Board Thread:Policies/@comment-246292-20140502145126/@comment-220364-20140502230524

Trying to nutshell what I see... This is without dealing with Kid Eternity and post-Crisis concerns.
 * Quality Comics published from 1937 through 1956.
 * A number of what are seen as "signature" characters had runs that ended after the end of WWII. For example Doll Man (1939-1953) and Plastic Man (1941-1956)
 * After DC bought Quality, they really didn't use the stuff they bought. The continued Blackhawks, along with three other title, starting in 1957, but didn't touch the superhero characters until reviving Plastic Man in 1966. The biggest revival was with Earth X in 1973.
 * The Blackhawks and Plastic Man DC did introduce have been assumed to have been Earth-One characters.
 * In 1973 Schwartz used assigned the Quality characters to Earth-X and gave a background for that reality. The important points being that 1) WWII didn't end in 1945 and 2) Germany won the war. Of the 14 Quality characters, only 5 - Black Condor, Phantom Lady, Ray, and Uncle Sam - have no canon issues since they stopped appearing in stories by 1944.
 * In 1981 Thomas started to provide Earth-Two counterparts of the Quality characters. He also set in motion a major retcon for Earth-X. With he introduced Earth-X as a world with out mystery men. Two issues later he had the Freedom Fighters from Justice League of America #107 "migrate to Earth-X. And in the final throws of Crisis he had the rest of the Quality characters "migrate" to Earth-X as well.

Frankly, I would be tempted to have separate articles for if not all of the Quality characters, then at least for the ones that had published stories after 1944. That set at least does not fit either the original premise or the 11th hour revamp of the pre-Crisis Earth-X. As for the rest, since we are looking back at it, "Earth-Two" would work for Quality character with published stories from 1939 to 1944 and "Earth-X" for those that just appeared between 1942 (using the spcific dates of the "migrations") and 1944. And then there would be looking at which ones appeared after Crisis...