The Multiversity

The Multiversity
Cover of The Multiversity #1 (October 2014), art by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	August 2014 – April 2015
Number of issues	9
Creative team
Writer(s)	Grant Morrison
Artist(s)	Ivan Reis, Frank Quitely, Cameron Stewart, Chris Sprouse, Karl Story, Ben Oliver, Doug Mahnke
Collected editions
Deluxe Edition	ISBN

The Multiversity is a limited series of interrelated one-shots set in the DC Multiverse in The New 52, a collection of universes seen in publications by DC Comics. The one-shots in the series were written by Grant Morrison, each with a different artist. The Multiversity began in August 2014 and ran until April 2015.

In the conclusion to the 1985 comic book crossover, "Crisis on Infinite Earths", the DC Multiverse collapsed with the history of five universes being merged into one single new universe. In the 1998–1999 series, The Kingdom, author Mark Waid introduced the concept of Hypertime, co-created by Grant Morrison, a super-dimensional construct that allowed for all publications to be canon or in-continuity somewhere. Hypertime, although infrequently used, was a replacement and explanation for the multiple timelines and histories DC had published through the years.

In the 2005–06 crossover, "Infinite Crisis", the survivors of the first Crisis Alexander Luthor, Jr. from Earth-Three, Superboy-Prime from Earth-Prime, and Kal-L of Earth-Two had attempted to create a perfect world to replace the current DC Universe (DCU), with Luthor restoring, merging, and destroying worlds that had once existed in Multiverse or were featured in Elseworlds publications. Luthor failed due to the intervention of the universe's heroes and inadvertently altered the history of the DC Universe. Prior to the publication of Infinite Crisis, editor Dan DiDio revealed that Hypertime no longer exists in the DCU.