Digital comic The Flash: Season Zero, written by Kreisberg,
Brooke Eikmeier and Katherine Walczak, with art by
Phil Hester and Eric Gapstur, is intended to take place between the pilot episode and episode 2. Kreisberg stated, "Barry will [already] be the Flash, he will have his team, everyone will be in that world, and we'll introducing a new set of villains that we won't be seeing on the TV show. It'll feel like the same heart, humor and spectacle that you get watching
Flash." The comic will showcase the entire TV cast, plus new rogues, a group of circus performers who gained super powers as a result of the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion. The group is led by
Mr. Bliss, a character who first appeared in
Starman. The comic launched digitally biweekly on September 8, 2014, with its first physical release featuring a collection of the digital releases, releasing on October 1. The blog, originally based at
Tumblr, features posts written by the fictional character of
Cisco Ramon, at first serving as write-ups of the metahuman villains on the show. Starting with the second season of the show, the posts evolved into the general musings of Ramon and his commentary on the events during and outside of
The Flash's episodes. On September 17, 2019,
The Chronicles of Cisco moved to
Instagram.
Promotional shorts Chronicles of Cisco: Entry 0419 On April 19, 2016, a four-episode series of shorts, titled
Chronicles of Cisco: Entry 0419, premiered. The series, which was presented by
AT&T, features Valdes and
Britne Oldford reprise their role as Cisco Ramon and
Shawna Baez / Peek-a-Boo, respectively. Set in the second season of the television series, the series sees Cisco attempting to make the Flash suit bulletproof and body-odor proof. While working on these, he receives a late-night Meta-Human Alert within S.T.A.R. Labs, and learns that Peek-a-Boo triggered the alert. She has come to S.T.A.R. Labs to make Cisco create a weapon for her, as he did for
Golden Glider,
Captain Cold, and
Heat Wave. When he does not cooperate, she shoots him. Cisco survives being shot, realizing that the orange soda he spilled on his shirt was the missing catalyst to his bulletproof formula. Cisco tries to bring Peek-a-Boo back to the pipeline, but she locks him in the cell instead. Cisco is then seen being woken up due to a call from Barry. He believes he dreamt the whole experience, until he finds the bullet that shot him on the ground.
Stretched Scenes On November 14, 2017, a three-episode series of shorts, known as "Stretched Scenes", premiered. The series, presented by
Microsoft Surface, features Hartley Sawyer, Danielle Panabaker, and Candice Patton as Ralph Dibny, Cailtin Snow, and Iris West respectively. Set during the
show's fourth season, it shows Dibny as he continually bothers Cailtin and Iris for their help, or for attention. The shorts premiered online as well as during the commercial breaks of the episodes "
When Harry Met Harry...", "
Therefore I Am", and "
Don't Run".
Video games The series has also been featured in other video games based on DC Comics property. In the mobile version of
Injustice: Gods Among Us, the show's versions of the Flash and Reverse-Flash appear as alternate costumes for the Flash. The show's version of S.T.A.R. Labs also appears as a hidden area in
Lego Dimensions. The video game
Lego DC Super-Villains features DLC inspired by
The Flash in the "DC Super Heroes: TV Series DLC Character Pack". The DLC pack includes The Flash and Vibe as playable characters.
Books Novels On November 29, 2016,
Titan Books released
The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen, a tie-in novelization written by Susan and Clay Griffith, set during the course of the second season, after Barry has closed the temporal anomaly that nearly destroyed Central City. Barry must seek help from Oliver Queen, due to his own abilities beginning to break down, in order to deal with five members of his Rogues Gallery—including
Pied Piper,
Weather Wizard, and Peek-a-Boo. The story continued in
Arrow: A Generation of Vipers, released on March 28, 2017. A subsequent novel, following the villain Weather Wizard in his attempts at revenge, was released in May 2018. Written by
Richard A. Knaak, it is titled
The Flash: Climate Changeling. In October 2017,
Abrams Books started a new trilogy of
The Flash novels, written by
Barry Lyga, aimed at middle-grade readers in tandem with a similar trilogy of
Supergirl novels. The first,
The Flash: Hocus Pocus, was released on October 3, 2017. The novel takes place in an alternate timeline where the show's
"Flashpoint" event never occurred, and The Flash must fight a villain known as Hocus Pocus who can control the minds and actions of people. A sequel,
The Flash: Johnny Quick was released on April 3, 2018, as well as a third novel, titled
The Flash: The Tornado Twins, on October 2, 2018.
Behind-the-scenes On October 21, 2016, "The Art and Making of The Flash" by Abbie Bernstein was released. This is a 160-page behind-the-scenes book with production art and behind-the-scenes photography. The book also includes interviews with the cast and crew from the show.
Guidebooks In May 2018, Titan Books released the first guidebook for
The Flash, written by Nick Aires from the perspective of Cisco Ramon. ''S.T.A.R. Labs: Cisco Ramon's Journal'' features "his confidential journal entries, covering everything from his tech designs, the villains and other heroes the team encounter, the team's personal challenges and his own Vibe abilities prior to Flashpoint." A second guidebook for
The Flash was released in November 2018, this time published by Abrams Books.
The Secret Files of Barry Allen: The Ultimate Guide to the Hit TV Show features the Flash's "top-secret notes", as well as "classified S.T.A.R. Labs dossiers on everyone in Central City", an episode guide on the first four season of the series, and details on the life of the Flash "in Barry's own words."
Audio series Audio studio
Serial Box is currently developing an
audio series based on
The Flash, titled
The Flash: Rogues. The series will feature Lex Luthor altering the timeline in order to turn The Flash, Green Arrow, White Canary, and Supergirl evil, while their friends attempt to fix the timeline. The series currently has eight episodes planned. ==Arrowverse and the DC multiverse==