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Earth-Two

OFFICIAL NAME Earth-Two

ALIASES Earth; Earth-2

CREATORS Julius Schwartz · Gardner

Fox

FIRST APPEARANCE

New Fun Comics #1

(February, 1935)

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Reality names were reused several times. See

also Earth-Two-A, Earth-2, Earth 2, JLA: Earth-
2, Arrowverse: Earth-2, Smallville: Earth-2.

Earth-Two was the reality designation

attributed to the planet Earth, and the Universe
it inhabited, that existed prior to the Crisis on
Infinite Earths.

Earth-Two itself was populated by various

individuals who resembled those of its primary
Multiversal counterpart, Earth-One. Some were
direct parallels to their predecessors (ex.
Superman (Earth-One) and Superman (Earth-
Two)), some less so (ex. Atom (Al Pratt) and
Atom (Ray Palmer)). The two Earths were closely
linked in terms of parallel development, although
Earth-Two individuals usually predated their
Earth-One counterparts by a few decades. For a
complete list of Earth-Two inhabitants, see List
of Earth-Two Characters.

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History

Pre-Crisis

Earth-One and Earth-Two vibrate di!erently;

thus, time is slower on Earth-Two. Every twelve
months, the temporal matrices of the two
universes come together briefly; during this
"closest orbit", for 21 days, it is easier to cross
the dimensional barriers between them.[1]

Prior to the events of the Crisis on Infinite

Earths, the reality termed as Earth-Two was
populated by heroes who emerged during the
Golden Age, including the Justice Society of
America and the native incarnations of
Superman (Kal-L), Batman (Police Commissioner
Bruce Wayne), Robin (Ambassador Richard
"Dick" Grayson) and Wonder Woman (Princess
Diana Trevor, wife of U.S Army General Steve
Trevor) to this reality all emerged prior to the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which led to
the United States' involvement in World War II.

Earth-Two Timeline

998,050 BCE

A super-advanced human civilization is

destroyed by the arrival of the Fire People,
which steal its radium element and release a
huge atomic explosion. Just before his death, a
scientist from that civilization leaves a message
to future generations through uranivision, a
process unknown to current science that uses
radiation, warning that the Fire People should
return every 1 million years.[2]

500,000 BCE

The Lord of Order later known on Earth as Nabu,

the Wise is born around this time on the planet
Cilia.[3]

50,000 BCE

Nyarl-Amen

During this time, the dynasty of the underwater

city of Nyarl-Amen, a race of fish-men ruled the
world.[4]
48,000 BCE

Vandar Adg (Vandal Savage), a caveman and

leader of the Blood Tribe is born 50,000 years
ago. When he was 40 years old, a mysterious
meteor crashed to the ground, bathing him in
radiation, and granting him incredible intellect
and immortality. An observer from the Bear Tribe
would later approach that same meteorite and
become Savage's eternal nemesis, the Immortal
Man, possessing the power to resurrect as a
new persona every time he is killed.

9,638 BCE

Atlantis is a super-scientific city with all sorts of

flying inventions and modern weapons, ruled by
Queen Atlantea . As Atlantis under the
leadership of Atlantea prepares to conquer all
the nations of the world, Green Lantern arrives
for a brief visit just in time to witness Atlantis
sinking into the sea and being destroyed in the
cataclysm.[5] When Atlantis sinks, a large part of
it survives trapped in an air pocket below the
earth's crust under the Atlantic Ocean. This
Atlantis eventually becomes the home of a race
of great females, where they acted as their
rulers and warriors, and weaker and smaller
men.[6]

2,700 BCE

Vandal Savage is a king in ancient Sumer. [7]

2,030 BCE

Khalis

The Egyptian deity Anubis rewarded his most

devoted follower, the mad priest Khalis, with the
Amulet of Anubis, holding part of the god's own
power. In the following years, Khalis used the
Amulet to take mental control of a legion of
Nubian slaves and made them build "the
mightiest of pyramids" to honor Anubis. When
Nabu the Wise, a Lord of Order in human form
who served various Egyptian Pharaohs,
discovered the actions of Khalis, he freed the
slaves from the priest's spell and let them have
their revenge on Khalis. As Khalis was buried,
Nabu took the Amulet as his own.[8]
1,200 BCE

Originally, thousands of years ago, Amazons

lived on an island called Amazonia. After
being momentarily enslaved by Hercules,
they were tired of the evil ways of manhood
in ancient Greece and migrated to Paradise
Island where they did not age and could
practice a peaceful way of life and cultivate
their minds. As a way of reminding them
never to trust a man again, Aphrodite
condemned them to wear bracelets. With
the island blessed by the gods of Olympus,
no man is physically allowed to step on it.
The Earth-Two Speedy, stranded in this age
after fighting Nebula Man, is turned into a
centaur by Circe, and is finally rescued by
Red Tornado, Zatanna and Flash.
1,190 BCE

The Amazons banish the sorceress Circe to the

planet Sorca.[9]

350 BCE

Alexander the Great is brought from this age to

1942 by Dr. Doome and faces the Seven Soldiers
of Victory.[10]

331 BCE

Per Degaton, a villain of the Justice Society,

time-travels to this point of time and prevents
the victory of Alexander the Great at the Battle
of Arbela, preventing Greek culture from
inspiring the known inventions of our time. The
heroes return in time and stop the villain,
repairing the timeline, and receive a shield from
Alexander.

300 BCE

After 3,000 years fighting against the forces of

Chaos on Earth, Nabu's human form was worn.
In an attempt to heal his psychic wounds, the
Lord of the Order puts himself in suspended
animation for more than 2,000 years in an
Egyptian-style pyramid built in the Valley of Ur
in Chaldea.

300 BCE

Crimson Avenger and Wing are transported to

China, captured by Dummy and sent to the past
with a stolen time machine, and help defend the
country against a Japanese invasion before
being rescued by Shining Knight.[11]

1st Century

The Starheart falls in ancient China. The meteor

is carved in the shape of a lantern by Chang, a
Chinese craftsman and wizard.

33 AD

The Roman centurion Longinus uses his spear

to pierce the side of Christ when he is hanging
on the cross. In the coming years, this weapon
becomes known as the Spear of Destiny.[12]

6th Century

Shining Knight becomes trapped in ice

when fighting a ogre.
JSA travels to Camelot from February 1977
and faces Vandal Savage, who disguises
himself briefly as King Arthur.[13]
12th Century

Robin Hood is visited by Flash (Jay Garrick)

who was time-traveling. On another
occasion, he is visited by Batman and Robin.
Shifted in time after facing Nebula Man, Earth-
Two Green Arrow poses as Robin Hood, before
he is rescued by Hawkman, Dr. Midnite and
Wonder Woman. [14]

13th Century

Genghis Khan, in the early 1160s and the

year 1237, encounters Flash who travels in
time, who saves his life and is rewarded
with his sword.[15]
Genghis Khan is brought from this time to
1942 by Dr. Doome and faces the Seven
Soldiers of Victory.[10]
Scattered in time after battling Nebula Man,
Shining Knight loses his memory and serves
under Genghis Khan for some time before
he is rescued by Sandman, Superman and
Metamorpho.[14]
Roger Bacon receives the help of a time-
travelling Green Lantern to build the first
cannon.[16]
Roger Bacon travels from 1255 until June
1955 to discern whether the future will be
good or bad.[17]
15th Century

A scholar named Galio finds the Four

Wonders of Alchemy: the Philosopher's
Stone, the Elixir of Youth, the universal
solvent, and the secret of perpetual
motion.[18]
In Mexico, after being dispersed in time by
Nebula Man, the 20th century hero Crimson
Avenger loses his memory and for a few
weeks is convinced that he is the Aztec god
of the war Huitzilopochtli. He is healed and
rescued by Dr. Fate, Atom and Elongated
Man.[19]
16th Century

1558: Jon Valor becomes the Black

Pirate.[20]
17th Century

The Three Musketeers.[21]

18th Century

Keith Everet, the Earl of Strethmere was

shot by marauding highwaymen as he was
on his way to propose to his beloved
Deborah Wallace. After his death, the spirits
of his ancestors taught him all their secrets
and sent him back to Earth to fight for
justice.
1776

Revolutionary War for the Independence of

the United States of America begins.
The Spirit of America is born as the new flag
of the United States of America is hoisted
over the 13 free states.
Bess Lynn becomes Miss Liberty (ancestor
of Liberty Belle).
1796

As Marshal Sauvage, Vandal Savage

becomes an advisor to Napoleon.[7]
19th Century

1865

Mary Clark is born. [22]

1866

Arthur Gordon Pym becomes Captain Nemo.

1868

John Kent is born. [22]

1870

Vandal Savage is an advisor to Otto Von

Bismarck.
1892

Cyrus Gold is killed in Slaughter Swamp.

20th Century

1906

January, 17: Kent Nelson is born.

1911

Goitrude, Doiby Dickles' cab, is built.[23]

1912

The young Henry King discovers the ability to

create illusions.

World War I

Goitrude becomes a military vehicle, and the

soldier Doiby Dickles drives "her".
1915

Bruce Wayne is born.

1916

Jor-L sends his only son to the Earth.

* Kal-L is born in Krypton to scientist Jor-L and

Lara. The planet Krypton explodes. Jor-L and his
brother Zor-L send their respective children, Kal-
L and Kara, to Earth, in two distinct ships. The
Kal-L spaceship arrives on Earth in Smallville,
and John and Mary Kent meet him. They adopt
him and name him Clark Kent. Kara's ship would
only come decades later.
1917

Richard Grey, an archaeologist, leads an

expedition in Mongolia, bringing his wife
Anne and son, Richard Greay, Jr. At night
Yakki robbers led by Gali Kan attack the
camp, killing both Richard and Anne Gray
and every last man, but the child survives
after his mother hid him behind some rocks.
After the attackers leave, a condor takes the
child back to their nest on the high peak and
begins to breed it along with their own
puppies.
July, 7: Johnny Thunder is born at 7:00 am,
the seventh son of the Thunder family.
1918

Johnny Thunder is kidnapped by

Bhadnesians.
November 11: Germany signs armistice
ending World War I.
1919

Giovanni Zatara is born.

1920

In the Valley of Ur, the archaeologist Sven

Nelson is killed by a trap when discovering
the chamber where the body of the
magician Nabu rests. Nabu, awakened from
his suspended animation, takes Kent, the
son of Sven, as his disciple in the magical
arts.
Selina Kyle is born.
1921

Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons longs to have

a daughter and molds a female baby statue into
clay. The gods grant her the wish by giving life
to the small sculpture, and so Diana is born.

1924

Joe Chill kills Thomas and Martha Wayne. Bruce

Wayne, the surviving son, swears to fight crime.

1926

Sylvester Pemberton is born.

1928

September 26: Sandy Hawkins is born.

November 11: Dick Grayson is born to John
and Mary Grayson.
1933

January 30: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor

of Germany.
Richard Gray, Jr., now a young man who has
studied the flight of condors all his life, finds
that he can fly like them. With their superior
intelligence, he quickly becomes their leader
by speaking to them in their own language.
One day, after descending to the plains to
look for food, Richard is attacked by giant
eagles and falls to the ground, where he is
found by an old Christian hermit monk
named Father Pierre. Pierre calls him Black
Condor and begins to teach him during the
next year how to speak English.[24]
1935

Dr. Occult begins his career as a supernatural

detective.[25]

1936

The African-American athlete Will Everett

won several medals at the Berlin Olympics,
but due to the prevailing racism of the time
he found few alternatives to work when he
returned to the USA, becoming a janitor for
Dr. Terry Curtis.[26]
Doctor Occult briefly adopts a red suit with a
cloak to face the supernatural adversary
Koth; Due to this adventure, Occult is
regarded as the first superhero in uniform by
some.
1938

The Golden Age begins

Mary Kent dies. An indefinite amount of time

after Mary's death, John Kent dies, not
before counseling his son, Clark, to use his
powers for the benefit of mankind.
March 13: Baroness Paula von Gunther's
husband, Gottfried, is murdered by Nazi
agents when he refuses to surrender his
wealth.
April Clark Kent moves to Metropolis and
taking a job as a journalist in the Daily Star
newspaper he starts his uniformed career as
Superman, marking the beginning of the
Golden Age. Zatara and Mister America also
started their careers in the same month.[27]
May: Paula von Gunther receives the ashes
of her husband by the Nazis in a cigar box.
His daughter Gerta is arrested in a
concentration camp and Paula is forced into
service as a slaver and spy in the United
States. These events lead to insane cruelty.
October 13: Hitler acquires the Spear of
Destiny in a museum in Austria and takes it
to Berlin.
October 31: Crimson Avenger begins his
heroic career.

Bat-Man

1939

Bruce Wayne begins his crusade against

crime as Bat-Man.
Jay Garrick, a science student at
Midwestern University, has an accident with
heavy water and, unconscious, is
hospitalized for several weeks. When he is
discharged from the hospital, he discovers
he has super-speed.
Darrel Dane invents a shrinkage serum and
becomes Doll Man.
November: Seriously injured by an
explosion, Marine Hank Heywood volunteers
for an experimental procedure that turns
him into a formidable cyborg soldier,
becoming Steel, the indestructible man.
1940

After being disfigured by acid, a Prussian

nobleman undergoes an experimental
treatment to unlock the latent powers of his
mind and body. As Baron Blitzkrieg, he
becomes the main metahuman agent of
Nazi Germany.
Alias the Spider and Red Torpedo begins
their careers.
Jim Corrigan murdered by gangsters and
returns from dead as Spectre.
Ultra-Humanite, in the body of Dolores
Winters, kidnaps Dr. Terry Curtis and forces
him to create an atomic disintegrator. The
doctor is saved by Superman, who destroys
the blaster; Ultra forges his death by
apparently falling into the lava of a volcano.
The chemist Rex Tyler develops the Miraclo
pills, becoming the Hourman.