It didn't. COIE basically kept everything that didn't directly contradict anything new that was coming out then, like there not being a Supergirl because Superman was the only survivor of Krypton, so any Supergirl stories either didn't happen or s
omeone else took her place. Sometimes they retold certain stories like, say, the JLA's first meeting with the JSA, to get rid of the parts about the different universes and make it take place on the same Earth. So basically, any story that really, really couldn't fit at all into the post-Crisis universe was discarded. Everything else was assumed to have taken place, with some modifications if needed.
Infinite Crisis DID NOT make those events valid again; instead it just made some things canon and other things not canon. Also, it brought back the multiverse.
That's what I said
(except for specifically the pre-crisis events being the post crisis events.)I said the CoIE made the multiverse something that never happened anywhere in the DC Universe nor the multiversal events from pre-crisis. And that Infinite Crisis made them true in the DC Universe again.
explanation: To my knowledge, after the crisis, nothing about a multiverse or anything from the crisis was mentioned or known by ANYONE until Infinite Crisis, when superman (Earth-Two) spoke to Powergirl about her real origins. So in that twenty year time span, the multiverse and the crisis never happened (to my knowledge). Infinite Crisis proved that in one point in time, the multiverse existed and was destroyed (when New Earth seemed to say that there never was a multiverse.)
Basically what you're saying is to read every comic book that happened before crisis, and then use my imagination to say which events happened when and where?
(like DC did )there seem to not really be any confusion. I mean only stories about the wiped out characters were removed after CoIE.
the evens in IC kinda tell you what wasn't canon after CoIE. I'm sorry maybe you didn't read the tie-ins, I think they showed more of what was erased. this is why I kept assuming you didn't know everything that happened in IC.
I'm concerned with events that still matter, as far as anyone in the dc universe is concerned, before and after crisis-es, not during . Especially if the event itself makes the tie-ins and the event no longer valid, and is basically an imaginary story (like ).
I want to remind you both that I HATE READING. I am only trying to get down all the history of Marvel and DC Comics because the comics don't censor itself out like the television shows do, but I can't just start at current events, because I'd have no idea who's who or what they're talking about.
I don't remember why or how, but I went to the
Unnoficial Guide to the DC Universe. I found out about there being four robins, then I started reading DC with Batman: Year One. Then I wanted to get down all the history of dc, but it's over 50 years of comics, and that's too much for me to read or collect(due to disk space), then I heard about a multiverse and about the Crisis on Infinite Earths, which (I believed) made almost everything before 1986 no longer valid, and basically didn't matter to me anymore. I wanted to start at the beginning of this multiveral crisis, so I started with the Crisis on Multiple Earths, but I didn't understand who was who or what happened.
For example I started with Justice League of America #21,#22,#29,and #30. I had no idea who this guy with that tin hat calling himself the Flash was or that the guy with the red sweater and green cape was the Green Lantern. After reading those, I read some synopsizes for those crises and found out that those events were at the same level as all the other events before the CoIE. Thinking that the CoIE could help me figure out where to start, (since to my knowledge, it restarted DC's history) I began reading the 12 crisis issues. After reading them, I thought I could start reading comics month by month after that, but then I found out that even though there was a new Batman and Superman after the crisis, other people's such as aquaman's history from pre-crisis still happened, but some things either didn't happen or they didn't happen according to how they were originally depicted.
Now me being someone that doesn't like to read, I had to figure out which comics actually still happened and which ones are no longer valid. I decided that after crisis, no one from parallel earths existed, but then Infinite Crisis changed that. I delayed on reading Infinite Crisis, until I kept running into continuity issues at wikia
(yes I know they aren't 100% accurate, but they're normally reliable) and I could no longer delay reading Infinite Crisis, and had to figure out what it did to the continuity multiverse.
IC only forced me to acknowledge that all the pre-crisis events happened, but not to what extent.