Crisis on Infinite Earths #1
Date:
April 1985
Publisher:
DC Comics
Cover Price:
75¢
2017 Price Range:
$2 – $16
Stats:
32 color pages plus Crisis Beginnings column. (No ads!)
Writers:
Marv Wolfman, Len Wein and Robert Greenberger
Artists:
George Perez, Dick Giordano, Anthony Tollin and John Costanza
Notable Notes:
DC finally decides to clean up its continuity and parallel Earths!
Crisis, finally!
I picked up this entire series 18 years ago, and am just now getting around to reading it for the first time! Sheesh – I feel like such a comic slacker. I know it is one of the most influential comic series of all time, but my desire to experience it hasn’t been very high. When I was a kid I never read DC comics, and it wasn’t until I was an adult that I started getting into them at all. So there’s that – plus for some reason I always thought this was a serious, no-fun series whose only goal was correcting horrible DC continuity problems. That last part may be true, but this first issue turned out to be really cool, and I am excited to read more! In the introduction the writer even states that a fun and interesting series is one of the goals. So I am happy to verify that, for this issue anyway, it was accomplished!
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