Steve Vance

Bizarro Back Issues: The Flash/Superboy Race
Bizarro Back Issues: The Flash/Superboy Race
Bizarro Back Issues: The Flash/Superboy Race
The idea of Superman racing against the Flash is such an obvious one that there's enough stories to fill an entire paperback. It's a standard at DC, one of those big superheroic ideas that always works even when the winner is a foregone conclusion, and it's happened in pretty much every generation of superhero comics. But back in 1998, there was a variation on that story that could have only been more '90s if it had been about the Electric Blue Superman racing against the Dark Flash who turned out to be Walter West from Hypertime. It was about Wally West racing across Hawaii against the clone Superboy in all his leather-jacketed glory. But if you missed it, there's a reason for that: It happened in Adventures in the DC Universe, a strange little late-'90s experiment with one of the weirdest hooks for a series in comics history.