Flash

  1. The Flash was created by Gardner Fox and Harry Lampert and first appeared in Flash Comics #1 on January 1940
  2. The Flash is sometimes referred to as Scarlet Speedster, Crimson Comet, The Blur, The Streak, and The Fastest Man Alive
  3. Four men have been The Flash in the DCU: Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West, and Bart Allen
  4. The Flash, Jay Garrick, is one of the charter members of the JSA, Justice Society of America
  5. The Flash was the first character to establish and cross the parallel worlds
  6. The original Flash, Jay Garrick, it turns out is actually from Earth Two, not Earth One like most of the popular DC characters, but he can travel back and forth because of his powers
  7. The Flash gets his abilities from the “Speed Force”; which gives him the abilities of super speed, intangibility, and superhuman agility
  8. Some of The Flash’s most notorious villains include: Mirror Master, Weather Wizard, Gorilla Grodd, Reverse-Flash/Zoom, and Captain Cold
  9. Currently The Flash is being portrayed on The CW television series The Flash by Grant Gustin
  10. All forms and costumes of The Flash have had a lightning bolt, as a nod to the Greek god