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Snake_Judge Posts: 14,001 Registered: Jul '06	Date Posted: 9/17/08 4:39pm Subject: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick - Date Edited: 9/17/08 4:39pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Snake_Judge
	Jason Peter Garrick is a college student prior to 1940 (retconned from 1938) who accidentally inhales hard water vapors after falling asleep in his laboratory where he had been working (later stories would change this to heavy water vapors). As a result, he finds that he can run at superhuman speed and has similarly fast reflexes (retcons imply the inhalation simply activated a latent metagene). After a brief career as a college football star, he dons a red shirt with a lightning bolt and a stylized metal helmet with wings (based on images of the Roman god Mercury) and begins to fight crime as the Flash. The helmet belonged to Jay's father, Joseph, who fought during World War I. He has been seen using the helmet as a weapon/type of shield, as seen in Infinite Crisis. He has also used it to direct a beam of light at Eclipso. His first case involves battling the Faultless Four, a group of blackmailers. In the early stories, it seems to be widely known that Garrick was the Flash.Later stories would show him as having his identity secret, and that he was able to maintain it without the use of a mask by constantly "vibrating" his features, making him hard to recognize or clearly photograph. The effectiveness of this is debatable, as he later blamed his lack of a mask for Joan's deducing his true identity. Like the Flashes who followed him, Garrick became a close friend of the Green Lantern of his time, Alan Scott, whom he met through the Justice Society of America. Justice Society of America The Flash soon becomes one of the best-known of the Golden Age of superheroes. He is a founding member of the Justice Society of America and serves as its first chairman. He is originally based in New York City however this was later retconned to the fictional Keystone City. He leaves the JSA after issue #6, but returns several years later (issue #24, Spring 1945) and has a distinguished career as a crimefighter during the 1940s. Several pieces of retroactive continuity fill out early Garrick history. A story explaining the retirement of the JSA members, including the Flash, explained that in 1951, the JSA is investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for possible Communist sympathies and asked to reveal their identities. The JSA decline, and Garrick, who recently married his longtime girlfriend Joan, retired from superheroic life. A trained scientist, he ran an experimental laboratory for several decades. All-Star Squadron Annual #3 states that the JSA fight a being named Ian Karkull who imbues them with energy that retards their aging, allowing Garrick and many others - as well as their girlfriends and sidekicks - to remain active into the late 20th century without infirmity. The 1990s Starman series notes that the Shade prompted Garrick to come out of retirement in the 1950s, but the details of his activities during this time are hazy at best. Garrick emerges from retirement in 1961 to meet the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, from a parallel world. Garrick's world is dubbed Earth-Two, while Allen's is Earth-One. The rest of the JSA soon join the Flash, although their activities during the 1960s (other than their annual meeting with Earth-One's Justice League of America) are unrecorded. That he and Green Lantern (Alan Scott) are good friends is clear, however. Garrick is a key member of the JSA's 1970s adventures (as chronicled in All-Star Comics and Adventure Comics), as well as helping to launch the careers of Infinity Inc. Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, all the parallel worlds are merged into one, and Keystone City becomes the twin city across the river from Allen's Central City (an updated story suggests that Keystone in this new continuity was rendered invisible and wiped from the memories of the world for many years through the actions of several supervillains). [edit] 21st century In the early 21st century, many of Garrick's JSA cohorts have retired or died, but Garrick remains active with the latest incarnation of the group. He is physically about 50 years old thanks to the effects of several accidental anti-aging treatments, but his chronological age is closer to 90. Of the three original JSA members still on the team (along with Alan Scott and Wildcat), Jay takes a more fatherly approach towards his teammates and the DC superhero community in general. After eating lunch with Wally West and Nightwing (Dick Grayson) in one issue of The Flash, Grayson remarks that he "wants to be like [Garrick] when he grows up". Infinite Crisis and "One Year Later" Jay and his wife Joan have guardianship of Bart Allen after Max Mercury's disappearance. During the events of Infinite Crisis Jay states that the Speed Force is gone after a battle in which many speedsters, living and dead, wrestle Superboy-Prime into the Speed Force and disappear. Jay is left behind when he reaches his limit and cannot follow. Bart Allen returns, aged several years, and had absorbed the entire Speed Force during his pursuit of the escaped Superboy-Prime. Jay claims that without the Speed Force, his own power is less than before: like Wally West in the Crisis on Infinite Earths aftermath, he can only run close to the speed of sound. He also stated that as the Speed Force is no longer retarding his aging, his speed is diminishing with time. After Bart left Keystone City for Los Angeles, Jay once again is the city's sole guardian. After hearing news of Bart's demise, Jay collapses with grief, consoled by Jesse Chambers. Jay is continuing his work as a member of the re-formed Justice Society of America, under the leadership of Power Girl. After the death of the Flash, Bart Allen, Jay's full speed returns. POWERS As the Flash, Jay can run and move his limbs at superhuman speeds, and possesses superhuman reflexes. He also has an aura that prevents air friction from affecting his body and clothes while moving. Unlike Barry, Jay is a metahuman and while he has a connection to the Speed Force, it was not on the level of the other Flashes. Jay possesses the ability to 'steal speed' from other speedsters. When the Speed Force was absorbed into (and only accessible by) Bart Allen following Infinite Crisis, Jay's top speed was the speed of sound. After Bart's death and Wally's return, the Speed Force returned to its normal functions and Jay can now reach near-light speeds that let him keep up with even Zoom. Jay's status as a metahuman with natural speed may be a retcon. During the "Dead Heat" miniseries, Jay's connection to the Speed Force is disrupted by the villain Savitar, and he, along with many of the other speedsters, is totally powerless. However, Jay's words in Infinite Crisis #7 imply that his metagene was always there, but inactive until the Speed Force is 'destroyed' or perhaps until the formation of New Earth took place. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/230732677_3453456bf9.jpg?v=0 Yesterday's -----signature----- -.-- -.-- --.. Every day: Beter know a comic character (DC posted here also) Latest of Mine http://forums.midway.com/mortal_kombat_vs_dc_universe/b10806/29170494/p1/?0 Most people's Opinions are like raping a baby, completely wrong.
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NoobAndSmoke Posts: 903 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 9/17/08 5:36pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	This post contains no hidden text. -----signature----- Pirate skulls and bones! Sticks and stones and weed and bongs! All I wanna do is BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! And KKKAAAA CHING! And take your money!
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Snake_Judge Posts: 14,001 Registered: Jul '06	Date Posted: 9/17/08 5:44pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	NoobAndSmoke posted: This post contains no hidden text. removes your color on your post Is there a point to that -----signature----- -.-- -.-- --.. Every day: Beter know a comic character (DC posted here also) Latest of Mine http://forums.midway.com/mortal_kombat_vs_dc_universe/b10806/29170494/p1/?0 Most people's Opinions are like raping a baby, completely wrong.
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NoobAndSmoke Posts: 903 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 9/17/08 5:47pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	Snake_Judge posted: NoobAndSmoke posted: This post contains no hidden text. removes your color on your post Is there a point to that I was bumping your very cool, informative topic, because the efforts were about to go to waste on the 2nd page -----signature----- Pirate skulls and bones! Sticks and stones and weed and bongs! All I wanna do is BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! And KKKAAAA CHING! And take your money!
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Snake_Judge Posts: 14,001 Registered: Jul '06	Date Posted: 9/17/08 5:47pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	Ok, Thankies -----signature----- -.-- -.-- --.. Every day: Beter know a comic character (DC posted here also) Latest of Mine http://forums.midway.com/mortal_kombat_vs_dc_universe/b10806/29170494/p1/?0 Most people's Opinions are like raping a baby, completely wrong.
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mkvsdc08 Posts: 1,006 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 9/17/08 5:50pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	Im sure everybody appreciates your hard work, but to be honest were getting sick of reading wikipedia What we are really jonesing for is some new pics, vids, renders anything to keep us at bay for these long months waiting for the game that seem to be taking forever -----signature----- Blood, Sweat and Spears McCain and MK in 2008 bay bay Harley Quinn, Bo Rai Cho, Aquaman and Frost for DLC
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Dee_Trizzle Posts: 5,037 Registered: Jul '08	Date Posted: 9/17/08 5:52pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	COOL! Thanx! Who shall we do tomorrow? -----signature----- Fav Characters:fujin sareena noob rain sonya. I wish the retarted were resmarted. Im a magician. A furious magician! I am a proud member of the emc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npP73QIApFE
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DarthSuperman Posts: 85 Registered: Jul '08	Date Posted: 9/17/08 5:57pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	he's washed up losing his touch...right now Wally West is the most prevalent flash but Barry Allen is the FASTEST
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AnAngryGinger Posts: 542 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 9/17/08 5:59pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick - Date Edited: 9/17/08 5:59pm (1 edits total) Edited By: AnAngryGinger
	This is a really good Biography on a different Flash. I did not know there was more than one. Thank you. -----signature----- I could crush you...with a single thought.
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Snake_Judge Posts: 14,001 Registered: Jul '06	Date Posted: 9/17/08 6:02pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	DarthSuperman posted: he's washed up losing his touch...right now Wally West is the most prevalent flash but Barry Allen is the FASTEST Pfff Golden Age Flash AND Green lantern > Current Flashes and Green lanterns -----signature----- -.-- -.-- --.. Every day: Beter know a comic character (DC posted here also) Latest of Mine http://forums.midway.com/mortal_kombat_vs_dc_universe/b10806/29170494/p1/?0 Most people's Opinions are like raping a baby, completely wrong.
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DarkSide322 Posts: 2,190 Registered: Aug '06	Date Posted: 9/17/08 7:00pm Subject: RE: Better Know a DC Character: Jay Garrick
	I hated this character lol! I made a thread about it but got promptly locked . I personally favor Barry Allen. -----signature----- American Life can set you free but give it treason, then this type of modern life is not for you, it's not for free so for now it "Doesnt Really Matter"...
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