FLASH

Real Name: Jonathan "John" Robert Fox

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Superhero, physicist

Group Affiliation: Justice Legion A

Known Relatives: Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern, ancestor), Wally West (Flash, ancestor)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Central City, Missouri, 27th Century, formerly Mercury, 853rd Century

First Appearance: Flash Special #1 (1990)

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. Flash was a brilliant physicist specializing in the study of tachyons and time-travel.

History

(DC One Million #1-4, JLA #23, 1,000,000) - John Fox decided to explore the timestream and ended up in the year 85265, where he joined Justice Legion A. Superman Prime Kal-El prepared to return to Earth from his Fortress of Solitude in the center of the sun after one hundred centuries, and the Justice Legion prepared a massive celebration. They invited heroes from across time and space, including the JLA of the 21st century. Hourman sent the JLA to their time, but was unable to retrieve them, because he’d been implanted with a virus by Vandal Savage and Solaris. The virus threatened the lives of the Justice Legion and all of humanity, eating away their minds, and took over the programming of every machine on Earth. The 21st Century Vandal Savage destroyed Montevideo, Uruguay with a nuclear-armed Rocket Red suit, and the Legion contained the fallout. The Hourman Virus, which Starman helped bring to the past because he’d sided with Solaris, was actually a computer program looking for a system, Solaris itself. Flash and the Legion knew the only way to stop Solaris’ Hourman virus was to be the ones who created Solaris. Using tech from the Batcave and Cadmus they created the solar core, and traveled to the JLA Watchtower to power it using a time engine created by Steel in hopes of recovering the JLA from the 853th Century. The JLA battled the Legion, assuming they were under control of the Hourman virus, but when explanations were made they teamed up to complete Solaris’ construction. The virus left Earth to create Solaris’ A.I. Starman regretted his betrayal of the Justice Legion when he met Ted Knight, the original Starman. To redeem himself he stopped the newly constructed Solaris from destroying Earth by opening up a black hole in its computer brain. Starman reflected that he might be remembered as a villain, but that his actions led to the creation of Solaris in the past, and thus his own present. He then activated the self-destruct mechanism in his suit, killing himself. Supermen punched through the time barrier, returning the Legion to their own time. Solaris was on a rampage decimating planets, and had already killed hundreds of Justice Legionnaires, but the JLA stopped him by having Green Lantern cause him to go super-nova. The Justice Legion witnessed the return of Superman Prime, and to honor him Hourman folded time and space to resurrect Krypton and everyone who’d lived there before the planet exploded. Superman was reunited with Lois Lane, whose DNA had been saved and stored inside of Solaris.

Comments: Created by Mark Waid & Mike Parobeck.

Flash received a profile in Flash Secret Files #1.

Flash had a cameo in Martian Manhunter II #1,000,000.

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