Well this opens a can of worms... Okay, well it all starts in the 1930's, when DC Comics (Or National Comics as it was called at the time) published various super-hero stories. Superman, Batman, the Justice Society of America and so on... All these stories were set in the time period that they were published -- so by today's standards that's pretty dated right? Anyway, after World War II ended, super-hero comic books weren't as popular and most of them died off or were canceled (Superman and Batman being the only ones surviving really) and the comic book industry was mostly horror, science-fiction, romance, westerns, and so on. In the 1960's DC Comics writer Gardner Fox decided to try and revive the super-hero genre, his first attempt was reviving the Flash. Instead of bringing back the or