Decades earlier, Earth-Two experienced an invasion of Vulture King and his minions, who although initially successful in forcibly recruiting residents of that world into their winged forces, were ultimately defeated by Wonder Woman, who was the Justice Society teammate of Hawkman and longtime friend his wife Hawkgirl.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Twice-Told Tale: Mental Marauders & Menacing Man-Hawks
Decades earlier, Earth-Two experienced an invasion of Vulture King and his minions, who although initially successful in forcibly recruiting residents of that world into their winged forces, were ultimately defeated by Wonder Woman, who was the Justice Society teammate of Hawkman and longtime friend his wife Hawkgirl.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Sinister Sharks versus Amazing Amazons
Interestingly, additional shark-human hybrids appeared on Earth-Two, spawned by the young scientist on Paradise Island named Gerta Von Gunther. These creatures were transformed into flying mermaids, led by the sinister Sharkette, whose Earth-One cosmic twin was the Global Guardian heroine named Little Mermaid.
Just as the Earth-One Wonder Woman initially encountered the Shark and later battled him on Paradise Island, so too had the Earth-Two Wonder Woman first met Sharkette and her blonde haired "mermaid-sharks" whom she battled on Paradise Island. The mindless mermaid minions filled in for King Shark, who never interacted with Wonder Woman, and three of these ladies found corresponding creatures in the Shark's "Princes of the Prey, whom the Shark unleashed upon Wonder Woman and her Justice League allies on a later occasion.
Unlike the Shark and his Prey Princes, who were irredeemably evil and transformed back to their natural states, Sharkette and her mermaidens were made docile and integrated into Amazonian society. While Sharkeeta still remained the self-appointed “Queen” to her fellow mer-sharks, Shark only had a brief stint as self-proclaimed royalty when he attempted to usurp kingship of Atlantis from Aquaman under the human alter ego of Kershon.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Teams Traveling Twin Transporting Teleporters
A similar yet far superior mechanism was created on Earth-Two. Developed by the former arch-enemy of Wonder Woman turned benevolent Amazonian scientist, Paula VonGunther developed her Space Transporter. This device not only could send those projected by its rays from Earth-Two to the hyperspace world of Venus, but also to a variety of other locations... both in space and time! This mechanism, originally located beneath Holliday College in Paula's secret laboratory, had a duplicate built on Paradise Island (and possibly other locales). However, Paula had help creating this teleporter, considerable help across space and time!
While she was briefly affiliated with Nazi Germany as one of its chief scientists, Baroness VonGunther worked alongside Helmut Streicher, also known as the Red Panzer. Streicher constructed a time-grappling device that could project and retrieve his Panzer Ship through time and space. And he himself undoubtedly adopted this technology from fellow Nazi scientist Hans Gootsden, who purchased space ships from the immortal of Oa, the Monitor.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Dual Dream Dimensions Disorient Dogooders
Friday, March 29, 2024
Twice-Told-Tales: Manhunters Manhandle Malicious Martians
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Creating Composite Counterparts
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Cosmic Inbalance: Story of the Sentinent Stellar Stones
Monday, February 12, 2024
Hardwater’s Heroic Helping Hands
In the DC Multiverse, hard water has different physical properties in each universe it exists within. Two instances of this are in the parallel planes of existence known as Earths One and Two. And the individuals who manifested divergent abilities from this particular property as Mera and the golden age Flash.
On Earth-One, the queen of adjacent Dimension Aqua known as Queen Mera possessed the power to solidify water particulars into various objects. While other inhabitants of her native realm likewise possessed this skill, including her twin sister Hela, it was Mera who mastered it.
Jay's Garrick Laboratories experimented with hard water years later. The lab's scientists concealed this substance, which inadvertently unleashed their hyper-accelerated stored kinetic energy, which proved fast enough to even challenge Garrick as the Flash. Whether Mera's Earth-Two counterpart Queen Eeras ever employed hard water weaponry in Atlantis is also unknown.
Interestingly, the Water Sprites of Earth-One had hard water based powers similar to Mera, who were allies of she and her husband Aquaman. Qwsp and his Sprite brethren’s doppelgängers on Earth-Two were the Thunderbolts with lighnting-based powers derived from sparks of electricity similar to that which empowering a Barry-Flash. They were of the Thunderbolt Dimension, the Earth-Two version of Earth-One’s Dimension Aqua.*
* While on Earth-One, lightning energy translates into speed force and hard water translates into solidified constructs, on Earth-Two it is the reverse with hard water translating into speed force and lightning energy into solidified constructs.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Ominous Ocean Overlord & Sinister Sea Sleuth
Orm as the Ocean Master and Pike as the Sea Sleuth had repeat encounters with the Kings of the Sea, second only to the Aquamen's arch-enemies, Black Manta and Black Jack. Each aspired to be like these marine marauders, yet didn't possess the necessary physique to match them. While Orm used his scientific acumen to devise specialized devices allowing him to breath underwater and survive its crushing depths, Phineas used his biological knowledge to help him control sea-life.
Due to some type of accident, Orm lost his memory and gained criminal attributes, fed by his jealously for his half-brother Arthur... now unaware of their relationship. Each time they met, Arthur as Aquaman attempted to persuade Orm to seek help which he refused. On one occasion, Orm inflicted amnesia on Arthur, manipulating him into being his minion. As Mister Marius founder of Marius Enterprises, Orm attempted to finance an undersea city, which Batman suspected was a criminal scheme. Together with Aquaman, who regained his memories, the pair of Justice Leaguers exposed Ocean Master's plot, although the villain escaped. He would later return to torment his sibling.
As for Phineas, after having a few adventures alongside Aquaman in 1949, he disappeared for three years. Then in 1952, a mysterious man named Mister Styx appeared with a scheme to hide high-profile criminals within his "Aqua-Lair", a facility undoubtedly inspired by Aquaman himself! Batman and Robin were able to track Styx and his minions back to their base, which was actually in a freighter rather than beneath the seas.
This Mister Styx looked suspiciously like the Sea Sleuth, although Phineas appeared a bit thinner. Might a similar head trauma, which had been inflicted on his counterpart Ocean Master, have also caused Sea Sleuth to develop an evil persona? The evidence seems clear. Unlike his doppelgänger Orm, Phineas never reappeared… as either Mister Styx nor as the Sea Sleuth.
As for Ocean Master, he would later battle Aquaman and his fellow Justice Leaguers, as a member of the Anti-Justice League, while also dueling with his brother’s sidekick Aqualad and his teammates in the Teen Titans.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Marine Marauders Menace Maritime Monarchs
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Vile Vrangs & Just Jeyes: Foes & Friends of Superman
The Vrang were an intergalactic species of conquerors, who first visited Earth-One in the early 1980s. Centuries earlier, they had been invaders of Krypton-One, enslaving the Kryptonians until an uprising rebelled against these alien overlords. During the late 20th century, a Vrang vessel discovered the remained of Krypton's Argo City floating in space, with evidence that two Kryptonians... Superman and Supergirl... survived! As they approached, Earth-One, the invisible energy-wrath residents of the Phantom Zone.... who were criminals exiled from Krypton before it exploded... escaped that dimension to face the hated Vrang.
The Jeyes were an intergalactic species of explorers, who first visited Earth-Two in the early 1950s. While it is possible that centuries earlier they had journeyed to Krypton-Two, their presence would have remained undetected. This is due to the nature of their physical being, as invisible energy-wraths. When one of their vessels crash-landed on Earth-Two, the Jeyes telepathically contacted Susie Thompkins... niece of that world's Superman.
While Superman-One worked alongside four Phantom Zone criminals to vanquish the surviving Vrang, Superman-Two along with Susie and his wife Lois Lane Kent assisted the Jeyes in restoring their space craft and sending them back to their homeworld. Later, Superman-Two asked for their assistance in borrowing one of their spacecraft for a special mission, which they gladly agreed to provide.
While the four Phantom Zone criminals, now in solidified physical bodies, used their superhuman abilities to counteract the Vrang spaceship's massive weaponry, only the golden age Superman directly confronted the Jeyes spaceship's amazing armaments. Although for the greatest hero of Earth-Two, his wife and niece lent support from a protective bubble nearby.
It’s interesting that on Krypton-One, a large number of Kryptonian survivors were phantoms while their Vrang foes still had solid bodies, while the Vrang's counterparts the Jeyes were themselves phantoms. Quite likely, some of these Jeyes were the phantom rogues who battled some of Superman's Justice Society allies.
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Hideous Headmen's Heinous Headquarters
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Twice-Told-Tales: enacious Tin-Soldiers Terrorize Twin Titans
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Evil Enigmas Engineer Elemental Endgames
Each universe within the Multiverse have common aspects, as well as divergent exceptions. Among these are unique elements to each reality. One such example was the mystery element known as Dexium, first discovered in the late 1940s on Earth-Two.
Research scientist and amateur archaeologist Carter Hall was tasked with discovering hidden aspects of this recently discovered element. Undoubtedly, he would have recruited his Justice Society teammate Jay "Flash" Garrick, who himself was a leading chemist, to assist him in dissecting this curious anomaly. However, before he could, the Dexium was stolen!
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Senhorita & Senorita Sensations of South America
Beatriz achieved her career goal as the president of Wayne Enterprises in native Brazil on Earth-One. Secretly, she had an alter ego as Green Fury, her country's powerful protector, using powers given to her as a child. These included the ability to create illusions with her dazzle effect, flame and ice breath, and the power of flight. When she briefly resided in Gotham City in the United States to train under the Foundation's CEO Bruce Wayne for her new position, she likewise became an auxiliary member of the Super Friend training with Wayne's alias the Batman.
Mariana discovered her familial connection with Hop Harrigan, who was a part owner of All-American Avaition. When Hop journeyed to her homeland of Columbia on Earth-Two, he met his long-lost sister Mariana, who invited her back to the United States to join him in his business. Although Mariana never gained powers like her counterpart, as her world's version of the Green Fury was an extra-terrestrial Thunderbolt in Brazil, she still showed her courage when joining Hop in some of his adventures and was an adept pilot.
Beatriz as Green Fury eventually joined the Global Guardians as a founding member of this international group of superheroes. Mariana presumably settled down with Hop's best friend Tank Tinker, whom she dated soon after they met.
Saturday, December 2, 2023
Ace Archers Battling Bowman Avenger Arrows: Life After Loss
The dynamic between this pair of archers remained familial, unlike that of the silver age archers of Earth-One, as a rift developed between Green Arrow and Speedy. Part of this may have been due to Arrow's alter ego Oliver Queen losing his fortune, which his counterpart evidentally never experienced. Then there is the fact that unlike their dopplegangers on Earth-Two who were members of the same team blending adult and teen heroes together, the Earth-One Green Arrow was heavily involved with the older Justice League, while Speedy centered his activities with the Teen Titans.
Friday, December 1, 2023
Father Time(s) 2: Temporal Tyrants Tyrannize Timelines
On Earth-Two, an unidentified elderly gentleman apparently harnessed chrono- energies within a scythe he wielded, which could revert objects to earlier or latter forms within the timestream. Despite this awesome power at his fingertips, this Father Time lacked imagination and simply used this for simple thefts. Although having a dramatic edge against his masked opponent the Wildcat, he was defeated when the two clashed.
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Avenging Auras Adversely Affect Antagonist Anomalies
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Faux-Faces Facsimile Facades
While the Earth-Two Karlo nevermore resurfaces, the Earth-One Karlo escapes Arkham Asylum in order to confront movie producer John Carlinger who was screening Basil's films. In the conflict, Carlinger overcomes Karlo and slays him, then adopts the role of Clayface in order to eliminate three actors who attempted to audit John's production company. Batman uncovers this new Clayface's identity and defeats him.
Other men would succeed Karlo, using the same method of operations versus the Batmen. On Earth-One, the second Clayface was treasure hunter Matt Hagen... while on Earth-Two, there next appeared Doctor No-Face also known as criminal Bart Megan. These men discovered the means to radically alter their appearance through scientific means beyond anything either Basil Karlo was able to achieve.
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Policemen Portray Powerfully Prominent Protectors
Friday, November 17, 2023
Devious Dust Devils Deemed Decidedly Destructive
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