Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-18172179-20141003193641/@comment-18172179-20141003230711

This is just for New Earth characters. Every other earth designation must have different first appearances and maybe creators; because they were intended to be different from the original. However, New Earth is special because that's the earth where most of the iconic and well known characters were developed as well as their respective stories and they followed the first premise under which the characters were created with minor alterations.

Most people doesn't know that there are a number of versions and takes on the same character and just look up for the most common/well known version of them. The infobox provides a global description of the character and that's why, in the case of New Earth characters only, the first appearance should be the first ever as well as the creators. If we're to change it all, we must change the creators as well and that is misleading, because Byrne didn't created Superman as Miller didn't created Batman.