Jay Garrick was a WORD in 1940 (suggesting he was born around WORD) who accidentally inhaled WORD WORD vapors after falling asleep in his WORD where he had been WORD. As a result, he found that he could WORD at superWORD speed and had similarly WORD reflexes. After a brief WORD as a college WORD star, he donned a WORD shirt with a WORD and a stylized WORD helmet with WORD (based on images of the Roman god WORD), and began to fight WORD as the Flash. It was WORD decades later that the helmet belonged to Jay`s father, WORD, who died in WORD when Jay was only WORD. His first case involved WORD the WORD Four, a group of WORD. He kept his identity secret without a WORD by WORD vibrating his WORD while in public so that any photograph of his WORD would be WORD.