Quote: The Time Trust said: The Russian speedsters are also somewhat recent, though.
There was one female speedster who appeared in a single Flash story in the 1970s who gained her speed and lost it in the same story. Now that's a good possibility.
But that Joanie Swift might work... or even Doralla Kon.
I just quickly flipped through the story featuring Ms. Flash: "How to Prevent a Flash" from FIVE STAR SUPER-HERO SPECTACULAR (a one-shot from 1977).
It's interesting. The story begins with a recap of Barry Allen's origin story, in which a cabinet full of chemicals is struck by lightning and both lightning and chemicals hit him.
Then it shows how Barry's longtime lab assistant, Patty Spivot (who was apparently around at least since Barry gained his super-speed, according to The Life Story of the Flash), undergoes a duplicate accident as the one Barry (and Wally after him) had, though because there were so many newer chemicals adopted in the years since then, it wasn't an exact duplication. Because of this discrepancy Patty's super-speed powers came with unexpected side-effects, such as causing the creation of poisonous gases from water.
Then at the end it is revealed that Barry saved her from the accident with the chemicals and just IMAGINED the above scenario in the split-second it took for him to do so.
But it makes me think...
Remember how eerily similar Wally West's origin was to Barry Allen's? And that it happened in the very same place? Well, the fact that it happened a THIRD time in the SAME PLACE with Patty Spivot just seems too improbable to be a coincidence to me. I'm thinking Barry must have unconsciously influenced the events to occur, first to make Wally West a fellow super-speedster (the only one he was aware of at that time) and then almost made Patty Spivot a female super-speedster. A Secret Origins Annual from the 1980s actually hinted that Wally's origin was somehow directed by the unconscious powers of Barry Allen, who always had stranger super-speed powers than any of the other speedsters, such as the ability to completely control his molecular structure.
So getting back to the theme of I.C. -- that is, the JLA's removal of memories of several super-villains.... I wonder if Patty Spivot really DID gain her powers, but because they were so dangerous Barry Allen had her hypnotized not only into forgetting them but into believing that she could only do that which a normal person could do? Maybe Barry called in Zatanna as a favour? He would've done it because he thought it was the best thing to do, all things considered, but perhaps others wouldn't think so.
And this brings us back to Captain Boomerang's son. Maybe the mother was Patty Spivot? It's interesting to note that the mother in that gossip rag was supposedly the Golden Glider, a blonde... Well, Patty Spivot resembles slightly Golden Glider, being a blonde herself.
Interesting things to think about, but it will probably have nothing to do with the real story behind I.C. in the end. Still, it's fun to speculate.
