Thread:Tupka217/@comment-1013969-20161227144734/@comment-220364-20161228203148

Bruce,

A lot of material winds up being questionable when trying to relate it to the continuity of the day. More oft than not that material gets treated, at the time, as within that continuity unless it is glaringly wrong. It isn't until later that someone comes along and tries to make sense of it that it gets reallocated elsewhere.

The old "Imaginary Stories" and the break between Earth-Two and Earth-One are where this is seen most readily.

The general rule of thumb on this database, as far as I under stand it, is to rely primarily on martial published by, or with, DC's blessing. After that we reconcile what is with that. If things get odd, as with the SuperFriends material, we hasit out with an internal structure. Like it or not. We generally do not go to speculation from fanzines or message boards, which is, IIRC, where you pulled Earth-Two-A and Earth-Forty-Six.

You are right, DC's Who's Who uses Detective Comics #372, the 300th issue of Batman in the title, as the Earth-One Batman's first appearance. Even though it is at odds with, at the least, four years of material that DC had published. As has as I know, DC has never addressed that. Just as it never really addressed when Batman and Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, or Vigilante stories shifted from E-Two to E-One.