The Flash Vol 2 8

Purple Haze
 * "I'm a Manhunter, Wally."
 * --Rudy West

Summary
Volume: 2 Issue: 8 Month: January Year: 1988

Credits
Editor Mike Gold Writer: Mike Baron Cover Artists: Jackson Guice and Larry Mahlstedt Penciller: Jackson Guice Inker: Larry Mahlstedt Colorist: Michele Wolfman Letterer: Steve Haynie

Synopsis
Cast of Characters: Blue Trinity, Flash (Wally West), Tina McGee, Conrad Bortz, Pytor Orloff, Red Trinity, Rudy West, Mary West, many heroes at the Green Lantern Citadel. First Appearances: No first appearances. Final Appearances: No final appearances Synopsis: Flash, Red Trinity, and Blue Trinity battle at the Soviet/Finnish border. Blue Trinity surrenders, and Wally receives a message summoing him to the Green Lantern Citadel. He and Red Trinity all suddenly collapse.

Tina McGee, Conrad Bortz, and Pytor Orloff all return to Syracuse to treat Jerry McGee. Red Trinity is also sent there to recover.

Wally wakes up at the Green Lantern Citadel. The Guardians of the Universe address a large crowd of heroes about a new race of immortals that has been born on Earth and the threat of the Manhunters.

Wally returns home to his mansion, where his father confronts him, telling his son that he is a Manhunter and that his mother is presumed dead in a boating accident. Blue Trinity bursts in and apprehends Wally; they had been hired by the Manhunters to take him back to Siberia. However, Red Trinity arrives in time to scare them off.

Later, Wally receives a message from his mother, who is indeed alive. He calls her at a Miam hospital, and she informs him that his father is dead.