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Author Topic: Earth-2's "differences" from Earth-1  (Read 11810 times)
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« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2006, 07:29:59 AM »

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Unfortunately, E-2's heroes are forever rooted in WWII.  Originally, the editors deemed that time moves slower on Earth 2 than Earth 1, which is why the heroes didn't age much.

As time went on, as mentioned, Roy Thomas retconned that with the Ian Karkull or Per Degaton temporal energy thing.

That is still pretty valid today, I think.  Zero Hour had Extant age the JSA to their true ages (well, that's post-Crisis so strike that)
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« Reply #17 on: September 18, 2006, 11:02:52 AM »

How would that explain Superman and Lois Lane looking so much older in Earth-2, not to mention Robin as an Adult?
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« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2006, 03:31:14 PM »

I'm not sure but I sometimes thought that maybe Superman and definitely Lois weren't present when the All Star Squadron (JSA "plus") got hit with Karkull's "time rays"...
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« Reply #19 on: September 18, 2006, 09:12:10 PM »

There were so many retcons...

Yeah, the Robin thing was one thing... I feel Superman should NOT have aged like he did in Earth 2, since he was an alien, as well as Wonder Woman (who was a sculpture made of clay given life)

In another thread, I state that I feel that we saw different dimensional planes that represented Earths 1, 2, etc over the years.  That would, in my mind, be logical as in a '60's JLA/JSA crossover where the teams fight Solomon Grundy and Blockbuster, Batman is referred to as an Earth One hero.  Later it was retconned that there was an Earth Two Batman.  That's just one example...

At least the pre-crisis multiverse editors honored the history of their characters, whereas today, post-crisis, they pick and choose what they want.  It was so much simpler back then!
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« Reply #20 on: September 19, 2006, 01:15:21 AM »

Quote from: "MatterEaterLad"
I'm not sure but I sometimes thought that maybe Superman and definitely Lois weren't present when the All Star Squadron (JSA "plus") got hit with Karkull's "time rays"...


Both Superman and Lois were hit by Ian Karkull's chronal radiation (or "time rays" :-) ); in the story, Lois shows up in her 40's "aggressive reporter" mode, trying to get another scoop on the action the All-Stars (including Superman) were dealing with...
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« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2006, 02:15:13 AM »

Drat... Cool

I hate the Bronze Age, LOL... :lol:
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