Who's This? An explosive senator.
The facts: The Eradicator's story ran 7 issues between The Flash #312 (August 1982) and #320 (below). It's pretty much what's stated in the half-page entry above.
How you could have heard of him: Some villains have their one story, and once it's done, it's done. He is not to be confused with the Superman villain/replacement of the same name.
Example story: The Flash #320 (April 1983), "The Final Purge!" by Cary Bates, Carmine Infantino and Rodin Rodriguez
After months of mostly exploding heads in the background, the Eradicator has kidnapped Fiona Webb, who he might still love, and the Flash has decided that enough is enough and it's time for the storyline to end (too bad he couldn't do that with his Trial). The Flash has gotten a tip about the suspiciously-titled Marvel Mirror and Glass, but cut to three quarters of an hour later, and the Mirror Master and his goons are heading back there - cuz it's their HQ! They find the Flash there suspended in a paralysis mirror trap. Or IS IT the Flash?
No! It never was! It's David Hasselhoff! Or, I mean, Creed Phillips - the Eradicator! Mirror Master isn't too broken up about losing his underlings (splitting the money suddenly became a lot easier to calculate), but since his gadgets have no effect on the crazed vigilante, he decides to take a runner... right into the arms of the police. Later, at Eradicator's secret lair in an old-fashioned windmill - you know, like they have all around Central City - Phillips is dancing with Fiona. I'm sure those are strictly tears of joy on her face.
Look, he's not a bad guy. He's a good guy with a bad guy inside him. Who likes to wear the bad guy's costume. Fiona's into it. Meanwhile, the real Flash vibrates Mirror Master's photocell mirror to follow to make Eradicator's trail away from the shop become visible. Just go with it. By the time Flash gets to the windmill, Fiona has been tied to one of its blades by her beau's alter ego. He unties her, but the baddie is right behind him.
Flash runs, but his flesh bubbles under the Eradicator's fingers.
There's absolutely no shaking him off!
Flash races to a local cemetery where three of the Eradicator's criminal victims are somehow all buried next to one another. It shakes Creed Phillips back out of the brain tree, and rather than see the Flash disintegrate, he takes the effect back into himself (just go with it) and disintegrates himself!
Logic aside, there's no other way this could have ended. While it's an okay idea to give a super speedster an opponent he can't touch, any villain with an immediate death power is too powerful to keep around for long. It's like a villain who learns the hero's secret identity. Their days are numbered.
Had this story been told years before, the Eradicator wouldn't even have gotten a Who's Who entry.
Who's Next? A guy whose fashion icon is Starro.
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