The Flash #74 [Howard Porter Cover]

(Early September 2019)

Year One Chapter Five: Crossroads (Table of Contents: 1)

The Flash / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Joshua Williamson

Pencils

Howard Porter

Inks

Howard Porter

Colors

Hi-Fi

Letters

Steve Wands

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Flash [Barry Allen]; The Flash [Barry Allen] (future version); King Turtle [Russell Glosson] (future version); King Turtle's men (from the future); Iris West; Nora Allen (flashback); The Turtle [Russell Glosson]; Flash [Jay Garrick] (image on comic cover); Joan Williams (image on comic cover); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (image on comic cover); Johnny Thunder (image on comic cover); The Whip [Rodney Gaynor] (image on comic cover); Cliff Cornwall (image on comic cover)

Synopsis

King Turtle brings his army from the future to conquer Central City in the present. He also brings the future version of Barry, from whom Turtle has already stolen his speed, now he wants to steal the speed of the younger Barry in his plot to stop time from moving forward. When the younger Barry wants to fight back, the older Barry tells him he cannot or he will create a time paradox, and that his only option is to flee so King Turtle cannot take his power.

Reprints

• in Flash (ECC Ediciones, 2018 series) #38 (Enero de 2020)
• in The Flash: Year One (DC, 2019 series) (2019 [January 2020])
• in The Flash: Year One (Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition) (DC, 2019 series) (2019 [January 2020])
• in The Flash: Year One (DC, 2020 series) (2020 [January 2021])
• in Universo DC (Editorial Televisa, 2019 series) #57 - Flash: Año Uno

Keywords

cosmic treadmill

Indexer Notes

The older Barry is shown reading a copy of Flash Comics #1 (DC, 1940) that belonged to his mother.