Phenomenal Phasing Phantom People

“Out of this world” is a common expression uttered when one is shocked and amazed by some event. Many such incredible events occurred on Earths One and Two, including end-of-world threats. On two occasions on each Earth, all of humanity was pulled from their world…. from their native universes… by twin cosmic entities… and by a man and a woman. 

The man was Alan “Green Lantern” Scott who, in a moment of disgust towards the prevalence of crime across the globe, willed his power ring to remove all evil from Earth-Two. This caused all humanity to be phased from reality, and were briefly transplanted to the desert salt plains of Utah on Earth-One. These individuals were comatose in suspended animation, including Alan, until they were revived by his counterpart Hal “Green Lantern” Jordan. The two Emerald Crusaders used their combined power rings to will these billions of people back to Earth-Two.

A Kryptonian woman named Faora Hu-ul escaped her dimension prison and sought revenge on the son of her jailer Jor-El, Kal-El aka Superman. After freeing herself, she set wheels motion to exile humanity into the Phantom Zone while liberating Faora’s fellow criminals. Thankfully, Superman already deduced her scheme, and sabotaged Hu-Ul’s equipment to reverse the process. Humanity and the rogue Kryptonians were refined to Earth-One and the Phantom Zone, respectively.

Years earlier, Lex Luthor unleashed the cosmic entity known as the Galactic Golem upon his arch-enemy Superman. During the battle between the two, Superman used the Golem’s energy to shift all humanity to another dimensional plane (Earth-Two) just in case the Golem won the battle and decimated Earth-One. He didn’t, and mankind returned to their home world.

Back on Earth-Two, the cosmic entity known as Aquarius shifted humanity out of that universe* while battling the Justice Society of America. However, with the help of the Justice League, Superman and the Society vanquished Aquarius and returned mankind to their home world.

There were multiple occasions when inhabitants of both Earths temporarily or permanently migrated to the another Earth. These included the following individuals and occasions:

• The original Freedom Fighters when Uncle same recruited a handful of heroes from Earth-Two to join him in averting the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire.
• The later Freedom Fighters, former members of Earth-Two's All-Star Squadron, who traveled to Earth-X during the Crisis on Infinite Earths (and several Earth-One heroes perished during the same Crisis event).
• The surviving Freedom Fighters traveled to Earth-One for a brief stay there, while the Secret Society of Super-Villains of Earth-One had a months long stay on Earth-Two.
• Old West and World War 2 individuals passed when entering the Anti-Matter wave originating from the Universe of Qward.
• All-Star Squadron select members traveled from Earth-Two to Earth-One to aid Steel.
  
• Justice Society of America members of post-Crisis traveled to Earth-Two's universe to protect it in the dimension of Asgard.
  
• Red Tornados, Black Canary & M'La, Bat-Mire & Spectre, and many, many more left their home worlds for parallel planets!
  

* As seen in the top left of picture with Aquarius, Vandal Savage along with all humanity shifted into the Spectral Zone, the Earth-Two version of the Phantom Zone. He returned there years later after confronting the two Flashes in a time traveling adventure.

Anonymous Astronomical Annoyances Agressively Attack Avengers

The Unimaginable and Aquarius, a pair of obtuse oppressors from outer-space who opposed twin Earths’ Greatest Heroes and nearly best them… twice! Both were born from stars going super-nova stars imbuing them with power.

The Unimaginable was a solitary creature, the only one of its kind within its universe (although the Sun-Thrivers may have been related to it). Venturing to Earth-One, the creature sought to attain membership in the Justice League of America, at the same time that they were trying to recruit Metamorpho into their ranks. When its request was rejected, it battled the League, although the team outwitted the energy being.

Aquarius was a member of the Council Of Living Stars (the doppelgängers of the Sun-Thrivers, entities residing with stellar bodies). This council condemned their rogue colleague for causing chaos within the cosmos, transforming Aquarius in a formless energy construct. Traveling to Earth-Two, the mentally unbalanced being stole Starman’s Cosmic Rod, attaining tremendous power once more. A portion of his being manifested as separate sentient electric gladiators who battled Green Lantern. The Justice Society later confronted Aquarius himself, who temporarily defeated them then erased their world from existence.

Both the Unimaginable and Aquarius returned, the former a few months later and the latter a couple week after first appearing, at which point both beings were beaten by the League and Society. Both were rendered inert, no longer functioning nor a further threat. Another energy entity known as the Galactic Golem was spawned by particles gathered from space through Luthor’s cosmic cannon. Similarly, the former disembodied exiled living star gained a solidified body with a split personality as the Aquarius which twice fueled the Justice Society. Their lifespan was similar to their predecessors.

Space Sectors of Green Lantern Corps Meet Council of Living Suns

The Guardians of the Universe partitioned and designated 3600 Space Sectors for their Green Lantern Corps, with the goal of combatting evil throughout their reality. This was due to the wave of evil unleashed by one of their own, Krona, which spawned the Multiverse. Throughout countless centuries, generation after generation of these power-ring protectors would monitor their section of the universe, of which the first official Corps member from Earth-One was Hal Jordan. He was tasked with guarding sector 2814, and as Green Lantern inspired others such as Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Charlie Vicker to likewise assume this identity at various times.

In fact, Charlie was assigned sector 3319, although he eventually returned to his homeworld. The renegade Green Lantern known as Sinestro had been given stewartship over sector 1417. Tragically, the Green Lantern of sector 2813 Tomar-Re was unable to save a prominent world there, Krypton-One, from exploding due to internal pressures whose origin was a mystery for years. These are but a few examples, as several other sectors have been identified progressively over the years, made more widely known by their Green Lanterns interactions with Hal Jordan over time.

On a parallel dimensional plane, the Guardians released a portion of their energy into that other universe, spawning the Starheart. For a time it would be alone, as a sentient star. Eventually, it would find fellowship in similar cosmically imbued sentient beings within  stellar bodies throughout their universe’s numerous galaxies.

In fact, both Krypton-One and Krypton-Two were designed by the Sun-Thrivers, gaseous beings whose existence had depended on their encasing themselves within an artificial sun. However, the sun needed a counter-balance to maintain its internal gravity, and so pulled together enough mass to form a large planet within that red sun's orbit. Given the nature of its creation, each Krypton was prone to be doomed eventually. With the aid of Kal-El, the Superman now of Earth-One, they built an orange sun to sustain them.

Kal-L, aka the Superman now of Earth-Two, likewise encountered twin Kryptonite powered green suns orbiting Colu-Two. Utlizing his universe's Sun-Thrivers technology  to create them, the immortal villain Vandal Savage used these green suns to siphon off energy from Superman and Power Girl. When he failed and escaped capture with help from mystery beings (probably Savage’s allies the Sun-Thrivers) the twin suns remained.

Throughout the centuries since its creation in the 6th century, the Sun-Thriver within one of these two Kryptonite suns turned insane. Known as Aquarius, now a member with other sentient suns of the self-titled Council of Living Stars, it was stripped of power and banned for its insidious actions. After briefly regaining power through Starman's Cosmic Rod before being defeated by the Supermen and their allies in the Justice League and Justice Society, Aquarius was no more.

The remaining members of the Council of Living Stars, each inhabited by a Sun-Thriver and imbued with power like that of the Starheart, took a more active role in policing their reality than had their counterparts. They assumed the role of intergalactic protectors for sections of their universe... as had the Green Lantern Corps!

Sinister Supermen’s Strange Situation

When the Justice Society first encountered the hostile invading alien known as Aquarius, they were initially overwhelmed by the creatures power, which he projected through Starman's purloined Cosmic Rod. Finally tiring of these human adversaries. Aquarius seemingly wiped the entirety of Earth-Two of existence, save for those Society members present protected by Doctor Fate. Over the next two weeks, those heroes would be held captive in fear of an opponent who could erase them... and with them all memories of their beloved home.

After two weeks, the android Red Tornado returned from Earth-One with the Justice League, whom they sent him to recruit to assist them. Seeing the potential of these next enemies, Aquarius used his powers of persuasion to motivate the Justice Society towards unleashing their inner evil. This caused those Society members to attack their former friends in the League. 

A side effect of this excessive radiation internalized within each Socialite was an increase of power. This was especially evident in the Earth-Two Superman, who due to the nature of his superpowers (originating from Krypton-Two where all residents had superhuman physical abilities, rather than those of Krypton-One who gained more powerful superhuman abilities due to the yellow sun radiation of Earth) was able to match blow-for-blow with his Earth-One counterpart. Regrettably, this first meeting of the Men of Steel left both unconscious, succumbing to each others tremendous might.

Thankfully, the League as a whole subdued the Society, restoring their sanity, and together the twin teams battled Aquarius together. Luring the creature into the Negative, or Anti-Matter, Universe... Aquarius was destroyed and his influence removed as Earth-Two was restored to normal.

However, the Justice League soon found on their return trip to Earth-One that they also internalized some of Aquarius' radiation, unleashing their own evil sides. However, these sinister versions materialized as energy beings for all members... except for Superman! Apparently the physics differ between both universes, on Earth-Two evil is like a parasitic energy field and on Earth-One it is a projected energy field. What though was the reason as to no evil Earth-One Superman?

As an infant rocketing from Krypton-One, baby Kal-El and his vessel encountered an alien satellite with a duplicating machine aboard. This collision spawned an evil energy replica of the child, who like the original arrived on Earth-One. Raised on that world by criminals "Wolf" Derek and his wife Bonnie, the lad grew to become Super-Brat then Super-Bully before reaching adulthood as Super-Menace (similar to Wonder Boy, the Kal-L of planet Viro from another universe, who crash landed on Earth-Two instead of Earth-X in 1940). This corrupt creature battled the now grown Kal-El aka Superman, and nearly killed him with Kryptonite meteors. However, this evil version repented, saving his heroic twin while extinguishing his own psuedo-life as a result.

From this experience, Superman knew how to motivate his Justice League teammate into battling and overcoming their own evil energized copies. This finally rid them of Aquarius' influence, a week after they likewise helped eliminate the evil Justice Society.

Sinister Stellar Sociopaths Stump Supermen

Genius inventors Lex Luthor and Ted Knight developed the cosmic cannon and cosmic rod, instruments that drew to Earth stellar life forms known as Galactic Golem and Aquarius. The Golem was a being that had been preceded by the energy entity (and a potentially corrupted Sun-Thriver) known as Unimaginable, who twice battled the Justice League now rendered inert, the energy entity became Aquarius after stealing the cosmic rod.

Each was bent on destroying worlds to sustain themselves. When the Golem shifted Earth-One's inhabitants to a parallel world and Aquarius pulled Earth-Two into another dimension, it was up to the Men of Steel to defeat them.

While Superman-One did so twice, the second time encasing the Golem in the core of the planet, Superman-Two relied on not only his Justice Society allies but that of his counterpart and the Justice League, ultimately drawing the being into a negative matter universe where Aquarius imploded.

However, before doing so, at least two lives were lost in his fellow Socialite Black Canary and her husband Larry Lance. The effects of Aquarius' encounter with the twin teams would resonate for years to come, as would that of another entity from space which we'll soon consider.

As to the origin of Aquarius, he was an exiled member of the "Council of Living Stars", sentient stars that banished him in a weakened form. These were the doppelgängers of yhe Sun-Thrivers, more proactive in the affairs of maintaining order throughout their Earth-Two cosmos than were their counterparts within the Earth-One universe

A counterbalance for these strange entities was the Green Globs that existed in Earth-One universe and assisted the Green Lantern Corps in 3600 sectors of space. The Green Flame of Earth-Two was a manifestation of a Green Glob, originating from the Starheart that allied itself with its fellow stellar bodies that were the Council of Stars, maintaining order in the universe.

Similar cosmic entities, designed by the Controllers known as the Sun-Eaters, were living weapons capable of extinguishing stars, were used on a couple occasions. Once in the twentieth century when one of these was stolen by Mongul, a thousand years later another Sun-Eater was employed by a renegade Controller. 

These were larval versions of the Sun-Eaters such as the being known as Starbreaker, who due to his energy absorption powers was self-styled a "cosmic vampire". Starbreaker attempted to sow seeds of discontent until he was immobilized by the Justice League.

Earth-Two faced a threat from that universe's version of the Sun-Eaters known as the "vampire globes" for their similar abilities. These orchestrated a battle with the Spectre during a Justice Society case. The counterpart of Starbreaker was an evil entity named Koth, who quarreled with Doctor Occult and his allies of the Seven prior to this.