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Flash

Jay Garrick, the original Flash.
Cover art for JSA #78, by Alex Ross
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Flash Comics #1
(January 1940)
Created by Gardner Fox
Harry Lampert
In story information
Alter ego Jason Peter "Jay" Garrick
Team affiliations Justice Society of America
All-Star Squadron
Justice League
Abilities Ability to run at the speed of light, augmented by the extra-dimensional Speed Force. Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American Comic book painter, Illustrator and DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company In Comic books and other stories with a long history first appearance refers to the first occurrence to feature a Fictional character. Flash Comics was an anthology comic book published by All-American Publications and later National Periodicals ( DC Comics) Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (Speed Saunders was initially credited to "E Harry Lampert ( November 3, 1916 in New York - November 13, 2004 in Boca Raton Florida) was a cartoonist adman and The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics Superhero group the first team of superheroes in Comic book history The All-Star Squadron is a DC Comics fictional Superhero team that debuted in Justice League of America #193 (August 1981 The Justice League sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short is a Fictional DC Comics superhero team. The Speed Force is a fictional concept presented in various Comic books published by DC Comics.

Jay Garrick is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe and the first to use the name Flash. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company The DC Universe ( DCU) is the fictional Shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place

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Fictional character biography

The Flash

Jason Peter Garrick[1] is a college student prior to 1940 (retconned from 1938) who accidentally inhales hard water vapors after falling asleep in his laboratory where he had been working (later stories would change this to heavy water vapors). Retroactive continuity is the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction Hard water is the type of Water that has high Mineral content (in contrast with Soft water) Heavy water is water which contains a higher proportion than normal of the Isotope Deuterium, as deuterium oxide, D2O or ²H2O As a result, he finds that he can run at superhuman speed and has similarly fast reflexes (retcons imply the inhalation simply activated a latent metagene). Metahuman is a term to describe Superhumans in DC Comics ' Shared universe, the DC Universe. After a brief career as a college football star, he dons a red shirt with a lightning bolt and a stylized metal helmet with wings (based on images of the Roman god Mercury) and begins to fight crime as the Flash. College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies "Alipes" redirects here For the Centipede Genus, see Alipes (centipede. The helmet belonged to Jay's father, Joseph, who fought during World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All He has been seen using the helmet as a weapon/type of shield, as seen in Infinite Crisis. Infinite Crisis is a seven-issue Limited series of Comic books written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George

His first case involves battling the Faultless Four, a group of blackmailers. In the early stories, it seems to be widely known that Garrick was the Flash. [2]

Like the Flashes who followed him, Garrick became a close friend of the Green Lantern of his time, Alan Scott, whom he met through the Justice Society of America. Alan Scott is a Fictional character, a Superhero from the DC Comics universe and the first superhero to bear the name Green Lantern

Justice Society of America

The Flash soon becomes one of the best-known of the Golden Age of superheroes. The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books generally thought as lasting from the 1930s until late 1940s during which Comic books He is a founding member of the Justice Society of America and serves as its first chairman. The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics Superhero group the first team of superheroes in Comic book history [3] He is originally based in New York City[4] however this was later retconned to the fictional Keystone City. The City of New York Retroactive continuity is the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction Keystone City is a Fictional city in the DC Comics universe Specifically it is the home of both the original Flash Jay Garrick, and the third Flash He leaves the JSA after issue #6, but returns several years later (issue #24, Spring 1945) and has a distinguished career as a crimefighter during the 1940s.

Several pieces of retroactive continuity fill out early Garrick history. A story explaining the retirement of the JSA members, including the Flash, explained that in 1951, the JSA is investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for possible Communist sympathies and asked to reveal their identities. The House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC or HCUA 1938–1975 was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based The JSA decline, and Garrick, who recently married his longtime girlfriend Joan, retired from superheroic life. A trained scientist, he ran an experimental laboratory for several decades. All-Star Squadron Annual #3 states that the JSA fight a being named Ian Karkull who imbues them with energy that retards their aging, allowing Garrick and many others - as well as their girlfriends and sidekicks - to remain active into the late 20th century without infirmity. The All-Star Squadron is a DC Comics fictional Superhero team that debuted in Justice League of America #193 (August 1981 Ian Karkull is a fictional Supervillain in some comic-book titles published by DC Comics. The 1990s Starman series notes that the Shade prompted Garrick to come out of retirement in the 1950s, but the details of his activities during this time are hazy at best. The Shade is a Fictional character developed in the 1940's for National Comics.

Earth-Two

First appearance in Flash Comics #1 (Jan 1940). Cover art by Sheldon Moldoff.
First appearance in Flash Comics #1 (Jan 1940). Cover art by Sheldon Moldoff. Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff (born April 14, 1920, New York City, New York) is an American Comic book Artist

Garrick emerges from retirement in 1961 to meet the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, from a parallel world. The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books predominantly those featuring the Superhero Bartholomew "Barry" Allen is a Fictional character, a Superhero in the DC Comics universe and the second Flash Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own Garrick's world is dubbed Earth-Two, while Allen's is Earth-One. The DC Multiverse is a Fictional continuity construct that exists in stories published by Comic book company DC Comics. The DC Multiverse is a Fictional continuity construct that exists in stories published by Comic book company DC Comics. The rest of the JSA soon join the Flash, although their activities during the 1960s (other than their annual meeting with Earth-One's Justice League of America) are unrecorded. The Justice League sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short is a Fictional DC Comics superhero team. That he and Green Lantern (Alan Scott) are good friends is clear, however.

Garrick is a key member of the JSA's 1970s adventures (as chronicled in All-Star Comics and Adventure Comics), as well as helping to launch the careers of Infinity Inc. Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, all the parallel worlds are merged into one, and Keystone City becomes the twin city across the river from Allen's Central City (an updated story suggests that Keystone in this new continuity was rendered invisible and wiped from the memories of the world for many years through the actions of several supervillains). Adventure Comics is a Comic book series published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983 Infinity Inc is a team of Comic book Superheroes in the DC Comics universe, mostly composed of the children and heirs of the Justice Crisis on Infinite Earths is a twelve-issue American comic book Limited series (identified as a "12-part maxi-series" and crossover For other uses of Central City see Central City (disambiguation. A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the Villain character type commonly found in Comic books, Action movies and

21st century

In the early 21st century, many of Garrick's JSA cohorts have retired or died, but Garrick remains active with the latest incarnation of the group. He is physically about 50 years old thanks to the effects of several accidental anti-aging treatments, but his chronological age is closer to 90. Of the three original JSA members still on the team (along with Alan Scott and Wildcat), Jay takes a more fatherly approach towards his teammates and the DC superhero community in general. Wildcat is the name of several DC Comics Superheroes the first and most famous of which is Ted Grant, a long-time member of the Justice Society After eating lunch with Wally West and Nightwing (Dick Grayson) in one issue of The Flash, Grayson remarks that he "wants to be like [Garrick] when he grows up". For the Marduk album see Nightwing (album. For the current and most prominent holder of the Nightwing title see Dick Grayson Nightwing Richard John "Dick" Grayson is a fictional Superhero that appears in Comic books published by DC Comics.

Infinite Crisis and "One Year Later"

Main articles: Infinite Crisis and One Year Later

Jay and his wife Joan have guardianship of Bart Allen after Max Mercury's disappearance. Infinite Crisis is a seven-issue Limited series of Comic books written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George One Year Later was a 2006 event running through the DC Universe. Bartholomew "Bart" Allen is a superhero in the. Allen first appeared as the superhero Impulse. Max Mercury is a Fictional character, a DC Comics superhero based on Quality Comics ' Quicksilver. During the events of Infinite Crisis Jay states that the Speed Force is gone after a battle in which many speedsters, living and dead, wrestle Superboy-Prime into the Speed Force and disappear. The Speed Force is a fictional concept presented in various Comic books published by DC Comics. Jay is left behind when he reaches his limit and cannot follow. Bart Allen returns, aged several years, and had absorbed the entire Speed Force during his pursuit of the escaped Superboy-Prime. Jay claims that without the Speed Force, his own power is less than before: like Wally West in the Crisis on Infinite Earths aftermath, he can only run close to the speed of sound. Wally West is a Fictional character, a Comic book Superhero in the DC Comics Universe, the first Kid Flash and the Sound is a vibration that travels through an elastic medium as a Wave. He also stated that as the Speed Force is no longer retarding his aging, his speed is diminishing with time. After Bart left Keystone City for Los Angeles, Jay once again is the city's sole guardian. After hearing news of Bart's demise, Jay collapses with grief, consoled by Jesse Chambers. In the Outsiders: One Year Later story arc, a clone of Garrick appears as an antagonist, created by the Brotherhood of Evil. The Outsiders are fictional characters a DC Comics Superhero team One Year Later was a 2006 event running through the DC Universe. For the team of mutant terrorists see Brotherhood of Mutants The Brotherhood of Evil is a Fictional group of DC Comics He appears to be in his late 20s or early 30s and is brainwashed into working for a Malinese dictator. The clone is defeated by the combined efforts of the Outsiders. He possesses Jay Garrick's super-speed, but none of his memories or expertise. His unconscious body is placed in the custody of Alan Scott, Checkmate's White King. Checkmate is a fictional Covert operations agency within the DC Comics universe.

Jay is continuing his work as a member of the re-formed Justice Society of America, under the leadership of Power Girl. After the death of the Flash, Bart Allen, Jay's full speed returns.

Trade paperback and hardcover collections

Collected editions that reprint issues of Flash Comics and other comics featuring Jay Garrick. The Archives are hardcover, all the others are softcover trade paperbacks:

Title Material collected
Original
The Golden Age Flash Archives Vol. 1 HC (1999) Flash Comics #1-17
The Golden Age Flash Archives Vol. 2 HC (2006) Flash Comics #18-24
All Flash Comics #1-2
The Greatest Flash Stories Ever Told HC (1990) and TPB (1991) Flash Comics #1, 66, 86
Comic Cavalcade #24
Showcase #4
The Flash (vol. 1) #107, 113, 119, 124, 125, 137, 143, 148, 179
Five-Star Super-Hero Spectacular
The Flash (vol. 2) #2
The Flash: The Greatest Stories Ever Told TPB (2007) Flash Comics #86, 104
The Flash (vol. 1) #123, 155, 165, 179
The Flash (vol. 2) #91
DC Special Series #11

Powers and abilities

As the Flash, Jay can run and move his limbs at superhuman speeds, and possesses superhuman reflexes. He also has an aura that prevents air friction from affecting his body and clothes while moving. Unlike Barry, Jay is a metahuman and while he has a connection to the Speed Force, it was not on the level of the other Flashes. Jay possesses the ability to 'steal speed' from other speedsters. When the Speed Force was absorbed into (and only accessible by) Bart Allen following Infinite Crisis, Jay's top speed was the speed of sound. After Bart's death and Wally's return, the Speed Force returned to its normal functions and Jay can now reach near-light speeds that let him keep up with even Zoom. Zoom (real name Hunter Zolomon) is a fictional Comic book Supervillain from the DC Comics universe.

Jay's status as a metahuman with natural speed may be a retcon. During the "Dead Heat" miniseries, Jay's connection to the Speed Force is disrupted by the villain Savitar, and he, along with many of the other speedsters, is totally powerless. Savitar is a Fictional Supervillain published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Flash (v However, Jay's words in Infinite Crisis #7 imply that his metagene was always there, but inactive until the Speed Force is 'destroyed' or perhaps until the formation of New Earth took place. The DC Multiverse is a Fictional continuity construct that exists in stories published by Comic book company DC Comics.

Alternate versions

In the final issue of 52, a new Multiverse is revealed, originally consisting of 52 identical realities. Among the parallel realities shown is one designated "Earth-2". As a result of Mister Mind "eating" aspects of this reality, it takes on visual aspects similar to the pre-Crisis Earth-Two now called Earth-2 to distinguish the two separate realities. Mister Mind is a Fictional Comic book Supervillain created for Fawcett Comics, and now owned and published by DC Comics. Included in one panel showing is a new counterpart to Jay Garrick among other Justice Society of America characters. The names of the characters and the team are not mentioned in the panel in which they appear,[5] but is later specifically used in the "Countdown: Arena" series where the new Earth-2 Flash is specifically identified as Jay Garrick and does not allow others to call him "Flash" in the series, opposed to openly using "Jay Garrick". Despite being an almost exact duplicate to the original World War II Garrick, it is shown that the new Earth-2 Garrick is much younger, having no gray hair at all. [6]

In the Elseworlds book JSA: The Unholy Three, Jay Garrick is portrayed as a post-WW2 United States intelligence agent stationed in Russia, working under the code-name Mercury. Elseworlds is the publication Imprint for a group of Comic books produced by DC Comics that take place outside the company's canon JSA The Liberty Files is a Comic book published by DC Comics. He is instrumental in bringing down the story's rogue Superman.

Other media

References

  1. ^  JSA vol. 1,  #87 (September, 2006)  DC Comics
  2. ^  Gardner F. Fox (w),  Everett E. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (Speed Saunders was initially credited to "E Hibbard (p,i).   Flash Comics vol. 1,  #6 (June, 1940)  All-American Publications
  3. ^  Gardner F. Fox (w),  All Star Comics vol. All-American Publications is one of three American comic book companies that combined to form the modern-day DC Comics, one of the world's two largest comics publishers Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (Speed Saunders was initially credited to "E All Star Comics is a 1940s Comic book series from All-American Publications, one of the early companies that merged with National Periodical Publications 1,  #3 (Winter, 1940)  All-American Publications
  4. ^  Flash Comics vol. All-American Publications is one of three American comic book companies that combined to form the modern-day DC Comics, one of the world's two largest comics publishers 1,  #5 (May, 1940)  All-American Publications (4/4)
  5. ^  52  #52 (May 2, 2007)  DC Comics (13/3)
  6. ^ Brady, Matt (2007-05-08). All-American Publications is one of three American comic book companies that combined to form the modern-day DC Comics, one of the world's two largest comics publishers DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 589 - Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo 1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen "THE 52 EXIT INTERVIEWS: GRANT MORRISON". Newsarama. Retrieved on 2007-05-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.

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