Max Mercury

Max Mercury
Quality Comics' Quicksilver, retooled as Max Mercury.
Art by Nick Cardy.
Publication information
PublisherQuality Comics
DC Comics (current owner)
First appearanceAs Quicksilver:
National Comics #5
(Nov 1940)
As Max Mercury:
Flash (vol. 2) #76
(May 1993)
Created byJack Cole, Chuck Mazoujian
Revamped by: Mark Waid
In-story information
Alter egoMaxwell Crandall
SpeciesMetahuman
Team affiliationsFreedom Fighters
All-Star Squadron
PartnershipsWally West
Bart Allen
Notable aliasesAhwehota, Windrunner, Whip Whirlwind, Lightning, Bluestreak, Quicksilver, Buckshot, The Zen Master of Speed
AbilitiesSuper speed
Molecular control
Time and dimensional travel

Max Mercury, also known as Windrunner, Whip Whirlwind, and Lightning, is a DC Comics superhero similar to Quality Comics' Quicksilver. Initially an obscure speedster, the character was rebooted by Mark Waid in 1993 in the pages of The Flash and turned into a mentor for Wally West and Bart Allen.

Max Mercury appears in the television series The Flash, portrayed by Trevor Carroll.