- That damn Multiverse is nothing but trouble.
Infinite Frontier #1 is an issue of the series Infinite Frontier (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 2021. It was published on June 22, 2021.
Synopsis for "Infinite Mystery"
On Earth 23, a space capsule crash lands in the middle of a field. An elderly couple find it and discover a wounded and unconscious Batman inside, but not the Batman of their world. Realising he must come from another world in the Multiverse they call their son Calvin Ellis, aka Superman, the President of the United States and leader of Justice Incarnate.
Meanwhile on Earth 0 the Totality are fighting Extant, who is trying to manipulate the timeline. Newest member Alan Scott hits him with an energy construct of a train before he can do any damage. Alan has to rush off as he is already late to an appointment with his children. In Gotham City he meets up with his son Obsidian, who is also running late, and they head to the old JSA headquarters where Jade is waiting for them. Just before they go in, an explosion of green energy rips through the building. The two switch into their costumes and run in looking for her, but Todd’s psychic link to Jennie has been severed and he has no idea where she has gone.
In Paris, Director Bones tracks down Cameron Chase to reactivate her. Now that the Multiverse is common knowledge the DEO has been reinstated and is working to prevent another trans-dimensional event. Chase initially refuses but is forced to accept when Bones shows her something on his phone.
At the Hall of Heroes, Batman wakes up. He is an alternate version of Thomas Wayne from a timeline accidentally created by the Barry Allen of Earth 0. He needs to talk to Barry but he is currently away on a mission, trying to use his superspeed to travel to the new reality Earth Omega. Barry races across the known 52 realities and eventually manages to jump to Earth Omega, where he finds the dead bodies of the Quintessence. Before he can investigate he is attacked by the Psycho-Pirate, who has been granted new powers by Darkseid. Psycho-Pirate tells Barry that another crisis is coming, and Barry will help them find the person Darkseid needs.
Back on Earth 0, Roy Harper is eating in a diner. He overhears a young woman arguing with her parents, as she remembers the recent crisis but they do not, believing it is mass hysteria. A young man in the next booth interjects and says that he also remembers and his parents do not, it seems that only young people can remember what happened to reality. An agitated middle aged man begins shouting at them, he refuses to believe the Multiverse is real and thinks it is a conspiracy concocted by the superheroes. Roy tries to remove the man, but before he can a new villain called X-Tract blasts through the wall of the diner. X-Tract says Roy does not belong in the new reality, and plans to capture him and kill any witnesses.
Roy fights off X-Tract’s henchmen while the bystanders escape but the conspiracy theorist is frozen with fear. X-Tract attempts to shoot the man and Roy tackles him to the ground, taking a bullet in the arm. Roy passes out but mysterious figures appear and fight off the attackers. Roy regains consciousness and realises to his shock that he is wearing a Black Lantern uniform and power ring, and the “people” who saved him are actually energy constructs of himself from various points in his life.
Appearing in "Infinite Mystery"
Featured Characters:
- Batman/Thomas Wayne (Flashpoint Timeline)
- Black Lantern/Roy Harper (Earth 0) (First appearance as Black Lantern)
- Speedy/Roy Harper (Earth-One) (Construct) (Cameo)
- Red Arrow/Arsenal/Roy Harper (New Earth) (Construct) (Cameo)
- Green Lantern/Alan Scott (Earth 0) (Flashback and main story)
- Justice Incarnate
- Obsidian/Todd Rice (Earth 0) (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Cameron Chase (Earth 0)
- Mister Bones (Earth 0)
- Mr. Ellis (Earth 23)
- Mrs. Ellis (Earth 23)
- The Totality (Earth 0)
Antagonists:
- Darkseid (Voice)
- Extant/Hank Hall (Earth 0) (First appearance as Extant)
- Mister Freeze (Earth 0) (Flashback only)
- X-Tract (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Bane (Earth 0) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- The Batman Who Laughs/The Darkest Knight (Earth -22) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Groblins (Earth -22) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- The Last Sun (Last 52 Multiverse) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Robin King (Dark Multiverse) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- The Flash/Barry Allen (Earth-One) (As an illusion only)
- The Flash/Barry Allen (New Earth) (As an illusion only)
- The Flash/Wally West (Earth 22) (Cameo)
- Huntress/Helena Wayne (Earth 2) (Cameo)
- Jade (Earth 0) (Flashback only)
- Justice League (Earth 0) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Green Lantern (John Stewart) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Nightwing (Earth 0) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Shazam (Billy Batson) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Superman (Clark Kent) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Wonder Woman (Diana of Themyscira) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Kamandi (Earth 51) (Cameo)
- Little League (Earth 42) (Cameo)
- Batman (Bruce Wayne) (Cameo)
- The Flash (Barry Allen) (Cameo)
- Superman (Clark Kent) (Cameo)
- Wonder Woman (Diana of Themyscira) (Cameo)
- The Quintessence (Earth 0)
- Ganthet (Earth 0) (Appears only as a corpse)
- Hera (Appears only as a corpse)
- Highfather (Appears only as a corpse)
- Phantom Stranger (Earth 0) (Appears only as a corpse)
- The Spectre/Aztar (Earth 0) (Appears only as a corpse)
- The Wizard Mamaragan (Earth 0) (Appears only as a corpse)
- Secret Six (Earth 9) (Cameo)
- The Atom (Adam Thompson) (Cameo)
- The Flash (Lia Nelson) (Cameo)
- Green Lantern (Cameo)
- Superdemon (Earth 13) (Cameo)
- Superman/Clark Kent (Earth 22) (Cameo)
- Superman/Clark Kent (Earth 30) (Cameo)
- Tuftan (Earth 51) (Cameo)
- Wonder Woman/Maria Mendoza (Earth 6) (Cameo)
- Batman (Earth 23) (Mentioned only)
- Batman/Bruce Wayne (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Batman Villains (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Demons (Mentioned only)
- D.E.O. (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
- Doctor Manhattan (Watchmen Universe) (Mentioned only)
- Gods (Mentioned only)
- Kal-El (Flashpoint Timeline) (Mentioned only)
- Justice Society of America (Earth 0) (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Infinite Frontier (Flashback and main story)
- Last 52 Multiverse (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Multiverse (Flashback and main story)
- The Bleed
- Earth 0/Metalverse (Flashback and main story)
- France
- Paris (Flashback and main story)
- The Hellscape (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- United States of America (Flashback and main story)
- New Jersey
- Gotham City (Flashback and main story)
- JSA Headquarters (Destroyed)
- Arkham Asylum (Mentioned only)
- Gotham City (Flashback and main story)
- New York
- Texas
- Saint Tecla's Diner (Destroyed)
- New Jersey
- France
- Earth 2
- Gotham City (Cameo)
- Earth 6 (Cameo)
- Earth 9 (Cameo)
- Earth 13 (Cameo)
- Earth 22 (Cameo)
- Earth 23
- Earth 30
- Moscow (Cameo)
- Earth 42 (Cameo)
- Earth 51 (Cameo)
- Earth Omega
- Speed Force
- Earth 5 (Mentioned only)
- Earth 8 (Mentioned only)
- Earth 11 (Mentioned only)
- Earth 26 (Mentioned only)
- Watchmen Universe (Mentioned only)
- Hypertime
- Flashpoint Timeline (Mentioned only)
- Dark Multiverse (Mentioned only)
Items:
- The Batman Who Laugh's Visor (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Batsuits
- Black Lantern Ring
- Bracelets of Submission
- Cryo-Suit (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Earth 9's Green Lantern
- Hawkgirl's Mace
- Lasso of Truth
- Machinehead's Armor
- Medusa Mask
- Mister Freeze's Ice Gun (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Nth Metal
- Starheart
- Venom (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Wonder Woman's Tiara
- Worlogog
- X-Tract's Gun (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Thomas Wayne's Shuttle (First appearance) (Destroyed)
- The Totality (Mentioned only)
Concepts:
- A-Day (Mentioned only)
- Crisis on Infinite Earths (Mentioned only)
- Doctor Manhattan's Time Meddling (Mentioned only)
- Flashpoint (Mentioned only)
- Metal Wars (Flashback only)
- Omega Beams (Flashback only)
Notes
- This issue takes place a few weeks after the epilogue of Infinite Frontier #0.
- As Psycho-Pirate has already allied himself with Darkseid, this story takes also place not long after the ending of Infinite Frontier Secret Files #6.
Trivia
- Mister Bones mentions knowing about Doctor Manhattan, who he referred to as a Super-God, and the alterations he caused to the reality.
- Cameron Chase replies Which one? to him, presumably referring to the Super-Celestial, Perpetua.
- Earth-2 Helena Wayne has seemingly returned to being Huntress, after becoming Batman in Earth 2: Society #22.
- She is also depicted in the costume worn by her Earth-Two counterpart.
- The past versions of Roy which appear as energy constructs include him in his pre-Flashpoint Red Arrow costume and his nineties Arsenal costume, indicating that those events have been restored to his history following the “unknotting” of the timeline.
See Also