Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups - Volume 1

by Gardner Fox

Other authorsJohn Broome (Author)
Paperback, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

741.5 Multiple Earths

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Publication

DC Comics (2006), Paperback, 224 pages

Description

The first collection of the annual 2-part collaboration issues which brought the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America together to defend Earth. Originally published in 1963 through 1966.

User reviews

LibraryThing member comfypants
I hadn't read any Silver Age comics before, and this collection included background to the canon-altering Crisis on Infinite Earths story of 1985 (which I plan on reading soon), so it seemed like a good choice to read. Unfortunately, it's completely terrible. There was some amusement provided by
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campiness, but that's about all. There are no characters and rarely any story beyond beating up people who commit robberies. Most of the book focuses on Barry Allen (the Flash), and comic book people always talk about him as having an interesting personality, so I was very disappointed to find none of that here.
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Kind of fun. I like the Earth-Two characters more than a lot of the Earth-One ones - possibly because they've been mucked with less (how many times has Green Lantern been re-incented3 let alone Superman or Batman?). And parallel world interactions are always fun. Unfortunately, several of the
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stories in here are just Earth-Two characters (and notsmy favorites) dealing with local villains - not bad, but not what I was promised either. Overall, pretty good but not wonderful.
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Physical description

224 p.; 10.12 inches

ISBN

1401204708 / 9781401204709

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Crisis on Multiple Earths

DDC/MDS

741.5 Multiple Earths

Rating

½ (10 ratings; 3.6)
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