Comic Title: Flash #5
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 1987
On Sale Date: July 2, 1987 Newsstand Date July 2, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #41

Newsstand Date June 30, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #120

Shipping Date June 9, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #41

Shipping Date June 9, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #120

Shipping Date June 9, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Copyright Date June 9, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "Speed McGee"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Flash (Wally West Post-Crisis)

Writer: Mike Baron
Penciller: Jackson Guice
Inker: Jack Torrance
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Shelly Eiber

Reprinted In:
Flash:Savage Velocity TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash Annual #1; next appearance in Flash #6)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tina McGee (last appearance in Flash #4; next appearance in Flash #6)
• Rudolph West (Wally's father; first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Secret Origins Annual #2; next appearance in Millennium #1)

Villain(s)

• Speed McGee (Dr. Jerry McGee; Tina's husband; first appearance; next appearance in Flash #6)

Other Character(s)

• An unnamed surveillance man (no further appearances)
• Mr. Gilchrist (a city councilman; first appearance; next appearance in Flash #11)

Comments:
This story continues in Flash #6.

Synopsis:
Tina McGee tells her husband Jerry that she is leaving him. Angry, Jerry beats her, then returns to his lab where he is using steroids to give himself super-powers. Tina calls Wally who brings her to his mansion. Wally is surprised when his father shows up claiming that the half a million dollars that Wally gave him is gone.

That night Tina seeks out Wally for comfort. Jerry has tracked her down and crashes into the house in a costume. He is out of control. Flash hits him, by McGee is unaffected by the blows. Jerry then grabs Tina and runs away. He passes through a fuel depot which explodes when he crashes into it.