Earth-Twelve

Earth-Twelve
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Official Name	Earth-Twelve
Aliases	Earth-B
Creators	E. Nelson Bridwell · Joe Orlando
First Appearance	Showcase #62 (May, 1966)

     Reality names were reused several times. See also Earth-12, Earth 12.

Earth-Twelve was a comical universe where a superteam called the Inferior Five lived, as did a version of Plastic Man who was actually the son of the original.

History

Earth-Twelve also had local versions of most of the major superheroes of Earth-One. Jerry Lewis lived in this universe, where he shared adventures with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Batman also had a TV series in Earth-Twelve, then his identity was public there.

It was assumed that Earth-Twelve was destroyed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths but that was thrown into doubt when the Atom and Flash of Earth-898 glimpsed the Inferior Five on their way home indicated that the reality (or a very close analog) existed in hypertime.

In any case, Convergence retroactively prevented the destruction of the Pre-Crisis Multiverse but resulted in an "updated" form. How (or even if) this affected Earth-Twelve is unknown.

Residents

• Inferior Five
  • Merryman
  • Dumb Bunny
  • Blimp
  • Awkwardman
  • White Feather
• Freedom Brigade
• Kookie Quartet
• The Crimson Chrysanthemum
• Green Team
  • Abdul Smith
  • Cecil Sunbeam
  • J.P. Houston
  • Commodore Murphy
• Plastic Man
• Bob Hope
• Super-Hip
• Scooter
• Jerry Lewis
• Dean Martin
• Renfrew
• Witch Kraft
• Santa Claus
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Superman
• Batman

Notes

• Earth-Twelve was originally created to be the home of the Inferior Five, as their parodic stories didn't fit well into Earth-One.
• First identified by name in Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew: The Oz-Wonderland War #3.
• Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Compendium stated that the following stories/comics were appearances of Earth-Twelve:
  • Adventures of Bob Hope #94
  • Adventures of Jerry Lewis #92, 97, 105, 112 & 117
  • All-New Collectors' Edition #C-53 & C-60
  • Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #1 – Green Team #2–3 & #2 (Prez #5)
  • 1st Issue Special #2
  • Inferior Five (Volume 1)
  • Limited Collectors' Edition #C-33 & #C-42
  • Plastic Man (Volume 2)
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Volume 1), (second series) C-20, C-24 & C50
  • Showcase #62–63 & 65
  • Supergirl #10
  • Swing With Scooter #5
• The Flash and Atom of Earth-898 passed through a reality that had the Inferior Five indicating a hypertime reality similar to Earth-Twelve. Its relationship to the original Earth-Twelve is unknown.

See Also

• Characters from Earth-Twelve
• Other things related to Earth-Twelve
• Earth-Twelve's Comic Appearances
• Reality Gallery: Earth-Twelve