Comic Title: Flash Special #1
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: 1990
On Sale Date: May 29, 1990 Shipping Date May 29, 1990
Source: Previews, #15

Shipping Date May 29, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #179

Shipping Date May 31, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #17

Copyright Date May 29, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Direct Market Date May 31, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #142, #149

Frequency: Annually
Cover Price: $2.95
Page Count: 80
Editor: Brian Michael Augustyn

Title: "Captives of the Atom Master"
Pages: 17

Feature(s):
Flash (Barry Allen Post-Crisis)

Writer: Gerard Jones
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Josef Rubinstein
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino
Colorist: Glenn Whitmore

Reprinted In:
Flash by Mark Waid Vol. 1 TPB (2017)
Flash by Mark Waid Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2023)
Flash by Mark Waid Omnibus Vol. 1 HC [Variant] (2023)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (Barry Allen; last appearance in Secret Origins #46; next appearance in Secret Origins Annual #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Iris West (last appearance in Secret Origins #46; next appearance in Secret Origins Annual #2)

Villain(s)

• Manfred Mota (aka Professor Fallout; last appearance in Flash Special #1; next appearance in Flash Special #1)

Guest Appearance(s)

• John Fox (last appearance in Flash Special #1; next appearance in Flash Special #1)

Other Character(s)

• The mayor of Central City (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story takes place during the early part of Barry Allen's career as the Flash. He has not yet married Iris West and is still working to perfect his cosmic treadmill.

Synopsis:
Barry Allen works to perfect his cosmic treadmill. His experiments are interrupted when he remembers a date with Iris West. At their lunch date, Barry discovers that his experiments have magnetized his body. When he steps away to resolve the situation Professor Fallout attacks the city.

The villain is the latest identity assumed by Manfred Mota, the former Atom Smasher. Mota has constructed a neutron bomb and uses it to blackmail Central City. The Flash tries to stop him, but Professor Fallout was prepared. He knocks out the Flash, then traps him in a large model of the atom. Flash escapes uses the same magnetic forces he experienced earlier in the day. He then defeats Mota and sends him back to prison.

John Fox arrives on the scene, but he is unable to reach the Flash before he slips back into the time stream.