The Flash is DC’s Fastest Man Alive – and while accounts of his speed have varied over the years, one comic book story showed just how insanely fast the Flash can get when he wants to. The story starred Wally West’s version of the Flash and had him save every member of the Justice League, in multiple locations across the country, all in the blink of an eye!
To understand how unbelievably fast this is, the comic chose to tell the story completely from Wally’s perspective, showing how eerily weird the world looks when he pushes his power to its maximum potential. While fans may debate over which of their favorite speedster heroes is the fastest, this story effectively settles that argument in a fun and exciting way by showing what it’s really like to be the Fastest Man Alive.
“Heartbeat,” from Flash #163 by Pat McGreal, Ron Lim, and Doug Hazlewood, begins in Keystone City with Wally returning home to his new wife Linda. Although Wally was looking forward to a quiet evening, he learns his help is needed when the turtledove statue someone sent as a wedding present turns out to be a bomb. Grabbing the device, Wally speeds off to the Nevada desert where it explodes harmlessly. As it goes off, however, it releases a high-frequency microwave transmission that the Flash can hear by accelerating to even greater speed. To his horror, he discovers that whoever sent the bomb is about to kill several other metahumans… in the very next instant.
Pouring on speed, the Flash traces the microwaves to a building in Kansas City. One of the computers indicates the mysterious assassin is targeting four other members of the Justice League – Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and Aquaman. Unable to get the computer to scroll fast enough to give him the specifics of each hit, Wally travels back and forth from Kansas City to Silicon Valley so he can grab some tech, rewire the computer, and customize it so it “scrolls at near light-speed.” Despite the complexity of this plan, Flash moves fast enough to learn where each bomb is – but discovers they’re all about to go off in the next second.
Telling himself it’s “time to shift into high gear,” Flash begins moving so impossibly fast that the rest of the world effectively goes still. Arriving first in Metropolis, Flash finds Superman, who’s about to grab a bomb full of Kryptonite. Grabbing it, Wally dumps it in an abandoned coal mine in Montana before zipping off to his next stop – Gotham City. As Batman is difficult to track down, Flash just crisscrosses Crime Alley until he randomly spots Batman about to tackle a Scarecrow dummy wired with explosives.
Dropping this bomb in some earthquake rubble, Flash moves virtually instantaneously to Greenwich Village, New York where Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) is about to charge his ring on a bomb made to look like his power battery. Before Kyle’s ring can connect with the bomb, Wally snatches it, phases through a wall, and flings the bomb into orbit thanks to the momentum he’s been building up.
While logic would suggest Wally must be gasping from exhaustion by this point, by tapping into the Speed Force, he’s actually increasing his speed with each errand. However, his next task does tax his superhuman body since he has to tear across the Pacific Ocean and then dive into the ocean to intercept the nuclear warhead heading for Aquaman. As water is considerably more difficult to push through than air (and impossible to breathe), Flash has to really push himself to maintain his pace. Moreover, he can’t just grab this missile and dump it somewhere – he has to rewire it into a dud an instant before it hits Aquaman.
Wally succeeds, but also nearly drowns since the ordeal felt like minutes to him even though it took less than a nanosecond of real-time. Unbelievably, he doesn’t slow down but speeds up to follow the missile’s contrail back to its launch site and the headquarters of the mystery villain… which turns out to be his home town of Keystone City.
So, who was this mystery assassin and why did he target the JLA? Turns out, he’s none other than… The Turtle, a slow-moving, slow-aging Flash villain who fought both Jay Garrick and Barry Allen! Explaining the assassination attempts were all just a ruse to get the Flash to accelerate to near-light speed, the Turtle reveals he’s been secretly siphoning off the Flash’s speed to power his own Time Treadmill. Thanks to the Flash, the Turtle believes he can travel back in time to the 1880s, sell a stolen diamond, and live like a king.
However, the Turtle made one common supervillain mistake – he couldn’t help but explain his plan in laborious detail, giving the Flash plenty of time to snatch the diamond and let the Turtle vanish into the past. Thanks to this miscalculation, the Turtle goes back too far and ends up in the time of the dinosaurs. Meanwhile, Wally speeds home where Linda barely had time to register that he’d left. As he decelerates, the reader sees events go back to real-time, with the JLA seeing all the bombs that were about to kill them vanish or spontaneously defuse. Only Superman realizes who was behind the miraculous save.
Revealing that the Flash can successfully execute a highly complex rescue within the span of a second, “Heartbeat” gives readers a very personal look at how Flash perceives the world, as everyone basically becomes statues to him as he rushes to save them all. Fans of the X-Men movie franchise may cite popular scenes showing Quicksilver disarming security guards or evacuating a school at super speed to be the ultimate examples of speedster power, but those feats don’t hold a candle to what the Flash is capable of. Considering that the Flash basically raced around the country multiple times to stop four simultaneous assassination attempts, emptying a single school or taking out some guards would barely be a bit of light exercise for the real Fastest Man Alive.
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