The Milestone Dakotaverse is Earth-93 and the DC-Marvel crossover Amalgam universe gets designated Earth-1996 for the nutty year it was published but without actually mentioning Marvel, of course.įinally, in what almost slipped our attention, DC seems to have established an Earth that merges the Superman movies of the '70s and '80s (along with 1984's Supergirl) with the Batman films of the late '80s and '90s. ![]() The world of Batman '66 (Earth-66, of course, the Adam West Batman) officially joins the DC Multiverse with what should be the Emmy Award-winning copy "Batman and Robin face exceptionally benign supervillains," and what appears to be to the best of our interpretation the pre-Crisis Earth-One is back as Earth-1956. A "grim young Batman with a unique, unrecognizable rogues' gallery' from "Batman: The Gargoyle of Gotham" doesn't ring a bell, but we couldn't help but think of the possible mid-2023 event 'Knight Terrors' since a Google search turns up nothing but a reference to an obscure in-continuity Batman story from 1992.Īnd we also can't tell you why the smart primate world (ala the ape Justice League) of Earth-53 has been redesignated to Earth-52 and no replacement Earth-53 was named. We frankly don't know what the world of Earth-46 is. Modern YA graphic novels from the worlds of Green Lantern: Legacy (Earth-98) and Teen Titans: Raven (Earth-100) join the fun, as does the world of the animated TV series and graphic novels DC Super Hero Girls (Earth-96). In his interview, Waid told Newsarama he can't wait to someday tell the story of Batman Gray and Batman Blue, seen in the pages of Dark Crisis: Big Bang, implying the story will be told in the pages of his own Batman/Superman: World's Finest ongoing series, a title he tells us he intends to stay on "till I die." That story inspired the 1998 storyline and now seems to be inspiring another new modern take. ![]() Art from Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1 (Image credit: DC)Īnd then there's Earth-162, based on 1963's Superman #162, which featured Superman splitting himself into a Red and Blue Superman.
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