Forming a Legion of Zoom-including Captain Cold, the Turtle, Gorilla Grodd, and the Trickster-the Reverse-Flash sets out to not only beat Barry Allen, but also assume his life! Can the Fastest Man Alive keep up with the attacks around Central City, when everyone and everything he loves is in danger? With his greatest enemy calling on Barry’s children from the future, the Tornado Twins, the Flash Family steps up to help the hero as he faces his biggest battle ever. Collects issues #756-762.

“Finish Line” finale! Barry Allen and the Reverse-Flash race for the last time in this fast-paced conclusion. For years, Eobard Thawne has tormented Barry Allen, and now the Flash knows the only way to win is to make sure the Reverse-Flash never runs again! The story years in the making comes to a close as Joshua Williamson finishes his epic 101-issue run on The Flash!

A part of DC Rebirth! A new storm brews over Central City and disproves the old adage about lightning never, well...you know. Just as Barry begins to feel overwhelmed fighting crime, a new speedster debuts--but just where did this amazing new friend come from? Spinning directly out of the epic events of DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH, the Fastest Man Alive finds himself at the center of a DC Universe at a crossroads. From up-and-coming writer Joshua Williamson (Illuminati, Red Skull) and illustrator Carmine Di Giandomenico comes THE FLASH VOL. 2! Collects issues #9-13. Rebirth honors the richest history in comics, while continuing to look towards the future. These are the most innovative and modern stories featuring the world's greatest superheroes, told by some of the finest storytellers in the business. Honoring the past, protecting our present, and looking towards the future. This is the next chapter in the ongoing saga of the DC Universe. The legacy continues.

Part of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling, all-new line of volume one graphic novels, DC Universe Rebirth! His name is Barry Allen, and he’s the Fastest Man Alive. But he’s also so much more. As he learns more about the Speed Force that fuels his incredible powers, the Flash is also discovering secrets about his past beyond anything he’d ever dreamed-how he created a Flashpoint that changed history and helped create a new world, watched over by forces unknown. And when the same Speed Force that flows through him is unleashed all over Central City, striking cops, criminals and ordinary civilians alike, it’s up to the Flash to train this new wave of speedsters to use their amazing abilities wisely. But while some may become his partners in crime-fighting-forming a true “Speed Force”-others will use their godlike powers for a more sinister purpose. And the Flash is about to learn that there’s some evil even he can’t outrun… The race is on as writer Joshua Williamson (DEATHSTROKE) and artist Carmine di Giandomenico (All New X-Factor) present THE FLASH VOL. 1: LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE-the starting line of a bold new era for the Scarlet Speedster, bursting from the blockbuster DC Universe Rebirth event! Collects THE FLASH: REBIRTH #1 and THE FLASH #1-8.

THE SCARLET SPEEDSTER'S ORIGIN STARTS HERE! Barry Allen is stuck in place. As a forensic scientist for the Central City police, it's his job to catch criminals after they've committed their crimes. It's like he's lost the race before he even leaves the starting line. Then one night lightning strikes--and everything changes. Electrocuted and doused in chemicals, Barry emerges from a coma with the force of incredible speed humming in his very atoms. He's faster than bullets, faster than sound, faster than anyone can imagine. And he'd better be. Because even as Barry learns how to harness his incredible new powers, a new breed of criminal is stalking Central City. Some can slow him to a standstill. Others can freeze him in place. Still others run so hot and so fast he can't see them coming. The race is on for one of the DC Universe's most iconic superheroes to become the legend he is destined to be. Collects The Flash #70-75

“Finish Line” part two of six! After years of manipulation, the Reverse-Flash has at last destroyed the Flash Family! But they aren’t going down without a fight as they race together to save the soul of Barry Allen! Can the return of allies from the Flash’s past be enough to stop the Reverse-Flash?

The aftermath of “THE BUTTON” has left Barry Allen—the Fastest Man Alive, known as the Flash—at a crossroads. Can he continue lying to the woman he loves about his secret identity? Can he mend his broken relationship with Kid Flash? Green Lantern Hal Jordan offers some advice, but Flash doesn’t have much time to make a decision, courtesy of the return of his greatest enemy, the time-traveling Reverse-Flash! Eobard Thawne has taken Iris West to the 25th century to reveal Barry Allen’s most closely guarded secrets to her…before killing Iris and the Flash! Following them to the future, Flash finally learns why his arch-foe from the future hates him so much, but even that knowledge may not be enough to give him a fighting chance against a villain who knows all his possible futures. Following the events of “THE BUTTON,” the future unfolds as never before in THE FLASH VOL. 4: RUNNING SCARED, the epic adventure from writer Joshua Williamson and artists Carmine Di Giandomenico and Howard Porter. Collects THE FLASH #23-27!

The Speed Force is dead, doom has gripped the Earth, and the Flash lives in a nightmare! Powered up by Lex Luthor’s offer, Captain Cold led his team to their ultimate victory over Central City. The Rogues have reshaped reality itself into their own kingdoms of cruelty-Heat Wave’s volcanic territory, Weather Wizard’s floating armory of the elements, and at the center of it all, the icy castle of Captain Cold. But there is hope in the darkness, as the Flash battles his way back from the brink and discovers a way to reverse the Rogues’ reign once and for all. But with his powers out of control, can he outrun the inevitable? Collects The Flash #82-87.

In this tale from the early days of Barry Allen's heroic career, can he master his new super-speed powers and be the hero his city needs...or will the powers burn his lift out? His struggles lead him into the far future, where a version of the Flash he will someday become shows him the true path of the hero-and helps him prepare for the emergence of the gang of villains known as the Rogues. Collects The Flash #76-81.

In 1990, Mark Waid wrote his first Flash story. Under his keen pen, Wally West, who had already been running in the footsteps of the Flashes who came before him, matured into a Flash in his own right. Waid brought a depth of character to The Flash that changed him for good. As a child, Wally visits his Aunt Iris and her distinctly boring fiancŽ, the perpetually tardy Barry Allen. Things get interesting for Wally, first when he discovers that Barry and The Flash work together, and then when an accident in BarryÕs lab gives him powers just like his heroÕs! Young Wally is quickly in danger-not only from The FlashÕs enemies, but from the side effects of his new powers! This first book in THE FLASH BY MARK WAID series collects THE FLASH #62-68, THE FLASH ANNUAL #4-5, THE FLASH SPECIAL #1 and THE FLASH TV SPECIAL #1.