| THE UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS |
Crisis #3:
Alex Luthor (after the Monitor brought him to his satellite from the abandoned JLA satellite) is growing up at a fantastic rate. We also get more hints about the Anti-Monitor's plans for Harbinger. The Anti-Matter wave starts sweeping across Earth-1, and shadow demons attack the tuning forks. Earth is being destroyed, and the Monitor isn't sure if his plan will work in time. Crossover: During Crisis #3: All-Star Squadron #52. Batman #393. Green Lantern v2 #195. Losers Special #1. New Teen Titans v2 #13. The Saga of the Swamp Thing #42. Swamp Thing v2 #40-1.
Crisis #4: Pariah saves Lady Quark from the destruction of her planet (Earth-6). Meanwhile, the various heroes of Earth do their best to save as many lives as possible as the Anti-Matter waves slowly sweeps across the planet. Also, the Monitor's teams are doing their best to protect the forks, without much luck. Pariah appears on the Monitor's satellite, and Monitor speaks with him before Harbinger (now totally under the control of the Anti-Monitor) kills him. Pariah (as usual) weeps while Earth 1 and 2 fade to black. Crossover: During Crisis #4: Legends Of The DCU: Crisis On Infinite Earths. DC Comics Presents #86. Infinity Inc #19-21. Infinity Inc Annual #1. Justice League of America #244. New Teen Titans v2 #13. Omega Man #26, 33. The Saga of the Swamp Thing #42-4. Swamp Thing v2 #40-41. Vigilante v1 #22. Warlord v1 #97. Wonder Woman v1 #327-8.
Crisis #5: The Anti-Monitor is confused, the Wall ate Earth's 1-2, but he hasn't gotten their energy. He had captured Red Tornado and the Flash for various reasons earlier, and is now going to put those plans into motion. A prerecorded message of the Monitor to Pariah and Harbinger (now free of the Anit-Monitor's control) tells them that he used his dying energies to pull Earth 1-2 into a pocket universe. The Earths are in a temporal flux. There are cavemen in the Batcave and dinosaurs in the USSR. The Anit-Monitor gives Flash to the Psycho Pirate (originally from one of the Monitor's teams) to torture, and transforms Red Tornado into an (evil/insane) Air Elemental. The heroes do their best to fight the disasters caused by the instability and the berserk Red Tornado. Alex Luthor, now a young adult, uses the Monitor's satellite to gather some groups of heroes to help save Earth-X, Earth-S and Earth-4. Only with the power of five universes, they only hope they can stop the Anti-Monitor. Crossover: During Crisis #5: Legends Of The DCU: Crisis On Infinite Earths. All-Star Squadron #53-5. Green Lantern v2 #195. Infinity Inc #21-22. Infinity Inc Annual #1. New Teen Titans v2 #13. The Saga of the Swamp Thing #44-5. Swamp Thing v2 #46.
Crisis #6: The Earth 1-2 heroes arrive on 4, S, and X, to find the Anti-Matter walls there, and the heroes there have gone mad (thanks to the Psycho Pirate, whose power's been boosted by the Anti-Monitor). Lots of fights result. Harbinger burns out her power and the Monitor's satellite bringing the 3 Earth's into the pocket universe. Also, super villains have been mysteriously vanishing. ![]()
Crossover: During Crisis #6: All-Star Squadron #53. Infinity Inc #23-24. New Teen Titans v2 #13. Superman v1 #413. Swamp Thing v2 #46. Crossover: Between Crisis #6-7: Legion of Super-Heroes v3 #13-15. Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1.
Crisis #7: Lyla, Alex, and Pariah gather representatives from all the remaining Earths to explain what's happening, and plan strategy. A strike team of heroes is gathered to attack the Anti-Monitor in his lair in the antimatter universe. Superman, who reaches the Anit-Monitor's deux ex machina first, starts to destroy it, when the he gets badly injured by Anit-Monitor. The Anti-Monitor starts killing Superman, when Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) intervenes. Supergirl, at the cost of her life, saves Superman and destroys the machine that was going to destroy the Earths. The Anit-Monitor, badly injured, escapes. The heroes, saddened by their loss, escape as the fortress falls apart around them. The time distortion has ceased on the 5 Earths, and they are still linked but no longer are in any immediate danger. Crossover: During Crisis #7: Blue Devil #17-19. DC Comics Presents #87, 95. Green Lantern v2 #195. Infinity Inc #23-24. Superman v1 #414. Wonder Woman v1 #329. Crossover: Between Crisis #7-8: Legion of Super-Heroes v3 #16-18.
Crisis #8: Anit-Monitor makes a new body for himself. Other subplots are hashed on, like Red Tornado's new form, the problems the Oans are having, and Darkseid's role in all of this. The Flash, after weeks of psychological torture by the Psycho Pirate, escapes his prison, and promptly beats Psycho Pirate into showing him the antimatter cannon that the Anit-Monitor is building. The Flash uses his super-speed to destroy the cannon saving 5 Earths, at the cost of his own life. Anit-Monitor has had enough and destroys his own universe to absorb its power so he can destroy the heroes. Crossover: During Crisis #8: Blue Devil #17-19. Green Lantern v2 #196. Infinity Inc #23. Justice League of America Annual #3. Omega Man #31-32.
Crisis #9: The heroes continue to address the problems of the 5 worlds. Alex Luthor (plus Harbinger and Pariah) address the UN on Earth-1. While the heroes were busy on 1 & 2, the villains from all 5 worlds, took over S, X, and 4. Flash I (Jay Garrick) recruits Kid Flash (Wally West) who was retired because his powers were killing him. Using Barry's cosmic treadmill, the Flashes break the barriers, allowing the heroes to save their compatriots on the imprisoned worlds. Lots of fighting. Meanwhile, a strange energy surges is traveling back through time. Crossover: During Crisis #9: Blue Devil #17-19. DC Comics Presents #88. Fury of Firestorm #42. Green Lantern v2 #195-6. Justice League of America #245. New Teen Titans v2 #13-14. Omega Man #32-3. Superman v1 #415.
Crisis #10: The mega-battle continues, until the Spectre shows up and tells them that the Anti-Monitor isn't dead. He's gone back to the dawn of time to prevent Creation itself. The heroes and villains put aside their differences. The heroes are sent back to the DoT, while the villains travel to ancient Oa, to prevent Krona from opening his doorway to the DoT, which originally fractured the universe into the multiverse. The villains are easily trashed by the Oans and their own overconfidence. The heroes, thanks to the Spectre and the other mystic DC heroes, keep the Anti-Monitor from winning his cosmic arm-wrestling match with the Spectre. The Spectre wins and everything turns white. Crossover: During Crisis #10: All-Star Squadron #56. Green Lantern v2 #196. Omega Man #33.
Crisis #11: Clark Kent of Earth-2 wakes up and goes to work, thinking "what an awful dream." Unfortunately, he goes to the Daily Planet (not the Daily Star), and runs into Perry White and Lois Lane of Earth-1. Clark Kent of Earth-1 shows up and covers for his "weird uncle Clark." Apparently nobody remembers the Crisis but the heroes. With the help of Jay Garrick and Wally West, they discover that Earth-2 is gone into the neverwas. Since Kal-L's wife (Lois Lane-2) is gone, this naturally upsets him. They discover that the new Earth is now an amalgam of the 5 Earths (but is primarily Earth-1, since that's where most of DC's stable lived). The heroes converge on Titans Tower to discuss this. The folks who went back to the Dawn of Time still exist, out of time, but they "never were." (like Robin, Huntress, and Superman, all of Earth-2) The villains don't remember it. The Supermen are still discussing their respective losses when the Earth is brought into the Anti-Matter Universe. Crossover: During Crisis #11: Amethyst v1 #13. Green Lantern v2 #196-198. Infinity Inc #25.
Crisis #12: The Earth is attacked by billions of Shadow Demons (they blocked out the sky). Various heroes fight the demons, and some (like Dove, Kole, the Immortal Man, Green Arrow and Robin and Huntress of Earth-2) die. A strike force is beamed to the Monitor's realm to fight him, while all the mystics combine their energy to zap the shadow demons. In the battle, Wonder Woman of Earth-1 is destroyed, and her history edited. Alex Luthor opens a gateway to send the Earth back to the Positive matter universe, and all of the heroes except for him, Superman of Earth-2 and the Superboy of Earth-Prime. After the Anti-Monitor is destroyed forever, the three of them, plus Lois Lane-2 (who Alex had absorbed before the trip to the DoT) go off to "a beautiful world." Psycho Pirate is left gibbering about all the worlds. He's the only one who remembers them all. ![]()
Crossover: During Crisis #12: All-Star Squadron #58-60. Green Lantern v2 #198. Legend of Wonder Woman #1-4.
Aftershocks: In All-Star Squadron, an evil time-traveling robot named "Mekanique" uses her powers over time to hold back the "wave" of time for a short time, so she can complete some of her plans. This is generally given as the reason why we see some characters (like Captain Atom, Captain Marvel, and Lex Luthor) in their pre-retcon forms for a short "time" in between Crisis #10 and their post-crisis origins. Presumably, this "wave" also edited the memories of the characters so that they remembered their new histories. (So that Superman was surprised to see Matrix/Supergirl, since he'd never seen a Supergirl before.) In Legion of Super-Heroes, the Time Trapper (the incarnation of Entropy) played fast and loose with the timestream and managed to get himself destroyed. This caused no end of trouble, and a LSH villainess, Glorith, took his place in the timestream, changing some bits of LSH history, allegedly to fit it in with the new continuity.