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DC Legacies: Things You'd Rather Not Know.
Given:
Conservation of Surnames: If two people in a comic book setting share a surname, they must be related, no more distantly than first cousins.
The Arkham Hypothesis: Gotham City is smack in the middle of Lovecraft's New England. Arkham Asylum really is in the Gotham suburb of Arkham.
Then:
Iris and Wally West are therefore close relatives of Herbert West.
Conservation of Surnames: If two people in a comic book setting share a surname, they must be related, no more distantly than first cousins.
The Arkham Hypothesis: Gotham City is smack in the middle of Lovecraft's New England. Arkham Asylum really is in the Gotham suburb of Arkham.
Then:
Iris and Wally West are therefore close relatives of Herbert West.