I’m definitely in a Flash mood after watching the season finale of the T.V series. So I decided to make June centered on The Flash. All month long I’m going to relive with you how the ‘fastest man alive’ inspired my comic book creativity by sharing my favorite issues of all time. I’ve already discussed issue 1 in a commentary previously so moving past that, I want to share another one of my favorite issues of all time: The Flash #50. The comic series at this point starred Wally West as the “Scarlet Speedster” being that Barry Allen had died to save the world. The events leading to this point had Wally battling the villain Vandal Savage (the same Savage that is the villain DC’s Legends of Tomorrow TV show). Wally was put into a position where Savage temporarily stole his powers and shot Wally in the chest and left for dead. Savage is creating his own speedster with the aid of a drug called Velocity-9. His newest one takes the image of The Flash. In this issue, Wally is in the afterlife making sense of what has happened while his body is mysteriously healed by alien technology. Savage has claimed victory and has no idea that The Flash isn’t dead, but is going to return better than ever and this time with an all-new high-tech costume that has a slightly altered design. I’ve read this issue dozen’s of times. I loved the entire storyline. Veteran comic writer William Messner-Loebs wrote it. If you’ve never heard of that name, he has quite the bibliography that spans across over a dozen comic book publishing companies. The issue also came out around the same time that the original television series The Flash came out. These two combined helped solidify The Flash as my favorite DC character of all time.
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