Crisis Of Infinite Earths

Description

Crisis on Infinite Earths was a twelve issue comic book event maxiseries/crossover, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. The series was written by Marv Wolfman, and illustrated by George Pérez (pencils/layouts), with Mike DeCarlo, Dick Giordano, and Jerry Ordway (who shared inking/embellishing chores). The series eliminated the concept of the Multiverse in the fictional DC Universe, and depicted the deaths of such long-standing superheroes as Supergirl and the Barry Allen incarnation of The Flash.

The title of the series was inspired by earlier crossover stories involving the multiple Earths of the Multiverse, such as “Crisis on Earth-Two” and “Crisis on Earth-Three”, but instead of lasting two to five issues and involving members from as many superhero teams from as many parallel worlds, it involved virtually every significant character from every parallel universe in DC’s history. It has in turn inspired the title of the late-2005 DC crossover series Infinite Crisis.

Overview
The series (usually referred to as simply Crisis) was highly successful from a marketing standpoint, generating renewed interest in the company’s books, enticing readers with the clichéd — but in this case accurate — promise that “things will never be the same”. The story itself was rooted firmly in the cliché of “superheroes battle to save the world”, but its unprecedented scope and its great attention to both drama and detail satisfied readers with its story. Along with Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, it contributed to the commercial and creative revitalization of DC Comics, which had been dominated in the market by Marvel Comics through the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Crisis also helped popularize the formula of the line-wide “crossover” comic book series (a concept first seen in Marvel Comics’ Contest of Champions (1983) and Secret Wars (1984)). Since 1985, superhero publishers such as DC and Marvel have had frequent “summer crossover” series designed to tie many of their comic book titles together under a single storyline (and thus sell more comic books).

Origins
The title was originally conceived to be a celebration of DC’s 50th anniversary; however, Marv Wolfman and Len Wein saw it as a chance to clean up DC’s rather convoluted continuity (which was thought to have put many new readers off buying DC titles) that had built up over that time.

Wolfman came up with an idea which would reach across the entirety of the DC Universe and its 50-year history. First of all, he came up with the character of the Monitor who was initially a faceless character used in many of DC’s titles over the course of a year. The Monitor supplied DC’s villains with equipment in order to test its heroes for the Crisis ahead. As a result, the character was seen to be a villain himself and his real reasons were not revealed to the reader until Crisis #1.

Plot summary
Crisis on Infinite Earths #12. Earth’s heroes fight the Anti-Monitor.Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The story introduced readers to two near-omnipotent beings, the good Monitor and the evil Anti-Monitor, who had been created as a result of the same experiment that created the Multiverse. The Monitor had made cameo appearances in various DC comic book series for two years preceding the publication of the series and at first appeared to be a new supervillain, but with the onset of the Crisis, he was revealed to be working on a desperate plan to save the entire Multiverse from destruction at the hands of the Anti-Monitor. The Crisis series highlighted the efforts of DC Comics’ superheroes to stop the Anti-Monitor’s plan. Under the initial guidance of the Monitor, a select group of heroes was assigned to protect massive “tuning forks” designed to merge the surviving Earths into one that could be protected from the antimatter that had already annihilated untold numbers of alternate Earths. Eventually the conflict grew, and nearly every DC hero became involved in the battle.

The Monitor was murdered by his own assistant, Harbinger, while she was temporarily possessed by one of the Anti-Monitor’s “shadow demons”, but he was expecting the attack and allowed it to happen so his death would release enough energy to protect the last five parallel Earths (the homes of the known DC Universe) long enough for the heroes to lead an assault on the Anti-Monitor, under the guiadance of the Monitor’s assistants, Harbinger, Alexander Luthor and Pariah. The villain retreated, but at the cost of Supergirl’s life.

This lull in the war provided some breathing room for the heroes, but the various supervillains joined forces under Brainiac and Lex Luthor to attempt the conquest of the Earths, while the Anti-Monitor caused chaos on the Earths by forcing the Psycho-Pirate to manipulate the emotions of their inhabitants. The second Flash died stopping the Anti-Monitor’s backup scheme of destruction (to use an anti-matter cannon to penetrate the protective aura.) The Spectre halted the hero/villain conflict, warning that the Anti-Monitor was traveling to the beginning of time to prevent the Multiverse’s creation (The Spectre himself was unable to enter the Anti-Matter universe because it weakened magic, as well as the invulnerability of some of the heroes.) Heroes and villains joined forces in response with the heroes traveling to stop the Anti-Monitor, and the villains traveling to the planet Oa in antiquity to prevent the renegade scientist Krona from performing a historic experiment that would have allowed the Anti-Monitor to succeed in his efforts.

The villains failed, and Krona proceeded with his experiment, while the heroes supported the Spectre, whose battle with the Anti-Monitor created an energy overload that shattered space and time. With that, a single universe was created and all the superheroes returned to a present-day reality where the various elements of the five Earths were fused into one, with no one except the people present at the battle at the dawn of time remembering the original reality. The Anti-Monitor attacked one last time, but fell to a carefully planned counter-attack with some unexpected last-second help from the New Gods’ adversary, Darkseid.

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