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March 5, 2006
Infinite Crisis: Reverberations of Earths Past 4
Last call for the Infinite Crisis reverbs. Superman is the only featured hero…
Adventures of Superman 649 wraps up the alternate history of Earth-1 Superman taking over for our version. The story didn't finish as well as it had started. In the end, it's all pretty meaningless, as you know they will come to their senses. In this double page spread, Superman-I fights Superman II, as do their dopplegangers: Superman-Red, Superman-Blue (lightning style) are the second pair, and Kingdom Come-Superman vs Superman are the fourth pair. Where did that Tiger version come from?
Infinite Crisis #5 has a good riff as Superman-I figures out that Alexander Luthor is a bad guy after all! On the right side, it looks like Kal from Dave Gibbons and Garcia-Lopez' Elseworlds tale; classic Superman-Red and Superman-Blue; Millar's Superman from Red Son. I can't recognize any figure on the left. Any guesses? Nuff said.
See also:
Infinite Crisis: Reverberations of Earths Past 1
Infinite Crisis: Reverberations of Earths Past 2
Infinite Crisis: Reverberations of Earths Past 3
Comments
The purple guy on the left is Power Man (no relation to the Marvel character, and this one actually predates Luke Cage). He appeared in one Silver Age issue, one Modern Age issue, and Kingdom Come. In his first appearance, he was an android who for one issue replaced Batman as Superman's partner in the pages of "World's Finest" #94. He appeared again in issue 271, and was background filler in Kingdom Come. That said, I'm not sure why he is in this picture.
Posted by: Michael G | March 6, 2006 12:42 AM
I think the "black Superman" is the Tangent Superman from a few years back.
Posted by: Nala | March 6, 2006 4:18 AM
And the guy between them is Crime Syndicate member Ultraman. I had no clue about the other guys. Isn't it nice when fanboys help fanboys?
Posted by: Blockade Boy | March 7, 2006 4:51 AM
I'm not sure, but I think the "Tiger" Superman may have been from one of the Elseworlds Annuals, which had infant Kal-El raised by apes in a riff on Tarzan's backstory.
Posted by: Shawn Levasseur | March 18, 2006 7:49 PM
