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 === October, 1965 ===
-  * October 10: During a seance meant to uncover the location of a lost fortune, the Spectre is released from the body of Gateway City Police Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan (who has not aged since the 1940s) for the first time in 20 years, just in time to stop a bomb tossed by criminals seeking revenge on Corrigan from killing everyone in the room. Soon after, Corrigan is ambushed by mob bosses Rocks Parker and Tuffy Cooper, who are stopped from shooting him down by the Spectre in his first appearance in two decades. The Spectre searches the mystical hotspots of the world for the reason he was imprisoned for so long, but is interrupted when he saves Corrigan's life from the Adirondack Mob. Sensing that the same force that had trapped him is overwhelming him again, the Spectre returns to Corrigan's body after telling him the source of the mystic energy is emanating from Paul Nevers in Mountain City. Investigating Nevers, Corrigan learns that he was a small-time crook who had suddenly began pulling off spectacular crimes, thanks to supernatural powers. Traveling to Mountain City, Corrigan tracks down Nevers after he robs a bank, then resists a force urging him to shoot him. As the Spectre leaves Corrigan's body, the astral being called Azmodus leaves Nevers' body, explaining that he left the world of his astral plane 20 years ago to come to Earth, where he entered his original host-body and found himself trapped there, just as the Spectre was trapped in Corrigan's body, since their astral energies cancel each other out. After his human host died, both Azmodus and the Spectre were freed, and Azmodus was able to return to Tholagga, land of astral evil, where he found a silver bullet imbued with ultra-evil powers in the Temple of the Black Gardens. Bringing the bullet back to Earth, Azmodus planned for Corrigan to shoot Nevers with the bullet, which would simultaneously trap the Spectre in Corrigan's body for all time while also completely freeing Azmodus. Now Azmodus challenges the Spectre in a fight to the finish, spirit against spirit, while Corrigan and Nevers engage in their own fight. Just as Corrigan manages to knock out Nevers, Azmodus is weakened, allowing the Spectre to drain his astral powers and subdue him. The Spectre then traps the inert and unconscious Azmodus for all eternity in no-time and non-space, but not before Azmodus reveals that he has already arranged for his master (the evil Shathan, lord of Dis) to carry on for him. //Note: At this time the Spectre is shown to be more of a mystical warrior rather than an avenger, since he now never kills his opponents and even goes out of his way to save them from being killed. Possibly the time trapped in Jim Corrigan's body has somehow tempered the spirit of vengeance part of him.// ["War That Shook the Universe," Showcase #60 (January-February, 1966)]
+  * October 10: During a seance meant to uncover the location of a lost fortune, the Spectre is released from the body of Gateway City Police Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan (who has aged very slowly since the 1940s, with only a white streak in his hair) for the first time in 20 years, just in time to stop a bomb tossed by criminals seeking revenge on Corrigan from killing everyone in the room. Soon after, Corrigan is ambushed by mob bosses Rocks Parker and Tuffy Cooper, who are stopped from shooting him down by the Spectre in his first appearance in two decades. The Spectre searches the mystical hotspots of the world for the reason he was imprisoned for so long, but is interrupted when he saves Corrigan's life from the Adirondack Mob. Sensing that the same force that had trapped him is overwhelming him again, the Spectre returns to Corrigan's body after telling him the source of the mystic energy is emanating from Paul Nevers in Mountain City. Investigating Nevers, Corrigan learns that he was a small-time crook who had suddenly began pulling off spectacular crimes, thanks to supernatural powers. Traveling to Mountain City, Corrigan tracks down Nevers after he robs a bank, then resists a force urging him to shoot him. As the Spectre leaves Corrigan's body, the astral being called Azmodus leaves Nevers' body, explaining that he left the world of his astral plane 20 years ago to come to Earth, where he entered his original host-body and found himself trapped there, just as the Spectre was trapped in Corrigan's body, since their astral energies cancel each other out. After his human host died, both Azmodus and the Spectre were freed, and Azmodus was able to return to Tholagga, land of astral evil, where he found a silver bullet imbued with ultra-evil powers in the Temple of the Black Gardens. Bringing the bullet back to Earth, Azmodus planned for Corrigan to shoot Nevers with the bullet, which would simultaneously trap the Spectre in Corrigan's body for all time while also completely freeing Azmodus. Now Azmodus challenges the Spectre in a fight to the finish, spirit against spirit, while Corrigan and Nevers engage in their own fight. Just as Corrigan manages to knock out Nevers, Azmodus is weakened, allowing the Spectre to drain his astral powers and subdue him. The Spectre then traps the inert and unconscious Azmodus for all eternity in no-time and non-space, but not before Azmodus reveals that he has already arranged for his master (the evil Shathan, lord of Dis) to carry on for him. //Note: At this time the Spectre is shown to be more of a mystical warrior rather than an avenger, since he now never kills his opponents and even goes out of his way to save them from being killed. Possibly the time trapped in Jim Corrigan's body has somehow tempered the spirit of vengeance part of him.// ["War That Shook the Universe," Showcase #60 (January-February, 1966)]
 === December, 1965 ===
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   * When a drifter discovers a gun containing a magic bullet, and it is absorbed into his skin, he becomes  a giant monster nicknamed Bright-Eyes because of the light emanating from his eyes. When he attacks the people of Gateway City, the Spectre tries to stop him but only ends up terrifying the populace as his powers are strangely drained away. Ordered to bring the Spectre in for being a public menace, Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan is present when the Spectre finally defeats Bright-Eyes, returning him to normal. Then the Psycho-Pirate reveals that he was behind the public panic over the Spectre, and tells them that, thanks to a magic globe stolen from a hermit in Northern India, he has been draining the Spectre's powers in order to get rid of the magic mask Doctor Fate placed on him to nullify his powers. Now free, Psycho-Pirate tells the drifter to kill Corrigan, only for the drifter to go crazy and attack the villain, since the drifter turns out to be Gat Benson, the same man who murdered Corrigan in 1940. An enraged Corrigan knocks them both out and revives the Spectre before taking the criminals to jail. ["The Spectre Means Death?" The Spectre #5 (July-August, 1968)]
-=== June, 1968
+=== June, 1968 ===
   * Archeologists succeed in raising the island of Atlantis from the Atlantic Ocean. //Note: This island contains a rather well-preserved city of Atlantis, which remains above the waves until 1976, but it is just one of several Atlantean cities.// ["The Stormy Return of the Red Tornado," Justice League of America #64 (August, 1968)]
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   * August 16: Dr. Emil Trapp begins murdering the members of the Justice Experience, beginning with Steven Chase (Acro-Bat), father of Cameron Chase.
+=== September, 1968 ===
+  * September 7: Returning from a JSA meeting, Hourman visits the subterranean vault of the Tyler Chemical Company where he keeps his civilian garb, only to encounter a thief named Dick Arnold wielding a weapon allowing him to pass through the vault. Having stolen top-secret blueprints, Arnold fights Hourman, and when his weapon the Metalizer drops to the ground, it goes off and bathes Hourman with deadly radiation. Thinking Hourman is dead, Arnold flees in terror, knowing that the law and the JSA will go all out to catch his murderer. Meanwhile, Hourman realizes that he is still half-alive thanks to the Miraclo in his blood, but he will fully die within the hour expires unless he can retrieve the Metalizer and cure himself with it. Using a temporary ability to track the radiation, Hourman first discovers that the Metalizer and the stolen blueprints were thrown off a bridge, since they were evidence connected with Hourman's supposed murder, then tracks down Arnold and captures him. Hourman quickly develops a cure from the irradiated cash just before his Miraclo charge wears off, then delivers Arnold to the police. ["The Hour Hourman Died," The Spectre #7 (November-December, 1968)]
 === Fall, 1968 ===
   * Jack Knight is born to Ted (Starman) and Doris Knight in Opal City. [Starman: Stars Be My Destiny, Book 1: Sins of the Father]
+=== November, 1968 ===
+  * November 4: Returning from a long voyage through the astral plane, the Spectre is nearly drained of energy when he attempts to return to Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan's body. When Corrigan insists that the Spectre stop the armed criminals who are about to kill him first, the Spectre recklessly blasts them with a spell that causes them to fall asleep, and accidentally also strikes a passerby. That night, the Spectre is summoned before the Voice, who reprimands him for his recklessness and gives him an unknown weakness that will manifest during times of stress and will change from time to time. ["The Parchment of Power Perilous," The Spectre #8 (January-February, 1969)]
+  * November 7: During a routine case, Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan is nearly shot in the back by a criminal when the Spectre shows up and destroys him with bolts from his eyes. When Corrigan argues that he has no right to kill, and refuses to allow the Spectre to return to his body, the Spectre ends up knocking out Corrigan while attempting to forcefully return. The Spectre is summoned before the Voice to account for his actions and is told that his mission on Earth must be ended immediately. When the Spectre appeals for mercy, he is given another chance, but now must be chained to a book called the Journal of Judgment, whose tasks he must fulfill in order to return to his previous standing. From this point on, the Spectre must review those mortals whose names appear in the book and pass judgment on them, occasionally issuing a warning to them. //Note: This story takes place a few nights after the previous issue. After this point, the Spectre does not return to the Earth-Two Jim Corrigan's body until after the Crisis on Infinite Earths.// ["Journal of Judgment," The Spectre #9 (March-April, 1969)]
 ==== 1969 ====
   * Amanda Mason Martin, daughter of Bill Martin and Myra Mason Martin, is born. She will grow up to become the new Star Sapphire.
+=== April, 1969 ===
+  * A stage magician named Frederick Foost, while fighting his assistant Willard after a failed outdoor performance in a small town, is summoned before the Devil, alias Beelzebub and Mister Scratch, who offers him, in exchange for his soul, great power in a talisman called the Abracadoom. Although the Spectre appears to warn Foost from making the bargain, the magician does so anyway and is warned by the Devil to never come within six feet of an identical talisman called the Abracadeath. In three months Foost has become a successful performer with sold-out shows. A week later, when given the opportunity for a command performance before the royal family of Marlovia, Foost uses his magic to cause them to vanish, then impersonates Count Lagos to become the sovereign ruler of Marlovia. The Spectre withholds his judgment, as Marlovia prospers under his reign over the next few months, and the previous rulers were harsh. When Marlovia is attacked by a neighboring country, Foost uses his magic to defeat its army. Contacted by the prime minister of the attacking nation, Foost agrees to meet with him, planning to use the Abracadoom to take control over him. When Foost pays no heed to the Spectre's final warning, he meets the prime minister only to learn that he is his old assistant Willard, who possesses the Abracadeath. Since the Abracadoom and the Abracadeath are brought within six feet of each other, both men are instantly killed and claimed by the Devil. //Note: This story takes place over several months in the present, possibly from November, 1968, to April, 1969.// ["Abraca-Doom," The Spectre #9 (March-April, 1969)]
 ==== 1970 ====
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   * Bonnie Jones-Carter is born in Star City to James Elliot Carter and Cissie Jones-Carter. The granddaughter of Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) and Bonnie King (Miss Arrowette), she will grow up to become the heroine Arrowette.
   * Beth Harper is born in Star City. The granddaughter of Jim Harper (the Guardian), she will grow up to become the heroine Flare.
+  * The Spectre completes his tasks in the Journal of Judgment, freeing him from the book once more. However, sometime after this, the Spectre is condemned for an unknown trespass to reside in a crypt, able to leave only when he is summoned. ["Where Valor Fails, Will Magic Triumph?" Justice League of America #83 (September, 1970)]
+=== July, 1970 ===
+  * July 18: An alien named Creator2, tasked with building a new planet for his clients, plans to destroy two planets for their raw materials. Capturing Red Tornado, Creator2 uses him to bring Earth-Two and Earth-One together to occupy the same space, thus destroying both. In order to remove resistance, Creator2 causes calamities to befall members of the Justice Society of America, which causes their counterparts in Earth-One's Justice League of America to experience the effects of those calamities. Doctor Fate summons the Spectre to save the Earths from being destroyed. Traveling to the Netherspace between Earth-Two and Earth-One, the Spectre uses his ectoplasmic body to block them from merging into the same plane of existence. Meanwhile, Doctor Fate destroys Creator2's ship, freeing Red Tornado. But as the Earths are pulled apart as Earth-One returns to its own universe, the Spectre is torn apart and seemingly destroyed. Now that the Spectre has atoned for a past trespass, he is finally freed. //Note: Since the Spectre appears as a regular JSA member in issue #82 during a time when he can only leave his crypt when summoned, he must have been summoned by Doctor Fate prior to the meeting, then returned to his crypt after a short time, only to be summoned once more in issue #83.// ["Peril of the Paired Planets," Justice League of America #82 (August, 1970); "Where Valor Fails, Will Magic Triumph?" Justice League of America #83 (September, 1970)]
 ==== 1971 ====
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   * Kal-El is born on Krypton-Prime and soon sent to Earth-Prime as a baby, where he is adopted by Jerry and Naomi Kent and named Clark Kent. He will grow up to become the hero Superboy.
   * Jason Todd is born in Gotham City. He will grow up to become the hero Batwing.
+  * After a few months of nonexistence, the Spectre's astral body is restored and brought before the Voice, who forbids him from returning to Earth-Two, but gives him a new mission to fight evil on Earth-One, where he is eventually bonded to Detective Jim Corrigan of the New York Police Department on Earth-One when he is murdered and brought back to life in February, 1980 (Earth-One time). Meanwhile, Jim Corrigan of Earth-Two is restored to the age he was in 1940, and his memories of being the Spectre are subdued so that he is no longer traumatized by the Spectre's actions. Disoriented by the experience, Corrigan is found wandering through Gotham City by Andrea Winslow, who helps him to get back on his feet. Corrigan soon joins the Gotham City Police Department, and he and Andrea begin dating. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/spectre1986-01-1/|The Spectre: Lingering Spirit, Chapter 1: A Necessary Connection]]"; "The Wrath of the Spectre," Adventure Comics #431 (January-February, 1974)]
+=== October, 1971 ===
+  * Seeking to remove his vulnerability to magic, Superman of Earth-One travels to Earth-Two to meet Doctor Fate. As Dr. Kent Nelson, one of America's top surgeons, he has received at Weatherby Free Clinic a new patient who turns out to be an alien. Bringing the alien back to the Tower of Fate, Doctor Fate extracts images of Stonehenge and a Mayan temple in the Yucatan jungle. While Superman heads for Stonehenge, Fate visits the same Mayan temple where he once fought his old enemy Mayoor. There he sees an alien hovering in place who attacks him with giant plants before fading away. Meanwhile, Superman visits Stonehenge to find another hovering alien who attacks him with a giant created from sand before also fading away. Doctor Fate and Superman of Earth-One are soon kept busy with natural disasters including tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes, and Fate discovers that these are caused by the continents being forcefully moved together. Piercing the unconscious aliens' mind, Fate and Superman learn that his name is Ghan Uu, one of the Buudak, high lamas of an ancient alien race. Having sought Nirvana for untold eons, the Buudak plan to create the ultimate energy by forcing Earth's continents together during a perfect cosmic junction, thus giving themselves ultimate power. Doctor Fate and the Earth-One Superman reach the focal point of the junction at the Valley of Ur, where all three Buudak have gathered. Fate grants his added power to Superman, enabling him to attack the Buudak, who disappear when their magic backfires on them. Forging mystic chains, Fate gives them to Superman, who uses them to pull the continents back to their rightful positions. Having saved the Earth, Superman of Earth-One asks Fate to make him invulnerable to magic, only to change his mind since his vulnerability gave him an advantage in this case, and he returns to Earth-One. //Note: This story establishes that Dr. Kent Nelson is still a medical doctor, or at least has resumed his profession, and works at Weatherby Free Clinic. Dr. Nelson is considered to be one of America's top surgeons by now.// ["Peril of the Planet-Smashers," World's Finest Comics #208 (December, 1971)]
 ==== 1972 ====
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   * Doris Knight, wife of Ted Knight (Starman) dies. //Note: While Starman says that his wife died "a couple of decades back" in America Vs. the JSA #3, it's likely that he was obfuscating the facts to protect his secret identity, since we know Doris lived until 1974.// [America Vs. the JSA #3; Starman: Stars Be My Destiny, Book 1: Sins of the Father]
+  * Jim Corrigan marries Andrea Winslow. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/spectre1986-01-1/|The Spectre: Lingering Spirit, Chapter 1: A Necessary Connection]]"]
 === April, 1974 ===