We’ve seen Teddy Sears’ Garrick outfit in a promo and poster art, but I think this is the first photo.
It should set hearts aflutter among those who once thrilled to “Flash of Two Worlds,” the September 1961 storyline in The Flash #123 that essentially created the DC Multiverse.
In that issue, Barry Allen learned that Jay Garrick, the Flash introduced in 1940, was still active in 1961 – but living in an alternate universe on a planet that would come to be known as Earth-2. Eventually we’d learn that all of Garrick’s Justice Society pals from the 1940s – Alan “Green Lantern” Scott, Carter “Hawkman” Hall, Al “Atom” Pratt and the rest – were all still living on Earth-2 with Garrick.
We also came to learn that Kal-El, the Superman of the 1960s, was not the same guy as Kal-L, the Superman of the 1940s. At some point DC Comics stopped publishing the adventures of the Earth-2 Superman (son of Jor-L, later adopted by John and Mary Kent) and began publishing the adventures of an Earth-1 Superman (son of Jor-El, adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent). Precisely when that transition took place, though, is impossible for anyone to say!
Once Garrick and Allen became aware of each other, Earth-2’s Justice Society of America (featuring Jay Garrick and Alan Scott) and Earth-1’s Justice League of America (featuring Barry Allen and Hal Jordan) shared many adventures together, usually in the service of extinguishing some manner of trans-dimensional “crisis.”
In the comics, the Justice Society’s original Dinah “Black Canary” Lance, born on Earth-2, moved to Earth-1 to join the Justice League and (following the death of her husband Larry) serve as romantic interest to Earth-1’s Oliver “Green Arrow” Queen. (No word on any difficulty getting her mail forwarded to her new universe.)
