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How Alan Moore (And Satan) Named Marvel's 'Earth-616'

Continue Reading BelowAdvertisement In the middle of the storyline, Thorpe was fired by Marvel, so the first to put the now-famous number in a comic was the writer who replaced him: a fresh-faced upstart called Alan Moore. However, Moore decided to use “616” for the regular Marvel U instead of the dumpster fire reality, just because he disliked how DC always talked about “Earth-2” and such but “never any higher numbers.” After all, if there are truly “Infinite Earths” as DC …