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| * Jonah Hex was killed in 1904 at the age of 68 by George Barrow. Lew Wheeler, owner of a Wild West revue, then shot Barrow and stole Hex's corpse, treated it at a taxidermist, and put it on exhibit in his revue. The corpse was last seen in the Westworld Amusement Park on the outskirts of New York City in 1972. [DC SPECIAL SERIES #16] | * After tracking down and killing half the Barrow Gang for the reward, 66-year-old Jonah Hex meets Michael Wheeler, history professor at Princeton University, who interviews Hex over the next few months in order to write his biography. George Barrow, seeking revenge, kidnaps Hex's wife Tall Bird in order to draw him out. Assisted by Wheeler, Hex kills the rest of the gang except for Barrow himself, who escapes. Delivering the dead gunmen to the police in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Hex is ambushed while cleaning his glasses during a card game, then shot by George Barrow, who is in turn killed by Police Chief Crawford. After Wheeler delivers Hex's body to his wife, they are both murdered by Lew Farnham, owner of L.B. Farnham's Spectacular Wild West Revue, who steals Hex's corpse, treats it at a taxidermist, and puts it on exhibit in a gaudy-looking costume for his revue. Farnham is later killed by robbers, who steal the stuffed corpse, which is sold to an antique shop in the Midwest, then moved to a warehouse in Detroit, before showing up in 1972 at the Westworld Amusement Park on the outskirts of New York City, where the corpse is believed to be only a dummy. ["The Last Bounty Hunter," DC Special Series #16 (Fall, 1978)] |
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| | ===January, 1940=== |
| | * January 2: Jim Corrigan is born as James Brendan Corrigan. |
| ===May, 1940=== | ===May, 1940=== |
| * The Blackhawks encounter the War Wheel. [Blackhawk #252] | * The Blackhawks encounter the War Wheel. [Blackhawk #252] |
| * February 2: Harvey Dent born to a prominent family. | * February 2: Harvey Dent born to a prominent family. |
| ===May, 1944=== | ===May, 1944=== |
| * [[Alfred Pennyworth]], an officer in British Intelligence, serves with Mademoiselle Marie in her French Resistance cell for some months. The two fall in love and have an affair, resulting in Marie becoming pregnant with Alfred's child. Unfortunately, soon after the two are separated by the war and never see each other again. ["The Man Who Killed Mlle. Marie," Detective Comics #501 (April, 1981)] | * [[Alfred Pennyworth]], an officer in British Intelligence, serves with Mademoiselle Marie in her French Resistance cell for a time. The two quickly fall in love and have an affair, resulting in Marie becoming pregnant with Alfred's child. Unfortunately, soon after the two are separated by the war and never see each other again. ["The Man Who Killed Mlle. Marie," Detective Comics #501 (April, 1981)] |
| ===June, 1944=== | ===June, 1944=== |
| * June 6: | * June 6: |