There were several contemporary masked metahumans on Earth-Twelve who debuted at the same time as the Inferior Five. A team of rivals to our quintet were the Kookie Quartet, granted superhuman abilities due to cosmic radiation. They were Mr. Manplastic, the Vanishing Queen, the Matchstick Kid, and Whatchamaycallit. This foursome were modeled off of the Fantastic Four of Earth-616, although not quite as noble, aligned with them were Prince Nabob the Sub-Moron and Cobwebkid, also parodies of Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner and Spider-Man... versions of the golden age Aquaman and Tarantula.
Another such team of whom the old adversaries of the golden age Freedom Brigade, the Vendetta led by the Iron Swastika and his Man-Mountain henchman. The Brigade’s children, the Inferior Five, defeated these villains as their parents has decades before. Later, the Five helped to "train" the Egg's Men consisting of The Ape, Basilisk, Icarus, Winter Wonderland, and Levitation Lass. These lads and lass were modeled after the X-Men in the same universe as the next superheroes below.
Earth-Twelve somewhat also mirrored the so-called “Earth-Crossover”, which blended Earth-One characters... referenced in DC Comics... with those from Earth-616... reference in Marvel Comics. The distinct comical nature of Earth-Twelve set it apart from all other universes, a stark contrast to the more serious nature of other Earths.
This comical Earth seemed to follow a similar history to that of Earth-Two. There were the golden age teams of the 1940s in the Freedom Brigade and the Justice Society, followed by the heroes' descendants adopting their example into the 1980s with the Inferior Five and infinity Inc. One such remarkable parallel is the heroines of the older teams in the brunette Princess Power and Wonder Woman, and their blonde daughters of the young teams in Dumb Bunny and Fury.
The blending of classic DC and Marvel archetypes only occurred on Earth-Twelve within the actual DC Multiverse. It’s adversarial nature of pitting “DC” protagonists such as the Inferior Five even against fellow heroes such as the Kookie Quartet highlights the diametrically different perspectives of each reality shown when merged together (as illustrated by the accompanying picture displaying a hypothetical battle between the Justice Society and Marvel’s Invaders).
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