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    The Flash #203

    The Flash » The Flash #203 - The Flash's Wife Is A Two-Timer! released by DC Comics on February 1971.

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    The Flash's Wife Is A Two-Timer! last edited by ltjfleetwood41 on 05/20/18 11:23AM View full history

    Flash discovers that Iris is really a native of the 30th Century (she was born in 2945); he follows her there and learns that her parents and the citizens of that time are under attack by an Asian invader named Sirik.

    Feeling lonely, the Flash joins Superman on monitor duty, inside the Justice League of America satellite. When the Flash marvels at the beauty of the Earth, as seen from orbit, Superman ruins the moment by stressing his alienness. To the Man Of Steel's surprise, the Flash empathizes. The Flash then recites a recent adventure. As police forensic scientist, Barry Allen, the Flash had received a frantic call from his wife, Picture News reporter, Iris West, urging him to come home. Upon arrival, Allen could find no signs of West, but evidence pointed towards a hurried departure. A note, left by West, informed Allen that she had been taken 1000 years into the future.

    Allen, as the Flash, used his Cosmic Treadmill to journey to the year 2970. The Flash found the Central City of the future to be a sprawling desert, traversed by a polymer tube encased river. Vibrating his finger at super-human speed, the Flash penetrated the tube, to slake his thirst. Almost immediately after, he is fired upon, with exploding shells, for stealing water. Vibrating so fast as to become intangible, the Flash allowed the shells to harmlessly pass through his body, then ran the length of the river, straight through a mountain. On the other side of the mountain, the Flash found what was left of civilization, a self-contained city, but one that bore the tell tale signs of atomic bombardment.

    Moving faster than the eye could see, the Flash entered the city, accidentally jostling one of the citizens into spilling his water rations. Mistakenly, the man lashed out at another citizen, blaming him for the mishap. The two men were about to come to blows, when an air-raid siren blared out. The streets quickly emptied, as everyone ran for shelter. It was at this moment that the Flash encountered West. Their reunion was not a happy one, as West demanded the Flash return to his proper era... without her. After the Flash, as Allen, had left for work, West went to her father's house, to clean up his basement laboratory. There, West discovered a, heretofore, unseen baby picture of herself, wearing a locket.

    West then found the locket, which was engraved "Iris Russell". The moment West touched the locket, a pre-recorded message was triggered. A scientist, Eric Russel, from the year 2945, spoke of an imminent nuclear attack, coming from a province called "Earth-East". Russel, his wife, Fran, and their daughter, Iris, were inhabitants of the city structure, "Earth-West". To save their daughter, the Russells sent their daughter back 1000 years, into the past. West's father, Professor Ira West, confirmed the story. The Wests raised Iris as their own daughter. The truth of her origins revealed to her, the time vibrations that stabilized West's presence in the past began to break down.

    Ultimately, West was drawn back to her proper era, in the future. There, West was reunited with her true parents, who both survived the nuclear attack. Their reunion, though, was short lived, as West is soon coveted, as a mate, by the supreme leader of Earth-East, Sirik. With the destruction of Earth-West threatened, West gave herself up to Sirik. The Flash, though, refused to capitulate to Sirik. The supreme leader sent his guards after the Flash, who ran from them at normal human speed. Once the Flash had lured them in, he fought back with the full gamut of his super-speed abilities. After defeating the guards, the Flash then returned to confront Sirik.

    The Flash mercilessly beat Sirik until he conceded defeat. Sirik informed the Flash that, having failed to report in to Earth-East at a prearranged time, Earth-East had fired it's missiles on Earth-West. Generating powerful whirlwinds, at super-human speed, the Flash prematurely detonated the missiles, then destroyed the launch sites. The Flash convinced the contentious sides to live in harmony, for the sake of the continuation of the human race. The Russells give their blessing for West to continue living her life in the 20th Century, with her husband. At which point, the Flash and West returned home.

    His tale finished, the Flash points out that he shares Superman's feelings of alienation, whenever he visits his wife's family in the 30th Century. Superman counters by noting that the Flash has West to share his life with, while Superman has no one, and thus will feel forever alone.

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