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The Spectre: You Can’t Go Home Again, Chapter 7: The Resignation

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list The JSA stood to one side, watching. Doctor Mid-Nite attended to Wayne Grant while Hourman flexed his right hand, saying, “I think I sprained my wrist. I’m getting too old to do this stuff without Miraclo, Doc.” Wildcat chuckled at Hourman’s complaint. “I been hearing that for twenty . . .

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The Spectre: You Can’t Go Home Again, Chapter 6: The Shadows

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list Jim Corrigan was blindfolded, and his hands and feet were tied. He could tell he was sitting in a wooden chair because of its hardness, as the horizontal slats were biting into his back. His first inclination was to move, but he instead feigned unconsciousness. He heard the . . .

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The Spectre: You Can’t Go Home Again, Chapter 5: The Gunmen

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list Wayne Grant wasn’t facing the window when Wildcat entered. He was turned toward two big, burly men that Wildcat instinctively knew were hired muscle. The former police detective was struggling to rise from his chair, even as the closer of the two thugs swatted him back down into . . .

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The Spectre: You Can’t Go Home Again, Chapter 4: The Patient

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list James Corrigan felt himself floating in a calm, peaceful somewhere. He knew where he was, even though his eyes were closed. The place was a space between life and death; he had been here three times before, and during two of those times he had agreed to take . . .

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The Spectre: You Can’t Go Home Again, Chapter 3: The Interrogation

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list Jim Corrigan glanced at his watch as he waited for Helena Wayne. He had known Helena Wayne since the days when her father was the Police Commissioner. Bruce Wayne had personally hired Corrigan. Wayne had known that Corrigan had been the Spectre, and because of that wasn’t physically . . .

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The Spectre: You Can’t Go Home Again, Chapter 2: The Meeting

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list Jim Corrigan reappeared in his bedroom in a nervous sweat. Even though it had been close to fifty years since he died, what the Spectre had told him brought up powerful old memories that shook him to the core. Corrigan could hear his wife making breakfast for the . . .

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The Spectre: You Can’t Go Home Again, Chapter 1: The Body

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list As the Nelsons left that Sunday afternoon, Jim Corrigan was grateful to have had an uneventful, fun weekend with old friends. That night he was awakened by the memory of the first time he had died. It was as clear as the horrible night it had happened forty-eight . . .

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The Spectre: You Can’t Go Home Again, Prologue: The Ring

by Dave Barnowski Return to chapter list Guns Benson looked down at his watch one last time. It was nine o’clock at night, and he was in the middle of a crowded discotheque with plenty of witnesses. He smiled, because there was no way anyone could prove he had anything to do with the murder . . .

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Showcase: American Girl: A Family Christmas

by Immortalwildcat
Showcase of Earth-2: The Five Earths Project
American Girl debuted during the presidential race, working alongside her stepfather Pat Dugan, alias Americommando. But as Courtney Dugan begins her own solo heroic career, she finds more than she bargained for when she’s forced to fight her biological father — the villainous leader of the Strike Force!

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The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves: A Halloween Warning

by Drivtaan
The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves: The Five Earths Project
Words of warning from Dr. M.T. Graves to you. Will you listen to him and heed his words this Halloween, or will you dismiss them at your peril?

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Halloween week starting tomorrow!

Halloween is in just one week from now, and to celebrate that, we’ll be posting five — count ’em, FIVE — Halloween stories this week. All of them are short. Some of them are a bit spooky. One is mildly amusing. But all of them are Halloween-themed in some way. We hope you enjoy! And . . .

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Earth-1 reading order guide

Yay! Finally! *applause* It was a long time coming, but the Five Earths Project finally has a chronological reading order list for Earth-1. You can see these in the dropdown menu when you hover your mouse over Earth-1 in the navigation above, but I’ll provide the links below just in case. All the Earth-1 stories . . .

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Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day to everyone celebrating July 4th this weekend! And a happy Canada Day and a happy Bastille Day to our Canadian and French friends! In the coming weeks and months, you can expect to see a whole lot of Earth-1 stories featuring such characters as the Flash, Batman, the New Titans, and the . . .

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Welcome to the Five Earths Project

At the end of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the last remaining universes were merged into one and became the current DC Comics Universe. But what if those five Earths were separated after the Crisis and continued on independent of each other? These stories explore what they’d be like. The time is not long after . . .

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Happy Father’s Day from the Batman Family

June is Batman month here at the Five Earths Project, and to celebrate, we’ll be posting Earth-2 Batman stories all month! Last week, we published a loose collection of vignettes we titled Batman: Times Past: Sketches of the Caped Crusader, and this week and in the weeks to come you can expect the following stories: . . .

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