Elseworlds is the publication
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for a group of comic books produced by
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that take place outside the company's
canonA canon, in terms of a fictional universe, is a body of material that is considered to be "genuine" or "official", that can be directly referenced as, or as if it were, material produced by the original author or creator of a series...
. According to its tagline: "In
Elseworlds,
heroesA superhero is "a fictional character of unprecedented powers dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest"...
are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow." Unlike its
Marvel ComicsMarvel Publishing, Inc., a company doing business as Marvel Comics, produces American comic books and related media. It forms a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc....
counterpart
What If...?What If, sometimes rendered as What If...?, is the title of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics, exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters...
, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most
Elseworlds stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities whose only connection to the canon DC continuity are the presence of familiar DC characters.
For several years from 1942 to the mid-1980s, particularly during the 1960s
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era, DC Comics published various stories about their title characters that did not take place in their regular continuity.
Elseworlds is the publication
imprintIn the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to market the work to different demographic consumer segments...
for a group of comic books produced by
DC ComicsDC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
that take place outside the company's
canonA canon, in terms of a fictional universe, is a body of material that is considered to be "genuine" or "official", that can be directly referenced as, or as if it were, material produced by the original author or creator of a series...
. According to its tagline: "In
Elseworlds,
heroesA superhero is "a fictional character of unprecedented powers dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest"...
are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow." Unlike its
Marvel ComicsMarvel Publishing, Inc., a company doing business as Marvel Comics, produces American comic books and related media. It forms a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc....
counterpart
What If...?What If, sometimes rendered as What If...?, is the title of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics, exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters...
, which bases its stories on a single point of divergence from the regular continuity, most
Elseworlds stories instead take place in entirely self-contained continuities whose only connection to the canon DC continuity are the presence of familiar DC characters.
"Imaginary Stories"
For several years from 1942 to the mid-1980s, particularly during the 1960s
Silver Age of Comic BooksThe Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and the interregnum the Atomic Age, the Silver Age is considered to cover the period from...
era, DC Comics published various stories about their title characters that did not take place in their regular continuity. Most of these stories were labeled "Imaginary Stories" and featured alternate histories of characters, such as "
The Amazing Story of Superman-Red and Superman Blue!Superman Red/Superman Blue refers to two different DC Comics storylines featuring Superman.-"The Amazing Story of Superman-Red and Superman-Blue!":...
." Depending on the story they were portrayed either as completely "fictional" stories such as the first apearence of the original Bruce Wayne Junior or as possible futures that "could very well happen" such as Clark Kent revealing to Lois his secret identity and marrying her or that "perhaps never will" such as the permanent death of Superman Although the majority of Imaginary Stories were published in various
SupermanSuperman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective Comics, Inc...
comics, a few Imaginary Stories appeared in
BatmanThe Batman, originally referred to as the Bat-Man, is a fictional character, a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger , appearing in publications by DC Comics...
comics and other DC publications.
Wonder WomanWonder Woman is a DC Comics superhero created by William Moulton Marston. First appearing in All Star Comics #8 , she is one of three characters to have been continuously published by DC Comics since the company's 1944 inception .Wonder Woman is a member of an all-female tribe of Amazons...
had her own series of stories called "Impossible Tales" which featured the same principle.
Though its status as a truly imaginary story is debatable, the last official "Imaginary Story" ever published—"
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow"Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" is a story from 1986 featuring the DC Comics character of Superman. The story was published in two parts, in the final issues of the series Superman and Action Comics , both published in September 1986...
?"—was written by
Alan MooreAlan Oswald Moore is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell...
and appeared in
SupermanSuperman is a comic book published by DC Comics. The character Superman began as one of several anthology features in the National Periodical Publications comic book Action Comics #1 . The strip proved so popular that National launched Superman into his own self-titled comic book, the first for...
#423 and
Action ComicsAction Comics is an American comic book series which introduced Superman, the first major superhero character as the term is popularly defined...
#583 (both September 1986). The
Elseworlds series of self-contained stories are essentially Imaginary Stories under a newer label and a wider scope of possibilities.
Elseworlds imprint
The first
Elseworlds title was
Batman: Gotham by GaslightGotham by Gaslight is a DC Comics one-shot by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola with inks by P. Craig Russell. It spawned a sequel Master of the Future also written by Augustyn but with art by Eduardo Barreto....
(1989), by Brian Augustyn and
Mike MignolaMike Joseph Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer, famous for creating the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has also worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On...
and edited by
Mark WaidMark Waid is an American comic book writer. He is best known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics' title The Flash, as well as his scripting of the limited series Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright, and his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America.- Birth and early career :Waid was...
, which featured a Victorian Age version of the
superheroA superhero is "a fictional character of unprecedented powers dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest"...
BatmanThe Batman, originally referred to as the Bat-Man, is a fictional character, a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger , appearing in publications by DC Comics...
hunting
Jack the RipperJack the Ripper was a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London, in late 1888. The name originated in a letter by someone claiming to be the murderer that was sent to the London Central News Agency and...
, who had come to
Gotham CityGotham City, another name for New York city appearing in DC Comics, and is best known as the home of Batman. Batman's place of residence was first identified as Gotham City in Batman #4 .- Origin of name :...
. This title was not originally published as an
Elseworlds comicA comic book is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog and often including brief descriptive prose...
, but its success led to the
Elseworlds concept and this title was retroactively declared the first
Elseworlds.
The first book to feature the Elseworlds logo was
Batman: Holy TerrorBatman: Holy Terror is an Elseworlds one-shot comic published by DC Comics in 1991. The story is written by Alan Brennert and illustrated by Norm Breyfogle...
.
DC sporadically published various Elseworlds titles up to 2005. Around the time of the release of
Batman Detective No. 27, editor Mike Carlin noted that DC had scaled back the production of Elseworlds books in order to "put the luster back on them." Several titles that were announced as Elseworlds books prior to this have yet to see publication, such as
Generations 4 (announced by
John ByrneJohn Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero....
, but possibly back-burnered due to lack of good press for & low fan response to
Generations 3Superman & Batman: Generations is the umbrella title of three Elseworlds comic book limited series published by DC Comics in the United States, written and illustrated by John Byrne...
),
Superboy's Legion 2 (rumored sequel by
Alan DavisAlan Davis is an English writer and artist of comic books.-UK work:Alan Davis was born on 18 June, 1956, and began his career in comics onto an English fanzine...
; presumably planned after he finished
JLA: Another Nail) and
The Teen Titans Swingin' Elseworlds Special (cancelled, possibly due to controversial material concerning
John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
).
It was recently announced in an interview at
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that the
Teen Titans Swingin' Elseworlds Special will be released in January 2008 as the
Teen Titans Lost Annual.
Even though they do not take place within continuity, the majority of
intercompany crossoverIn comic books, an intercompany crossover is a comic or series of comics where characters published by one company meet those published by another...
s are not considered Elseworlds, but take place in their own, for the most part self-contained continuity. The 1996 one-shot "Batman/Captain America" was a Marvel/DC crossover book and cited as an "Elseworlds" but that was due to the plot, which imagined the two heroes co-existing in 1945.
Noted titles
Other
Elseworlds titles include:
- JLA: The Nail
JLA: The Nail is a three-issue comic book mini-series published in the United States by DC Comics. It is a self-contained story by Alan Davis which stands outside of the mainstream continuity of the DC Universe....
, which theorizes a world without SupermanSuperman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective Comics, Inc...
, in which the Justice League of America has still been formed, but chaos reigns without a proper champion of the world's ideals;
- Superman's Metropolis
Superman's Metropolis is a DC Comics comic book Elseworlds publication and the first part in a trilogy based on German Expressionist cinema...
, a trilogyA trilogy is a set of three works of art - usually literature, film, or video games, less commonly visual art like paintings or musical works - that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works....
, based on German ExpressionismGerman Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920s. These developments in Germany were part of a larger Expressionist movement in north and central European art...
cinema, written by Jean-Marc LofficierJean-Marc Lofficier is a French author of books about films and television programs, as well as numerous comic books and translations of a number of animation screenplays. He usually collaborates with his wife, Randy Lofficier .-Biography:Jean-Marc Lofficier was born in Toulon, France in 1954...
, Randy Lofficier and illustrated by Ted McKeever-Career:McKeever first professional work appeared in 1987, when he published the first five parts of his unfinished series Transit , establishing his trademark style. This was followed in 1987-1988 by his 12-part series Eddy Current . This "12-hour book" centers on an escapee from an asylum...
;
- Batman: I, Joker, where a futuristic Gotham City
Gotham City, another name for New York city appearing in DC Comics, and is best known as the home of Batman. Batman's place of residence was first identified as Gotham City in Batman #4 .- Origin of name :...
is led by a cultCult may popularly refer to a religious group with relatively few adherents whose beliefs or practices are regarded by others as strange or sinister.The term "cult" was originally used to denote a system of ritual practices...
that follows Batman's descendant, a self-proclaimed god known only as "The Bruce";
- Flashpoint, where Barry (The Flash) Allen takes a bullet meant for John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
, paralyzing him from the neck down.
- In Thrillkiller, Batgirl and Robin fight a female Joker in the 1960s, while detective Bruce Wayne becomes the Batman after Robin's death.
- Superman: Speeding Bullets
Superman: Speeding Bullets is a DC Comics Elseworlds prestige format one-shot comic book published in 1993. Written by J.M. DeMatteis and featuring the artwork of Eduardo Barreto....
re-imagines the story of Kal-El as his ship crashes at Wayne Manor in Gotham City instead of Smallville, thus making him Batman instead of Superman.
- Batman: In Darkest Knight
Batman: In Darkest Knight is a one-shot comic book, published in 1994 and written by Mike W. Barr with art by Jerry Bingham. The comic is an Elseworlds story in which Bruce Wayne becomes the Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan. This one change creates a domino effect which changes many events and...
re-imagines the story of Bruce Wayne as the power ringA power ring is a fictional object featured in comic book titles published by DC Comics. It first appeared in All-American Comics #16 , and was created by Bill Finger and Martin Nodell...
of Abin SurAbin Sur is a fictional character and a superhero from the DC Comics universe. He first appeared in Showcase #22 : "SOS Green Lantern"...
selects him to be the next Green LanternGreen Lantern is the name of several fictional characters, superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The first was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell in All-American Comics #16 ....
of Sector 2814 instead of Hal JordanHarold "Hal" Jordan is a fictional character, a DC Comics superhero. He is DC Comics' second Green Lantern and the first earthman ever inducted into the Green Lantern Corps and founding member of the Justice League of America...
, thus making him Green Lantern instead of Batman.
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Gotham by Gaslight is a DC Comics one-shot by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola with inks by P. Craig Russell. It spawned a sequel Master of the Future also written by Augustyn but with art by Eduardo Barreto....
Batman, in 1889, fights Jack the Ripper when the serial killer comes to Gotham City.
- Superman: Red Son
Superman: Red Son is a comic book published by DC Comics that was released under their Elseworlds imprint in April, 2003. Author Mark Millar created the comic with the premise "what if Superman had been raised in the Soviet Union?" It received critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2004 Eisner...
ponders Superman growing up in the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
and later succeeding StalinJoseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953...
as Soviet PremierPremier of the Soviet Union is the commonly used English term for the offices of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR...
.
- "Batman/Captain America," a DC/Marvel crossover shows the two heroes working in 1945 to stop the Joker and the Red Skull.
- The Batman and Dracula
Batman & Dracula: Red Rain is a 1991 graphic novel by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones, in DC Comics' Elseworlds line of alternate reality stories...
trilogy, written by Doug MoenchDouglas "Doug" Moench is an American comic book writer, probably best known for his Batman work.-Biography:Doug Moench was born on February 23, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois...
with Kelley JonesKelley Jones is an American comic book artist best known for his runs on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.-Biography:...
and Malcolm Jones IIIMalcolm Jones III was an American comic book artist best known as an inker on The Sandman, where he added his illustrative line and textures to the work of pencillers such as Mike Dringenberg, Kelley Jones, and Colleen Doran...
, in which the infamous vampire lord comes to Gotham City and is confronted by Batman, who subsequently becomes a vampire himself.
- Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come is a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1996 by DC Comics. It was written by Mark Waid and painted in gouache by Alex Ross, who also developed the concept from an original idea...
, a miniseriesA miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
in which a new, violent generation of superheroes replaces the aging idealism of DC's classic heroes, and the conflict between the two groups ignites an apocalypticApocalypse is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often used to refer to the end of the world, which may be a shortening of the phrase apokalupsis eschaton which literally means "revelation at the end...
battle. The Kingdom is the sequel to Kingdom Come.
Titles like
Batman: The Dark Knight ReturnsBatman: The Dark Knight Returns is a four-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by Frank Miller, originally published by DC Comics in 1986...
(1986),
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" is a story from 1986 featuring the DC Comics character of Superman. The story was published in two parts, in the final issues of the series Superman and Action Comics , both published in September 1986...
(1986),
The Batman Chronicles #21 (May 2000, solicited as Elseworlds, but has no logo),
Bizarro Comics (June 2001, which featured the story "
Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter"Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" is a comic book story by Kyle Baker, co-written with Liz Glass. It originally appeared in DC Comics' Elseworlds 80-page Giant #1 in June 1999, but the story, which included a baby Superman crawling into a microwave oven and drinking milk directly from a cow,...
" from the cancelled
Elseworlds 80-Page GiantThe Elseworlds 80-Page Giant is an 80-page collection of Elseworlds stories published by DC Comics. The collection was withdrawn and pulped after DC became concerned about a scene in one of the stories.-Publication history:...
),
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes AgainBatman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again is a Batman mini-series by Frank Miller with Lynn Varley. It is a sequel to Miller's 1986 miniseries, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.-Overview:...
(2001),
Batman: Digital JusticeBatman: Digital Justice is a graphic novel published by DC Comics in 1990 in both hardback and paperback forms. It was written and illustrated by Pepe Moreno entirely using computer hardware, software and techniques...
(1990), and
Superman: Secret IdentitySuperman: Secret Identity is a four-issue mini-series of 48 pages each in prestige format, written by Kurt Busiek and illustrated by Stuart Immonen. The first issue was published in January 2004, and the limited series ran until April 2004. The title was not released under the Elseworlds banner,...
(2004) were referred to as Elseworlds in the DC Universe without the name brand logo.
Except when otherwise noted, most of the stories in the monthly series
Batman: Legends of the Dark KnightBatman: Legends of the Dark Knight, commonly referred to as simply Legends of the Dark Knight is a DC comic book featuring Batman. It was launched in 1989 with the popularity of the Batman movie, following on from Frank Miller's Batman: Year One...
are considered canon, even though some have tales of Batman in the future, which are deemed non-canonical. In 1994,
DC ComicsDC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
Elseworlds collaborated with the DC yearly summer
Annual editionAn annual publication, more often called simply an annual, is a book or a magazine, comic book or comic strip published yearly. For example, a weekly or monthly publication may produce an Annual featuring similar materials to the regular publication....
comic books. The last Elseworlds series published was
Batman: Year 100 in 2006, which did not have the Elseworlds logo printed on it.
Relationship to DC continuity
Although Elseworlds was created to be separate from the "regular continuity", there have been specific examples where Elseworld stories have been placed into continuity.
The series of specials
The KingdomThe Kingdom could refer to:* a nickname for County Kerry in Ireland* an apocalyptic Christian movement founded by Frank Sandford* The Kingdom , a Danish television miniseries by Lars von Trier...
, brought the previously Elseworlds
Kingdom ComeKingdom Come is a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1996 by DC Comics. It was written by Mark Waid and painted in gouache by Alex Ross, who also developed the concept from an original idea...
into DC continuity (as an alternate timeline). However, later editorial edict removed the concept of
HypertimeHypertime is a fictional concept presented in the 1999 DC comic book series The Kingdom, both a catch-all explanation for any continuity discrepancies in DC Universe stories and a variation or superset of the Multiverse that existed before Crisis on Infinite Earths.- The Kingdom :The basic premise...
established in the specials and presumably
Kingdom Come.
The new
MultiverseThe DC Multiverse is a fictional continuity construct that exists in stories published by comic book company DC Comics. The DC Multiverse consists of numerous worlds, most of them outside DC's main continuity allowing writers the creative freedom to explore alternate versions of characters and...
was introduced at the conclusion of the
5252 was a weekly American comic book limited series published by DC Comics that debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. The series was written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid with layouts by Keith Giffen...
finite series and expanded on in the pages of the
CountdownCountdown, in comics, may refer to:* Countdown , a British boys comic of the early 1970s* Countdown to Final Crisis, a DC comics series* DC Countdown, the name originally listed for Countdown to Infinite Crisis...
weekly limited series. Some of the alternate worlds depicted in various Elseworlds titles have been reintroduced as alternate Earths that make up the new Multiverse, however this was not limited to the said series. Elseworlds that appear as worlds of the 52 Multiverse include:
- Batman and Dracula
Batman & Dracula: Red Rain is a 1991 graphic novel by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones, in DC Comics' Elseworlds line of alternate reality stories...
trilogy
- Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come is a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1996 by DC Comics. It was written by Mark Waid and painted in gouache by Alex Ross, who also developed the concept from an original idea...
- JSA: The Liberty Files
JSA: The Liberty Files is a comic book published by DC Comics. The writers were Dan Jolley and Tony Harris. The artists were Harris and Ray Snyder. The books were originally written as two separate two-issue stories; JSA: The Liberty File in 2000 and a sequel, JSA: The Unholy Three in 2003...
- Superman: Red Son
Superman: Red Son is a comic book published by DC Comics that was released under their Elseworlds imprint in April, 2003. Author Mark Millar created the comic with the premise "what if Superman had been raised in the Soviet Union?" It received critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2004 Eisner...
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
- Justice Riders
- JLA: The Nail
JLA: The Nail is a three-issue comic book mini-series published in the United States by DC Comics. It is a self-contained story by Alan Davis which stands outside of the mainstream continuity of the DC Universe....
- L.E.G.I.O.N. 90210
- Batman: Thrillkiller
- Wonder Woman: Amazonia
Wonder Woman: Amazonia is a comic book one-shot published by DC Comics under its Elseworlds imprint. As with all Elseworlds it tells a non-canon story of a DC hero, this time Wonder Woman, outside of regular continuity and is set in the 19th Century...
- Batman Beyond
Batman Beyond, also known as Batman of the Future, is an American animated television series created by The WB Television Network in collaboration with DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation as a continuation of the Batman legacy. It began airing on January 10, 1999, and ended its run on December18,...
See also
- Canon (fiction)
A canon, in terms of a fictional universe, is a body of material that is considered to be "genuine" or "official", that can be directly referenced as, or as if it were, material produced by the original author or creator of a series...
- Hypertime
Hypertime is a fictional concept presented in the 1999 DC comic book series The Kingdom, both a catch-all explanation for any continuity discrepancies in DC Universe stories and a variation or superset of the Multiverse that existed before Crisis on Infinite Earths.- The Kingdom :The basic premise...
- Multiverse (DC Comics)
The DC Multiverse is a fictional continuity construct that exists in stories published by comic book company DC Comics. The DC Multiverse consists of numerous worlds, most of them outside DC's main continuity allowing writers the creative freedom to explore alternate versions of characters and...
- What If...?
What If, sometimes rendered as What If...?, is the title of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics, exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters...
, a similar concept at Marvel ComicsMarvel Publishing, Inc., a company doing business as Marvel Comics, produces American comic books and related media. It forms a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc....
- Intercompany crossovers
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