Flash (Barry Allen) Allen / The Flash in the DCEU. Barry is a college student, working multiple jobs while trying to fund his search for evidence to clear his father's name. His suit is described as being created using the same material used on the hull of the space shuttle, although it is not clear how he acquired the resources to create it. By the end of the events of "Justice League" he has a job as a forensic scientist for the Central City police department. "Ballad of Barry Allen"—A song by the band Jim's Big Ego on their album, "They're Everywhere". The
Alley Award The Alley Award traces its origin to "a letter to Jerry dated October 25, 1961" by Roy Thomas, in which he suggested that Jerry Bails' fanzine "Alter-Ego", which had debuted in March 1961, create an award for fandom's "favorite comic books in a number of categories." Initially suggested as the "Alter-Ego Award," the name evolved into the Alley Award after comic strip caveman Alley Oop, since, as Thomas reasoned, "surely a caveman had to be the earliest superhero chronologically." Comics historian Bill Schelly notes that no one "bothered to ask the NEA [newspaper] syndicate for permission to utilize V. T.