The Flash Release Date, Spoilers: Premiere to Air October 7, 2014

The popular DC Comics Superhero is soon to arrive on TV screens across the United States. Flash fans have long been treated to various rumors and spoilers building up to the show's release, but now the series is set to final hit its premiere, rumors and spoilers are hitting fever pitch.

Grant Gustin will be playing the lead role as Barry "The Flash" Allen himself. As the season progresses, viewers will find out just how Flash got his powers.

The synopsis for the series reads:

"Barry Allen was just 11 years old when his mother was killed in a bizarre and terrifying incident and his father was falsely convicted of the murder. With his life changed forever by the tragedy, Barry was taken in and raised by Detective Joe West, the father of Barry's best friend, Iris.

"Now, Barry has become a brilliant, driven and endearingly geeky CSI investigator, whose determination to uncover the truth about his mother's strange death leads him to follow up on every unexplained urban legend and scientific advancement that comes along.

"Barry now has a renewed purpose – using his gift of speed to protect the innocent, while never giving up on his quest to solve his mother's murder and clear his father's name. For now, only a few close friends and associates know that Barry is literally the fastest man alive, but it won't be long before the world learns what Barry Allen has become...The Flash."

The Flash is based on the characters published by DC Entertainment. It will air on October 7 on The CW.