Comic Title: Flash #20
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: September 13, 1988 Shipping Date September 13, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #8

Shipping Date September 16, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #148

Newsstand Date October 9, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #148

Copyright Date September 13, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Lost, Worthless, and Forgotten..."
Pages: 22

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

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

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #19; next appearance in Flash #21)

Supporting Character(s)

• Pied Piper (Hartley Rathaway; last appearance in Secret Origins Annual #2; next appearance in Flash #23)
• Mary West (last appearance in Flash Annual #2; next appearance in Flash #21)
• Mason Trollbridge (last appearance in Flash #18; next appearance in Flash #23)

Villain(s)

• A Durlan spy (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The Clipper (in flashback; first appearance; next appearance in Flash #23)
• Lizzie (last appearance in Flash #15; no further appearances)
• Mr. Gilchrist (last appearance in Flash #18; no further appearances)
• Jim and Sheila (an older couple; no further appearances)
• Various homeless men and women (Ol' Red Pete named; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Mason Trollbridge (during the Depression; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Flash #23)

Comments:
This story continues in part in Flash #21.

The Clipper is an analog for the Shadow.

Synopsis:
Wally West and his neighbors are unexpectedly served an eviction notice, forcing them to vacate immediately. Wally has no place to go, and he finds that his bank account and credit cards have been frozen. After spending energy by running at super speeds, Wally can't buy food to replenish himself.

In his weakened state, Wally ends up at a homeless shelter where he is befriended by two homeless men. The Pied Piper then arrives on the scene. He has reformed and is donating food. The Piper spots a man watching them from the shadows. After his presence is revealed, the man steps out of the shadows, revealing himself as a Durlan. He shoots Wally with a weapon that knocks him unconscious.

When Wally awakens, he is alone on the sidewalk. He finally locates a passerby who tells him that Earth is being invaded.