DC Gold/The Flash

The Flash is a comic series created as part of GazzaB9's DC Gold project.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* Jay Garrick/The Flash - a student of Midwestern University in Keystone City. He is his school's quarterback and known for his jovial nature, though he is not good at socializing and is particularly bad around women. He is the son of the Roman god Mercury, who activated superhuman speed abilities within Jay, though Jay only found this out moments before Mercury died of injuries he sustained while on Earth. With his new abilities, Jay became The Flash, his city's resident hero.
=== Supporting ===
* Joan Williams - an outgoing and adventurous student at Midwestern University and Jay's primary love interest throughout the series. Joan hopes to become a scientist some day and has a part-time job as a lab assistant at S.T.A.R. Labs. Due to not falling into the traditional view of women in the 1930s, she has developed a complex in which she intentionally rejects her own femininity, though she comes to accept it as the series goes on.
* Winky, Blinky, and Noddy - Jay's dimwitted best friends. Winky is known for his naivety and ability to make friends, Blinky is the least intelligent among them and often humiliates himself without realizing, and Noddy is a wannabe inventor whose creations are often bizarre or overly complex. The three mean well despite their idiotic tendencies and often try to help Jay during his superhero work.
* Major Arthur Williams - a commander of the US Military who is Joan's father as he is somewhat fond of Jay, believing that he is the perfect match for Joan although he isn't the biggest fan of the Flash, wanting the Flash to be in league with the local authorities instead of by himself.
* Ebeneezer Jones - an older and somewhat paranoid man who is Jay's landlord as he often worries about everything, with Jay having pity on him for his worrisome nature as he isn't aware of Jay being the Flash although he can sometimes be strict about rent.
* Cliff Cornwall - a calm and determined FBI agent who is assigned to keep his eyes on Keystone City and more specifically the Flash, more often than not working with him to fight crime, with his connections to the FBI being useful when dealing with more dangerous opponents.
* Mawell Crandall/Max Mercury - a scientist and professor at Midwestern University who is intelligent and often speaks in terms that no one understands but himself. He specializes in physics and mathematics, coming up with the theory of the Speed Force, which he eventually proved to be true and unlocked by writing the mathematical formula for it down. This granted him superhuman speed on par with Jay's, with the addition of lightning-based abilities.
=== Antagonists ===
* Clifford DeVoe/Thinker - a crime lord and super genius whose mind is attached to a series of computers, amplifying his mental processing. He prides himself on his mind and how quickly he can think. Similarly to Jay's title of Fastest Man Alive, Thinker often refers to himself as the Fastest Mind Alive. However, the cybernetic implants of his Thinking Cap have affected him emotionally, mostly shutting his emotions and empathy off.
* Dr. Edward Clariss/The Rival - the anti-villainous half-brother of Jay, Edward Clariss is another son of Mercury whose powers activated when he came into contact with Jay. Edward is a demented would-be hero who wants to kill Jay in order to replace him as Keystone City's protector, possessing all of Jay's abilities. While Edward hopes to be a hero, he is very emotionally unstable, becoming more easily enraged the more he uses his powers.
* Richard Swift/Shade - a nobleman born in the 18th century who, following a botched occult ritual, was granted the ability to control living shadows which he claims are made of primordial darkness. He often channels these shadows through his cane, shaping and shifting them into almost anything he pleases. He is affable, gentlemanly, and extremely powerful with a strange respect towards The Flash.
* Peter Merkel/Rag Doll - a thief and murderer with an eccentric, hyperactive personality. He often throws his body into unnatural poses and speaks as though he were presenting a carnival attraction, likely due to his past as a circus freak. He is triple-jointed, able to move and bend himself in any way that he desires, even in ways that would kill a normal person. He requires medication for his condition.
* Norville Potter/Turtle - a criminal mastermind and genius scientist who used to work with Max Mercury and helped him come up with his theory of the Speed Force. After a falling out between the two, Turtle theorized of an opposite to the Speed Force, eventually discovering the Still Force and unlocking the ability to drain the speed out of everything around him. He is the first villain who Jay encounters in the series and is the one responsible for the murder of Jay's father Mercury.
* Isaac Bowin/Fiddler - a music obsessed super-criminal who was formerly tutored by a group of mystics who channeled magic through music. However, after Bowin abused this power, he was kicked out. Not learning his lesson, Bowin became a power hungry megalomaniac who channels his magic through his fiddle, which is powerful enough that he seems to be able to somewhat bend reality when he plays it.
* Manfred Mota/Professor Fallout - a mad physicist who was working on ways to imbue humanity with atomic powers as he soon gets discharged from the US military for his unhinged behavior, going slowly more and more mad before injecting himself with a serum and transforms himself into living energy, having a deranged and terrifying obsession with absorbing more and more energy, clashing with the Flash on multiple occasions.
* Joseph Rigger/Firebug - a former fire fighter who was discharged after being revealed to have been causing the fires that he stops as he has an unhealthy obsession with fire and watching everything burn as he uncovers a mystical gauntlet that allows him to create fires out of his own hands as he wants to watch all of Keystone City burn.
* Leah Wasserman/Mindboggler - the daughter of Keystone City's biggest crime boss who has powerful psychic powers that she unlocked suddenly and violently, having tricked her entire family into killing each other. Due to this, she begins to feel a massive love for violence and chaos, becoming a criminal mastermind with the purpose of causing chaos and discord all over Keystone.
* Carl Drapier/Master Jailer - a classmate of Jay's at Midwestern University who is a hyper genius with a grudge against The Flash, believing that his fame rightfully belongs to him. Due to this, he became a criminal obsessed with outsmarting The Flash by trapping him with complex jails of his own construction. His jails often have highly dangerous traps, weapons, and other such items to keep the trapped person inside.
* Dr. John Cross/Atom-Master - a former professor at Midwestern University and an archeologist who lost his job after he was caught stealing and pawning the items he found. The last item he found, a strange helmet, turned out to be a lost ancient alien artifact which, when put on his head, granted him energy projection abilities and the power to mentally control a large robot that had been buried under the Earth for generations.
** Ultivac - a large war robot built by aliens to battle on Earth during a war many thousands of years ago. His people abandoned him to rot after losing the war, waking when Atom-Master put his helmet controller on. Ultivac is an immensely powerful and large beast who is incredibly protective of Atom-Master, who he refers to as lord.
* Dario Kraklow - a demented sculptor who struggled most of his life due to being rejected from various art museums, which he viewed as them not understanding his art. Already angry, Kraklow was pushed over the edge when he discovered clay that had been infused with magical energy, immediately using it to begin a criminal career. With his magic clay, Dario is able to creature sculptures of people to put them under his thrall and then mutate their bodies by reshaping the statues.
== Issues ==