Crisis of Infinite Crises
As the above Crankshaft strip indicates, science and Ed Crankshaft have caught up to the DC Comics theory of multiple universes. This year DC is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first major tie-in event across the comic book line. Unfortunately, it would lead to what we have now which are endless-never-ending-contrived-crossover events that all promise two things: first, that the event will change everything across multiple universes, and second that some character will die, not that it really matters.
However, there was a brief moment when it did matter, and that was when editor Julie Schwartz and writer Gardner Fox did it for the first time. Although the concept would be used sparingly at first, mainly in the Justice League of America books, it would later be overused to such an extent that there had to be a Crises on Infinite Earths to try to corral all the proliferating universes and reduce it to a single one again. Rather than celebrate that, what rightfully should be celebrated is the moment when two guys sitting in an office in New York City came up with something that hadn’t been done before, the result of which was The Flash #123, one of the most important and influential book in comic book history. That kind of thing only happens once.
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