An Unexpected Comic Book Resurrection: The Flash

Barry Allen, aka the Flash, is speeding back to life in a new DC comic 23 years after being killed off, the Associated Press reported.

Allen was the second man–though not the last–to don the trademark red costume decorated with a lightning bolt as DC Comics’ “Fastest Man Alive.”

His death in 1985 became legendary among comic-book fans. He was vaporized preserving the universe.

Now he joins the tradition of superheroes, like Captain America and Superman, who have died only to be resurrected later on. Allen was gone so long that his rebirth comes as a surprise.

Grant Morrison, who along with Geoff Johns is responsible for resurrecting the Flash in the last panel of DC Universe #0, told the AP that comic-book characters don’t have to stay dead.

“We can do anything with them, and we can make them come back and make them defy death,” Morrison told the wire service.

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Additional Reading:

Read a long article about Barry and his incarnation of The Flash in the New York Times