Becoming The Overman

There have been many people through history who have gained access to these powers, and thusly there are many different people who have taken the mantel of Flash. I shall take their stories one at a time.

Jason "Jay" Garrick was a college student in 1940 who practised experiments with "heavy water," or deuterium oxide. After studying in the student laboratory late one night, he fell asleep and accidentaly spilled the sealed container of heavy water on the ground, releasing its vapors into Jay's respiratory system. When he awoke the next morning he found that he had gained the ability to run with superhuman speed and move with equally superhuman reflexes; he tried to catch a cab and ended up running past it to the other end of town. After a brief career as a college football star, Jay donned a red shirt with a yellow lightning bolt across it and a silver helmet with wings his father wore in WWI, where he was killed. Wearing no mask, he protected his identity by continually vibrating his face when in public, making him appear to be a living blur, causing the newspapers to refer to him as "The Flash." He retired and married in 1951.