Adam Strange of Two Worlds

It's always Earth-This and Earth-That, but what about those other planets? Rann-12 for example, where world wars are waged with a giant magnifying glass...Oh yeah, yeah, there's an Earth-12 in there too, blowed up good in World War III (no, the OTHER World War III).

But wait, what's this? The same story told on Earth-Not-Prime has a very similar Rann-12 and Earth-12.
I know I may be biased, but our Earth has much better depictions of nuclear strikes, don't you think?

Comments

Steve Flanagan said…
Whoever did the homage cover missed an important part of the original.

In the first, we are looking down on the Earth scene and up at the Rann scene. Adam Strange is directly level with our eyes, so he is not aligned with either of the two options.

In the second version, we are again looking down on the Earth scene and up at the Rann scene, but now we're looking up at Adam as well, so he is visually aligned with Rann, not Earth, and no longer appears so torn.
Anonymous said…
This is entirely beside the point, but seeing that giant magnifying glass reminded me of a Mark Waid-penned story that appeared in JLA 20-21, in which Adam Strange, with the help of the JLA, defeats a invading alien horde with a giant magnifying glass. I wonder if Waid had that Mystery in Space cover in mind when he came up with that story?
Siskoid said…
Steve: Excellent visual analysis of the two covers!

John: Which happens to be the only issue of JLA I missed in the whole Morrison era! Darn it!