek warhead was being used against a tank. Impulse decided to race the warhead before it blew up the tank. Bart had his first day of 9th grade classes and got an assignment to write his biography. He showed his paper to Max, who told him he couldn't blow his secret identity by telling his real bio, and would have to rewrite it. Max showed him a local paper article about an experimental hovertank, and Bart realized the test site he visited was going to use their warhead to destroy the tank. Impulse visited Technodyne, the company developing the hovertank. He talked to the owner Mr. Nordstrom, and identified the saboteur as Martin Beaumont, a former R&D worker from technodyne. Beaumont had been tailing Impulse, and knew he had to make his move and release the warhead. Impulse led the warhead away from the tank, and Nordstrom and Impulse captured Beaumont.
(Imulse #3) - Max told Bart to make friends at school, but Bart started off the ay antagonizing Bully Jimbo, who challenge him to a fight after school. Uring geography lessons, Bart changed to Impulse and raced to France to learn answers for the pop quiz, and defeated Le Reynard along the way. He got challenge by dozens of other kids to fight after school, managing to irritate everyone by either using his speed to excel in class, sticking up for underdogs, and charming the girlfriends of older students. Half the school turned up to beat up Bart, but he used his speed to turn the mob against each other, adn walked away.
(Impulse #4, 5) - Impulse foiled White Lightning and her gang of high-school boys from robbing a public TV fundraiser. He learned everyone in his school was infatuated with her, and that she used the internet to recruit new members for her gang. Bart and student Matt Matson showed up for one of her audition, and after she blew them off Bart took Matt's car and tailed her, unaware of any rules of driving he soon had a squad of cop cars on his tail. Max followed him and saved him after he accidentally drove the car off a cliff. White Lightning struck at the Minhota Reservation benefit, and Impulse stopped her from robbing it and saved her life when a security guard shot at her, but she escaped. Max told Impulse he was making progress because at least had a half-thought out plan to capture her.
(Impulse #6) - Assistant principal Randall Sheridan asked Bart to make friends with Preston Lindsay, who Randall suspected was being abused by his father. Bart and Preston filmed in a Manchester swamp that was rumored to have its own monster. Preston's father showed up and dragged him home, while Impulse investigated the swamp. The "monster" turned out to be a boy with acromegaly, whose family told Impulse they were glad there was rumors of a monster because it kept people away from their boy. Impulse went to Preston's dad and told him to leave Preston alone. He discovered it was Preston's mother, not his father that was beating him. Bart was ready to tell Sheridan when Preston beat him to it, and his mother was sent away to get help for her anger issues.
(Impulse #7) - Impulse raked leaves at superspeed despite Max warning him not to use his powers in public, endangering his civilian identity. Max was annoyed, and when the villain Gridlock created citywide gridlock in Manchester by draining the kinetic energy from every automobile he gave Impulse the task of coming up with a plan to defeat the villain without his help. As an incentive he told Impulse he'd seen his friend Carol and her friends in a car with some fast boys from school, and they'd certainly use the opportunity of a stalled car to make time with Carol. Impulse defeated Gridlock and prevented Carol from being pressured by the boys.
(Impulse #8) - Max tested Impulse, having him run an obstacle course while Max threw weapons at him, and Impulse failed by walking into a hunting trap. Max warned Impulse that he made himself a target by making faces and taunting his enemies at superspeed, and wanted to see improvements, because he'd need Impulse's help soon. Blockbuster promised a recent acquaintance he'd kill Impulse, and had his goons lock the gates of the Alabama Warrior Stadium and set a fire to attract Impulse. Impulse made sure there were no casualties, so Blockbuster decided to personally intervene. He killed random people in town and fought Impulse. He thought he killed Impulse by flattening him with a bus, and returned home, but Impulse actually dodged his attack at superspeed. Impulse followed him home and destroyed his mansion, specifically built for Blockbuster's enormous size. Impulse made him mad enough to collapse the entire mansion down on himself. Impulse escaped the wreckage, but so did Blockbuster. At home Max probed the Speed Force, and found something big, so he left Impulse.
(Impulse #9) - Impulse enjoyed having the house to himself, playing video games for three days straight. He then got bored and went looking for Max. After taking out most of a gang of renegade bikers terrorizing Manchester his cousin XS contacted him and asked if he could help her return to the 30th Century. He told her that her best hope was Max, but Max was missing. XS tried to blend in as Bart Allen's cousin, but ticked him off by nearly giving away his secret identity to his neighbor Helen Caldicott. He forgave her because she helped him defeat a biker terrorizing Manchester. XS and Impulse lost their powers and were attacked by Savitar's avatars.
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(Impulse #10) - Bart was sullen at school, depressed over the loss of his powers and worried about Max. He kept getting picked on, and when someone said Bart was "too cool" to worry about his "uncle" Max he snapped and hit his fellow student. He ran to see Max and suddenly regained his powers, thanks to Flash and Jesse Quick. He arrived at the hospital in time to defeat avatars trying to finish off Max. Impulse, newly recovered Max and Johnny Quick went to meet up with Flash and Jesse.
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(Impulse #11) - Impulse 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 #12) - Impulse and XS spent time together, playing video games and visiting the Rock and Roll Music Museum. Impulse told her she could stay with him as long as she wanted. They went to a school dance, but when Lonnie Beale of the band Generation Why was a no-show they went to go find him. His old manager the Colonal and some thugs were threatening him, and after Impulse and XS defeated the criminals they rushed Lonnie to the dance. Lonnie was knocked out by an overzealous female fan, so Bart and XS borrowed instruments from the Rock and Roll Museum and got up on stage and played. They were a hit, but after their performance XS told him she really had to get back home to the 30th Century. Before she ran through time she told Bart to stay in touch if he could.
(Adventures of Superman #533) - Superman asked Max Mercury for the help of a speedster, and since everyone else was busy he sent Impulse. Scavenger's planted a number of bombs around the world, and Impulse and Superman raced across the globe to stop them. The bombs were actually duds meant only to keep Superman away from Metropolis. Once Superman realized this he and Impulse returned to Metropolis, and with the help of Alpha Centurion stopped Scavenger from stealing the coins of power from the Metropolis Museum of Art, but the defeated Scavenger teleported away to avoid capture.
(Impulse #13) - Bart was more popular than ever at school after his concert, but got irritated with constant attention. Some boys dared him to skateboard across Highway 45, and while Bart wasn't interested, unpopular student "Water Rat" Roland was. Bart helped Roland skate the highway and saved him from getting hit by a truck. In an attempt to be popular Roland kept performing dangerous stunts, with Bart making sure he didn't get killed. Bart warned him they weren't his real friends, and after Roland nearly drowned crossing the Devil's Thrasher, a series of logs over rapids, he finally saw Bart's point.
(Impulse #14, 15) - Max told Impulse his next task was to attend church and give serious thought to his faith. Bart and Carol visited the Manchester University Library where her brother worked and looked at the Eye of God cross on loan to the Library. Trickster and White Lightning both arrived to steal the Eye, and in the chaos it disappeared. It showed up in the possession of Bobby, Carol's brother, and she thought he stole it in an attempt to support their family. Trickster actually placed it in Bobby's briefcase so no one would find it. Trickster told Impulse Lord Manny the First had forced him to steal the eye and needed Impulse's help to take Manny down. Trickster gave Manny the Eye, and then Trickster used Weather Wizard's wand and Impulse used his speed to convince Manny that God was angry at him for stealing the eye. The police soon apprehended Manny. Back home Bart saw Max save Helen from her obsessed ex-husband Jim, and Max admitted that Helen was his daughter.
(Impulse #16) - Max initially ran rather than talk with Helen, and while Bart was comforting her he accidentally gave away his and Max's secret identities. Max wasn't upset with Bart, and explained how he came to father Helen in 1948.
(Impulse #17) - Max and Impulse attended Zatanna's magic show, and Zatanna asked Impulse to be her assistant for the night despite Max's objections. Impulse ruined her act, escaping from a tank of water before she could free him and doing her magic tricks for her because he was so impatient. Zatanna got fed-up and cast a spell that made Impulse disappear. He landed in the extradimensional land of Kroz, and Zatanna, regretting her hasty act, followed him and was immediately captured by Wizard Kroz because her magic didn't work in this dimension. Impulse liked Kroz because it was full of giant monsters and reminded him of a video game. After defeating Wizard Kroz and his lackeys he found a mystic staff that allowed them to return home. Zatanna told him she'd never need his help for anything ever again and asked him to get lost.
(Impulse #18) - Max took a vacation, but before Impulse could throw a party he was obligated to protect Walt Traeger. Walt'd developed a VR program for astronaut flight simulators run by subcutaneous implants, but corrupt businessman Saul Zaranac was forcing him to hand over his R&D so he could sell them as hi-tech hallucinogens. When Walt sabotaged his own work Zaranac sent goons to force him to make the VR programs work, so they shot one of the implants at him, but it hit Impulse instead. The goons ran the VR program, but Impulse fought through the hallucinations of being in space and vibrated his molecules at superspeed, removing the implant. He defeated Zaranac and his goons.
(Final Night #1, 3, 4) - Superman organized a summit of superheroes, including Impulse, 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. The heroes discussed different ways to deal with the menace. The Eater engulfed the sun, causing worldwide freezing, and at S.T.A.R. Labs Impulse and the heroes learned that the Eater would cause the sun to go hyper-nova in under 24 hours. Earth was saved when Parallax sacrificed his life to dispel the Sun-Eater and reignite the sun.
(Impulse #19) - Max demanded Impulse not stay up late and learn the patience to lie still and go to sleep like a normal person. After hours of insomnia Impulse managed to get some sleep, but only for a few minutes. He dreamed about meeting the LSH, having his secret identity exposed, and having Max as a mentor until he was well into his adult life.
(Impulse #20) - Carol Bucklen noticed Bart spent all his free time playing video games and suggested he get social and join a sports team. After some failed attempts he joined Carol's baseball team. Max was in attendance at their game and had to keep reminding him not to use his powers. Mustering the willpower to pay attention to the game for a few seconds Bart batted in the winning runs. Carol's friends kept pressuring her, asking if Bart was her boyfriend, and they shared a kiss, although they agreed they were mainly friends. Bart had enough of sports and decided he was done with baseball.
(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Impulse was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan.
(Impulse #21) - The timelost LSH asked Impulse if he could help them return to the 30th Century. They went to the Flash Museum to use the Cosmic Treadmill, but Impulse didn't know how to properly utilize it and just sent himself and various Legionnaires forwards and backward in time 10 minutes. He then accidentally brought back raptors from the Jurassic era. he managed to send them back to the past, but the LSH said they definitely didn't need his help.
(Impulse #22) - Impulse heard a cryptic telephone conversation between Max and a man offering an prototype if Max did what he said. Max told Impulse he had business to conduct, and left him with Jesse Quick as his babysitter, despite Impulse's objections that he was far too old for one. He told her he was worried Max was in trouble and followed him to NYC and Las Vegas, where he met various shady characters. One of them told Max his "nephew" better be at home, and Max told him he'd assure him he was by making a simple call. Impulse raced back home to answer the call, only to find a surprise birthday party waiting for him, as well as a prototype Virtual Masters videogame courtesy Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. Max was sorry for the deception, including using a disguised Flash as the "shady characters" but he needed him out of the house so Iris Allen could set up the party.
(Flash II #131, 132) - While Flash was recovering from breaking his legs fighting the Suit, Impulse, Jay 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. 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.
(Impulse #36) - Bart was subpoenaed to testify against the toxic-waste dumpers. The vigilante Song of Justice tried to kill the defendants, and Bart changed to Impulse to stop her and drive her away. Bart returned to testify, and the corrupt judge let the dumpers go free.
(Impulse #37) - Glory Shredder shot up Pete's in order to kill the Transparent Weapon, and Impulse stepped in to save Gamal from the crossfire. Glory assumed Impulse was a villain because he wouldn't let him kill the weapon. Impulse and Max defeated Glory Shredder, but he managed to escape.
(Impulse #38) - Impulse and Max spent day and night piling up sandbags to save Manchester from a flood. Their efforts, and that of the town were proving fruitless so they tried coming up with a plan. Impulse created water-spouts and sent the water to the desert, but after working himself to exhaustion he only lowered the water level two inches. max called in Manchester's supervillain community to save the town despite Impulse's objections. Impulse only saw black and white and didn't trust the villains. The villains did try, but couldn't stop the flood, and in the end it was Chunk who saved the town by absorbing the water and sending it to another dimension.
(Impulse #39) - Impulse got suspicious when he saw Trickster in Manchester, and after borrowing surveillance equipment from Max he started following him around. Trickster told both Edward and Gerald Dunsany about Dr. Herkimer Rasmussen, who invented a formula to turn any metal into gold. Trickster told them the World Bank feared this would undermine the economy and had the batches of the formula Rasmussen made classified as toxic waste and sent to Dunsany's company to dispose of. Gerald dug up all the toxic waste he'd dumped in Manchester to find the formula. Gerald and Edward tried to kill each other, but Impulse stopped them, even though Edward stole the barrels and left. Trickster then revealed the whole story was a con cooked up by him and Max to get the waste out of Cook Park, because the cost of doing it would have bankrupted Manchester. Impulse didn't appreciate that Max didn't let him in on the con.
(Flash II #139-141) - Impulse, Max, Jay Garrick, Jesse Quick and Flash celebrated Iris Allen's wedding anniversary. The Black Flash seemingly claimed Linda Park's life, and Impulse attended her funeral. Flash decided to retire from heroics and move to Scotland, but Impulse showed up at the airport to get him to stay. The Black Flash returned an almost claimed Impulse before Flash drove him off. Flash defeated him and returned Linda from the Speed Force.
(Impulse #40) - Bart had trust issues with Max, so when they went to the school picnic Bart chose Gamal as his partner for the games. Max retaliated by choosing Carol as his partner. Impulse felt better after having beat Max in all the games, but Gamal's brother Pete fired him from the convenience store for missing work. Max and Impulse worked together to make a mess of Pete's story until he hired Gamal back.
(Impulse #41) - Arowette asked Impulse to help her solve a case, and he eagerly accepted, mainly for the chance to spend time with her. She'd been tracking a criminal who broke into schools and planted post-hypnotic suggestions in computer hard-drives that made students hand over their parents money and credit cards to him. They went to a sporting goods conference, and when the lights went out Arowette knew this was the hypnotic trigger. Impulse ran around the convention looking for the villain. He imagined it was one of the Rogues, and caused havoc assuming everything had to do with one of them. By the time he realized his mistake Arowette told him she'd captured the criminal.
(Impulse #42) - Everyone in Bart's school bought Binkatoochies, virtual pets, and Carol made Bart take care of hers while she was in class. The Binkatoochies AIs escaped the game and started wrecking the school. Bart changed to Impulse to find out where they were made, finding all the Binkatoochies produced were also rampaging. He finally found the creator of the AI Herbert Lyle Jameson in Seattle. He gave Bart two devices to destroy the Binkatoochies with, but they adapted and one made them grow larger, and one made them multiply. Herbert based the AI on his own mind, and realized they were angry because of humanity's lack of progress, something that always disturbed him. He gave Impulse a device that taught the Binkatoochies disappointment, and they once again returned to the game.
(Impulse #43) - Impulse made friends with Gamal, a convenience store worker who was a brilliant inventor in his home country. His country wanted him dead and sent Expeditors, Inc. to assassinate him. Impulse and Max defeated them with the help of Gamal's anti-gravitational ray and duplicator machine.
(Impulse #44) - Max wanted Bart to go to his school's Halloween party to learn more about 20th Century culture, and Bart chose to go as Impulse, but was irritated seeing a number of his classmates had the same idea. When a convenience store was robbed by invisible criminals Impulse visited retired supervillain Transparent Weapon, but learned he wasn't involved. His son Evil Eye was responsible, and the Weapon helped Max and him apprehend two members of the Tigers, the gangbangers Evil Eye ran with. Impulse got a call from Superboy telling him he was late for Young Justice's Hallow-Teen party, and he sped off to meet his team, unaware Max had been shot by one of the Tigers.
(DCU Holiday Bash #3) - Max tried to tell Impulse there was no Santa Claus, but when he tried to explain why the legend was unbelievable Impulse gave examples of superheroes with powers that matched up with the Santa legend. Max took Impulse to the North Pole, and when Impulse couldn’t find Santa he assumed he’d been kidnapped. Impulse decided to make sure the children of the world had presents for Christmas, and after giving away his own presents he went to see the distributor of Blastomatic 3000 and got a warehouse of promo copies of the video game to give away. Max thought he’d acted selflessly, but told him he’d have to deal with having no presents for himself. Impulse returned home and found that Santa left him a roomful of presents.
(Impulse #45) - Impulse foiled a bank robbery by the Green Cigarette and his crew, but the bank's faulty security walls caved the roof in. When Impulse's speed just made the bank collapse faster the Cigarette's crew and the bank employees made sure everyone got to safety. Impulse was impressed with the Cigarette reforming but felt useless. He also blamed himself for Max getting shot and blurted out his problems to Jasper Pearson, his guidance counselor. Pearson thought stress was making him disassociative and really believe he was a superhero. He called in Max, Helen and Meloni Thawne, who was visiting for the Christmas holiday, to talk out their family problems. Max told Bart he'd made an amateur mistake and got shot, and he didn't blame Bart at all. Meloni told Bart she wished she could be there for him more, but it was her duty to reform her father so someone worse didn't take his place in the future.
(Impulse #46) - Before Max and Impulse went to the future to save Barry Allen's descendants from Cobalt Blue Max gave Impulse Iris Allen's Flash bio to read so he could learn more about his grandfather. Impulse fell asleep reading the book, because reading felt too much like homework to him. He dreamed about teaming up with Barry to battle their respective rogue's galleries. When he woke up he told Max he now knew everything he needed to about his grandfather.
(Impulse #50) - <April 1st> Max and Helen introduced Impulse to the concept of April Fool's day. He couldn't wait to play pranks on Young Justice so he sped off to the Smith-Johnson Novelty Company in Gotham, but found it being held hostage by the Joker. He wanted to help Batman take down the Joker, but Batman refused his help, knowing Impulse didn't take orders well, and that could be fatal with Joker and hostages involved. Joker wanted to speak to Impulse, so Batman had no choice but to let him in on the case. Joker made Impulse go on a scavenger hunt and take Polaroid's from landmarks around the world. Impulse passed on the lay of the Novelty Company top Batman, allowing him to defeat Joker while Impulse saved the hostages. Batman told him his grandfather and cousin would be proud of him.
(Impulse #48) - Riddler was looking to avenge himself after a defeat by Flash, so he targeted Impulse, kidnapping Max Mercury and Professor Morlo. Riddler told Impulse he'd hidden three bombs around Manchester, and Impulse would have to solve a series of riddles to find them. Impulse got bored with the riddles, so he ran around Manchester at superspeed until he found and defused the bombs. He then saved Evil Eye from getting killed trying to save his grandfather, defeated Riddler and freed Max and Morlo.
(Impulse #49) - Bart and his friends got worried when a number of students, including Evil Eye, were sent off to Sunnyside Boys Camp. They met with Dr. Rudolph West, the owner, and got even more suspicious. Impulse couldn't get Max or Flash to look into it, so he went there himself with his friends. They saw how badly the boys there were treated and helped them revolt against their keepers with Evil Eye at the lead. Max stepped in and had the camp shut down.
(JLA #40) - Impulse and Young Justice were among the legion of heroes summoned by the JLA to quell worldwide outbreaks of warfare that were incited by Mageddon.
(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1) - Impulse and Young Justice took refuge in an abandoned motel because they were still wanted by the authorities after freeing Secret from the D.E.O. and accidentally defacing Mt. Rushmore. They were ambushed by Old Justice who forced the kids to fight them. Thorndyke of Old Justice was almost accidentally killed during the fight before Wonder Girl saved him, and Old Justice decided the youths weren’t so bad after all. Inspired by Wonder Girl, Robin and Young Justice held a Justice for All rally in Washington, where the team would plead their case to the public. At the rally a number of superteams attended, and it was interrupted by Klarion, who magically de-aged the JLA and JSA into infancy. 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 Impulse and Young Justice were aged to adulthood, but the other heroes remained children and young teens.
(Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. #1) - The adult Impulse met up with all the heroes affected by Klarion's spell at the Justice Cave, where they 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 Impulse, Young Justice, JLA, and JSA 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. Impulse joined the other heroes in attacking the 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 Secret Files #3) - Max Mercury gave Impulse some "Flash Facts,” including the speed of a sneeze and a whip-crack.
(JLA #57) - White Martians introduced viral subatomic particles into the atmosphere that inhibited oxidation and prevented combustion, eliminating their weakness to fire. Impulse wrapped a criminalin fireworks and was frustrated when he couldn’t get them to light.
(Flash II #189) - Flash III visited Jay Garrick to make sure he, Joan and Impulse were hanging in there.
(JSA #34-37) - The Ultra-Humanite used Johnny Thunder’s Thunderbolt to conquer the world, and imprisoned Impulse 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. Impulse 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 Impulse and the other heroes awoke they aided the JSA in defeating the Humanite.
(JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice) - Times Square, Impulse and Young Justice battled citizens under the control of the Seven Deadly Sins. The Sins were defeated by the JLA and JSA, and their influence over the people of Manhattan ended.
(JSA #54) - Impulse, the JLA and JSA celebrated Thanksgiving at JSA hq. Impulse met J.J.Thunder and they bonded over how much they both hated school. Kulak and the Warlord of Ys ruined the Thanksgiving meal, but were quickly defeated by the heroes. The JLA and JSA settled for ordering out, and had pizza for Thanksgiving.
(Flash II #198-200) - Joan Garrick’s cancer went into remission, and Impulse and the Garricks moved back to Keystone. Linda Park and Flash announced to Impulse, 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 although Impulse wanted to help they told him to stay behind. Zoom attacked Linda, and Impulse jumped in to save her. Zoom easily defeated him, and when Impulse recovered he lent his speed to Flash III so that he could battle Zoom. Flash defeated Zoom, and soon after Jay sent Impulse away to join the latest incarnation of the Teen Titans.
(Flash II #208 (fb, BTS)) - When the world forgot Wally West was the Flash thanks to the Spectre, the Sectre appeared to Kid Flash and Flash Jay Garrick and chose not to alter their memories.
(Flash II #208) - Kid Flash and Flash I helped Flash III defeat Abra Kadabra, Plunder, Tar Pit an Trickster II, who were trying to isrupt a parade honoring Flash. The heroes then took a tour of the newly opened New Flash Museum.
(Flash II #210) - Flash and Kid Flash and the Teen Titans got together for a little catch-up.
(Identity Crisis #1) - Kid Flash was among the number of heroes who attended Sue Dibny’s funeral.
(Superman / Batman #13) - Kid Flash and the Teen Titans were among the heroes invited to Paradise Island to welcome Superman's cousin Supergirl into the superhero community.
(Flash II #214) - After learning of Sue Dibny’s death and the attack on Jean Loring Kid Flash never left Iris Allen’s side, fearing the person attacking the families of superheroes. He even questioned Flash before letting him visit Iris.
(Green Lantern: Rebirth #4, 6) - Ganthet summoned Kid Flash and the Teen Titans and a number of other heroes to battle Parallax, who’d completely taken over Hal Jordan. They 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, spreading fear throughout the world, and only Hal was able to stop him.
(Green Arrow III #46) - Green Arrow sponsored Speedy’s membership in the Teen Titans, and after an initiation training session and a combat session with Robin, Kid Flash and the rest of the Titans welcomed her to the team.
(Flash II #223-225) - Kid Flash was concerned about Jay Garrick’s disappearance, and when he saw a news report about a war between Flash and the Rogues he wondered if the events were connected. He helped Flash defeat Gorilla Grod and Dr. Alchemy when Zoom appeared and tried to strangle him. Reverse-Flash arrived in the present day at Zoom’s request to battle Flash. Zoom and Reverse-Flash displayed Jay Garrick as a captive to motivate Kid Flash and Flash. Flash helped Jay escape the villains, and a fight ensued. Reverse-Flash and Zoom snatched Flash and used the cosmic treadmill to flee into the past. Flash and Zoom’s battle caused a ripple in time that led to Linda becoming pregnant again in the present, and Jay and Ki Flash witnessed the birth of Flash and Linda’s twins.
(Flash II #228-230) - Kid Flash and Jay Garrick investigated the disappearance of Flash after visiting a new church and found that the church worshipped Vandal Savage. Savage defeated the speedsters and kept them captive. 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 defeated Savage and told Kid Flash and Jay he was ready to retire soon to spend more time as a husband and father.
(Teen Titans III #30, 31) - Kid Flash and the Titans escaped Blood after he opened a door to Hell and unleashed an army of demons of Los Angeles. Raven told the Titans that Brother Blood was exploiting an opening in the door between life and death, and they had to figure a way to close it. Blood confronted the Titans with his New Titans West, a team made of resurrected Titans. The Titans fought the demons and the New Titans while Raven and Beast Boy went into the afterlife and found that Brother Blood had Kid Eternity chained in the opening of the door between life and death, allowing the opening to widen. They freed him, and he sent the demons and New Titans back to the afterlife, and temporarily resurrected Blod's predecessors, who tore him to bits.
(Teen Titans III #32) - Superboy Prime confronted Superboy because he wanted to take his place, and was willing to kill him to do it. Superboy took a beating from Prime, but called the Titans and their reservists on an emergency signal. There were casualties, but Flash Jay Garrick, Flash and Kid Flash took Prime out of action by running him into the Speed Force. Superboy's heart stopped, but he was revived by Raven.
(Titans II #22) - Kid Flash, the Teen Titans and several other heroes gathered at Titans Tower for Heroe's Day, a rememberance of their brothers and sisters in arms that died in the line of duty.
(Blackest Night: Titans #1-3) - Heroe's Day was interrupted by resurrected Titans Terra and Omen, who had been ressurected as zombies by the Black Lantern Corps. They attacked Kid Flash and the Titans, seeking to rip out their hearts. Titans Tower was leveled by Terra, and several more ex-Titan Black Lanterns joined the assault on the heroes. The Black Lanterns attacked Dove, but her lifeforce connection permanantly destroyed them. The surviving Lanterns fled, and the Titans realized the war was far from over. Troia said they needed to get Dove on the front lines.
(Titans II #23) - Kid Flash and the Teen Titans made memorial statues for Hawk and Tempest following their deaths during Blackest Night.
(Titans II #38) - Kid Flash, the Teen Titans and the rest of the superhero community attended the funeral of Atom Ryan Choi.
Comments: Created by Mark Waid & Mike Wieringo
Impulse received a profile in Sins of Youth Secret Files #1. Kid Flash received a profile in Teen Titans / Outsiders Secret Files 2003.
Impulse had a cameo in Aztek: The Ultimate Man #8, Flash II #181, 196 and JLA: Our Worlds at War #1. Flash had a cameo in Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1.
Kid Flash appeared in a dream sequence in Flash II #227. Impulse appeared in a dream sequence in JLA #76.
Kid Flash II had a cameo in JLA #121 and Titans II #9.
Resurrection Man #8 showed a boy named Jess Archer wearing an Impulse costume for Halloween.
When Resurrection Man attuned his mind to the cosmos in Resurrection Man #18 he caught a glimpse of Impulse.
There were pin-ups of Impulse in Batman: No-Man’s Land Gallery #1 and Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery #1.
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