Tracking the 52 Earths *SPOILERS*

[Paul Newell]

So bits and pieces are slowly being revealed as to the state of the new multiverse. Earths have been revealed, but not all and not all named. It's time to keep a list of the Earths to help keep everyone up to speed. :)

If I miss anything, please let me know and I'll add to the list.

NOTE: Most worlds contain parallel Earth versions of characters appearing in the current DCU. The labelling doesn't denote those particular characters, however.

• Earth-0: New Earth. Created in Infinite Crisis #6
• Earth-1: Home of a Superman & Batman who first appeared in the 21st Century. First revealed in Supeerman: Earth One
• Earth-2: Home of the Justice Society Infinity. Revealed in 52 #52
• Earth-3: Home of the Crime Society of America. Revealed in 52 #52
• Earth-4: Home of the former Charlton Heroes. Revealed in 52 #52
• Earth-5: Home of the Marvel Family. Revealed in 52 #52
• Earth-6: Unknown. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #2
• Earth-7: Unknown Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #2
• Earth-8: Home of the Extremists. Revealed in Countdown #29
• Earth-9: Home of the Tangent characters. Revealed in Countdown #41
• Earth-10: Home of the Freedom Fighters. Revealed in 52 #52
• Earth-11: Home of Superwoman, Batwoman and Wonder Man. Revealed in Countdown Presents The Search For Ray Palmer: Superwoman/Batwoman #1
• Earth-12: Home of Batman Beyond and, presumably, DC's animated characters. Revealed in Countdown to Final Crisis #21
• Earth-13: Home of some the Vertigo characters. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #1
• Earth-14: ?
• Earth-15: An Earth where the heroes have retired and been replaced by their proteges. Revealed in Countdown #30 *DESTROYED*
• Earth-16: Home of the Super-Sons & Young Justice.Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #1
• Earth-17: Home of the Atomic Knights. Revealed in 52 #52
• Earth-18: Home of the Justice Riders. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #2
• Earth-19: Home of the Victorian era Batman. Revealed in Countdown #40
• Earth-20: An Earth where pulp magazine versions of DC heroes live. Revealed in Superman Beyond #1
• Earth-21: Home of the New Frontier characters. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #1
• Earth-22: Home of the Kingdom Come characters. Revealed in 52 #52
• Earth-23: ?
• Earth-24: ?
• Earth-25: ?
• Earth-26: Home of Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew. Revealed in Captain Carrot & His Amazing Zoo Crew: The Final Ark #1
• Earth-27: ?
• Earth-28: ?
• Earth-29: ?
• Earth-30: Home of the Russian Superman. Revealed in Countdown #40
• Earth-31: Home of the characters from Dark Knight Returns. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #1
• Earth-32: Home of Bruce Wayne/Green Lantern. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #2
• Earth-33: The Conjurer's World. Home of magical versions of DC characters, including Bat-Mage, Kal-El & Lady Flash. Revealed in Countdown to Adventure #3
• Earth-34: Home of a 19th Century Wonder Woman and a Britain run by Jack The Ripper.Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #2
• Earth-35: ?
• Earth-36: ?
• Earth-37: Home of the Thrillkiller characters. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #2
• Earth-38: Unknown. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #2
• Earth-39: Unknown. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #2
• Earth-40: Home of WWII Covert Agents, The Unholy Three. Revealed in COUNTDOWN: Arena #1
• Earth-41: ?
• Earth-42: ?
• Earth-43: Home of the Vampire Batman. Revealed in Countdown #40
• Earth-44: Home of a robotic Justice League, "The Metal Men". Revealed in Final Crisis #7
• Earth-45: ?
• Earth-46: ?
• Earth-47: ?
• Earth-48: Home of the Forerunners. Revealed in Countdown #46 *DESTROYED (?)*
• Earth-49: ?
• Earth-50: Home of the Wildstorm characters. Revealed in 52 #52
• Earth-51: An Earth where it appears that crime has been eradicated and all super-heroes have retired. This Earth was destroyed and recreated as a new home for the New Gods. Revealed in Countdown #19.

Unknown at this time:

Earth-?: Home of the JLA appearing in JLA: The Nail. Mentioned, but not yet shown.
Earth-?: Home of "Super Deformed/Manga" DC Heroes. Revealed in Superman/Batman #51.
Earth-?: Home to African American versions of DC Heroes. Revealed in Final Crisis #7.
Earth-?: Earth-Prime. Home of Superboy & the Threeboot Legion of Super-Heroes Revealed in Legion of 3 Worlds #5.

[Pink Bat Max]

[*] Earth-52: New Earth. Created in Infinite Crisis #6[/LIST]Unknown at this time:

Has it been labeled as such?

[Matthew E]

This blog post may be of some interest here...

[gorosaurus]

I dont understand why "Elseworlds" stories each get their own universe.
I seems like DC will run out of Earths before they run out of Elseworld stories to tell. And some of the stories that have been told are certainly not worthy of being one of the 52.

[Paul Newell]

I dont understand why "Elseworlds" stories each get their own universe.
I seems like DC will run out of Earths before they run out of Elseworld stories to tell. And some of the stories that have been told are certainly not worthy of being one of the 52.

I don't think they will, just the major Elseworld books. You do get some doubling up, however. I'll have to check through it, but the Companion volume that came with Absolute Crisis had some Elseworld stories doubling up with others.

[lazlo_toth]

I don't think they will, just the major Elseworld books. You do get some doubling up, however. I'll have to check through it, but the Companion volume that came with Absolute Crisis had some Elseworld stories doubling up with others.

Really? Which ones?

And when are they going to start showing some of these earth's versions of the Legion? At this point, I'm going to assume (until DC inevitably comes up with a confusing and counter-intuitive explanation) that the Legion currently starring in the comic named "Legion of Super-Heroes" and the one running for its life in Action Comics are from different earths and that both are "real" in the respect, but didn't somebody mention some battle or crisis of "3 Legions" during the Lightning Saga? I'm never at home when I post these so I don't have the actual comics in front of me to check this...

[glennsim]

I dont understand why "Elseworlds" stories each get their own universe.
I seems like DC will run out of Earths before they run out of Elseworld stories to tell. And some of the stories that have been told are certainly not worthy of being one of the 52.

I don't think every Elseworlds gets an Earth, they just have decided to let some Earths be particular Elseworlds.

Hey Paul - I don't know if DC will be helping us out any further, but I like that they told us which Monitors went with some of the Earths. Should we start tracking that as well?

Unless you upload photos, you'd have to call them "mutton chops-no chinhair", "pointy-ears" etc.

[Paul Newell]

I don't think every Elseworlds gets an Earth, they just have decided to let some Earths be particular Elseworlds.

Hey Paul - I don't know if DC will be helping us out any further, but I like that they told us which Monitors went with some of the Earths. Should we start tracking that as well?

Unless you upload photos, you'd have to call them "mutton chops-no chinhair", "pointy-ears" etc.

Heh, I thought about it, but it's very difficult to find all of 'em. :)

[Paul Newell]

This blog post may be of some interest here...

Thanks Matthew, that's great. Only change I'd personally make is that it was recently stated that Earth-3 is the home of the "Golden Age Crime Society", so I'd be more inclined to have it feed off Earth-2....Though I don't know if DC has things planned so meticulously. :)

[Duy]

This blog post may be of some interest here...

I think there's definitely something to the theory that the further you go from New Earth in terms of the numbering, the less it resembles New Earth. For that reason I'm of the camp that the Forerunners are on Earth 48 and not 34, and that Earth 51 is probably Earth prime.

[Suzanne]

From what I saw in 52, it looks like this new Earth 1 will resemble the previous one (hey, it rhymed!).

[Calybos]

Still keeping my fingers crossed for Earth-12....

[Duy]

From what I saw in 52, it looks like this new Earth 1 will resemble the previous one (hey, it rhymed!).

It BETTER. I want to see the Earth-1 elements again, like Kandor, the Fortress with the big giant key (yeah, I know I see them in All-Star Superman, but STILL.), the Legion of Superpets, Barbara Gordon as Batgirl, etc. etc.

[Paul Newell]

Has it been labeled as such?

It was stated in 52, by Rip Hunter that we had New Earth, plus Earth's 1 to 51. And it's been made very clear, in interviews and at conventions that New Earth isn't Earth-1...So "Earth-52" is all that's left.

[lonewolf23k]

It was stated in 52, by Rip Hunter that we had New Earth, plus Earth's 1 to 51. And it's been made very clear, in interviews and at conventions that New Earth isn't Earth-1...So "Earth-52" is all that's left.

So, essentially, New Earth is Earth-0.