Update on the Crisis Bind

All of the books for the Crisis Bind have been sent to the bindery.

Once that is complete, I shall resume my examination, issue by issue of all texts related to Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In other binding news, I am working on a Zero Hour Bind which, in my opinion is the sequel to the first crisis.  At 120 issues, this one will clock in at at least four books.

Showcase #100

Showcase #100 is what might be considered the true origin of Crisis on Infinite Earths. The story is pretty simple: Alien threat, time displaced heroes, and the Spectre being a bad-ass and moving planets.

Why have I included this non-crisis issue as the first in the bind? It pre-dates COIE by almost 7 years and doesn't once multiverse. But the story is one in which a hundred characters are wedged into a cohesive plot and for one issue, they have to fight a universal evil.  Why are the heroes presented gathered? Well all of them were featured characters in previous issues of Showcase. As a result, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are absent.

So a bit about the cast of characters. There is a wide collection of odd ones rarely seen in the contemporary DC world. Of course the Metal Men, Sea Devils, and Teen Titans have their spots in the cast of hundreds, but Space Ranger, Tommy Tomorrow, Firehair, and the Inferior Five don't really catch people's attention these days. Probably even more importantly Lois Lane and Angel,  of Angel and the Ape, play a prominent role. And of course they share a slightly awkward pseudo-lebionic moment at the story's end. 

The Order of Things

I have been trying to decide on how to best present the information on this blog and how to convey what is going in regards to the multitude of single issues that will be presented here. But finally I have come up with a format on how to share the epic of the Crisis with you.

Moving forward, the entries to this page will be broken down by the following schema:

• Issue Information
• Story Title
• Cast of Characters
• How does this tie into the greater Crisis Continuity?
• Neat Stuff...
• Not So Neat Stuff...
• And possibly something out of context.

Next post presents what may be considered the Ur-Crisis event; a single issue story with a cast of thousands, where history goes awry and the heroes of today, tomorrow, and yesterday must fight right now to save the planet. Well, maybe not a cast of thousands, dozens to be more precise.

Flash of Two Worlds may have been the inspiration for the Multiverse, but Showcase 100 is probably the best time-spanning "crisis" that lays the groundwork that Mr. Wolfman and Mr. Perez would do in the future.

Stay tuned.

Table of Contents

So the following pages are the sample Table of Content pages for the first four volumes of the Crisis Bind.

A few changes have been made to the original list of texts included in this blog. Most importantly, an unlisted monitored appearance