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| Timeline_of_Earth-1_19th_century_to_1940s [2019/08/14 05:10] – [1941] docquantum | Timeline_of_Earth-1_19th_century_to_1940s [2019/08/14 05:33] – [1940] docquantum | ||
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| ===June, 1940=== | ===June, 1940=== | ||
| * The man known as the Unknown Soldier has first case. [Unknown Soldier #249] | * The man known as the Unknown Soldier has first case. [Unknown Soldier #249] | ||
| + | * Reporter Wayne Clifford is sent by //The New York Courier// to London in order to report on the state of England during the Blitz. [" | ||
| ===August, 1940=== | ===August, 1940=== | ||
| * The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | * The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | ||
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| * When the Germans invade Egypt using a fleet of experimental amphibious tank-boats in an attempt to capture the Suez Canal, Captain X acts as a one-man guerrilla army sabotaging and destroying the tanks. //Note: It is likely that the Germans were under strict orders to ensure that the tank-boats were destroyed rather than captured intact by the Allies, explaining how a single man could be so successful in destroying all of them.// [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #5 (February, 1942)] | * When the Germans invade Egypt using a fleet of experimental amphibious tank-boats in an attempt to capture the Suez Canal, Captain X acts as a one-man guerrilla army sabotaging and destroying the tanks. //Note: It is likely that the Germans were under strict orders to ensure that the tank-boats were destroyed rather than captured intact by the Allies, explaining how a single man could be so successful in destroying all of them.// [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #5 (February, 1942)] | ||
| ===April, 1941=== | ===April, 1941=== | ||
| - | * When the Germans bomb London with gas-bombs that cause victims to die quickly, with hideous grins on their faces, Captain X travels to Germany to track down the inventor of the strychnine gas, an English chemist and novelist named Harold Calvert, whose experiments were stolen by German scientist Kurt Norbolt to create the gas. Rescuing Calvert from a concentration camp in Germany, Captain X also steals a tank of the gas from Norbolt and brings it back to England to be analyzed. //Note: It is likely that the strychnine gas is similar in chemical composition to Joker-venom.// | + | * When the Germans bomb London with gas-bombs that cause victims to die quickly, with hideous grins on their faces, Captain X in his last known case travels to Germany to track down the inventor of the strychnine gas, an English chemist and novelist named Harold Calvert, whose experiments were stolen by German scientist Kurt Norbolt to create the gas. Rescuing Calvert from a concentration camp in Germany, Captain X also steals a tank of the gas from Norbolt and brings it back to England to be analyzed. //Note: It is likely that the strychnine gas is similar in chemical composition to Joker-venom.// |
| ===September, | ===September, | ||
| * The adventures of Keen Arrow are first published by Kolossal Komics. //Note: Keen Arrow is a fictional character who predated the real Earth-1 Green Arrow' | * The adventures of Keen Arrow are first published by Kolossal Komics. //Note: Keen Arrow is a fictional character who predated the real Earth-1 Green Arrow' | ||