(They actually come together by way of a séance, believe it or not.)īut the term quickly expanded to include other universes in JLA 135-136’s ' Crisis in Eternity,' the JSA & JLA teamed up with the then-Captain Marvel heroes of Earth-S. So in 1963’s Crisis On Earth One (JLA #21-22), the JSA and the Justice League come together to fight a set of villains from the two universes who are working together. Originally it was used to describe moments when the Justice League of Earth-1 and the Justice Society of Earth-2 teamed-up, in early issues of Justice League of America. 'Crisis' is a term with a long history at DC. While both companies do lots of different kinds of event series, they each have some pretty distinct patterns, too, patterns which began with those initial events. What none of us knew at the time was the ways that those two series would come to mold how their companies think about events.

I wasn’t even reading DC much at the time and still that cover of Superman cradling his dead cousin just destroyed me. Secret Wars, by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck, and Bob Layton, was like an '80s arena rock concert on the moon Crisis, from Marv Wolfman and George Perez, like a Shakespearean tragedy. I was a kid when Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars and Crisis on Infinite Earths came out. I’m a little obsessed with DC and Marvel comic book events.

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