As a boy, Jay Garrick used to read pulp magazine stories of the turn-of-the-century super-hero, Whip Whirlwind. Little did he know that he would be granted the same powers of super speed.
Jay would go to Midwestern University in Keystone City where he would double-major in chemistry and physics. An experiment he was working on during his junior year was to purify hard water without any residual radiation in a cyclotron. When a test tube of the hard water was accidentally spilled, the fumes knocked him out. His friend Elliot Shapiro dragged him from the lab. After a week of unconsciousness, during which Jay's metabolism increased and his body rejected nutrients, he discovered that he had been given superhuman speed by the accident, and he used this speed as the superhero, Flash.
Garrick would also eventually join the Justice Society of America with other members such as Alan Scott, Doctor Fate, the Spectre, the Sandman and Hawkman.
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Character History
CREATORS: Gardner Fox & Harry Lampert
PRE-FLASHPOINT FIRST APPEARANCE: Flash Comics #1 (January, 1940)