Written by Jeremy Adams, Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, Geoff Johns, and Simon Spurrier Art by Fernando Pasarin & Oclair Albert, Todd Nauck, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Scott Kolins, and Mike Deodato Jr. An oversize anniversary issue concludes writer Jeremy Adams's acclaimed tenure, with special guests Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, and Geoff Johns joining the celebration! As the Adams run races to the finish line, get a prelude to the new Dawn of DC chapter of the Fastest Man Alive's adventures from the dream team of Simon Spurrier (Coda, Detective Comics) and Mike Deodato Jr. (Avengers)!
Acclaimed writer Mark Waid's run on The Flash continues with these adventures from the late 1990s. It's Wally West and Linda Park's wedding day-what could go wrong? Mysterious villain Cobalt Blue debuts with a surprising connection to Barry Allen! To stop him, it'll take a super-team of super speedsters, including Wally, Impulse, Jay Garrick, Jesse Quick, and Max Mercury in the epic story Chain Lightning! Collects The Flash #142-150, The Flash Secret Files #1, Speed Force #1, The Life Story of the Flash graphic novel, and The Flash 80-Page Giant #1.
As this latest collection of Flash tales written by Mark Waid begins, meet Walter West, a Flash from a parallel reality where his beloved Linda Park died and the speedster doles out brutal justice to criminals as a response. Can the two Flashes co-exist long enough to stop Replicant, a villain with the combined powers of the Rogues Gallery? Better find out fast-the longer Walter West stays on Wally's Earth, the more he poses a threat to all of reality! Collects The Flash #151-162, The Flash Annual #12, and pages from The Flash Secret Files #2.
In 1990, Mark Waid's legendary writing career began when he scripted his first issue of The Flash. Waid would continue to work on Wally West for nearly a decade, building a world that would keep the character running for years. In this first volume of a new series, Young Wally West is quickly in danger-not only from The Flash's enemies, but from powers that he doesn't know how to control! Collects The Flash Special #1, The Flash #62-68 and The Flash Annual #4-5.
Once Wally West was Kid Flash, sidekick to his mentor and friend The Flash, a.k.a. Barry Allen. But the death of Barry made Wally the fastest man alive-and the new Flash! Now, somehow, Barry has returned-as a violent and paranoid speedster determined to eliminate what he's created! Is Barry really back? This second collection of stories from Mark Waid's epic run on The Flash includes The Flash #69-79, The Flash Annual #6, Green Lantern #30-31 and #40, plus a story from Justice League Quarterly #10.
The Fastest Man Alive speeds toward a new era! First, it's a super-speed misadventure in babysitting as Kid Flash watches Jai and Irey, the Flash's children! When a sleepover goes awry, Kid Flash has to find and bring back the twins, Maxine, and a few new friends from across time and space! And then an unspeakable tragedy befalls the West family. Wally is joined by Hourman, Mister Terrific, and a host of DC's Finest to solve a heartbreaking mystery, as an unexpected group of foes led by one of the Fourth World's deadliest stands in their way! This volume concludes the acclaimed tenure of writer Jeremy Adams (Green Lantern), and superstar creators Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, and Geoff Johns join in with a handful of their own tales! Collects The Flash #797-799 and four stories from The Flash #800.
Celebrate 80 Years of the Flash with DC, as we revisit classic comics stories from the 1940s and onward, featuring some of the Flash's greatest allies and villains, and work from some of the greatest creators ever to grace the graphic-literature medium! This book collects such seminal moments as the first appearances of Jay Garrick (Flash Comics #1), Barry Allen (Showcase #4) and Wally West (The Flash #110), the classic Flash of Two Worlds (The Flash #123) and the death of Iris West (The Flash #275) as well as many previously uncollected gems, including stories from The Flash #300 (1981), Flash #54 (1991), Flash Comics #89 (1947) and many more. It also features new essays and commentary from comics stars Mark Waid, Roy Thomas, Francis Manapul and more, plus a new cover by Jim Lee!
