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Here are the current alternate universes as presented in today's Dark Crisis: Big Bang
(KEY: "SAM" will stand for "Same As in Morrison's The Multiversity Guidebook")
- Earth-0: SAM Current DCU
- Earth-1: SAM From the "Earth-One" books
- Earth-2: SAM The "New 52" version
- Earth-3: SAM The Crime Syndicate
- Earth-4: SAM Charlton
- Earth-5: SAM Fawcett
- Earth-6: SAM Just Imagine
- Earth-7: SAM Thunderer's world, destroyed, pastiche of Marvel
- Earth-8: Angor - in Morrison, this was a separate pastiche of Marvel (i.e., different both from Angor and from Earth-7)
- Earth-9: SAM Tangent
- Earth-10: SAM Quality, Earth-X
- Earth-11: SAM Gender-reversed Earth
- Earth-12: SAM "Batman Beyond"
- Earth-13: SAM Magic-based world
- Earth-14: "Justce League of Assassins", Superman vol. 4, #15 (Never heard of them), one of Morrison's "Unknown Worlds"
- Earth-15: SAM Home of Cosmic Grail
- Earth-16: SAM The Just
- Earth-17: SAM The Atomic Knights
- Earth-18: SAM Justice Riders
- Earth-19: SAM "Steampunk" world
- Earth-20: SAM "Pulp" type heroes
- Earth-21: SAM The New Frontier
- Earth-22: SAM Kingdom Come
- Earth-23: SAM "President Superman's Earth"
- Earth-24: DC Comics: Bombshells, one of Morrison;s "Unknown Worlds"
- Earth-25: Tom Strong's Earth, one of Morrison's "Unknown Worlds"
- Earth-26: SAM Zoo Crew
- Earth-27: Jurassic League, one of Morrison's "Unknown Worlds"
- Earth-28: DC Mech, one of Morrison's "Unknown Worlds"
- Earth-29: SAM Bizarro Universe
- Earth-30: SAM "Superman: Red Son"
- Earth-31 SAM "Pirate World", Detective Annual #7
- Earth-32: SAM Justice Titans
- Earth-33: SAM Earth-Prime
- Earth-34: SAM Light Brigade, pastiche of Astro City
- Earth-35: SAM Super-Americans, pastiche of Supreme and pals
- Earth-36: SAM Justce 9
- Earth-37: SAM Future heroes, Batman: ThrillKiller
- Earth-38: SAM Superman & Batman: Generations
- Earth-39 SAM Agents of W.O.N.D.E.R., pastiche of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
- Earth-40: SAM Evil counterpart to Earth-20
- Earth-41: Dino-Cop's world, pastiche of Savage Dragon and pals
- Earth-42: SAM Home of "Chibi" heroes
- Earth-43: SAM Vampire world, Batman & Dracula: Red Rain
- Earth-44: SAM the Metal League
- Earth-45: SAM Superdoomsday
- Earth-46: World of Batman: The Gargoyle of Gotham, one of Morrison's "Unknown Worlds"
- Earth-47: SAM Love Syndicate of Dreamworld
- Earth-48: SAM The Forerunners
- Earth-49: Earth-49: Injustice, one of Morrison's "Unknown Worlds"
- Earth-50: SAM Justice Lords
- Earth-51: SAM Earth After Disaster
- Earth-52: The Primate Legion
- Earth-54: Earth of Tommy Tomorrow
- Earth-55: Zombie Earth, DCeased
- Earth-59: Home of Wonder Woman Tara Terruna, described as the "first known parallel Earth" (Didn't we have a thread about this a while back?)
- Earth-63: Another Vampire world, DC vs. Vampires
- Earth-66: Batman '66
- Earth-93: Dakotaverse
- Earth-96: DC Super Hero Girls
- Earth-98: Home of Green Lantern Tai Pham
- Earth-100: Variant Teen Titans Earth, Teen Titans: Raven
- Earth-118: Medieval Earth, Dark Knights of Steel
- Earth-124: Home of Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot
- Earth-148: Earth where heroes and villains are reversed, World's Finest Comics, vol. 1, #148
- Earth-162: Earth of Superman-Red and Superman-Blue, Superman, vol. 1 #162
- Earth-183: Superman raised by apes, Superboy #183
- Earth-216: Home of Superman Jr. and Batman Jr., World's Finest Comics #215
- Earth-387: World of wolf-people, Adventure Comics #387
- Earth-789: World of Superman '78 and Batman '89
- Earth-898: JLA: The Nail
- Earth-1956: Super Friends
- Earth-1996: Amalgam
- Earth-2020: World of three generations of Superman, Superman vol. 1 #354
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I very rarely ever buy big, complicated superhero "event" comics anymore, and when I do I almost never buy any of the ancillary off-shoots and/or one-shots, but I made an exception in this case because every such series needs its own version of "The History of the DC Universe." (That's where Flashpoint/New52 went wrong in my estimation: no handbook.) I was wondering whether or not this one-shot jibed with The Multiversity Guidebook and you've saved me the trouble of checking it out for myself. (Thanks.) there's no real story here: it's just an issue-long slugfest of the flash and the Anti-Monitor punching each other across dimensions. The real purpose of this book is to provide the list of known universes identified above.
I bought it for the looks at alternate worlds, myself. I probably would have resented a substantial story.
Jeff of Earth-J said:
I assume this will be part of whatever omnibus I eventually buy.
One would think so.
Captain Comics said:
But in the meantime, I can stay current, thanks to you!
I'm looking forward to this. That's quite a list!
The conceit that even one-off alternate worlds from the Silver Age have their own universes supports the Hyperverse concept that everything we've ever read happened somewhere.
Yeah, it kinda warms the heart!
Oh, Baron... in reprinting the list of alternate worlds, you left out the best part! Barry's notes say he used the comics of Earth-33 (basically the former Earth Prime) as a resource for seeking out these various universes.
He basically used our world as an index! He supersped through our comic collections reading Wonder Woman: Amazonia or whatever just to have an idea where to catalog the worlds! And he picked up books for his OWN collection, because BARRY IS A COMIC COLLECTOR.
I mean, he has been from the start, but that hasn’t been touched on for decades! I’m *so* happy about that. It means Superboy Prime isn’t the only comic collector in the DCU — there are happy, well-adjusted ones, too.
There’s hope for us all.
I completely missed that.
Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod) said: