Comic Title: Flash #17
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 1988
On Sale Date: June 14, 1988 Shipping Date June 14, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #5

Shipping Date June 14, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Shipping Date June 16, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #141

Copyright Date June 16, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Newsstand Date June 28, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 9, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #141

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Barbara J. Kesel (Randall)

Title: "The Adventures of Speed McGee Part 2"
Pages: 22

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

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

Reprinted In:
Flash:Savage Velocity TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #16; next appearance in Flash #18)

Supporting Character(s)

• Red Trinity (Anatole and Bebeck only; last appearance in Flash #15; next appearance in Flash #19)
• Jerry McGee (last appearance in Flash #16; next appearance in Flash #18)
• Mary West (last appearance in Flash #16; next appearance in Flash #18)
• Mason Trollbridge (last appearance in Flash #16; next appearance in Flash #18)

Villain(s)

• A junkie (no further appearances)
• A Flash imposter (dies in this story; last appearance in Flash #16; no further appearances)
• A drug dealer (no further appearances)
• Nick Bassaglia (last appearance in Flash #16; no further appearances)
• Two unnamed henchmen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Sergei Stolypin (last name revealed; last appearance in Flash #16; no further appearances)
• A nurse (no further appearances)
• Mr. Gilchrist (on the telephone only; last appearance in Flash #16; next appearance in Flash #18)
• Trudy Powell (last appearance in Flash #14; no further appearances)
• Ivan (a member of Blue Trinity; next appearance in Flash #18)

Comments:
Wally regains his powers in this story.

Ivan and Sergei are shown as members of Blue Trinity, but they was not original members. How they became involved with the group or who they replaced is not revealed.

This story is continued from Flash #16 and continues in Flash #18.

Synopsis:
Jerry McGee is released from the hospital. He joins Wally West and Mason Trollbridge on a search for Vandal Savage. The search begins by approaching drug dealers in hopes one of them will lead them to the supply of Velocity 9. One of Savage's henchmen, dressed in a Flash costume appears and begins beating Wally and Jerry. Mason knocks him out, but the man dies due to his overuse of the drug.

Wally finds a note on the corpse which leads him to a warehouse. Inside he finds Nick Bassaglia. Wally's powers return just in time to save his own life and apprehend Nick. The group then explores the warehouse where they find a member of Blue Trinity strapped to a bomb.