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Earth-Three
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Earth-Three is a fictional planet set in the DC Comics Universe. It is the Earth of an alternate reality in the DC Multiverse.
Its history was a kind of mirror image to the Earth we know. On Earth-Three, for example, Christopher Columbus was an American who discovered Europe; England was a colony of America, and won its freedom in a reversed form of the Revolutionary War; President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by Abraham Lincoln, an actor on this Earth; the United States of America flag has reversed colors (black stars on a red field, and black and blue stripes); US currency is emblazoned with "In Mammon We Trust"; Benedict Arnold is on the U.S. one dollar bill instead of George Washington; and Lex Luthor (here called Alexander Luthor) is one of the few superheroes on an Earth otherwise occupied entirely by villains, most of whom are reversed analogues of heroes on other DC Earths. The Earth-Three analogue to the Justice League is the Crime Syndicate of America.
Earth-Three was destroyed by waves of antimatter in the opening scenes of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. The sole survivor was the son of Alexander and Lois Luthor, Alexander Luthor, Jr.
In current DC continuity, most of Earth-Three's history survives in the form of the antimatter Earth of JLA: Earth 2 (in the antimatter universe of Qward).
In the recent Superman/Batman Annual #1, three members of the Crime Syndicate of America - Ultraman, Owlman, and Superwoman - appear on Earth-One, along with an unnamed antimatter doppelganger of Deathstroke hired to protect Bruce Wayne. The story supposedly takes place as the first time Superman and Batman figure out each other's identities and matches Batman, Superman, and Deathstroke against their respective antimatter selves. It should be noted however, that the story is being told by Mr. Mxyzptlk, and may therefore be completely untrue.
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