Questions about two very, very obscure characters who appeared briefly in COIE.

[Buried Alien]

As much as I would like to provide scans, I don't have any available, so I'll describe what I mean and hope someone can locate it or recall it from memory.

In the midst of COIE, with the chaos and antimatter spreading across the Multiverse, we were shown a sequence of a few panels in which an ordinary elderly couple sees a ghostly image of their daughter, a young woman dressed like a 1960s hippie.

Does anybody know who these characters were? Were they characters who appeared in some DC romance comic during the late 1960s or early 1970s? Were they included to show how the Crisis was affecting all the characters who inhabited the DC Multiverse, not just the superheroes?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Frontier]

I'm pretty sure it's more likely the latter theory rather then the two being actual, significant, characters.

[BohemiaDrinker]

As much as I would like to provide scans, I don't have any available, so I'll describe what I mean and hope someone can locate it or recall it from memory.

In the midst of COIE, with the chaos and antimatter spreading across the Multiverse, we were shown a sequence of a few panels in which an ordinary elderly couple sees a ghostly image of their daughter, a young woman dressed like a 1960s hippie.

Does anybody know who these characters were? Were they characters who appeared in some DC romance comic during the late 1960s or early 1970s? Were they included to show how the Crisis was affecting all the characters who inhabited the DC Multiverse, not just the superheroes?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Can you provide the page, or at least issue that was in?

[Buried Alien]

Can you provide the page, or at least issue that was in?

No idea, BD. I don't have a copy of COIE with me at the moment. It was in one of those issues when time was mashed together and things were rather chaotic.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Lonewolf36]

As much as I would like to provide scans, I don't have any available, so I'll describe what I mean and hope someone can locate it or recall it from memory.

In the midst of COIE, with the chaos and antimatter spreading across the Multiverse, we were shown a sequence of a few panels in which an ordinary elderly couple sees a ghostly image of their daughter, a young woman dressed like a 1960s hippie.

Does anybody know who these characters were? Were they characters who appeared in some DC romance comic during the late 1960s or early 1970s? Were they included to show how the Crisis was affecting all the characters who inhabited the DC Multiverse, not just the superheroes?

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

It was issue #5 the couple David and Phyllis Gerrold of Earth-2 are seeing an image of their deceased daughter Michelle which is actually her Earth-1 counterpart it was the first and only appearance of the characters.

[Buried Alien]

It was issue #5 the couple David and Phyllis Gerrold of Earth-2 are seeing an image of their deceased daughter Michelle which is actually her Earth-1 counterpart it was the first and only appearance of the characters.

Thanks, lonewolf. I suspected the Gerrolds were characters from some DC romance comic, but it turns out they appeared only briefly in COIE for only one purpose: to demonstrate how the Crisis was affecting ordinary people.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Montressor]

I knew this would be about that panel. It actually would've been even cooler if she'd been some long-lost 60's romance comic character. Binky appeared, at least, during the lead-in to Animal Man's 'Second Crisis', though.

There's a great issue of Astro City that tells the tale of the everyday common man who finds his life retconned after a cosmic 'Crisis'. The story actually made me wipe my eye the first time I read it (and I felt a twinge of sorrow for the Gerrolds, as well).

[Jim Kelly]

Thanks, lonewolf. I suspected the Gerrolds were characters from some DC romance comic, but it turns out they appeared only briefly in COIE for only one purpose: to demonstrate how the Crisis was affecting ordinary people.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Actually, Michelle looks like a typical teen-age "chick" such as Henry Scarpelli drew for DC in the late '60s/early '70s for their teen humour mags. So just make believe it's a nod to those comics.

[Buried Alien]

Actually, Michelle looks like a typical teen-age "chick" such as Henry Scarpelli drew for DC in the late '60s/early '70s for their teen humour mags. So just make believe it's a nod to those comics.

The thing about COIE is that even relatively obscure, non-superhero DC characters such as Fireman Farrell (who shared page space with the Flash in Barry Allen's SHOWCASE # 4 debut in 1956) got at least cameo appearances. COIE was loaded with Easter Eggs for the most obscure DC characters.

I figured since other than superheroes, COIE featured Western heroes, historical figures (George Washington, etc.), that pretty much anybody ever featured in a DC Comic...including the characters in an obscure romance comic, got a cameo.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Lonewolf36]

Peter Parker of Earth-1 even made an appearance

[Thor-Ul]

And that is true.

[superduperman]

Jessica Jones has a similar plot going on based around Marvel's recent cosmic crisis. A man murders his wife because he remembers his previous life in a now dead universe. He remembers his "old" life but not his "new" one. It is sort of a comment on how things like reboots affect ordinary people.

[CentralPower]

Not sure if or when Bendis is going to go back and touch on that though. The last two issues of "Jessica Jones" have focused on Jones being on the edge of "Secret Empire".

Peter Parker of Earth-1 even made an appearance

Wait, what?

[Buried Alien]

Wait, what?

Apparently, Pre-COIE Earth-One's Peter Parker is the young man with the camera standing behind Silver/Bronze Age Superman.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[PyroTwilight]

Apparently, Pre-COIE Earth-One's Peter Parker is the young man with the camera standing behind Silver/Bronze Age Superman.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Isn't that just Jimmy? That's who I always took it as.