How to deal with the issue of the Multiverse

[Super Monkey]

Why are you rolling your eyes?

[Klar Ken T5477]

Im rolling them because with all the additions beyond 64, we'll have to transcend...and that's a whole lotta work, old bean.

[Great Rao]

Was the term 'Multiverse' ever actually used in the Chronicles? (ie, in the canonical sources)   If not, there shouldn't be an entry for it.

To keep this project from flying out of control, I think we need to limit all information - factual, theoretical, and definitions - to that which was presented in those "canonical sources."  So if you're going to have an entry that defines the Multiverse (assuming such a concept existed and was ever mentioned), you're going to have to eventually site the actual issue references and limit the definition to what they state.

[Super Monkey]

Im rolling them because with all the additions beyond 64, we'll have to transcend...and that's a whole lotta work, old bean.

I am not that old, I am a Bronze ager

Was the term 'Multiverse' ever actually used in the Chronicles? (ie, in the canonical sources) If not, there shouldn't be an entry for it.

I haven't a clue. It was used in the Crisis 12 issues series, so it might have been use in those crossover issues, but I don't have them.

[ShinDangaioh]

This page is about the closest I could find:

http://superman.nu/tales2/wife/?page=2

There's a mention of parallel worlds in 'Superboy and the Five Legion Traitors' and a mention of alternate timelines in the issue where Superman's costume gets stolen.  Alternate Earths were also mentioned in that story about Laney(The daughter of Lois Lane and Kal-El) when she accidently exposed herself to a box of Red K.

'Multiverse' seemed limited to Justice Leauge of America, Green Lantern, Flash.  With the 'Wonder Woman: Judegment Day' miniseries being a recent addition at the time.

Earth X was mentioned in the pages of DC Comics Presents.

[TELLE]

To keep this project from flying out of control, I think we need to limit all information - factual, theoretical, and definitions - to that which was presented in those "canonical sources."  So if you're going to have an entry that defines the Multiverse (assuming such a concept existed and was ever mentioned), you're going to have to eventually site the actual issue references and limit the definition to what they state.

Ditto the use of the phrase "some historians believe..."  --can a statement like this be backed with a reference to canonical sources?  If not, it doesn't belong in Supermanica.

[Admiral Chew]

Ditto the use of the phrase "some historians believe..."  --can a statement like this be backed with a reference to canonical sources?  If not, it doesn't belong in Supermanica.

At a ceratin point this nit-picking becomes ridiculous and counter productive.

Fleisher often uses the phrase, "this story is in many respects similar to...." Is that phrase found in the canonical sources?

[Admiral Chew]

This page is about the closest I could find:

http://superman.nu/tales2/wife/?page=2

There's a mention of parallel worlds in 'Superboy and the Five Legion Traitors' and a mention of alternate timelines in the issue where Superman's costume gets stolen.  Alternate Earths were also mentioned in that story about Laney(The daughter of Lois Lane and Kal-El) when she accidently exposed herself to a box of Red K.

'Multiverse' seemed limited to Justice Leauge of America, Green Lantern, Flash.  With the 'Wonder Woman: Judegment Day' miniseries being a recent addition at the time.

Earth X was mentioned in the pages of DC Comics Presents.

In Superman #276, Willy Fawcett mentions "fighting the Monster League of Evil across 1953 dimensions of time-and-space," and at the end of the story Superman refers to the "myriad earths that stretch across creation."

So the concept exist. I'll bet my right eye the term multiverse is used in the sources at least once, but who knows if we'll ever find it.

In any event the concept exists in the sources. Perhaps there's a more canonical name for it, but "myriad earths" doesn't have the same ring to it.