Back in the Golden Age when Jay Garrick became the first Flash, Timely was rolling their own fastest man alive. Now it's pretty embarrassing being a super hero called the Flash with a lightning bolt shooting out of your pants, ho do you think you'd feel if you were the fastest man alive, you wore a yellow suit and people called you the
Everywhere you went people just saw a yellow streak.
Robert L. Frank was born in St. Louis, Missouri. The origin of the Golden Age character begins while Robert Frank is on a trip to Africa with his father, Dr. Emil Frank, where Robert is bitten by a cobra. Dr. Frank saves Robert by a transfusion of mongooseblood, and soon discovers that his son has developed super-speed. Frank then decides to fight crime and eventually accepts the offer of Invaders member Bucky, who forms the superhero team the Liberty Legion to rescue the other Invaders, who have been brainwashed by the villain the Red Skull. When the Liberty Legion and Invaders eventually disband after World War II, the Whizzer joins the newly formed All-Winners Squad.The Whizzer afterward spent some years battling alcoholism and depression, and was, for some time, homeless in the Bowery section of Manhattan. He also works as a nuclear laboratory technician.For some reason the Whizzer keeps coming back. He hasn't always been Robert Frank, but that's the only thing that's really changed.
They've tried to change the name, change the suit. In some alternate versions they call him the speed demon, or the Blur, but really it never works out. He's always gonna be the Yellow Costumed Speedster lost in a yellow streak, a hero Called the Whizzer.
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