My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
That is an example of power inflation. The original concept was not that the ring had a "weakness to wood"...it was that the ring made him immune to metals. Thus, ANY non-metal (plastic, rubber, wood, stone...) could still hurt him. But as the writers made the character more and more powerful, more and more invulnerable, eventually the "immune to metal" concept got watered down to just "weakness for wood."
Of course, GL is not the only character that this happened to. Superman started as "stronger than a locomotive" and eventually became able to move around planets. Waaaaaay stronger than a locomotive!
"Age is not defined by years, but by regrets...I'm an old man now." --Fighting Yank, "Project Superpowers"
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake
By the way, here's the other variant cover with the original Alan Scott from that month:
(At least Alan was on two variant covers for the "Green Lantern 75th Anniversary" month; Jay only made one cover during the 75th Anniversary for "The Flash", and Hawkman didn't even get a "75th Anniversary" variant month!)
Thinking about it, that's a great update of his costume on the Detective Comics cover. Make the cape purple (it may be, the color is toned on the cover) and I'm a happy man.
My name is Wally West. I"m the fastest man alive. I"m the Flash.
Favorite Heroes - 1-Flash/Wally West, 2-Superman, 3-Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, 4-Nightwing, 5-Hawkman, 6-Firestorm, 7-Supergirl/Linda Danvers, 8-Zatanna, 9-Robin/Tim Drake