Summary: <br> Come back to the late 1960s as the JLA/JSA battle strange black spheres and the sinister Dr. T.O. Morrow. <br> Affiliate link included.<br> Transcript:<br> Host: Get ready for universe spanning crisis as we take a look at Crisis on Multiple Earths Volume Two, straight ahead.<br><br> <br> [Into Music]<br> Announcer: Welcome to the Classy Comics podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho, here is your host Adam Graham. <br> Host: During the Silver Age of D.C. Comics, as we discussed in another episode, a multiverse was established to exist with, particularly in the beginning, there being Earth-1 which was the home of the ongoing main D.C. Universe characters and then there was Earth-2 a parallel Earth with many similarities and a very similar history but with Golden Age heroes including Golden Age versions of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman who fought in World War two and contained the D.C.’s Golden Age characters including the Justice Society of America. As part of this multiverse those universes crossed over time and time again. It wasn’t actually an annual tradition. For more than twenty years, there were annual crossovers between these two universes as adventures would begin on one earth and ultimately to adventures on the other or onto an earth unrelated to either of the two. <br> We’re going to take a look at some crossovers from late in the Silver Age. These are from 1967 to 1970 and this was at a transitory time for the Justice League of America where this book has the last two crossovers written by Gardner Fox and the first two written by Dennis O’Neil and the last story that was penciled by Mike Sekowsky and the first three that were penciled by Dick Dillon, who became the go to Justice League penciler for many years. The story’s start out with Justice League 55 in 56 and the final two stories are from Justice League of America number 82 and 83. So, with that said we’ll go ahead and get started with the first two-parter and all of these are two-part stories, so four of them, The Crisis That Struck Earth-2 and The Negative Crisis That Struck Earth-1 and the only thing I’m really going to complain about art wise in the entire book is the image for Robin’s uniform. This is the first Justice League crossover to feature the Earth-2 Robin who is now grown to adult and has taken on an adult costume. However, that costume is just really awful. It combines the Batman and the Robin costumes in a way that just really clashes. He’s got, from the Batman suit, the trunks, the boot, the utility belt and the grey bodysuit, as well as, the blue gloves but added to that, he’s got the yellow cape and a very high collar. So, it’s a ridiculous looking long cape and his emblem is a red crest with a yellow R and the Batman symbol in the middle of it. It doesn’t look good on the cover. It looks a little bit better on the interior where actually the crest is different. It doesn’t have the red circle in there, which makes the thing look a little less busy but I think the R is not very good.<br> A lot of times during that Silver Age, they would imagine Robin as an adult continuing to fight crime and they would imagine costumes that just really didn’t fit an adult hero. It would either just be like Batman costume but with the number two on it to indicate that he is the second Batman rather than the first original Batman. Why this should matter to criminals? I don’t know but I digress. I think the costume in this book is probably one of the worst but again that’s the only complaint I have about the art in this book. Everything else is fine Sekowski and Dylan really know their stuff. <br> Alright, so now the plot. This begins with Black Energy orbs striking for average ordinary people and turning them into supervillains who have to be stopped by the J.S.A. However, when the J.S.A.
