From the beginning of the heroic Silver Age, it has been established that many of the DC multiverse heroes appear in comics and other media on Earths foreign to them: the Earth-2 heroes on Earth-1, the Earth-S heroes on Earth-1 and -2, and so on. However, not all of these metafictional manifestations are accounted for; in the name of remedying this matter I have designated their home as Earth-411 (so named for Superman #411 which is a defining issue for this world). When I first developed this Earth for a TP on All-Star MUSH several years ago, I named the primary superteam the Justice Brigade of America and titled it Earth-J (after Julie Schwartz). Characters who appeared in the TP but who are not metafictional heroes are listed as noncanonical.

Flash 80 Page Giant #1 established that in the DC Comics Earth, comics which feature Superman assume he has no secret identity; Wonder Woman is Wanda Prince; Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) is Robert Blake; the Fash (Wally West) is Johnny Zipper; Green Lantern (John Stewart) is Jefferson Washington. I have chosen not to include these versions on Earth 411 although they doubtless exist somewhere.

Metafictional heroes who are based on Marvel characters appear on the Angor timeline.

The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books.

(Thanks to Bob Buethe for Dazzler info, Paul Gibney and to John McDonagh for many of the other entries)

THE HISTORICAL ERA AND EARLIER

Count Alucard
A five-hundred year-old undead in a series of books by Prentice Vaughn. From The Unexpected #197.

Bat-Sphinx
Appeared in a comic in the ancient Egypt of Earth-12, Adventures of Jerry Lewis #94

Dune Patrol
Appeared in a comic in the ancient Egypt of Earth-12, Adventures of Jerry Lewis #94

Meta-Mummy
Appeared in a comic in the ancient Egypt of Earth-12, Adventures of Jerry Lewis #94

Nokka the Barbarian
Seen in Weird War Tales #95, Nokka the Barbarian appeared in stories published in Unbelievable Tales. N. Carter Erwin wrote the stories. He is the greatest warrior in the Byhorean kingdoms. He has had some dealings with the wizard Gado-Vinn. I would presume his adventures take place in a lost part of history between the sinking of Atlantis and the Bronze Age.

Prince Peril
Prince Peril battles many dangerous monsters, among them giant Torgo, in the medieval era as portrayed in Superman #19.

The Solitary Rider
The Solitary Rider tracks down many dangerous owlhoots, among them the Black Rider, in the old west as portrayed in Superman #19.

The Terror
A character played by Basil Karlo before he became the original Clayface, he seemed to operate in a medieval milieu.

Super-Pharaoh
Appeared in a comic in the ancient Egypt of Earth-12, Adventures of Jerry Lewis #94

THE JUSTICE BRIGADE OF AMERICA

Black Box
He appeared in Swamp Thing #155. His powers, which are otherwise identical to Green Lantern's (with a touch of Starman and Doctor Fate), do not effect organic matter (as opposed to merely wood).
Description: A tall, lean man with wavy blond hair. He is wearing a black mask, tunic, and boots, with grey leggings and a broad grey belt. On his chest is a grey oval, in which is a triangle crossed with a horizontal line. He wears a billowing purple cape and carries a rod with him which seems to glow with a mysterious black light.

Ema Flna
Noncanonical

Hourman
Noncanonical

Jet Jordan
He was named in Superman #411; speculation that his name is Jordan Garrick, and save for the proper name and costume (stolen from the Blur of the television ads) he is otherwise identical to Jay Garrick.
Description [speculated]: He is wearing white tights, with navy boots and belt, and a blue aviator's mask. His blue tunic is emblazoned with a white circle in which is the letter "J".

Madam Miracle
She was named in Superman #411; speculation that her powers are identical to Wonder Woman's but she does not carry a magic lasso or have metal bracelets. 12-year-old Diana Prince comes into possession of the historical girdle of the Amazon Hippolyta, which allows her to transform herself into MM, with "all the powers of the legendary Amazons". She hails from Sensationville, which I have named in honor of WW's appearences in Sensation Comics.
Description [speculated]: This amazing amazon is tall and statuesque with long dark hair. She is wearing a red top and a short blue skirt, and knee-length yellow boots. Around her waist is a broad yellow belt in two bands which form a double "MM" design in her middle. She is carrying an antique-looking bronze shield, on which is emblazoned an eagle.

Mental Man
This character was created by Superman in collaboration with Daily Planet staff artist Al Fallon, as part of a ruse to accumulate evidence against a world-wide gold racketeering syndicate.
Description: A man who wears a costume consisting of a yellow cape, a red form-fitting skullcap, (not unlike Starman's, but without the ridge), red epulets on his shoulders, and red gauntlets. His tights are white, he has green trunks. He has a red belt, and red suspenders. His tunic is also green, and he has a round shield of yellow on his chest.

Night Wizard
He was named in Superman #411; I am picturing Bruce Wayne who has never met Dick Grayson and has no sidekick, essentially the Detective #27 character carried on without change. He has all the Batman's detective and fighting skills, but does not wear a utility belt, drives a souped-up automobile with no special logo, has a crime lab in the trunk of his car, etc.
Description [speculated]: This dark knight avenger conceals his identity behind a black cowl and long black cloak. He is wearing grey tights with black shorts and a yellow belt, and purple wrist-length gloves and purple ankle-length boots. Across his chest in small, jagged letters are the initials "NM".

Sandman
Although less explicitly oriented towards dream symbolism and with the secret identity of Jack Simon, he appears to be essentially the same as his Earth-2 counterpart; depicted as appearing in Thrill Comics in Sandman Mystery Theatre #50. He battles what appears to be two distinct versions of the villainous Scarlet Ghost, at two stages in his career. It is possible that he had a first encounter with the Scarlet Ghost which took place prior to his adoption of the Sandman identity, when he was working as a reporter for the New York Herald, as portrayed in Sandman Mystery Theatre #52.

Swamp Thing & Timmy the Magic Boy
Noncanonical

Ultra-Man
Schwartz said he was "Mars or somewhere", so I'm speculating his backstory follows: born K'al L'l [name from 1999's "One Man JLA" arc] on a planet of aliens indistinguishable from humans, this "last son of Mars" was sent to Earth as an infant after a plague claimed his homeworld, Mars. Martian civilization is otherwise indistinguishable from what we would expect from the Earth 2 Superman's Krypton. His vulnerability is fire. His secret identity is John Jones, reporter for the Metropolis Daily Star.

THE GOLDEN AGE (UNAFFILIATED)

Atomic Skull
Action #670 introduced Joe Martin, a man who gained superhuman powers due to the explosion of the Dominators' metagene bomb, as did many others. Martin slipped into a psychosis where he imagined himself as a hero of an old serial, the Atomic Skull.
This Atomic Skull (scenes from the serial were shown in MOS#5) faced a Doctor Electron, a megalomaniac seeking global hegemony, and Rocketman (true first name Frederick). In fact, it was due to Doctor Electron's experiments that the Atomic Skull (true first name Joe) gained metahuman powers (strength, durability, senses, heat ray) and his frightening appearance. The movie Atomic Skull had a roadster and a motorcycle. He also had a hideout in the crawlspace off the roof of a factory. His confidant, Zelda, had had a relationship with Rocketman. Eventually, at the end of the serial, the Atomic Skull returns to normal human form.
The movie Atomic Skull's costume is familiar; it resembles that of Albert Michaels, the Atomic Skull introduced in Superman #323 (May 1978) whom many people presumed was wiped out by the reboot of Superman's history after the Crisis.

Slam Bradley
Slam Bradley is essentially the same as his Earth-2 counterpart; depicted as appearing in Thrill Comics in Sandman Mystery Theatre #50.

Captain Stars, Sergeant Stripes, and Betsy Ross
In Question #27, the Question is told about a comic book called Captain Stars, Sergeant Stripes, and Betsy Ross. These three oppose the Third Reich agent Baron Hunn and Japanese Shinto Imperialist Colonel Wangchoo. Wangchoo had an elixir made from "corpse juice! the body fluids of dead men!" that renders those injected with it slaves. He threatens Betsy with it (naturally) but her allies free her.
Captain Stars wears a blue costume with a series of stars in red bars that meet at the center of his chest as a v, with a large star in the center of his chest. Sergeant Stripes has green pants, red shirt, blue gloves, and bars of alternating red and white on his chest. Betsy Ross has shoulder length reddish-blond hair, with a blue shirt and red and blue shorts. Baron Hunn wears a green military uniform with a red cape, and resembles Captain Nazi.
The creator of the strip was Alvin Rodor. The series ran 18 issues

Captain Tomorrow
This character appears in a newspaper strip in The Daily Planet. He works in Cosmopolis. His true name is Bill Trent, in which guise he works as a newspaper staff artists at The Daily Criterion. His confidant is Cloris Danes. Danes knows his secret, and they may marry soon. Trent has a secret lab. His known enemies include the Gorilloid.
Trent at one point lost his powers, but a device restored them. Originally, he had a costume with a blue domino mask, blue cape, blue trunk, red bodysuit. Later, after regaining his powers, he adopted a capeless costume with a mask that left his hair visible.
Captain Tomorrow was created by Willie Schuman, who worked as the Crimson Meteor in the late 1940's in Seattle, not gaining the attention of other adventurers of that time. He is a widower or divorced. Schuman himself worked as a newspaper staff artist. This was all revealed in the 1998 Superman 80-Page Giant.

Detective Craig
Detective Craig pursues many dangerous criminals, among them Machine-Gun Mike, as portrayed in Superman #19.

Dickie Bones
He appears in pulp magazines which we see a forensic scientist reading in Sandman Mystery Theatre #18. I see him as an architect in his real life (he appears plainly modelled on Mr. X), and like Madame Fatal and Mister Twister, he disguises himself as an old person to fool criminals.
Description: what appears to be an elderly gentleman with a craggy face. He is wearing a fedora hat and trench coat, and carrying a pair of .45's. Concealing his face are a pair of round, blackly opaque eyeglasses, the lenses of which seem to have inlayed on them a white crossbones.

Streak Dugan
Streak Dugan overcomes many dangerous villains, among them the Martian named Goola, as portrayed in Superman #19.

The Geezer
Superman encountered The Geezer's creator, Henry Jones, in Superman #25; the strip also featured a stylish villainess named The Harlequin.
Description: A man in an orange wrestler's outfit, an orange cape and boots, and an insignia on his tummy that is a sort of bullseye design incorporating the letter G.
Quote: "Wherever crime lurks, I must seize her. That's why far and wide I'm called Geezer!"

Pal the Wonder Dog
I pictured him as a black border collie; he appeared in Eighth Wonder Comics, single-handedly written and drawn by Johnny Quick in Adventure #121.

Plastic Man
Justice Brigade auxiliary member. Noncanonical

The Protector
Swashbuckling 50's hero (probably inspired by Night Wizard) who battles many villains, including the French-speaking burgler The Black Cat. The Protector was played by Marc Fairchild in a series of films from Quality Studios, as depicted in American Century #5.

Ulysses Pylate
Batman Family #6 introduces Ulysses Pylate, created by Christine Ariadne. Obviously based on Agatha Christie and her Poirot character, specifically Curtain (the last novel to feature him, intended for posthumous publication.)

Nick Stacy
The ultra-violent detective starred in his own newspaper strip created by Hector Ghoul, which appeared in the July 20, 1947 Spirit newspaper section.

The Viper
The Viper commits many crimes, such as attempting to steal the campaign fund from the old folk's home, as portrayed in Superman #19.

THE SILVER AGE AND ON

The Amazing Spider
Perry Porter appears in his own self-titled comic as depicted in Sandman #36. I believe he may have started his career as a boy using the name Webspinner Kid, becoming The Amazing Spider when he reached adulthood.

Courageous Man
In 1992, DC published Newstime, a copy of the magazine edited by Colin Thornton. On page 9 and page 30, we saw a picture of a character in a costume of a purple body suit, green gloves, trunks, cape, and Vision-style cowl (Bob Buethe advises me that Courageous Man's costume was identical to that worn by Superman in the imaginary story in World's Finest #178, in which he lost his powers and became the Nova). It was noted that a Bill Handy created the comic strip Courageous Man.
The Human Target storyline revealed in Action Comics Weekly #641, that Courageous Man had a Bola-Gun. Bill Anderson starred in the show, with Doug Duncan as a co-star, Frazier White as producer. He had Christopher Chance impersonate him during the filming of an episode dealing with "Pastafazoolâ Pasta-Maker of Death."
An animated series, which followed two films directed by Richard Curry (first one 1989, the sequel was called Courageous Man Strikes Back) and put out by Verner Brothers (from Blue Devil). Buster Caine as Courageous Man, Daphne Dean as Serpentyne, came out in 1992. Other than the name, there is nothing parodic about Courageous Man.
As a tie-in to Invasion, DC published the November 4, 1988 edition of The Daily Planet. It mentioned that an animated Courageous Man TV show was on channel 2 (WGBS) at 8:00-9:00. Courageous Man had a sidekick named Minute Lad , and confronted a Doctor Dangerous. In that episode, Doctor Dangerous attempted to commandeer a missile defense system.

The Dazzler
The Dazzler was a camp comedy/adventure television show in the Batman mold, about a super-powered criminal mastermind, played by actor Ken Baldwin. It apparently ran five days a week, with the Dazzler escaping prison every Monday, and being recaptured by the police on Friday. Green Lantern battled a "real-life" version of the Dazzler in Green Lantern #49 (Dec. '66). It is not known what powers the TV Dazzler had, other than flight. The version that GL fought had a variety of psionic abilities, including telekinesis, teleportation (in a dazzling flash of light), hypnosis, energy blasts, and the power to create duplicates of himself. In addition, his mental powers made him immune to the power ring.
Description: The Dazzler had a black goatee, and wore a purple chain-mail outfit with a gaudy, futuristic red and blue vest with flared shoulders, a red and white helmet, and red boots, all decorated with a white diamond motif.

Dirty Larry
Justice League Europe #14 Depicted a parody version of Dirty Harry known as Dirty Larry starring Flint Clintwood.

David Guthrie
This character appears in a novel entitled Under a Yellow Sun, written by Clark Kent. Details can be found at Fanzing.

The Hand Man
The Hand Man appears in his own self-titled comic as depicted in Doom Patrol #45.

Hyperman
Hyperman appears in his own self-titled comic as depicted in Sandman #'s 32 and 36. His secret identity is Clint Clark; his girlfriend is named Lila Lake. An evil scientist inadvertently created an imperfect duplicate of him who went by the name Weirdzo, and who eventually emigrated to a square planet populated by duplicates of himself and Lila Lake. I would like to think Clint Clark resides in Canada, as does his Earth 200 counterpart Charles LeBlanc.

Jimbo
Green Arrow #41 features Jimbo (obviously a parody of David Morrell and Rambo). John McDonagh speculates that the man who played Jimbo first appeared in a Speedy serial in Action Comics Weekly #636-640. He was named Sean Bauman. He wore a headband.

The Jinx
The Jinx appears in his own self-titled comic as depicted in Doom Patrol #45.

Methi Ghost
Methi Ghost appears in his own self-titled comic as depicted in Doom Patrol #45.

The Penalizer
The Penalizer appears in Animal Man #38 and #45, as well as possibly other issues.
The Penalizer is apparently a vigilante in the mold of Mack Bolan (the Executioner) or Frank Castle (the Punisher). On the other hand, he could be a mercenary, since he mentions getting paid to undertake a mission. He uses conventional firearms (well.....at least some of them are conventional) and a war wagon/van similar to those two other code name ending in an "-er" characters.
His real name may be Jack. He served in Vietnam. His brother was blown away in a seedy part of town, which the Penalizer since patrols at 4 AM daily.
His major enemy seems to entail George Gnat. Gnat worked for the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1972, a huge burst of nuclear radiation ruined Gnat's arms and legs. So, Gnat built high-tech cybernetic appendanges and took the name Doctor Darkness. He also sleeps with a woman named Noreen. He sent a group of high kids, who somehow thought that the drugs made them stronger than the Penalizer, to kill the Penalizer (one of the kids was named Cliff) in a Penalizer Annual, but the Penalizer slew them.
The Penalizer has a crew cut and mustache, with a purple costume with a green P on it. His stories are drawn by a man named Les Decker with a suspiciously similar hairstyle and mustache. In fact, Decker has been known to accept assignments from landlords to exterminate crack dealers who hang around their buildings! Ellen Baker (Buddy's spouse) serves as colorist.

Sovereign Seven
Cascade, Cruiser, Finale, Indigo, Network, Rampart, and Reflex were all creations of a comic book written by two women, Morgan and Casey. The additional member, the Earth-411 Power Girl, is presumably Ultra-Man's or Hyperman's cousin.

The Winged Avenger
The Winged Avenger from Silver Blade #4 was a tv hero from the late 1960's played by Brian Vane. He may have been an alien. He wore a winged cowl with a blue and purple costume.

THE FUTURE

Captain Tim leads his crew on a Space Trek in the year 2022.

Agent Y-6
Starring Mac Nelson and Dan Marz. "Police agent Y-6--a lawman of the year 2272--a man obsessed with the capture of a prisoner who fled 300 years into the past. He, too, time-traveled back to 1972--so he could resume pursuing the man he had hunted for so long--! But Rolf Kimb is an innocent man--whom the future had wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit." As depicted in "The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis", Action Comics # 422, Mar 1973. Dan Marz also starred in a spinoff, The Cases of Agent Y-6.

Chameleoman
From an issue of Tales of the Unexpected also featuring the Green Glob, Chameleoman, "Earth's greatest space hero", wore a yellow space suit with the silhouette of a lizard on it. Among his adventures included turning into a purple octopus-looking creature that pulled a spaceship crammed in a crevice, turing into a green dinosaur to fight a three headed monster, turning into a turtle to ward off the constant rain of a meteroid to retrieve space pirate loot, becoming a "human hawk" to drive off a giant roc menacing an Earth colony on Callisto, becoming a lobsterman to save an Earth spacecraft from undersea aliens, going to a secret camp among ancient ruins on Earth to disrupt a camp of alien invaders (he grows to giant size), then returned to headquarters. The Chameleo Man cartoon was put out by Scientific TV animation studio in 1966.

APPENDIX and NOTES

Earth-411 presumably includes counterparts of Midnight (Dave Clark) and Sunburst (Takeo Sato), both of whom started as actors portraying the heroes they eventually became.

There is also a fictional villain named Phantom Phelan. In the Blasters Special, a book was being read by the little Israeli boy entitled Ben Steel and His Bear Hans.

Bob Buethe informs me that a copy of DC's Captain Action #5, doctored to sport the logo Thrills and Adventure, was used in the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, "The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker."

The independent (alternate-world) superhero series Captain Confederacy referenced the character Uberman who fought crime in Hauptstadt (a city near New York), in adventures delineated by his German creators "Siegel und Shuster."

A version of The Golem was created by Eli Eshed and Uri Fink, and is a character with a faux history dating back to the 40's.

Marvel-based metafictional characters include Black Bart: from the "Creature from Krogarr" story), Brother Brimstone, Captain Crimebuster, Copperhead, the Crimson Bat (Captain America #246), the Danger Gang, Jason Drew (Doctor Strange III#9) , Jet-Man (Republic serial character pace Captain America #219), Mad Dog, Major Victory (Invaders), Megatak, the Midnight Racer (Dan Jurgens Captain America run), Mister Menace, the Molecule Man, the Purple Slasher (Dominic Fortune back-up in Hulk), Starlords (seen in Marvel Comics:Fantastic Four, one of whom resembles a Skrull), Starr the Barbarian (Chamber of Chills#4), Sump Thing, Thundersword, the Two-Gun Kid, the Tyrant (via Ace Publications), Vapor Girl, the Monster Man & Kid Monstro; there are also alternate versions of Captain America as well as evidently many of their other heroes. Also, in the prose Captain America novel Liberty's Torch, Cap befriends Colin Maxwell, a mystery writer who pens the Nick Hale detective novels including Stolen in the Night and True Facts. Earth 616 also has a contemporary comic book company named 'Atlas Comics,' though it is not clear what titles they publish.

I am not including metafictional DC heroes who appear in humor titles as I assume they have a ludicrous reality of their own to play in. Wonderfella is a comic character created by Myron Victor (Merryman). At BZ Comics, 'mazing man's associate and Earth-C emigrant Denton Fixx worked on Zoot Sputnik (who appears in All-Fun Comics), Wonderful Woman, Splendidman, and others. At DZ Comics, Sam Simeon created successful characters like Attilla Gorilla and The Deus Ex Machina Man. There is also a newspaper strip, created by a cartoonist named Wendell and much beloved of Jerry Lewis, entitled Flame Farrell. Also appearing in the July 20, 1947 Spirit newspaper section was Fearful Fooznick by Al Pratt, which serves as a humorous counterpart to Nick Stacy.

In the style of BZ and DZ Comics above: At DCPTK Comics, Mr. Mxyzptlk created successful characters such as Logjam of Super-Heroes, Just-Us League of America (Souperman, Gatman, Wondering Woman and The Martian Womanhunter), Aquamint Man, Young Heroes Unloved, Lobo's Nephews, Ziggy Starman, Zzzzandman, Captain Marvptk (In The Power of Shazapik), Sgt. Roktpk and Farce World (originally written by Jack Kirbptlk and features Lightseid, Big Birda, Orioff, Mr. Miaculouse, Granny Goodgrief and Other Paro-Demons), as seen in New Year's Evil: Mr. Mxyzptlk One-Shot. Thanks to Lenny Carslon for this information.

For the moment, I am not including the characters from Doom Patrol #35, including Flex Mentallo, the Fact, the Atomic Pile, the Zipper, Mr. 45, and Romantic Rick, because they appeared only in self-drawn comics by Wallace Sage and were never published professionally; however, their Earth may also be the home of the multitalented adventurer Colenol Porterhouse who appeared in Whiz Comics

The similarly metafictional Yellow Streak defeats the Hag in 1968, accompanied by his best friend Testor Truehand and his girlfriend Florence, despite the Hag's attempt to banish him to "the second dimension" through mind-controlling Testor Truehand. In the far future, Crater Carter has adventures. [The Yellow Streak and Friends Annual #1, as depicted in the "David Boring" graphic novel by Dan Clowes.]