(Impulse #16 (fb)) - Old West; Windrunner sensed the Speed Force calling him, and tried to run to meet it. He was unsuccessful, but ran through time, arriving in the late 1800s.

He again ran to meet the Speed Force, but landed in the 1940s'. He became a sensational mysteyrman under the identity of Quicksilver.

(Impulse #37 (fb)) - Quicksilver teamed with Sgt. Glory during WWII to fight the nazis. Shortly after the war they teamed-up again, but Glory, now the vigilante Glory Shredder, and Max didn't see eye-to-eye anymore.

(Impulse #16 (fb)) - <1948> Max was badly injured saving Manchester, Alabama from Dr. Morlo's toxic bombs. He collapsed in front of a house and was taken in by David, a doctor, and his wife Laura. David was always away at work, and after recovering Max and Laura had an affair. When David discovered this Max was ashamed and ran towards the Speed Force, arriving in 1957.

(Impulse #1, 2) - Max took in Impulse and they moved to Manchester, Alabama. Oracle forged papers for them giving Max the identity of Max Crandall and making Max Bart's "uncle." Impulse stumbled on a plan to destroy Technodyne's prototype hovertank, and Max helped him investigate it.

(Impulse #3) - Max told Impulse to make friends at school to get acclimated to the present. Dr. Helen Claiborne told Max she’d been waiting to meet him, an asked him out, but he told her he was busy.

(Impulse #4, 5) - Bart tried to play matchmaker between Max and their neighbor Helen Claiborne. Max told him to stay out of it, because it was a complicated situation. When Impulse used his friends car to tail White Lightning he soon had a squad of cops after him because he had no idea how to drive safely. Max followed him and saved him after he accidentally drove the car off a cliff. Max and Helen went to the Minhota Reservation benefit, when White Lightning struck. Max let Impulse handle the situation, and although she got away he told Impulse he at least had a half-thought out plan to capture her.

(Impulse #6) - Impulse told Max he was sure his classmate Preston Lindsay was being abused by his father, and Max told him to get solid evidence before going to the police. Impulse kept up his surveillance and learned it was Preston's mother, not his father that was beating him.

(Impulse #7) - The villain Gridlock created citywide gridlock in Manchester by draining the kinetic energy from every automobile. Max could have stopped him, but he gave Impulse the task of coming up with a plan to defeat the villain. Impulse was successful, and Max was pleased that he overcame an intellectual challenge.

(Impulse #8) - Max tested Impulse, having him run an obstacle course while Max threw weapons at him, and Impulse failed by walking into a hunting trap. Max warned Impulse that he made himself a target by taunting his enemies at superspeed, and wanted to see improvements, because he'd need Impulse's help soon. Max probed the Speed Force, and sensed the presence of Savitar, so he left Impulse.

(Impulse #9) - Max was briefly captured by Savitar's avatars but escaped and defeated them.

(Impulse #10) - Max recovered from his injuries in the hospital and was visited by Jay Garrick, Linda Park, XS, Iris Allen and Johnny Quick. Savitar's avatars attacked, but the speedsters powers returned thanks to the actions of Flash and Jesse Quick. They defeated the avatars, and joined by Impulse, went to confront Savitar.

(Impulse #11) - Max and the speedsters destroyed Savitar's avatars and destroyed his castle, but Johnny Quick lost his life during the confrontation. Savitar vowed to go after the speedster's loved ones.

(Impulse #12) - Max helped Helen around the house and she told him she wanted to see more of him. Bart asked Max if he could strike out on his own, assuming his tutelage under Max was finished with the defeat of Savitar. Max told him he wasn't finished training yet.

(Impulse #13) - Max warned Bart to keep a low profile at school because he'd become the most popular boy at school after playing a concert at the last school dance.

(Impulse #14, 15) - Max told Impulse his next task was to attend church and give serious thought to his faith. Max saved Helen from her abusive ex-husband and admitted that she was his daughter.

(Impulse #16) - Max initially ran rather than talk with Helen, and while Bart was comforting her he accidentally gave away his and Max's secret identities. Max wasn't upset with Bart, and explained how he came to father Helen in 1948. He'd only recently tried to contact Laura, and learned she was deceased, but that she was survived by Helen. Max admitted he'd moved to Manchester to start a relationship with her. She was initially shocked and outraged, but forgave Max.

(Impulse #17) - Max and Impulse attended Zatanna's magic show, and Zatanna asked Impulse to be her assistant for the night despite Max's objections. Impulse ruined her act, and Zatanna got fed-up and cast a spell that made Impulse disappear. He landed in the extradimensional land of Kroz, and Zatanna, regretting her hasty act, followed him. They returned home after overthrowing Wizard Kroz.

(Impulse #18) - Max went to a mountain lodge in Pine Barren Resorts to think about his future as Impulse's mentor. His trip ended early when he fell into poison ivy.

(Impulse #19) - Max demanded Impulse not stay up late and learn the patience to lie still and go to sleep like a normal person. After hours of insomnia Impulse managed to get some sleep, but only for a few minutes.

(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Mercury was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan.

(Impulse #20) - Bart joined his school's baseball team, and Max was in attendance at their game and had to keep reminding him not to use his powers. After Bart mustered the willpower to pay attention to the game long enough to bat in the winning runs. Bart had enough of sports and decided he was done with baseball, much to Max's relief.

(Impulse #21) - The LSH visited Max's house to see if Impulse could help them return to the 30th Century. Max was worried about their cover being blown with an entire team of superheroes around. Impulse and the LSH left the house, but Impulse ended up being unable to help them.

(Impulse #22) - Max and Iris planned Impulse's surprise birthday party, but they needed a way to keep him away from the house. Max fooled Impulse into thinking he was being blackmailed by some shady characters, and Impulse ran to NYC and Las Vegas to follow Max and the hoodlums, all actually a disguised Flash. By the time Impulse returned home he was greeted by Max's party.

(JLA #5, Aztek: The Ultimate Man #10) - Max showed up for the JLA membership drive at the JLA Watchtower, but admitted he was too busy with Impulse’s education to join the team and only wanted a chance to visit the moon.

(Flash II #130-132) - Max and Jay Garrick told Flash the Suit was loose, and he'd led them to Flash's apparent corpse from one hour in the future with a note saying his death was inevitable. Flash confronted the Suit, and told Jay and Max to go to the morgue and make sure they didn't perform an autopsy. The Suit froze Flash just as his future self woke up. He raced to his past self and countervibrated his molecular structure, sending him into a death-like coma. The Suit caused a number of explosions and thought they killed Flash, so he sent him an hour into the past, creating a time loop. Flash was hit by debris caused by the explosions after faking his death, and had to break his run, but ended up breaking both his legs. While Flash was recovering Jay, Impulse and Max posed as him to confuse the Suit. The Suit fought them off, possessed Max and broke all the supercriminals out of Keystone Jail. Flash connected to the Speed Force and created a suit of armor from it. While Jay and Impulse put the supercriminals back in jail Flash unraveled the suit, freeing Max. The Suit reformed and took possession of Jay, so Flash offered himself up in trade. When the Suit possessed him Flash vibrated at superspeed, destroying it.

(Impulse #36) - Impulse showed Max his new look, a shaved head, and Max reminded him people might piece together that Bart Allen and Impulse were now both bald. He bought a wig and made Bart wear it while in civilian identity.

(Impulse #37) - Professor Morlo broke out of jail to ask for Max's help. Glory Shredder had threatened to kill his family, so Max and Impulse saved the Transparent Weapon and Evil Eye from the vigilante. They defeated Glory, but he managed to flee rather than be captured.

(Impulse #38) - Max and Impulse spent day and night piling up sandbags to save Manchester from a flood. Their efforts, and that of the town were proving fruitless so they tried coming up with a plan. Max called in Manchester's supervillain community to save the town despite Impulse's objections. Impulse only saw black and white and didn't trust the villains. Max told him everyone had decency inside them, and that sometimes people couldn't deal with what life threw at them and turned bad. Impulse asked why he'd never turned to evil in his long life, and Max hinted that he had. The villains did try, but couldn't stop the flood, and in the end it was Chunk who saved the town by absorbing the water and sending it to another dimension.

(Impulse #39) - Max knew Manchester needed to dispose of the toxic waste Gerald Dunsany buried in Cook Park, but that the cost would bankrupt the town. He teamed with the Trickster, and concocted a story to tell Gerald about Dr. Herkimer Rasmussen, who invented a formula to turn any metal into gold. Trickster told him the World Bank feared this would undermine the economy and had the batches of the formula Rasmussen made classified as toxic waste and sent to Dunsany's company to dispose of. Max posed as Rasmussen to further the con, and they played Gerald and his father Edward against each other until Gerald dug up all the toxic waste he'd dumped in Manchester to find the formula. Edward stole the barrels of waste from his son, and Max and Trickster were pleased with themselves for pulling off their con.

(Flash II #139-141) - Max, Impulse, Jay Garrick, Jesse Quick and Flash celebrated Iris Allen's wedding anniversary. Max took pictures and saw a black shadow behind Flash. He recognized it from pictures he had of Flash Barry Allen and Johnny Quick before they died. It was Black Flash, the aspect death took when it claimed speedsters. Max and Jesse interrupted Flash after a fight with Weather Wizard and let him know about the situation. They hoped that by delaying him from meeting Linda Park at the Flash Museum they'd saved his life, but the Black Flash claimed Linda. Max attended Linda's funeral. He later meditated and probed the Speed Force, finding out that Linda was trapped in the Speed Force, and that Black Flash was returning to take Flash's life. When Black Flash returned Max, Jay and Jesse fought him, but in the end it was Flash who defeated him and returned Linda from the Speed Force.

(Impulse #40) - Bart had trust issues with Max because he didn't include him on the plan to take down the Dunsanys, so when they went to the school picnic Bart chose Gamal as his partner for the games. Max retaliated by choosing Carol Bucklin as his partner. Impulse felt better after having beat Max in all the games, but Gamal's brother Pete fired him from the convenience store for missing work. Max and Impulse worked together to make a mess of Pete's story until he hired Gamal back.

(Impulse #41) - Max conducted his weekly geography lesson with Impulse, and the duo sped to the Tanzanian Plains of Central Africa.

(Impulse #43) - Impulse's friend Gamal, a convenience store worker who was a brilliant inventor in his home country, was attacked by Expeditors, Inc. who were hired by by his home country to kill him. Max and Impulse defeated them with the help of Gamal's anti-gravitational ray and duplicator machine.

(Impulse #44) - Max and Helen celebrated Halloween, but the trick-or-treaters were less than thrilled with Max's homemade popcorn balls. When a convenience store was robbed by invisible criminals Max visited retired supervillain Transparent Weapon, but learned he wasn't involved. His son Evil Eye was responsible, and the Weapon helped Max and Impulse apprehend two members of the Tigers, the gangbangers Evil Eye ran with. Impulse sped off to meet Young Justice for their Hallow-Teen party; unaware Max had been shot by one of the Tigers.

(Impulse #45) - While Max was recovering from his injuries he invited Meloni Thawne to stay with him so she could spend the Christmas season with Impulse. Impulse also blamed himself for Max getting shot and blurted out his problems to Jasper Pearson, his guidance counselor. Pearson thought stress was making him disassociative and really believe he was a superhero. He called in Max, Helen and Meloni Thawne, to talk out their family problems. Max told Bart he'd made an amateur mistake and got shot, and he didn't blame Bart at all.

(DC Universe Holiday Bash #3) - Max tried to tell Impulse there was no Santa Claus, but when he tried to explain why the legend was unbelievable Impulse gave examples of superheroes with powers that matched up with the Santa legend. Max took Impulse to the North Pole, and when Impulse couldn’t find Santa he assumed he’d been kidnapped. Impulse decided to make sure the children of the world had presents for Christmas, and after giving away his own presents he went to see the distributor of Blastomatic 3000 and got a warehouse of promo copies of the video game to give away. Max thought he’d acted selflessly, but told him he’d have to deal with having no presents for himself. Impulse returned home and found that Santa left him a roomful of presents.

(Impulse #46) - Before using the cosmic treadmill to go top the future and save Barry Allen's descendants from Cobalt Blue he made sure to tell Helen goodbye. He also made Impulse read Iris Allen's bio on the Flash so he would know more about his grandfather.

(Impulse #50) - <April 1st> Max and Helen introduced Impulse to the concept of April Fool's Day.

(Impulse #48) - Riddler was looking to avenge himself after a defeat by Flash, so he targeted Impulse, kidnapping Max Mercury and Professor Morlo. Max figured it would be a good test for Impulse, so he didn't try to free himself. Impulse defeated Riddler, and Max told Morlo he needed to talk to him about a research project because his life was at stake.

(Impulse #49) - Morlo did a number of medical and stress tests on Max and determined that he'd lost 10% of his speed after getting shot. Morlo talked about having sent Evil Eye to the Sunnyside Boys Camp run by Dr. Rudolph West. Impulse investigated and found it was more prison than camp and Max stepped in and shut down Sunnyside.

(Flash Secret Files #3) - Max gave Impulse some ”Flash Facts,” including the speed of a sneeze and a whip-crack.

Comments: Created by Jack Cole & Chuck Mazoujian