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| ==== 1951 ==== | ==== 1951 ==== |
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| * Senator Joseph McCarthy is killed in a car accident. His place on the House Un-American Activities Committee is taken over by Senator Andrew O'Fallon, who decides to investigate the Justice Society of America. Since O'Fallon follows closely in McCarthy's footsteps, this era of communist-hunting becomes known as McCarthyism. //Note: In the real world, McCarthy died in 1957.// ["I Accuse," America Vs. the Justice Society #1 (January, 1985)] | * Senator Joseph McCarthy is killed in a car accident. His place on the House Un-American Activities Committee is taken over by Senator John O'Fallon, who decides to investigate the Justice Society of America. Since O'Fallon follows closely in McCarthy's footsteps, this era of communist-hunting becomes known as McCarthyism. //Note: In the real world, McCarthy died in 1957.// ["I Accuse," America Vs. the Justice Society #1 (January, 1985)] |
| * Doctor Occult battles a vampiress named Rosa and other vampires in San Francisco. Tracing their origin, Doctor Occult reaches Grim Island and meets Doctor Mist of Earth-1, Captain Marvel of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4. Together, the mystical heroes of five Earths confront Gareth to stop his island from being a menace to each of their worlds as a gateway to Hell. After a short battle commences, a time-traveling Abby Cable of Earth-1 from 1987 convinces Gareth to allow the other mystics to help him ward off the forces of Hell by founding a new school of magic called the Grimoire Academy to defend five Earths from a demonic invasion. Doctor Occult becomes one of the school's founding fathers. Grim Island is renamed Grimoire Island. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] | * Doctor Occult battles a vampiress named Rosa and other vampires in San Francisco. Tracing their origin, Doctor Occult reaches Grim Island and meets Doctor Mist of Earth-1, Captain Marvel of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4. Together, the mystical heroes of five Earths confront Gareth to stop his island from being a menace to each of their worlds as a gateway to Hell. After a short battle commences, a time-traveling Abby Cable of Earth-1 from 1987 convinces Gareth to allow the other mystics to help him ward off the forces of Hell by founding a new school of magic called the Grimoire Academy to defend five Earths from a demonic invasion. Doctor Occult becomes one of the school's founding fathers. Grim Island is renamed Grimoire Island. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] |
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| === February, 1951 === | === February, 1951 === |
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| * After nearly being killed by Eliminations, Inc., the JSA is called to appear before Congress on charges of consorting with a foreign agent. When Senator Andrew O'Fallon asks them to unmask and reveal their true identities, the JSA opt to disappear dramatically from the hearing and disband. //Note: Vandal Savage, in prison at the time, has claimed responsibility for the JSA's retirement; it is unclear whether this is true or just braggadocio on Savage's part.// [] | * After nearly being killed by Eliminations, Inc., the JSA is called to appear before Congress on charges of consorting with a foreign agent. When Senator John O'Fallon asks them to unmask and reveal their true identities, the JSA opt to disappear dramatically from the hearing and disband. //Note: Vandal Savage, in prison at the time, has claimed responsibility for the JSA's retirement; it is unclear whether this is true or just braggadocio on Savage's part.// [] |
| * Edmund Blake, now 15 years old, joins Gateway City's Fair Play Club and is devastated when he hears of the JSA's retirement. [Showcase: Team Justice: 1959: Justice in the Making, Chapter 1: The Lost Generation] | * Edmund Blake, now 15 years old, joins Gateway City's Fair Play Club and is devastated when he hears of the JSA's retirement. [Showcase: Team Justice: 1959: Justice in the Making, Chapter 1: The Lost Generation] |
| * Days after her retirement as Black Canary, Dinah Drake Lance and Larry Lance learn she is pregnant with their child. ["The Doppelganger Gambit," Justice League of America #220 (November, 1983)] | * Days after her retirement as Black Canary, Dinah Drake Lance and Larry Lance learn she is pregnant with their child. ["The Doppelganger Gambit," Justice League of America #220 (November, 1983)] |
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| * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/adamblake-e2-tp1954-02/|Blake's Seven: Times Past, 1955: Blake's Joke]]"] | * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/adamblake-e2-tp1954-02/|Blake's Seven: Times Past, 1955: Blake's Joke]]"] |
| * Senator Andrew O'Fallon is censured by the Senate for helping to instigate a culture of fear and paranoia during the McCarthyism era. O'Fallon dies not long afterward under mysterious circumstances. | * Senator John O'Fallon is censured by the Senate for helping to instigate a culture of fear and paranoia during the McCarthyism era. O'Fallon dies not long afterward under mysterious circumstances. |
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| ==== 1955 ==== | ==== 1955 ==== |
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| * Edmund Blake, in his final year at Harmouth College, is racing for his college in the Harmouth-Vinton Crew Race, when an excursion steamer overturns; he and his fellow students save the people, with the help of the Atom and Hawkman, who are visiting. [All-Star #48] | * Edmund Blake, in his final year at Harmouth College, is racing for his college in the Harmouth-Vinton Crew Race, when an excursion steamer overturns; he and his fellow students save the people, with the help of the Atom and Hawkman, who are visiting. [All-Star #48] |
| | * Senator John O'Fallon dies in a mysterious house fire. Afterward, his son Andrew K. (A.K.) O'Fallon blames the Justice Society of America for his death, devoting the rest of his life as publisher of the //Capitol Globe// in Washington, DC, to smearing the JSA's reputation whenever he can. ["Witness for the Persecution," America Vs. the Justice Society #1 (January, 1985)] |
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| === April, 1958 === | === April, 1958 === |
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| * After learning of the destruction of York Hospital, where he placed Sandy Hawkins under the care of Dr. Price, the Sandman goes in search of his former ward, refusing to believe that Sandy is dead. Meanwhile, Dr. Price has become a costumed super-villain calling himself the Shatterer, using Sandy's silicoid body to cause earthquakes to hold the city ransom. Sandman tracks down the source of the earthquakes, defeats the Shatterer, and frees Sandy. Then the Sandman, gambling that a carbon-based explosion might transform Sandy back to normal, successfully restores Sandy to human form, and still with the body of a 16- or 17-year-old young man, even though he is chronologically 50 years old. Sandy uses what are apparently the last vestiges of his earthquake power to create a rift that swallows up the Shatterer after the super-villain attempts to kill them both. The Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy begin a new series of infrequent adventures over the next few years, while Sandy continues his broken education. //Note: Although this story seems to follow directly after the Sandman story in issue #42, it is evident that the events of #42 must take place before the Sandman's return to the JSA in 1966, while this story must take place some years after the events of Justice League of America #113.// ["Whatever Happened to Sandy, the Golden Boy?" DC Comics Presents #47 (July, 1982)] | * After learning of the destruction of York Hospital, where he placed Sandy Hawkins under the care of Dr. Price, the Sandman goes in search of his former ward, refusing to believe that Sandy is dead. Meanwhile, Dr. Price has become a costumed super-villain calling himself the Shatterer, using Sandy's silicoid body to cause earthquakes to hold the city ransom. Sandman tracks down the source of the earthquakes, defeats the Shatterer, and frees Sandy. Then the Sandman, gambling that a carbon-based explosion might transform Sandy back to normal, successfully restores Sandy to human form, and still with the body of a 16- or 17-year-old young man, even though he is chronologically 50 years old. Sandy uses what are apparently the last vestiges of his earthquake power to create a rift that swallows up the Shatterer after the super-villain attempts to kill them both. The Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy begin a new series of infrequent adventures over the next few years, while Sandy continues his broken education. //Note: Although this story seems to follow directly after the Sandman story in issue #42, it is evident that the events of #42 must take place before the Sandman's return to the JSA in 1966, while this story must take place some years after the events of Justice League of America #113.// ["Whatever Happened to Sandy, the Golden Boy?" DC Comics Presents #47 (July, 1982)] |
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| | === August, 1975 === |
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| | * Through his crystal ball, Doctor Fate discovers that the Earth-One universe is doomed. Learning that Iris Allen, wife of Barry Allen (the Flash of Earth-One), suffers from an affliction that will cause the universe to be destroyed if she comes into contact with her husband Barry Allen's super-speed aura, Fate arranges for the Flash (Jay Garrick) to kidnap Iris from Earth-One and bring her to Earth-Two, keeping her at Jay and Joan Garrick's home in Keystone City for two weeks. Doctor Fate casts a spell that keeps the Flash of Earth-One too busy on his Earth to continue his search for his wife Iris, causing him to briefly think another woman is his wife, while a huge mystical hand attacks him until he manages to defeat it. Unable to cure Iris, Fate sends her to the 30th century timeline where her true parents live, and where they may be able to find a cure that will enable her to rejoin Barry. Doctor Fate then tries and fails to thwart the Earth-One Flash from visiting the 30th century himself. Thus, after the Earth-One Flash reaches the 30th century and spots his wife, Fate manages to transmit the truth to his mind just before he makes contact. Unfortunately, a chain reaction still begins that would cause a cataclysm, until Professor Zoom the Reverse-Flash appears and stops it himself, revealing that he caused Iris' affliction in order to keep her away from Barry and force her to marry him to save the universe. The Flash of Earth-One soon learns how to cure Iris by observing the Reverse-Flash, and defeats the villain before bringing his wife back to the 20th century to finalize her cure. ["Nowhere On the Face of Earth," The Flash #236 (September, 1975) and "The 1,000-Year Separation," The Flash #237 (November, 1975)] |
| | * The Spectre briefly returns to Earth-Two to appeal to the Voice and save the lives of several Justice Society of America members. [Justice League of America #124] |
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| === September, 1975 === | === September, 1975 === |