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Starting in the early 1960s, DC Comics maintained some aspects of its continuity through the use of a multiverse system of parallel Earths. A cosmic event in the 1985 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths merged all of these realities and their respective characters into one universe, allowing writers to rewrite from scratch such long-running characters as Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman ...
First Post-Crisis appearance of Captain Marvel in normal continuity and the forming of a new Justice League roster. JLA: Incarnations #5; Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery #1; Justice League #1; Suicide Squad #1 Series to spin out of event: Suicide Squad (#1-66) Justice League (#1-6) Justice League International (#7-25) Justice League ...
Post-Crisis: Variant Post-Crisis DC characters, Shade, the Changing Man: This Earth involves out-of-continuity Post-Crisis stories involving Captain Marvel and Hawkman; Home to the version of Shade, the Changing Man from the Vertigo series by Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo; Named in Crisis on Infinite Earths: Absolute Edition (November 2005)
The first issue of Final Crisis went on sale May 28, 2008. [15] Final Crisis was seven oversized issues released over nine months starting in May 2008. [16] Morrison explained that the sequence of stories in the main series and tie-ins is Final Crisis #1–3, Superman Beyond #1–2, Final Crisis: Submit, Final Crisis #4–5, Batman #682–683, and finally Final Crisis #6–7.
At the end of Infinite Crisis, the realigned world is called "New Earth".There are now 52 universes: "New Earth" (a.k.a. Earth-0), and Earths-1 to 51. In the final issue of the 52 weekly series, it is revealed that fifty-two duplicate worlds have been created and all but New Earth have been altered from the original incarnation.
After the conclusion of Infinite Crisis, this origin was finally explained in the 2009 mini-series Superman: Secret Origin ending 20 years of The Man of Steel being the official origin. Eventually, only the first post-Crisis encounter between Superman and Batman remained canonical.
Superman #415 was a tie-in issue to Crisis on Infinite Earths, indicated by the banner at the top of the cover.The cover art is by Eduardo Barreto.. Elements to set up Crisis on Infinite Earths were put in DC's comics years before the crossover took place; [29] an example of this was the Monitor's appearance in The New Teen Titans. [15]
The president announces Cyborg's failure to unite the world's superheroes and the U.S. enters into the Atlantean-Amazon war. Flash, Batman, Cyborg, and Element Woman ask for the Marvel Family's help and Batman asks Billy to use his lightning to prevent Flash's memories from changing even further. The group hears of the failed air assault on ...