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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)] | * 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)] |
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| === June, 1968 | === June, 1968 === |
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| * 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)] | * 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)] |
| * 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. | * 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. | * 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 bonded to the Jim Corrigan of Earth-One. 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]]"] | * 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)] |
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| | === October, 1971 === |
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| | * 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)] |
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| ==== 1972 ==== | ==== 1972 ==== |