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Spotify[S2E2] Earth-Quality (Pre-Crisis Multiverse)
Welcome to Infinite Earths Guide — your roadmap to the DC Multiverse.
From the iconic worlds of Earth-1 and Earth-2 to the strange, forgotten, and unexpected corners of DC continuity, this podcast is your guide through one of the most expansive fictional universes ever created.
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Pack your passport for Earth-Quality, a Golden Age world where Blackhawk, Doll Man, the Human Bomb and generations of Quality Comics characters built a shared history long before anyone called it a Multiverse. DC Dave explores a destination shaped by publishing legacy, bizarre wartime history and comic-book science — a universe that existed decades before anyone thought to put it on the map.
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Thanks for another positively Reithian episode. The Quality connection gave the DC Universe some great characters, it’s weird that barely any were touched in the couple of decades post-1956 when the company and catalogue were purchased. Just Plastic Man and Blackhawk, yes?
One thing I had wondered – for a few months early in 1975, splash pages would bear the words ‘A DC Quality Comic’, and I remember at the time, wondering if there was something going on, whether they were going to be exploiting the Quality characters more. But according to Gemini it was simply a whim of Carmine Infantino’s that never went anywhere.
I’m glad you enjoyed it and are continuing to listen.
You’re right, it was just Plastic Man and Blackhawk until the 70s. I guess DC was just interested in squashing the competition, rather than utilizing any of its properties. I’m sure if they could have bought out Fawcett at the time, rather than suing them into oblivion, they would have done so. Or maybe buying out Quality was the only real option they had, since there wasn’t a Superman analog to sue them over.
It’s funny how the 70s saw DC embrace the Marvel and Quality characters, suddenly realizing they could actually use (profit) from them.
Would have loved to have seen Infantino’s take on the Quality characters. It’s always fascinated me the way DC has portrayed the Quality characters within their line, in opposition to how they were portrayed in their own publishing line.