Earth-Prime Vol 1 4

"Road Trip": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"Road Trip"
Earth-Prime Vol 1 #4
July, 2022
Rated T for Teen (12+)
Executive Editor	Marie Javins
Cover Artists	Kim Jacinto
Variant Cover Artists
Cover Variant #1	Matt Sayles
Road Trip
Writers	James Robinson Paula Sevenbergen
Pencilers	Jerry Ordway
Inkers	Jerry Ordway
Colorists	John Kalisz
Letterers	Tom Napolitano
Editors	Andrew Marino Katie Kubert
Previous Issue	Earth-Prime # 3
Next Issue	Earth-Prime # 5

But I meant be proud of yourself. Your humility is admirable, but a little bit irritating, if I'm honest. Try to understand, will you... that the girl isn't the only one who shines a light.

— The Needle

Earth-Prime #4 is an issue of the series Earth-Prime (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 2022. It was published on May 17, 2022.

Appearing in "Road Trip"

Featured Characters:

• Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore)
• Stripesy (Pat Dugan) (Flashback and main story)

Supporting Characters:

• Barbara Whitmore
• Beth Chapel
• Buddy
• Cindy Burman
• Jakeem Williams
• Mike Dugan
• Rick Tyler
• The Needle (First appearance) (Flashback and main story)
• Yolanda Montez
• Zeek

Antagonists:

• Yellowstone Bear
• Earth-2 villains
  • Big Caesar (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
  • The Dummy (First appearance) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
  • Professor Merlin (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
  • Red Dragon (First appearance) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Magog (Nora's Future) (Real name revealed) (Flashforward and main story)
  • Clayface/Tanner Freyr (Earth-Prime) (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
  • The Necrians (Earth-Prime) (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
  • The Needle (Nora's Future) (First appearance) (Flashforward only)

Other Characters:

• Boy Scouts of America (Cameo)
• Jackalope (In picture only) (Cameo)
• Justice Society of America (Flashback only)
  • Black Condor (Richard Grey, Jr.) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Blue Beetle (Daniel Garrett) {(Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Cherry Bomb (Gloria James) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Dyna-Mite (Daniel Dunbar) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
  • Guardian (Jim Harper) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Hawkgirl (Shiera Sanders)
  • Human Bomb (Roy Lincoln) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Liberty Belle (Elizabeth Lawrence) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Sandman (Wesley Dodds)
  • Sandy the Golden Boy (Sanderson Hawkins) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Sparky (Sparkington J. Northrup) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • The Flash (Jay Garrick)
  • TNT (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
• Melanie (Needle's wife) (Single appearance)
• Newsboy Legion (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Big Words (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Gabby (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Scrapper (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  • Tommy Thompkins (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
• Nora's Future characters (Flashforward only)
  • The Atom (Ray Palmer) (First appearance as The Atom) (Cameo)
  • The Atom (Ryan Choi) (First appearance) (Cameo)
  • Batwoman (Ryan Wilder) (First appearance) (Cameo)
  • Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce) (First appearance) (Cameo)
  • Green Arrow (Mia Queen) (In a vision) (See Notes) (Cameo)
  • Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders) (First appearance as Hawkgirl) (Cameo)
  • Hawkman (Scythian Torvil/"Carter Hall") (First appearance as Hawkman) (Cameo)
  • Impulse (Bart Allen) (Cameo)
  • Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz) (First appearance) (Cameo)
  • Supergirl (Kara Danvers) (First appearance) (Cameo)
  • White Canary (Sara Lance) (First appearance as White Canary) (Cameo)
  • XS (Nora West-Allen) (Cameo)
• Seven Soldiers of Victory (Flashback only)
  • Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis)
  • Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
  • Shining Knight (Sir Justin)
    • Winged Victory (First appearance; unnamed)
  • Speedy (Roy Harper)
  • Star-Spangled Kid (Sylvester Pemberton)
  • Vigilante (Gregory Sanders)
  • Wing (Wing How)
• Artemis Crock (Mentioned only)
• Crusher Crock (Mentioned only)
• Eclipso (Mentioned only)
• The Flash/Barry Allen (Nora's Future) (Mentioned only)
• The Hand (Ramon Soloman) (Mentioned only)
• Paula Crock (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Multiverse (Mentioned only)
  • Earth-2
    • United States of America (Flashback and main story)
      • Nebraska
        • Blue Valley
          • The Pit Stop
      • Sherman Tower (Single appearance) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
      • Wyoming
        • Yellowstone National Park
      • Highway 26 (Mentioned only)
  • Nora's Future (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
    • 2049
      • United States of America
        • Central City (Cameo)
  • Speed Force (Flashback only) (Also in a flashforward) (Behind the scenes)
  • Hell (Mentioned only)
  • Time Vortex (Mentioned only)

Items:

• A.T.O.M. Exo-Suit (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
• Batsuit (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
  • Utility Belt (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
• Bio-Belt (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
• Cosmo
• Green Arrow's Bow (Flashback only) (Cameo)
  • Trick Arrows (Flashback only) (Also in a vision) (Cameo)
• Green Lantern Ring (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Guardian's Shield (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Hermes' Helmet (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Magog's Staff (First full appearance) (Flashforward and main story)
• Needle's Needles (First appearance) (Flashforward and main story)
• S.T.R.I.P.E. Armor (Cameo)

Vehicles:

• Dugan Trailer

Concepts:

• Golden Age
• Metahumans
• Time Travel
  

Notes

• Stargirl's story eventually continues in the Stargirl episode, "Frenemies - Chapter One: The Murder".
• Pat Dugan's flashbacks reveal that versions of the many Golden Age heroes existed during the early time of the Justice Society of America on Earth-2.
• This story reveals that Magog hails from Nora's Future and is assembling a team of supervillains from the Multiverse to destroy The Flash and his speedster kids.
  • The time-traveling supervillain steals one of the Needle's needles to clone him and create his own version of the supervillain who is also briefly foreshadowed in this story.
• Green Arrow/Mia Queen being one of the heroes of Nora's Future suggests that the events of Post-Crisis Arrowverse: Star City 2040 are set in the same future.
  • This will be eventually confirmed in Earth-Prime #6.

Trivia

• This is the first time Sparkington J. Northrup had appeared in any DC Comics story.
• Stargirl previously renamed the Cosmic Staff as "Cosmo" in the Stargirl episode, "Summer School: Chapter Eight".
• Pat Dugan jokingly refers to the Timestream as the "Time Vortex". This is a homage to the Time Vortex, the representation of the Timestream in the Doctor Who universe which also conceptually inspired the Temporal Zone from the Arrowverse Multiverse.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Earth-Prime series
• Images from Earth-Prime Vol 1 4

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