However, that did lead to a lot of problems down the line which still haven't been resolved with Donna Troy. Also, I can't say it was his fault that Bob Haney didn't know that Wonder Girl was a younger version of Diana and not her own character. Not to mention that he was tremendously prolific during his career-it seemed at times as if he was writing most of DC's comics. So in my opinion, if we're trying to identify the first canonical multiverse story in DC's history, I wouldn't look to something written by Kanigher.Ī number of these problems could and probably should be laid at the feet of Kanigher's editors for not reining him in, but once again, he delivered stories and met his deadlines. He was just doing his best to churn out an entertaining story by his deadline. Nor do I think he was trying to write anything canonical. However, I wouldn't call any of them canonical. And to be honest, the Impossible stories were generally pretty good. Kanigher was generally very professional in his writing even if he tended to overuse plots again and again and again. If as a writer you want to tell those stories, there are ways to do so without using those characters. You can have a Superman who turns evil and kills the Justice League as well as most civilians on Earth, but to me that's not Superman. You can have a Batman that's a literal vampire, but to me that's no longer Batman. However, I also see a lot of fiction writers (especially superhero comic writers) who decide their plot is more important than the established histories and characterizations of the existing characters and have these characters make decisions that have no connection to who they've been in the past.
I'm aware that a fresh perspective on a character can work wonders (for example Frank Miller's Daredevil). I'm not talking about What Ifs and Elseworlds or a new take on a character either.
However, if a fiction writer is contracted to write a story using characters owned and created by someone else, that writer should do their best to maintain consistency at least with characterization and lore. I may not want to read it, but I have no problems with it. To which I responded: I believe that if a fiction writer is creating the plot and characters that they can do pretty much anything and it's fine. I'm not so familiar with DC in the 1950s as to be able to pinpoint any specific stories that might have included characters from eventual multiverses unless they were retcons.ĬlarkKent_DC responded: You say that as if that's something a fiction writer is not supposed to do. He was, after all, the king of the "impossible" story. Over in the thread What is the Earliest Multiverse Story, I wrote the following: It's difficult for me to accept any Wonder Woman story written by Robert Kanigher as being even remotely canonical since he basically made stuff up to fit his plots.
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