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| - Well this opens a can of worms... Okay, well it all starts in the 1930's, when DC Comics (Or National Comics as it was called at the time) published various super-hero stories. Superman, Batman, the Justice Society of America and so on... All these stories were set in the time period that they were published -- so by today's standards that's pretty dated right? Anyway, after World War II ended, super-hero comic books weren't as popular and most of them died off or were canceled (Superman and Batman being the only ones surviving really) and the comic book industry was mostly horror, science-fiction, romance, westerns, and so on. In the 1960's DC Comics writer Gardner Fox decided to try and revive the super-hero genre, his first attempt was reviving the Flash. Instead of bringing back the or
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| - Well this opens a can of worms... Okay, well it all starts in the 1930's, when DC Comics (Or National Comics as it was called at the time) published various super-hero stories. Superman, Batman, the Justice Society of America and so on... All these stories were set in the time period that they were published -- so by today's standards that's pretty dated right? Anyway, after World War II ended, super-hero comic books weren't as popular and most of them died off or were canceled (Superman and Batman being the only ones surviving really) and the comic book industry was mostly horror, science-fiction, romance, westerns, and so on. In the 1960's DC Comics writer Gardner Fox decided to try and revive the super-hero genre, his first attempt was reviving the Flash. Instead of bringing back the original Flash -- Jay Garrick -- he created a new one -- Barry Allen -- and gave him a new origin that was more science fictional and inline with the popular fiction of the 60's. With that being a success they reinvented Green Lantern, the Atom, and made a new "Justice Society" in the Justice League of America and so on... Fox, being nostalgic of the glory days, and it still being not too long that people still remembered all the characters from the 40's, they decided to bring them all back. But this created some duplicity in that, well Superman and Batman were "around" with these other characters. So what do they do? Parallel Universe. Thus Earth-Two (spelled out T-W-O) was born. And in that universe all the stuff from the 30's and 40's happened. It created a unique opportunity for writers because they had additional cast members to use (The JSA and JLA would have cross universe adventures all the time) But it also made for them being able to age characters like Superman and Batman see them grow and progress and still have the core versions (From Earth-One) youthful and vital etc. Ultimately, in 1985, Marv Wolfman did the story Crisis on Infinite Earths, which cramed the entire DC Multiverse into one distinct reality, merging everything together (and as ambitious as the storyline was, it wasn't exactly perfect, there were all sorts of continuity hiccups later) Most of the characters from Earth-Two were either erased from existence or merged with the New Earth reality. Flash forward to a few years ago and the 52 series came out, which brought back the Multiverse... Only there is 52 distinct alternate realities in the DC Comics universe (Yeah, we'll see how long that lasts.) one of the realities that was created was distinctly referred to as Earth-2 (using the number instead of spelling it out) It's an entirely different universe, but is similar to that of Earth-Two. Alright we get the picture
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