Flash #123 (1961), aka “The Flash of Two Worlds,” is the iconic comic book that gave us the first team-up between Barry Allen and Jay Garrick. All-Star Comics #3 (1940) established the fact that all DC Comics characters coexisted in the same world when superheroes who starred in their own series met each other for the first time and founded the Justice Society of America. Nevertheless, here a just a few issues that introduce key concepts used during the Crisis. Before Crisis on Infinite EarthsĪs Crisis on Multiple Earths used every DC character, it would be difficult and pointless to familiarize yourself with the entirety of the DCU just before everything got rebooted. For now, let’s take a look at what introduced the ideas, concepts, and characters leading to the Modern Age. It will be the subject of another article. Of course, there is a lot to read from the Golden Age to that point, but it’s not the goal of this article to deal with that. It’s not definitive, feel free to submit more books to read in the comment section (and tell us why they are a must-read!).įrom Crisis to Crisis: A DC Comics Reading OrderĬrisis on Infinite Earths marks the end of the Bronze era. This reading guide is here to offer one possible road to follow. There are a lot of roads to follow, but you may just want the short version–or at least, the essential reading recommendation. If you want to explore this rich story, the task is overwhelming. Nevertheless, reading from Crisis to Crisis is not a simple task as the series are numerous, as well as the crossovers. The DCU was just destined to become a confusing affair once more. The event didn’t fix everything and other Crisis events try to do more. It became–and still is for a lot of readers–a good entry point into the DCU. At the time, the goal was to create a single, unified DC Universe.Ĭrisis on Infinite Earths was used to launch what is called the Modern-Age era. This 12-issue limited series is now credited with popularizing the idea of a large-scale crossover in comics. This led to multiple crossovers between Earth-One and Earth-Two.īut what cemented “Crisis” as a synonym for “world-altering event” was the 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths, the famous crossover storyline from Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. 
The story introduced the idea of two different realities in order to explain how the heroes of the Justice League teamed up with their predecessors from the Justice Society of America. The original “ Crisis” took place in Justice League of America #21, titled “Crisis On Earth-One!”. All that with the use of what are called “Crisis” events. Some see that as a problem and, in order to fix it, multiple reboots/relaunches were introduced, installing a new status-quo, and launching new “eras”. For years now, every DC Comics reader is dealing with continuity issues.
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