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Post by dans on Sept 2, 2019 16:48:46 GMT
So did the DC owned comics have stories that showed other universes as early as the late 30s / early 40s? I'm thinking maybe there is an alternate universe where a powerful sorcerer based in Gotham City casts a spell to bring a pair of heroes from the Gotham City of an alternate universe and gets more heroes from more universes than expected...
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Post by jonclark on Sept 2, 2019 18:52:43 GMT
So did the DC owned comics have stories that showed other universes as early as the late 30s / early 40s? I'm thinking maybe there is an alternate universe where a powerful sorcerer based in Gotham City casts a spell to bring a pair of heroes from the Gotham City of an alternate universe and gets more heroes from more universes than expected... I don't know if they had stories that specifically acknowledged the existence of other universes, but with Superman you have the Daily Star/Planet stuff where the published stories don't quite have the Earth-2 details right and the Superboy stories in 1945 that can't be Earth 2. And there are retconned in stories in Roy Thomas' All-Star Squadron with Earth X and Earth S. |
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Post by dans on Sept 2, 2019 19:43:02 GMT
I guess the first DC comic with an adventure in an alternate universe was Wonder Woman #59 in 1953. I remember at least one other Wonder Woman alternate, a world where Wonder Woman was a giant. That's not early enough for Batman and Mr. Scarlet. Mxy was around in 1944, though.
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Post by dans on Sept 2, 2019 22:14:55 GMT
Check this out:
Other universes, with a different vibratory rate than our own, published in 1928. Who knew?
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Post by redsycorax on Sept 3, 2019 0:19:41 GMT
The Fawcett line also had a story about "Captain Marvel in the Land of Surrealism" which seemed to depict an other dimensional world which mirrored surrealist artwork, due to an artist named Leonardo Vinch, who took Billy Batson along to show him what may have been a dimensional portal within a cave area: Captain Marvel Adventures 1: 80 (January 1948). Would this count as a parallel world, or is it a non-parallel intersecting dimension? One might argue that as its inhabitants seemed to parallel Earth-S's surrealist art tradition, it might well have been: tales-calculated-to-blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-was-going-thru-some-old-boxes-today.html |
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Post by DocQuantum on Sept 3, 2019 4:23:40 GMT
So did the DC owned comics have stories that showed other universes as early as the late 30s / early 40s? I'm thinking maybe there is an alternate universe where a powerful sorcerer based in Gotham City casts a spell to bring a pair of heroes from the Gotham City of an alternate universe and gets more heroes from more universes than expected... I don't know if they had stories that specifically acknowledged the existence of other universes, but with Superman you have the Daily Star/Planet stuff where the published stories don't quite have the Earth-2 details right and the Superboy stories in 1945 that can't be Earth 2. And there are retconned in stories in Roy Thomas' All-Star Squadron with Earth X and Earth S. Yeah, in those All-Star Squadron stories, which take place in early 1942, Hans Gootsden (the guy responsible for Shanghaiing the JSA into Outer Space/Hyperspace), brings Captain Marvel, Cap Junior, and Mary Marvel from Earth-S to Earth-2. A couple months later, around All-Star Squadron #50 or so, a few heroes including Green Lantern, Johnny Quick, and Libbylawrence enter the Earth-S universe and meet Captain Marvel. Johnny and Libby, having just gotten married that same day, actually sleep in Billy Batson's bed, as evidenced by the familiar-looking red shirt with yellow trim that Libby is wearing the following morning (obviously one of Billy's many duplicate sweaters from his closet). So the precedent is already there in 1942 for an Earth-2/Earth-S crossover. |
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Post by DocQuantum on Sept 3, 2019 6:56:10 GMT
Check this out: Other universes, with a different vibratory rate than our own, published in 1928. Who knew?
"The Blue Dimension"! Fascinating. I wonder if that inspired a 1950s Wonder Woman story where she traveled to a blue dimension, and her hair was turned blue (as a silly explanation for why her hair is colored blue in comic-books). It's probably only inspired as far as the title goes and nothing more, since Robert Kanigher liked to churn out his scripts quickly and with little to no research involved. |
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Post by dans on Sept 4, 2019 21:47:55 GMT
I was hoping to discover a DC or Fawcett comic, published before around 1942, that referenced alternate dimensions, and I could use the person who discovered the alternate dimensions as the catalyst to bring together some Athletic Hero/Sidekick pairs together. But I suppose I could use Crewe from the Blue Dimension story - perhaps his Re-vibrator wore off, after a while, and he returned to his Earth, and he and Robert spent some years trying to perfect the Re-vibrator. And maybe it malfunctions and merges several versions of Gotham City for a while...
Likely a story I'll never get to, but fun thinking about.
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