Flash of Two Worlds
| "Flash of Two Worlds" | |
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Cover of The Flash vol. 1, 123 (Sept, 1961).Art by Carmine Infantino, pencils, and Murphy Anderson, inks.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | September 1961 |
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| Title(s) | The Flash #123 |
| Main character(s) |
Flash (Barry Allen) Flash (Jay Garrick) |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Gardner Fox |
| Penciller(s) | Carmine Infantino |
| Inker(s) | Joe Giella |
| Editor(s) | Julius Schwartz |
"Flash of Two Worlds!" is a landmarkcomic book story that was published in The Flash #123 (Sept. 1961). It introduces Earth-Two, and more generally the concept of the multiverse, to DC Comics. The story was written by Gardner Fox under the editorial guidance of Julius Schwartz (whose subsequent autobiography was titled Man of Two Worlds), and illustrated by Carmine Infantino. In 2009, DC Comics released a new digitally remastered graphic novel collection, DC Comics Classics Library: The Flash of Two Worlds. It features the classic flagship story and other subsequent Pre-Crisis, Flash material.
At a charity event organized by Iris West, the Flash performs super-speed tricks to entertain the children there as the scheduled magician has not come. Recreating a rope climbing trick, the Flash begins vibrating his molecules when he suddenly disappears from the stage. He finds himself outside near an unfamiliar city, which he discovers to be Keystone City, the home of the Golden Age Flash. Keystone City is located on Earth-Two (not named as such in this story), an Earth in a parallel universe. On Barry Allen's world, the Golden Age Flash is thought to be a fictional comic book character. Barry looks up Jay Garrick in the phone book and introduces himself to the older speedster. On this Earth, Jay had retired as the Flash years earlier, the year his comic book series was canceled on Earth-One, and married his longtime girlfriend, Joan Williams. Barry claims Gardner Fox's thoughts must have been tuned in to the events of Earth-Two.
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