< 1954 >
41-year-old Jay Garrick discovers that 55-year-old Edward Clariss has escaped prison and is manufacturing low doses of his formula as the drug Velocity 9, in an effort to perfect the formula and truely replicate the Flash's powers. The rampant use of the drug creates a Speed Force singularity, threatening the lives of the people using it, forcing Jay to enter the Speed Force to save them. He survives by racing the corona of the singularity, bypassing time itself.
34-year-old Will Everett, spurred by the Supreme Court decison in Brown vs Board of Ed, becomes a field secretary of the NAACP, organizing boycotts across Mississippi, becoming a prominient figure in the civil right movement.
38-year-old Thaal Sinestro begins to take on political power on Korugar, beginning his regime, ruling his people through fear.