Flash: Greatest Stories Ever Told

The title is a bit of a misnomer.

There had been, at the time this was published three Flashes: Jay Garrick in the 1940s, Barry Allen from 1961 to 1985, and Wally West from 1985 to 2007 (when this book came out). As such, one might expect Allen and West to be equally represented, with Garrick a little less so. Instead, we got 2 Garrick-era stories, 5 Allen ones, and 1 West story.

The Garrick and Allen stories are pretty run-of-the-mill Golden and Silver age superheroes. The one West story, which has him getting trapped into moving so fast that the entire world around him is frozen, is excellent, and I really wish they had more like it. Given the excellent creators that have worked on Wally West-era Flash (Baron, Messner-Loebs, Morisson, even Geoff Johns to give the devil his due), it seems like a bit of a slap in the face to them to ignore all their work in favour of stuff like “One Bridgegroom Too Many”.