Flash Facts Legacy

The 2014 Flash CW TV series with Grant Gustin as the Flash isn't the first series to have Flash as a hero...there was also the 1990 CBS series with John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen...aka the Flash.

In the comics, there were four men who held the title role of the Flash as the leads of their respective comics....and here's a few Flash Facts!

Jay Flash

Real Name: Jason Peter "Jay" Garrick

First Appearance: Flash Comics #1 (January, 1940)

Created By: Gardner Fox and Harry Lampert

Origin: A lab accident with "hard water", wherein he inhaled fumes, and eventually awoke with super-speed.

Significant Other: Joan Williams

Team Membership: Justice Society of America (charter member), All-Star Squadron

Speedster Foe: Rival (Dr. Edward Clariss)

Main titles: Flash Comics (104 issues starting in 1940), All-Flash Quarterly (first 5, later just All-Flash, 32 issues starting in 1941), DC Special Series (1 issue, 1977), Flash Special (1 issues, 1990), Speed Force (1 issue, starting in 1997), DC First: Flash/Superman (1 issue, starting in 2002)

Barry Flash

Real Name: Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen

First Appearance: Showcase #4 (Sept-Oct, 1956)

Created By: Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino 

Origin: A lightning bolt hit a batch of chemicals in his lab, causing him to wander off and discover his super-speed.

Significant Other: Iris West

Team Membership: Justice League of America (charter member)

Speedster Foe: Reverse Flash (also known as Professor Zoom, Eobard Thawne)

Main titles: Showcase (4 issues starting in 1956), Flash (246 issues, starting in 1959), Flash Annual (1 issue, starting in 1963), DC Special Series (3 issues, 1977), Flash Special (1 issues, 1990), The Life Story of the Flash (1997), Speed Force (1 issue, starting in 1997), Blackest Night: Flash (3 issues, starting in 2010), Flash: Rebirth (6 issues, starting in 2009), The Flash (12 issues, starting in 2010), Flash Secret Files and Origins (1 issue, starting in 2010), DC Retroactive: Flash - the '70s (1 issue, starting in 2011)

Wally Flash

Real Name: Wallace Rudolph "Wally" West

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

Created By: John Broome and Carmine Infantino
 
Origin: Barry was showing young Flash fan, Wally, his lab, when lightning struck again.  Then, Wally took over for Barry when Barry "died".

Significant Other:  Linda Park

Team Membership: Teen Titans (charter member), Justice League (joined in Justice League International #24, February, 1989)

Speedster Foe: Zoom (Hunter Zolomon)

Main titles: DC Special Series (1 issue, 1977), Flash (249 issues starting in 1987), Flash Annual (13 issues, starting in 1987), Flash Special (1 issues, 1990), Flash Secret Files (3 issues, starting in 1997), Speed Force (1 issue, starting in 1997), Flash Plus (1 issue, starting in 1997), Flash 80-Page Giant (2 issues, starting in 1998), Sins of Youth: Kid Flash/Impulse (1 issue, starting in 2000), Flash: Iron Heights (1 issue, starting in 2001), All-Flash (1 issue, starting in 2007), DC Retroactive: Flash - the '80s (1 issue, starting in 2011), DC Retroactive: Flash - the '90s (1 issue, starting in 2011)

Bart Flash 

Real Name: Bartholomew Henry "Bart" Allen

First Appearance: Flash #91 (June, 1994 as Impulse), Teen Titans #4 (December, 2003 as Kid Flash), Infinite Crisis #7 (June, 2006 as Flash)

Created By: Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo
 
Origin: The grandson of Barry and Iris Allen, Iris brought him back from the 30th Century to be trained in the use of the speed that was killing him by Wally Flash!

Significant Other: Carol Bucklen

Team Membership: Titans (joined in New Titans #0, October, 1994), Young Justice (charter member)

Speedster Foe: Inertia (later known as Kid Zoom, Thaddeus Thawne)

Main titles: Impulse (90 issues, starting in 1995), Impulse Annual (2 issues, starting in 1996), Impulse Plus (1 issue, starting in 1997), Speed Force (1 issue, starting in 1997), Impulse/Atom Double-Shot (1 issue, 1998), Impulse: Bart Saves the Universe (1 issue, starting in 1999), Sins of Youth: Kid Flash/Impulse (1 issue, starting in 2000), Flash: The Fastest Man Alive (13 issues, starting in 2006)

Then, Flash (Barry Allen) was instrumental in restarting the whole DC Universe with Flashpoint, starting in 2011, and giving us the New 52!