Crisis On Infinite Earths #1 NFT issue now available on DC3

Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 NFT is the latest digital comic to be added to the growing long box of DC Collectible Comics (DC3) titles. Starting December 15, 2022, you now have the opportunity to own a share of a unique, digital version of this classic cartoon that must not be duplicated, and just like previous releases Detective cartoons #38 and Superman #1, you even get to choose the state of the cover image.

Published in January 1985, it is hard to understate the importance of COIE. Heading into the 80s, DC was looking to make a change. Sales needed to improve, and editor Marv Wolfman noticed letters from fans complaining about confusions in continuity across the multiple universes. He proposed a change – a unification of the multiverses that would be established in a max series that includes practically every single character in the DC stable.

From that moment on The Comics Journal reported on the proposal in 1981, it took another four years for the series to be published, including the two years it took one researcher to read every DC comic in the vault—and to think, someone was getting paid for it!

Quite simply, the task was outstanding. Marvel had just beaten DC to the record with their own first max series titled Secret Wars (from mid-1984), but it was nowhere near the same extent as COIEeither in terms of sign or meaning.

Marv Wolfman created a story that drew on the history of the DCU and dutifully filled it with every character. It was a story of high drama, notoriously seeing the death of two high-profile characters and many other secondary characters. Illustrator George Perez faced one of the biggest challenges of anyone in comics with his interpretation of so many characters where every detail is important. It was also a project that tested his technical abilities in terms of clear layouts and dramatic storytelling.

Even now, its importance in comics history is being appreciated. 1985, which COIE ran from January to December, is known as the beginning of the modern age of comics. Readers and cartoonists were looking for a grown-up sophistication in the art form, with darker, more grown-up storytelling. Superheroes had to change too.

In a twist of fate, what started as DC responding to changing needs had led to them publishing a superhero comic that showed a new level of ambition. It showed the comic book world, including Marvel, that it was possible to tell a story that spanned decades of characters and storylines and was brave enough to turn everything on its head. It also allowed their characters to be reinvented to better reflect modern times. Batman had already gone through a change-or-die reinvention that led to COIE and was a character that didn’t need a reboot, but even he benefited from the retcon with the immortal Batman: Year One.

So what better way to associate yourself with a piece of not only DC significance, but comic book history? The Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 NFT digital asset is divided into only 4,000 ownership shares and comes in a selection of coverage ratios. Get it while you can at nft.dcuniverse.com

Product details:

Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) #1

Date: Thursday 15 December 2022

Bat Cowl Holder Early Access: 7am – 8am PT

Public sale: at 09.00 PT

Comic Pack Reveal: 11 a.m. PT

Issue size: 4000*

Max purchase: 1 per account

Price: US$9.99

Author: Marv Wolfman

Pencils: George Perez

Inkers: George Perez, Dick Giordano

Colorist: Tony Tollin

Cover artists: George Perez, Gaspar Saladino

When DC’s Big Bang happened in Crisis on Infinite Earths, several parallel universes were formed. A great wall of pure antimatter energy stretches across the cosmos and destroys the entire multiverse. Earth-3 is about to reach the end of its existence because of this and not even the DC Super Heroes on that Earth can save it.

Images and press release courtesy of DC Entertainment