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Welcome to the New TVCU.... Pretty Much Same as the Old TVCU.... Almost...

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So Crisis is ended.  The Multiverse was restored, but changed.  And while Earth-66 was not shown to be restored, several other worlds were, and there's nothing to say it wasn't.  So we can keep our TVCU. But going forward, I'm going to take the opportunity to restructure a bit of TVCU Multiverse theory.  Perhaps we can consider Batman'66/Wonder Woman'77 a "Post-Crisis" comic.  If Earth's 1, 38, and Black Lightning can be merged, why not the worlds of Batman'66 and Wonder Woman'77?  Into a Television Crossover Universe?  So that's what I'm going with.  Also note the world of Super Friends was identified as Earth-1938.  I like that because it avoids confusion with Earth-12, the DC Animated Universe.  Also now I can mention that the DC Extended Universe was shown to exist, even beyond the multiverse that was destroyed, yet still connected to the Speed Force.  So the TVCU Mulitverse.  I think going forward...

More Crisis Crisis....

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I haven't read it yet, but the TVCU Crew has informed me of some revelations from the comic book tie in to Crisis. One that's a problem is that they identify Earth-76 as the home of Wonder Woman'77 and Earth-78 as the home of the Christopher Reeves movies.  This negates some crossovers involving the Wonder Woman'77 comic and Batman'66 comic and I think that's a huge mistake on DC's part.  Especially since they included Smallville season 11 as canon. They also included Super Friends, Earth-N52, and Earth-D, which aren't problems but are cool enough to mention. They didn't seem to give Super Friends an Earth designation, which would have been useful to me for my Scooby-Doo Team-Up post. Also mentioned is Earth-F, the home of the animated Fleischer Studios shorts, which I have previously devoted an entire blog post too, so it's nice to be able to name that Earth now. Okay, see you all in January, or after I read the comic myself if I...

Superman: The Silver Age Crossovers

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I first became aware of the fictional crossover/shared reality concept when I was five years old. As my family was about to embark on a drive from Massachusetts to California, my father gave me my first comic book to keep me occupied, and it was an issue of the Marvel Comics adaptation of Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. This is the first time I was able to comprehend what was going on here, on a significant level. All these characters from their own cartoons were appearing together, as part of the same reality, thus placing all their previous cartoons in the same reality. From that point on, I started becoming more aware. As I started reading more comics, I noticed how all the DC characters lived on one world while the Marvel characters lived on another, and I mostly only bought team and team-up books. Of course, once Superman met Spider-Man, my mind was blown again. For the purpose of this post, we will focus on the silver age Superman, who was Superboy, and whose adventures w...