The Flash Finally Gets A Comics Accurate Live Action Suit
When DC Comics decided to revive The Flash in 1956, they didn’t want to bring back the Mercury-helmeted Jay Garrick Flash of the 1940s. Instead, they chose to completely reinvent the character as police scientist Barry Allen. Writer Robert Kanigher and artist Carmine Infantino made a Flash suitable for the jet age, and Infantino designed a sleek costume suitable for a speedster, all smooth lines and aerodynamics, primarily scarlet but with bolts of lightning adding yellow highlights, and golden boots to accentuate the running motion of his speed powers on the page....