Comic Title: Flash Annual #3
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: April 25, 1989 Shipping Date April 25, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #163

Shipping Date April 25, 1989
Source: Previews, #2

Copyright Date April 25, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Direct Market Date April 27, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #93, #94, #95

Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 64
Editor: Karl Kesel

Title: "Flashing on the Past"
Pages: 30

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

Writer: William Messner-Loebs
Penciller: John Koch
Inker: Timothy Dzon
Letterer: Timothy Harkins
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Justice League Europe #4; next appearance in Flash Annual #3)

Guest Star(s)

• Jade (last appearance in Blasters Special #1; next appearance in Superman #46)
• Obsidian (last appearance in Blasters Special #1; next appearance in Superman #46)

Supporting Character(s)

• Mary West (last appearance in Flash #27; next appearance in Flash #29)
• Joan Garrick (last appearance in Flash #27; next appearance in Flash #30)
• Tina McGee (last appearance in Flash #28; next appearance in Flash #35)

Villain(s)

• Biff Diker, Boff Diker, Denny Diker and their unnamed brother (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Sandman #5; next appearance in Justice League America #29)
• Nabu (last appearance in Justice League America #27; next appearance in Doctor Fate #7)
• Petey (last appearance in Justice League America #27; next appearance in Doctor Fate #7)

Other Character(s)

• Several deliverymen (no further appearances)
• Lt. Keyes (a police officer; next appearance in Flash #31)
• Several staff members at the Justice League Paris embassy (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Flash (Barry Allen; in photos)
• Flash (Jay Garrick; in photos and fighting a flame dragon)
• Justice Society of America (in photos)
• Doctor Fate (in a photo)
• Hourman (in a photo and fighting a flame dragon)
• Sandman (in a photo)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (in a photo)
• Green Lantern (Alan Scott; shown fighting a flame dragon)
• Atom (shown fighting a flame dragon)
• Starman (shown fighting a flame dragon)
• Hawkman (shown fighting a flame dragon)
• Hawkgirl (shown fighting a flame dragon)
• Johnny Thunder (shown fighting a flame dragon)

Comments:
Jade and Obsidian describe the entity that the Justice Society are fighting for eternity as a flame dragon.

Synopsis:
Wally West receives some test results from Tina McGee. She then tells him that Barry Allen might not have been human. She hypothesizes that he was living lightning and transferred energy to Wally before his death. Troubled by Tina's theory Wally visits Joan Garrick who has been receiving death threats. The Flash then tries to discover what really happened to Jay Garrick. He eventually meets Jade and Obsidian who explain that Jay and the Justice Society are trapped in a pocket dimension fighting the same battle for eternity. Along the way, the Flash exposes Joan's tormentors, descendants of one of Jay's minor foes, the Jack of Bombs.

Meanwhile, Mary West reprograms Wally's Justice League transport device. She uses it to travel to Paris to do some shopping.