Thread:Tupka217/@comment-6369172-20150919214210/@comment-3419446-20150921161408

SDD, I see your point, but this actually works both ways. DrJD'S examples certainly illustrate the existence of Military and Police Comics in KE's world, where the summoned characters are being treated as fictional (which they are, of course).

So a case could be made for KE'S GA adventures taking in a universe outside of that described in the Blackhawk and Plastic Man features.

Thesis: In all of his his GA appearances, KE never teamed-up with other "real" comic characters (the apparances of the "fictional" Blackhawk and Plastic Man not withstanding).

In WFC #280 (1982, i.e. pre-Crisis), KE gets an amended origin which does not contradict the previously established "facts" and makes him part of the extended Marvel Family. This is embellished in his Who's Who entry (1984 or 1985). The COIE was in progress then, but that entry is not New Earth.

We can go all anal-retentive about KE having a non-interacting QU counterpart virtually identical to his Earth-S pre-Crisis iteration, or we can somewhat generously admit that we have a Carter Nichols at hand and leave it at that.

Somnetimes, discussions like these remind me of Giambattista´s contention that Iliad and Odyssey were not written by Homer but by another blind Greek who lived around the same time and bore the same name.