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News: Wolfman Revisits the "Crisis"
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Marv Wolfman revisits the 'crisis'
by Bill Radford, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
April 11, 2005
It was an unparalleled crisis for DC Comics heroes _ and a must-read for comics fans.
CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS (Novel) (Apr 2005)
In 1985, the 12-issue "Crisis on Infinite Earths" transformed the DC universe by eliminating the concept of multiple Earth's parallel worlds with different versions of DC's heroes.
In the process, some characters, such as Supergirl and Barry Allen, a.k.a. the Flash, were killed. Many more were simply wiped out of existence.
Whether the sprawling series by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez achieved its goal of simplifying the DC universe is debatable. But its impact is undeniable.
Twenty years later, Wolfman is revisiting "Crisis" with a novel being released this month by ibooks.
But don't look for a simple novelization of the famed comic-book series.
"There was no reason to replicate in prose what was in the comic, so I had to come up with something that was far more interesting than that," Wolfman said in a phone interview from Tarzana, Calif.
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