The Flash Special Comic Book

The Flash Special #1 Joe Kubert Cover 1st Appearance of John Fox as The Flash.

The Flash
is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero of the same name . The character's first incarnation, Jay Garrick , first appeared in Flash Comics #1. When the Silver Age Flash Barry Allen was introduced, that character took over Flash Comics numbering and the series was retitled as The Flash.

Featuring Wally West as the main character, the Flash mostly operated out of Keystone City . The second series was launched by writer Mike Baron and artist Jackson Guice in June 1987. Featuring long runs most notably by writers Mark Waid and Geoff Johns , the second volume originally went in a different direction from the series starring Barry Allen by making Wally West more flawed. This Flash could not constantly maintain his super-speed because of his hypermetabolism , and would consume gargantuan amounts of food in order to continue operating at top speed. This metabolic limitation would later be continued into Barry Allen's character for the brief television series The Flash that ran in 1990