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| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Red Torpedo prevents the Black Shark from seizing a sunken treasure found in a wreck off Cocos Isle. The Black Shark briefly turns against the Japanese after they break a bargain with him, then offers to capture the Red Torpedo but is instead captured by him along with a Japanese admiral. //Note: The Black Shark escapes custody again after this story.// [The Red Torpedo and the Black Shark, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Red Torpedo prevents the Black Shark from seizing a sunken treasure found in a wreck off Cocos Isle. The Black Shark briefly turns against the Japanese after they break a bargain with him, then offers to capture the Red Torpedo but is instead captured by him along with a Japanese admiral. //Note: The Black Shark escapes custody again after this story.// [The Red Torpedo and the Black Shark, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Spider battles and captures the Crow, a homicidal maniac with a genius-level mind and the most feared man of the underworld. //Note: The Spider decides to take over the Crow's criminal operations at this time, ostensibly to turn them toward something good, but this has a corrupting effect on the Spider.// [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Spider battles and captures the Crow, a homicidal maniac with a genius-level mind and the most feared man of the underworld. //Note: The Spider decides to take over the Crow's criminal operations at this time, ostensibly to turn them toward something good, but this has a corrupting effect on the Spider.// [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, <strong>Neon the Unknown</strong> has his last solo adventure as he discovers a giant gun cannon operated by the Germans on an island in the Caribbean that has been accurately shelling vital facilities in the U.S. Destroying the giant gun, Neon delivers the Nazis directly to the U.S. Army at Washington, D.C. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #17 (November, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, **Neon the Unknown** has his last solo adventure as he discovers a giant gun cannon operated by the Germans on an island in the Caribbean that has been accurately shelling vital facilities in the U.S. Destroying the giant gun, Neon delivers the Nazis directly to the U.S. Army at Washington, D.C. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #17 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Invisible Hood travels to the Pacific coast to investigate a so-called "invisible raider" that lurks in the clouds and has destroyed several coastal defense factories. After witnessing several planes emerge from the clouds to kidnap two U.S. Navy planes, the Invisible Hood follows them into a huge Zeppelin dirigible containing an armada of German planes. Discovering that kidnapped defense chief Roy Mason is kept prisoner there, the Invisible Hood rescues him and the papers he was carrying to Washington, then fights his way out and destroys the Zeppelin. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #28 (November, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Invisible Hood travels to the Pacific coast to investigate a so-called "invisible raider" that lurks in the clouds and has destroyed several coastal defense factories. After witnessing several planes emerge from the clouds to kidnap two U.S. Navy planes, the Invisible Hood follows them into a huge Zeppelin dirigible containing an armada of German planes. Discovering that kidnapped defense chief Roy Mason is kept prisoner there, the Invisible Hood rescues him and the papers he was carrying to Washington, then fights his way out and destroys the Zeppelin. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #28 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, while investigating a small plant, Senator Tom Wright (Black Condor) learns it is run by his old foe Jaspar Crow. The Black Condor soon discovers an underground factory where several scientists kidnapped over the last few months have been hypnotized and put to work making disintegration rays for a masked figure called the Leader. Wright frees the scientists just before the Leader orders them to be electrocuted, but too late to stop a submarine equipped with a disintegrator from leaving. Crow escapes, leaving an underling to be unmasked as the Leader, while the Black Condor flies out and drops bombs on all the submarines equipped with disintegration rays before they can destroy U.S. coastal facilities for Nazi Germany. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, while investigating a small plant, Senator Tom Wright (Black Condor) learns it is run by his old foe Jaspar Crow. The Black Condor soon discovers an underground factory where several scientists kidnapped over the last few months have been hypnotized and put to work making disintegration rays for a masked figure called the Leader. Wright frees the scientists just before the Leader orders them to be electrocuted, but too late to stop a submarine equipped with a disintegrator from leaving. Crow escapes, leaving an underling to be unmasked as the Leader, while the Black Condor flies out and drops bombs on all the submarines equipped with disintegration rays before they can destroy U.S. coastal facilities for Nazi Germany. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| === September, 1941 === | === September, 1941 === |
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| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, <strong>Red Torpedo</strong> has his last solo case as he battles the Black Shark for the last time. [Crack Comics #20]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, **Red Torpedo** has his last solo case as he battles the Black Shark for the last time. [Crack Comics #20]</color> |
| * Midnight battles Prof. Craft, inventor of a disintegrating ray that he uses to kill public officials so he can replace them with his own men made their doubles through plastic surgery. Midnight saves the lives of Mayor Smith, District Attorney Kane, and Police Chief O'Donner. //Note: After this story, Midnight, along with Gabby and Doc Wackey, are switched over to Earth-2. Although it is not stated in this story, Prof. Craft is an Axis agent.// ["The Case of the Yehudi Murder," Smash Comics #30 (January, 1942)] | * Midnight battles Prof. Craft, inventor of a disintegrating ray that he uses to kill public officials so he can replace them with his own men made their doubles through plastic surgery. Midnight saves the lives of Mayor Smith, District Attorney Kane, and Police Chief O'Donner. //Note: After this story, Midnight, along with Gabby and Doc Wackey, are switched over to Earth-2. Although it is not stated in this story, Prof. Craft is an Axis agent.// ["The Case of the Yehudi Murder," Smash Comics #30 (January, 1942)] |
| * Quicksilver stops the plot of Dr. Henry Strugheim, a scientist working in plastics research who has created metal-eating bugs brought to life by heat, which he has sent to sabotage several defense plants, causing widespread destruction of new heavy artillery and bombers used by the U.S. military. [Quicksilver the Laughing Robin Hood, National Comics #19 (January, 1942)] | * Quicksilver stops the plot of Dr. Henry Strugheim, a scientist working in plastics research who has created metal-eating bugs brought to life by heat, which he has sent to sabotage several defense plants, causing widespread destruction of new heavy artillery and bombers used by the U.S. military. [Quicksilver the Laughing Robin Hood, National Comics #19 (January, 1942)] |
| === December, 1941 === | === December, 1941 === |
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| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, in her last solo case <strong>Miss America</strong> secretly helps FBI inspector Jeff Healy to stop a gang of silk thieves led by the Moth, who dies in a plane crash during his escape. [Miss America, Military Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, in her last solo case **Miss America** secretly helps FBI inspector Jeff Healy to stop a gang of silk thieves led by the Moth, who dies in a plane crash during his escape. [Miss America, Military Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</color> |
| * **Hercules** retires. [Hit Comics #21] | * **Hercules** retires. [Hit Comics #21] |
| * **Jack and Jill Doe's** last case. [National Comics #22] | * **Jack and Jill Doe's** last case. [National Comics #22] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>December 9: On Earth-2, Danette Reilly discovers that her brother Rod Reilly was the Firebrand when she reads a letter he'd left her. Donning his costume over a red swimming suit, Danette is shocked to discover that she has gained flame-powers. As </color>[[Firebrand (Danette Reilly)|Firebrand II]]<color /#ECECEC>, she joins the All-Star Squadron. ["Never Step on a Feathered Serpent," All-Star Squadron #5 (January, 1982)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>December 9: On Earth-2, Danette Reilly discovers that her brother Rod Reilly was the Firebrand when she reads a letter he'd left her. Donning his costume over a red swimming suit, Danette is shocked to discover that she has gained flame-powers. As </color>[[Firebrand (Danette Reilly)|Firebrand II]]<color /#ECECEC>, she joins the All-Star Squadron. ["Never Step on a Feathered Serpent," All-Star Squadron #5 (January, 1982)]</color> |
| * Uncle Sam washes up on a beach in Hawaii days later and is found by U.S. soldiers who don't believe his story about preventing an invasion of Pearl Harbor, thinking him crazy. Uncle Sam is incarcerated in a padded cell by the military for the next two months, during which time he realizes that by stopping the attack on Pearl Harbor, America does not join in the war effort, allowing the Axis powers to invade even more of Europe and Asia. Uncle Sam spends much of his time attempting to create a vortex to return to Earth-2. [All-Star Squadron #32] | * Uncle Sam washes up on a beach in Hawaii days later and is found by U.S. soldiers who don't believe his story about preventing an invasion of Pearl Harbor, thinking him crazy. Uncle Sam is incarcerated in a padded cell by the military for the next two months, during which time he realizes that by stopping the attack on Pearl Harbor, America does not join in the war effort, allowing the Axis powers to invade even more of Europe and Asia. Uncle Sam spends much of his time attempting to create a vortex to return to Earth-2. [All-Star Squadron #32] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, after Darrel Dane (Doll Man) has been missing for a few days, Martha Roberts uses Darrel's shrinking formula on herself against her father Dr. Roberts' wishes and becomes <strong>Doll Girl</strong>, fighting crime in Doll Man's place. //Note: Martha is active as Doll Girl for the next two months, but retires as Doll Girl when Doll Man returns from Earth-X.// ["<a href="https://5earths.info/earth-2/allstarsquadron-tp1942-01/">All-Star Squadron: Times Past, 1942: Gender Gasp</a>"]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, after Darrel Dane (Doll Man) has been missing for a few days, Martha Roberts uses Darrel's shrinking formula on herself against her father Dr. Roberts' wishes and becomes **Doll Girl,** fighting crime in Doll Man's place. //Note: Martha is active as Doll Girl for the next two months, but retires as Doll Girl when Doll Man returns from Earth-X.// ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/allstarsquadron-tp1942-01/|All-Star Squadron: Times Past, 1942: Gender Gasp]]"]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>December 22: On Earth-2, Plastic Man disguises himself as President Roosevelt after learning that an assassin is trying to kill the real president, and survives the explosion of a lifelike robot resembling British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Plastic Man is reunited with the other members of the All-Star Squadron, and they are all present for the meeting between the real Roosevelt and Churchill. ["Carnage for Christmas," All-Star Squadron #7 (March, 1982)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>December 22: On Earth-2, Plastic Man disguises himself as President Roosevelt after learning that an assassin is trying to kill the real president, and survives the explosion of a lifelike robot resembling British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Plastic Man is reunited with the other members of the All-Star Squadron, and they are all present for the meeting between the real Roosevelt and Churchill. ["Carnage for Christmas," All-Star Squadron #7 (March, 1982)]</color> |
| * December 31-January 1, 1942: After his fiancee Joan Rogers' father is attacked by Nazi spies at a New Year's Eve party, Rod Reilly becomes the Firebrand and retrieves plans for a perfected gun sight stolen from an inventor. //Note: This story proves that the Firebrand of Earth-X is not the same man as the Firebrand of Earth-2, who was too injured at this time to fight crime.// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)] | * December 31-January 1, 1942: After his fiancee Joan Rogers' father is attacked by Nazi spies at a New Year's Eve party, Rod Reilly becomes the Firebrand and retrieves plans for a perfected gun sight stolen from an inventor. //Note: This story proves that the Firebrand of Earth-X is not the same man as the Firebrand of Earth-2, who was too injured at this time to fight crime.// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)] |
| * Polish nobleman Baron Povalsky becomes **[[the Marksman]]**. [Smash Comics #33] | * Polish nobleman Baron Povalsky becomes **[[the Marksman]]**. [Smash Comics #33] |
| * The Clock switches to a domino mask from the full-face cloak he wore previously. [Crack Comics #23] | * The Clock switches to a domino mask from the full-face cloak he wore previously. [Crack Comics #23] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the <strong>Red Bee</strong> has his last solo case. [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #24 (October, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the **Red Bee** has his last solo case. [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #24 (October, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>December 9: On Earth-2, Rod Reilly discovers that his sister Danette Reilly has become the new Firebrand when she visits him in a military hospital in San Francisco, where he and other injured Pearl Harbor soldiers have been taken. Learning of her growing hatred for the Japanese after the December 7th attack, Rod tells her that a Japanese-American soldier saved his life. ["One Day, During the War," All-Star Squadron #13 (September, 1982)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>December 9: On Earth-2, Rod Reilly discovers that his sister Danette Reilly has become the new Firebrand when she visits him in a military hospital in San Francisco, where he and other injured Pearl Harbor soldiers have been taken. Learning of her growing hatred for the Japanese after the December 7th attack, Rod tells her that a Japanese-American soldier saved his life. ["One Day, During the War," All-Star Squadron #13 (September, 1982)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>January 2: On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln and his fiancée Jean Adams witness Major Linwood of the U.S. Army shot down on the street. After Roy fights off the attackers, Linwood gives the Navy man a message for President Roosevelt, who is on board the //USS Tuscaloosa//. Roy takes the Navy plane meant for Linwood, and Jean joins him. Once they're three hours out over the Atlantic, their plane is shot down by a German U-boat, and Roy waits until Jean passes out to change into his Human Bomb costume and eject from the plane. Taken prisoner on the U-boat, the Human Bomb effects an escape and takes over the ship, warning the //Tuscaloosa// about their location so the U.S. Navy can take over. [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>January 2: On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln and his fiancée Jean Adams witness Major Linwood of the U.S. Army shot down on the street. After Roy fights off the attackers, Linwood gives the Navy man a message for President Roosevelt, who is on board the //USS Tuscaloosa//. Roy takes the Navy plane meant for Linwood, and Jean joins him. Once they're three hours out over the Atlantic, their plane is shot down by a German U-boat, and Roy waits until Jean passes out to change into his Human Bomb costume and eject from the plane. Taken prisoner on the U-boat, the Human Bomb effects an escape and takes over the ship, warning the //Tuscaloosa// about their location so the U.S. Navy can take over. [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>February 1: On Earth-2, the Spider battles a Japanese spymaster known as the </color>[[Yellow Scorpion]],<color /#ECECEC> who leads a group of Japanese saboteurs, but escapes. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>February 1: On Earth-2, the Spider battles a Japanese spymaster known as the </color>[[Yellow Scorpion]],<color /#ECECEC> who leads a group of Japanese saboteurs, but escapes. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>January 30-February 2: On Earth-2, a scientist gang leader called Hairy Arms attempts to take over New York City with an army of robots on behalf of the Japanese. Plastic Man discovers Hairy Arms' headquarters under a cemetery, and Police Officer Plotz captures Hairy Arms himself, who is disguised as a middle-aged woman. Becoming Eel O'Brian, Plastic Man gathers a group of patriotic crooks to finish off the robots, freeing New York City. ["Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs," Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>January 30-February 2: On Earth-2, a scientist gang leader called Hairy Arms attempts to take over New York City with an army of robots on behalf of the Japanese. Plastic Man discovers Hairy Arms' headquarters under a cemetery, and Police Officer Plotz captures Hairy Arms himself, who is disguised as a middle-aged woman. Becoming Eel O'Brian, Plastic Man gathers a group of patriotic crooks to finish off the robots, freeing New York City. ["Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs," Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Phantom Lady and Black Condor team up against a crooked politician. ["<a href="https://5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-pl-bc-tp1942/">The Brave and the Bold: Phantom Lady and Black Condor: Times Past, 1942: Lethal Legislation</a>"]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Phantom Lady and Black Condor team up against a crooked politician. ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-pl-bc-tp1942/|The Brave and the Bold: Phantom Lady and Black Condor: Times Past, 1942: Lethal Legislation]]"]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>February 10-11: On Earth-2, while visiting an aircraft plant in Los Angeles, Phantom Lady and the All-Star Squadron battle Fury and Northwind, and the Mist and Vulcan from the future. Together they battle the Ultra-Humanite and his agents, and Phantom Lady and the others are placed into Limbo by the Brain Wave of the future. Later, after the Ultra-Humanite's plot is stopped, they are brought back from Limbo. ["The Infinity Syndrome," All-Star Squadron #25 (September, 1983); "Talons Across Time," All-Star Squadron #26 (October, 1983); "The Ultra War," All-Star Squadron Annual #2 (1983)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>February 10-11: On Earth-2, while visiting an aircraft plant in Los Angeles, Phantom Lady and the All-Star Squadron battle Fury and Northwind, and the Mist and Vulcan from the future. Together they battle the Ultra-Humanite and his agents, and Phantom Lady and the others are placed into Limbo by the Brain Wave of the future. Later, after the Ultra-Humanite's plot is stopped, they are brought back from Limbo. ["The Infinity Syndrome," All-Star Squadron #25 (September, 1983); "Talons Across Time," All-Star Squadron #26 (October, 1983); "The Ultra War," All-Star Squadron Annual #2 (1983)]</color> |
| * February 17: In New Orleans during Mardi Gras, Wildfire fights a killer called the Frog, who wears a frog-like green costume and uses water gimmicks. The Frog manages to murder five victims before Wildfire finally captures him and unmasks him as Froggy Miller, a former soldier in the U.S. Army who resembled a frog and was booted out of the army for cowardice and thievery, but swore to get revenge on his fellow soldiers. [Wildfire, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)] | * February 17: In New Orleans during Mardi Gras, Wildfire fights a killer called the Frog, who wears a frog-like green costume and uses water gimmicks. The Frog manages to murder five victims before Wildfire finally captures him and unmasks him as Froggy Miller, a former soldier in the U.S. Army who resembled a frog and was booted out of the army for cowardice and thievery, but swore to get revenge on his fellow soldiers. [Wildfire, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)] |
| * Francisco Rivera, a South American dictator, flees to the Moon in a rocket ship when his dictatorship is about to be overthrown. The paranoid Rivera sabotages his men's space suits, causing them to die upon reaching the Moon, which he proclaims as his new domain. As he slowly dies of starvation and then oxygen deprivation, Rivera writes down his account in a book that will be found by the First Lunar Expedition of 1952, led by the Spirit. //Note: It is possible that the rocket ship used by Rivera was stolen and was the same one invented by Doc Wackey and Prof Porgy in Smash Comics #35, a month earlier.// [The Outer Space Spirit] | * Francisco Rivera, a South American dictator, flees to the Moon in a rocket ship when his dictatorship is about to be overthrown. The paranoid Rivera sabotages his men's space suits, causing them to die upon reaching the Moon, which he proclaims as his new domain. As he slowly dies of starvation and then oxygen deprivation, Rivera writes down his account in a book that will be found by the First Lunar Expedition of 1952, led by the Spirit. //Note: It is possible that the rocket ship used by Rivera was stolen and was the same one invented by Doc Wackey and Prof Porgy in Smash Comics #35, a month earlier.// [The Outer Space Spirit] |
| * While traveling by train through the Appalachian mountains, Dianne Grayton and Tony Grey's train is derailed by Nazi agents who kidnap Dianne and all the important government officials from the train. As the Raven, Tony follows the truck with the prisoners to a ranch hideout in the woods, where he spots a Nazi assaulting Dianne and fights him, giving Dianne a chance to slip into her Spider Widow disguise. Together the two escape on horseback through the woods and summon the U.S. Army out on maneuvers to follow them back to the hideout, where the army captures the spies and frees the prisoners. [The Spider Widow and the Raven, Feature Comics #61 (October, 1942)] | * While traveling by train through the Appalachian mountains, Dianne Grayton and Tony Grey's train is derailed by Nazi agents who kidnap Dianne and all the important government officials from the train. As the Raven, Tony follows the truck with the prisoners to a ranch hideout in the woods, where he spots a Nazi assaulting Dianne and fights him, giving Dianne a chance to slip into her Spider Widow disguise. Together the two escape on horseback through the woods and summon the U.S. Army out on maneuvers to follow them back to the hideout, where the army captures the spies and frees the prisoners. [The Spider Widow and the Raven, Feature Comics #61 (October, 1942)] |
| * <color /#FFFF00>A large Nazi expeditionary force invades the United States, but just as it seemed certain to defeat the U.S. military in battle, it turns back into the sea and returns to Europe.</color> //Note: This invasion, never pictured but only mentioned, is most certainly the basis for an untold Freedom Fighters story.// ["The Death of Midnight," Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#FFFF00>A large Nazi expeditionary force invades the United States, but just as it seemed certain to defeat the U.S. military in battle, it turns back into the sea and returns to Europe.</color> //Note: This invasion, never pictured but only mentioned, is most certainly the basis for an untold Freedom Fighters story.// ["The Death of Midnight," Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] |
| * When the Jester encounters a gang of criminals shrunken to the size of small dolls, he tracks down the criminal scientist known as the Professor, who uses a formula to briefly shrink the Jester himself. After using the formula on the Professor, the Jester uses the antidote on himself and the whole gang before the police arrive to arrest them. //Note: The shrinking formula is eerily similar to the one invented by Darrel Dane, the Doll Man.// [The Jester, Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] | * When the Jester encounters a gang of criminals shrunken to the size of small dolls, he tracks down the criminal scientist known as the Professor, who uses a formula to briefly shrink the Jester himself. After using the formula on the Professor, the Jester uses the antidote on himself and the whole gang before the police arrive to arrest them. //Note: The shrinking formula is eerily similar to the one invented by Darrel Dane, the Doll Man.// [The Jester, Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] |
| * July 27-August 3: Midnight dies in battle with a criminal named Cyclops Ceylon, and the world mourns one of its greatest crime-fighters. Given the opportunity to pass into Heaven, Midnight instead decides to go to Hell in order to pick a fight with the [[Devil (Earth-X)|Devil]], where he learns that the Devil's wife and boss is a female named [[Satan (Earth-X)|Satan]]. Midnight is captured and tortured in Hell over one week. Then Midnight leads a rebellion of American lost souls and successfully prevent the imminent Nazi invasion of the United States by forcing the Devil to order the Nazis to call it off. Just as Midnight is summoned back to Heaven, where he is told that he was taken ahead of schedule, an unnamed professor who struck a deal with Doc Wackey (a life for a life) begins an arcane ritual that brings Midnight back to life after a week of being dead. Midnight is told he was only unconscious and dreaming over that week. ["The Death of Midnight," Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] | * July 27-August 3: Midnight dies in battle with a criminal named Cyclops Ceylon, and the world mourns one of its greatest crime-fighters. Given the opportunity to pass into Heaven, Midnight instead decides to go to Hell in order to pick a fight with the [[Devil (Earth-X)|Devil]], where he learns that the Devil's wife and boss is a female named [[Satan (Earth-X)|Satan]]. Midnight is captured and tortured in Hell over one week. Then Midnight leads a rebellion of American lost souls and successfully prevent the imminent Nazi invasion of the United States by forcing the Devil to order the Nazis to call it off. Just as Midnight is summoned back to Heaven, where he is told that he was taken ahead of schedule, an unnamed professor who struck a deal with Doc Wackey (a life for a life) begins an arcane ritual that brings Midnight back to life after a week of being dead. Midnight is told he was only unconscious and dreaming over that week. ["The Death of Midnight," Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] |
| * During **Midnight's** last solo cases, Midnight stops a crooked talent agent from stealing a singer's money, then captures a crook named Red Ruggles. Meanwhile, Dave Clark helps open Station XYZ's new television station and stars in its first program, a sketch comedy show. ["Midnight Stymies a Singing Swindle," Smash Comics #85 (October, 1949); "Midnight's Merry Men," Smash Comics #85 (October, 1949)] | * During **Midnight's** last solo cases, Midnight stops a crooked talent agent from stealing a singer's money, then captures a crook named Red Ruggles. Meanwhile, Dave Clark helps open Station XYZ's new television station and stars in its first program, a sketch comedy show. ["Midnight Stymies a Singing Swindle," Smash Comics #85 (October, 1949); "Midnight's Merry Men," Smash Comics #85 (October, 1949)] |
| * **Black X** retires. [Smash Comics #85] | * **Black X** retires. [Smash Comics #85] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Chuck Lane retires as <strong>the Jester</strong> after his last regular case. [The Jester, Smash Comics #85 (October, 1949)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Chuck Lane retires as **the Jester** after his last regular case. [The Jester, Smash Comics #85 (October, 1949)]</color> |
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| === September, 1949 === | === September, 1949 === |