DC's crisis on Infinite Earths?

Question

In 1980's Dc attempted to merge theri many universes this was done with sage of Crisis on Infinite Earths. I am looking for a summary of those events. A link will be fine. I could not find said summary on Whos who in DC.

Answer 1

There is a great summary of the events over at wiki..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_on_infinite_earths

Bottom line - all of the earths were collapsed into one. Only four survivors of those other earths were kept safe in their own pocket universe (which lead to Infinite Crisis).
Killed - Barry Allen and Supergirl

Cheers
Stephen Schleicher
www.majorspoilers.com

Answer 2

A being called the Anti-monitor (from the anti-matter universe including Qward) was trying to destroy the matter universe.

He had a counterpart, the Monitor, who was trying to prevent it.

The matter universe was weakened by being a "multi-verse", which was aiding the Anti-Monitor's efforts, so the Monitor merged the remaining universes together. Many had already been negated by the Anti-Monitor.

This included most of the various DC character's universes.

Then all the heroes united together and fought the Anti-Monitor. Supergirl died, Flash sort of died (which sucked after the way his comic ran for the previous year).

The series sucked. For many reasons
One letter to the editor during the series run asked, "If anti-matter is destroying the matter universes, is the matter destroying part of the anti-matter universes?" The answer was, "Maybe, we'll see!". Which we didn't.

The series had scads of problems, like, why only Earth creatures got involved (ok, the Guardians were involved to some extent.). What about Thanagar, the Khunds, and many others?

What about villains? Darkseid declined to get involved, but surely Grax, Fatal Five, Trigon and others had a vested interest in retaining the universe. (Oh, and how does this affect time travel anyway?)

It also left the DC universe and traditions in ruins. Origins had to be re-spun, including Keystone City's "stuck in a stasis field and FORGOTTEN for 20 years". Excuse me? No one asked, "Hey, whatever happened to Aunt Clara from Keystone City?"

The concept was essentially repeated in the JLA/Avengers mini-series a couple years back. It was much better done.

In short Crisis was an unmitigated disaster. The recent events that have undone much of it proves this point.

I'm pulling this from 20 year old memory. Here's the link to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_on_infinite_earths

Answer 3

A convulted mess made even more convuluted. Basically, all of the "multiple Earths", such as Earth 1, Earth 2, Earth Prime, etc., that had different versions of the known DC superheroes and supervillains, were more or less eliminated due the meddlings of the Anit-Monitor. Some characters from some of the alternate Earths remained, but "this" Earth's Flash, Barry Allen, gave his life to save the Earth. I can't provide any links, sadly, but this is it in a nutshell; I have left out many, many, many details, but the less written about it, the better, as it can get confusing and annoying. There is still possibility for similar events to occur, as DC has left the doors open for furture stories in a similar vein.

Answer 4

Now that you have summaries of the series (which I enjoyed reading, even with some continuity problems), it's important to realize what was happening at DC when it was published.

Staff editors were not required to be "on board" for Crisis, meaning that most DC titles were not directly tied-in to the events. It wasn't until sales figures showed up that other creators wanted to be a part of Crisis. Readers did not have the tight interaction of mulitiple titles (like Infinite Crisis).

This was DC's opportunity to reboot all titles with new #1s. Some were restarted, like Flash and Wonder Woman. Others, like Batman, continued on with new creative teams. In the end, DC missed a golden chance to start over with new continuity and retooled origins.

Answer 5

Do a serach for Infinite Crisis, it should help to wrap up all that you want to know.

Answer 6

Look in Wikipedia. I'm also trying to figure the whole thing out.

Answer 7

i dunno..................