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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] | ||
+ | * Young reporter Wayne Clifford is sent by //The New York Courier// to London in order to report on the state of England during the Blitz, where he is mentored by seasoned reporter Ed Barnes and comes up against government news censorship. [" | ||
===August, 1940=== | ===August, 1940=== | ||
* The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | * The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | ||
===October, 1940=== | ===October, 1940=== | ||
* An American correspondent for the London-based newspaper //The Tribute,// Richard " | * An American correspondent for the London-based newspaper //The Tribute,// Richard " | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford is transferred to North Africa, where he becomes a war correspondent alongside British soldiers fighting the Italian invaders. [" | ||
===December, | ===December, | ||
* Captain X steals a dangerous secret weapon -- a ray that instantly dissolves metal -- from the Germans that was invented by a scientist named Graff. [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #3 (December, 1941)] | * Captain X steals a dangerous secret weapon -- a ray that instantly dissolves metal -- from the Germans that was invented by a scientist named Graff. [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #3 (December, 1941)] | ||
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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' | ||
+ | ===October, 1941=== | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford leaves North Africa for Russia to report on the Eastern Front, but the British supply ship he travels on is attacked by a German U-boat, and it nearly sinks until a Russian ship arrives to tow them to the nearest port. [" | ||
===December, | ===December, | ||
* December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | * December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | ||
- | * With the U.S. officially in the war, Richard " | + | |
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====1942==== | ====1942==== |