Comic Title: Flash #18
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1988
On Sale Date: July 12, 1988 Shipping Date July 12, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

Shipping Date July 14, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Copyright Date July 9, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Newsstand Date July 26, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

Newsstand Date August 3, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Barbara J. Kesel (Randall)

Title: "The Adventures of Speed McGee Part 3"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: William Messner-Loebs
Penciller: Gregory B. LaRocque
Inker: Timothy Dzon
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Michele Wolfman

Reprinted In:
DC Retroactive:Flash – The '80s #1 (2011)
Flash:Savage Velocity TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Flash (last appearance in Flash #17; next appearance in Batgirl Special #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Chunk (last appearance in Flash #15; next appearance in Flash Annual #2)
• Jerry McGee (last appearance in Flash #17; next appearance in Flash #24)
• Mason Trollbridge (last appearance in Flash #17; next appearance in Flash #20)
• Mary West (last appearance in Flash #17; next appearance in Justice League International #19)
• Tina McGee (last appearance in Flash #16; next appearance in Flash #24)

Villain(s)

• Vandal Savage's henchmen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ivan (a member of Blue Trinity; last appearance in Flash #17; no further appearances)
• Mr. Gilchrist (last appearance in Flash #17; next appearance in Flash #20)
• Rosie Gilchrist (first name revealed; last appearance in Flash #16; no further appearances)
• Donovan Ryan (head of Consolidated Wastes; no further appearances)
• A cemetary caretaker (no further appearances)
• A waitress (no further appearances)
• Several of Chunk's customers (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Flash #17.

Barry Allen's gravestone shows he was born in 1956.

Synopsis:
Wally uses his newly returned speed powers to rescue a member of Blue Trinity who has been tied to a bomb. He then tracks down Rosie Gilchrist whom Vandal Savage buried in Barry Allen's empty grave. Wally makes the save then faces an attack helicopter sent by Savage. Mason Tollbridge shoots down the helicopter, then Wally returns Rosie to her father.

Meanwhile, Mary West takes a job as Chunk's secretary.