Category Archives: Earth-2

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DC Universe: The Race, Book 4, Chapter 4: Cutting the Strings

by Immortalwildcat Return to chapter list Four weeks after election day, Jay Garrick arrived for his first regular meeting of the Justice Society of America since taking a leave of absence for the campaign. As he entered the JSA Brownstone, he encountered the man who had taken his place during the past two years. “Johnny! . . .

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DC Universe: The Race, Book 4, Chapter 3: Election Night

by Immortalwildcat Return to chapter list The final two months of the campaign passed in a blur, even for the Flash. With Pat Dugan taking over the security detail — much to the chagrin of the Department of Extranormal Operations, or the DEO — there were no further incidents on the campaign trail. Traveling back . . .

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DC Universe: The Race, Book 4, Chapter 2: Sleepers Exposed

by Immortalwildcat Return to chapter list Late August, 1988: The All-Star Party’s nominating convention was a modest affair compared to the earlier conventions of the two major parties that summer. Even Stan Gunderson’s Humanist Party held a bigger event, at least in terms of dollars spent and the arrangements made. However, the two-day affair held . . .

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DC Universe: The Race, Book 4, Chapter 1: Political Intrigue

by Immortalwildcat Return to chapter list Continued from DC Universe: The Race, Book 3: Dirty Tricks “A startling development today in the presidential campaign of Jay Garrick. After the disruption of last week’s presidential debate, there has been much speculation about the source of the attack. Now, an anonymous source close to the Garrick campaign . . .

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The Missing Earth

The Missing Earth by Dan Swanson Showcase: Regor of Uuz: Times Past, 1969: The Menace of Bantor Part 1 of The Missing Earth by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Superman #57, by Edmond Hamilton and Wayne Boring published April 13, 2010 When giant robots from another world come to the planet Uuz for the rare . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux

by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Justice League of America #73-74 by Dennis O’Neil and Dick Dillin
All-Star of Earth-2: The Five Earths Project
After the Earth disappears, a handful of strange visitors from other planets — Kell Orr of Xenon and his twin son and daughter Larre and Karre, Tharka the Superwoman, and Regor of Uuz — each independently investigate Earth’s disappearance. Yet are they prepared for the cause of Earth’s disappearance, the living star called Aquarius? Having just battled both the JSA and the JLA, Aquarius managed to trick the heroes into believing he was destroyed, when he actually fled into space with Starman’s cosmic rod. But Starman and Green Lantern guess the eons-old villain’s deception and track him into deep space. When the heroes of Earth rendezvous with the super-stars of space, will even their combined powers be enough to stop Aquarius?

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Epilogue: Back to Normal?

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list “Geez, this is boring,” Larre of Xenon complained to his sister as the adults consigned Aquarius to the mercy of the Spectre. “Let’s use the space stereophone and watch some Earth TV programs.” Their father Kell Orr had told them about Earth television when they were growing up, . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 6: Not with a Bang

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list Meanwhile, Regor of Uuz had jetted away from his decoy and began firing yet another weapon at the star giant. It was something Doctor Computeer had developed and left in Tharka’s ship, a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher that fired missiles tipped with tactical nuclear warheads. They delivered incredible concussive . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 5: The Storm Arrives

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list When no attack came, Aquarius felt a stirring of hope. Maybe he’d fooled them after all. He cautiously extended his mystical senses, and as far as he could tell, there were no living beings within at least a million miles. He’d managed to escape. “I live! I go . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 4: Thunderclouds Gathering

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list All five of the strange visitors from other planets were again gathered in the command room of the Zavoy when Tharka realized she was hearing, very faintly, what sounded like several people talking in the next room. But that couldn’t be! There was nobody out here except her . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 3: Calm Before the Storm

by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Justice League of America #74 by Dennis O’Neil and Dick Dillin Return to chapter list Deep in space, the two remaining spaceships floated a safe distance away in the shadow of the comet. Kell Orr of Xenon flew up to the floating mountain and began to push against it, . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 2: Cometary Crosshairs

by Dan Swanson Return to chapter list “I say we just bust this rock into shards and then head in and find out what happened to the Earth!” Kell Orr commented impulsively. The twins silently agreed with him; with their new powers, they could surely break the two spaceships free from this flying rock pile. . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Chapter 1: Astro Smash

by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Justice League of America #74 by Dennis O’Neil and Dick Dillin Return to chapter list “Astrogation alert!” Kell Orr and his twin son and daughter were in the control room of their ship, the Zavoy, waiting for the end of the hyperjump from their home planet of Xenon and . . .

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All-Star: 1969: Aquarius Redux, Prologue: The Missing Earth

by Dan Swanson, partially adapted from Justice League of America #73 by Dennis O’Neil and Dick Dillin Return to chapter list The Universe of Earth-Two, home of the Justice Society of America: The first intelligences to evolve in the universe were not corporeal beings like ourselves, but the first generation of stars, often called Population . . .

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Superman: 1952: The Second Superman

by Dan Swanson, adapted from Superman #119 by Edmund Hamilton and Wayne Boring
Superman of Earth-2: The Five Earths Project
The planet Krypton, that planet of Superman’s birth, perished years ago in a catastrophe. But now, in the vast realms of the universe, there looms up a world that is a near-exact double of perished Krypton. Given a rare opportunity to learn about the Krypton-like planet Xenon, he switches places with his twin from Xenon. But while the young Xenonian Kell Orr plays the part of Superman on Earth, Superman soon discovers the terrible truth that the world of Xenon is doomed, presenting him with the greatest challenge of his life. Can the Man of Steel tamper with mysterious cosmic forces and save the world that was Krypton’s twin before it’s too late?

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