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• Earth-15: An Earth where the heroes have retired and been replaced by their proteges.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]

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.

[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. :)

[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.

[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. :)

[Buried Alien]

Hazarding a guess: "Earth-1" will be the new mainstream DC Earth after FINAL CRISIS is over.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[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.

[Paul Newell]

So, essentially, New Earth is Earth-0.

You're right. Earth-0 would make much more sense.

[4thHorseman]

In the recent DC panel on Newsarama:

Does anyone at DC know what all the 52 Universes are? We have more than half mapped out. Earth 26 is the Captain Carrot Universe.

[Paul Newell]

In the recent DC panel on Newsarama:

Does anyone at DC know what all the 52 Universes are? We have more than half mapped out. Earth 26 is the Captain Carrot Universe.

Well spotted. Thanks Horseman. :)

[Scott Shaw!]

Does that mean that Earth-C-Minus, the world of Super-Squirrel and the Just'a Lotta Animals, is now Earth-25?

I oughtta know, but I don't!

Aloha,

Scott!