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FLASH VOL. 2 #173
Cover Date: June 2001
Cover Price: $2.25
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Cover Credits:
Art: Brian Bolland (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Geoff Johns |
| Pencils | Scott Kolins |
| Inks | Doug Hazlewood |
| Lettering | Gaspar Saladino |
| Colors | James Sinclair |
| Color separations | Digital Chameleon |
| Editing | Joey Cavalieri |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Cicada (next in Flash: Iron Heights)
- Magenta (next in Flash: Iron Heights)
- Cicada Cultists
Other Character(s):
- Elizabeth (first appearance; Cicada's wife)
- Morillo's wife (next, behind the scenes, in Flash Secret Files #3)
- Rita
- Josh Jackam
Synopsis: - Wally and Linda's house is destroyed in an explosion, but Jesse Quick arrives just in time to save Linda, and set out in search of Flash. Morillo and Chyre home in on the place with the help of a compass which spins more and more wildly the closer they get to Magenta. As they arrive, Wally is able to use his energy to transform Magenta into a devastatingly powerful magnet, releasing himself and throwing the Cicada cult into confusion. He then disarms the cult, but is struck by strange lightning which kills a cultist and temporarily knocks the Flash out.
- Cicada actually killed his wife, and is reviving her against her wishes (through more acts of murder) as a sort of penance. He closes in on Chyre, planning to kill him, but is prevented by the Flash. Both of them crackle with energy, but the Flash is stronger, and Cicada's power spent, he is led away by the police. Magenta escapes unobserved. Later, Wally reveals that when he was knocked out during the encounter, he was also scarred - a lightning bolt on his chest. It makes him remember that he is ultimately an ordinary man and he and Linda decide to move from the suburb where their house was to the city, where normal people live. Also, Morillo discovers that he is healing almost instantaneously and Chyre wonders whether to tell the Flash that he seems to have a son.