Board Thread:Policies/@comment-246292-20140502145126/@comment-6369172-20140628113809

"New Earth" is kind of a shifting goalpost, though, and started being used right after the COIE. It raises more questions than it resolves. "Quality Universe" has pretty well got a clearly-defined beginning and end, just like "Earth-Two." The closest thing to a multiple reality that I've seen so far in the g.a. Quality comics are: 1/ the Hercules story in Hit Comics #1, where Doll Man is a comic book character. That's easily resolved by invoking the "Evel Knievel rule" about real-life people appearing in comic books, but hypertechnically it is a multiple reality thing. 2/ the Kid Eternity story in Hit Comics #something or other, where Plastic Man is summoned forth by K.E. then returns to the pages of Police Comics. That's been redefined, in the 1970s, by E. Nelson Bridwell as an Earth-S problem vice a Quality Universe problem, but it's the classic multiple-reality deal. 3/ All these multiple realities got started when Jay Garrick, a comic book character in Barry Allen's reality, turned out to have a reality of his own that Barry was able to visit, hence my reliance on those two examples above. So although it's "not really needed," it seems to me like an inequity, that Jay Garrick's reality gets an earth-this-or-that designation while Max Mercury's reality does not.