Flash #145 Newsstand

CHAIN LIGHTNING, CHAPTER ONE: THE GATHERING STORM Flash Wally West has discovered that the villain Cobalt Blue is actually Barry Allen’s twin brother Malcolm Thawne.  Just as Barry Allen and the Flash mantle will be handed down through the generations, so will the Thawne family and the Cobalt Blue mantle, through Cobalt Blue’s mystic gem.  Wally finds out that, between now and the 30th century, two Flashes will fall to Cobalt Blue.  Wally decides to rally the troops and send them through the timeline to warn the Flashes of each generation.  Wally recruits Jay Garrick while fighting Turmoil 13 in Keystone City, Jesse Quick from her company Quick Start Enterprises, and Max Mercury and Impulse from their lives Manchester.  Wally keeps Malcolm Thawne trapped in a vibrational prison under the watchful eye of...