Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The Flash Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: May 16, 2007 Direct Market Date May 16, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #2 (#218)

Direct Market Date May 16, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 512
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Man Who Claimed the Earth"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Flash (Barry Allen of Earth-1)

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Flash #113 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #113; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #30)

Supporting Character(s)

• Iris West (last appearance in Flash #113; next appearance in Flash #114)

Villain(s)

• The Olimpans (Zus, Po-Siden, and Boryas; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Wiley Summers (last appearance in Flash #111; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Iris West calls off her date with Barry Allen to help Dr. Wiley Summers with some research. Worried that he is losing her, Barry checks up on Iris as the Flash. He finds Summers and Iris researching an odd metal that Summers has found.

The metal is wreckage from a space craft that crashed on Earth long ago. It contained colonists from Olimpus who having suffered amnesia from the crash became the human race. On Olimpus, Zus has discovered the lost colony and dispatches Po-Siden to claim their lost colonists and Earth for Olimpus.

When Po-siden arrives he attempts to take over, but the Flash intervenes. Po-Siden’s water control abilities make him a tough opponent, but the Flash eventually captures him and takes away his powerful trident. Po-Siden agrees to leave the Earth, and when he returns to Olimpus, Zus grants Earth it’s independence.