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=== February, 1940 === | === February, 1940 === | ||
- | * Jim Blake creates a winged flying costume and becomes the mystery man known as **[[Lynx (Jim Blake)|the Moth]]**. [Mystery Men Comics #9] | + | * The wealthy |
* Grant Farrel is given super-powers by the god Thor and begins adventures as the mystery man called **[[Thor (Grant Farrel)|Thor]]**. [Weird Comics #1] | * Grant Farrel is given super-powers by the god Thor and begins adventures as the mystery man called **[[Thor (Grant Farrel)|Thor]]**. [Weird Comics #1] | ||
* [[Sorceress of Zoom|The Sorceress of Zoom]], sometimes a villainess, sometimes a heroine, begins adventures in Zoom, a traveling city in the clouds. //Note: The city of Zoom is probably originally from a magical dimension, such as the Land of the Nightshades.// | * [[Sorceress of Zoom|The Sorceress of Zoom]], sometimes a villainess, sometimes a heroine, begins adventures in Zoom, a traveling city in the clouds. //Note: The city of Zoom is probably originally from a magical dimension, such as the Land of the Nightshades.// | ||
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* Michael Shelby and his father, Senator Dan Shelby, are gunned down by agents of the Grim Circle; the senator dies, but his son barely clings to life. Prof. Martin Lascomb uses his experimental vita-ray machine to revive the injured Michael, but an accident causes him to be struck by thousands of volts of electricity at the same time, granting him the super-powers of strength, vitality, and limited flight. After meeting Walter Green, who retires as the original **Green Mask**, Shelby becomes **[[Green Mask (Michael Shelby)|the Green Mask II]]**. An orphaned boy named Don Mason is injured and also healed by vita-rays, which grant him vitality but doesn' | * Michael Shelby and his father, Senator Dan Shelby, are gunned down by agents of the Grim Circle; the senator dies, but his son barely clings to life. Prof. Martin Lascomb uses his experimental vita-ray machine to revive the injured Michael, but an accident causes him to be struck by thousands of volts of electricity at the same time, granting him the super-powers of strength, vitality, and limited flight. After meeting Walter Green, who retires as the original **Green Mask**, Shelby becomes **[[Green Mask (Michael Shelby)|the Green Mask II]]**. An orphaned boy named Don Mason is injured and also healed by vita-rays, which grant him vitality but doesn' | ||
* The Blue Beetle begins using Vitamin 2X, created by Dr. Abe Franz, which originally grants the Blue Beetle super-energy but later enables him to gain full-fledged super-powers. [Mystery Men Comics #13] | * The Blue Beetle begins using Vitamin 2X, created by Dr. Abe Franz, which originally grants the Blue Beetle super-energy but later enables him to gain full-fledged super-powers. [Mystery Men Comics #13] | ||
- | * The Moth gains limited super-powers and changes his name to **the Lynx**. He adopts an orphaned boy named Phil, who becomes **[[Blackie the Mystery Boy]]**, the Lynx's teenaged crime-fighting partner. [Mystery Men Comics #13] | + | * Jim Blake changes his costumed |
* The Eagle loses his wings and gains flight power through his cape. [Science Comics #7] | * The Eagle loses his wings and gains flight power through his cape. [Science Comics #7] | ||
* Caius Martius, an ancient Roman, awakens from a 2,200-year sleep and becomes the mystery man known as **[[Dart (Caius Martius)|the Dart]]**, taking the name Caius Martius Wheeler in his everyday identity as high school history teacher. Andy Barlow becomes **[[Ace the Amazing Boy]]**, the Dart's teenaged crime-fighting partner, nicknamed the Amazing Boy. [Weird Comics #5] | * Caius Martius, an ancient Roman, awakens from a 2,200-year sleep and becomes the mystery man known as **[[Dart (Caius Martius)|the Dart]]**, taking the name Caius Martius Wheeler in his everyday identity as high school history teacher. Andy Barlow becomes **[[Ace the Amazing Boy]]**, the Dart's teenaged crime-fighting partner, nicknamed the Amazing Boy. [Weird Comics #5] | ||
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* A huge criminal gang led by " | * A huge criminal gang led by " | ||
- | * The Blue Beetle | + | * The Blue Beetle |
* K-51 begins using special vitamins that make him super-strong or increase his mental powers and hearing. //Note: The vitamins K-51 uses are probably very similar to Vitamin 2X, invented by Dr. Abe Franz and used by the Blue Beetle. It is possible that K-51 began using these vitamins in the previous story or even earlier.// [Wonderworld Comics #18] | * K-51 begins using special vitamins that make him super-strong or increase his mental powers and hearing. //Note: The vitamins K-51 uses are probably very similar to Vitamin 2X, invented by Dr. Abe Franz and used by the Blue Beetle. It is possible that K-51 began using these vitamins in the previous story or even earlier.// [Wonderworld Comics #18] | ||
* The Sorceress of Zoom briefly travels through time to the 6th century of Camelot, where she meets Sir Gareth and outwits the sorceress Morgana Le Fay, only to be outwitted herself by the wizard Merlin, who sends her back to her own time. [Weird Comics #7] | * The Sorceress of Zoom briefly travels through time to the 6th century of Camelot, where she meets Sir Gareth and outwits the sorceress Morgana Le Fay, only to be outwitted herself by the wizard Merlin, who sends her back to her own time. [Weird Comics #7] | ||
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=== June, 1941 === | === June, 1941 === | ||
- | * Sandra Knight becomes the mystery woman known as **[[Phantom Lady (Earth-4)|the Phantom Lady]]**. [Police Comics #1] | ||
* After he is visited by the spirit of his Revolutionary War era ancestor, John Fearless dresses in buckskins and becomes the mystery man known as **[[Captain Fearless]]**. [Captain Fearless #1] | * After he is visited by the spirit of his Revolutionary War era ancestor, John Fearless dresses in buckskins and becomes the mystery man known as **[[Captain Fearless]]**. [Captain Fearless #1] | ||
* [[Dick Carter|Sgt. Dick Carter]] of the United States Border Patrol begins adventures guarding the U.S.-Mexico border. [Captain Fearless #1] | * [[Dick Carter|Sgt. Dick Carter]] of the United States Border Patrol begins adventures guarding the U.S.-Mexico border. [Captain Fearless #1] | ||
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* **Lt. Drake**' | * **Lt. Drake**' | ||
* Jack Cody becomes the western-based mystery man known as **[[Black Rider|the Black Rider]]**. [Weird Comics #17] | * Jack Cody becomes the western-based mystery man known as **[[Black Rider|the Black Rider]]**. [Weird Comics #17] | ||
- | * Jerry Steele becomes a patriotic mystery man called | + | * **[[U.S. Jones]]** |
* **[[Lu-Nar]]** arrives on Earth and begins adventures as a mystery man. //Note: Lu-Nar (often called Lunar) is likely a member of an offshoot of the Martian race, which is ten times stronger than humans.// [Wonderworld Comics #28] | * **[[Lu-Nar]]** arrives on Earth and begins adventures as a mystery man. //Note: Lu-Nar (often called Lunar) is likely a member of an offshoot of the Martian race, which is ten times stronger than humans.// [Wonderworld Comics #28] | ||
+ | * June 9: Modifying a useless black-light ray device sent to her father to create her blackout ray, Sandra Knight decides to start adventuring as a costumed mystery-woman called **[[Phantom Lady (Earth-4)|Phantom Lady]]**, and soon creates a yellow and green costume for herself, as well as equipping the front and the back of a black roadster with blackout rays. In her first case as a costumed mystery-woman, | ||
=== July, 1941 === | === July, 1941 === | ||
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* The Green Mask II battles a costumed killer called the Manx, who is equipped with a steel claw on a band on his right wrist. //Note: The Manx, a male minx, resembles DC's Wildcat, except with a brown costume.// [The Green Mask, Mystery Men Comics #26 (September, 1941)] | * The Green Mask II battles a costumed killer called the Manx, who is equipped with a steel claw on a band on his right wrist. //Note: The Manx, a male minx, resembles DC's Wildcat, except with a brown costume.// [The Green Mask, Mystery Men Comics #26 (September, 1941)] | ||
* Samson battles recurring criminal foe [[Wasp (Earth-4)|the Wasp]], a bald midget killer, for the first time. [Big 3 #5] | * Samson battles recurring criminal foe [[Wasp (Earth-4)|the Wasp]], a bald midget killer, for the first time. [Big 3 #5] | ||
+ | * When the Hermese Embassy in Washington, D.C., burns down, killing the ambassador, the tiny Asian nation of Herma blames the U.S. and threatens war. Phantom Lady discovers that the fire was caused by agents of Imperial Japan, who plan to step in and take over Herma in the guise of protecting it from the U.S. Phantom Lady finds and rescues Ambassador Kivoya of Herma, ending the threat of war between the U.S. and Herma. //Note: Imperial Japan is referred to in this story as Kioland.// [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #2 (September, 1941)] | ||
=== August, 1941 === | === August, 1941 === | ||
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* Linda Dale gains super-powers and becomes **[[Flame Girl]]**, the Flame' | * Linda Dale gains super-powers and becomes **[[Flame Girl]]**, the Flame' | ||
* U.S. Jones joins the Secret Service as an agent. [Wonderworld Comics #30] | * U.S. Jones joins the Secret Service as an agent. [Wonderworld Comics #30] | ||
+ | * After Don Borden is kidnapped by a Nazi spy nest, Phantom Lady frees him and helps subdue the spies after being framed for the kidnapping herself, and Don begins to notice her resemblance to Sandra Knight. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #3 (October, 1941)] | ||
=== September, 1941 === | === September, 1941 === | ||
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* **Dynamo**' | * **Dynamo**' | ||
* **The Gorilla**' | * **The Gorilla**' | ||
+ | * Phantom Lady saves Don Borden and the English ambassador from two Nazi spies named Kurtz and Heine, who sabotaged a dirigible before a test flight with a time bomb and replaced the American crew with Germans. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #4 (November, 1941)] | ||
=== October, 1941 === | === October, 1941 === | ||
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* **Blackbird**' | * **Blackbird**' | ||
* **Tumbler**' | * **Tumbler**' | ||
+ | * Phantom Lady exposes Captain Ortega of Parador as a Nazi spy and stops him before he can sink a U.S. Navy ship. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)] | ||
=== November, 1941 === | === November, 1941 === | ||
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=== December, 1941 === | === December, 1941 === | ||
+ | * Phantom Lady captures a group of Nazi spies after Sir Edward Hendville is murdered at the English Embassy during a war-relief masquerade. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)] | ||
* December 7: With the entry of the United States into World War II, several mystery men abandon their costumed identities and enlist. Some die during the war, while most of the others that survive the war simply never return to their costumed identities. [speculation based on the fact that Fox Feature Publications went bankrupt in early 1942 and ceased publishing, ending the adventures of a number of mystery men and adventurers] | * December 7: With the entry of the United States into World War II, several mystery men abandon their costumed identities and enlist. Some die during the war, while most of the others that survive the war simply never return to their costumed identities. [speculation based on the fact that Fox Feature Publications went bankrupt in early 1942 and ceased publishing, ending the adventures of a number of mystery men and adventurers] | ||
- | * Inspired by the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, the patriotic | + | * Inspired by the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, the patriotic |
* On December 9, U.S. war correspondent Jack Wayne is blinded by the Nazis while in Germany. A doctor calling himself Doctor Dismal gives him a special pair of glasses that enables him to see, and he becomes the mystery man known as **[[Blackout (Jack Wayne)|Blackout]]**, | * On December 9, U.S. war correspondent Jack Wayne is blinded by the Nazis while in Germany. A doctor calling himself Doctor Dismal gives him a special pair of glasses that enables him to see, and he becomes the mystery man known as **[[Blackout (Jack Wayne)|Blackout]]**, | ||
* After being shipwrecked, | * After being shipwrecked, | ||
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* **Gladiator**' | * **Gladiator**' | ||
* **Nightbird**' | * **Nightbird**' | ||
- | * **Green Mask** and **Domino**' | + | * **Green Mask** and **Domino**' |
* **Wraith**' | * **Wraith**' | ||
- | * **Lynx** and **Blackie**' | + | * **Lynx** and **Blackie**' |
* **Zanzibar**' | * **Zanzibar**' | ||
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=== January, 1942 === | === January, 1942 === | ||
- | * **[[Mystery Men of America|The Mystery Men of America]]** is formed by eight costumed mystery-men: | + | * **[[Mystery Men of America|The Mystery Men of America]]** is formed by eight costumed mystery-men: |
* Lee Ainsley, counter-espionage agent, is believed to be killed but fights Nazi agents under the name [[Black Friday]]. [Cat-Man Comics #8] | * Lee Ainsley, counter-espionage agent, is believed to be killed but fights Nazi agents under the name [[Black Friday]]. [Cat-Man Comics #8] | ||
* **[[Volton (android)|Volton II]]** appears. //Note: This is an android with all of the original Volton' | * **[[Volton (android)|Volton II]]** appears. //Note: This is an android with all of the original Volton' | ||
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* **Banshee**' | * **Banshee**' | ||
* **Yank Wilson**' | * **Yank Wilson**' | ||
+ | * Sandra Knight, Senator Henry Knight, and Don Borden visit Havana, Cuba, where Phantom Lady and Don round up a group of Nazis planning to take over the island nation in a coup. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)] | ||
=== February, 1942 === | === February, 1942 === | ||
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* Sparkington J. Northrup arrives in the United States, and patrolmen Dan Garret (Blue Beetle) and his partner Mike Mannigan are assigned to protect him from Nazi Gestapo agents led by an assassin named Hautman, who seek to kidnap the boy, who is sent to live with the Cartwright family in New York City. After the Nazis make a second attempt to kidnap Sparkington, | * Sparkington J. Northrup arrives in the United States, and patrolmen Dan Garret (Blue Beetle) and his partner Mike Mannigan are assigned to protect him from Nazi Gestapo agents led by an assassin named Hautman, who seek to kidnap the boy, who is sent to live with the Cartwright family in New York City. After the Nazis make a second attempt to kidnap Sparkington, | ||
* Sparkington J. Northrup, alias Sparky, joins the League of Infinity, comprising members from several historical and future eras. [speculation] | * Sparkington J. Northrup, alias Sparky, joins the League of Infinity, comprising members from several historical and future eras. [speculation] | ||
+ | * One rainy night, Phantom Lady helps capture a group of Nazi saboteurs in Washington, D.C., after Sandra Knight and Don Borden find the corpse of a federal investigator. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #11 (September, 1942)] | ||
=== August, 1942 === | === August, 1942 === | ||
* The Blue Beetle and Sparky battle [[Madam Fang]], a Japanese agent. //Note: Madam Fang's lieutenant, Moto, may be the father of the villainous scientist Dr. Tetsuo Moto and the grandfather of the heroic boy scientist Akira Moto; see " | * The Blue Beetle and Sparky battle [[Madam Fang]], a Japanese agent. //Note: Madam Fang's lieutenant, Moto, may be the father of the villainous scientist Dr. Tetsuo Moto and the grandfather of the heroic boy scientist Akira Moto; see " | ||
+ | * After Sandra Knight and her father Senator Henry Knight visit U.S. Army testing grounds to find new army tanks in poor shape, Sandra goes undercover by getting a job in the factory as a riveter, where she makes a friend named Maisie. Phantom Lady quickly discovers saboteurs at work damaging one tank with acid, sledgehammers, | ||
=== September, 1942 === | === September, 1942 === | ||
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* **The Phantom Falcon** dies while destroying a Japanese base and killing 20,000 Japanese soldiers, preventing an attack on the Allied forces. [Cat-Man Comics #15] | * **The Phantom Falcon** dies while destroying a Japanese base and killing 20,000 Japanese soldiers, preventing an attack on the Allied forces. [Cat-Man Comics #15] | ||
* **The Devil Dogs**' | * **The Devil Dogs**' | ||
+ | * Phantom Lady is framed for bombing a neutral foreign consul in Washington, D.C., and hunted by the law. While driving with her friend Maisie, Sandra Knight gives a ride to a woman wearing a Phantom Lady costume beneath her coat, and Phantom Lady discovers that she is an impostor working for Nazi agents. Phantom Lady stops their next plan, which is to bomb the White House. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #13 (November, 1942)] | ||
=== October, 1942 === | === October, 1942 === | ||
* The Blue Beetle and Sparky battle [[Mimic (Chalmers)|the Mimic]], a master of disguise named Chalmers, who supposedly **dies**. ["Who is the Mimic?" | * The Blue Beetle and Sparky battle [[Mimic (Chalmers)|the Mimic]], a master of disguise named Chalmers, who supposedly **dies**. ["Who is the Mimic?" | ||
+ | * October 24-25: While Sandra Knight and her spinster Aunt Priscilla are visiting the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Phantom Lady stops two criminals working for a German spy from drugging the soldiers' | ||
=== November, 1942 === | === November, 1942 === | ||
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* The Blue Beetle and Spunky battle [[Red Knight (German villain)|the Red Knight]], a German officer capitalizing on an ancient curse dating from the Crusades to gain a huge, invaluable diamond. ["The Case of the Red Knight," | * The Blue Beetle and Spunky battle [[Red Knight (German villain)|the Red Knight]], a German officer capitalizing on an ancient curse dating from the Crusades to gain a huge, invaluable diamond. ["The Case of the Red Knight," | ||
* **Hammerhead Hawley**' | * **Hammerhead Hawley**' | ||
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+ | * Sandra Knight visits the home of Baron Thorpe, who runs an informal school instructing gullible women on how to be a spy. One young woman named Melinda uses her knowledge to plant a clock containing a dictagraph within it, then delivers it to Baron Thorpe, not realizing he is a real Nazi spy and has helped him learn when the U.S. Navy ship the //S.S. Ambria// is sailing the next day. Phantom Lady, suspecting Thorpe, rescues Melinda from from her imprisonment in Thorpe' | ||
==== circa 1942-1945 - World War II ==== | ==== circa 1942-1945 - World War II ==== | ||
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* **V-Man**' | * **V-Man**' | ||
* **Spark Stevens**' | * **Spark Stevens**' | ||
- | * Spider | + | * Spider |
* The Masters of the Elements (minor incarnations of the Olympian gods) save the life of a toddler named David Crandall, son of Floyd and Myra Crandall, also imbuing him with some of their power over fire, earth, air, and water, which will turn him into Nature Boy thirteen years later. [Nature Boy #3] | * The Masters of the Elements (minor incarnations of the Olympian gods) save the life of a toddler named David Crandall, son of Floyd and Myra Crandall, also imbuing him with some of their power over fire, earth, air, and water, which will turn him into Nature Boy thirteen years later. [Nature Boy #3] | ||
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* Sherlock Holmes has a case in the United States. [Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943 Universal Studios film)] | * Sherlock Holmes has a case in the United States. [Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943 Universal Studios film)] | ||
* Dan Garret (Blue Beetle) quits the police force to enlist as an intelligence agent, spending a few months in training until his graduation at this time, alongside his new friend Bill Dailey. ["The Case of the Transformation," | * Dan Garret (Blue Beetle) quits the police force to enlist as an intelligence agent, spending a few months in training until his graduation at this time, alongside his new friend Bill Dailey. ["The Case of the Transformation," | ||
+ | * Phantom Lady (Sandra Knight) saves her father Senator Henry Knight from being killed by a time-bomb set beneath his house by criminals. //Note: This is the first of three murder attempts on Senator Knight or his daughter over two months.// [" | ||
+ | * April 25: During an Easter egg hunt at the Knight estate, Sandra Knight and Don Borden uncover a plot by a man dressed as the Easter Bunny to kill Senator Henry Knight with explosives in the shape of golden eggs. Phantom Lady unmasks the Easter Bunny as Killer Dan, a criminal whom Knight sentenced to prison ten years ago when he was a judge. //Note: Phantom Lady wears a black domino mask in this story. This is the second of three murder attempts on Senator Knight or his daughter over two months.// [" | ||
=== May, 1943 === | === May, 1943 === | ||
* [[Willy Shultz|Captain Willy Shultz]], an American officer in North Africa (the Germans withdrew from North Africa in May of 1943, hence the first half of the series takes place before and during that withdrawal) of German extraction is falsely accused of a battlefield murder, supposedly having killed his commanding officer who was actually killed by a German soldier. He gets railroaded into a court-martial and is convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, though he escapes into the desert and dons the uniform of a dead German soldier, seeking refuge in the Afrika Corps. ["The Charge Is Murder," | * [[Willy Shultz|Captain Willy Shultz]], an American officer in North Africa (the Germans withdrew from North Africa in May of 1943, hence the first half of the series takes place before and during that withdrawal) of German extraction is falsely accused of a battlefield murder, supposedly having killed his commanding officer who was actually killed by a German soldier. He gets railroaded into a court-martial and is convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, though he escapes into the desert and dons the uniform of a dead German soldier, seeking refuge in the Afrika Corps. ["The Charge Is Murder," | ||
- | * Phantom Lady teams up with the Raven. [Police Comics #20] | + | * Sandra Knight (Phantom Lady) is nearly murdered by two assassins working for a gang boss who wants to get even with her father Senator Henry Knight for his racket-busting. //Note: This is the third of three murder attempts on Senator Knight or his daughter over two months.// [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #19 (May, 1943)] |
=== June, 1943 === | === June, 1943 === | ||
- | * Sgt. Rip Jagger, the last remaining U.S. soldier on a small island in the South Pacific, is taught martial arts by a Japanese martial arts master known only as Sensei after saving the life of his granddaughter, | + | * Sgt. Rip Jagger, the last remaining U.S. soldier on a small island in the South Pacific, is taught martial arts by a Japanese martial arts master known only as Sensei after saving the life of his granddaughter, |
- | * Phantom Lady teams up with both Spider Widow and the Raven. [Feature Comics #70, Police Comics #21] | + | * Receiving a note from Detective Mike O'Bell that Senator Henry Knight is being held prisoner, |
+ | * Detective Mike O'Bell introduces Sandra Knight (Phantom Lady) to Shannon Kane (the Spider Queen), in order to capture the gang responsible for the assassination attempts on Sandra and her father, Senator Henry Knight. But after the Spider Queen and Phantom Lady track down the gang leader and fight the gang with O' | ||
+ | * The gang responsible for trying to assassinate Senator Henry Knight lures Phantom Lady, the Spider Queen, and Detective Mike O'Bell into a trap by sending a note to Phantom Lady purportedly from the Spider Queen challenging her to a duel, while the Spider Queen receives a similar note. Spying on the two as they duel, the gangsters recognize them without their masks before they start shooting at them, striking O'Bell with a bullet in the back. Phantom Lady and the Spider Queen capture the killers and hand them over to the police, while O'Bell is hospitalized for a few weeks. [" | ||
=== July, 1943 === | === July, 1943 === | ||
- | * Phantom Lady has her last team-up with both Spider Widow and the Raven. [Feature Comics #71, Police Comics #22] | + | * While talking on the phone with Sandra Knight (Phantom Lady), Shannon Kane (the Spider Queen) is kidnapped by a gang and taken to the remote Lookout Hotel. There Shannon finds that Detective Mike O' |
+ | * Detective Mike O'Bell attempts to end the feud between the Spider Queen and Phantom Lady by forcing them to work together, only to put all their lives in danger when gangsters try to kill them. Working together, they defeat the gang, and the two heroines become friends at last. [" | ||
+ | * Saying goodbye to the Spider Queen and Detective Mike O' | ||
=== August, 1943 === | === August, 1943 === | ||
- | * **Spider Widow**' | + | * In her last solo case, **Phantom Lady** |
- | * **Phantom Lady**'s last solo case during World War II. [Police Comics #23] | + | |
=== September, 1943 === | === September, 1943 === | ||
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* [[Sunset Kid]], private detective, begins adventures. [Suspense Comics #1] | * [[Sunset Kid]], private detective, begins adventures. [Suspense Comics #1] | ||
* [[Boxie Weaver]], prize fighter, begin adventures. [Blue Beetle (Holyoke) #28] | * [[Boxie Weaver]], prize fighter, begin adventures. [Blue Beetle (Holyoke) #28] | ||
- | * October 22: Phantom Lady leaves the Mystery Men of America to form **[[All-Girl Squad|the All-Girl Squad]]** with Miss Victory, Spider | + | * October 22: Phantom Lady leaves the Mystery Men of America to form **[[All-Girl Squad|the All-Girl Squad]]** with Miss Victory, Spider |
=== November, 1943 === | === November, 1943 === | ||
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=== August, 1944 === | === August, 1944 === | ||
- | * Tetsuro Tanaka, a 13-year-old Japanese orphan, becomes **[[Judomaster (Tetsuro | + | * Tetsuro Tanaka, a 13-year-old Japanese orphan, becomes **[[Judomaster (Tiger Tanaka)|Tiger]]**, |
* Rocket Kelly and Whacky meet the mysterious Manta, leader of a primitive tribe in Burma. She soon joins Kelly and Whacky in their adventures. [The Bouncer #12] | * Rocket Kelly and Whacky meet the mysterious Manta, leader of a primitive tribe in Burma. She soon joins Kelly and Whacky in their adventures. [The Bouncer #12] | ||
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=== December, 1944 === | === December, 1944 === | ||
- | * Rocket Kelly meets his arch-nemesis, [[Diablo]] the master of evil, who seeks to rule outer space. [Rocket Kelly (1944)] | + | * Rocket Kelly meets his arch-nemesis [[Diablo]] the master of evil, who seeks to rule outer space. While saving the mystical Flame of Democracy, Kelly becomes the new Keeper of the Flame after the old Keeper -- a man of ancient Rome -- dies. //Note: The home of the Flame of Democracy is apparently a small planetoid with an artificial gravity field that looks much like Earth on its surface. It seems to exist in real space, despite the fact that the Flame of Democracy is also a symbolic concept. It is probable that the home of the Flame only exists in physical space whenever the Keeper of the Flame is replaced.// [Rocket Kelly (1944)] |
+ | * Rocket Kelly battles his arch-nemesis Diablo again. [Rocket Kelly (1944)] | ||
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* **Deep Sea Dawson**' | * **Deep Sea Dawson**' | ||
* **Captain Dash**' | * **Captain Dash**' | ||
- | * Rocket Kelly battles his arch-nemesis Diablo again, saving the mystical Flame of Democracy from him and becoming the new Keeper of the Flame after the old keeper -- a man of ancient Rome or Greece -- dies. //Note: The home of the Flame of Democracy is apparently a small planetoid with an artificial gravity field that looks much like Earth on its surface. It seems to exist in real space, despite the fact that the Flame of Democracy is also a symbolic concept. It is probable that the home of the Flame only exists in physical space whenever the Keeper of the Flame is replaced.// [Rocket Kelly #1] | ||
=== November, 1945 === | === November, 1945 === | ||
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* After Nature Girl dies of illness, Nature Boy rebels against the Masters of the Elements who granted them powers. They retaliate by taking away his memories, and David Crandall wanders the world as an amnesiac who doesn' | * After Nature Girl dies of illness, Nature Boy rebels against the Masters of the Elements who granted them powers. They retaliate by taking away his memories, and David Crandall wanders the world as an amnesiac who doesn' | ||
+ | * In Los Angeles, Assistant District Attorney Larry Davis (formerly the Cub, kid sidekick to the original Black Lion, George Davis) becomes the **[[Black Lion (Larry Davis)|Black Lion II]]** and takes on the Mafia single-handedly as a vigilante. Sometime later he goes missing, and he is rumored to have been killed by the Mafia, with his body buried under Dodger Stadium (which began construction in September, 1959, and was officially opened in 1962). [" | ||
=== February, 1959 === | === February, 1959 === |