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ROY is wetting himself in anticipation of tomorrow's Flash!
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Here is a thought....
Boomer's son has superspeed.
Is Professor Zoom's origin known? It wasn't when I was a wee lad in the 80s. All we knew was that Zoom was from the future.
Could Boomer's son have gone into the future using his superspeed?
If Boomer's son is in fact Barry's son, and it turns out that he becomes Professor Zoom, it certainly puts a new angle on why Zoom tormented Barry Allen for so many years (without any real motivation) and tried to kill Iris Allen back in 1985 when Cary Bates was writing Flash.
There is an interesting theory at Millarworld that the murderer is Zatanna.
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Is Professor Zoom's origin known? It wasn't when I was a wee lad in the 80s. All we knew was that Zoom was from the future.
Yes. Reread The Return of Barry Allen trade paperback.
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Professor Zoom's origin was written in the mid-60s. He was Eobard Thawne.
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Just read the latest FLASH. For Spoilers sake, I won't mention specifics yet. I just wanted to say that I now have to applaud TTT's researching skills. Bravo. 
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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.
UPDATE: Well, maybe not so much:
http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/ladies.html#msflash
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.
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He's not exactly right. But, he's so far in the ballpark that it's scary....
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When I saw him mention Patty Spivot I would never had remmebered that she was the female Flash for a minute if not for that fine man!
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So this Patty chick is likely to be Boomer's mum?
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Separated at birth?
Patty Spivot, Barry Allen's lab assistant.
Angela Margolin, Barry Allen's successor at the police lab.
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ROY is wetting himself in anticipation of tomorrow's Flash!
I myself was a bit dissapointed in it....
Although as a youhng lad I loved the Top's death storyline and the rogues working with Flash!
I love how Johns and Metzler(the JLA/Secretr Society switched bodies) are using the Pre-Crisis storylines!
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Separated at birth?
Patty Spivot, Barry Allen's lab assistant.
Angela Margolin, Barry Allen's successor at the police lab.
Or a lazy artist?
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Speculation-you gotta love it!
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I still say Atom or Shade...and Calculator could surely be involved....
Also mirror master could be involved.......
Then again it may not be just 1 or 2 people....it could be many working in unison..though I doubt it...
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Enh. Well, there you go.
Good old mind swapping. Yee-hah.
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BTW, the Calculator is STILL lame despite the new Oracle-like job description. He's desperately lacking an interesting personality.
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I will not be clicking that link.
I like surprises.
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MAJOR SPOILERS (if you wanna know who the killer is)
Go here, last four pages of IC #6- http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=b680ec9419e12e648f3f06f20c58b4ac&threadid=21123
All I can say is I hope this is a case of brainwashing, or mind/body swapping or something like that. The look on his face doesn't look like his so maybe.
Why am I not surprised at all that it's not Martian Manhunter or Batman or Superman or Wonder Woman or Robin.
Why am I not surprised that the development is totally stupid mind switch or not.
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I'm no forensic scientist, but I would bet cash money that what they are saying happened to Sue does NOT leave footprints.
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I still say Atom or Shade...and Calculator could surely be involved....
Also mirror master could be involved.......
Then again it may not be just 1 or 2 people....it could be many working in unison..though I doubt it...
Or it could be Amazo.
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