Comic Title: Flash #3
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1987
On Sale Date: May 5, 1987 Newsstand Date May 5, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #39

Copyright Date April 14, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date April 30, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #116

Newsstand Date April 30, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702

Shipping Date April 7, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #116

Shipping Date April 7, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "The Kilg%re"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Flash (Wally West Post-Crisis)

Writer: Mike Baron
Penciller: Jackson Guice
Inker: Larry Mahlstedt
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Flash:Savage Velocity TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #2; next appearance in Flash #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tina McGee (next appearance in Flash #4)

Villain(s)

• Kilg%re (next appearance in Flash #4)
• A clone of Professor Schmitz (next appearance in Flash #4)

Other Character(s)

• Professor Bill Schmitz (no further appearances)
• Mr. Gomez (a cook; no further appearances)
• Peebles and Turkel (scientists; no further appearances)
• Mr. Luce (a national guard officer; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Flash #4.

Synopsis:
After Frances Kane leaves Wally, he goes to Salt Lake City to conduct tests with scientists from STAR Labs. During a speed trial in the desert, the Flash sees a cybernetic organism that is only visible at high velocity. Kilg%re, an electo-magnetic being from another dimension, using Wally to cross over fully to Earth. It then takes over the power systems of the lab.

Flash and the scientists try to communicate with it, but Kilg%re attacks. The creature rips a finger from one of the scientists and fashions a clone from the DNA. Only the Flash realizes that the clone has taken the place of the real Professor Schmitz. Eventually the National Guard is called in, but Kilg%re has already expanded to become a national threat.