User blog comment:ArrowFan456/The Flash: Season Zero canonicity/@comment-4300738-20160227153647

I'm still willing to believe that Shay Lamden from Earth-One is the same we saw in the comics.

> Barry doesn't know what's going on with Shay right now, he asks Cisco for an update.

> Cisco says he's dead. Barry takes his word for it.

> No mention of Earth-One Shay being King Shark because ARGUS kept it top secret.

> Earth-One Shay Lamden is probably off somewhere in the world doing his own thing while his wife and everyone else thinks he's dead.

I mean, the writers went as far as to take the name "Shay Lamden" directly from the Season Zero comics. So they were knowledgable about it.