Crisis on Multiple Earths, Book 1: Crossing Over

Crisis on Multiple Earths #1/3

by Gardner Francis Fox

Join the Justice League of America in some of their most action-packed adventures!

Starting with the "Crisis on Earth" story, the Justice League of America meets the Justice Society of America! The teams have to team up if they want to defeat the Crime Champions and they'll even have to...switch Earths?! Will the teams solve the Crisis of Two Worlds?

The JLA will team up with the JSA in more adventures and even face off against enemies, like the Crime Syndicate, on their own!

Collects Justice League of America #21-22, Justice League of America #29-30, Justice League of America #37-38, Justice League of America #46-47, Justice League of America #55-56, Justice League of America #64-65, Justice League of America #73-74, Justice League of America #76, Justice League of America #82-83, and Limited Collectors' Edition #46

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Batman

416 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2021

About the author

Gardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics.
Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story "Flash of Two Worlds!"

Pseudonyms: Gardner F. Fox, Jefferson Cooper, Bart Sommers, Paul Dean, Ray Gardner, Lynna Cooper, Rod Gray, Larry Dean, Robert Starr, Don Blake, Ed Blake, Warner Blake, Michael Blake, Tex Blane, Willis Blane, Ed Carlisle, Edgar Weston, Tex Slade, Eddie Duane, Simon Majors, James Kendricks, Troy Conway, Kevin Matthews, Glen Chase

Reviews

[John Parungao · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the first issues of Justice League of America I remember buying was part 2 of a JLA/ JSA team-up story. I learned later on that this was a regular staple of JLA comic. This collection features some of the earliest comics featuring the revival of the Justice Society of America and often features heroes and villains crossing over between the parallel worlds Earth-One and Earth-Two.
These were epic adventures with threats too big for just one team of Superheroes. There's even one tale where an evil version of Johnny Thunder uses the Thunderbolt to wish away the Justice League, leaving the Justice Society the only superhero team left to save the day. Also featured is the first appearance of the Crime Syndicate of America; evil counterparts of the heroic Justice League. Lots of fun to read these classic adventures.

[Dan Prestwich · Rating 4 out of 5]

In 1960, silver age Barry Allen Flash discovered the existence of "Earth 2," an alternate reality where the golden age Jay Garrick Flash lived*. Some time after, the DC editors declared that the golden age versions of their characters were from Earth 2, explaining away some of the discontinuous elements in the characterizations of their heroes over the years, as well as the question of why Batman and others had not seemed to age in the last 20 years. Every year or so, they started doing these "crisis" events, where the Justice League of the current era would travel across dimensions to team up with the now aging members of the Justice Society of the 1940s. This feels to me like a key moment in the history of comic book nerddom, a literalization of nerds' love of continuity and history, and the desire to bring back the things they read from their childhoods.

Things haven't changed much. Some of these stories are more or less the "Spider-Man: No Way Home" of their day. And there's a similar mix of nerdish enthusiasm with more cynical brand building and self-promotion.

Anyways, this is a fun set that spans the era of the 60s where comics where shifting from the silver to bronze age, so you still have a lot of that goofiness and innocence but you can also see the storytelling and artwork becoming a little more dynamic and sophisticated.

Also, I think I'm becoming a fan of the Red Tornado.

B

*In a goofy meta touch, golden age Flash was a comic book character on Earth 1 that inspired silver age Flash. Turns out this kind of goofy fourth wall breaking was prominent in these comics from early on, with characters aware of other comics or seemingly aware of their status as comic characters, and even comic writers inserting themselves into the stories.

[Desire Manara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me parece que equivale a los tomos 1 y 2 del box set. Tiene intros, una breve galería de imágenes y un posfacio.
Me parece que tengo todo el contenido en papel en tomos equivalentes; según la descripción, trae: #21-22, #29-30, #37-38, #46-47, #55-56, #64-65, #73-74, #76 y #82-83.