In 1940, building on the popularity of Superman and Batman, DC Comics launched a new title- Flash Comics.
It featured the adventures of Jay Garrick, a college student who was overcome by hard water fumes in an experiment that went wrong. Jay soon found that he could run faster than anyone, even playing a complete game of tennis by himself.
Calling himself the Fastest Man Alive, Jay created a super-hero costume for himself with winged boots and and winged helmet, looking almost like Mercury of the Greek Gods.
When DC Comics created the first super-hero team, The Justice Society of America, in 1940, in All Star Comics, The Flash was one of the founding members and he pretty much stayed there until the series ended in 1951.
At one time appearing in several titles, All-Star, Flash, All-Flash, Flash found himself homeless. His own book vanished when the super-hero almost died out.
In 1958 DC Comics revived the Flash with a new Flash, Barry Allan, and it was discovered that the Jay Garrick adventures were in a comic book that Barry Allan was reading.
In 1961, with comics fandom remembering the original Flash, DC Comics, created a story called Flash of two worlds. While vibrating too fast one day, Barry found himself on another world. He recognized the world from his reading of All Flash comics and decided to visit his hero-The Golden Age Flash. The two teamed up to save Jay's world and return Barry to his world.
The re-introduction of the Golden Age Flash, was so popular that DC Comics decided to team them up every year. When Barry Allan "died" during the Crisis on Infinite Earth's, and another Flash replaced him, Jay Garrick still continued as the Flash.
In recent years, his powers, and much of his origin has been changed, but for me that doesn't matter. He will still be the hero that I encountered in a reprint one day in 1971.
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