A Justice League Hero Will Die in DC’s Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths
DC Comics has teased that a member of the Justice League will die in the massive ongoing event Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths. DC is no stranger to using the Multiverse as the basis of its stories, having established Earth-One and Earth-Two to explain the difference between the Golden and Silver Age stories. The iconic 1985 event Crisis on Infinite Earths brought the entire DC Multiverse together for an epic conflict that resulted in a new mainstream DC Universe. Dark Crisis may or may not be a hard reboot like the original maxiseries, but it is poised to kill off a Justice League member.
DC inadvertently created its Multiverse upon establishing Barry Allen as The Flash in 1956, replacing Jay Garrick. The 1961 story “Flash of Two Worlds” would go on to explain that both versions of The Flash are canon, albeit existing in different realities, and thus DC could publish stories set in the mainstream Earth-One (Barry’s reality) or the revived Earth-Two (the timeline of Golden Age DC stories, such as those of Jay Garrick). After the original Crisis on Infinite Earths erased Earths One and Two, resulting in the “post-Crisis" reality (New Earth), DC had a new and more consistent timeline, albeit with regular continuity shakeups in events like Infinite Crisis. The DC Universe has gone through many reboots and timeline shakeups including The New 52, DC Rebirth, and the current Infinite Frontier era.
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The fifth issue of Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, by Joshua Williamson, Daniel Sampere, and Alejandro Sanchez, is set to release on October 18 with what might be the most shocking installment in the ongoing event thus far. In a preview provided by DC, it's teased
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