Born today 35 years ago on January 14, 1990, Grant Gustin was born Thomas Grant Gustin in Norfolk, Virginia. During High School he attended the Governor’s School for the Arts program for musical theater. He continued his desire to act by participating in the Hurrah Players Incorporated. When he graduated high school in 2008 he attend the BFA Music Theater Program at Elon University in North Carolina.
Gustin left school to join the Broadway Revival of West Side Story, for a year, playing the role of Baby John. Shortly after that he took on the reoccurring role of Sebastian Smythe, an openly gay member of a competitive school to the main characters on Glee.
The following year, he got the role of Barry Allen in the second season of Arrow. They decided to create a spinoff series of The Flash, and the series lasted for nine seasons on the CW!
For most fans of the series, Grant Gustin is known specifically as the best Barry Allen, and even want to see him eventually become the Flash in the new DC film universe.
Barry Allen’s inclusion in DC Comics basically starts the Silver Age of comics, and has become one of the largest figures of the DC Universe. You can’t even think about a team up story without the possibility of including the scarlet speedster. With that in mind, and in celebration of one of Grant Gustin’s longest runs in his career as a character, we want to share some of our favorite stories with the character.
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First Appearance Of Barry Allen’s Flash – Showcase #4 (1956) This book was the first appearance of Barry Allen, specifically was designed with two stories in mind. Barry Allen, what would be considered CSI today, is doused with chemicals and struck by lightning. Barry discovers that he now has super-speed. In the first series he takes down the world’s slowest man, The Turtle Man. In the second story, the Flash specifically breaks the time barrier to deliver a villain from a different time to the prison he was supposed to arrive at. Later in the series, and much like it was covered in the series, it was decided that the original Flash, Jay Garrick, lived in an alternative universe. |
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The Flash of Two Worlds – Flash #123 (1961) Barry Allen’s version of the Flash while vibrating, shifts into an alternate world, and finds himself in Keystone City, and the world of the Flash comic that he reads, which includes the currently retired original Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick. Garrick and Allen partner up to stop three criminals the Fiddler, the Shade, and the Thinker and their diamond heists. While the speedsters find themselves under the Fiddlers spell, they work together to overcome the villians, and when Allen returns home, Garrick decides to come out of retirement. |
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Flash Spectacular – DC Special Series Vol #11 (1978) Which tells stories of all three speedsters, Wally West, Barry Allen, and Jay Garrick telling individual tales, then combines to tell the story of all three teaming up to take on Gorilla Grodd. In Garrick’s story, he meets Johnny Quick for the first time and engage in a super-speed fight! |
So what is your favorite Barry Allen comic book story?
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