He also continued to work as a scientist.

However, Jay would fluctuate in and out of retirement, helping out Barry or Wally West if needed. After this event, Jay retired, leaving Barry to continue the mantle. After waking up Jay, the two Flashes were able to beat the villains and save the city. However, much later, Barry Allen discovered the lost city when he vibrated at a certain frequency. Three of Jay's enemies, the Fiddler, the Thinker, and the Shade, built a resonator that vibrated Keystone City out of real space, putting its citizens in suspended animation, and causing the rest of the world to forget the city existed. The trauma of this event led to Jay and Joan choosing to mentor and embrace many young heroes as if they were the couple's own children. Two weeks after the adoption, the child passed away from pneumonia. He worked at Chemical Research Incorporated before founding the Keystone-based Garrick Laboratories.Īfter the war, Jay found out that Joan could not have children, so the couple decided to adopt an infant boy. Like the rest of his comrades, certain spells kept him from aging much as the years went by. Jay was an active member of the Justice Society of America. After a week of unconsciousness, during which Jay's metabolism increased and his body rejected nutrients, he discovered that he had been given superhuman speed by the accident, and he used this speed as the superhero, Flash. His friend Elliot Shapiro dragged him from the lab. When a test tube of the hard water was accidentally spilled, the fumes knocked him out. An experiment he was working on during his junior year was to purify hard water without any residual radiation in a cyclotron. Jay would go to Midwestern University in Keystone City where he would double-major in chemistry and physics. Little did he know that he would be granted the same powers of super speed. As a boy, Jay Garrick used to read pulp magazine stories of the turn-of-the-century super-hero, Whip Whirlwind.

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