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Crisis In Continuity? What Crisis? - It’s Business As Usual In the DC Universe
CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS (Trade Paperback) (Dec 2000)
By Jim Kingman(excerpt)
Crisis On Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez, was a 12-issue maxiseries published in 1985 that successfully rebooted the DC universe and laid the foundation for a major revamping of its history and timeline. It’s a great story, a stirring, at times extraordinarily moving, narrative with a cast of hundreds; it is one of the ultimate superhero epics.
The post-Crisis universe consisted of many revamped and updated origins for DC’s superheroes, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Power Girl. Since Earth-2 was not a part of the new DC universe, the Golden Age Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Green Arrow never existed. Black Canary became one of the founding members of the Justice League of America, replacing Wonder Woman, whose origin came later. Most members of the Justice Society were shuffled off to limbo, where they would remain in constant battle with a threat to Earth. Superheroes of the defunct Charlton line, including Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, and the Question, were incorporated into the new DC universe.
