Comic Title: Flash #8
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: January 1988
On Sale Date: September 15, 1987 Shipping Date September 15, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #44

Shipping Date September 15, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #125

Shipping Date September 15, 1987
Source: Capital City Distributors, Orderpak September 1987

Newsstand Date October 6, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #125

Copyright Date September 15, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

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

Title: "Purple Haze"
Pages: 22

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

Crossover Event:
Millennium

Writer: Mike Baron
Penciller: Jackson Guice
Inker: Larry Mahlstedt
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Michele Wolfman

Reprinted In:
Flash:Savage Velocity TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (appears concurrently in Millennium #1; last appearance in Flash #7; next appearance in Millennium #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tina McGee (last appearance in Flash #7; next appearance in Flash #9)
• Red Trinity (last appearance in Flash #7; next appearance in Flash #12)
• Mary West (Wally's mother; first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Secret Origins Annual #2; next appearance in Flash #9)

Villain(s)

• Blue Trinity (Boleslaw Uminski, Gregor Gregorovich, and Christina; real names revealed; last appearance in Flash #7; next appearance in Flash #19)
• Rudolph West (last appearance in Millennium #1; next appearance in Flash Annual #2)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Black Canary (appears concurrently in Millennium #1; last appearance in Millennium #1; next appearance in Millennium #1)

Other Character(s)

• Conrad Bortz (last appearance in Flash #7; next appearance in Flash #14)
• Pytor Orloff (last appearance in Flash #7; next appearance in Flash #16)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Herupa Hando Hu (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Nadia Safir (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Aquaman (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Arisia (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Batman (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Black Lightning (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Blue Beetle (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Captain Atom (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Doctor Fate (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Firestorm (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Geo-Force (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Green Lantern (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Green Lantern Corps (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Guy Gardner (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Halo (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Hawkman (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Hourman (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Infinity, Inc. (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Justice League (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Katana (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Kilowog (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Looker (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Martian Manhunter (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Mr. Bones (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Mister Miracle (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Oberon (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Obsidian (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Outsiders (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Rocket Red #7 (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Superman (concurrent with Millennium #1)
• Wildcat (concurrent with Millennium #1)

Comments:
This issue is labeled:"Millennium Week 1".

This story is continued from Flash #7.

Wally's father is revealed to be a Manhunter in this story.

Pages 8 and 9 of this story recount the meeting at the Green Lantern Citadel depicted in Millennium #1. The scene is slightly expanded to include a new conversation between Flash and Black Canary prior to the meeting.

Synopsis:
The Flash and Red Trinity battle Blue Trinity on the border between Finland and the Soviet Union. Blue Trinity breaks off the attack as the authorities arrive. Flash receives a message to attend a meeting at the Green Lantern Citadel. He then passes out.

When the Flash regains consciousness, he has been transported to the Citadel in California. Black Canary wakes him up, then he hears the Guardian's speech concerning the Manhunters and the upcoming Millennium event.

Flash returns home after the meeting and finds his father waiting for him. Mr. West tells Wally that he is a Manhunter and that he killed his wife. He wants Wally to ignore the plans of the Guardian. When Flash refuses to listen, Mr. West summons Blue Trinity to knock out Wally. Red Trinity arrives to save him. Blue Trinity is forced to retreat, and Mr. West escapes. Wally then receives a phone call from his mother indicating that she survived the accident her husband used to try and kill her.