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   * Superman gives Billy Cramer a special ultrasonic whistle to summon his help whenever he needs it. Over the next few months, Superman and Billy make a great team. ["Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
 ===October, 1970===
-  * October 14: The Batman, wearing a crude-looking original costume with longer ears and a bigger utility belt, makes his first public appearance. In his very first case, the Batman is tricked by a thief named "Slugsy" Kyle and is knocked out and briefly captured after he trails him to the Gotham Glass Works factory. Finally, the Batman manages to outwit Kyle and capture him. Soon after, the Batman stops two bank robbers on a rooftop after they robbed the First Federal Bank. Capturing them and tying them up, the Batman leaves them for Police Commissioner James W. Gordon and his men to find, along with a hastily scrawled note identifying himself only with a bat-symbol, which gives him the name of the Bat. Officer Collins, spotting the Batman fleeing the scene, fires off two shots until Gordon stops him. //Note: The Batman's first case supposedly takes place on December 4, according to 1976 Super DC Calendar, but this date is not a full moon in 1970, and it seems to be nearly two months too late to be Batman's “first case,” so it's possible this date refers to another event. The Batman's public debut takes place exactly 15 years before the events of Batman #400. After getting out of jail in 1974, Kyle becomes the villain known as the Clock. Although the scene of Batman fighting two crooks on a rooftop is based on "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" from Detective Comics #27, it cannot be that case, which actually occurs on Earth-1 in a different way in 1978, as depicted in Detective Comics #387. The appearance of a full moon places this story on October 14, 1970. Originally using a crude bat-costume with large bat-ears as an initial test, Batman creates over the next couple of months a sleeker-looking costume with smaller bat-ears that becomes his defined look. He also begins building his crimefighting tools, such as the Batcave, the Batmobile, and the Batplane, keeping him busy until he has his first official case in December. However, Batman's exploits are largely unknown by the general public until mid-1971, and the Batman is believed to be an urban myth until then. Since there is no clear demarcation between the Golden Age and Silver Age Batman, and since the Silver Age Batman is generally accepted to have had many of the same early adventures as the Golden Age Batman, it's likely that his career begins earlier than previously believed. It is worthwhile to note that Dennis O'Neil once stated that Bruce Wayne became Batman before he turned 21 years old, which would happen on February 19, 1971, just four months after this event.// ["The Legend of the Batman: Who He is and How He Came to Be," Batman #1 (Spring, 1940); "Batman's First Case," Detective Comics #265 (March, 1959); "Earth: Without a Justice League," Justice League of America #37 (August, 1965); "The Man Behind the Mask," The Untold Legend of the Batman #3 (September, 1980); "Resurrection Night," Batman #400 (October, 1986)]
+  * October 14: The Batman, wearing a crude-looking original costume with longer ears and a bigger utility belt, makes his first public appearance. In his very first case, the Batman is tricked by a thief named "Slugsy" Kyle and is knocked out and briefly captured after he trails him to the Gotham Glass Works factory. Finally, the Batman manages to outwit Kyle and capture him. Soon after, the Batman stops two bank robbers on a rooftop after they robbed the First Federal Bank. Capturing them and tying them up, the Batman leaves them for Police Commissioner James W. Gordon and his men to find, along with a hastily scrawled note identifying himself only with a bat-symbol, which gives him the name of the Bat. Officer Collins, spotting the Batman fleeing the scene, fires off two shots until Gordon stops him. //Note: The Batman's first case supposedly takes place on December 4, according to 1976 Super DC Calendar, but this date is not a full moon in 1970, and it seems to be nearly two months too late to be Batman's “first case,” so it's possible this date refers to another event. The Batman's public debut takes place exactly 15 years before the events of Batman #400, which shows Batman celebrating a major anniversary of his debut. After getting out of jail in 1974, Kyle becomes the villain known as the Clock. Although the scene of Batman fighting two crooks on a rooftop is based on "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" from Detective Comics #27, it cannot be that case, which actually occurs on Earth-1 in a different way in 1978, as depicted in Detective Comics #387. The appearance of a full moon places this story on October 14, 1970. Originally using a crude bat-costume with large bat-ears as an initial test, Batman creates over the next couple of months a sleeker-looking costume with smaller bat-ears that becomes his defined look. He also begins building his crime-fighting tools, such as the Batcave, the Batmobile, and the Batplane, keeping him busy until he has his first official case in December. However, Batman's exploits are largely unknown by the general public until mid-1971, and the Batman is believed to be an urban myth until then. Since there is no clear demarcation between the Golden Age and Silver Age Batman, and since the Silver Age Batman is generally accepted to have had many of the same early adventures as the Golden Age Batman, it's likely that his career begins earlier than previously believed. It is worthwhile to note that Dennis O'Neil once stated that Bruce Wayne became Batman before he turned 21 years old, which would happen on February 19, 1971, just four months after this event.// ["The Legend of the Batman: Who He is and How He Came to Be," Batman #1 (Spring, 1940); "Batman's First Case," Detective Comics #265 (March, 1959); "Earth: Without a Justice League," Justice League of America #37 (August, 1965); "The Man Behind the Mask," The Untold Legend of the Batman #3 (September, 1980); "Resurrection Night," Batman #400 (October, 1986)]
 ===November, 1970===
-  * November 3: Harvey Dent is elected as Gotham City's youngest district attorney.
+  * November 3:
-  * The Batman, wearing a new, permanent costume, visits the offices of Police Commissioner James W. Gordon and offers his services to the police, but Gordon rebuffs him, telling him that police work isn't for amateurs. The Batman then visits Harvey Dent, the newly elected district attorney on the eve of his election, and makes the same offer, which Dent accepts. The Batman and Harvey Dent begin a friendship and secret working relationship that lasts for the next six months. //Note: The Batman's real but relatively unexplored friendship with Harvey Dent inspires this speculation.// ["Batman and Robin's Greatest Mystery," Detective Comics #234 (August, 1956); "The Crimes of Two-Face," Detective Comics #66 (August, 1942)]
+    * Harvey Dent is elected as Gotham City's youngest district attorney.
+    * The Batman, wearing a new, permanent costume, visits the offices of Police Commissioner James W. Gordon and offers his services to the police, but Gordon rebuffs him, telling him that police work isn't for amateurs. The Batman then visits Harvey Dent, the newly elected district attorney on the eve of his election, and makes the same offer, which Dent accepts. The Batman and Harvey Dent begin a friendship and secret working relationship that lasts for the next six months. //Note: The Batman's real but relatively unexplored friendship with Harvey Dent inspires this speculation.// ["Batman and Robin's Greatest Mystery," Detective Comics #234 (August, 1956); "The Crimes of Two-Face," Detective Comics #66 (August, 1942)]
+  * The Batman's second official case is the Venice Murder Case. //Note: Nothing is known about the Venice Murder Case, other than that the Batman obtained a gondola as a trophy.// ["The 1,000 Secrets of the Batcave," Batman #48 (August-September, 1948)]
 ===December, 1970===
   * Pete Ross, visiting from Raleigh University, is reunited with Clark Kent and meets Billy Cramer. Later, Clark visits Billy's family's second home in Florida during winter break. ["Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
-  * December 4: In the Batman's first official case, he captures a criminal named "Slugsy" Kyle. //Note: After getting out of jail in 1974, Kyle becomes the villain known as the Clock.// ["Batman's First Case," Detective Comics #265]
-  * The Batman's second official case is the Venice Murder Case. //Note: Nothing is known about the Venice Murder Case, other than that the Batman obtained a gondola as a trophy.// ["The 1,000 Secrets of the Batcave," Batman #48 (August-September, 1948)]
   * December 4-6: The Batman encounters an extortionist called Doctor Death, who uses a death pollen to extract a tribute from wealthy people. After the Batman pursues the villain to his house, Doctor Death dies in a fiery inferno that consumes his entire laboratory and home, but Doctor Death escapes via a secret passage after sustaining first-degree burns. Unknown to the Batman, Doctor Death is really an agent of the true mastermind, Dr. Karl Hellfern, who averts all suspicions by working through proxies. Around this time, the Batman is considered an outlaw by the police. //Note: There is a reference to the Batman battling a Doctor Death in his first year in Untold Legend of the Batman #3, but since the Earth-1 Doctor Death is actually introduced for the first time later on in a present-day story, the original Doctor Death is likely a different man acting as an agent for Dr. Karl Hellfern, whose reputation remains intact.// ["The Batman Meets Doctor Death," Detective Comics #29 (July, 1939); "The Man Behind the Mask," The Untold Legend of the Batman #3 (September, 1980)]
   * December 12: The Batman, discovering that Doctor Death is still alive, encounters him again and recovers stolen diamonds from the widow of the man he killed (secretly at the behest of Dr. Karl Hellfern), before capturing him for the police. //Note: After this story, Dr. Karl Hellfern decides to forgo his risky extortion schemes for over a decade, concentrating instead on building a legitimate front business while secretly selling his formulas to the underworld.// [The Batman, Detective Comics #30 (August, 1939)]
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   * May 3: Anti-war militants disrupt government business in Washington, D.C., during the 1971 May Day Protests.
   * May 8-10: After transforming five men into 15-foot-tall giant monster-men, Prof. Hugo Strange has his men send them out to different parts of Gotham City to cause distractions while his gang loots the banks. After Prof. Strange falls into the bay below his cliffside hideout, the Batman is forced to destroy the monster-men with the aid of his Batplane. [The Giants of Hugo Strange, Batman #1 (Spring, 1940)]
-  * May 11: During the trial of Sal "Boss" Maroni, District Attorney Harvey Dent is injured when Maroni throws a bottle of acid at his face, but the Batman deflects it, keeping it from hitting him full on. However, the left side of his face and his left hand are hideously scarred, and he is rushed into surgery. Afterward, Dent recovers for one month wrapped in bandages. //Note: The Earth-2 Harvey Dent is named Harvey Kent. The Earth-2 Boss Maroni is called Boss Moroni.// ["The Crimes of Two-Face," Detective Comics #66 (August, 1942)]
+  * May 11: During the trial of Sal "Boss" Maroni, District Attorney Harvey Dent is injured when Maroni throws a bottle of acid at his face, but the Batman deflects it, keeping it from hitting him full on. However, the left side of his face and his left hand are hideously scarred, and he is rushed into surgery. Afterward, Dent recovers for one month wrapped in bandages. //Note: The Earth-2 Harvey Dent is named Harvey Kent. The Earth-2 Boss Maroni is called Boss Moroni.// ["The Crimes of Two-Face," Detective Comics #66 (August, 1942); "The Secret Origin of Two-Face: Double Take," DC Super Stars #14 (May-June, 1977)]
   * May 26: After Clark Kent and Lori Lemaris have been dating for several months, Lori tells him she must return home to her parents tomorrow night. Clark determines to propose to her and tell her his secret identity, but he is restricted to his dormitory as part of a fraternity initiation. He creates a diversion allowing him to leave, and after bringing Lori to a romantic spot by the seaside, Clark proposes. Lori reveals she knows he is Superman but says they cannot marry. Feeling jealous, Superman follows her to her trailer house and hears her sending messages, concluding that she may be a spy. Searching her trailer after she leaves, Superman finds a large water tank and, realizing she is a mermaid, determines to confront her. ["The Girl in Superman's Past," Superman #129; "Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
-  * May 27: Billy Cramer tries to cheer up the heartbroken Clark Kent and uses his ultrasonic whistle to summon Superman, but Superman angrily tells Billy not to use it except in emergencies. ["Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
+  * May 27:
-  * Superman confronts Lori Lemaris, but the state dam bursts at that moment, and he brings Lori with him to help with rescue operations. After he restores the dam, Superman returns to Lori's trailer, where she explains that as a mermaid from Atlantis she possesses telepathy. Every 100 years someone is chosen to go to the surface world to report on its progress. Superman and Lori Lemaris share one last kiss underwater, and she returns to her people. ["The Girl in Superman's Past," Superman #129; "Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
+    * Billy Cramer tries to cheer up the heartbroken Clark Kent and uses his ultrasonic whistle to summon Superman, but Superman angrily tells Billy not to use it except in emergencies. ["Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
-  * While moping over the loss of Lori Lemaris, Superman learns of a tsunami in in the South Pacific and is about to save everyone on the resort island of Pandango when he hears Billy Cramer's whistle and sees he is trapped in a burning building. After saving the island from the tsunami, Superman races back to Metropolis only to find that Billy died from suffocation in the fire. He learns from a police officer that Billy charged into the burning building to save a baby. Superman goes into seclusion over the summer, feeling that this is one of his greatest failures. ["Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
+    * Superman confronts Lori Lemaris, but the state dam bursts at that moment, and he brings Lori with him to help with rescue operations. After he restores the dam, Superman returns to Lori's trailer, where she explains that as a mermaid from Atlantis she possesses telepathy. Every 100 years someone is chosen to go to the surface world to report on its progress. Superman and Lori Lemaris share one last kiss underwater, and she returns to her people. ["The Girl in Superman's Past," Superman #129; "Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
+    * While moping over the loss of Lori Lemaris, Superman learns of a tsunami in in the South Pacific and is about to save everyone on the resort island of Pandango when he hears Billy Cramer's whistle and sees he is trapped in a burning building. After saving the island from the tsunami, Superman races back to Metropolis only to find that Billy died from suffocation in the fire. He learns from a police officer that Billy charged into the burning building to save a baby. Superman goes into seclusion over the summer, feeling that this is one of his greatest failures. ["Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3]
 ===June, 1971===
   * June 3: The Batman encounters the Red Hood for the first time, but the slippery criminal makes his escape. ["The Man Behind the Red Hood," Detective Comics #168 (February, 1951)]
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   * December 10: Robin has his first solo case when he brings in Champ Trask and his gang. ["Operation Escape," Star Spangled Comics #124 (January, 1952)]
   * December 13
-  * Batman and Robin battle the Scarecrow a second time. Bruce Wayne and Linda Page decide to break up after this case, though they remain friends. ["The Scarecrow Returns," Detective Comics #73 (March, 1943)]
+    * Batman and Robin battle the Scarecrow a second time. Bruce Wayne and Linda Page decide to break up after this case, though they remain friends. ["The Scarecrow Returns," Detective Comics #73 (March, 1943)]
-  * Lois Lane graduates from Raleigh College one semester early and immediately moves to Metropolis, obtaining a job as a waitress at Harry's Dog House diner across from the Daily Planet, where she hopes to work. However, she is unimpressed by the reporters who frequent the diner and quickly grows to dislike them, causing her to reconsider her lifelong ambition to become a reporter for some other career. ["The Girl Who Hated Reporters," World's Finest Comics #47]
+    * Lois Lane graduates from Raleigh College one semester early and immediately moves to Metropolis, obtaining a job as a waitress at Harry's Dog House diner across from the Daily Planet, where she hopes to work. However, she is unimpressed by the reporters who frequent the diner and quickly grows to dislike them, causing her to reconsider her lifelong ambition to become a reporter for some other career. ["The Girl Who Hated Reporters," World's Finest Comics #47]
   * December 14: Alfred Pennyworth becomes the butler for Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, not knowing they are Batman and Robin. ["The Secret of Batman's Butler," Batman #110 (September, 1957)]
   * December 14-20: Batman and Robin have their final encounter with Two-Face, alias Harvey Dent, who decides to reform and seek help after his fiancee Gilda Gold is accidentally shot. Dent's sentence is considerably reduced, thanks to Batman. ["The End of Two-Face," Detective Comics #80 (October, 1943)]
   * December 20-23: Batman and Robin fight Joe Coyne and his penny plunderers, taking a large model penny in the crime for the Batcave's trophy room. ["The Penny Plunderers," World's Finest Comics #30 (September-October, 1947)]
   * December 30: While visiting London, Batman and Robin assist Inspector Smythe of Scotland Yard against international spy Count Florian, nicknamed the Man Without a Country and the Man with a Thousand Eyes. ["The Man with a Thousand Eyes," World's Finest Comics #43 (December, 1949-January, 1950)]
+  * December 31: Taking a Christmas holiday voyage by boat, Oliver Queen is knocked off his yacht and falls into the ocean. Washing up on the shores of Starfish Island, Oliver spends the next nine months fighting for survival by re-learning his long-forgotten archery skills in order to hunt for food. He also makes himself a makeshift costume from foliage that resembles Robin Hood's outfit. ["The Green Arrow's First Case," Adventure Comics #256 (January, 1959); Green Arrow, DC Super Stars #17 (November-December, 1977)]
 ====1972====
 ===January, 1972===
-  * January 1: Commissioner James W. Gordon begins using the Bat-Signal, a modified searchlight used to summon Batman and Robin. ["Case of the Costume-Clad Killers," Detective Comics #60 (February, 1942)]
+  * January 1
-  * January 1: Superman encounters the adult Mr. Mxyzptlk, who takes office as mayor of Metropolis after a successful election in November, 1971. ["Mr. Mxyztplk, Mayor of Metropolis," Superman #96]
+    * Commissioner James W. Gordon begins using the Bat-Signal, a modified searchlight used to summon Batman and Robin. ["Case of the Costume-Clad Killers," Detective Comics #60 (February, 1942)]
+    * Superman encounters the adult Mr. Mxyzptlk, who takes office as mayor of Metropolis after a successful election in November, 1971. ["Mr. Mxyztplk, Mayor of Metropolis," Superman #96]
   * January 7-10: Batman and Robin battle remotely controlled robot dinosaurs on Dinosaur Island and receive a robotic tyrannosaurus rex for their trophy room in the Batcave. ["Dinosaur Island," Batman #35 (June-July, 1946)]
   * January 12-13: Batman and Robin battle Tweedledum and Tweedledee. ["Tweedledum and Tweedledee," Detective Comics #74 (April, 1943)]
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   * April 29-30: Batman discovers the name of his parents' killer, Joe Chill, and spends much of the next month gathering evidence to put him away. ["The Origin of the Batman," Batman #47 (June-July, 1948); "In the Beginning," Untold Legend of the Batman #1 (July, 1980)]
 ===May, 1972===
-  * Green Arrow makes his debut. [Adventure Comics #218]
   * May 1-4: The Joker begins driving a Jokermobile, patterned after Batman's Batmobile. ["The Joker Follows Suit," Batman #37 (October-November, 1946)]
   * May 4-5: Catwoman begins driving a Kitty Car, patterned after Batman's Batmobile. ["The Black Cat Crimes," Detective Comics #122 (April, 1947)]
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   * August 7: Superman builds a fortress in space disguised as a spherical meteor to use as his headquarters, which he calls the Satellite of Solitude. Superman relocates his secret laboratory, originally located in a cave at Mount Kadens, to the Satellite of Solitude. ["Superman's Fortresses of Solitude," Action Comics #261 (February, 1960)]
   * August 8-9: Superman, Batman and Robin team up for the first time against a smuggling ring using liquid kryptonite against Superman. Batman impersonates Superman for the first time. ["The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team," World's Finest Comics #94 (May-June, 1958)]
-  * August 13: Steve Trevor's plane crashes on Paradise Island. [Wonder Woman #159]
+  * August 13-17: While tracking down a nest of spies, Capt. Steve Trevor of U.S. Army Intelligence is shot down over the Atlantic Ocean. His plane crash-lands in the ocean near Paradise Island, and he is rescued by two Amazons: Princess Diana and her best friend Mala. Without telling her mother Queen Hippolyta, Diana brings the unconscious pilot to her laboratory outside the city, where she and Dr. Althea work day and night to save his life. Diana perfects her purple healing ray just in time to revive Steve back to life and brief consciousness even after he is pronounced clinically dead. Queen Hippolyta is alarmed when she finally learns that a man is on Paradise Island, but she's even more worried when she realizes her daughter may have fallen in love with the man. ["The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #159 (January, 1966); "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," DC Special Series #19 (Fall, 1979)]
   * August 14-15: Selina Kyle, furious over a newspaper story about how Batman triumphed over Catwoman, returns to crime as Catwoman. At the conclusion of this case, Catwoman goes missing for five years, and her absence has never been explained. ["The Crimes of the Catwoman," Detective Comics #203 (January, 1954)]
+  * August 17: Jason Todd, son of circus aerialists Joseph and Trina Todd (the Flying Todds), is born. ["Confrontation," Detective Comics #525 (April, 1983)]
+  * August 25-26: When Clark Kent and Lois Lane are sent to Vietnam as medics in order to cover the Vietnam War, Superman protects the remaining U.S. troops from a giant, dull-witted, super-strong man known as King Cong. Later, Superman discovers that King Cong is really an American G.I. named Johnny Morely who has been transformed through the use of a super-drug created by a Vietnamese scientist named Dr. Han, and the effects of the super-drug wear off. //Note: This story is placed years out of sequence because it can only take place during the direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which ends not long after in 1973. // ["The Soldier of Steel," Superman #216 (May, 1969)]
   * August 27-31: When Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne each go on vacations on the cruise-ship Varania, they accidentally learn each other's secret identities of Superman and Batman when forced to share a room. Vowing to keep each other's identities a secret, Superman and Batman team up to capture John Smilter, an asbestos-suited bandit who stole the Fabian diamonds. ["The Mightiest Team in the World," Superman #76 (May-June, 1952)]
+  * August 30-31: The goddess Aphrodite appears to Queen Hippolyta to tell her that she must send the greatest of the Amazons to bring Capt. Steve Trevor back to America, where she will remain to fight evil and injustice everywhere. Queen Hippolyta then holds a tournament to choose the greatest Amazon fairly, but she forbids her daughter Princess Diana from participating. On the day of the tournament, all contestants except Mala and a masked Amazon are left, and the contest between the two finalists is decided in favor of the masked Amazon in the bullets and bracelets competition. The masked Amazon unmasks to reveal that the champion is Princess Diana. Feeling a mixture of pride and sadness, Queen Hippolyta presents her daughter with a costume to wear in America and the magic lasso, which enables her to control anyone bound by it, and the Amazons proclaim Diana as **Wonder Woman**. ["The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #159 (January, 1966); "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," DC Special Series #19 (Fall, 1979)]
 ===September, 1972===
   * Animal Man has an adventure. [When Trouble Comes A Calling]
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   * September 15-16: Batman and Robin battle the Human Firefly, alias lighting-effects genius Garfield Lynns. ["The Human Firefly," Detective Comics #184 (June, 1952)]
   * September 4-19: Batman and Robin battle the Joker, who embarks on a series of crimes after a four-month-long absence. ["The Crimes of Batman," World's Finest Comics #61 (November-December, 1952); "Rackety-Rax Racket," Batman #32 (December, 1945-January, 1946); "The Joker's Aces," World's Finest Comics #59 (July-August, 1952)]
-  * Wonder Woman meets the criminal called the Angle Man. [Wonder Woman #164]
 ===October, 1972===
+  * Capturing a gang of pirates using Starfish Island as a base, Oliver Queen returns to Star City after being stranded on Starfish Island for nine months. The incident inspires him to call himself the Green Arrow when questioned by police, though he doesn't yet decide to become a crime-fighter. ["The Green Arrow's First Case," Adventure Comics #256 (January, 1959); Green Arrow, DC Super Stars #17 (November-December, 1977)]
   * October 2-6: Batman and Robin battle the Red Hood and manage to solve the mystery of his secret identity with the help of a State University criminology class. The Red Hood is revealed as the Joker, whose secret origin is finally told. ["The Man Behind the Red Hood," Detective Comics #168 (February, 1951)]
   * Priscilla Rich becomes the Cheetah and battles Wonder Woman. [Wonder Woman #160]
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   * Superman and Batman and Robin are reunited for the first time since August; they begin teaming up regularly from this point on. ["Batman -- Double for Superman," World's Finest Comics #71]
   * Superman meets Dan Delta, the toughest private detective in Metropolis, who also bears a striking resemblance to Superman. //Note: Dan Delta is actually Slam Bradley using a pseudonym for an unknown reason. At some point after this story, Slam Bradley resumes his private investigation practice in Gotham City under his original name, as seen in Detective Comics #500.// ["Superman's Last Hour," Superman #92 (September, 1954)]
+  * October 31: Dressing up as Robin Hood for a Halloween costume ball, Oliver Queen stops a gang of robbers and, finding it more thrilling than the dull life as a businessman, decides to continue fighting crime in the modified Robin Hood costume under the name of the Green Arrow. Inspired by the Batman's Bat-Cave and //Batmobile//, Green Arrow begins building his own Arrowcave beneath his mansion and begins developing his //Arrowcar//, as well as his many trick arrows. Green Arrow starts regularly patrolling Star City around this time, though most of his cases in these early months merely involve petty crimes. //Note: Although there are very few accounts of this time period, Green Arrow originally operated solo for a few months before taking on Speedy as his crime-fighting partner.// ["[[http://www.5earths.com/earth-1/greenarrow-e1-1986-03-1/|Green Arrow: Unfinished Business, Chapter 1: At the Beginning]]"]
 ===November, 1972===
   * Giganta, a female gorilla evolved into a huge, powerful blonde woman, battles Wonder Woman. [Wonder Woman #163]
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   * January 24-31: To launch three new international editions of the Daily Planet, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen are temporarily assigned as the managing editors of the Bombay, Paris, and London editions of the Daily Planet for one week. //Note: The Paris Daily Planet was already launched on June 6, 1972, but this may be part of a relaunching.// ["The International Daily Planet," Action Comics #203]
 ===February, 1973===
-  * Arthur Curry has his first public case as Aquaman. [Adventure Comics #215]
+  * Arthur Curry has his first public case as Aquaman. //Note: Aquaman has been active for years by this time as Aquaboy, but it is at this point that he becomes known to the world as a hero.// [Adventure Comics #215]
-  * February 26-27: Batman gains Kryptonian-like super-powers for 24 hours, while Superman is weakened by kryptonite and drives the Supermobile, which is the modified Batmobile. ["The Super Bat-Man," World's Finest Comics #77]
+  * February 26-27: Batman gains Kryptonian-like super-powers for 24 hours, during which time Superman is weakened by kryptonite and is forced to travel by driving the original //Supermobile//, which is actually a modified //Batmobile//. ["The Super Bat-Man," World's Finest Comics #77]
 ===March, 1973===
-  * An accident leads George Szerro to only be able to handle cold temperatures. He becomes Mr. Zero.
+  * An accident leads George Szerro to only be able to handle cold temperatures. He becomes Mister Zero.
 ===April, 1973===
   * The mysterious Black Orchid makes her public debut. [Adventure Comics #428]
-  * April 7-10: Superman battles the Mighty K, a human crook claiming to be from Krypton who was really given temporary Kryptonian-type super-powers (along with a kryptonite immunity) for three days by a scientist named Doc Winters. ["The Man Who Was Mightier than Superman," Action Comics #209 (October, 1955)]
+  * April 7-10: Superman battles Mister K, an unnamed human crook claiming to be from Krypton who was really given temporary Kryptonian-type super-powers (along with a kryptonite immunity) for three days by criminal scientist "Doc" Winters. //Note: The name of "Mister K" is never actually used in the story.// ["The Man Who Was Mightier than Superman," Action Comics #209 (October, 1955)]
   * April 30: President Nixon accepts responsibility but not blame for the Watergate Scandal, accepting the resignations of H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman as well as firing John W. Dean III as counsel.
 ===May, 1973===
-  * The team of Green Arrow and Speedy have their first public case together. [Adventure Comics #218 -- takes place exactly one year before Adventure Comics #251.]
+  * Green Arrow meets the teenage Roy Harper and, after a few mishaps, learns about his impressive bowmanship. Oliver Queen becomes Roy's guardian, and Roy becomes Green Arrow's crime-fighting partner, Speedy. //Note: The flashback in this story takes place about one year earlier.// ["The World's Worst Archer," Adventure Comics #262 (July, 1959).]
   * Jonathan Ross, son of Pete and Susan (who dies while Jon is very young) Ross, is born in Smallville.
   * May 7: Lois Lane temporarily gains super-strength (although she does not realize it) when Superman uses an alien ray on her to outwit a group of tiny green aliens from the planet Thura. ["The Midget Menace," Superman #102]
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   * September 28-29: Superman builds Superman Island to house a vault full of kryptonite meteors for a scientist's ill-fated attempt to use kryptonite as an energy source. ["The Secret of Superman Island," Action Comics #224 (January, 1957)]
 ===October, 1973===
-  * October 6: The Yom Kippur War begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.
+  * October 6: The Yom Kippur War begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur. Vicki Vale covers the war for Picture News Magazine. ["Cat Tale," Detective Comics #521 (December, 1982)]
   * October 10: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns.
   * October 17: Superman temporarily becomes Superbaby once again. ["Superbaby, Jimmy Olsen's Pal," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #18 (February, 1957)]
   * October 20: President Nixon fires special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus, while Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigns.
   * October 23
-  * Barry Allen becomes the Flash. [Showcase #4]
+    * Barry Allen becomes the Flash. [Showcase #4]
-  * The world briefly believes that Superman actually died two years earlier while saving the Earth and was replaced by a robot, until Superman reappears to clear up the deception. ["The Death of Superman," Action Comics #225]
+    * The world briefly believes that Superman actually died two years earlier while saving the Earth and was replaced by a robot, until Superman reappears to clear up the deception. ["The Death of Superman," Action Comics #225]
   * October 30-31: Lois Lane briefly gains super-strength for a second time and assists Superman. ["The Three Men of Steel," Superman #112]
 ===November, 1973===
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   * Jefferson Pierce (the future Black Lightning) and his wife Lynn Stewart are divorced.
   * Maxine Baker is born to Buddy Baker (Animal Man) and his wife Ellen Baker. Maxine is their second child, as their son Cliff was born in 1970.
+  * Police Commissioner James W. Gordon kicks Sgt. Harvey Bullock off the Gotham City Police Department for corruption charges.
 ===January, 1974===
   * January 2-7: Superman gains the new super-power to create a smaller version of himself that has all his powers, and he spends days trying to figure out how to get rid of it. Finally, the smaller Superman sacrifices itself to save Superman from green kryptonite, and the power disappears. ["Superman's New Power," Superman #125 (November, 1958).]
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   * From a computer, Travis Morgan and Tara learn the origins of Skartaris. [Warlord #5]
   * February 5
-  * Perry White celebrates his 25th anniversary since beginning work at the Daily Planet. //Note: This means Perry White was hired on February 5, 1949, after having made a name for himself at the Gotham Gazette.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #34 (January, 1959); "Clark Kent, Man of Mystery," Superman #117 (November, 1957).]
+    * Perry White celebrates his 25th anniversary since beginning work at the Daily Planet. //Note: This means Perry White was hired on February 5, 1949, after having made a name for himself at the Gotham Gazette.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #34 (January, 1959); "Clark Kent, Man of Mystery," Superman #117 (November, 1957).]
-  * Patty Hearst, granddaughter of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
+    * Patty Hearst, granddaughter of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
   * February 7: Batwoman briefly gains super-powers after ingesting a super-power pill invented by Jor-El and stolen by Elton Craig. ["The Super-Batwoman," World's Finest Comics #190 (September-October, 1957).]
   * February 8: Lois Lane briefly gains super-powers from a flying cape, power gloves, and super-goggles sent to Earth by Jor-El. ["The Forbidden Box from Krypton," Showcase #10 (September-October, 1957).]
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   * April 2: Superman and Lois Lane are nearly wed after a whirlwind romance when Jimmy Olsen uses the power of subliminal suggestion to make Superman want nothing more than to wed Lois, but Jimmy tricks Lois into calling off the ceremony just as the effect wears off Superman. ["Super-Courtship of Lois Lane," Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #4 (September-October, 1958).]
   * April 11
-  * Kara Zor-El is sent in a rocket-ship from Argo City to Earth by her parents, Zor-El and Allura. After Kara's departure, Zor-El and Allura manage to escape into the Survival Zone. //Note: The date of April 11 is given in the 1976 Super DC Calendar as when Supergirl arrived on Earth, but since we know that actually happened on May 18, the April 11 date is likely when she left Argo City.//
+    * Kara Zor-El is sent in a rocket-ship from Argo City to Earth by her parents, Zor-El and Allura. After Kara's departure, Zor-El and Allura manage to escape into the Survival Zone. //Note: The date of April 11 is given in the 1976 Super DC Calendar as when Supergirl arrived on Earth, but since we know that actually happened on May 18, the April 11 date is likely when she left Argo City.//
-  * The rocket-ship containing Kara Zor-El of Argo City passes by the asteroid where Biron the horse (formerly a centaur) has been exiled for 3000 years, freeing him. He follows the rocket to Earth and watches as she becomes Supergirl, hoping to meet her someday. Until then, he poses as an ordinary horse on Earth. ["The Secret Origin of Supergirl's Super-Horse," Action Comics #293 (October, 1962).]
+    * The rocket-ship containing Kara Zor-El of Argo City passes by the asteroid where Biron the horse (formerly a centaur) has been exiled for 3000 years, freeing him. He follows the rocket to Earth and watches as she becomes Supergirl, hoping to meet her someday. Until then, he poses as an ordinary horse on Earth. ["The Secret Origin of Supergirl's Super-Horse," Action Comics #293 (October, 1962).]
-  * April 19-20: Superman meets King Krypton, a Kryptonian scientist (whose name is never revealed) who changed himself into a gorilla and also escaped Krypton's destruction, gaining super-powers by the time he reached Earth. King Krypton dies from green kryptonite radiation. ["The Super-Gorilla from Krypton," Action Comics #238 (March, 1958).]
+  * April 19-20: Superman meets King Krypton, a Kryptonian scientist (whose name is never revealed) who changed himself into a gorilla and also escaped Krypton's destruction, gaining super-powers by the time he reached Earth. King Krypton dies from green kryptonite radiation. //Note: Although King Krypton's true name is not known, it is possible that he has appeared in a previous story. A strong candidate is scientist Zol-Zu, the father of Zar-Al, alias the Krypton Kid, who once met Superboy via time travelling from Krypton to Earth several years in the future, only to return to Krypton to be with his father; see Adventure Comics #242's "The Kid from Krypton."// ["The Super-Gorilla from Krypton," Action Comics #238 (March, 1958).]
   * April 22-24: Jimmy Olsen briefly becomes a giant after ingesting a formula invented by Prof. Phineas Potter. ["The Human Skyscraper," Jimmy Olsen #28 (April, 1958).]
   * April 29: Jimmy Olsen meets and falls in love with Lois Lane's younger, airline stewardess sister, Lucy Lane. ["Lois Lane's Sister," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #36 (April, 1959).]
 ===May, 1974===
   * May 1-4: A magic totem grants Jimmy Olsen three wishes. The first is to create a female counterpart of Superman called Super-Girl, who becomes Superman's partner but dies sacrificing herself to save him. Superman then briefly loses his powers after criminals make the second wish. Finally, Superman travels back in time to Krypton and meets his parents Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van, helping them defeat the criminal Kil-Lor and even witnessing his parents become engaged. ["The Girl of Steel," Superman #123 (August, 1958).]
-  * May 6:
+  * May 6: Adam Strange's very first trip to Rann. [Showcase #17]
-Adam Strange's very first trip to Rann. [Showcase #17]
   * May 6-7: Futureman (XL-49) from the 30th century travels back in time to woo Lois Lane and propose to her (although his real plan is to make Superman fall in love with her and marry her). She accepts after realizing Superman will never propose (again), but just as they are about to travel to the 30th century in a time bubble, Superman kisses her passionately, and she decides to call off the wedding and remain in the twentieth century. ["The Bride of Futureman," Superman #121 (May, 1958).]
   * May 15: A magical beam causes Lois Lane and Lana Lang to merge into one person named Lana Lane, to whom Superman is briefly engaged until he safely splits them apart again, and they lose all memory of the event. ["Superman's Romance with Lana Lane," Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #41 (May, 1963).]
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   * June 6-7: Batman is briefly given super-powers by aliens who wanted to see who would win in a fight between Batman and Superman. ["The Battle of the Super-Heroes," World's Finest Comics #95 (July-August, 1958).]
   * June 11
-  * Supergirl meets Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad, who take her back to the 30th century to try out for the Legion of Super-Heroes. Unfortunately, while there Supergirl is exposed to red kryptonite and is aged to a grown woman, disqualifying her for Legion membership. //Note: This story takes place on the first day of Superman Week, which begins with Superman Day on June 11.// ["The Three Super-Heroes," Action Comics #267 (August, 1960).]
+    * Supergirl meets Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad, who take her back to the 30th century to try out for the Legion of Super-Heroes. Unfortunately, while there Supergirl is exposed to red kryptonite and is aged to a grown woman, disqualifying her for Legion membership. //Note: This story takes place on the first day of Superman Week, which begins with Superman Day on June 11.// ["The Three Super-Heroes," Action Comics #267 (August, 1960).]
-  * Superman temporarily switches places in time with Superbaby. ["Lois Lane and the Babe of Steel," Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #3 (July-August, 1958).]
+    * Superman temporarily switches places in time with Superbaby. ["Lois Lane and the Babe of Steel," Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #3 (July-August, 1958).]
   * June 17: Superman's adoption of Jimmy Olsen ends. Superman reignites a star he created a year ago called Superman's Sun, saving the civilization that lives in that star system, composed of billions of survivors from doomed planets. ["The Son of Superman," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #30 (August, 1958).]
   * June 22: After suffering writer's block while trying to write a novel, Jimmy Olsen "writes" a novel about himself and Superman called //The Super Mystery//, which will be published in one year; in reality, Superman brings Jimmy to one year in the future to copy the published novel, effectively creating a time loop paradox. ["The Superman Book that Couldn't Be Finished," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #29 (June, 1958).]
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   * July 19-20: Drinking liquid kryptonite, Lex Luthor creates a Kryptonite Monkey and briefly becomes the Kryptonite Man. Superman creates a lead suit of armor to battle him. ["The Kryptonite Man," Action Comics #249 (February, 1959).]
   * July 20-22
-  * Several heroes -- the Martian Manhunter, the Flash, Superman, Batman, Robin, Roy Raymond, the Blackhawks, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Vigilante, Robotman, Congo Bill, Congorilla, Plastic Man, Rex the Wonder Dog, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman, as well as test pilot Hal Jordan -- unite against Commander Blanx and his white Martian invaders; they agree to form a team at some point in the future. ["The Origin of the Justice League, Minus One," Justice League of America #144 (July, 1977).]
+    * Several heroes -- the Martian Manhunter, the Flash, Superman, Batman, Robin, Roy Raymond, the Blackhawks, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Vigilante, Robotman, Congo Bill, Congorilla, Plastic Man, Rex the Wonder Dog, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman, as well as test pilot Hal Jordan -- unite against Commander Blanx and his white Martian invaders; they agree to form a team at some point in the future. ["The Origin of the Justice League, Minus One," Justice League of America #144 (July, 1977).]
-  * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter), having built a new engine for the Time Sphere, fight off the Blackhawks, Plastic Man, and Jimmy Olsen, each group mistakenly thinking they're enemies. After this incident, the Time Masters leave this time for a short trip to the Civil War, then travel to the year 12 million A.D., where they are enslaved by the Sunset Lords, who use their time travel knowledge to attempt to take over the 20th century. After the Challengers of the Unknown, Swamp Thing, and Deadman rescue them, they choose to live in the Challengers' time of 1982 instead of returning to either 1974 or their native time of 1965. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/dc-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-02-2/|DC Universe: 1943: The Space-Time Gambit, Book 2, Chapter 2: To Save the Past]]"; "The War at Time's End," Challengers of the Unknown #86 (April-May, 1978); "Twelve Million Years to Twilight," Challengers of the Unknown #87 (June-July, 1978)]
+    * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter), having built a new engine for the Time Sphere, fight off the Blackhawks, Plastic Man, and Jimmy Olsen, each group mistakenly thinking they're enemies. After this incident, the Time Masters leave this time for a short trip to the Civil War, then travel to the year 12 million A.D., where they are enslaved by the Sunset Lords, who use their time travel knowledge to attempt to take over the 20th century. After the Challengers of the Unknown, Swamp Thing, and Deadman rescue them, they choose to live in the Challengers' time of 1982 instead of returning to either 1974 or their native time of 1965. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/dc-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-02-2/|DC Universe: 1943: The Space-Time Gambit, Book 2, Chapter 2: To Save the Past]]"; "The War at Time's End," Challengers of the Unknown #86 (April-May, 1978); "Twelve Million Years to Twilight," Challengers of the Unknown #87 (June-July, 1978)]
   * July 25: The Jimmy Olsen Fan Club is officially founded by Tommy Todd. ["The Jimmy Olsen Signal-Watch," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #37 (June, 1959).]
   * July 27: Luthor recreates Bizarro #1, who creates for himself a Bizarro-Lois Lane and battles Superman before leaving for outer space in search of a new home. ["The Battle with Bizarro," Action Comics #254 (July, 1959); "The Bride of Bizarro," Action Comics #255 (August, 1959).]
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   * January 29: Superman battles Super-Menace, an energy-based "clone" of himself who commits suicide, killing both himself and his adoptive criminal parents, "Wolf" and Bonnie Derek. ["The Two Faces of Superman," Superman #137 (May, 1960).]
 ===February, 1975===
-  * Dr. Arthur Light creates a space warp to Thanagar, steals some high tech devices. Thanagarian hawk-policeman Katar Hol trails the villain to Earth to retrieve the stolen property. [DC SUPER-STARS #14]
+  * Dr. Arthur Light creates a space warp to Thanagar, steals some high tech devices. Thanagarian hawk-policeman Katar Hol trails the villain to Earth to retrieve the stolen property. [DC SUPER STARS #14]
   * Dane Dorrance forms the Sea Devils. [Showcase #27]
   * February 1: Superman goes back in time and returns to Krypton before his birth, where he becomes Jor-El's assistant and falls in love with actress Lyla Lerrol, who becomes one of the greatest loves of his life. He proposes to her and is resigned to dying with her on Krypton when a freak accident separates them, and he returns to his own time on Earth. ["Superman's Return to Krypton," Superman #141 (November, 1960).]
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   * April 23: Lois Lane travels back in time to 12th century England, where she competes for the affections of Robin Hood with a redheaded woman named Laura. Lois then discovers Laura is really a disguised Maid Marian, who asks Lois to be her bridesmaid for their wedding, but at that moment Lois returns to her own time. ["Sweetheart of Robin Hood," Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #22 (January, 1961).]
   * April 23-26: As the last descendant of Lord Olsen, Jimmy Olsen inherits the ancient Olsen estate of Olsen Castle and lordship in Sweden after he passes a series of supposedly impossible tests with the secret help of Superman, Supergirl, Krypto, and even Bizarro #1. But Jimmy decides to give up his title and donate his estate to make it a museum, since he is allergic to the local flora. ["The Lord of Olsen Castle," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #50 (January, 1961).]
+  * April 26: On her 12th birthday, Donna (Donna Hinckley Stacey) and nearly two-year-old Dot (Dorothea) are granted the abilities of full Amazons when Paula Von Gunta modifies the purple ray to siphon a fraction of all the Amazons' powers and grant it to them. As **Wonder Girl**, Donna begins having adventures both on and off Paradise Island, often alongside the Wonder-Family (Queen Hippolyta, Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, and Wonder Tot), as well as her boyfriends Renno the Mer-Boy and Wingo the Bird-Boy. As **Wonder Tot**, Dot also has several adventures, mostly with the Wonder-Family as well as with Genro, known as Mr. Genie. //Note: Wonder Girl definitely received her powers as a young teenager, as shown in Teen Titans #22; thus the toddler receiving powers in a flashback in The New Tee Titans #38 must actually be Dot, alias Wonder Tot. From this point on, Wonder Girl in the Wonder Woman series is referred to as a separate person, indicating that this is no longer the adventures of Wonder Woman when she was a girl.// ["The Origin of Wonder Girl," Teen Titans #22 (July-August, 1969); "Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984); "Amazon Magic-Eye Album," Wonder Woman #123 (July, 1961)]
   * April 27-30: Traveling to Cardiff in New England, Lois Lane meets Lena Thorul and discovers that not only does Lena possess psychic abilities but she is also the sister of Lex Luthor but does not remember that fact. Lex Luthor makes Superman vow to keep that secret. ["The Curse of Lena Thorul," Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #23 (February, 1961).]
 ===May, 1975===
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   * The Flashes of two Earths meet for the first time. [The Flash #123]
   * Green Lantern first battles Sinestro, the rogue former member of the Green Lantern Corps. Green Lantern also uses his power ring to temporarily turn all the citizens of Coast City completely invisible in order to keep them from becoming victims of Sinestro's ray. [Green Lantern v2 #7]
-  * The Metal Men are created by Dr. Will Magnus. [Showcase #37]
+  * [[Metal Men|The Metal Men]] are created by Dr. Will Magnus, who completes Platinum first by outfitting her with a responsometer that provides her artificial intelligence. When the world is threatened by a prehistoric menace, Col. Henry Casper of National Defense visits Magnus' huge laboratory complex to seek help. Magnus completes the rest of the Metal Men Gold, Lead, Iron, Mercury, and Tin, giving each of them responsometers. Together the Metal Men defeat the menace using their unique metallic properties, but end up sacrificing their robotic lives to do so. ["The Flaming Doom," Showcase #37]
   * The Black Orchid rounds up the rest of the Black Orchid Legion. [The Phantom Stranger v2 #41]
   * February 19-March 19: Superman is believed to have been exposed to Virus X and will die in a month, so he sets out to accomplish several mighty deeds with the aid of Supergirl, Krypto, Lori Lemaris, the Superman Emergency Squad, and the Legion of Super-Heroes: they build great canals in Earth's deserts, destroy a small planet due to strike Earth in the future, destroy a fungus cloud that threatens Earth in the future, and make Antarctica habitable by humans by creating a small sun there. Thanks to Mon-El, observing in the Phantom Zone, they learn that Superman has simply been affected by a sliver of green kryptonite in Jimmy Olsen's camera this whole time. ["The Last Days of Superman," Superman #156 (October 1962)]
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   * July 13: The Legion of Super-Pets is formed, consisting of Krypto the Superdog, Streaky the Supercat, Comet the Super-Horse, Beppo the Super-Monkey. ["The Legion of Super-Traitors," Adventure Comics #293 (February, 1962)]
   * July 17
-  * Jimmy Olsen is nearly married to Rona from the 7th dimension, until the wedding is halted by two Inter-Dimensional Police Patrol officers, who arrest her for the murder of all her previous husbands, all of whom had red hair. ["Jimmy's Inter-Dimensional Romance," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #73 (December, 1963)]
+    * Jimmy Olsen is nearly married to Rona from the 7th dimension, until the wedding is halted by two Inter-Dimensional Police Patrol officers, who arrest her for the murder of all her previous husbands, all of whom had red hair. ["Jimmy's Inter-Dimensional Romance," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #73 (December, 1963)]
-  * Supergirl splits into a good half and a bad half, who becomes Satan Girl and plagues the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century until she is defeated by the Legion of Super-Pets. ["The Condemned Legionnaires," Adventure Comics #313 (November, 1963)]
+    * Supergirl splits into a good half and a bad half, who becomes Satan Girl and plagues the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century until she is defeated by the Legion of Super-Pets. ["The Condemned Legionnaires," Adventure Comics #313 (November, 1963)]
   * July 5-19: Lois Lane becomes America's first female astronaut, and after weeks of training she pilots a capsule called the //Lady Planet// in Earth's orbit three times before landing in the ocean. ["Beauty and the Super-Beast," Superman #165 (November, 1963)]
   * July 24: Lena Thorul marries FBI agent Jeff Colby, with Linda Danvers (Supergirl) acting as maid of honor. ["The Great Supergirl Double-Cross," Action Comics #317 (October, 1964)]
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   * July 29-30: Jefferson Pierce (the future Black Lightning) wins his second gold medal for the Decathlon race at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec.
 ===August, 1976===
-  * The Teen Titans are formed. [The Brave and the Bold #60]
+  * The Teen Titans are formed, with charter members Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Wonder Girl. [The Brave and the Bold #60]
   * The Martian Manhunter's alter ego, John Jones, is presumed dead from this time on. [Detective Comics #326]
   * July 31-August 8: Superman uses an experimental red kryptonite antidote that unexpectedly splits him into two -- an evil Superman and a good but unpowered Clark Kent. The evil Superman demands that the United Nations makes him king of Earth. Clark Kent is shot and then transformed by Atlantean scientists into a cyborg Metallo powered by green kryptonite. Just as Clark attempts to kill King Superman, King Superman reveals he isn't really evil but needed to scare off alien robot invaders from the planet Bxpa. King Superman and Clark Kent, Metallo, merge back into a single Superman, who puts a final end to the invasion and reveals the truth to the U.N. ["Superman, King of Earth," Action Comics #311 (April, 1964); "King Superman vs. Clark Kent, Metallo," Action Comics #312 (May, 1964)]
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   * September 26-27: Jimmy Olsen and Robin the Boy Wonder team up for the first time while secretly helping Superman and Batman. Jimmy and Robin use an abandoned mountain observatory as their headquarters, calling it the Eyrie, which they later make into a trophy hall for Superman's and Batman's shared cases. ["The Olsen-Robin Team Versus the Superman-Batman Team," World's Finest Comics #141 (May, 1964)]
 ===October, 1976===
-  * Batman begins wearing a modified version of his costume with a yellow oval around the bat insignia. Batman and Robin also begin driving a new sports car version of the //Batmobile//. Two new entrances to the Batcave are created, one through a grandfather clock in Wayne Manor, and the other a tunnel leading to a country road. ["The Mystery of the Menacing Mask," Detective Comics #327 (May, 1964); ""Two-Way Gem Caper," Batman #164 (June, 1964)]
+  * Batman begins wearing a modified version of his costume with a yellow oval around the bat insignia. Batman and Robin also begin driving a new sports car version of the //Batmobile//. Two new entrances to the Batcave are created, one through a grandfather clock in Wayne Manor, and the other a tunnel leading to a country road. ["The Mystery of the Menacing Mask," Detective Comics #327 (May, 1964); "Two-Way Gem Caper," Batman #164 (June, 1964)]
+  * Vicki Vale leaves Gotham City to become editor of the Paris branch of Picture News Magazine. During the years she lives in Paris, Vicki is married and divorced before returning to Gotham City. During this time she also covers the Lebanese Civil War. ["The Double Life of Hugo Strange," Batman #356 (February, 1983); "Cat Tale," Detective Comics #521 (December, 1982)]
   * The Doom Patrol battles the Brotherhood of Evil for the first time. [Doom Patrol #86]
   * Mr. Zero is approached by a television producer about using his likeness in a program about fictional exploits of Batman. Zero agrees and signs the rights to Mr. Reizod.
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   * June 24-July 4: In Kandor, Lois Lane becomes a detective, while Lana Lang becomes an archeologist. After spending a week in the Isolation Zone for being AWOL from the Superman Emergency Squad, Vitar romances Lois and Lana, but find a rival in Vitar's ex-girlfriend, Serena-Vol. Finding life in Kandor too complicated, since they get mistaken for their exact doubles in the Kandorian Look-Alike Squad, Lois and Lana return to the outside world. Vitar and Serena make up and plan to get married. ["Courtship, Kryptonian Style," Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #78 (October, 1967)]
   * July 5-6: Lois Lane meets "Bronco" Bill Starr, the transformed Comet the Super-Horse, and falls for him. Later, after Bill becomes the Super-Horse once more, Lois is transformed by the evil sorcerer Malador into a super-horse, and she and Comet the Super-Horse become an item, though Malador's spell prevents Comet from speaking with her telepathically, so he's unaware that the super-filly is really Lois. After Comet and Lois save Superman from a green kryptonite meteor, Superman realizes that Lois has transformed into a horse. Circe contacts Superman from the past, telling him how to break Malador's spell, and Lois becomes first a centaur and then a human again after being exposed to Circe's cure, but remembers nothing about her time as a super-horse. //Note: "Bronco" Bill Starr is mistakenly called "Bronco" Bill Biron in this story. Malador is mistakenly called Maldor.// ["The Unbreakable Spell," Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #92 (May, 1969)]
+  * A relaxing beach trip is anything but for the robot Metal Men when the Ocean Master strikes. //Note: This story, which was originally placed in 1980, must be set before Dr. Will Magnus had his mental breakdown.// [The Metal Men: Times Past, 1978: Big Beach Brouhaha]
   * July 20-25: When Superman's lifeless body falls to earth, he is once more thought to be dead by the world, having been killed by a space pirate named Motan the Ruthless. Some of Superman's body parts -- his eyes, ears, hands, lungs, and heart -- are removed from his corpse so they can be transferred to a worthy person. Batman is chosen, but he declines. Lex Luthor steals the body parts and auctions them off to the underworld. Four high-level underworld figures known as the Big Four Syndicate win the bid, and Luthor performs organ transplant surgery on them, but keeps the heart for himself. ["The Man With Superman's Heart," World's Finest Comics #189 (November, 1969)]
 ===August, 1978===