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Tangent Comics was a DC Comics imprint created in 1997-1998, developed from ideas created by Dan Jurgens. The line, formed from various one-shots, focused on creating all-new characters using established DC names, such as the Joker, Batman, and the Flash. The original series of comics was a top votegetter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Limited Series for 1998.


Series

1997 Titles

  • Doom Patrol
    • A team from the future arrives in the present, warning of the impending destruction of the Earth.
  • Green Lantern
    • A woman with a lantern which, when placed upon a grave, can bring the dead back to life just long enough to complete unfinished business.
  • Metal Men
    • The Metal Men are a covert military group, so named because they came back from every mission unscathed. The members were nicknamed “Hawkman,” “Lobo,” “Gravedigger,” and “Black Lightning.”
  • Nightwing
    • A mystical secret society controlling much of the world. This book focuses on a group of rogue agents.
  • Sea Devils
    • A society of mer-people created by the nuclear exchange that destroyed Cuba and Florida in 1962.
  • Secret Six
    • The Secret Six are a covert group of heroes who formed when the Flash, Atom, Joker, Spectre, Plastic Man and Manhunter joined forces to combat Dr. Aquadus, a living ocean.
  • The Atom
    • The grandson of the Tangent Earth's first super-hero, an atomic veteran, takes on the mantle and learns a horrible truth about his family.
  • The Flash
    • The first baby born in space grows up to be a teenage superhero with light-based powers. She can move at the speed of light and create holographic constructs.
  • The Joker
    • A costumed anarchist in the city of New Atlantis who uses pranks to highlight the failings and hypocrisy of those in power.

1998 Titles

  • JLA
    • The Justice League of America in the Tangent Universe was started as a covert group of operatives who were formed to take out several superhumans, including the Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Superman. Eventually, the targets came together and formed their own Justice League.
  • Nightwing: Nightforce
  • Tales of the Green Lantern
    • The Green Lantern tells three possible--and contradictory--stories of her origin.
  • Trials of the Flash

Infinite Crisis and Earth-97

Infinite Crisis revealed that the Tangent universe was actually Earth-97, part of the recreated Multiverse. When Earth-97 was being destroyed in the chaos, Green Lantern said to follow her lantern's light in order to survive. At the end of the story, on New Earth, two children found the lantern belonging to the Tangent version of Green Lantern washed up on a beach.

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