Twice-Told-Tales: Shadow Strangers & Sneaky Shades

During the climax of their epic battles versus a trio of freezing felons led by a mysterious master, and an immortal villain alongside his bearded and balding henchmen, the Justice League and Justice Society encountered an odd climax to these confrontations.

On Earth-One, the Justice League battled the  cold criminals of Minister Blizzard, Captain Cold and the Icicle of Earth-Two, who were entralling the South American country of Ecuador in a deep freeze (decades earlier on his home world, the Icicle tried a similar conquest of the South American country of Perumbia). When the League tracked the terrible trio back to the United States of America, they discovered this natural disaster concealed a sinister secret scheme. This had been a diversionary tactic setup to lead the heroes away from the U.S.A., so the villains could steal the previous gems known as the Minerva Diamond and the Star of Calcutta in Gotham City. After overpowering Bizzard, Cold and Icicle, the League discovered their secret leader was Shadow-Thief...whose Dimensiometer  transformed his body into a living shadow while causing the world's climate to gradually enter into a new ice age! 

On Earth-Two, the Justice Society journeyed back to the age of Camelot to confront the immoral immortal Vandal Savage, who mentally manipulated the bearded Merlin into helping him capture Superman and Power Girl. Then, Savage along with his captives journeyed to the planet of Colu-Two, pursued by the Society, who thwarted Vandal's scheme of siphoning the powers of the Kryptonians into his own body with the aid of his bald scientific henchman. As he fled the scene, Vandal was grabbed by two sinister shadows who aided him in his escape. These were two old adversaries of the Justice Society's Doctor Fate: Ian Karkull (himself a human shade like his counterpart Shadow-Thief), and Lando the Unknown (himself with vast and ill-definied abilities cloaked in shadow like his doppelgänger the Phantom Stranger). Ian and Lando joined forces, with the intent of siphoning off Vandal's own immortal life force into Karkull. By stealing such energy from the future, Karkull sought to assassinate future presidents of the United States back in 1941, thereby disrupting the United States government... a goal which Lando himself a fascist shared once under the influence of Hitler's mental control.

Only thanks to the timely intervention of the Phantom Stranger, with his own shade-based abilities, was Shadow-Thief caught… while the Justice League captured his cold cronies. Karkull’s plans were ultimately thwarted by Doctor Fate and his Justice Society colleagues, even with the aid of his cadre of costumed criminals… while Ian’s behind-the-scenes ally Lando retreated until a rematch with his arch-enemy as Krishna Das and then Mister Fortune almost two years later

Untold Tale of the Justice Society: Mission in Space!

In late summer of 1975, the Greatest Superheroes of Twin Earths were called away to other worlds, facing ancient adversaries that threatened parallel planets. In both instances, each team defeated these foes one by one, until the true malevolent mastermind was revealed behind-the scenes, powered by a stellar stick in a ploy to lure these champions to their doom using fin-head spacemen.

On Earth-One, members of the Justice League were transported to Rann-One by the scientist named Sardath using his Zeta Plus Beam, in order to assist his future son-in-law Adam Strange in battling old gigantic enemies in the form of: a ray-gun, the bird Kalulla, the metallic Borg, and the Cloud Creature. All of these creatures were manufactured by Kanjar Ro, a villain who battled both Strange and the League in the past. 

On Earth-Two, members of the Justice Society were teleported via celestrial energies at the Mount Pride Observatory* while tracking down missing member Starman. On another world in space, most likely Rann-Two, the Society members battled stellar beings designed by their immortal adversary Vandal Savage** to resemble constellations Andromeda and a giant winged horse, Orion and a giant dog, and Sagittarius and a giant eagle (and later, characters modeled after those on Earth’s broadcast television airwaves). Savage accomplished this by utilzing Starman's old Gravity Rod. With these stellar beings, Vandal built green Kryptonite suns for the planet Colu-Two to orbit.***

While the space mission of the Justice Society was accomplished without any serious threat to life, such was not the case with the Justice League. For a time, it seemed as if Leaguers Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Black Canary and Elongated Man had perished, until Adam Strange noticed that they had been transformed into black spheres. Using Kanjar Ro's Energi-Rod to reverse the process, the five heroes along with their fellow members and Strange were able to defeat Kanjar Ro, removing the threat he and his minions posed.

During to the Society's own mission in space, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Starman were likewise able to outmanuever Savage, when Starman used his prototype Cosmic Rod to overpower Vandal's stolen stick. Concurrent to this, six other members of the Society were dealing with a threat posed by the Injustice Society of the World and their minion, the empowered Cary Bates. Bates, a comicbook writer on Earth-Prime, accidentally ended up on Earth-Two when he used the Earth-One Flash's Cosmic Threadmill left behind on Cary's world. Seeing the potential to create sinister scenarios using his creative storytelling techniques, Bates was manipulated by the Wizard into leading the Justice Society into a trap while battling their Injustice adversaries. Mentally controlling Wonder Woman, Doctor Mid-Nite, Hourman, Johnny Thunder, Wildcat and Robin, Bates had each hero pose as a member of the Injustice Society. Then, when Bates' coworker and fellow writer Elliott S. Maggin journeyed to Earth-One with six members of the Justice League. he found his former friend now a vile villain. The League defeated those whom they thought were the Injustice Society, seemingly killing them.

The Leaguers remained on Earth-Two**** to protect it until the remaining Society members returned from space. As for those six seemingly deceased heroes, they were  in fact all comatose under the effects of Cary Bates, a process reversed by the Spectre, visiting his homeworld after having previously migrated to Earth-One. Together, the League and Society defeated the supervillains, and Bates with Maggin returned to Earth-Prime (a similar battle between the Justice League and Injustice Gang later took place on Earth-One).

* While this tale initially was told in a post-Crisis Earth, during the period of the early 1950s, it has been witnessed that tales on that composite world had a basis in adventures on Earths One and Two. As there were two fin-headed space heroes involved (Adam Strange and Starman), various energy beings used as pawns (Strange's old inhuman adversaries in the cloud etc. and the 3 constellation entities), spawned by evil enemies (Kanjar Ro and Vandal Savage) using stellar sticks (the Energi-Rod and Gravity Rod), with teleportation to and from Earth to other parts of the universe (via Zeta Plus Beams from Sardath's laboratory and cosmic rays from Starman's Mount Pride Observatory), involving remaining members of the Society (Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Starman) not present during the Injustice Society case... it seems logical that this is the untold tale of the Justice Society in space in 1975. 

**Soon after this tale, Vandal Savage attempted to restore his immortality while visiting Earth-One. He made this planet…. probably Rann-Two... as a staging ground to build Colu-Two and its two suns a year later. We know he was still in his phantom state as Earth-Two Flash mentioned to his counterpart that he just learned of Vandal’s condition (which was an untold tale… this tale!!!). Afterwards, Savage lured Superman and the Justice Society to Colu-Two via ancient Camelot!

***Undoubtedly, the stellar beings which Vandal enlisted into service on Rann-Two as constellations were the Sun-Thrivers, whom he forced to build for him Colu-Two’s twin green Kryptonite suns.

**** Of those remaining members of the Justice Society during these contemporaneous tales of Savage on Rann-Two and the Injustice Society, six heroes were present on Earth-Two though not active at this time. Atom was recovering from injuries in a previous crossover, Sandman had self-imposed amnesia of his dual identity (in order to deal with the trauma of his sidekick Sandy's current condition), Mister Terrific was focusing on his career as a Gateway City college professor, Superman and Batman were busy raising a cousin and daughter respectively. As for Doctor Fate, he was dealing with his old foe Khalis' return in the city of Boston.

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Julius Caesar: Oldest Adversary...of the Flash?

Julius Caesar was a prominent miltary commander who in 48 B.C.E.  asserted dominance in Rome and officially ended the Roman Republic when he became "dictator for life". That life soon ended, in 44 B.C.E., when he was assassinated. However, on Earths One and Two, this historic figure met time traveling heroes from the 20th century... with one Caesar becoming more famous in that far future era.

On Earth-One, Rip Hunter and his fellow Time Masters journeyed in their Time Sphere back to Caesar's century (Rip Hunter #19), where they met Julius and his legendary mistress Cleopatra. Initially, Julius was incensed that Hunter seemingly portrayed himself as Caesar when the time traveler met Cleopatra. Once this misunderstanding was rectified, the two parted peacefully. Some time after this, Julius was assassinated in 44 B.C.E. within the Roman Senate by various senators, who stabbed him. But this wasn't the first attempt on his life, as we shall see.

On Earth-Two, Jay Garrick the Flash followed a professor who developed time pills back to Caesar's era (All-Flash #4), and helped save the aspiring emperor's life. However, tension already brewed, which would simmer into an adversarial relationship centuries later. The Flash never suspected the Roman’s true nature. In fact the Julius Caesar of Earth-Two was actually immortal villain Vandal Savage*! He would later admit that he had assumed the aliases of various conquerors throughout the ages, among these was Caesar himself. While he too fell prey to the assassination attempt in 44 B.C.E., Savage's immortal nature allowed him to revive himself. However, seeing as his authority in Rome had ebbed, Vandal retreated into the background, until a new opportunity to become a ruler presented itself.

Back over on Earth-One, Daily Planet photo-journalist Jimmy Olsen arrived some time after Rip's departure  from that time, via a psyche-ray projector**. There, he briefly encountered (and nearly assassinated) Caesar! Meanwhile on Earth-Two, the Law's Legionnaire named Vigilante was sent back to the same year by his arch-foe the Dummy, where he prevented a preemptive slaying of Caesar!

Some years before this, the Earth-Two Wonder Woman was brought to ancient Rome by a time beast, and there met and curried favor with Caesar. Little did either know that over two thousand years later, Julius as Vandal Savage would capture Wonder Woman along with her fellow Justice Society allies, soon freed by her world's Flash and the Flash of Earth-One!

Although in 1943 the first member of the Justice Society whom Savage clashed with was Green Lantern, it was in fact the Flash whom the indignant Vandal believed was his his greatest costumed foe (as he would later state). While his oldest enemy was Immortal Man, who like Vandal gained the ability to live for centuries via the same comet, Savage never appreciated the first impression the Flash made when the two met during his days as Caesar. Savage and the Flash clashed multiple times, not just in the 20th century but also in the era of Camelot when Vandal possessed as King Arthur. While Savage briefly ventured to Earth-One as had Immortal Man, Vandal returned to the world of his birth when plans of conquering that parallel planet were also dashed by Superman... both in the present day and at different key points in history.

* During an adventure (in Flash Comics #41) the European-based Fred, Pedro and Slim encountered a Julius Caesar pulled forward into the 20th century existing concurrent with his future-self Vandal, just as Savage had briefly co-existed earlier that decade with another version of himself from the past in Genghis Khan when the time traveling scientist Doctor Doome brought the Mongol to his century to battle Law's Legionnaires!

** An after-effect of exposure to this time ray later pulled Jimmy Olsen back to Ancient Rome decades after Caesar’s death (in World’s Finest #198-199). This occured when the Earth-One counterpart to modern day Vandal Savage. Superman’s evil cousin Kru-El (along with three other Kryptonian prisoners), unleashed Anachronids throughout time onto their universe from the Phantom Zone.

Secret Origin of the Red Sun of Krypton & Krypton Itself!

The story is legendary and often repeated. The planet Krypton had a thriving civilization existing on it for thousands of years, until internal pressured from within culminated in the world exploding. From this world, the last son and daughter of Krypton, along with scant few fellow survivors, were jettisoned from this condemned globe. And so this tale was told... until the untold secret origin of Krypton and its sun was revealed!

Kal-El, the last son of Krypton-One who became the Superman, discovered a mysterious orange sun entering Earth-One's solar system. Intercepting it, he was pulled within and met its creators, the  ancient gaseous beings known as the Sun-Thrivers, whose existence had depended on their encasing themselves within an artificial red 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. This planet became Krypton-One, and as mentioned by the Harbinger during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, "The Earth... and all the planets were duplicated" aside from the world known as Oa. 

And, in fact, there was a Krypton-Two, Krypton-Three, Krypton-Prime... indeed a Krypton and its corresponding red sun, in every universe across the Multiverse. All created in the same manner, through each universe's version of the Sun-Thrivers. And in all cosmos save that of Earth-Three's, the mass upon which their individual Krypton was built proved unstable and doomed to extinction.

A few years after his counterpart met the Sun-Thrivers, who presented Kal-El with their new Kryptonite powered orange sun designed to replace their dying red sun, Kal-L likewise encountered twin Kryptonite powered green suns orbiting Colu-Two. Whether enlisting or enslaving his universe's Sun-Thrivers into creating them, or perhaps using other technology to accomplish this, Vandal Savage of Earth-Two used these green suns against Superman and Power Girl. Conceiving a scheme to weaken the Kryptonians, Savage syphoned their powers in order to extend his formerly immortal life. Vandal engaged Superman in battle and lost. And so, the last son and daughter of Krypton-Two, Kal-L and Kara Zor-L aka Superman and Power Girl, left this artificial planet and its suns behind without a second thought. As for Savage, two shadowy men abducted him, pulling him into Earth-One to meet Kal-El later.

And as most of Kryptonite was absorbed into Savage's suns, so too was most of this same substance absorbed into the Sun-Thriver's red sun and Krypton-One version 2.0. This lessened the threat of either Superman being exposed to this life threatening substance in the future, aside from those meteorites that fell to their native worlds previously or still floated somewhere outside the vast expanse outside the Sun-Thriver's reach.

One of the two sentient Green Kryptonite suns named Aquarius turned insane, causing its stellar twin and the other Council of Living Stars to depower and banish it from their midst. Aquarius would eventually arrive on Earth-Two, steal Starman’s Cosmic Rod allowing the entity to create a new body for itself and greatly amplify its powers.

Battling the Justice Society and, two weeks later, the Justice League, Aquarius eventually found itself within the Anti-Matter or Negative universe, where it was permanently destroyed. 

Sinster Super-Weapons of Savage Supervillains

Kru-El of Krypton-One and Vandal Savage of Earth-Two mirrored one another in both their tenacity for survival, and their sinister scheming minds. Each were threats to their worlds' Kal and Kara... the Supermen Kal-El and Kal-L, as well as Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl and Kara Zor-L aka Power Girl, not just because they had superhuman abilities comparable to Kryptonian cousins, but their lack of morals meant they were unrestrained in cruelty and cunning.

Kru-El, himself a cousin of Kal and Kara, was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone when it was learned that he was developing forbidden destructive weapons to further his evil ends. These devices were placed in a box that was jettisoned to Earth-One. Upon being released from the Zone along with fellow criminals General Zod and Jax-Ur, the trio betrayed the Kandorian woman Lesla-Lar who freed them, and proceeded to use these against Supergirl. Among the weapons were a force-field beam, a disintegrator, a plant scourge ray, a mind-over-matter machine, and a time-reversal ray. Even equipped with these, the tyrannical trio was defeated by Superman, Supergirl... and Lex Luthor, aiding his foes in order to save his sister Lena from imprisonment in the city of Kandor.

Vandal Savage, while himself brilliant in strategy and in some sciences, relied on the equipment of his former teammates in the Injustice Society. Seeking revenge against the Justice Society, who had defeated he and his allies, Vandal utilized a wide-array of his cronies' creations, including:

Brain Wave's immobility cube

Thinker's heavy-ray beam

Per Degaton's paralysis beam

Their monitoring devices

Savage had himself developed a specialized suit, allowing him to fly. And years later, when facing the Justice Society on his robotic world of Colu-Two, Vandal developed equipment that transferred Power Girl's superhuman abilities to himself, in order to battle Superman with the goal of robbing the Man of Steel of his own abilities. These and previous schemes were hatched with the goal of restoring Vandal's immortality, which was slowly wearing off during the 20th century.

On an earlier occasion, Savage used these devices to manipulate the Flash of both Earths into drawing the meteor that granted him immortality centuries ago back to him. However, the result was transforming Vandal into a phantom on his native Earth-Two for a time.

Kru-El and Vandal Savage would return time and again to threaten humanity while seeking power and control. During the course of their crooked careers, as has been noted, they would rely upon their alliance with the Phantom Zone criminals and Injustice Society colleagues. 

In fact, it was two of the Injustice gangsters, who sent Vandal to Earth-One with the goal of changing that worlds history, which had it been successful (which it had, until that world’s Superman changed it back to normal) would've insured the Justice Society had another world to exploit. In addition, a revised history eliminating their other foes the Justice League of Earth-One would've have secured their supremacy over Earth-Two in the 1970s when they with writer turned supervillain Cary Bates had decisively defeated the Justice Society.

Machavelian Masterminds versus Men of Metal: Vandal Savage versus Shining Knight

Perhaps the most persistent pest to the family El of Krypton-One was the second cousin, once removed, of Kal-El/Superman known as Kru-El. Seeking to develop a stockpile of banned weaponry for his own sinister purposes, this black sheep of the El's was captured and incarcerated by Kal's father Jor-El.

Banished to the Phantom Zone, Kru-El would routinely throughout the years work alongside fellow prisoners of the Zone such as General Zod and Jax-Ur to attempt to exact revenged against the son of their jailer.

On one occasion, Kru-El... along with three other Zone prisoners General Zod, Jax-Ur and Professor Va-Kox... was instrumental in designing creatures known as Anachronids who disrupted space time continuum. This directly involved his cousin and fellow Justice Leaguer the Flash. A later encounter with the Phantom Zoners mentally controlling the Flash paralleled an earlier event when the Flash was briefly mentally manipulated by Va-Kox's cosmic twin Captain Luther Jarvis into battling the Spectre.

The several encounters between Man of Steel and Man of Malice on Earth-One were mirrored on Earth-Two by Kru-El's counterpart Vandal Savage... and another metallic man allied with Kal-L! We now consider the long running enmity between Vandal Savage as Genghis Khan vs the Shining Knight, Superman's fellow All-Star Sir Justin!

When Vandar Adg had been exposed to radiation from a blazing meteorite, he was imbued with immortality. As such, he lived for centuries while adopting various aliases as conquerors such as an ancient king of Sumner, Egyptian Pharaoh Cheops, Roman leader Julius Caesar, and other individuals who on Earth-One were individual men throughout the years. His last foray into direct conquest before becoming a power behind the scenes was as the Mongul ruler known as Genghis Khan. A young Khan aka Temujin of Earth-One had inadvertently been aided in his claim to power by a mistaken time lost Superboy, who saved his life twice!

As Superman, he would later redeem himself somewhat by leading a crushing defeat against Earth-Two's adult Genghis during an adventure with his fellow Justice League members, as well as that world's Justice Society and Law's Legionnaires. More on that later.

Several centuries prior to his appearance as Khan, as Vandal Savage this immortal was a feudal lord in England during the age of Camelot when he first encountered one of his most enduring adversaries, the Shining Knight. The Knight and his flying steed Winged Victory were investigating a massive dimensional tuning fork installed in the countryside next to Savage's castle by the ageless Monitor, placed there as well as four other key points in history on two earths to prevent them from being destroyed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. While the Knight along with Earth-One's Firestorm and Ice Maiden defended this fork from threats originating in the Anti-Matter Universe, it was the marvelously metallic armored Knight who aroused Vandal's interest that would develop over the years.

As Khan, Savage was plucked from the thirteen century do the twentieth century by the renegade scientist known as Doctor Doome. The Doctor had developed the means to traverse time, and employed various notorious conquerors from history including Attila the Hung, Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte as well as Khan to lead Doome's minions in modern conquest. The members of Law's Legionnaires (or Seven Soldiers of Victory) were dispatched to deal with these individual threats, with Knight choosing Khan. No doubt, this battle helped Genghis to recall when as Savage he had first encountered the Knight. Once defeated, Khan returned to his native time. Perhaps during his foray into the future, Savage recalled his earlier meeting with another Legionnaire, Vigilante, when that hero was sent to Ancient Rome when Vandal was Julius Caesar*.

Years later, the Legionnaires were thrust into the time stream after a battle with the Nebula Man, with each member arriving in a different historical era. Tied through the chronal device given to him by Doome, Khan was able to extract Shining Knight and bring him to the thirteen century in order to aid him in his conquest of China. It was during this occasion that the entity known as the Oracle dispatched teams of three heroes each to various eras in order to extract the Legionnaires and bring them back to their native era. Thus, it was Earth-Two's Sandman and Earth-One's Metamorpho and Superman who did this, with Superman's aforementioned victory versus Khan.

Vandal as Gaius Julius Caesar in ancient Rome had encountered a time-lost Vigilante of Law's Legionnaires as well as Rocky, a henchman of the Dummy. Then, centuries later as Count Lucovico, Savage met another of Law's Legionnaire in the Shining Knight, who sought the aid of Leonardo Da Vinci due to his invention of a time machine identical to that later used by the Dummy. It was that machine which the Dummy used in the 20th century to send the Legionnaires and his hood back to earlier eras.

Stealing this time machine and using it to pilfer from the Dummy in the 20th century, Savage would later utilize both technologies in Camelot and Colu-Two versus the Justice Society. encountered a time-lost Vigilante of Law's Legionnaires as well as Rocky, a henchman of the Dummy. Then, centuries later as Count Lucovico, Savage met another of Law's Legionnaire in the Shining Knight, who sought the aid of Leonardo Da Vinci due to his invention of a time machine identical to that later used by the Dummy. It was that machine which Dummy used in the 20th century to send the Legionnaires and his henchmen to earlier eras.

But this was not the end of Khan, as he would be pulled forward in time on one more occasion as a temporal phantom alongside other historical villains in order to battle the Patrol consisting of Fred, Pedro and Slim. Once returned to his earlier time period following defeat, Savage forsook being a direct ruler and instead assist others behind the scenes. As such, his first modern day appearance as Vandal Savage was versus first Green Lantern and then as a member of the Injustice Society versus the Lantern's Justice Society. He would return over the decades to battle the Society three more as well as the Flash of both earths.

Eventually, Savage met his own world's Superman in ancient Camelot which he returned to in order to lead the Society into a trap and draw them to a planet of his own design in order to siphon the Man of Steel's power into himself. And the person who led Superman and the Society to Camelot to pursue Vandal? The Shining Knight who had a link to the villain throughout the centuries. Eventually, Savage moved to Earth-One for a few months, first attempting to change that world's history to make him a conqueror and later an insidious business man. After decisive defeats versus the Man of Steel and his old foe Immortal Man with the Forgotten Heroes assisting them, Vandal Savage disappeared from Earth-One.

* Both Savage's Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan personas would be pulled forward in time to battle the Patrol members Fred, Pedro and Slim... although since these past versions already existed in 1943 at a point when their future version, Vandal, already existed... they appeared as phantoms.

Sinister Strategists of the Stars

This Twice-Told-Tale may seem a bit recycled, as we previously considered Vandal Savage's final battle versus the Justice Society of America as paralleling his battle with Earth-One's Superman. Both had Savage confront the Supermen of two worlds, however since that second tale was erased from Earth-One's history when Superman went back in time and changed events back to the way events originally occurred... a new tale took its place.

On Earth-One, Superman had a fierce foe in his criminal cousin  Kru-El, who had been banished into the penal Phantom Zone prior to the destruction of Krypton-One. Several times over the years, he and his fellow Zoners bedeviled his cousins Kal-El and Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl. Incarcerated for procuring weaponry, this would be the means by which Kru-El would torment Kal's Superman.

Possessing similar powers to his kin, Kru-El nevertheless proved less adept at fighting with these abilities. Just like his counterpart Savage, who had for a period of time been transformed into a phantom caught between dimensional planes of existence, was a master strategist.

On Earth-Two, Savage sought to regain his own immortality through an infusion of Kryptonian energies. Concocting an elaborate plot whereby Savage lured the Justice Society along with the Shining Knight back to the age of Camelot, assuming the alias of the sovereign known as King Arthur,  After subterfuge, Vandal was able to achieve what he felt was the means to restore his long last vitality which had not failed him for untold eons before this.

Vandal drew Superman and Power Girl to an artificial world, Colu-Two. There, under the influence of a Kryptonite sun of his own creation, while channeling the cosmic energies of Star-Spangled Kid's cosmic converter belt and Power Girl's own super powers, Savage battled with Superman in order to steal the Man of Steel's power. This, he theorized, would restore his immortality... however he was instead defeated.

However, a couple of mystery men pulled Vandal through a worm hole in space and kept him from being captured. This would be result in his journeying to Earth-One, in order to change history as mentioned above. Perhaps they were universe's version of the Sun-Thrivers who created Krypton's original red sun and the planet itself.

Timelines of Injustice: Sinister Society's Successful Schemes

The Injustice Society may have ultimately proved a failure when battling their opposite number, the Justice Society, however two of their members succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in ruling the world. Of a kind.

Vandal Savage had the longest run of a rogue's reign, when he schemed to have Superman follow him back through the ages the detonate various time bombs that reset history. As a result, Earth-One was transformed into a perpetual kingdom was the Earth-Two Savage as its sole sovereign for centuries. Or at least for several days, though it seemed longer given how the time stream was altered. 

Vandal was known for pilfering the equipment of his fellow Socialites back when he worked with them in the late 1940's, and thus it would've been his ally Per Degaton's temporal technology that was instrumental in the immortal villain's victory. Although Superman figured this out and reverts history to how it was intended to be.

And speaking of Degaton, when he was a lowly lab assistant for Time Trust scientist Professor Malachi Zee, he gained access to temporal technology. In 1947, Per stole Zee's time cabinet and journeyed back in time with armies and 20th century weaponry in order to alter the course of the key Battle of Arbela in 331 BC which changed the course of history. As such, Earth-Two did not technologically advance past a medieval state, while Degaton secured his modern armaments in a chromium lined cave. Even into the late 1950's, this resulted in this tyrant having unmatched power which even the Justice Society could not overcome.

That is, until Green Lantern journeyed back in time with his teammates and tipped the Battle of Arbela back in favor of the true victors according to history. This led to time being reset, with Per's reign of tyranny ending. Although, the memory of his fleeting victory would remain and prompt him to pursue this path once more.

On his second attempt, Degaton stole atomic weapons from Earth-Prime,enlisting the aid of Earth-Three's Crime Syndicate in order to control Earth-Two. Apparently, this was the decisive step needed so that into the 1980's, Degaton's new history proved him master of his native world. In this reality, superheroes still existed however the Crime Syndicate members Ultraman, Superwoman, Owlman, Johnny Quick and Power Ring remained as his enforcers allowing them to subjugate this world. 

The combined efforts of the Justice Society, Justice League and All-Star Squadron were needed to thwart Degaton's determination for dominance. In the process, they changed back the altered timeline on Earth-Prime that had resulted from the Syndicate's theft of weaponry, when that world was reduced to a devastated landscape. With not atom bombs nor his Syndicate at his disposal, Degaton once more retreated to his native 1947 leaving all save him forgetting about this encounter. His desire would remain.

On Earth-One, Professor Ronson accidentally unleashed via his chronal transponder an energy wave that altered that planet's future causing its superheroes to be eliminated with only their alter egos remaining. Thankfully, the World's Finest Team from the future of Earths One and Two restored reality to its natural course.

Interestingly, the first chronological reset of history on Earth-One was actually the creation of a deviant planet and universe spawned by Earth-Two's Thunderbolt at the behest of the criminal Johnny Thunder who wanted the Justice League eliminated. Replacing them with his Lawless League, themselves counterparts to the Crime Syndicate that were displaced in the alternate timeline on Earth-Two, this quintet of crooks had fleeting careers before they were dispatched by the visiting Justice Society. Although this world exists somewhere within the Multiverse, as does the altered timelines we've considered, they've been folded back into non-existence from whence they came as far as we're concerned.

However, an interesting aside is one final artificially created timeline and universe in the form of Earth-Zero, which was made manifest when Mister Mxyztplk and the entity known as Aethyr destroyed the short-lived planet Aethyr in Earth-One's reality yet projected it and its Bizarro inhabitants into a pocket universe much like Earth-A or these timelines. With their own evil replicas of Justice League and Justice Society members, these worlds would only be liberated from such oppression (although the Bizarro's enjoyed it, given their warped nature living in reverse) when the champions of main-stream realities intervened.

So while history cannot be changed in the universes of the Multiverse, it can be branched off into timelines or universes distinct and different from each individual universe. Although due to the nature of time and the fluidity of their states of being, such existence is transient to say the least!

Immortal Man: Evidence He Originated on Earth-Two

The Immortal Man's biggest claim to fame may well be forgotten.. as the founder of the Forgotten Heroes. This team was composed of various plain clothed (and in Animal Man's case, costumed) crusaders of justice on Earth-One, such as Rip Hunter the Time Master, geologist Cave Carson, deep sea divers the Sea Devils, jungle explorer Congo Bill, Suicide Squad leader Rick Flagg and mysterious maiden the Dolphin.. He had assembled them in order to combat his age-old foe, Vandal Savage, however Savage originated on Earth-Two!

As Immortal Man explained to his fellow champions of justice, he and Vandal had been exposed to the same strange comet that bequeathed them both with extensive lifespans. And through the eon they battled one another perpetually. How could this be, if one was on Earth-One and the other on Earth-Two? In his first tale on Earth-One, Vandal mentioned that he left his home world to conquer this parallel planet by changing its history and thereby controlling its greatest champion, Superman, whose counterpart had alongside the Justice Society defeated him shortly before this.

In his next appearance, Savage created a company known as Abraxas, Inc... designed to employ robotic replicas of the Man of Steel in order to more sufficiently protect Metropolis. However, this was a mere ploy by Vandal to supplant Superman and thereby fracture the public's perception of its prominent protector. After manipulating the radioactive Neutron into battling Superman, he lured the hero into the headquarters of Abraxas, whereby Superman was sprayed with spores that he unknowingly spread throughout Metropolis… causing environmental chaos! This tied to ancient alien pyramids Savage used as a means of returning Earth-One to prehistoric conditions which he could control. 

At this point, Immortal Man revealed himself while recruiting the Forgotten Heroes into joining him in aiding the Man of Steel in defeating his immortal adversary. As Immortal Man confirmed their history, with Vandal previously mentioning his leaving Earth-Two to conquer Earth-One, it is an inescapable conclusion that Immortal Man originated from Earth-Two as well... only leaving it for Earth-One when Vandal himself migrated there.

What can we conclude from this? The adventures of the various "Immortal Men" accumulated racial memories contained within the comet crystal that the original Immortal Man and his subsequent heirs possessed... all took place on Earth-Two until this tale with the Forgotten Heroes. Thus, the various Immortal Men had counterparts on Earth-One that were heroic figures from around the globe of Earth-Two, such as:

• Mark the young orphan was the twin of the young Immortal Man that appeared when the Forgotten Heroes met their opposite number, the Forgotten Villains. Each had brief careers before they each perished saving humanity, both manifesting the same set of powers in that sole appearance. 

• Samar the Jungle Man of Earth-Two's Africa had a counterpart in Animal Man (aka Buddy Baker) of Earth-One's Arizona, each with superhuman abilities tied to powers from the jungles similar to wild beasts. Note: Jungle Man's arch foe Karat possessed a helmet that created animal mutants much as that of Atom Master, a villain who battled the Superman and Batman of Earth-One, and later fought Animal Man, Immortal Man and the Forgotten Heroes. 

• Mark King the English treasure expert of Earth-Two was as intuitive and resourceful as investigator Mark Merlin of Earth-One, whose counterpart was Mark Merlin. Both men possessed mind-over-matter powers and later had their minds transplanted into new bodies. While Mark Merlin merged minds with ancient Egyptian Prince Raman, it was Prince Khufu of Egypt who merged minds with the Hawkman of Earth-Two. Ra-Man and Immortal Man died during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. 

• Kirk Jason the ancient books editor of Earth-Two was like his counterpart on Earth-One, geologist Kenneth Anderson, men who gained telekinetic abilities due to their exposure from alien rocks. Jason was similar to his predecessors, a hero, while Anderson became the villain known as the Annihilator until Batgirl and Supergirl beat him.

• Anton Carter, the prominent former European paleontologist of Earth-Two was matched by Lucian Crawley of Earth-One, a young mutant who like Anton had mental abilities and aspired to be the masked superhero known as Mind-Grabber Kid. However, unlike Carter, who perished soon after his career began, Crawley used his mind control to strike back at the Justice League out of jealousy, and then in disgrace retired. 

• Immortal Man's next identity was unnamed when he appeared on Earth-One following Savage, but this cloned body was the Earth-Two doppleganger to T.O. Morrow who left Earth-One for Earth-Two to construct the Red Tornado as a weapon to use against the Justice Society and Justice League before returning to his home-world. Both men had telekinetic powers.

• Many others in the Immortal Man line, such as Hotep, Ali Jaba, Marcus of Rome, Sir Longlance and Flying Stag (aka Super-Chief) of Earth-Two who each carried Immortal Man's jewel mirrored those Earth-One individuals as Prince Ra-Man of Egypt, Diabolu of Babylon, the Olympian of Greece,  the Wild Huntsman of Germany and Kirk Langstrom (aka Man-Bat).

• The original Immoral Man, Klarn Arg and arch-enemy Vandar Adg, existed during the same prehistoric era as mortal enemies. Klarn's ancient race on Earth-Two mirrored that of an ancient race on Krypton-One which predated Superman's own people. Originally the ruler of this people, when a meteor threaten his civilization the future Kryptonite Man ordered all save himself to be kept in suspended animation for twenty years to ensure salvation. However due to a malfunction, all save himself perished while he awoke centuries later. This was just prior to his home world self destructing, which he blamed on the current Kryptonians. Mutated by Kryptonite radiation from the space fragment he survived on for decades, Kryptonite Man fed himself from the storehouse found in the Seeders' ships. Seeking out Kryptonian survivors, he battled both Superman and Supergirl, a battled paralleled by Vandar aka Vandal Savage battling Superman and Power Girl a universe away. However, Kryptonite Man gave his life to save Earth-One from an invading fleet of Seedera, far more noble than Savage had been.

Sinister Scientists Secluded in Shadowy Subspace

The Phantom Zone... the repository of the most vile criminals from the planet Krypton-One once Jor-El had discovered it... within only a few years was abandoned as to inhumane to imprison its illegal occupants. However, shortly thereafter that world exploded, and it would be years later when Jor-El's son Kal-El received the Phantom Zone Projector when Superboy would first encounter this now superpowered foes. Yes, they gained superhuman abilities like the Boy of Steel under Earth-One's yellow sun, and so individually and collectively, these criminals would face off versus their prisoners's son repeatedly through the years. And each universe has a similar twilight dimension adjacent to or, as evidenced by the appearance of Jur-Ll of Krypton-Three who used his Zone to travel to Earth-One's city of Kandor.

Since the Zone was a manifestation of an alien entity of its universe known as Aethyr, there was no corresponding entity or pocket dimension like the Zone through which Jor-L of Krypton-Two could transport his planet's criminals to... and in fact there is no record of any such infamous individuals having existed there. However, as often happens between these two universes, counterparts sometimes come from different places in each realm.

This was similar to the precedent set by Thanagar-One's Hawkman and Earth-Two's Hawkman, neither a native of his doppleganger's home world. Since Jor-L did not have opportunity to discover his own Phantom Zone, it was left to various scientists of Earth-Two to find the means to pierce the dimensional barrier into this new plane of existence. However, those men of Earth-Two who did so utilized access to it not to imprison felons but to bribe the innocent and empower their crooked cronies. Vandal Savage inadvertently became a transdimesional phantom in this realm like his cosmic twin Kru-El, when he tried to expose himself a second me time to a flaming meteorite that originally gave him immortality… hoping to gain new life from it. Then there was Professor Hunt aka Maligno of Earth-Two, counterpart to Doctor Xa-Du who with his wife used sinister science to torment Superboy and, years later, Superman.

Zoners manipulated the Flash three times, first when Luther Jarvis mentally controlled the Scarlet Speedster, sending him against Earth-Two's Spectre. After this, a quartet of crooked Kryptonians led by Jarvis’ counterpart Professor Va-Kox orchestrated a race between Flash and Earth-One's Superman, in order to open a path out of the Zone. And later Va-Kox’s allies mentally manipulated Flash against Superman shortly before the Fastest Man Alive’s death during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

And, in fact, the Zoner's counterparts originated on Earth-Two, and as such encountered either that world's Superman or his allies in the Justice Society. The scientist that pierced the barrier into what was known as the Fourth Dimension, was Anton Unreal aka Uriah, who like his cosmic twin Quex-Ul aka Charlie Kweeskill of Krypton-One knew secrets of these shadowy realms. While those in the Zone could become phantoms, so too were the so-called “Spirit-Masters” who were other individuals whom Unreal exiled to this realm prior to his imprisonment of Steve Trevor. This led to his girlfriend Wonder Woman intervening to save him. Several of these Masters had been around a few years earlier when they battled the heroine’s Justice Society teammate the Spectre. While the fearsome phantoms that plagued Earth-Two actually originated from that planet rather than their universe's Krypton like their dopplegangers, they had powers comparable to the Kryptonians within their twilight dimensional analogue to the Zone.

Foremost among these was the megalomaniac Zor, the counterpart of General Zod himself. Although he was originally a prominent military leader of Krypton-One, Zod sought to usurp control of the planet's government then ruled by the Science Counsel, which he bitterly opposed. To that end, Zod crested an army of imperfect duplicate of himself to provide him the "manpower" to enact his scheme. Failing at this, his banishment into the Zone began an adversarial relationship between he and the house of El of whom Jor-El was his prime opponent. As the scientist perished along with most Kryptonians, he sought victory over his foes’ son, Kal-El. However, Kal as Superman repeatedly outmaneuvered the military strategist, despite Zod's near perpetual command over his fellow Zone prisoners. Zor was himself a disenfranchised member of a mysterious organization that decided to use his superhuman powers for conquest. This led him towards several battles versus his arch enemy the Spectre, and eventually appeared as a globe-being to battle the Justice Society, much as Zod had employed globe brains from space versus the Legion of Super-Heroes. Zor was kept imprisoned for indeterminate periods of time by his adversary.

Then there was the Kryptonian scientist Kru-El, cousin of Jor-El who like his counterpart Vandal Savage was a procurer of illegal weaponry with a thirst for power. Two other malevolent masterminds in  Gaz-Or and  Bandar were among the worst of their lot, given the crimes they orchestrated. There were others such as Thul-Kar and Kalthoon who styled themselves as prophets, although they were actually master manipulators. Then there were the more common criminals, such as Gra-Mo and Ace Chance. who along with countless others were occupants of these other realms adjacent to the twin Earths sought to plunder from others. 

Even some unspecified occupants of the Spectral Zone or Fourth Dimension enlisted by Kalthoon who like various unidentified prisoners of the Phantom Zone were recruited into Zod's phantom army.

Twice-Told-Tales: Devious Duplicates Developed Deviously

Two of the most prolific adversaries that the Greatest Superheroes of parallel planets ever faced were Kanjar Ro and Vandal Savage. Although their counterparts on each other's world were different villains, during a series of  schemes these twin terror's actions mirrored one another, It began shortly after they were both defeated approximately the same time, at the hands of the Justice League and Society respectively.

Both malicious masterminds hatched plots whereby they utilized stolen super-science in their attempted conquests of their respective universes  while achieving vengeance versus their bitter foes. These pawns would be directed towards a quintet of both teams' members. While Kanjar Ro's sinister spawn replicated  the Leaguers... Vandal Savage's approach was to eliminate his foes in the Society once and for all.

Thinking these beings would lead the two teams into traps, the second half of their plans were hatched when Ro utilized his Energi-Rod to shift Earth-One from its orbit closer to where he was located while on the planet Rann; and when Savage utilized a mysterious wand exerting his influence over his adversaries (Vandal Savage's true counterpart was Kru-El the Kryptonian, who mostly resided in the Phantom Zone, although on one occasion battled the Justice League).

Kanjar Ro's true counterpart was the dictator known as Blakfu, king of the Mole Men*. Utilizing paralyzing electrical currents and other weaponry similar to his counterpart, Blakfu like Kanjar Ro made as a recurring the Wonder Woman of his Earth. Only instead of facing Wonder Woman’s allies in the Justice Society, he made enemies of the girls of Holliday College.

With such awesome power in the palms of their hands, and with their hated foes permanently out of the picture, they would've been successful in this regard. However, despite their incredible intellect and bountiful resources, it was the ego of these two villains that ultimately go the better of them at the end of the day. 

Kanjar Ro was outwitted by the superior strategies of his arch-enemy archaeologist Adam Strange, protector of Rann. This was the second of two tries at defeating Strange and the League early in their costumed careers.

Savage found his second solo foray versus the Society fail after the intervention of his first superhero foe, Green Lantern. This attempt took place shortly after Vandal had briefly captured and held that team comatose in his Mammoth Cave hideout. 

During these twice-told-tales, the villains of the piece found their failures mirrored in one another. The assembled Justice League quickly overpowering Kanjar Ro in his throne room, while Savage himself was surrounded and vanquished at an undisclosed location. In fact, this was first hinted at previously as being an untold tale. Both Kanjar-Ro and Vandal Savage years later would have two more consequences battles versus the League and Society, but those are tales left to be told for another day!

* Blakfu with his Mole Men appeared in Wonder Woman #s 4, 35, 47, and 57.  Kanjar Ro with his minions appeared in Justice League of America #3, 24, 120-121, 138-139. Three additional appearances of Kanjar Ro versus the Justice League mirrored Savage's three known battles with the Justice Society.

Flash of Two Worlds: Ageless Agony Again

Usually, when the Fastest Men of Earths One and Two met, it wasn't purely a social visit. Nor did these meetings generally start out as such... and certainly this adventure was a prime example of this. Barry Allen woke up, only in another bed on another world, having assumed Jay Garrick's place. Jay-Flash had himself disappeared, leaving Barry-Flash to impersonate him and accept an award from the grateful citizens of Keystone City. After this, Barry encountered a mysterious man known as Dorvan who revealed that he knew where Jay currently was... in a temporal limbo. Providing Barry the means to enter that timestream to save Jay, Dorvan afterwards removed his disguise to reveal that he was the former foe of each Flash, Vandal Savage. Only now, Savage was aging tremendously since their last encounter, since his the effects of his immortality were gradually removed. A possible reason for this is due to another comet that slammed into the sun of Earth-Two, which irradiated the atmosphere causing Jay-Flash to use gas from meteor-fragments to absorb this toxix radiation. And, no doubt, also removed Savage's ageless ability as well!

Meanwhile, if such a concept exists in the timestream, Barry-Flash and Jay-Flash travel through an exotic obstacle course until they meet its protector Tempest. After besting the temporal protector, Tempest sends the Scarlet Speedster on their way to find Vandal's comet... the same comet that struck him centuries previous and bequeathed him with his immortality. Apparently, Vandal had implanted in Jay-Flash's mind the desire to bring the comet back to Earth-Two, only another speedster's energy was also needed to accomplish this. And so, the dynamic duo successfully steered the object back into Jay-Flash's time/space, and followed it back to Earth-Two. They were to late to stop it from striking Savage, although the effects of the comet caused their ageless adversary to disappear.

Never fear, for Vandal Savage would return, stating that the effects of the comet had not transformed him into a phantom on his native world and solid  on Earth-One. Hence, he hatched an elaborate scheme to lure Barry-Flash and that world's Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, into a confrontation with him by using Iris Allen And Carol Ferris as bait. Venturing to Earth-Two to consult with Jay-Flash, that speedster informed his friends of Savage's perdicament but was unable to assist them further. Seeking to find their women, the two Justice Leaguers tracked down an artificial fireball like that which granted Vandal near endless life ages prior, with one of the girls inside. Thanks to their powers and tenacity, the pair were able to free Carol Ferris although Savage's plan fell apart and he was captured.

Meanwhile, the reason why Jay-Flash had to remain on Earth-Two was to watch over a woman... Iris Allen... who needed to remain there for her own wellbeing? Why? That is a tale for another day.

Flash of Two Worlds: An Ancient Adversary

By their third encounter, the Scarlet Speedsters had learned quite a bit about one another's private lives, their rogues, their techniques and their need for speed... all from visiting one another's world. It was Barry's turn to visit Jay's planet once more, when he was tracing mysterious lights originating from Earth-Two.

When each of the six cities on Earth-One matched those of a member of the Justice Society of America, Barry Allen donned his crimson costume and seek out new found friend Jay Garrick to see what was the origin of these electromagnetic energies that caused havok in Gotham City, Central City, Washington DC, Calvin City (soon after renamed Ivy Town) as well as two other burgs.. After facing various weird weaponry which caused both speedsters some problems, they tracked the problem to a persistent pest who had... along with other members of the Injustice Society of the World... battled Jay's team twice years ago.

Turns out, it was immortal foe Vandal Savage who ensnared various members of the Justice Society of America with said lights, all except the Flash who had been saved by his twin. After they shook off the effect's of Savage's will-sapping device, which had turned the speedsters against one another, they were able to release the rest of the Justice Society... and drag Vandal back to jail.

However, he would return, again and again, to torment the twin tornados repeatedly in the years that followed. Ironically, it was his own desire for vengeance that caused the Justice Society to reform for a modern era once more!

The Earth-S counterpart of Vandal Savage, King Kull, likewise caused his own share of trouble for the heroes of his world and those of Earths One and Two during a "Crisis in Eternity" when that immortal villain launched an attack on his own native world and those of Earths One and Two. As such, the speedster Mercury (a frequent ally of Kit "Kid Eternity" Freeman, the counterpart to Barry and Jay) recruited the pair of Scarlet Speedsters as well as their teammates of the Justice League and Justice Society to assist the newly reformed Squadron of Justice of Earth-S to quash the schemes of Kull and his supervillain henchmen. Kull like Savage showed tremendous acumen using advanced technology despite his primitive beginnings, yet like him ultimately underestimated his three fleet footed foes and their allies.

Exiles of the Planet Oa Terrorize the Multiverse

Early in the history of Earth-One's universe, a scientist of the planet Maltus named Krona had been obsessed with learning the secrets of the past. While on the world known as Oa, Krona used technology to witness the dawn of creation, something that had been strictly prohibited by his society as they had somehow become aware of the dire consequences for his actions. In fact, instead of attaining increased knowledge, Krona's contemptuous curiosity caused his own universe to be replicated an infinite number of times, spawning the Multiverse and the Anti-Matter Universe. For his crimes, his fellow Oans banished him to wander his universe by transforming him into a globe of energy. Not long thereafter, these same benevolent blue-skinned beings became the Guardians of the Universe.

Realizing that their own inherent evil might motivate them to do despicable deeds like that of the former brother, the Guardians purged all of their own negative energy and banished it in a globe of energy to wander Earth-Two's universe, where they had previously sent the Starheart. Once there, this malevolent globe gained sentience, much as its Earth-One doppelgänger, its Antithesis. Indeed the Guardians realized that the Starheart's energy would eventually locate a champion in that realm with powers similar to their own Green Lantern Corps, and were confident that this individual could combat the now sentient Evil-Globe.

And, in fact, this was accomplished when Alan Scott, wielding the green lantern and power ring, joined alongside his allies of the All-Star Squadron to vanquish this entity from Earth-Two when it merged with Joe Morgan in a fit of vengeance. The Evil Globe-Being merged with Morgan turned the former boxing trainer a gigantic being with a glowing bluish hue. Morgan aka "Nat Milligan" was the counterpart of Earth-One's Guy Gardner, aka the backup Green Lantern of Sector 2814. 

As for the Guardians’ self-replicating Evil-Globe, its cosmic twin was the Guardians’ Green Globs, sentient energy entities that assisted individuals throughout the universe. The benevolent Glob secretly intervened in the lives of numerous individuals throughout the 1960s, before leaving Earth-One just as the malevolent Globe had when it was exiled from Earth-Two during the early 1940s.

Decades later, another globe of energy arrived also on Earth-Two, only this was actually Krona who had merged with Alan's power ring. Leading Scott back over to Earth-One to meet up with his counterpart Hal Jordan, both Green Lanterns were soon summoned by the Guardians who advised them that Krona had reintegrated his physical body and threatened this universe. Side-by-side, this pair defeated the villain and consigned him once more into the void of space. 

A few years later, another immortal adversary of Green Lantern tied to a celestial object, the meteor-invigorated Vandal Savage, traveled from Earth-Two to Earth-One. Savage's goal was similar to that of Krona, to regain his physical vitality while dominating all others unopposed. However, he faced that world's Superman and Vandal's centuries old adversary, the Immortal Man, along with the Forgotten Heroes, who thwarted his sinister schemes. He apparently returned to Earth-Two following his defeat.

The counterpart of Krona, Ghan Uu, was one of three Buddak's from the planetary twin of Maltus who invaded Earth-Two a few years after Krona's incursion on both worlds, only he and his allies were defeated by Doctor Fate and a visiting Superman of Earth-One, who mirrored the Green Lantern's in their heroic actions in facing their age-old adversaries. While Krona returned from seemingly being wiped from existence, Ghan Uu and his two confederates perished at the conclusion of the cosmic crisis they attempted to unleash on Earth-Two and their universe.