This week: The Flash's costumes!
This is an interesting one because it seems like every time The Flash gets to be on tv, his suit changes. When Barry Allen debuted in 1956, he had the following appearance, and he kept it until his death in 1985.
When Wally West took over as The Flash following Crisis on Infinite Earths, he used the same costume.
When The Flash (1990) debuted on CBS, Barry Allen wore essentially the same costume, but as you might notice, it's a darker red and the belt is angled instead of straight across.
These changes were then given to Wally West's version of The Flash in The Flash #50 (March 1991).
Later, Wally West appeared as The Flash in Justice League (2000), but with two further alterations: one is the simplified lightning bolt logo, and the other is that the belt is now two distinct lightning bolts.
After Barry Allen came back in The Flash: Rebirth, DC needed a way to tell the two Flashes apart. In issue 5 (November 2009), Wally received a new costume that incorporated the animated changes.
These changes have continued to various degrees in DC's New 52 and Rebirth. Barry Allen received the angled belt but kept his classic logo, while Wally West kept everything but changed the gold to silver to further differentiate him from Barry Allen (and now has free-flowing hair to better match his Kid Flash suit):
And I know what you might be asking: what about his current show? Did it happen there? It did! But I've already covered it.
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