Friday, January 20, 2012

Alanna

Alanna

Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Mike Sekowsky

Real Name:  Princess Alanna Strange

Current Occupation:  Princess

Parents:  Sardath and unnamed mother

Siblings:  None

Spouse:  Adam Strange

Children:  Aleea

Group Affiliation:  None

Place of Birth:  Rann

Current Place of Residence:  Rann

First Appearance:  Showcase # 17, (November 1958)


Biography:


Alanna is the princess of the planet Rann.  Rann's population was becoming sterile, so her father, Sardath, created a Zeta beam ray to transport Earth archaologist Adam Strange to their world to make a baby.  Adam also happened to be quite heroic and ended up saving the planet time and again.


Unfortunately, the beam kept wearing off and Adam would end up back on Earth until he could get zapped again.


Eventually, Adam made it permanent and he and Alanna had a child.  And they lived happily ever after.

Comments:

Ironic that I'm adding an entry on a character who soon will cease to exist in the Wronskiverse.

Friday, January 6, 2012

DC Comics

DC Comics is  publishing company founded in 1935.

From the beginning, Super Comics has had a relationship with DC, though the two have always been independent of each other.

Starting with its first issue, Super Comics has published golden age Superman tales as one of its features.  In the  early 80s, Super Comics had guest appearances from Dial "H" for Hero and Batman, and Powerkid # 3 featured an appearance from Superman, that was in the Earth-1 canon.

In 1985, the Super Comics line of title participated in DC's 12 issue crossover series titled Crisis on Infinite Earths, even spawning it's own series, the Crisis Within.

Following that series, and DC's reboot, the Super Comics titles were now considered to be part of the DC Universe, though the two companies stayed separate logistically.  However, in 1993, Super Comics decided to remove all elements of the DC Universe from its own continuity, without retroactively removing it, by revealing that the Super Universe was a Hypertimeline.

In 1994, Super Comics launched Super Comics DCU, in which new versions of classic Super Comics characters were featured in titles taking place directly in the DCU, but the titles all ended after just six months.

In 2000, several Super Comics characters actually moved to the DCU, and lived there for a year.

From 2003 to 2007, Powerman's adventures had him travelling through time, space, and alternate realities, meeting many famous characters from other properties, including DC characters from current and older continuities.  It was always left ambiguous which reality he was in when meeting these characters.  For example, when he met the golden age Superman, he may have been in the Super Comics Universe, the Wold Newton Universe, or Earth-2.

With the 2008 Super Explosion, references have been made acknowledging the DC characters having counterparts in the Super Universe.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Animal Town

Animal Town

Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.

Biography:

Once there was a single reality, but at the dawn of time, that reality split into an infinite number of alternate realities.  On each of these realities, events happened differently.  On one such Earth, designated Earth-C, the world was home to anthropomorphic animals.

On Earth-C, Orange City doesn't exist, but in it's place is Animal Town.  Animal Town is part of the United Species of America.  The town has a mayor, Mickey Mouse, but also has a royal family, consisting of King Friday and his adopted daughter Princess Rabbit.

Mickey Mouse is a member of the Green Bowtie Corps, an intergalactic police force.

Princess Rabbit is a witch, whose magic comes from her ears.  Princess Rabbit dates Brown Bear, who always solves whatever type of crisis strikes in the town, which happens at least once a month.

Professor Tornado Dog is the town's sole scientist who through an accident gained the power to become a canine twister.  His adopted son, Ruffy Ruff Ruff also fell into a vat of chemicals that gave him the power to move at super speed and fly.

Later, Pac Man, heroic ghost fighter, moved to Animal Town.

Animal Town is frequently plagued by a giant serial killer named Candy.

Animal Town has had frequent visitors from parallel worlds.  When they were children, Robert Wronski and Darcey Kilian often found themselves transported to Animal Town.  Additionally, Powerman, during his years as Powerkid and Super-Bob, used to frequently visit the town.

In later years, the town was visited by Powerdog and Zap Dog, and in very recent years, by Powerkid (Connor Kowalski).

During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, it seemed as if the reality may have been destroyed, but it was revealed to still exist as part of hypertime, and following Infinite Crisis, was redesignated as Earth-26.

Comments:

Animal Town is based upon the stuffed animals I owned as a child.  Sort of my Winnie the Pooh.