Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez & Dave Gibbons — Fast Friends

DC Universe Legacies #4, October 2010

Part 4 (of 5) of our special Flash series.

Two legends team up, and tell the tale of two legends teaming up.

This fabulous story page comes to us courtesy of DC Universe Legacies, a ten-part 2010 series written by Len Wein that provides an overview of DC history (in contemporary continuity) through the eyes and life story of a one man. The series features an all-start line-up of DC art talent including Joe Kubert, Jerry Ordway, Dan Jurgens and many others.

The page here, showing the Flashes meeting for the first time, contains retroactive continuity (retcon), as both characters exist in the same universe — which is the established “post-Crisis” narrative. Also, in the original Flash #123, the Flashes have already met and teamed up when they get to the construction worker.

Garcia Lopez and Gibbons are a terrific pairing, and I was fortunate enough to find this great page before someone else did.

In the original story (Flash #123) The two Flashes have already met — and started working together — when the construction accident happens.
Flash read Flash Comics? Gardner Fox was” tuned in” to the alternate universe? Wait… What?