ow/w pages origin and 1st app Kid Flash (Wally West); 1st app. of the Weather Wizard (1/60) COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 8 (CBI)Keeping with the tradition of pairing off adult heroes with kid partners, DC editor Julius Schwartz responded to the success of the rebooted Flash by inserting his nephew, Wally West, as Kid Flash. Readers responded favorably, as the Flash's core audience turned out to be science-savvy and entranced by the lengths gone to by writer John Broome to pepper real data into the Flash's otherwise outlandish exploits. Wally proved to be a smash hit, beginning a tradition of passing the Flash moniker from one generation to the next.