Writer Marv Wolfman and illustrator George Pérez were DC’s hot creators thanks to their New Teen Titans, and helped along by inkers Dick Giordano and Jerry Ordway, they weaved an intricate plot featuring virtually every DC hero from the Stone Age (Anthro) to the far-flung future (Legion of Super-Heroes). While this idea had all the hallmarks of a car-crash, it was nothing of the sort. If a ten-year old during the 1960s could understand the dual universes of Earths One and Two, why should a ten year-old in the 1980s find it confusing? One suspects it was the DC editors who couldn’t keep up! It was therefore decided to merge all parallel universes into one new definite DC Universe.
Nonsense, of course, as it was this multiverse that made DC’s universe such an interesting tapestry, and their recent reintroduction has proved the point. It was eventually considered that all those parallel universes with similar characters were confusing readers. Over the years more other-dimensional Earths arrived, housing various doppelgangers: on Earth Three, the Earth One counterparts were villains, Earth C housed DC’s funny animal creations, while Earth X featured the Freedom Fighters on coping with the Nazis who’d won World War II. This was christened Earth Two, while the newer heroes lived on Earth One, despite logic dictating the reverse!
In the late 1950s DC started creating new superheroes based on their defunct 1940s characters, and when these succeeded it was decided to reintroduce the older versions, explaining that they existed in a parallel dimension.
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