Earth D

[jadegiant77]

You know, ppl said that there was no way Earth D from the untold Crisis story could come back, but it actually could. Before that world was destroyed by anti-matter, the heroes sent some of the citizens of that world to Earth-1, where they were merged with their counterparts on that world. Now, if Alex Luthor took one of those survivors and put them into his machine...

[Calybos]

Good point. I liked Earth-D, too.

[jadegiant77]

That world was pretty perfect, too...the heroes didn't kill, they seemed to be stuck in the Silver Age. Alex should definitely make a stop there.

[stealthwise]

What's Earth-D?

[LordEd1976]

What's Earth-D?
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Earth-D first appeared in an issue of Legends of the DC Universe entitled "Crisis on Infinite Earths: the Untold Story". In it, Barry Allen appears on an alternate Earth where heroes are more multi-ethnic than Earth-1, Earth-2, etc. For example, Flash is Japanese, Green Arrow is Native American, Superman and his wife Supergirl are African-Americans from another planet and so forth. Pariah and Lady Quark appear on this Earth as well which means disaster is coming. Pariah brings over several Earth-1 heroes including Superman, Supergirl, Batman, Nightwing, Starfire, and Dawnstar. The battle goes badly with Hawkman-D, Hawkgirl-D, and Superman-D dying, and both the Justice League-D's undersea headquarters and Superman-D's Fortress of Solitude getting destroyed. the remaining heroes try a desperate plan where they use Earth-D's cosmic treadmill to save its inhabitants by merging them with their Earth-1 counterparts. More death ensues as Wonder Woman-D, Robin-D, 2 Green Lantern-Ds (one of whom had JUST gotten the ring) and Supergirl-D bite the dust. The Anti-Monitor abducts the Flash and without him the treadmill starts to fail. The rest of the Earth-1 party alongwith Pariah and Lady Quark retreat back to there world. The leftovers of the Justice League-D then decide to go out in a blaze of glory attacking Shdow Demons as the world comes to an end.

The issue then ends with a recap of the HUGE meeting on the Monitor's satellite.

[aeastwic]

Did anyone from Earth-D survive?

[Expletive Deleted]

Since it didn't retroactively start to exist until a decade or two after CRISIS . . . no.

[RabidWolfe]

Superman and his wife Supergirl are African-Americans from another planet and so forth.

I'm trying to figure out how that is possible. :eek:

[RabidWolfe]

Did anyone from Earth-D survive?

Some citizens did, but no heroes An odd piece of dialouge said that the surviving citizens were "merging" with their doubles on other planets. This makes little sense (what if they had no doubles? And other doubles didn't merge in Crisis until after all of the Earth's merged).

I just ignore that piece of dialouge, since it contradicts what else was going on in Crisis at the time, and assume there were just a lot of survivors from Earth-D wandering around Earths 1, 2, S, X and Charlston, wondering what the heck was going on.

Besides, why save someone if you're essentially erasing them from existence anyway?

[Marcus Antonius]

I'm trying to figure out how that is possible. :eek:

Maybe they came from "Space-Africa" rather than Krypton. So they should really be called "Space-African-Americans" but that took too long to say.

[Calybos]

I'm trying to figure out how that is possible. :eek:
The same way there can be Caucasians from another world.

[Sabrinaset]

Sadly forgotten is Earth-DD.

http://www.ishop.co.uk/ishop/images/781/t_mr_d.jpg

However, thanks to Kal-L, Power Girl finally remembers her lost heritage.

[RabidWolfe]

The same way there can be Caucasians from another world.


not really the same thing. Unless they came from a Planet called Africa, there's no way they can be "African-American."

Of course, people referred to the recent rioters in France as "African-American" so I guess people just don't pay attention to what they are actually saying.

[Calybos]

Actually, it's exactly the same things, since "Caucasian" is a reference to a specific region here on Earth as well.

[1961]

I missed the issue where earth D appeared anyone got any images of the Earth D heroes I'd love to see them?

[RabidWolfe]

Actually, it's exactly the same things, since "Caucasian" is a reference to a specific region here on Earth as well.


And how many people are aware of that?

And even if they are, it's a misnomer.

But I know my ancestors didn't come from anywhere called "Caucus." Most white people don't have ancestors from a place calle "Caucas" - whereas with "African-American" you pretty much have to have an ancestor from Africa.

[Captain Smith]

Most of us have ancestors from Africa if you followed the normal human evolutionary path.

[RabidWolfe]

Most of us have ancestors from Africa if you followed the normal human evolutionary path.


True. Still, would be it be correct to call Aliens from another planet "African-American"?

I maintain, no. It's about as accurate as calling the rioters in Paris "African-American"

Once, the US News media called an Australian Aboriginie who participated in the Olympics on Australia's team as an "African-American."

I just think people should think before spouting mindless PC usage. Next, we'll be saying they recovered "the African-American box" from a plane crash.

[Rio_de_Janeiro]

Most of us have ancestors from Africa if you followed the normal human evolutionary path.


the american part.

actually, "united-statins" have a very weird tendency of considering the u.s. of a as the whole of america.

canadians are americans. they are north americans.
costa ricans are americans. they are central americans.
brazilians are americans. they are south americans.

i think i don't need to patronize you all in respect to the whole language/thought/ideology/bias thing.


so, it comes as no-surprise to us (brazilians, south americans) to read this statement about superman and supergirl of earth-D being..afro-americans


for me, they are kryptonians with a different ethnicity than kal-l from mainstream-DCU. (were there many cultures in Krypton...? I really would like to know if there were more groups of people living there...)

Rio.

PS...the second green lantern, the one who receives the ring AND dies with a few panels in-between...was Brazilian...

hurraaaaay!

[Bruce Wayne Jr.]

http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/bigimages/earth-d.jpg

Don't call him the Whizzer.

[jadegiant77]

I'm trying to figure out how that is possible. :eek:

Well, they resembled African Americans. They were black Kryptonians(a large populace inhabited Vathlo Island, BTW).

And yes, some ppl did survive Earth D, the normal citizens who were absorbed into their Earth-1 counterparts.

[1961]

http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/bigimages/earth-d.jpg

Don't call him the Whizzer.
cool! anymore out there?

[Shellhead]

I bet the D in "Earth-D" stands for "diversity."

[Expletive Deleted]

cool! anymore out there?Bob McLeod has a few pages on his website (http://www.bobmcleod.com/comicart9.html). They're not colored, but you can still get a sense of things.

[1961]

Bob McLeod has a few pages on his website (http://www.bobmcleod.com/comicart9.html). They're not colored, but you can still get a sense of things.
Thanks E.D. I really am a sucker for those "what If " Elseworld type stories. Bring back the multiverse I say

[ragnarok_2012]

http://www.io.com/~woodward/chroma/cr4_5.html

Here's a page with annotations for issue 4.5 of Crisis.