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Earth 2
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Publisher
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DC Comics
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Notable Characters
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Superman (Golden Age), Batman (Golden Age), Wonder Woman (Golden Age), The Justice Society of America, Power Girl, Infinity, Inc.
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Aliases
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Earth-2
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Earth-2 (AKA Earth-Two) is a alternate universe in the DC Multiverse, in which the heroes of the Golden Age have lived on and grown older. Earth-Two was the original DC Universe in the Golden Age (from the late 30's to the mid-50's). The characters weren't originally intended to inhabit the same continuity but over time the characters met, most notably in the first Justice Society of America stories.
Pre-Crisis[]
History[]
Earth-Two is a universe born in the multiverse at a similar time to Earth-One, a sister universe that would become closely tied with it.
Though there were super-powered beings for the longest time, the superhumans (and superheroes) first emerged during the depression. The first truly notable one was Superman, a young man who began his career by fighting crime in Metropolis, with a big focus on social injustice, fighting slum lords, abusive husbands and lobbyists. Soon, other heroes such as Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and the Green Lantern emerged, using their powers to fight criminals. Many of these heroes came together as a superhero team known as the Justice Society of America.
A large number of these heroes emerged prior to America's involvement in World War II. This resulted in many of the superheroes of the time battling fifth columnists and spies for the Axis powers. Many of them fought the Axis powers directly, which consisted not only of the same Axis nations of the real world but also smaller, obscure nations such as Dukalia, Napkan, Nural, Oxnalia, Syronia, Toran, and Twerpan. Any references to these nations following America's entry into World War II are completely missing.
As time went on and the superheroes aged, many of their children became heroes themselves. Superman was largely retired, living out most of his life in his civilian identity as Clark Kent and editor of the Daily Planet, a major metropolitan newspaper. Batman married his former for Catwoman and together they had a daughter, Helena Wayne, who became the heroine The Huntress. Eventually, the heroes would become aware of "Earth-One", an alternate universe where the age of heroes started later and some figures were very different than the ones of Earth-Two.
Post-Crisis[]
This version of Earth 2 appeared in the Post-Flashpoint DC Mutiverse. It first appeared in Earth 2 #1 July 2012.
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Earth 2 (New 52)
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Publisher
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DC Comics
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Notable Characters
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The Flash (Jay Garrick), Green Lantern (Alan Scott), Hawkgirl (Kendra Munoz-Saunders), Doctor Fate (Khalid Ben-Hassin), Supergirl/Power Girl (Kara Zor-El), Huntress (Helena Wayne), Superman II (Val-Zod), Red Tornado (Lois Lane), Mister 08 (Terry Sloan), Batman II (Thomas Wayne)
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First Appearance
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Earth 2 #1 (July 2012)
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Creators
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James Robinson, Nicola Scott, Tom Taylor
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Aliases
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Universe 2
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History[]
This alternate DC reality started with 8 superheroes (known as 'Wonders') including Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman. However, a war with Apokolips 5 years before the present saw all of these Wonders killed, disappeared, or turned evil.
A group known as The World Army, which had helped the Wonders, started creating new superheroes like Hawkgirl (Kendra Munoz-Saunders) and Atom (Albert Pratt). In the present, the Earth 2 series introduced other new heroes, like the Flash (Jay Garrick), and Green Lantern (Alan Scott).
During the course of the Earth 2 Series, there is another war with forces of Apokolips. It ended with the villains and Darkseid winning, and the survivors fleeing the Earth in spaceships that had been prepared well in advance (just in case). Some heroes are abducted by Brainiac.
The unusual multiversal crossover Convergence ended with the planet Tellos (which Brainiac had been using to store his abducted cities) being transported by him, into the Earth 2 universe. It becomes the new home of the survivors from the original Earth of Earth 2. They decided to call this planet 'Earth 2'.
Further adventures occur on this new earth, until it eventually somewhat transformed via a reality altering mechanism (the 'Pandora Vessel').
Publication History[]
The Earth 2 title from DC started in mid-2012 as part of The New 52 set of comics, a rare example of an alternate universe DC ongoing comic. The Worlds' Finest title started at the same time, featuring 2 characters from Earth 2 who had gotten stuck (at first) in the New 52 Earth-Prime. Tom Taylor taking over writing duties at the start of 2014 caused the character focus to shift from the original new characters to a different set, like Val-Zod and Red Tornado.
At the end of 2014, Earth 2: World's End started, a weekly comic chronicling the apocalypse that was Apokolips taking over. Earth 2 and Worlds' Finest ended in March 2015, and Earth 2: World's End ended shortly after that.
Following the convergence event, when the survivors settled on a new planet, the monthly Earth 2: Society ran from August 2015 to May 2017. There have been a few character cameos after that.