Also known as the Scarlet sprinter, Barry Allen (Flash) or Bruno Alba for editorial reminded readers Novaro, first appeared in the journal Showcase # 4, 1956, being created by Gardner Fox, Bob Kanigher and Carmine Infantino.
Flash is a superhero from DC Comics American publisher, with superhuman speed and reflexes, whose skills break some laws of physics. Remember, however, that Barry was not the first Flash, as in 1940, Gardner Fox originally created the character, then his identity was Jay Garrick, a young college after an accident in which she inhaled the fumes for several hours of heavy water, acquired super speed and decided to devote their skills for good, as was Flash Comics # 1 (January 1940). Shortly thereafter, Garrick would be integrated into the Justice Society of America (JSA), the world's first superhero group.
should be noted, incidentally, that unlike Superman, Flash was the first superhero to show a single power rather than several at once.
After the Second World War, however, interest in superhero comics declined and the majority was canceled. The Flash closed at # 104 (February 1949) and Garrick was apparently doomed to the limbo of oblivion.
few years later, in the mid 50's, Julius Scharwtz, then Editor of DC, decided to go back to the comic superheroes and commissioned several artists to make new versions of several classic heroes, the first of them Flash, was no longer young university Jay Garrick, but the scientific police (a kind of forensic) Barry Allen. After the character's appearances in Showcase, DC decided to give it its own title, returning the head of The Flash, which restarted with # 105 (March 1959), initiating the so-called Silver Age of comics.
HISTORY OF BARRY ALLEN.
Life and Death of a hero.
Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen was a police scientist, honest and methodical man, but with a reputation for being very slow and always being late everywhere, which caused the anger of his girlfriend, Iris West.
One night, while in his laboratory and was developed out a terrible storm suddenly struck by lightning in the area, breaking windows and landing on a shelf full of chemicals that, combined with the electricity of lightning fell on Allen and bathed.
When Allen was recovered, he decided to go home and try to take a taxi, he realized he could run at super speed. Then he remembered his childhood hero, Flash, whose adventures he read comics, so I decided to create a red suit with a lightning symbol on the chest, which he kept in a small ring, which oppressed whenever I needed to change and dress emerging or returning to the ring, being coated with a special chemical that is activated on contact with nitrogen from the air and expanded, when Flash would take off his suit, a small electrical ring nitrogen released to the suit and this again to shrink.
Interestingly, his first venture was against the slowest guy in the world, the Turtle Man, against which his own powers were his biggest obstacle.
Over time, Barry Allen would totally dominate their powers so he could move, think and react at superhuman speeds, similar even to that of light. Furthermore, it could vibrate so rapidly that it was able to cross solid material as the walls and walls of buildings. Also got complete control over their molecules, so that we can ever reintegrate into their body that had been broken.
Shortly thereafter, in Flash # 110 (1959), while Iris's nephew, Wally West was a big fan of Flash visiting Barry and introduced him to was his friend who said the accident had given his powers to Barry and Wally said he also acquired super speed and began to help hero as Kid Flash, in a costume identical to his mentor, a machine until its color changed and started using the traditional yellow and red uniform.
With the emergence of new versions of classical heroes, as in this case Flash or Green Lantern, fans of these characters started to ask what had happened to them. That was when DC decided to implement an idea that would give large revenues. Thus, in Flash # 123 (1961), presented the story "Flash of Two Worlds." By accident, it vibrates Flash (Barry Allen), reached the vibrational frequency of another dimension, where he met his childhood hero Flash (Jay Garrick), was "real" and the stories they had read in the comics and so were that somehow, the minds of the authors of the Flash comic book had come into contact with this dimension and had "dreamed of." The dimension in which Barry Allen lived became known as Earth 1 and Earth Garrick and 2 (although it must be the opposite.)
that time, Barry Allen had already been integrated into the nascent Justice League of America (JLA, group that integrated the heroes of the Silver Age, first appeared in The Brave and The Bold # 28 in 1960), where he made a great friendship with Green Lantern (Hal Jordan). The meeting with his predecessor, encouraged readers to ask more occurrences of classical heroes, in fact, it would flash at # 137, who would help the JSA to come out of retirement, and, well, DC has decided to include both groups in the two numbers of summer collection from the JLA # 21 and 22 (August-September 1963), a situation that lasted until the advent of the Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985.
Like any self-respecting hero, Flash (Barry Allen) soon had its own colorful gallery of villains, including highlighted: - Captain Cold (Captain Cold): Leonard "Len" Snart, used his skill and knowledge on the use of cold to commit their crimes. First appeared in Showcase # 8 (June 1957).
- Heat Wave (Wave Cálida): Mick Rory, used his knowledge to create weapons and gadgets that produce heat to regenerate and was befriended Flash. First appeared in Flash # 140 (1964).
- Mirror Master (The Master of Mirrors): Sam Scudder, had achieved secret to enter the sizes of the mirrors, which allowed him to go from one place to another in seconds through it or hide in it. Scudder died in Crisis on Infinite Earths, eventually, there would be several replacements, one Captain Boomerang and the latest Evan McCulloch. First appeared in Flash # 105 (1959).
- Captain Boomerang (Captain Boomerang): Digger Harkness, Australia, very skillful in the creation and use of objects thrown, whose skill was matched only perhaps by Batman. While part of the Suicide Squad, Boomerang often supplanted the identity of Mirror Master to continue committing crimes. Appeared for the first time in Flash # 117 (1960).
- The Top (The tube): Roscoe Dillon, used objects based on spins. Boyfriend was the golden patina, and his death, she sought to avenge him again and again trying to destroy Flash. First appeared in Flash # 122 (August 1961).
- The Golden Glidden (The Golden skater): Lisa Snart, Captain Cold's sister and girlfriend of The Top, combining the techniques of freezing his brother, his skill as a skater. On the death of her boyfriend, and again sought revenge on Flash, especially after his identity was discovered that Barry Allen.
- The Trickster (The Joker): Giovanni Giuseppe, aka Jesse James, using circus tricks in their crimes. First appeared in Flash # 113 (April 1960).
- Weather Wizard (The Wizard of Climate): Mark Mardon, made use of a stick he invented to control the weather. First appeared in Flash # 110 (1959).
- Pied Piper (The Pied Piper of Colors): Henry Darrow or Rathaway Hartley, a wealthy young man who, renouncing his family, decided to commit a crime, using a flute that produced different effects. First appeared in Flash # 106 (April-May 1959).
- Gorilla Grodd (Gorilla Grodd) came from a race of African apes, highly intelligent, living peacefully in a city with advanced technology hidden from the eyes of man, except for Flash, who considered his friend. Grodd, who had a great mental power, transgressed the rules of Gorilla City. First appeared in Flash # 106 (April-May 1959).
- Professor Zoom (Zoom, Flash Back): Eobard Thawnee, villain come from the future, where there was no crime and decided to replicate the accident that gave Barry his powers and travel to the past to commit crimes. He wore a suit like that of Flash, but with colors reversed, yellow instead of red and black instead of white. First appeared in Flash # 139 (1964).
- Abra Kadabra: Wizard come LXIV century, where his acts do not attract attention and traveled the twentieth century to commit crimes and be famous.
Barry Allen was one of the first members of the JLA to get married (the first and the next Aquaman Hawkman), a fact that was in Flash # 165. Initially, Allen did not reveal his identity to Iris, who, however, learned to hear him speak asleep, but later decided to tell his secret.
Flash's life took a tragic turn when Zoom, Iris who loved and wanted her to leave Barry, being rejected by it, decided to kill her, inserting his hand speed vibrating in your brain, no one more than its victim saw him (Flash # 275, July 1979, the same issue in which Iris Barry revealed she was pregnant). However, Zoom has sought to leave a trail of red herrings, to obstruct the investigation of the murder of Iris Barry back to a being obsessed, they even began to have friction with his fellow JLA (Flash # 276, August 1979 and JLA # 173, December 1979).
When finally found out the truth (Flash # 283, March 1980), Flash Zoom pitted in a battle over time on a machine used for temporary displacement Zoom, which was rigged and that the flash power it began to go back in time to nothing, because they died together Zoom sought. However, Flash decided to venture outside nothing trying to save, to the despair of the villain, who left him for dead.
Barry sought to rebuild his life and began an affair with Fiona Webb, a neighbor over and he planned to marry. However, the tragedy was close again, as in Flash # 321, Zoom was seen as getting rid of limbo in which he was and to take revenge on Flash, I decided to kill Fiona. A few numbers later, in Flash # 324, and at the decisive moment, to save the life of Fiona, Flash accidentally broke Zoom neck, killing him.
Flash would be put on trial for the death of Zoom, but end up being exonerated. Barry could know then that Iris had not really died, because their real parents, who lived in the future, had managed to recover its essence through the advanced technology of his time and moved to another body, Iris came back and helped exonerate Barry of murder charges.
The Flash continued to publish regularly to # 350 (October 1985), when after his trial, he disappeared mysteriously. What had happened is that he decided to go ahead, there to live a quiet life with Iris, especially by her pregnancy.
Then it was discovered that he had been abducted by the Anti, at the beginning of the Crisis on Land Infinite, and that he considered the hero villain that could jeopardize their plans, their ability to travel through time and between size and speed around the light. Anti-Monitor ordered his henchmen to torture the Psicopirata Flash, to keep it under control.
In # 2 of the Crisis miniseries, several heroes, including Batman and the Titans, they were surprised by a flash image that came out of nowhere, with an agonizing experience, and corpse as he preached from a great danger . No one could assume then that due to temporary distortion of the Crisis, the heroes were witnessing the end of Flash.
In subsequent issues, saw how Flash is being tortured by the Psicopirata, that the use of mask that brings out the emotions, made him plunge into a great terror. In # 8, however, things changed; Flash overcame the fear and beat the villain, knocking him unconscious. From there, he went to destroy the antimatter cannon was built by the Anti-Monitor, achieving its mission, though a bit late, but was already released a tachyon and to stop it, Flash should accelerate to hundreds of times the speed of light, I knew it would be fatal for him, but knowing that this depended on the fate of the universe, decided to sacrifice himself and arrested the tachyon.
The effort, however, was too much and Barry's body disintegrated. Nobody knew what had happened until later, when the # 12 Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry's suit was found. Wally West, Kid Flash at the time, decided to honor the memory of his uncle, since assuming the mantle of Flash.
the first to hear about the tragic fate of Flash was, however, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern # 200). While traveling through space back to OA, after completing a mission assigned by the Guardians to impose order after supervillains tried to gain control of the universe by reason of the Crisis, Hal could see a familiar figure on an asteroid. It was, apparently, the spirit of Barry sought leave of his friend, but Hector Hammond intervened to try to take him by surprise with the news.
The legacy of Flash, and return later appearances. Many believed that what had happened in # 8, Crisis on Infinite Earths was a momentary and that Barry would return but not so, Barry did not return. However, there was still plenty to say about it.
Thus, in Secret Origins Annual # 2 (August 1988), in the story "The mystery of human lightning," he said that, on the theory that nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed, Barry's body was transformed into pure energy to overcome the speed of light, this energy is transformed in turn into a ray traveling through time, back in time to hit the same Barry and give them the powers of Flash, establishing a continuous cycle.
Not only that, then you would know that during his stay in the future, Barry had had children with Iris, though he would not raise their twin sons, Don and Dawn, who inherited his father's powers and became known as the Tornado Twins. Don is the father of Bart Allen and Dawn's mother, Jenni Ognats, known as the Legion XS XXX Superheroes century. Barry Allen fans thought their hero had returned, when the story arc Return of Barry Allen, the character appeared on Christmas Day (Flash vol. 2 # 73, February 1993), the door Wally West's house, to the surprise of those present, including Linda Park, Jay Garrick and his wife Joan. His appearance had been preceded in the previous issue, by the vision of a human figure that seemed to materialize from lightning.
However, few numbers after it was revealed that it was not Barry, but a younger version of Zoom (from before he got to face for the first time) and to travel in time, his mind was confused and thought he was Barry Allen, until he saw the files he had on him and his misdeeds, and that upset him. This arc lasted until Flash vol. 2 # 78 (August 1993).
in Flash vol. 2 # 200 (September 2003), Barry appears on your treadmill, to tell his successor, Wally West, who feels proud of him. Hal Jordan, then host of The Spectre (Spectre), appears and joins them. Wally just a virtual face tragedy to face the new Zoom, police Zolomon Hunter, who thought that the hero must go through a great tragedy for better and that almost cost the lives of their loved ones, by the fact that Wally's identity is public. Wally Hal decides to grant the wish of everyone forget his secret identity and that was Barry Allen Flash. 
In Infinite Crisis, Barry came from the Speed \u200b\u200bForce, along with Johnny Quick and Max Mercury, to help the other sprinters to launch a Superboy Prime into a place of no return in the same Force. In DC Universe # 0 (April 2008), the narrator is identified as "Everything", which refers to its association with the world of superheroes and the boxes have black background with yellow letters, little by little the bottom leaves and turning red, until the final page, you can see the moon on the bottom of a red sky, which is crossed diagonally by a yellow lightning, suggesting the Flash symbol and below, the title of the story "Let There Be Lightning."
Finally, Barry is back in Final Crisis # 2, when suddenly appear, asking for help from Wally and Jay to stop the bullet that would kill Orion. Currently, it has relaunched its range, which is now the # 9, which is the prologue to the series Flashpoint.
Adaptation Flash (Barry Allen) to other media. Like many other characters, Flash (Barry Allen) has been adapted to other media, in this case, specifically television.
In the sixties it was possible to see it with other members of the JLA, the central episode of Aquaman TV show. This cartoon show, also had episodes of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and the Teen Titans. Flash
also made its appearance on the live-action TV Legends of the Superheroes in 1978, a kind of homage to the Batman of Adam West, which featured several other heroes like Green Lantern, Hawkman, Huntress, Black Canary, Captain Marvel and villains like Sinestro and Solomon Grundy.
In 1990, he recorded a television series of short duration, with only 22 episodes, produced by Warner Bros, released by CBS, where the leading role was assumed by the actor John Wesley Shipp. While the series was based on Barry Allen, the producers wanted the character had some of each of its incarnations, so I had brown hair like Jay, was a police scientist Barry as he himself and his powers, his need to eat in an exaggerated way to recover lost energy and the hinted romance with Dr. Tina McGee, as Wally West.
Following the series, DC published a special comic with two new stories based on it, with Barry Allen as the protagonist: The Fast and the Dead (John Byrne and Javier Saltares) and Kid Flash is presented (Mark Waid and David Williams).
the mid-nineties, was recorded the pilot for a series of JLA, a project which failed because of the low quality of the film and its argument. The training featured the group in the series consisted of: Martian Manhunter, who acted as hidden leader, Flash (Barry Allen, although some immature behavior, seemed to be to Wally at the time), Green Lantern (Guy Gardner) , Ice, Fire and Atom (Ray Palmer). Come to remember us Barry Allen (Flash) in Fantasy & Science Fiction Comics 2011 of 26 to 28 May in the Viewpoint Gallery at the Catholic University.
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