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Earth-3
Earth-Three, or simply Earth-3 or Earth 3, is a “partially-reversed” Earth, where supervillainous counterparts of the mainstream DC superheroes reside. It first appeared in ''Justice League of America'' #29 (1964), and the concept has been rebooted several times. Publication history 1964–1985: Original concept Earth-Three was introduced by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky in a 1964 issue of ''Justice League of America''. Earth-Three's history is depicted as a mirror image to that of the Earth we know. On Earth-Three, Christopher Columbus was American and discovered Europe; England (a colony of America) won freedom in a reversed form of the Revolutionary War (with George Washington surrendering his sword to Charles Cornwallis) in 1774; President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by actor Abraham Lincoln. Crucially, Earth-Three was home to a villainous analogue to the Justice League, the Crime Syndicate of America. The Crime Syndicate would recur as powerful ene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman (DC Comics)
Ultraman is the name of several supervillains appearing in stories published by DC Comics. The characters are all evil or corrupted alternate-universe counterparts of Superman. Ultraman first appeared in ''Justice League of America'' #29 (August 1964). Publication history Ultraman first appeared as the evil counterpart of Superman on the original Earth-Three. Having created the worlds of Earth-One, containing Silver Age superheroes, as well as Earth-Two, containing the Golden Age ones, DC Comics decided to expand the universe to include various themed universes. The first of these was Earth-Three, in which there were villainous counterparts of DC's heroes as well as heroic counterparts of DC's villains. The first Ultraman was killed in ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' and Earth-Three was destroyed by an anti-matter storm and then wiped from continuity at the end of the series. This original Earth-Three Ultraman has reappeared briefly both in the 1980s ''Animal Man'' series and the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owlman (comics)
Owlman (Thomas Wayne, Jr.) is a character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. A supervillainous alternate-universe counterpart of Bruce Wayne / Batman, he is depicted as the adult version of Wayne's deceased older brother, who in most iterations dies as a child, before Bruce is born. In ''The New 52'', the primary continuity Owlman, originally depicted as the asylum-bound Boomerang Killer, is retroactively revealed to be still alive, stolen from his parents as a child, and working in the service of the Court of Owls under the name Lincoln March. Owlman is voiced by Diedrich Bader and James Woods in the 2008 animated series ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' and 2010 DC Universe Animated Original Movies, animated feature film ''Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths'' respectively, while Jayda Eyles portrays a young gender-swapped version of the character, Samantha Thomas Wayne, in the 2022 Pennyworth (season 3), third season of ''Pennyworth (TV series), Pennyworth'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Syndicate Of America
The Crime Syndicate are teams of supervillains from one of DC Comics' parallel universes where they are the evil counterparts of the Justice League. The original team was specifically known as the Crime Syndicate of America and is sometimes abbreviated as CSA. This first superpowered Crime Syndicate team appeared in ''Justice League of America'' #29 in August 1964. The primary successive incarnation, known as the Crime Syndicate of Amerika (with the variant spelling of America), first appeared in the 2000 ''JLA: Earth 2'' graphic novel. A related successive group on Earth-3 is known as the Crime Society of America and first appeared in ''52 (comics), 52'' #52, and was later featured in ''Countdown to Final Crisis''. A "Golden Age" supervillain group, the Crime Society was to Earth-2 what the Anti-Matter Crime Syndicate of Amerika was to Earth-0, until it was removed from continuity following DC's 2011 ''Flashpoint (comics), Flashpoint'' storyline and ''The New 52'' company-wide Reb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |