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Old 02-29-2012, 03:26 PM   #13
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When it comes to comic book numbering, it has become a bit of a mess due to the numerous starts, stops, renamings, and cancellations. A simple example is Superman. At one point, the original Superman comic was renamed "The Adventures Of Superman" and a new "Superman" comic was started. Later, that new "Superman" comic was cancelled and "The Adventures Of Superman" became "Superman" once again and its numbering jumped to issue #650 (the original numbering plus the numbering from the cancelled "Superman" comic).

On the subject of a multiverse, I don't find it confusing at all. As a DC Comic reader in the early 1980s there were the following earths making regular appearances:

Earth-One: The Silver Age/Main Earth
Earth-Two: The Golden Age
Earth-Three: An earth with only one hero (Alexander Luthor) and a number of super villians
Earth-S: The home of the original Captain Marvel and the other Fawcett characters
Earth-X: World War II is still going on after more than 40 years. Features the Quality characters.
Earth-C: An Earth inhabited by funny animal characters

In addition, there were other Earths (including C-Minus, Prime, Four, Six and a number of one-shot Earths) that made appearances. You also had multiple futures that sometimes contradicted each other.

A multiverse is very workable as long as it is clearly layed out. The problem comes when errors are allowed to occur. An example of this is Black Canary. She was originally an Earth-Two character, but somehow she just popped up on Earth-One with no explanation. Later, it was explained that she was the daughter of the original Black Canary (the whole story involves a magical curse, being placed in status for years, and transfer of memories).
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