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Jake Kleinman

Earth-616 vs. Earth-838 vs. Earth-199999: Doctor Strange and the Marvel multiverse, explained


When Marvel and DC started experimenting with the multiverse back in the 1960s, it didn’t take long before keeping track of all those parallel realities got complicated. The solution? Come up with names to identify each universe.

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