Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-6369172-20130210224709

Here's an abstruse question, about the boundaries of the Earth-Two Universe. In the original golden age anthology-style comic books, there were scads and scads of non-super-powered adventurers, cops, pirates, cowboys, federal agents, mounties, and especially aviators, whose adventures I had always assumed to be non-canonical. But then I had also always made that assumption about Tex Thomson, later dba Mr. America, later dba Americommando. Starting a few years ago, suddenly his adventures WERE canonical and were part of DC history. So my question is: Are Cliff Cornwall and Clip Carson and Cotton Carver canonical characters, whose adventures took place on Earth-Two? Hop Harrigan is, because he once appeared in a Green Lantern story or vice versa, but what about Captain Desmo? Or Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise? If you and I and Johnny Thunder were sitting at a table discussing Bart Regan, Counterspy or Steve Carson of Federal Men, would Johnny consider those guys to be fictional characters? That's my question. 