Writer: Marv Wolfman
Artist: George Perez
Cover Artist: George Perez
Variant Cover Artist: Alex Ross
It's time for your alternate Wednesday special review. Over the next three special reviews, I am going to review Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, and Final Crisis. These three crises are regarded as the stories of the multiverse in the DC realm. Before there was "the Crisis," as it was once referred to, there was the expansive multiverse. Essentially, there were numerous universes that each had an Earth of it's own. What this means is that there were different variations to characters such as Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman and there were also variations to superhero groups such as the Justice League and the Justice Society. Eventually the different universes began to learn of one another, the result of the Flash vibrated from one universe to another, and on occasion would help each other out. Crisis on Infinite Earths was released in 1985 as a celebration of DC's 50th anniversary. With so many characters and universes, there were also many issues in continuity. At the time there was also an ever increasing character list, which made it difficult to follow along or for those that didn't read, it made it difficult to start reading. Crisis on Infinite Earths was created to rectify this situation.
