Comic Title: Flash #15
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1988
On Sale Date: April 12, 1988 Shipping Date April 12, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #3

Shipping Date April 12, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Copyright Date April 12, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date April 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752, #754

Newsstand Date April 26, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752, #754

Newsstand Date May 5, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Barbara J. Kesel (Randall)

Title: "Hitting Bottom"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: William Messner-Loebs
Penciller: Gregory B. LaRocque
Inker: Larry Mahlstedt
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Nansi Hoolahan

Reprinted In:
Flash:Savage Velocity TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #14; next appearance in Flash #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Chunk (last appearance in Flash #11; next appearance in Flash #18)
• Tina McGee (last appearance in Flash #14; next appearance in Flash #16)
• Red Trinity (last appearance in Flash #14; next appearance in Flash #17)
• Mary West (full name given as Emmaline Brady West; last appearance in Flash #14; next appearance in Flash #16)
• Mason Trollbridge (Wally's neighbor; first appearance; last appearance in Flash #23; next appearance in Flash #16)
• Jerry McGee (last appearance in Flash #6; next appearance in Flash #16)

Villain(s)

• A Flash imposter (a henchman of Vandal Savage; next appearance in Flash #16)

Other Character(s)

• Lila Kaplin (a junkie; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• George and Fred (junkies; no further appearances)
• Mr. Gilchrist (last appearance in Flash #11; next appearance in Flash #16)
• Lizzie (Wally's neighbor; name revealed in Flash #16; next appearance in Flash #20)

Synopsis:
Without a supply of the drug Velocity 9, many addicts begin killing themselves. Red Trinity, now calling themselves Kapitalist Kourier is rounding up the victims.

Meanwhile Wally is coping both with the loss of his fortune and the loss of his powers. He is forced to sell his home and move into a ramshackle apartment. He meets Mason Trollbridge, one of his new neighbors, and receives a surprise check from Chunk who is now using his genius for positive purposes.

Wally then encounters a man moving at super-speed who dons a Flash costume. The man comes bearing a message from Vandal Savage. He then brutally beats Wally at super-speed, leaving him to crawl back home.