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Almost all of the Earths in DC ’s multiverse have tops - powered beings , but there is one world that is near off without them , and a visit from the Justice League demonstrate why . In 1978’sJustice League of America#153 , write by Gerry Conway with art by George Tuska , the League travel to Earth - Prime , draw there by the outgrowth of that Earth ’s first super - powered hero — and the outcome are disastrous .
In the mid-1950 ’s , during comics ’ Silver Age , DC began vamp their stable of Italian sandwich from the Golden Age , dusting them off and giving them scientific discipline fiction makeover . Outside of law of similarity in powers , these newversions of Green Lanternand the Flash expect little resemblance to their Golden Age counterparts — they had new costume and new secret identities . In the early sixties , writer Gardner Fox invented a direction to excuse the differences between characters : The Silver Age heroes , such as Barry Allen , Hal Jordan , and Ray Palmer , all existed on Earth - One , and the Golden Age characters , such as Jay Garrick and Alan Scott , existed on Earth-2 . From there , the multiverse grew : DC enter Earth-3 , where all the superpowered character were villain in a teamcalled the Crime Syndicate ; Earth - X , home of character acquired from Quality Comics ; Earth - S , home plate of Shazam ; and eventually there was Earth - Prime , which was a sales booth - in for the actual Earth . This world had no superheroes of its own , and the like of Batman , Green Arrow , and the Flash only be in amusing books .
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worldly concern - Prime finally did get its first ace - powered champion , a homo named Ultraa . Ultraa ’s arrival on Earth - Prime mysticallydrew the Justice League there . In an incredibly meta moe , the squad seeks out the avail of DC editor Julius Schwartz . After run into with Schwartz , the League breaks up a bank robbery in progress — but the bystander , not knowing these are genuine superintendent - fighter , think a flick is being filmed . As Schwartz follow the League struggle to control the post , he muses this world is well off without superheroes .
Meanwhile , Utlraa has draw the tending of not only the United States military machine , but also an invading exotic force . Ultraameets the Justice League , who mistake him for a villain , and as the League fight Ultraa , the horror-struck Air Force pilot can not trust what they are seeing . The two sides recognise they are not enemies and refund to Pearl Harbor to begin revive the damage have to the plane . An already nervous general is becoming even more unhinged at the legal injury they caused , as well as the implications of their cosmos . Ultraa concludes that his presence on Earth - Prime is causing more harm than good and decides to exit . The League follows cause andGreen Lantern employ his ringto erase memories of their prison term on that Earth .
Both Ultraa and Julius Schwartz were right : Earth - Prime was not quick for superheroes , and the events of this issue showed why , and in the procedure provided a commentary on Cuban sandwich in the literal world — a little under a decade beforeWatchmenspun this root word into gold . No incident better illustrates this than theJustice League’sattempt at scotch a looting ; it went so ill it led a comical rule book editor in chief to close his Earth was good off without superheroes .
The irony of the situation was fully realized during theCrisis on Infinite Earths , when Earth - Prime get itsvery own Superman — but was destroyed in good order after . On any Earth that he exists , Superman ’s arrival signals the kickoff of a heroic old age — so who have it away what the future held for Earth - Prime ? But for most of its existence , Earth - Prime was a human race without Hero — and it was serious off that way .
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