The Flash: Rebirth
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly/Irregular |
| Format | Limited series |
| Publication date(s) | April 2009 – February 2010 |
| No. of issues | 6 |
| Main character(s) |
Barry Allen Wally West Jay Garrick Bart Allen Professor Zoom |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Geoff Johns |
| Artist(s) | Ethan Van Sciver |
The Flash: Rebirth is a six issue monthly American comic book limited series written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver. The series was published by DC Comics, and features characters from throughout the nearly seventy-year-long history of Flash comics. This is the second "rebirth" limited series issued by DC Comics, it was preceded by Green Lantern: Rebirth (2005). The first issue was published on April 1, 2009. The series was first planned to last for five issues, but was extended to six issues in May 2009.
The storyline follows the "rebirth" of the Silver Age character The Flash, otherwise called Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen, after the character's initial return in DC's 2008 crossover storyline "Final Crisis".
In the third issue of Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, Libra tells the Rogues that "the Flash the Rogues first battled has come back to the land of the living". The Rogues regroup in the basement of the Flash Museum and lament the possibility of Barry Allen having returned to life, saying, "He ain't like the kid who took it up after him. He never gave us a break".Captain Cold ended the limited series by reflecting on and preparing for Barry Allen. "The Rogues can't outrun him. Once the skies are back to blue, the game's back on... and if the Flash is really back, there's no more rules in this universe to follow." The issue ends with an image of Barry Allen in his Flash uniform running extremely quickly, and the last line of the series is: "Coming next year: The Flash: Rebirth."
Ethan Van Sciver redesigned Wally West's costume for this series so that Wally and Barry could be visually distinct. Barry once again becomes the primary Flash in the mini-series.Bart Allen, the second Kid Flash and fourth Flash, was resurrected in the 31st Century in Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #3 by Brainiac 5 to combat Superboy-Prime and the Legion of Super-Villains. Geoff Johns confirmed that Bart would return to the past and would play a large role in The Flash: Rebirth.
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