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Impulse
Impulse
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 4 #12 (October 1990)
Characters	Kent Shakespeare; Bart Allen; Iris West
See also	Flash; Kid Flash
Impulse
Series publication information
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Superhero;
Publication date	April 1995 – October 2002
Number of issues	90, 2 annual
Main character(s)	Bart Allen

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Impulse is an identity shared by three comic book superheroes published by DC Comics.

Publication history

Kent Shakespeare was the first DC Comics superhero known as Impulse, he debuted in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 4 #12 (October 1990). Bart Allen is the second DC Comics superhero known as Impulse, he debuted in Flash vol. 2 #92 (June 1994). Iris West is the third superhero known as Impulse, she debuted in Flash vol.4 #225 (October 2005)

Fictional character biography

Kent Shakespeare

Richard Kent Shakespeare was revealed to have used the codename in a flashback sequence in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 4 #53.^[1]^[2]

Bart Allen

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, tricked Bart into a race around the world. By forcing Bart into an extreme burst of speed, Wally managed to shock his hyper-metabolism back to normal.^[3] 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. In Impulse #50, it was revealed that Batman actually named Bart "Impulse" as a warning, not a compliment.

Iris West

Iris West recently discovered that she and her brother were sharing access to the Speed Force, and decided to end that symbiotic relationship, taking all the power into herself. Jesse Chambers, guided by the late Johnny Quick, uses her Speed formula to save Iris' life. Iris embraces her new role, choosing to take up the mantle of Impulse, which Bart used before he joined the Teen Titans as Kid Flash.^[4]

Notes

^ As seen in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 2 Annual #3 (1984)
^ As seen in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 4 #53 (January 1994)
^ As seen in Flash vol. 2 #92 (July 1994)
^ As seen in Flash: Rebirth #5 (January 2010)

References

Impulse (Kent Shakespeare) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
Impulse (Bart Allen) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
Impulse (Iris West) at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
Impulse at the Grand Comics Database
Impulse at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

Impulse (disambiguation) at the DC Database Project
LOSH Wiki: Kent Shakespeare
Those Who Ride The Lightning: Bart Allen
Those Who Ride The Lightning: Iris West
Impulse at Curlie

[1] As seen in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 2 Annual #3 (1984)

[2] As seen in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 4 #53 (January 1994)

[3] As seen in Flash vol. 2 #92 (July 1994)

[4] As seen in Flash: Rebirth #5 (January 2010)

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-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]], tricked Bart into a race around the world. By forcing Bart into an extreme burst of speed, Wally managed to shock his hyper-metabolism back to normal.<ref>As seen in ''[[The Flash (comic book)|Flash]]'' vol. 2 #92 (July 1994)</ref> 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]]. In ''Impulse'' #50, Batman named him "Impulse" as a warning, not as a compliment.
+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]], tricked Bart into a race around the world. By forcing Bart into an extreme burst of speed, Wally managed to shock his hyper-metabolism back to normal.<ref>As seen in ''[[The Flash (comic book)|Flash]]'' vol. 2 #92 (July 1994)</ref> 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]]. In ''Impulse'' #50, it was revealed that [[Batman]] actually named Bart "Impulse" as a warning, not a compliment.
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