JLA: Earth-2 Vol 1 1

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JLA: Earth-2

Contents 1 Summary 2 Credits 3 Synopsis 4 Notes 5 Trivia 6 Recommended Readings 7 Related Articles 8 External Links 9 References

Summary

Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Month: January
Year: 2000

Credits

Editor in Chief: Jenette Kahn
Head Writer: Grant Morrison
Writers: Writers unknown
Cover Artists: Frank Quitely
Pencilers: Frank Quitely
Inkers: Frank Quitely
Colourists: Laura DePuy
Letterers: Ken Lopez
Editors: Editors unknown

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

Crime Syndicate of AmeriKa

• Ultraman
• Owlman
• Super-Woman
• Power Ring
• Johnny Quick

Justice League of America

• Superman
• Batman
• Wonder Woman
• Flash
• Green Lantern
• Martian Manhunter

• Alexander Luthor
• Thomas Wayne, Sr.
  
• James "Jimmy" Olsen
  
• Catherine "Cat" Grant
  

Locations:

• Earth-2 in the antimatter universe of Qward

Items:

• The Panopticon (Crime Syndicate's base)

First Appearances:

• antimatter Earth-Two
  
• Crime Syndicate of AmeriKa
  
• Ultraman
  
• Owlman
  
• Super-Woman
  
• Power Ring
  
• Johnny Quick
  
• Alexander Luthor
  
• Thomas Wayne, Sr.
  
• James "Jimmy" Olsen
  

Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis: A new Crime Syndicate and their Earth are shown to exist in the regular DC universe, restarting the multiverse in a very limited fashion (only two regular existing realities). The awareness of the antimatter Earth is revealed to DC Primary Earth Justice League of America when the Alexander Luthor of the antimatter Earth arrives on DC Primary Earth. His arrival accidently causes a commercial plane full of antimatter Earth people to die when they emerge on DC Primary Earth. The people on the plane are not protected from the dimensional transport as was Luthor. As a result of the lack of protection all of the people on the plane are all killed. When the Justice League arrives on the scene to investigate the dead people, the Justice League discover that all of the dead people have their hearts on the wrong side of their bodies and their money shows Benedict Arnold on the national portraits. Finding Luthor to be at the heart of the matter, the Justice League confronts him and are shown that he is not the man they know, but his counterpart from this "reverse" world. Luthor reveals that his reason for traveling to DC Primary Earth is to seek help from the superpowered beings of DC Primary Earth in overthrowing the superpowered rulers of his Earth known as the Crime Syndicate of AmeriKa, an evil parallel to the Justice League. Swayed by Luthor's despiration and the plight of the antimatter Earth's populace, several of the Justice League members travel to the antimatter Earth. Once there the Justice League confronts the Crime Syndicate members and trap the Crime Syndicate in a prison on the Moon. Not counting on Owlman's master schemes of having counterplots to almost every situation ever possible, the Crime Syndicate travel to the Justice League's Earth and commit carnage in hopes of conquering that planet.

Both teams find that they are unable to fulfill their own goals on the others' Earth. The Justice League cannot save the antimatter Earth as the populace largely accepts the Crime Syndicate as a legitimate entity to their Earth. The Crime Syndicate's personal fulfillment for open control cannot be fulfilled on the Justice League's Earth as exemplified by Owlman's vendetta against his father Thomas Wayne, who is dead on Justice League Earth. Both teams decide to return to their source Earths.

While defeated from his accomplishment of directly overthrowing the Crime Syndicate's control of the antimatter Earth, Luthor gains allies to fight the Crime Syndicate as well as inspiration of the other super-powered groups such as the Crime Lodge and Young Offenders to confront the Crime Syndicate directly.

Notes

• The formal restart of the Crime Syndicate as a regular reoccuring team to the Justice League. The establishment of this reliable other Earth restarts the idea of alternate parallel realities accessible to the DC Primary Earth which had been specifically removed by the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
• Many of these Crime Syndicate members have been specifically fleshed out from the Silver Age such as the original Earth-Three Crime Syndicate of America and other Pre-Crisis elements such as the Earth-One Thomas Wayne, Jr. who as a murderer becomes the identity for the new Owlman and Thomas Wayne, Sr. survives to become Gotham City's police commissioner, an obvious nod to the Earth-Two Bruce Wayne who later in life also became police commissioner of Gotham City of that reality.

Trivia

Recommended Readings

• JLA

Related Articles

External Links

References

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