When the rogue scientist from Malthus, Krona, unleashed a wave of energy across his universe, an infinite number of additional positive matte universes and a single anti-matter universe were formed. Just as that sole realm had the planet Qward in the center of it, so too existed planet Oa, where some of Krona’s fellow Maltusians became the Guardians of the Universe.
Elsewhere in the anti-matter universe of Qward, there existed a corresponding Earth, only there instead of just humans, a different life form existed on that world… Stone Giants! After six scientist giants detonated a cobalt bomb simultaneous to humans on Earth-One detonating a nuclear bomb, the fabric of realty began to tear between both universes. To prevent the twin Earths from merging, the stone giants took seemingly destructive action against cities like Central City, Brasilia and Tokyo, the Justice League intervened.
Eventually the League and the "untouchable aliens" (a side effect the giants experienced from the radiation exposure) communicated and together prevented their parallel planets from merging. Both teams returned to their native dimensions, never again to meet despite League members encountering the Thunderers of Qward time and time again in the future. Unlike the residents of their center-most world, the residents of anti-matter Earth were not intrinsically evil merely inquisitive.
This makes some sense, however, as the majority of their counterparts in the positive matter universes were inherently malicious towards humanity. This was certainly true of the Sand-Beings on Earth-Two, who were a minority who opposed to mankind by creating a destructive weapon against them. Then there were the inhuman variants on Earth-One known as the Metamorphs. Of these, only Earth-One's Metamorpho and Earth-Two's Sandy the Silicon Creature had heroic dispositions.
Interestingly, a creature known as Quarrmer or the “Sand Superman” was spawned when an experimental Kryptonite-powered reactor experienced a nuclear meltdown. While attempting to avert a disaster, Superman inadvertently irradiated some sand which an energy-based creature molded into a duplicate body. Syphoning off some of Superman's powers, this Quarrmer gained control of his body, transforming it into a silicon-carbon hybrid. Revealing himself to having originated in the "dimension of Quarm", he entered into the Earth-One universe which a breach in the dimensional wall caused by the reaction meltdown allowed the entity to enter the human's world. Once realizing that Quarrmer could not coexist in the same realm alongside a counterpart with an "opposite charge" molecularly, he returned to his own universe.
Shortly thereafter, the immortal Martian known as Karmang enlisted the aid of both Quarrmer and Black Adam with the intent of having each of them impersonate their foes, Superman and Captain Marvel. Seeking to use these pawns to incite a conflict that would merge and then destroy Earth-One and Earth-S, in a misguided attempt to revive Karmang's long-lost people, instead Quarrmer aided the heroes in repelling this threat from both Earths. While last seen on Earth-S, it is logical that Quarrmer would have returned to either Quarm... his universe's version of the Phantom Zone... or journey to the Anti-Matter Earth. We know this Sand Superman was from this reality, as is "opposite charge" body from that of Superman's meant he was composed... not of positive matter... but rather anti-matter! Hence, he is his universe's version of Kal-El or Kal-L, the Supermen of Earths One and Two!
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