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New Beginning: The Post-Crisis DC Universe (1986-1994)
The DC Universe was relatively calm, in the cosmic sense, during this period. There was only one established DC Universe. The Golden Age DC characters lived on the same Earth and universe as the Silver Age characters and dozens of others that had previously resided on alternate Earths. None of the characters remembered the previous Multiverse or the Crisis, other than the fact that they had fought the Anti-Monitor and The Flash (Barry Allen) died in battle. Golden Age characters were older and had indeed fought their glory days during WWII, and the Silver Age characters were their successors. The Shazam! characters and Charlton characters now also resided on the same Earth as the Silver Age and Golden Age characters as well. New histories and updates were rewritten to accomodate for this new continuity, and as result upset years of established story and alienated some DC fans. On the other hand, it also drew in many fans that wouldn't have otherwise read DC. This era is usually either loved or hated by fans. There aren't many people on the fence about this era of DC comics. This Earth was known as Post-Crisis Earth. Even though it had been established that the DC Universe was in fact one distinct universe, countless Elseworlds stories had still been printed in the meantime. And there were still some dangling continuity problems leftover from the original Crisis on Infinite Earths. As a result DC put out the mini-series event known as Zero Hour. A Parallax-influenced Hal Jordan attempted to recreate the DC Universe and timeline as he saw fit. The heroes stopped him, but not before some changes took effect. This story changed some events in time and updated some characters. The concept of Hyper-Time was also introduced in this series, but wasn't fully fleshed out until the release of Mark Waid's Mini-Series, "The Kingdom", which was a sequel to the fan favorite "Kingdom Come". In "The Kingdom", Mark Waid established that there are an infinite number of "possible" universes which can be accessed. But these universes weren't exactly established universes as in the Pre-Crisis days, theoretical, alternate-reality realms. This was followed for a little while, but was soon forgotten about. |
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