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Earth-Thirty-Two/Earth 1A

Earth-Thirty-Two is most likely[1] the official name for the universe the Super Friends lived in.

One of the most striking elements of this reality was that its heroes were absolute paragons of virtue, with no fault or flaws to speak of. They were incorruptible and wholly committed to helping others while preserving the doctrines of “truth, justice and peace for all mankind.”

Naming the universe

  • Note, this portion of the article is to be understood from the real world perspective.

The naming of the universe of the Super Friends franchise is a bit complicated. When the Super Friends comic first came out, E. Nelson Bridwell wanted the setting to be Earth-One. There were multiple references to other comics that were clearly set on that Earth, and there were even stories that firmly named it Earth-One. However later episodes of Super Friends and also DC books made it impossible for the Super Friends to exist in that Earth, which at the time was the mainstream world of the DC Multiverse. One thing is for sure though, that the Super Friends consider their Earth Earth-One, no matter what otherworlders call it.

Because of the obvious fact that the two Earths were in different universes, many fans began calling the universe that the Super Friends franchise took place in Earth-1A, to show that it's like Earth-One, with a few differences. Indeed, especially when the Superman series came out, the franchise was even taking on some Post-Crisis concepts, which would have been impossible on the real Earth-One. Also, some of the Super Friends comics and Super Powers comics from overseas were actually reprints of Post-Crisis stories, and if we're to assume they are part of the canon, then they couldn't be the real Earth-One. Regardless of the official name however, the Earth being referred to as Earth-One is definite, but it's clearly not the same Earth-One.

Where the official name comes from is the book Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Compendium. It refers to the Super Powers franchise as taking place on Earth-Thirty-Two. The DC Challenge is also labeled as existing on that Earth. Since we already know that the Super Powers products were based on the Super Friends series, we can only assume that this means that the entirety of the Super Friends franchise does indeed take place on Earth-Thirty-Two, unless we are to believe that the Super Powers franchise is separate, which given the close relationship of "Earth-B" (Earth-Twelve and Earth-Thirty-Two) and Earth-One is in the realm of possibility. Another possibility is hypertime where divergence timelines can merge causing distortions to history and the present.

It certainly would explain inconsistencies within and between seasons (like the Legion of Doom and Superfriends forgetting all the time travel and extra dimensional means at their disposable when the Legion destroys the Earth in an attempt to take it over) as well as the comics.

For example, the information about Rayna in the Super Powers comics contradicts the information about her in the Super Friends comics. For one thing, she has a different name, among other things. Read the Rua article as an example of how to write an article like that. Originally this fandom wiki used the designation Earth-1B to describe volume three of the Super Powers comics. As this is just too complicated, and the dissimilarities aren't enough to matter, we have made that a redirect page.

The existence of hypertime where divergence timelines can briefly merge causing distortions to history and the present can be used to explain any contradictions between Earth-Thirty-Two, the various Earths seen in the DC Super Friends franchise, and the Super Powers! comics.

Here are a few of the similarities between Earth-1A and Earth-One:

  • Most of the Heroes and Villains resembled the Silver Age / Earth-One Characters exactly
(Earth-One characters link directly to the DC Database wiki):
Silver Age / Earth One Earth-1A


Earth-1A effectively merged the histories of Earth-One and Earth-Two.

  • The main version of Captain Marvel existed on Earth-S.[4] However, he did have close analogs such as Captain Thunder (who was Billy Batson on Earth-Forty and William Fawcett on Earth-276). There was another unnamed analog who with a different version of Superwoman was seen on Earth-423.

Characters Created for This Reality:

To date a few of these characters have been recreated for various TV shows (links below are external).
From the DCAU Universe, we have:

From the Young Justice Universe we have:


Earth 1B

Earth-1B is the unofficial designation of the universe that the Super Powers Vol. 3 (1986) takes place in. Although not exactly the same as Earth-1A, they do share many similarities.

List of similarities


See Also


References

  1. See reason why I say "most likely" in the "naming the universe" article.
  2. On Earth-Thirty-Two Daniel Dunbar's brain was replaced with that of Adolf Hitler and he died fighting the remains of the JSA.
  3. Captain Marvel is shown in the live action Superfriends special Legends of the Superheroes, establishing that he is most likely a native of Earth-1A. However, it is vaguely possible that he was visiting from another earth, perhaps an earth similar to Earth-S. ut it seems more likely that he is from Earth-1A.
  4. Go to the DC Database for more on Earth-S.
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