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SPEED FORCE #1
Cover Date: November 1997
Cover Price: $3.95
Publication Date: 1997-09-10
Cover Credits:
Pencils: Craig Rosseau (signed)
Inks: John Dell (signed)
Colors: Tasty Fried Color (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Mark Waid |
| Pencils | Jim Aparo |
| Inks | Bill Sienkiewicz |
| Lettering | Gaspar Saladino |
| Colors | Tom McCraw |
| Editing | Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Cobalt Blue (Malcolm Thawne; first appearance; next in Flash Vol. 2 #143)
Location(s):
- United States of America
Comment(s):
- This entire story is a flashback narrated by Wally West to an episode from back when he was still Kid Flash
Story Reprinted in:
- The Flash: Born to Run ([July] 1999)
- Flash by Mark Waid #7 ([July] 2020)
Credits:
| Story | William Messner-Loebs |
| Pencils | Kenny Martinez |
| Inks | Anibal Rodriguez |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Colors | Lee Louthridge |
| Editing | Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt |
Feature Character(s):
- Jesse Quick (last in Genesis #4; next in Flash Vol. 2 #138)
Other Character(s):
- J. Wilmer Tarott (first appearance; a multi-billionaire)
- Ken Cordler (first appearance; head of Cordler Cable News)
- Jekko Norlock (first appearance; a New Zealand multi-billionaire and media baron)
- Tally (first appearance; Jesse's secretary)
- Marcus (first appearance; an assistant of Tarott's)
- Larry (first appearance; an employee of Norlock's)
- Paul (first appearance; a former technician at Pilcono Industries)
Location(s):
- New Zealand (presumed; offshore)
- United States of America
- Dallas, TX
- Keystone City ?
- Los Angeles, CA
Credits:
| Story | Brian Augustyn |
| Pencils | Dusty Abell |
| Inks | Drew Geraci |
| Lettering | Chris Eliopoulos |
| Colors | Noelle Giddings |
| Editing | Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt |
Feature Character(s):
- Whip Whirlwind (an earlier identity of Max Mercury; in flashback only; last in flashback in Flash Vol. 2 #97; next in Flash 80-Page Giant #1/5)
Supporting Character(s):
- Wally West (as narrator only, no actual appearance)
- Bart Allen (as audience only, no actual appearance)
Villain(s):
- Archimedes Schott (a toy manufacturer; first appearance in 1893)
- Lucretia Pritchard (head of Pritchard Orphan Asylum; first appearance in 1893)
Other Character(s):
- Zachary Miller (an orphan; first appearance)
- Mrs. O'Shea (first appearance)
Comment(s):
- This tale is narrated by Wally West and recounts an episode that took place in August 1893.
Credits:
| Story | John Byrne |
| Art | John Byrne |
| Lettering | John Byrne |
| Colors | Noelle Giddings |
| Editing | Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash I (see Comments)
Guest Star(s):
- Flash I (appearance same as Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #130)
- Wonder Woman III (Hippolyta; appearance same as Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #130)
Supporting Character(s):
- Joan Williams (in July 15th, 1942, between Flash Comics #34 and All-Flash #6)
Villain(s):
- Fiddler (see Comments)
- Clifford DeVoe (see Comments)
Location(s):
- United States of America
Comment(s):
- The Flash appears in this story in two points in time: the first in two parts in 1942 (the first in January, appearing here between All-Star Squadron Annual #1 and All-Flash Quarterly #4, the next July 15th, between Young All-Stars #31 and the flashback in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #130). Both temporal versions of Jay Garrick will be treated as two separate persons in the indexed issues.
- The appearances here of the Fiddler and the Thinker are much too early since both originally appeared for the first time in 1948 and 1943 respectively.
Story Reprinted in:
- The DC Universe by John Byrne ([February] 2018)
Credits:
| Story | Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn |
| Pencils | Will Rosado |
| Inks | Sal Buscema |
| Lettering | Gaspar Saladino |
| Colors | Jason Scott Jones |
| Editing | Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt |
Feature Character(s):
- Flash (first appearance; Blaine Allen; Flash of the 28th Century; joins the Speed Force)
- Jace Allen (first appearance; the son of the Flash of the 28th Century; acquires super-speed; next in Flash Vol. 2 #145)
Villain(s):
- Cobalt Blue of the 28th Century (first appearance; next in Flash Vol. 2 #145)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of Petrus (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- Unidentified Space Sector
- Petrus (first appearance)
Story Reprinted in:
- Flash by Mark Waid #7 ([July] 2020)