Impulse (DC) (01 - Bart Allen)
Real Name: Bartholomew 'Bart' Allen
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Bio: Suffering from a hyper-accelerated metabolism, Bart Allen was aging at a faster rate than that of any human being thus causing him to appear the age of twelve when he was chronologically only two years old. To prevent him from developing mental health problems he was raised in a virtual reality machine which created a simulated world that kept pace with his own scale of time. When it became clear that this method was not helping, his grandmother, Iris Allen, took him back in time to the present where The Flash, Wally West, tracked him down in a race across the world. By forcing Bart into an extreme burst of speed, Wally managed to shock his hyper-metabolism back to normal. Because he had spent the majority of his childhood in a simulated world, Bart had no concept of danger and was prone to leaping before he looked. The youth proved to be more trouble than Wally could handle, and he was palmed off onto retired superhero speedster Max Mercury, who moved Bart to Manchester, Alabama. As retconned in Impulse #50, Batman named him "Impulse" as a warning, not as a compliment.
Bart joined the Titans early in his career before going on to become one of the founding members (along with Robin and Superboy) of the superhero team Young Justice. For a time, Impulse became the owner of a spaceship granted to him by a rich sultan in appreciation for having helped save his castle. The team used this ship to reunite Doiby Dickles with his queen and restore the rightful rule of Myrg. Impulse stayed with Young Justice for an extensive period of time during which he developed the ability to make speed-force energy duplicates. This allowed him to be in multiple places at once. The newly acquired power proved useful until one of the duplicates was killed during the "Our Worlds at War" storyline when half the team was lost on Apokolips. Bart quit Young Justice temporarily as the death of his duplicate led him to come to terms with his own mortality.
Following Max Mercury's disappearance, Bart was taken in by Jay Garrick, the first Flash, and his wife Joan. After the breakup of Young Justice, Bart joined some of his former teammates in a new line-up of the Teen Titans.
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First Appearance: The Flash (1987) #92
Other Identities: Flash (DC)(04 - Bart Allen) Kid Flash (02 - Bart Allen) White Flash Favorite Characters:
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Issue Appearances: 52 (2006)
#8 - 'Thief' #47 - 'Revelations' Action Comics (1938)
#760 - '...Never-Ending Battle...' #864 - 'Batman and the Legion of Super-Heroes' Adventure Comics (1938)
Adventure Comics (2009)
#5 - 'He Primed Me: Part Two - Flame War' Adventures of Superman (1987)
#522 - 'City of Hope' #533 - 'Scavenger Hunt!' #551 - 'Genesis For Humanity' All Flash (2007)
#1 - 'Justice, Like Lightning' Art Fantastix (2001)
#5 - 'The Art of Julie Bell' Batman: No Man's Land (1999)
Batman: No Man's Land Gallery (1999)
Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (2009)
HC - 'Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps' TPB - 'Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps' Blood Pack (1995)
#3 - 'Episode Three: Viva Las Vegas!' Booster Gold (2007)
#3 - '52 Pick-Up, Chapter 3: Hexed' Damage (1994)
#8 - 'Boom Baby' #10 - 'Links' #13 - 'Picking up the Pieces, Chapter One' Darkstars (1992)
#28 - 'The Captive Heart' #31 - 'Loose Ends!' #32 - 'The Crimelord-Syndicate War, Part 3: The Night They Burned Ol' Dixie Down!' #34 - 'Strangers in a Strange Land' DC Comics Presents: Batman - Irresistible (2011)
DC Comics Presents: Young Justice (2010)
DC Retroactive: Flash - The '90s (2011)
DC Universe Holiday Bash (1997)
DC Universe: Origins (2009)
TPB - 'DC Universe: Origins' DCU: Legacies (2010)
Deathstroke (1995)
#48 - 'Third Strike' #49 - 'All the Kings Men' Deathstroke: The Hunted (1994)
#45 - 'Deathstroke the Hunted, Part 6: The Road to Salvation...' Final Night (1996)
#1 - 'Dusk' #3 - 'Keeping Hope Alive' Flash: The Fastest Man Alive (2006)
#2 - 'Lightning in a Bottle, Part 2: Origins' #3 - 'Lightning in a Bottle, Part 3: Night of the Griffin' Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost (2011)
#2 - 'Kid Flash Lost, Part Two' #3 - 'Kid Flash Lost, Part Three' Genesis (1997)
#1 - 'Resonance' #2 - 'Edge of Destruction' #3 - 'Event Horizon' #4 - 'Last God Standing' Green Lantern (1990)
#57 - 'Farewells' #59 - 'Green Christmas' #81 - 'Funeral for a Hero' #128 - 'One in a Million' Green Lantern 80-Page Giant (1998)
Green Lantern Secret Files (1998)
Green Lantern: Circle of Fire (2000)
Guy Gardner: Warrior (1994)
#29 - 'It's My Party And I'll Fight If I Want To' Hourman (1999)
Impulse (1995)
Annual 01 - 'Speed Force!' Annual 02#1 - 'The Single Synapse Theory' #2 - 'Crossfire' #3 - 'How To Win Friends and Influence People' #4 - 'Bad Influence' #5 - 'Lightning Strikes' #6 - 'Secret Identity' #7 - 'Arrested Developments' #8 - 'Smart Men, Foolish Choices' #9 - 'Running in the Family' #10 - 'Dead Heat, Third Lap: Disaffected Youth' #11 - 'Dead Heat, Fifth Lap: Breaking the Barrier' #12 - 'Sonic Youth' #13 - 'Water Rat' #14 - 'Faith' #15 - 'Trust' #16 - 'Running From The Past' #17 - 'Quicker Than The Eye' #18 - 'Virtually Wasted' #18 (Bagged with: "Over The Edge" Magazine) - 'Virtually Wasted' #19 - 'A Game of Spew' #20 - 'First Base' #21 - 'A Little Knowledge' #22 - 'Played' #23 - 'Lessons Learned' #24 - 'Reunion' #25 - 'You and Me Against the World' #26 - 'Scorched' #27 - 'Fight for Your Right to Party' #28 - 'Arrowette vs. The Spazz' #29 - 'Conflict Resolutions' #30 - 'Everything Sucks' #31 - 'Solving the Puzzle' #32 - 'Unhealed Wounds' #33 - 'Time Out' #34 - 'The Devonian Age' #35 - 'Time Out of Joint' #36 - 'Court Dates' #37 - 'Generations of Crime' #38 - 'Rising Waters' #39#40 - 'Like a Two-Legged Man in a Three-Legged Race' #41 - 'The Return of Arrowette' #42 - 'Virtual Pets, Virtual Heck' #43 - 'Gamal's Song' #44 - 'All Hallows Gettin' Even' #45 - 'The Christmas Impulse!' #46 - 'When Barry Met Bart' #47 - 'Lessons in Fear' #48 - 'When is a Riddle Not a Riddle?' #49 - 'The Old Reform School Dodge' #50 - 'First Fool's' #51 - 'It's All Relative' #52 - 'Tumbling Down' #53 - 'Threats' #54 - 'Night of Camping' #55 - 'It Ain't Easy Being Greenery' #56 - 'The Best of Both' #57 - 'A Plastic Christmas' #58 - 'Flashing Before My Eyes' #59 - 'Running Rings...' #60 - 'What Would Flash Do?' #61 - 'The Sidekick Swap' #62 - 'Mercury Falling, Part 1: A Question of Faith' #64 - 'Mercury Falling, Part 3: Virtual Heroes' #65 - 'Mercury Falling, Part 4: Bart Allen's Evil Twin' #66 - 'Mercury Falling, The Conclusion: Deathrace' #67 - 'Friends Like These...' #68 - 'Circle of Fire, Epilogue: I Rann and I Rann and I Rann...' #69 - 'Circle of Fire, Epilogue: Strange Impulses' #70 - 'Impulse, The Movie' #71 - 'The Return of Lucius Keller, Part 1' #72 - 'The Return of Lucius Keller, Part 2' #73 - 'Dark Tomorrow, Part 1' #74 - 'Dark Tomorrow, Part 2' #75 - 'Dark Tomorrow, Part 3' #76 - 'Missing You' #77 - 'Split Decision' #78 - 'Losing the Impulse' #79 - 'Joker: Last Laugh: No Laughing Matter' #80 - 'Sometimes a Hero' #81 - 'Dan Coyote: The Man of La Jolla' #82 - 'Double Visions' #83 - 'Double Visions, Part 2' #84 - 'In the Line of Fire' #85 - 'Glimpses of You!' #86 - 'Crisis on Impulse's Earth' #87 - 'Crisis on Impulse's Earth, Part 2' #88 - 'Running Out of Time' #89 - '...Godspeed.' #1000000 - 'Desperate Times -- A Million' Impulse Plus (1997)
Impulse: Bart Saves the Universe (1999)
Impulse: Reckless Youth (1997)
Impulse/Atom Double-Shot (1998)
JLA (1997)
#40 - 'World War Three, Part Five' #57 - 'Mind Over Matter' JLA (2001)
#3 - 'Die Märchenkönigin' JLA Secret Files (1997)
#1 - 'Secret Origin: Star-Seed' #3 JLA: Incarnations (2001)
JLA: The Ultimate Guide to The Justice League of America (2002)
JLA: Welcome to the Working Week (2003)
JLA: World Without Grown-Ups (1998)
JLA/JSA Secret Files and Origins (2003)
JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice (2002)
JLA/Titans (1998)
#1 - 'One of Ours' #2 - 'the Generation Gap' #3 - 'All in the Family' JSA (1999)
#34 - 'Stealing Thunder, Part 2: Troublestruck' #35 - 'Stealing Thunder, Part 3: Lightning Storm' #37 - 'Stealing Thunder, Part 5: Crossing Over' #54 - 'Virtue, Vice & Pumpkin Pie' Justice League Task Force (1993)
#26 - 'Klakk' #30 - 'Thunderworld' Legends of the DC Universe (1998)
#19 - 'Manchest Monkey Business' Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery (1998)
Legion of Super-Heroes (1989)
#86 - 'Heart of Iron' #88 - 'Fast Times' #99 - 'When the Reign Comes' #100 - 'OK C.O.M.P.U.T.O.' Legionnaires (1993)
Lobo (1993)
#50 - 'Dead Heroes Don't' Nightwing: Our Worlds at War (2001)
#1 - 'Our Worlds at War: Die, Die and Die Again' Primal Force (1994)
Ramos art-n-out Hip Sketchbook (2010)
Relative Heroes (2000)
Resurrection Man (1997)
#26 - 'Millennium Now!' #27 - 'The End of the Earth' Robin (1993)
#101 - 'World Without Young Justice, Part Three: Redone by the Vandal(s) of Time' Robin Plus (1996)
#1 - 'Robin Plus Impulse' Secret Files & Origins Guide to the DC Universe 2000 (2000)
#1 - 'Guide to the DC Universe 2000' Secret Origins 80-Page Giant (1998)
Sins of Youth Secret Files (2000)
Sins of Youth: JLA Jr. (2000)
#1 - 'You Gotta Be Kidding!' Sins of Youth: Kid Flash & Impulse (2000)
Sovereign Seven (1995)
#10 - 'There Is No Sun In Gotham' #28 - 'So Whatever Happened to Power Girl?' Sovereign Seven Plus (1997)
#1 - 'Sovereign Seven Plus Legion of Superheroes: History Lies' Speed Force (1997)
SpyBoy/Young Justice (2002)
Starman (1994)
#35 - 'Mr. Pip and Mr. Black' Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. (1999)
#2 - 'True Colors' #5 - 'The Subs, Part One' #6 - 'The Subs, Part Two' #8 - 'Crisis in Blue Valley' Superboy (1994)
#25 - 'Whom the Gods Would Destroy!' #65 - 'Out of Hyper-Time!' #74 - 'Game, Set & Match!' #83 - 'How Kon-El Got His Groove Back' #88 - 'Diapers and Angels and Babies, Oh My!' #91 - 'War Letters' #92 - 'Watch Me Pull a Rabbit Out of My Heart!' #99 - 'Doomsboy' Superboy & The Ravers (1996)
#7 - 'Road Trip, First Stop: Speed Kills' #14 - 'Genesis Suicide Squad' Supergirl (1996)
#34 - 'We'll Always Have Parasite' #36 - 'Heck's Angels, Part 2: Justice Delayed' #37 - 'Heck's Angels, Part 4: Demon in the Bottle' Superheroes: The Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell (2000)
Superman (1987)
Annual 11 - 'JLApe Part 6: The Apes of Wrath' #128 - 'Genesis Anew' #163 - 'Where Monsters Lurk!' Superman (1996)
Superman: Our Worlds at War Secret Files (2001)
Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime (2007)
Teen Titans (1996)
Teen Titans (2003)
Teen Titans/Outsiders Secret Files 2003 (2003)
The Brave and the Bold (2007)
The DC Comics Encyclopedia (2004)
HC - 'The DC Comics Encyclopedia: Updated And Expanded' HC - 'The DC Comics Encyclopedia' The Flash (1987)
Annual 12 - 'Part Five: The Apes of Wrath' #91 - 'Out of Time' #92 - 'Reckless Youth Chapter One: Speed Kills' #93 - 'Reckless Youth Chapter Two: Quick Study' #94 - 'Reckless Youth Chapter Three: Just Do It!' #95 - 'Terminal Velocity, Mach One: The Dead Yet Live' #96 - 'Terminal Velocity, Mach Two: All the Wrong Moves' #97 - 'Terminal Velocity, Mach Three: The Other Side of Light' #98 - 'Terminal Velocity, Mach Four: Hit and Run' #99 - 'Terminal Velocity, Redline: Ultimate Rush' #100 - 'Terminal Velocity, Overdrive: The Quick and the Dead' #100 (Standard Edition) - 'Terminal Velocity, Overdrive: The Quick and the Dead' #101 - 'Going the Distance' #105 - 'Through a Glass Darkly' #108 - 'Dead Heat - First Lap: Flatfooted' #109 - 'Dead Heat - Second Lap: A Swiftly Tilting Planet' #110 - 'Dead Heat - Fourth Lap:Cut to the Quick' #111 - 'Dead Heat - Final Lap:Godspeed' #112 - 'Future Perfect' #131 - 'Emergency Stop - Part Two: Threads' #132 - 'Emergency Stop, Part Three: Fashion Victims' #138 - 'The Human Race - Part 3: Home Run' #139 - 'The Black Flash - Part 1: The Late Wally West' #140 - 'The Black Flash - Part 2' #141 - 'The Black Flash - Part 3: The End' #142 - 'Get Me to the Church on Time' #145 - 'Chain Lightning - Chapter One: The Gathering Storm' #146 - 'Chain Lightning - Chapter Two: Time Like a River...' #147 - 'Chain Lightning - Chapter Three: Shooting the Rapids' #148 - 'Chain Lightning - Chapter Four: Undertow' #149 - 'Chain Lightning - Chapter Five: Whirlpool' #152 - 'New Kid in Town' #153 - 'The Folded Man' #154 - 'Dimensionally Challenged' #155 - 'Payback Unlimited' #157 - 'Setting the Stage' #158 - 'Reverse Flash' #159 - 'Whirlwind Ceremony' #160 - 'Honeymoon on the Run' #161 - 'Honeymoon in Vegas' #164 - 'Wonderland, Chapter One: Lightning in a Bottle' #189 - 'Messengers' #198 - 'Blitz Part 2: Rush' #199 - 'Blitz Part 3: Into the Fast Lane' #200 - 'Blitz Conclusion: The Final Race' #235 - 'The Wild Wests, Part Five: Headlong' #246 - 'This Was Your Life, Wally West Part Three: Infection' The Flash 80-Page Giant (1998)
The Flash Secret Files (1997)
The Flash: Rebirth (2009)
The Life Story of the Flash (1997)
OGN HC - 'The Life Story of the Flash' The New Titans (1988)
Annual 11 - 'After Year One' #0 - 'The Changing Order' #114 - '24 Hours' #115 - 'The Final Change' #116 - 'Psimon Psays...Die!' #117 - 'Psimon Didn't Psay You'd Win!' #118 - 'Downtime' #119 - 'Chapter One: Dark Titans' #122 - 'Syndicate Rites!' #123 - 'Salvation' #124 - 'Prometheus Gathering' #125 - 'Xenocide' #126 - 'Going Home' #130 - 'Where Nightmares End!' The Power of SHAZAM! (1995)
The Titans (1999)
#12 - 'The Immortal Coil Part 3 of 3' #25 - 'Part Three: This is Your Life' Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day (2003)
#1 - 'Graduation Day, Part 1: Invocation' #2 - 'Graduation Day, Part 2: Commencement' #3 - 'Graduation Day, Part 3: Recessional' Unlimited Access (1997)
#3 - 'The Greatest Heroes of All Time!' #4 - 'Combined Forces' Wonder Girl (2007)
#1 - 'Part 1: The Labors of Cassandra' Wonder Woman (1987)
#126 - 'Where Have All the Heroes Gone?' Wonder Woman Plus (1997)
Young Justice (1998)
#1 - 'Young, Just Us' #2 - 'Sheik, Rattle and Roll' #3 - 'The Issue Before the One Where the Girls Show Up' #4 - 'Harm's Way' #5 - 'First, Do No Harm' #6 - 'Judgment Day' #7 - 'Conferences' #8 - 'The Uninvited Geeks' #9 - 'Thug of War!' #10 - 'Kali'd Away' #11 - 'Siege Perilous' #12 - 'Heck's Angels, Part 1: Dante's Disco Inferno' #13 - 'Heck's Angels, Part 3: Dis, Dat and De Other' #14 - 'Like Heck, You Say or Crossovers are Heck!' #15 - 'Unstrung' #16 - 'Aftermath' #17 - 'Stuff Blows Up' #18 - 'Revolting Developments' #19 - 'Banned, On the Run' #20 - 'Time Out' #21 - 'Young, Just Us Too' #22 - 'Father's Day' #23 - 'Down Under Where' #24 - 'When the Bow Breaks...' #25 - 'Gold Standard' #26 - 'From Myrg With Love' #27 - 'Baseball Field: Myrg or There's a Saga Born Every Minute' #28 - 'Hitting for the Cycle' #29 - 'Forever and a Day' #30 - 'Round Robin' #31 - 'Quiet!!!!!' #32 - 'Anita's Date With Lobo' #33 - 'Wash and Werewolf' #35 - 'War Torn' #36 - 'Kissing on the Apokolips' #37 - 'War of the Words' #38 - 'Joker: Last Laugh: Stuff Happens' #40 - 'The Night Before Doomsday' #44 - 'The World What Once We Knew' #45 - 'Bang Bang Bedlam's Purple Hammer' #47 - 'Fighting Maad, Part 1: M.I.A.' #49 - 'Fighting Maad, Part 3: A.W.O.L.' #50 - 'Fighting Maad, Part 4: MUBAR' #51 - 'Zand on the Run' #52 - 'The Unreal World' #53 - 'Dead Man Sprinting' #54 - 'Break on Through to the Other Seid' #55 - 'I've Got a Secret' #1000000 - 'Just Ice, Cubed' Young Justice 80-Page Giant (1999)
Young Justice in No Man's Land (1999)
#1 - 'No Man's Land: Road Trip' Young Justice Secret Files (1999)
Young Justice: Our Worlds at War (2001)
Young Justice: Sins of Youth (2000)
#1 - 'Justice For All' #2 - 'The Stunning Conclusion' Young Justice: The Secret (1998)
Zero Hour Sampler (1994)
nn - 'Zero Month Sampler' Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994)
#0 - 'Zero Hour' #1 - 'Zero Hour' #2 - 'Zero Hour' #3 - 'Zero Hour' Group Affiliation(s): New Titans Teen Titans (DC)(03 - 2000-2011 Team) Young Justice (DC) Famous Quotes: - Add a Famous Quote "Wonder Girl: Impulse, what about you? Would you be normal if you could?
Impulse: I don't understand the question. I AM normal. It's the rest of the world that's weird.
-Young Justice"
"Call me Kid Flash, and get your big 'S' handed to you! The name's Impulse!"
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