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Issue: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1

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Publication Date: April 1985

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Issues: #1 of 12 Issues (36 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

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Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/03/1985

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893266104

Price: $0.75 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Marv Wolfman (editor); Robert Greenberger (associate editor); Len Wein (consulting editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Notes: No ads in this comic. On-sale date from DC Releases #11.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.

Paper Stock:

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Limited Series

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2 Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 [Direct]

2 Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 [Canadian]

Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (3 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Wraparound from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Crime Syndicate [Ultra-Man; Superwoman; Johnny Quick; Owlman; Power Ring] (of Earth-3); Superman (of Earth-2); Pariah; Firestorm; Arion; Cyborg; Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; Dawnstar; Dr. Polaris; Geo-Force; Psimon; Firebrand [Danette Reilly]; Obsidian; Harbinger; Killer Frost; Luthor (of Earth-3); Psycho-Pirate [Roger Hayden]; Green Lantern [John Stewart]; King Solovar; The Monitor (face in background)

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Pages: 2

Notes: Wraparound cover. Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin. Logo design credit from http://kleinletters.com/, where Klein indicates "from a design by Neal Pozner."

Crisis Beginnings

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

Feature(s): Crisis Mail

Character(s): Pariah

First Line: "My theory is, both Earths were created at the same time in two quite similar universes!..."

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: L-1913

Notes: Describes the beginnings of the DC Multiverse and this series. Located on the inside front and inside back covers.

The "First Line of Dialogue or Text" quotation is from Flash #123 (September 1961) as Barry Allen speaks to Jay Garrick.

The Summoning!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Crime Syndicate [Ultraman; Power Ring; Owlman; Johnny Quick; Superwoman] (of Earth-3, all die); Alexander Luthor (of Earth-3, death); Lois Lane Luthor (death); Alexander Luthor, Jr. (introduction); Pariah (introduction); Harbinger [Lyla Michaels]; The Monitor; King Solovar; Dawnstar; Firebrand [Danette Reilly]; Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; Psycho-Pirate [Roger Hayden]; Arion; Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Professor Martin Stein]; Killer Frost [Louise Lincoln]; Geo-Force [Brion Markov]; Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Superman [Kal-L] (of Earth-2); Obsidian [Todd Rice]; Dr. Polaris [Neal Emerson]; Psimon [Simon Jones]; Green Lantern [John Stewart]

First Line: In the beginning there was only one.

Synopsis: A man known as Pariah is destined to watch helplessly as he is drawn from one Earth to another to watch as a wave of anti-matter destroys their universes. Earth-3's universe is the next to fall to the anti-matter wave and the Crime Syndicate is helpless to stop it. Meanwhile, the Monitor orders Lyla to become Harbinger to gather heroes and villains. Taken to the Monitor's satellite, these heroes and villains are attacked by shadow demons until the Monitor drives them away.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 32

Notes: First appearance of Alex Luthor, Jr. and Pariah. Death of Earth-3 and Crime Syndicate. First DC appearance of Blue Beetle [Ted Kord], a character recently acquired by DC from Charlton Comics. The other Charlton "action heroes" -- Peacemaker, Nightshade, Question [Vic Sage], Judomaster, and Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt -- will appear in issue #6.

Perez inks credit from Crisis on Infinite Earths The Compendium.