Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43505-20161008233233/@comment-1013969-20161010222013

Byfield wrote: Some thoughts and questions:

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 * The speculation of IGC's The Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Index is trumped by what DC put into ABSCOIE. What wasn't carried over amounts to fanspec.

I would argue that is not true. ABSCOIE clarifies some things but it has no information on what Earth-2B was other then to see the (non existent) reference of Earth-Forty-Six. Also we have Crossover-Earth which didn't make its way into ABSCOIE.


 * We work with what we have, which is:
 * DC decided that the golden age Superman is Earth-Two and the silver age (modern at the time) superman was Earth-One.

Except for Earth-2B, Alternate Earth-Two, Earth-Forty-Six or whatever name DC decided on (assuming they are references to the same Earth...which other then Earth-2B = Earth-Forty-Six we don't know for sure).

The best that gives us is that:
 * The stories involving Superboy from that period are Earth-One. Even if it is clunky as heck.
 * Superman stories that reference Superboy are Earth-One.
 * Superman stories that seem to contradict previous Earth-Two stories are Earth-One.

This has its own set of problems as the first Superboy story was in More Fun Comics #101 (January 1945) and he got a regular series in 1949 (Superboy #1). In fact, Superboy #1 has the adult Superman responding to the question of what he was like when he was a boy.

Since 1945 and 1949 are in the Golden Age and the formal Golden Age Superman wasn't a Superboy when this must be a different Superman from either Earth-Two or Earth-One.