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The Life Story of the Flash #[nn]
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This 1998 collection reprints the two-issue prestige format miniseries The Life Story of the Flash, which presents a fictionalized biography of the Scarlet Speedster. Written by Mark Waid with art by Brian Augustyn and Gil Kane, it chronicles the legacy of the Flash from Jay Garrick through Wally West, framed as an in-universe documentary. The story explores how each Flash's heroics and personal struggles shaped the character's mythos across DC's timeline.
Contains 18 stories
Chapter One: Inherit the Wind
Barry Allen [Flash]
Chapter Two: Thunderstruck
Iris West AllenProf. Ira WestBarry Allen [Flash]
Chapter Three: A Bolt from the Blue
Iris West AllenBarry Allen [Flash]
Chapter Four: Life in the Fast Lane
Iris West AllenFlash [Barry Allen]Martian ManhunterAquamanBlack Canary [Dinah Lance]Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]Elongated ManDexter Myles
Chapter Five: Lightning Strikes Twice
Flash [Barry Allen]Kid Flash [Wally West]
Chapter Six: Rogues Gallery
Flash [Barry Allen]Paul GambiCaptain ColdMirror MasterCaptain BoomerangTopHeat WaveTricksterPied PiperMr. Element [also as Dr. Alchemy]Weather WizardGorilla GroddAbra KadabraReverse-Flash [Professor Zoom]
Chapter Seven: Stolen Thunder
Flash [Barry Allen]Flash [Jay Garrick]Joan GarrickShadeFiddlerThinker
Chapter Eight: 'Til Death Do Us Part
Flash [Barry Allen]Iris West Allen
Chapter Nine: Flash Forward
Flash [Barry Allen]Iris West AllenCharlie ConwellStacy ConwellBarney SandsProfessor Ira West
Chapter Ten: Sudden Death
Flash [Barry Allen]Iris West AllenReverse-Flash [Professor Zoom]
Chapter Eleven: Faster Than Light
Iris West Allen
Chapter Twelve: Running from the Past
Flash [Barry Allen]Reverse-Flash [Professor Zoom]Mack NathanTroy NathanFiona Webb
Chapter Thirteen: Swift Justice
Flash [Barry Allen]Reverse-Flash [Professor Zoom]Fiona Webb
Chapter Fourteen: The Trial of the Flash
Flash [Barry Allen]Iris West AllenFiona WebbAbra Kadabra
Chapter Fifteen: The Speed of Life
Flash [Barry Allen]Iris West Allen
Chapter Sixteen: Race to Save the Universe
Flash [Barry Allen]Iris West AllenAnti-MonitorPsycho-PirateKid Flash
Chapter Seventeen: Carrying the Torch
Iris West AllenTornado Twins [Don AllenDawn Allen]XSImpulse [also as Kid Flash]Max MercuryFlash [Wally West]Jesse QuickFuture Flashes
Epilogue
Flash [Barry Allen]Iris West AllenFlash [Wally West]Impulse
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Full credits
writer Mark Waid
writer Brian Augustyn
artist Gil Kane
artist Joe Staton
inker Tom Palmer
colorist Lovern Kindzierski
colorist Digital Chameleon
letterer Gaspar Saladino
cover pencils, inks Glen Orbik
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Reprinted in The Life Story of the Flash #[nn] (1998), DC Comics Presents: The Life Story of the Flash #1 (2012), Flash by Mark Waid #7 (2020)
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