Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash) - 1st appeared in Flash Comics #1 (1940).
Barry Allen (Silver Age Flash) - 1st appeared Showcase #4 (1956) / died in CoIE
Wally West (post-CoIE Flash) - became The Flash at the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths
Bart Allen (post-Infinte Crisis Flash) - Became The Flash after Wally vanished / Bart suddenly aged
TV/the CW version of The Flash (Barry) - from The Flash: Season Zero (based on TV continuity)
other (please specify in a separate post)
Wally West is the answer. I will never read Flash again 'cause DC ruined legacy by chaning the most succesful legacy character Welly back to Barry... And ruined Legacy... unforgivable.
Wally West...back during Grant Morrison's JLA run.
This is one of the first images of the Flash I ever recalling seeing.
I grew more familiar with the Flash by watching Wally on the JL cartoon. As a result, a lot of my perception on the Flash in general and Wally in particular was shaped by that interpretation - the light-hearted, young, brash clown of the group, but the one who was the Justice League's real 'heart'.
Of course, these days, the version I follow the most is the CW Flash TV show, which is largely inspired by Geoff Johns' Rebirth and the version of Barry Allen we've broadly had since then. But because of my long history with Wally I was thrilled to have him back with Rebirth and I'm really looking forward to seeing where they take the character now.
I LOVED Grant Morrison's take on Wally.
His run with Mark Millar was also good fun.
"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
A last check we were at:* Barry Allen (Silver Age Flash) = 67 votes (+ 6)
* Wally West (post-CoIE Flash) = 63 votes (+ 8)
* Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash) = 6 votes (+ 2)
* other = 5 votes (+ 1)
* TV/the CW version of The Flash (Barry) = 1 vote (still same)
I still can't believe the numbers for Barry and for Wally are running so close.
I wonder how many who voted Barry first encountered him before he died in Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985 and how many first read about him in a story after he returned in Final Crisis in 2008?
Wally West as Kid Flash in The New Teen Titans. Must've been.
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Eaglemoss DC Graphic Novels Collection
New 52 (discontinued)
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Latest numbers:* Barry Allen (Silver Age Flash) = 70 votes (+3)
* Wally West (post-CoIE Flash) = 67 votes (+ 4)
* Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash) = 6 votes (no change)
* other = 5 votes (no change)
* TV/the CW version of The Flash (Barry) = 1 vote (no change)
Barry Allen, Before rebirth, fighting Clive Yorkin or working W/ JLA.
Wally was Kid Flash in my first ever DC Comic (New Teen Titans).
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A few months later and we currently are at:* Barry Allen (Silver Age Flash) = 75 votes (+5)
* Wally West (post-CoIE Flash) = 73 votes (+6)
* Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash) = 7 votes (+1)
* other = 5 votes (no change)
* TV/the CW version of The Flash (Barry) = 1 vote (no change)