Questions On Earth Three.

[Antiyonder]

These questions are about the world of The Crime Syndicate:

1. Aside from their 1st appearance (which I read in Crisis On Multiple Earths Volume 1), do The Crime Syndicate have anymore Pre-Crisis Appearances?

1a. If yes, then please list them.

2. Has there been anymore members of The CS?

2a. If yes, please list them.

3. Could someone provide me with a complete list of all Historical events happening in reverse on Earth Three.

4. Was The Crime Syndicate the only super villains of Earth Three? If no, who else was there?


Thanks

[Anthonynotes]

>>These questions are about the world of The Crime Syndicate:

1. Aside from their 1st appearance (which I read in Crisis On Multiple Earths Volume 1), do The Crime Syndicate have anymore Pre-Crisis Appearances?

1a. If yes, then please list them.
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The Crime Syndicate made a few sporadic reappearances, either as a whole team or with just a few of its members:

- IIRC various members of the team escaped their prison and showed up during the "Secret Society of Super-Villains" series of the 70's.

- Ultraman escaped and teamed up with the Luthor of Earth-1 and Earth-2; the three of them fought Earth-1 and Earth-2's Supermen, who'd both teamed up with Earth-Three's Luthor (the first hero on his world). All in 1982(?)'s "DC Comics Presents" annual. We also get to see Earth-3's Lois (who seems attracted to her Luthor...which plays out as seen in "Crisis").

- There's also the 1982 JLA-JSA annual hootenanny---this one a time-travel *and* dimension-hopping crossover between JLA and "All Star Squadron" (their 80's title about the non-JSA heroes of the 1940's), with Earth-Prime (the comic-book stand in for the "real world"; an Earth where superheroes were just fiction [until around shortly before "Crisis" anyway when a Superboy showed up]). Here, Per Degaton (who's currently/recently appeared in the JSA title IIRC) frees the Crime Syndicate as part of his latest plan to conquer Earth (well, his native Earth-2 anyway).


>>2. Has there been anymore members of The CS?


2a. If yes, please list them.
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No other members pre-Crisis; post-Crisis, several recent storylines seemed to imply there were others.

>>3. Could someone provide me with a complete list of all Historical events happening in reverse on Earth Three.
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Earth-Three's gimmick, for those not familiar, was doing the "evil backwards universe" type of schtick made famous several years later in Star Trek's "Mirror Universe" episode. The events shown on Earth-Three included:

- Christopher Columbus "discovered" Europe in 1492.

- England fought for and won independence from the United States in the 1770's/1780's.

- President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

Also, the Earth-3 universe's Krypton didn't explode, unlike Earth-1 and -2's Kryptons.

Those were the only events shown AFAIK of; Earth-3 didn't get much screen time in the comics before it was the first Earth blown to bits in "Crisis On Infinite Earths" #1.


>>4. Was The Crime Syndicate the only super villains of Earth Three? If no, who else was there?

They were apparently the only villains on Earth-3; post-Crisis, the Syndicate's world IIRC had a few others show up.

-B.