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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2383290" data-attributes="member: 3649">I'm not really sure what you mean, exactly. DC has changed it's continuity several times in certain ways. <a href="http://www.io.com/~woodward/chroma/crisis.html" target="_blank">This page on Crisis on Infinite Earths </a>is a good summary of the hows and whys, as well as numbering the various changes. &nbsp;There was Crisis, which cleaned out all the multiple universes so there was one and (retroactively, only had ever been) only one Batman, one Superman, etc. Beforehand, Earth-2 was a kind of Golden-Age dumping ground that existed to justify the fact that there had been a Batman during WW2 when obviously the current Batman was much too young to have even been alive during that time. The early adventures had 'occured on Earth-2'. <a href="http://web.cetlink.net/~farrier/DCindex.html" target="_blank">Another series of notes can be found here. </a>Probably some of the most sweeping changes involve the heroes who were around in WW2, the <a href="http://www.cvalley.net/~canote/retcon.html" target="_blank">JSA</a>, the kings of retroactive continuity..&nbsp;After that was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour_%28comics%29" target="_blank">Zero Hour which kinda of fixed a number of the various loose ends as well as justifying certain other retroactive changes to continuity</a>. There was <a href="http://www.geocities.com/hypertime2000/features/theory/index.html" target="_blank">Hypertime</a>, which re-introduced the concept of multiple universes (timelines) in a different way, and now we're going into some other sort of continuity-changing event with 'Infinite Crisis'.&nbsp;Obviously with all this going on, some things still slip through the cracks. I think most of the 'Faux pas' some might mention are probably things that now, especially because of Zero Hour, 'didn't happen'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 2383290, member: 3649"] I'm not really sure what you mean, exactly. DC has changed it's continuity several times in certain ways. [url="http://www.io.com/~woodward/chroma/crisis.html"]This page on Crisis on Infinite Earths [/url]is a good summary of the hows and whys, as well as numbering the various changes. There was Crisis, which cleaned out all the multiple universes so there was one and (retroactively, only had ever been) only one Batman, one Superman, etc. Beforehand, Earth-2 was a kind of Golden-Age dumping ground that existed to justify the fact that there had been a Batman during WW2 when obviously the current Batman was much too young to have even been alive during that time. The early adventures had 'occured on Earth-2'. [url="http://web.cetlink.net/~farrier/DCindex.html"]Another series of notes can be found here. [/url]Probably some of the most sweeping changes involve the heroes who were around in WW2, the [url="http://www.cvalley.net/~canote/retcon.html"]JSA[/url], the kings of retroactive continuity.. After that was [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour_%28comics%29"]Zero Hour which kinda of fixed a number of the various loose ends as well as justifying certain other retroactive changes to continuity[/url]. There was [url="http://www.geocities.com/hypertime2000/features/theory/index.html"]Hypertime[/url], which re-introduced the concept of multiple universes (timelines) in a different way, and now we're going into some other sort of continuity-changing event with 'Infinite Crisis'. Obviously with all this going on, some things still slip through the cracks. I think most of the 'Faux pas' some might mention are probably things that now, especially because of Zero Hour, 'didn't happen'. [/QUOTE]

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