Posted: 2011 June 08 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | 1
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Moyer Hall: "Is this how Crisis On Infinite Earths felt to fandom back then?" Don't let the revisionist history fool you. In the immediate wake of the Crisis it was basically business as usual for most books. For a glimpse of the other books that month, go here: http://www.dcindexes.com/timemachine/coverdate.php?year=1986 &month=3 As far as anyone knew Wonder Woman was dead, and Infinity, Inc. (and the JSA) were getting used to now living on the new merged Earth, but that was about it. Green Lantern was heading towards a major new direction (7 Earth bound GLs and the Guardians retiring), but nothing that changed pre-existing history. Batman joined Justice League Detroit. I guess you could count the Deadman mini-series that began that month as a reboot of sorts, since Dick Giordano directed Andrew Helfer to start the series right after the end of Neal Adams' original Deadman run (which had just been reprinted as a 7 issue series), which effectively negated every appearance he had made from Brave and the Bold #86 to the mini-series. For everyone else, they just got back to what they were doing before. The reboots that followed were filtered in gradually: All-Star Squadron consolidated their Golden Age heroes and wiped the "Big Five" five months later, Man of Steel was about 7 months after Crisis #12, Perez Wonder Woman and Batman: Year One the better part of a year after Crisis #12, etc. Most involved adjustment to character backgrounds rather than a full-on restart, with Superman, Wonder Woman and Captain Atom being the major exceptions. (Hawkman's restart came a year or two after things were supposedly stabilized hence the constant complaining about that one. Also, he'd been given a post-Crisis ongoing which hadn't screwed with his history so I guess he was supposed to have already been done.) From what I understand, TPTB at DC were open to more reboots, but the worker bees opted not to. For example, Mike Gold says he was given the option of restarting Flash with a reworked Barry Allen if he had so desired but he preferred to move forward with Wally.
Edited by Dave Phelps on 2011 June 08 at 5:32pm
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