今天我们将探索“世上最快的人”杰伊·加里克（又名闪电侠）的漫画起源。和大多数漫画角色一样，闪电侠的过去也经常被重新演绎，呈现出不同的版本。我们选择主要追溯1940年代闪电侠漫画第一期的故事线，该故事线在1961年得到了扩展。闪电侠第123期，名为“两个世界的闪电侠”，讲述了这位超级英雄的称号在多年间传承给了五位不同的英雄。我们将重点关注黄金时代闪电侠杰伊·加里克的起源故事。
杰·加里克 (Jay Garrick) 曾经是家乡基斯通市中西部大学的一名学生。 他被一个名叫琼·威廉姆斯的女孩迷住了，因为他不是学校橄榄球队的明星而被解雇了。 尽管如此，他还是一名出色的实验室学生，主修化学和物理，曾在硬水上进行实验，试图分离其中的元素。 一天晚上在实验室工作时，他不小心靠在了一个化学烧瓶上，导致硬水哗啦啦地掉在地上。 在有毒烟雾的影响下，他昏倒了，最终被发现并被送往医院。
Awakening weeks later, he discovered that he had developed a strong appetite and rapid metabolism. His doctor then speculated that the hard water might have made Jay the fastest man on earth due to the element, speeding up his reflexes. Sure enough. Jay had become a freak of science as he could walk, talk, run, and think faster than any other human end out, run a speeding bullet. Jay soon escaped the hospital to meet up with Joan Williams. On witnessing his superpower, she asked him to use it to help the school win the state football game, which made him into the school’s hero.
This celebration was interrupted by a drive by assassination attempt on Joan’s life. Rescuing her, Jay learned that it had been a part of a scheme to force her kidnapped father to reveal the location of a secret atomic research base. This prompted Jay to act, taking up a costume identity appropriately modelled on mercury “The messenger of the gods”. This consisted of attaching wings to his father’s world war I helmet and shoes while wearing a red pullover 灵感 by his football uniform. But with the lightning bolt insignia across the chest. Unlike other superheroes he had read about, Jay didn’t cover his face, instead opting to vibrate his face to blur it from witnesses.
As the flash, he tracked down the kidnappers, a gang called the faultless four. Using his super speed, he saved Jones’ father and dodged the gang’s attacks, prompting them to cause their own deaths haphazardly. In the years that followed, the flash uses powers to become a hero of World War II, founded the society of America, became a prominent scientist and married his high school girlfriend. Following these events, DC 漫画 20 世纪 60 年代，向读者介绍了第二位闪电侠巴里·艾伦。
这位警察科学家同样被化学物质改造，从小就崇拜黄金时代闪光的漫画英雄，他被描绘成一个虚构的漫画人物。 事实证明，Jay Gar 实际上来自另一个叫做地球 XNUMX 的维度，他的冒险经历奇迹般地被印成地球 XNUMX 的漫画书素材。 当巴里振动进入地球二的频率范围并在那里发现基斯通市时，闪光终于相遇了。
他找到了杰伊，两人联手从三个反派——提琴手、阴影和思考者——手中拯救了小镇。之后，黄金时代的闪电侠决定彻底退休。然而，在需要的时候，他会回来帮助巴里和其他几位继任者。闪电侠持续出现在各种媒体中，每个版本的闪电侠都拥有一些标志性能力的变体，这些能力使他成为DC多元宇宙中最受欢迎的角色之一。他还成为了正义联盟的重要成员，与超人、蝙蝠侠、神奇女侠和绿灯侠等并肩作战。
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