Gardner Fox

The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 3 closes the classic Barry Allen Silver Age shelf with The Flash #164-199, a run that pushes the character into bigger guest-stars, stranger science and a more crowded DC universe. The appeal is momentum: Kid Flash, Reverse-Flash, Gorilla Grodd, Green Lantern, Superman and the Golden Age Flash all show how central Barry had become to DC continuity.

The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 is Barry Allen at full Silver Age velocity: Reverse-Flash, Captain Cold, Mirror Master, Heat Wave, Pied Piper and Kid Flash all sharpen the mythology while Flash of Two Worlds continues to echo through the DC multiverse. John Broome, Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino make the book feel like a machine for ideas rather than a simple nostalgia archive.

The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 is the point where Barry Allen becomes the engine of modern DC. John Broome, Robert Kanigher, Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino build the origin, the Rogues, Kid Flash, Gorilla Grodd and the famous Flash of Two Worlds idea that opens the door to the multiverse. It reads like pure Silver Age invention: compact, strange, bright and historically enormous.