Okay, we’ve eased into the idea of alternate earths correct?

Previously there was Earth-One, the earth where all our characters exist and…

Earth-Prime, the earth where all of us gentle readers live in a non-super powered world.

Well HANG ON FOLKS! We’re about to blow that idea up to the ceiling.

Just take a look at this cover.

Here are the keys I would like to point out:

  • The 20th Annual team-up of the Justice Society of America and the Justice League of America.
  • Guest starring the All-Star Squadron
  • And who are those quasi familiar villains coming out of that cube?

All good questions… now, just park it for a second.

The Justice Society is the precursor of the Justice League. Originally published back in the 1940s primarily for kids and to be shipped overseas for the boys far from home. The Justice Society fought all sorts of Nazi saboteurs and their own super-criminals.

 

In the 40s most heroes veered on the “pulp” style of masked mystery men. The only main DC characters published at the time who did not appear in the JSA were those with their own adventures like Superman and Batman as those characters were “too busy” in their own books.

After the world had vanquished the Axis threat, superheroes waned in popularity More >