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| * A patriot named Samuel, wrapped in a replica of the original U.S. flag, is killed while distracting a troop of Hessian soldiers working for the British crown from stopping a wagon train containing supplies for Gen. George Washington and his troops at Valley Forge, shortly before winter. The Spirit of America joins with Samuel to become **[[Uncle Sam (Earth-X)|Uncle Sam]]** (though this name is not known or popularized until the War of 1812), who helps guide America in the decades to come. ["The True Story of Uncle Sam," National Comics #5 (November, 1940); "The Coming of Uncle Sam," Secret Origins v2 #19 (October, 1987)] | * A patriot named Samuel, wrapped in a replica of the original U.S. flag, is killed while distracting a troop of Hessian soldiers working for the British crown from stopping a wagon train containing supplies for Gen. George Washington and his troops at Valley Forge, shortly before winter. The Spirit of America joins with Samuel to become **[[Uncle Sam (Earth-X)|Uncle Sam]]** (though this name is not known or popularized until the War of 1812), who helps guide America in the decades to come. ["The True Story of Uncle Sam," National Comics #5 (November, 1940); "The Coming of Uncle Sam," Secret Origins v2 #19 (October, 1987)] |
| | * In Philadelphia, a young girl watches patiently as the first American flag is sewn, and is given a reward of a few threads of the flag in a locket. After she runs out into the rain to show it to Uncle Sam, she becomes seriously ill and dies with the locket in her hands, and is prophesied to awake in many years to come as Usa, the Spirit of Old Glory to watch and defend America. ["Introducing Usa, the Spirit of Old Glory," Feature Comics #42 (March, 1941)] |
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| === November, 1936 === | === November, 1936 === |
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| * The Clock meets a mystery-woman called **[[Orchid (Earth-X)|the Orchid]]**, who typically wears purple suits and is the only daughter of a wealthy father. //Note: The details of this story are unknown.// ["Baffled by a Flower," Detective Picture Stories #2 (January, 1937)] | * The Clock meets a mystery-woman calling herself **[[Orchid (Earth-X)|the Orchid]]**, who typically wears all-green, all-purple, or all-red outfits and is the only daughter of a wealthy father. In their first meeting, the mystery-woman guesses that a disguised man on the bus is really the Clock, based on the fact that he's wearing a blond wig but has dark hair beneath it; leaving him a note to meet the Orchid at a restaurant called the Hotspot that afternoon, she vanishes and returns home to tell her father about it. That afternoon, the Orchid meets with the Clock, still in his disguise, and explains that she wants him to secure records from her father's crooked former business partner, which are guarded by henchmen. The Clock refuses an offer of payment, so the Orchid accuses him of being a coward and plans to secure the records herself. That night, she is caught by one of the guards and attacked when she defends herself, only being rescued just in time by the Clock, who arrives and fights off three guards. The Clock cracks open the safe and tells the Orchid to take whatever she wants, after he has secretly stolen a stack of securities he plans to give to needy families, then binds the guards and calls Capt. Kane of the NYPD to pick them up. The Orchid vanishes, leaving behind a note of apology and a hope that she'll meet him again someday. Despite himself, the Clock finds her quite intriguing. ["Baffled by a Flower," Detective Picture Stories #2 (January, 1937)] |
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| ==== 1937 ==== | ==== 1937 ==== |
| * [[Slim and Tubby]] begins. [Feature Funnies #1] | * [[Slim and Tubby]] begins. [Feature Funnies #1] |
| * [[Jim Swift]] begins adventures. [Feature Funnies #1] | * [[Jim Swift]] begins adventures. [Feature Funnies #1] |
| * [[Crack Casey]] of the U.S. Navy has a **single case** in Shanghai, preventing two men from robbing a young woman who is the ward of a German man. //Note: This story has never been completed.// [Crack Casey, Feature Funnies #1 (October, 1937)] | * [[Crack Casey]] of the U.S. Navy has a **single adventure** in Shanghai, preventing two men from robbing a young woman who is the ward of a German man. //Note: This story has never been completed.// [Crack Casey, Feature Funnies #1 (October, 1937)] |
| | * Adventures under the big top at Bangs Bros. Mammoth Show Circus begin, featuring world-famous clowns Flip Flanagan and Butch Snyder, daredevil Hal Thompson, child of the circus Myra La Belle, ringmaster Silk Fowler, the fat lady Lotta, the bearded lady Mademoiselle Fringe, the midget Major Speck, young circus fan Red O'Hare and his dog Whiskers, and circus worker Speed Jackson. Jeff Bangs is the circus owner. [Big Top, Feature Funnies #1 (October, 1937)] |
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| === September, 1937 === | === September, 1937 === |
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| * Millionaire playboy T. James (Jimmy) Harrington II, a former college football player, becomes **[[Hawk (T. James Harrington II)|the Hawk]]**. In his only published case, the Hawk captures a crook who beat up and robbed an old millionaire named Moore of $100,000 he was planning to donate to the city orphanage. The Hawk wears a green business suit with a gray hood over his head along with claws on his fingernails. The Hawk is assisted by Link and Rollo, the only two other men who know his secret identity. The Hawk is hunted by Deputy Inspector Pat Doyle, lifelong friend of Harrington's late father, T.J. Harrington, Sr. //Note: The Hawk is already active by this time, since he's wanted by the police.// ["Introducing the Hawk," Feature Funnies #2 (November, 1937)] | * Millionaire playboy T. James (Jimmy) Harrington II, a former college football player, becomes **[[Hawk (T. James Harrington II)|the Hawk]]**. In his only published case, the Hawk captures a crook who beat up and robbed an old millionaire named Moore of $100,000 he was planning to donate to the city orphanage. The Hawk wears a green business suit with a gray hood over his head along with claws on his fingernails. The Hawk is assisted by Link and Rollo, the only two other men who know his secret identity. The Hawk is hunted by Deputy Inspector Pat Doyle, lifelong friend of Harrington's late father, T.J. Harrington, Sr. //Note: The Hawk is already active by this time, since he's wanted by the police.// ["Introducing the Hawk," Feature Funnies #2 (November, 1937)] |
| | * [[Toddy Lott]], a young schoolboy who is the son of Richard Lott and his wife, begins adventures as a little scamp alongside his gran'pa and his friends Myrtle, Foggy, and Packy. //Note: According to the Toddy story in Feature Funnies #7, Toddy Lott's father is Richard Lott (who won medals in the Great War), his uncle is John Lott, his grandfather is Angus Lott (who fought in the Spanish-American War in 1898), his great-grandfather is Abe Lott, and his great-great grandfather is Thaddeus Lott (who fought in the American Revolutionary War in 1776).// [Toddy, Feature Funnies #2 (November, 1937)] |
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| === October, 1937 === | === October, 1937 === |
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| * The Clock teams up with the Orchid a second time to capture a crook called Monk, leader of a gang of crooks operating a protection racket. //Note: The story makes reference to an earlier meeting of the Clock and the Orchid, which was probably published in Detective Picture Stories #2.// [The Clock Strikes, Feature Funnies #3 (December, 1937)] | * The Clock teams up with the Orchid a second time to capture a crook called Monk, leader of a gang of crooks operating a protection racket. //Note: The story makes reference to an earlier meeting of the Clock and the Orchid, which was probably published in Detective Picture Stories #2.// [The Clock Strikes, Feature Funnies #3 (December, 1937)] |
| * Robert Mason disappears after a disagreement with his father, wealthy chemist Prof. Mason, and adopts the identity of **[[Jester (Robert Mason)|the Jester]]**, a mystery-man dressed in a green, red, and yellow medieval jester costume with a domino mask and a small mustache, who is wanted by the police for his vigilante actions. The Jester is athletic and has good hand-to-hand combat skills, but often relies on his pistol. //Note: According to the Jester story in Smash Comics #22, the Jester has been active for several years by 1941, indicating he was one of the first mystery-men to appear in the 1930s, along with the Clock, the Orchid, and the Hawk, as well as the Black Condor, who was not well known until later on. Very little is known of Robert Mason's background.// ["Madam Fatal Meets the Jester, the Man Who Laughs at Death," Crack Comics #10 (February, 1941); The Jester, Smash Comics #22 (May, 1941)] | * Robert Mason disappears after a disagreement with his father, wealthy chemist Prof. Mason, and adopts the identity of **[[Jester (Robert Mason)|the Jester]]**, a mystery-man dressed in a green, red, and yellow medieval jester costume with a domino mask and a small mustache, who is wanted by the police for his vigilante actions. The Jester is athletic and has good hand-to-hand combat skills, but often relies on his pistol. //Note: According to the Jester story in Smash Comics #22, the Jester has been active for several years by 1941, indicating he was one of the first mystery-men to appear in the 1930s, along with the Clock, the Orchid, the Hawk, and Madam Fatal, as well as the Black Condor, who was not well known until later on. Very little is known of Robert Mason's background.// ["Madam Fatal Meets the Jester, the Man Who Laughs at Death," Crack Comics #10 (February, 1941); The Jester, Smash Comics #22 (May, 1941)] |
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| === October, 1939 === | === October, 1939 === |
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| * Darrel Dane, a young scientist, invents a serum with the assistance of Dr. Roberts that causes him to shrink to six inches tall. While waiting for the effect to wear off, Darrel his fiancee Martha Roberts (Dr. Roberts' daughter) from a blackmailer named Falco. Since he has even greater strength than normal while at six inches tall, Darrel decides to fight crime as the **[[Doll Man]]**, becoming a private investigator. Martha creates a miniature blue and red caped costume for Darrel to wear as the Doll Man. //Note: Originally Darrel Dane injects himself with his shrinking serum each time he wants to become Doll Man, but he soon takes the serum in tablet form; eventually he doesn't need the serum at all and is able to shrink at will.// [The Dollman, Feature Comics #27 (December, 1939); "Doll Man," Secret Origins v2 #8 (November, 1986)] | * Darrel Dane, a young scientist, invents a serum with the assistance of Dr. Roberts that causes him to shrink to six inches tall. While waiting for the effect to wear off, Darrel his fiancee Martha Roberts (Dr. Roberts' daughter) from a blackmailer named Falco. Since he has even greater strength than normal while at six inches tall, Darrel decides to fight crime as the **[[Doll Man]]**, becoming a private investigator. Martha creates a miniature blue and red caped costume for Darrel to wear as the Doll Man. Darrel begins acting as a private investigator, investigating crimes as Darrel and fighting crime as Doll Man. //Note: Originally Darrel Dane injects himself with his shrinking serum each time he wants to become Doll Man, but he soon takes the serum in tablet form; eventually he doesn't need the serum at all and is able to shrink at will. The cat is named Shere Khan in Secret Origins v2 #8, but the name of the cat is Tippy in the Doll Man story in Feature Comics #28.// [The Dollman, Feature Comics #27 (December, 1939); "Doll Man," Secret Origins v2 #8 (November, 1986)] |
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| === November, 1939 === | === November, 1939 === |
| * [[Capt. S.R. "Spin" Shaw]], aviator, begins adventures. [Feature Comics #29] | * [[Capt. S.R. "Spin" Shaw]], aviator, begins adventures. [Feature Comics #29] |
| * New York City District Attorney Dan Nolen is murdered by a car bomb before he is about to expose a city official who took a bribe. The Clock discovers that Nolen's assistant Clyde Neste is the murderer. //Note: District Attorney Dan Nolen is succeeded by District Attorney John Dooly, as seen in the Clock story in Crack Comics #1.// [The Clock Strikes, Feature Comics #28 (January, 1940)] | * New York City District Attorney Dan Nolen is murdered by a car bomb before he is about to expose a city official who took a bribe. The Clock discovers that Nolen's assistant Clyde Neste is the murderer. //Note: District Attorney Dan Nolen is succeeded by District Attorney John Dooly, as seen in the Clock story in Crack Comics #1.// [The Clock Strikes, Feature Comics #28 (January, 1940)] |
| * Doll Man battles Dr. Rodent. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #28 (January, 1940)] | * Doll Man defeats Dr. Rodent, a criminal scientist who robs ships in the harbor and uses trained rats equipped with miniature bombs. //Note: Darrel Dane appears in his Doll Man costume for the first time in this story, although its original appearance is somewhat different, and he has a D insignia on his chest. Doll Man is shown gaining his powers through a syringe injection of his serum, though he soon develops a tablet that he swallows instead.// [The Dollman, Feature Comics #28 (January, 1940)] |
| * November 27: After Brian O'Brien's old school friend Ted Holt is shot, the Clock discovers that the gunmen work for a criminal mastermind known as the Reaper, and capture the gang. [The Clock Strikes, Feature Comics #29 (February, 1940)] | * November 27: After Brian O'Brien's old school friend Ted Holt is shot, the Clock discovers that the gunmen work for a criminal mastermind known as the Reaper, and capture the gang. [The Clock Strikes, Feature Comics #29 (February, 1940)] |
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| === December, 1939 === | === December, 1939 === |
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| * Doll Man battles Germans for the first time when he stops a group of officially sanctioned German smugglers using a U-boat to haul American motors back to Germany. Doll Man's fame begins to grow after this case. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #30 (March, 1940)] | * Doll Man battles Germans for the first time when he stops a group of officially sanctioned German smugglers using a U-boat to haul American motors back to Germany. Thanks to this case, Doll Man is first mentioned in newspapers. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #30 (March, 1940)] |
| | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">December 24-25: On Earth-2, Rex "Tick-Tock" Tyler successfully completes his Miraclo formula -- gaining enhanced strength, speed, invulnerability, and even vision -- and takes it on a test run for one hour wearing a circus acrobat costume. That night, Tyler also experiences the drug's severe after-effects but is determined to purify the formula to eliminate its addictive qualities. The next day, Tyler places an ad in the newspaper classifieds offering to help the oppressed. He spends the next week modifying the acrobat costume and obtaining an hourglass to time the effects of Miraclo. ["The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Hourman," Secret Origins v2 #16 (July, 1987)]</span></html> |
| * December 27: The Invisible Hood stops the scheme of Sir John Bland, alias the [[Voodoo Master]], who operates from a castle on a man-made island in the middle of a lake near Unionville, using the practice of voodoo to enslave men to do his bidding. The Voodoo Master uses a ray from a glass ball to make the Invisible Hood visible once more while in its presence, enabling his brief capture before he escapes to prime the castle to explode. The Invisible Hood has a sword fight with the Voodoo Master atop his castle and impales him, then flees to safety moments before the castle explodes. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #8 (March, 1940)] | * December 27: The Invisible Hood stops the scheme of Sir John Bland, alias the [[Voodoo Master]], who operates from a castle on a man-made island in the middle of a lake near Unionville, using the practice of voodoo to enslave men to do his bidding. The Voodoo Master uses a ray from a glass ball to make the Invisible Hood visible once more while in its presence, enabling his brief capture before he escapes to prime the castle to explode. The Invisible Hood has a sword fight with the Voodoo Master atop his castle and impales him, then flees to safety moments before the castle explodes. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #8 (March, 1940)] |
| * December 26-28: After an FBI agent is killed in a car crash, the secret industrial mobilization plans he was carrying to Washington, D.C., are discovered to be missing. Investigating, the Clock deduces that a German agent named Carl Adolf Voss ordered the death and stops Voss before he can leave the country with the plans. [The Clock Strikes, Feature Comics #30 (March, 1940)] | * December 26-28: After an FBI agent is killed in a car crash, the secret industrial mobilization plans he was carrying to Washington, D.C., are discovered to be missing. Investigating, the Clock deduces that a German agent named Carl Adolf Voss ordered the death and stops Voss before he can leave the country with the plans. [The Clock Strikes, Feature Comics #30 (March, 1940)] |
| | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">December 31: On Earth-2 on New Year's Eve, Rex Tyler has his first public case as </span></html>**[[Hourman|the Hour-Man]]**<html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);"> in New York City, when he fights a gang of criminals looting the Beaux Arts Ball. [The Hour-Man, Adventure Comics #48 (March, 1940); "The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Hourman," Secret Origins v2 #16 (July, 1987)]</span></html> |
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| ==== 1940 ==== | ==== 1940 ==== |
| === January, 1940 === | === January, 1940 === |
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| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Rex Tyler becomes </span></html>**[[Hourman|the Hourman]]**<html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);"> through the use of a drug of his invention called Miraclo, granting him super-strength for one hour. [Adventure Comics #48]</span></html> | |
| * After a German spy ring steals plans for a poison gas and plan to make gas in every large city in the United States to strike at the same time across the country, the Clock captures the chemist Heizer before he can duplicate the gas. [The Clock Strikes, Feature Comics #31 (April, 1940)] | * After a German spy ring steals plans for a poison gas and plan to make gas in every large city in the United States to strike at the same time across the country, the Clock captures the chemist Heizer before he can duplicate the gas. [The Clock Strikes, Feature Comics #31 (April, 1940)] |
| * [[Zero]], the ghost detective, begins adventures. [Feature Comics #32] | * [[Stephen Zero|Zero]], ghost detective, has his first known case as he takes on only supernatural-based threats and mysteries. Zero originally has an office on the thirteenth floor of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, and has an unnamed female assistant/secretary, but soon begins operating exclusively out of a house. Zero sometimes uses a mirror with an X-cross marked on it against spirits. Zero employs a machine called the Super Q-Ray to detect and make visible ghosts and spirits. [Zero, Ghost Detective, Feature Comics #32 (May, 1940)] |
| * [[Bruce Blackburn|Capt. Bruce Blackburn]], counterspy, begins adventures. [Feature Comics #32] | * [[Bruce Blackburn|Capt. Bruce Blackburn]], counterspy, begins adventures. [Feature Comics #32] |
| * [[Rusty Ryan]] of Boyville begins adventures with sidekicks Ed, Pierpont, Lee, and Alababa. [Feature Comics #32] | * [[Rusty Ryan]] of Boyville begins adventures with sidekicks Ed, Pierpont, Lee, and Alababa. [Feature Comics #32] |
| * **[[The Voice]]** (Mr. Elixir) begins adventures. [Feature Comics #32] | * **[[The Voice]]** (Mr. Elixir) begins adventures. [Feature Comics #32] |
| * [[Samar|Samar of the jungle]] begins adventures. [Feature Comics #32] | * [[Samar|Samar of the jungle]] begins adventures. [Feature Comics #32] |
| | * After Prof. Roberts invents a deadly gas and is kidnapped by a gang working for German spy Anton Bock, Doll Man tracks down the spies to a small New England town called Deep Haven and frees Roberts with the help of Martha Roberts and the local police, who capture the nest of spies. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #32 (May, 1940)] |
| * [[Wizard Wells]] begins adventures. [Crack Comics #1] | * [[Wizard Wells]] begins adventures. [Crack Comics #1] |
| * [[Molly Maloney]], also known as Molly the Model, is a working model with strawberry blonde hair who is based in New York City, where she lives with her father. Molly's boyfriend is a prize-fighter named Danny, whose manager is called Nifty. In her first published adventures, Molly is saved by her boyfriend Danny from a masher who turns out to be the boxer he was scheduled to fight, Molly's father gets into an automobile accident along with Molly and Danny while driving Nifty's new car, Molly's legs are photographed for a Stylish Stockings ad shown on billboards across the U.S., and Molly and Danny go on a double-date with Nifty and a girl named Honey. [Molly the Model, Crack Comics #1 (May, 1940)] | * [[Molly Maloney]], also known as Molly the Model, is a working model with strawberry blonde hair who is based in New York City, where she lives with her father. Molly's boyfriend is a prize-fighter named Danny, whose manager is called Nifty. In her first published adventures, Molly is saved by her boyfriend Danny from a masher who turns out to be the boxer he was scheduled to fight, Molly's father gets into an automobile accident along with Molly and Danny while driving Nifty's new car, Molly's legs are photographed for a Stylish Stockings ad shown on billboards across the U.S., and Molly and Danny go on a double-date with Nifty and a girl named Honey. [Molly the Model, Crack Comics #1 (May, 1940)] |
| * The Red Torpedo destroys a new German battleship that threatens to give the Nazis complete domination over the Atlantic Ocean. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #2 (June, 1940)] | * The Red Torpedo destroys a new German battleship that threatens to give the Nazis complete domination over the Atlantic Ocean. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #2 (June, 1940)] |
| * Roger Kent dies, leaving his tiny kingdom in India to his niece and nephew, Andrea and Denny Kent. Ali Kan, an Indian prince, proposes to Andrea Kent in an attempt to annex the province of Raj, but she turns him down before learning of her inheritance. Traveling to Raj, the Kents' party is attacked by desert bandits secretly working for Ali Kan, killing Denny before Ali Kan rushes in as planned to rescue Andrea. As Ali Kan brings Andrea back to his palace, the Black Condor spots the massacre and, discovering Denny Kent still alive, learns that Ali Kan is responsible. The Black Condor manages to rescue Andrea and brings her to Raj to reunite her with Denny, who is recuperating, then helps defend Raj against Ali Kan's invaders, using his paralyzing black-ray gun on them. Andrea Kent is made the new queen of Raj as the Black Condor leaves with his vultures. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #2 (June, 1940)] | * Roger Kent dies, leaving his tiny kingdom in India to his niece and nephew, Andrea and Denny Kent. Ali Kan, an Indian prince, proposes to Andrea Kent in an attempt to annex the province of Raj, but she turns him down before learning of her inheritance. Traveling to Raj, the Kents' party is attacked by desert bandits secretly working for Ali Kan, killing Denny before Ali Kan rushes in as planned to rescue Andrea. As Ali Kan brings Andrea back to his palace, the Black Condor spots the massacre and, discovering Denny Kent still alive, learns that Ali Kan is responsible. The Black Condor manages to rescue Andrea and brings her to Raj to reunite her with Denny, who is recuperating, then helps defend Raj against Ali Kan's invaders, using his paralyzing black-ray gun on them. Andrea Kent is made the new queen of Raj as the Black Condor leaves with his vultures. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #2 (June, 1940)] |
| | * **Toddy Lott** has his last published adventure as an ordinary young schoolboy. [Toddy, Feature Comics #31 (April, 1940)] |
| * February 23: The Clock encounters the Orchid a third time when, with the help of Pug Brady, he saves a young heir named Harvey Gibbs from being killed before he can receive his inheritance. [The Clock, Crack Comics #2 (June, 1940)] | * February 23: The Clock encounters the Orchid a third time when, with the help of Pug Brady, he saves a young heir named Harvey Gibbs from being killed before he can receive his inheritance. [The Clock, Crack Comics #2 (June, 1940)] |
| * February 23: The Invisible Hood battles the [[Green Ghost]], a criminal wearing a green outfit and hood over his face who is responsible for several robberies, and who is seemingly invulnerable to bullets. The Invisible Hood unmasks the Green Ghost as two men using identical costumes -- a lawyer named Ward, and Jack Gray -- one of whom fired at the other with blanks, making it seem bullets could not harm him. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #11 (June, 1940)] | * February 23: The Invisible Hood battles the [[Green Ghost]], a criminal wearing a green outfit and hood over his face who is responsible for several robberies, and who is seemingly invulnerable to bullets. The Invisible Hood unmasks the Green Ghost as two men using identical costumes -- a lawyer named Ward, and Jack Gray -- one of whom fired at the other with blanks, making it seem bullets could not harm him. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #11 (June, 1940)] |
| * The Spider battles a foreign mad scientist named Dr. Corsica, who has invented a toxin that supposedly grants great strength, but whose test subjects are all women, all but one of whom die during the experiments. //Note: The last test subject is an unnamed redheaded woman who may have gained super-strength at this time, though it remains unknown if Corsica's toxin injection actually worked. In the very next case, the Spider displays unusual strength allowing him to snap a rope, indicating that he may have used Dr. Corsica's toxin on himself after seeing the redhead's great strength.// [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #5 (September, 1940)] | * The Spider battles a foreign mad scientist named Dr. Corsica, who has invented a toxin that supposedly grants great strength, but whose test subjects are all women, all but one of whom die during the experiments. //Note: The last test subject is an unnamed redheaded woman who may have gained super-strength at this time, though it remains unknown if Corsica's toxin injection actually worked. In the very next case, the Spider displays unusual strength allowing him to snap a rope, indicating that he may have used Dr. Corsica's toxin on himself after seeing the redhead's great strength.// [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #5 (September, 1940)] |
| * Investigating the crime spree of a murderous masked crook called the Jay Bird, who is able to defy gravity and fly, the Clock discovers that the Jay Bird is able to swoop in on his victims by dangling from a very long, strong cable attached to a plane flying overhead. The Clock and his assistant Pug Brady capture the Jay Bird for the police. [The Clock, Crack Comics #5 (September, 1940)] | * Investigating the crime spree of a murderous masked crook called the Jay Bird, who is able to defy gravity and fly, the Clock discovers that the Jay Bird is able to swoop in on his victims by dangling from a very long, strong cable attached to a plane flying overhead. The Clock and his assistant Pug Brady capture the Jay Bird for the police. [The Clock, Crack Comics #5 (September, 1940)] |
| * Doll Man battles Doctor Python, the so-called master of minds, a mad scientist who collects the heads of brilliant men and somehow preserves the brain, enabling them to work for him. [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #36 (September, 1940)] | * Doll Man battles and defeats Doctor Python, the so-called master of minds, a mad scientist who collects the heads of brilliant men and somehow preserves the brain, enabling them to work for him. [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #36 (September, 1940)] |
| * Neon the Unknown rescues famous British explorer Sir Humphrey Walker from a lost land, a prehistoric jungle island beneath the ice caps at the North Pole that is populated by savages. The two decide to keep the lost land a secret. //Note: This prehistoric land in the Arctic is undoubtedly the same land later visited by the Invisible Hood, as seen in Smash Comics #19.// [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #3 (September, 1940)] | * Neon the Unknown rescues famous British explorer Sir Humphrey Walker from a lost land, a prehistoric jungle island beneath the ice caps at the North Pole that is populated by savages. The two decide to keep the lost land a secret. //Note: This prehistoric land in the Arctic is undoubtedly the same land later visited by the Invisible Hood, as seen in Smash Comics #19.// [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #3 (September, 1940)] |
| * After the Philippines officially gains its independence, and American troops leave, Imperial Japan sends in Yiffendi, a supposed rebel leader, to stir up trouble so that Japanese soldiers can march in and take over in the name of peacekeeping. Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith arrive and provide assistance to Filipino soldiers, who manage to topple Yiffendi and his followers, granting the Philippines freedom once more. //Note: In real history, plans for the Philippines' independence were put on hold by World War II until 1946, but Earth-X history is somewhat different.// [Uncle Sam, National Comics #3 (September, 1940)] | * After the Philippines officially gains its independence, and American troops leave, Imperial Japan sends in Yiffendi, a supposed rebel leader, to stir up trouble so that Japanese soldiers can march in and take over in the name of peacekeeping. Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith arrive and provide assistance to Filipino soldiers, who manage to topple Yiffendi and his followers, granting the Philippines freedom once more. //Note: In real history, plans for the Philippines' independence were put on hold by World War II until 1946, but Earth-X history is somewhat different.// [Uncle Sam, National Comics #3 (September, 1940)] |
| === July, 1940 === | === July, 1940 === |
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| * Darrel Dane is sworn in as a special detective of the New York Police Department. [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #38 (November, 1940)] | * Darrel Dane is sworn in as a special detective of the New York Police Department in order to help investigate a series of bombings of stores and factories, which turn out to be the work of toy-maker Kurt Killdor. [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #38 (November, 1940)] |
| * **[[The Ace of Space]]** (Ace Egan) begins adventures, battles the Slogons. [Feature Comics #38] | * **[[The Ace of Space]]** (Ace Egan) begins adventures, battles the Slogons. [Feature Comics #38] |
| * In his first public case, [[Quicksilver (Max Mercury)|Quicksilver]] the Laughing Robin Hood battles a mad scientist named Von Lohfer, who places half of the New York City Police Department under his hypnotic control using a hypno-chemical, then used them in a revenge scheme against industrialist J.B. Rockland by having them wreck every building and factory he owns. Quicksilver uses his amazing super-speed and acrobatics to stop the hypnotized officers, save Rockland, and capture Von Lohfer. //Note: Quicksilver's origin has never been revealed; though we know he is also called Max Mercury, this is likely a stage name he used when he was a circus acrobat. His real name has not been revealed, but it might be Max Crandall. Quicksilver also has a strong knowledge of chemistry, indicating that his origin may be chemical in nature.// [Quicksilver the Laughing Robin Hood, National Comics #5 (November, 1940)] | * In his first public case, [[Quicksilver (Max Mercury)|Quicksilver]] the Laughing Robin Hood battles a mad scientist named Von Lohfer, who places half of the New York City Police Department under his hypnotic control using a hypno-chemical, then used them in a revenge scheme against industrialist J.B. Rockland by having them wreck every building and factory he owns. Quicksilver uses his amazing super-speed and acrobatics to stop the hypnotized officers, save Rockland, and capture Von Lohfer. //Note: Quicksilver's origin has never been revealed; though we know he is also called Max Mercury, this is likely a stage name he used when he was a circus acrobat. His real name has not been revealed, but it might be Max Crandall. Quicksilver also has a strong knowledge of chemistry, indicating that his origin may be chemical in nature.// [Quicksilver the Laughing Robin Hood, National Comics #5 (November, 1940)] |
| * The Black Condor battles a group of thinking machines called the Spinning Death, invented by and given artificial intelligence by the Asian mad scientist Lung Woe, who is killed by the original thinking machine. The Spinning Death replicates itself and begins attacking American cities, killing thousands until the Black Condor stops them by their only point of weakness. //Note: The Spinning Death machines resemble the Daleks of Doctor Who; thus, surviving Spinning Death machines might also be connected to the artificial intelligence that took over the Nazi Empire in the late 1960s and replaced Nazi officials with androids under its control.// [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #8 (December, 1940)] | * The Black Condor battles a group of thinking machines called the Spinning Death, invented by and given artificial intelligence by the Asian mad scientist Lung Woe, who is killed by the original thinking machine. The Spinning Death replicates itself and begins attacking American cities, killing thousands until the Black Condor stops them by their only point of weakness. //Note: The Spinning Death machines resemble the Daleks of Doctor Who; thus, surviving Spinning Death machines might also be connected to the artificial intelligence that took over the Nazi Empire in the late 1960s and replaced Nazi officials with androids under its control.// [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #8 (December, 1940)] |
| * Baron Hoff sets fires on almost every dock in New York City, causing a massive fire that circles Manhattan, which acts as a distraction so that he can fly into the city on his Magno-Gyro and rob a large bank. Quicksilver fights the fire by throwing special gas capsules of his own invention at them, then stops Baron Hoff with the help of a newsboy. [Quicksilver, National Comics #6 (December, 1940)] | * Baron Hoff sets fires on almost every dock in New York City, causing a massive fire that circles Manhattan, which acts as a distraction so that he can fly into the city on his Magno-Gyro and rob a large bank. Quicksilver fights the fire by throwing special gas capsules of his own invention at them, then stops Baron Hoff with the help of a newsboy. [Quicksilver, National Comics #6 (December, 1940)] |
| * Doll Man discovers a hidden village populated by Puritans who have lived there for over 200 years without contact from the outside world. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #39 (December, 1940)] | * Trailing a criminal gang out west, Doll Man discovers a hidden village populated by Puritans who have lived there for over 200 years without contact from the outside world. Doll Man defeats the gang of modern-day criminals after they take over the town, and leaves them to face Puritan justice. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #39 (December, 1940)] |
| * The Red Bee battles a midget mad scientist called Kulak, who equips his murderous men with masks and electrified swords and belts, and who presumably dies when the hotel he uses as a headquarters collapses during his fight with the Red Bee. ["The Swords of Death," Hit Comics #6 (December, 1940)] | * The Red Bee battles a midget mad scientist called Kulak, who equips his murderous men with masks and electrified swords and belts, and who presumably dies when the hotel he uses as a headquarters collapses during his fight with the Red Bee. ["The Swords of Death," Hit Comics #6 (December, 1940)] |
| * The Ray battles and helps capture a clarinet-playing musician named Stradivous, who has the power to entrance people with his music and is causing ship captains to sink their ships by playing his clarinet over the radio. [The Ray, Smash Comics #17 (December, 1940)] | * The Ray battles and helps capture a clarinet-playing musician named Stradivous, who has the power to entrance people with his music and is causing ship captains to sink their ships by playing his clarinet over the radio. [The Ray, Smash Comics #17 (December, 1940)] |
| * **Lee Preston's** last adventure. [Crack Comics #9] | * **Lee Preston's** last adventure. [Crack Comics #9] |
| * The Red Torpedo rescues Dr. Freiheit, a leader of an opposition group against the Nazis in Germany. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #9 (January, 1941)] | * The Red Torpedo rescues Dr. Freiheit, a leader of an opposition group against the Nazis in Germany. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #9 (January, 1941)] |
| * Doll Man captures a sabotage ring operating on the East and West Coasts. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #40 (January, 1941)] | * Doll Man stops and exposes a sabotage ring operating on the East and West Coasts. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #40 (January, 1941)] |
| * The Ray uncovers a plot by a female crook named Miss White and seven dwarfs who used to have a Vaudeville act to loot a gold shipment from a train. After the seven dwarfs kill Miss White so they won't have to share the loot with her, the Ray destroys them and their train wrecking machine with a blast of power. [The Ray, Smash Comics #18 (January, 1941)] | * The Ray uncovers a plot by a female crook named Miss White and seven dwarfs who used to have a Vaudeville act to loot a gold shipment from a train. After the seven dwarfs kill Miss White so they won't have to share the loot with her, the Ray destroys them and their train wrecking machine with a blast of power. [The Ray, Smash Comics #18 (January, 1941)] |
| * Four Lamas in Tibet combine their mystic mental power to cause the peaceful President Karla of a Central European country to go to war. Neon the Unknown brings the president around the world to find the location of the four Lamas, based on how strong their hold is on him. After a mental battle of wills between Neon the Unknown and the four Lamas over several hours, the Lamas' heads literally explode from the strain. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #7 (January, 1941)] | * Four Lamas in Tibet combine their mystic mental power to cause the peaceful President Karla of a Central European country to go to war. Neon the Unknown brings the president around the world to find the location of the four Lamas, based on how strong their hold is on him. After a mental battle of wills between Neon the Unknown and the four Lamas over several hours, the Lamas' heads literally explode from the strain. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #7 (January, 1941)] |
| === October, 1940 === | === October, 1940 === |
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| * Doll Man briefly joins the U.S. Army as Darrel Dane and saves President Roosevelt from an assassination attempt by Nazi spies before being discharged from the army. [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #41 (February, 1941)] | * Doll Man joins the U.S. Army Reserve as Darrel Dane and saves President Roosevelt from an assassination attempt by Nazi spies. //Note: Since Darrel Dane is not shown in the army after this story, he is most likely in the U.S. Army Reserve rather than a regular U.S. Army recruit.// [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #41 (February, 1941)] |
| * Ace of Space's adventures end as he joins the Army Air Corps. [Feature Comics #41] | * Ace of Space's adventures end as he joins the Army Air Corps. [Feature Comics #41] |
| * After the Red Torpedo helps aid England during the Battle of Britain, the Germans use the Black Shark as a hired spy to capture him, but the Red Torpedo escapes. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #10 (February, 1941)] | * After the Red Torpedo helps aid England during the Battle of Britain, the Germans use the Black Shark as a hired spy to capture him, but the Red Torpedo escapes. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #10 (February, 1941)] |
| * Jimmy Slade, a press photographer, becomes mystery-man **[[Tor the Magic Master]]**. [Crack Comics #10] | * Jim Slade, a press photographer for the //Daily Press// (also called the //Evening Star//), is the mystery-man **[[Tor the Magic Master]]** (also called **Tor the Magician**), who various magic powers, including hypnotism, levitation and flight, illusion, shape-changing and stretching, and matter creation and transmutation, among others. After his first few adventures, he begins uttering backwards spells, giving him nearly unlimited magical abilities, but requiring him to always use backwards magic from that point on. He also sometimes uses a crystal ball for divination. Traveling as a press photographer to cover crime and fifth columnist activity, he dons a tuxedo and red cape and wears a mustache as Tor the Magic Master. A possible love interest is a red-haired reporter named Lucy Stone. In his first known case, Tor travels to the South American nation of Amazonia, where he crushes a fifth columnist ring in that country, then brings back photographs for his newspaper. [Tor the Magic Master, Crack Comics #10 (February, 1941)] |
| * Neon the Unknown smashes an anti-American bund run by fifth columnists in the United States. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #8 (February, 1941)] | * Neon the Unknown smashes an anti-American bund run by fifth columnists in the United States. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #8 (February, 1941)] |
| * The Invisible Hood discovers a prehistoric savage land hidden in the Arctic and kept warm by volcanic streams, where he learns that a criminal named Gordon Stack has enslaved the Cro-Magnon men led by Belthor to drill oil wells. //Note: This prehistoric land in the Arctic is undoubtedly the same land previously visited by Neon the Unknown, as seen in Hit Comics #3.// [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #19 (February, 1941)] | * The Invisible Hood discovers a prehistoric savage land hidden in the Arctic and kept warm by volcanic streams, where he learns that a criminal named Gordon Stack has enslaved the Cro-Magnon men led by Belthor to drill oil wells. //Note: This prehistoric land in the Arctic is undoubtedly the same land previously visited by Neon the Unknown, as seen in Hit Comics #3.// [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #19 (February, 1941)] |
| * Quicksilver stops a crook named Albert Cruch, who buys an experimental running repeating bomb delivery system so that his gang can loot every bank in New York City. [Quicksilver the Laughing Robin Hood, National Comics #8 (February, 1941)] | * Quicksilver stops a crook named Albert Cruch, who buys an experimental running repeating bomb delivery system so that his gang can loot every bank in New York City. [Quicksilver the Laughing Robin Hood, National Comics #8 (February, 1941)] |
| * October 16: Paul Bunyan volunteers for the U.S. Army. Not long after reaching an army camp on the west coast, Bunyan almost single-handedly staves off a Japanese invasion from the sea. [Paul Bunyan, National Comics #8 (February, 1941)] | * October 16: Paul Bunyan volunteers for the U.S. Army. Not long after reaching an army camp on the west coast, Bunyan almost single-handedly staves off a Japanese invasion from the sea. [Paul Bunyan, National Comics #8 (February, 1941)] |
| | * October 16-18: After a two-week crime spree by a criminal posing as the Clock, framing the real Clock for robbery and murder, the police offer a $50,000 reward for his capture. The Clock and Pug Brady are too late to save the next victim, an eyewitness, but Brian O'Brien has Pug electrocute him in order to have an out-of-body experience and communicate with the dead eyewitness in the spirit realm. After being clinically dead for two minutes, Brian is resuscitated by Pug and reveals that he knows former liquor czar Scat Bison is the impostor committing crimes as the Clock. After the Clock contacts Captain Kane of the NYPD, he confronts Bison at his home and extracts a confession, clearing his name. [The Clock, Crack Comics #10 (February, 1941)] |
| * October 16-23: A crook impersonates the original Jester and begins a crime spree over a week involving the theft of a box of securities, a million-dollar payroll, a valuable necklace, and a daring bank robbery. Meanwhile, Richard Stanton (Madam Fatal) visits his friend, chemist Prof. Mason, and learns that his son Robert Mason disappeared years ago after a falling out. After Prof. Mason completes a formula for the U.S. government, the Jester imposter arrives to steal it and knocks out Stanton, then kidnaps Prof. Mason for his boss. Stanton awakes, having recognized the Jester as one of Ratney's mob, and visits Ratney while dressed as Madam Fatal. Prof. Mason realizes that Ratney planted Paxton as his assistant to find out when he would finish his experiment, then one of his men impersonated the real Jester in order to pin the blame on him. The real Jester arrives and rescues Prof. Mason with Madam Fatal's help, then escapes before Ratney's men can kill him, but not before Madam Fatal recognizes the Jester from a birthmark on his hand as Robert Mason, Prof. Mason's missing son. //Note: Although the story does not state it outright, it is clear that the real Jester is not a crook after all, but another mystery-man wanted by the police. According to Smash Comics #22, the Jester has been active for several years already. Sometime after this story, Robert Mason passes on the role of the Jester to rookie cop Chuck Lane, who wears a similar but modified version of the costume and uses somewhat different methods.// ["Madam Fatal Meets the Jester, the Man Who Laughs at Death," Crack Comics #10 (February, 1941)] | * October 16-23: A crook impersonates the original Jester and begins a crime spree over a week involving the theft of a box of securities, a million-dollar payroll, a valuable necklace, and a daring bank robbery. Meanwhile, Richard Stanton (Madam Fatal) visits his friend, chemist Prof. Mason, and learns that his son Robert Mason disappeared years ago after a falling out. After Prof. Mason completes a formula for the U.S. government, the Jester imposter arrives to steal it and knocks out Stanton, then kidnaps Prof. Mason for his boss. Stanton awakes, having recognized the Jester as one of Ratney's mob, and visits Ratney while dressed as Madam Fatal. Prof. Mason realizes that Ratney planted Paxton as his assistant to find out when he would finish his experiment, then one of his men impersonated the real Jester in order to pin the blame on him. The real Jester arrives and rescues Prof. Mason with Madam Fatal's help, then escapes before Ratney's men can kill him, but not before Madam Fatal recognizes the Jester from a birthmark on his hand as Robert Mason, Prof. Mason's missing son. //Note: Although the story does not state it outright, it is clear that the real Jester is not a crook after all, but another mystery-man wanted by the police. According to Smash Comics #22, the Jester has been active for several years already. Sometime after this story, Robert Mason passes on the role of the Jester to rookie cop Chuck Lane, who wears a similar but modified version of the costume and uses somewhat different methods.// ["Madam Fatal Meets the Jester, the Man Who Laughs at Death," Crack Comics #10 (February, 1941)] |
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| === November, 1940 === | === November, 1940 === |
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| * Darrel Dane (Doll Man) celebrates Martha Roberts' birthday. [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #42 (March, 1941)] | |
| * **[[USA, the Spirit of Old Glory]]**, a feminine spirit of America, has first public case; she came into being as Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. [Feature Comics #42] | |
| * Zero, ghost detective, time-travels to thousands of years in the future and battles Loro, Mogur, and other Martians. //Note: These Martians of the far future are human and obviously descended from settlers from Earth.// [Feature Comics #42] | * Zero, ghost detective, time-travels to thousands of years in the future and battles Loro, Mogur, and other Martians. //Note: These Martians of the far future are human and obviously descended from settlers from Earth.// [Feature Comics #42] |
| * Quicksilver stops the bombing of New York City by a group of Fifth Columnist bombers, then hitches a ride back to their Grand Canyon headquarters and destroys it. [Quicksilver the Laughing Robin Hood, National Comics #9 (March, 1941)] | * Quicksilver stops the bombing of New York City by a group of Fifth Columnist bombers, then hitches a ride back to their Grand Canyon headquarters and destroys it. [Quicksilver the Laughing Robin Hood, National Comics #9 (March, 1941)] |
| * November 25-26: When German U-boats begin escaping with stolen munitions from ships in American waters, the Red Bee discovers the men behind the scheme -- Mr. Hanson the owner of Hanson's Munitions Works, and U-Boat Captain Von Storm -- and puts an end to it, preventing the premature outbreak of war. [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #9 (March, 1941)] | * November 25-26: When German U-boats begin escaping with stolen munitions from ships in American waters, the Red Bee discovers the men behind the scheme -- Mr. Hanson the owner of Hanson's Munitions Works, and U-Boat Captain Von Storm -- and puts an end to it, preventing the premature outbreak of war. [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #9 (March, 1941)] |
| * November 24: The Spider uncovers a plot by his old enemies the Crickets to steal the jewels of a German refugee named Baron Karl Von Ernst, whom they kill with a bomb. Preventing them from stealing the jewels, the Spider confronts the gang leader called the Big Cricket before his men can kill the Spider. The Spider then manages to trap the Crickets to Cobb's Mill, where the police arrive to arrest the whole gang except the leader, whom the Spider personally kills before he can shoot the police. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #11 (March, 1941); Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #12 (April, 1941)] | * November 24: The Spider uncovers a plot by his old enemies the Crickets to steal the jewels of a German refugee named Baron Karl Von Ernst, whom they kill with a bomb. Preventing them from stealing the jewels, the Spider confronts the gang leader called the Big Cricket before his men can kill the Spider. The Spider then manages to trap the Crickets to Cobb's Mill, where the police arrive to arrest the whole gang except the leader, whom the Spider personally kills before he can shoot the police. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #11 (March, 1941); Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #12 (April, 1941)] |
| | * November 24-25: When a locket in an old cemetery in Philadelphia is opened, the spirit of the girl who died in 1777 is released and reborn as **[[Usa the Spirit of Old Glory]]** according to an old prophecy. Usa uses her mystical flag and the torch of liberty (or torch of freedom) against all evildoers, and is alerted to danger whenever her flag droops. In her first case, she stops a female teacher from indoctrinating American children with Nazi propaganda, and shows her the error of her ways by mystically flying her over Nazi Germany to witness the ruin and destruction of the nation and its leader, Adolf Hitler. She later rescues the teacher after Nazi spies seek to kill her for deserting their cause. The next day, Usa saves President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from a Nazi bomb threat as he visits a munitions plant, then saves the //S.S. Althea// from being destroyed by saboteurs, instead ensuring that the Axis mastermind behind all these plots, Otto Fluger, is killed by his own explosives. //Note: Usa is unable to act against anyone hiding behind the U.S. flag.// ["Introducing Usa, the Spirit of Old Glory," Feature Comics #42 (March, 1941)] |
| | * November 29-30: Darrel Dane (Doll Man) celebrates Martha Roberts' birthday and ends up helping solving the murder of a pet shop owner and helping the owner's daughter Jane recover the treasure of the //Black Albatross//. //Note: This story indicates that Martha Roberts' birthday is on November 29, but this date is tentative.// [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #42 (March, 1941)] |
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| === December, 1940 === | === December, 1940 === |
| * When Senator Tom Wright (Black Condor) attempts to push through a bill granting better conditions to miners, it is defeated thanks to the political machine of Jaspar Crow, who has set himself up in an exploitative mining operation in Pennsylvania. After Crow frames the murder of a foremen on the miners, turning the sympathy against them in the hopes of quelling a possible strike, the Black Condor prevents further bloodshed but fails to capture Crow himself. The mining bill passes after a second vote. //Note: After this story, the Black Condor is switched over to Earth-2.// [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #12 (April, 1941)] | * When Senator Tom Wright (Black Condor) attempts to push through a bill granting better conditions to miners, it is defeated thanks to the political machine of Jaspar Crow, who has set himself up in an exploitative mining operation in Pennsylvania. After Crow frames the murder of a foremen on the miners, turning the sympathy against them in the hopes of quelling a possible strike, the Black Condor prevents further bloodshed but fails to capture Crow himself. The mining bill passes after a second vote. //Note: After this story, the Black Condor is switched over to Earth-2.// [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #12 (April, 1941)] |
| * Neon the Unknown stops a plot in South America by Nazi fifth columnists who try to use natives to cause disruption and sabotage throughout South American cities. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #10 (April, 1941)] | * Neon the Unknown stops a plot in South America by Nazi fifth columnists who try to use natives to cause disruption and sabotage throughout South American cities. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #10 (April, 1941)] |
| * Happy Terrill saves the life of a freckled, dark-haired eight-year-old boy named [[Jack Budworth|Jackie "Bud" Budworth]], who is orphaned when a plane is shot down over the Pacific. The Ray stops a raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by Japanese planes commanded by a pirate called [[Captain Blue]], who wants war in the Pacific in order to create the New Pacific Empire for himself after the U.S. and Japan weaken themselves from fighting each other. After Jackie learns that Happy is the Ray, Happy brings him back to America with him. //Note: Jackie may have already been orphaned before this story, so it wasn't his parents who died in the plane crash but a guardian he didn't have much affection for, since at no point is he ever shown to be grieving for lost parents. From his next appearance onward, Jackie would be known only as Bud. Although Jackie learns the Ray's secret identity in this story, he has forgotten it by his next appearance, suggesting that the Ray used hypnosis powers to make him forget.// [The Ray, Smash Comics #21 (May, 1941)] | * Happy Terrill saves the life of a freckled, dark-haired eight-year-old boy named [[Jack Budworth|Jackie "Bud" Budworth]], who is orphaned when a plane is shot down over the Pacific. The Ray stops a raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by Japanese planes commanded by a pirate called [[Captain Blue]], who wants war in the Pacific in order to create the New Pacific Empire for himself after the U.S. and Japan weaken themselves from fighting each other. After Jackie learns that Happy is the Ray, Happy brings him back to America with him. //Note: Jackie may have already been orphaned before this story, so it wasn't his parents who died in the plane crash but a guardian he didn't have much affection for, since at no point is he ever shown to be grieving for lost parents. Jackie was never given a surname in the comics, and from his next appearance onward, Jackie would be known only as Bud; ergo, we propose his last name to be Budworth. Although Jackie learns the Ray's secret identity in this story, he has forgotten it by his next appearance, suggesting that the Ray used hypnosis powers to make him forget.// [The Ray, Smash Comics #21 (May, 1941)] |
| * December 12: Midnight meets [[Gabby (Earth-X)|Gabby]], a monkey given human-level intelligence and the ability to talk through scientific experimentation by scientist Alice O'Day, the culmination of ten years of research. After Alice is killed by criminals who want her formula, Midnight adopts Gabby as his sidekick. At this time Midnight begins using his vacuum-gun, which fires a line of fine silk cord with a suction cup at the end of it. [Midnight, Smash Comics #21 (April, 1941)] | * December 12: Midnight meets [[Gabby (Earth-X)|Gabby]], a monkey given human-level intelligence and the ability to talk through scientific experimentation by scientist Alice O'Day, the culmination of ten years of research. After Alice is killed by criminals who want her formula, Midnight adopts Gabby as his sidekick. At this time Midnight begins using his vacuum-gun, which fires a line of fine silk cord with a suction cup at the end of it. [Midnight, Smash Comics #21 (April, 1941)] |
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| * Zero, Ghost Detective, meets the Reaper (Death). [Feature Comics #44] | * Zero, Ghost Detective, meets the Reaper (Death). [Feature Comics #44] |
| * Rookie patrolman Chuck Lane (the direct descendant of a real court jester) takes over from Robert Mason as **[[Jester (Chuck Lane)|the Jester II]]** in New York City, wearing a somewhat modified version of the original Jester's costume. Unlike the original, the Jester uses no pistol but solely relies on his superb athleticism, including acrobatic feats. The Jester has a keen sense of humor and often announces his arrival by jingling the bells on his costume. Chuck's supervisor Police Inspector Hustace Mulligan has a personal quarrel with the Jester, who constantly mocks him by throwing a rubber ball with a jester's hat and a cartoon face drawn on it, which he later names Quinopolis. In his first case, which takes place on Chuck's first day on the job as a patrolman, the Jester stops a group of crooks who have fooled a wealthy old woman named Mrs. Van Cornish into giving her wealth to them. //Note: This story establishes that the Jester has been around and wanted by the police for several years, though this must apply to the previous Jester, Robert Mason, rather than Chuck Lane himself.// [The Jester, Smash Comics #22 (May, 1941)] | * Rookie patrolman Chuck Lane (the direct descendant of a real court jester) takes ovzer from Robert Mason as **[[Jester (Chuck Lane)|the Jester II]]** in New York City, wearing a somewhat modified version of the original Jester's costume. Unlike the original, the Jester uses no pistol but solely relies on his superb athleticism, including acrobatic feats. The Jester has a keen sense of humor and often announces his arrival by jingling the bells on his costume. Chuck's supervisor Police Inspector Hustace Mulligan has a personal quarrel with the Jester, who constantly mocks him by throwing a rubber ball with a jester's hat and a cartoon face drawn on it, which he later names Quinopolis. In his first case, which takes place on Chuck's first day on the job as a patrolman, the Jester stops a group of crooks who have fooled a wealthy old woman named Mrs. Van Cornish into giving her wealth to them. //Note: This story establishes that the Jester has been around and wanted by the police for several years, though this must apply to the previous Jester, Robert Mason, rather than Chuck Lane himself.// [The Jester, Smash Comics #22 (May, 1941)] |
| * January 13: Happy Terrill (the Ray) becomes the guardian of the orphaned Jackie Budworth, nicknaming him "Bud" and giving him a Ray ring that shines a signal light. Bud is kidnapped from his bed and brought to a hidden fantasy land called Elixir, ruled by King Peveral. The Ray arrives and fights off an invasion by a mad ruler named Kulik, who is assisted by Captain Blue. After crashing a flying ship he took, Bud later awakes in his bed; it was all supposedly a dream, although it may have really happened. //Note: This story takes place during the winter, as evidenced by snow everywhere.// [The Ray, Smash Comics #22 (May, 1941)] | * January 13: Happy Terrill (the Ray) becomes the guardian of the orphaned Jackie Budworth, nicknaming him "Bud" and giving him a Ray ring that shines a signal light. Bud is kidnapped from his bed and brought to a hidden fantasy land called Elixir, ruled by King Peveral. The Ray arrives and fights off an invasion by a mad ruler named Kulik, who is assisted by Captain Blue. After crashing a flying ship he took, Bud later awakes in his bed; it was all supposedly a dream, although it may have really happened. //Note: This story takes place during the winter, as evidenced by snow everywhere.// [The Ray, Smash Comics #22 (May, 1941)] |
| * January 13: Adolf Hitler, frustrated by how such figures as Neon the Unknown have thwarted his plans again and again, consults the last living necromancer in Germany, Damus the wizard. Damus summons Neon the Unknown and has a wizard's battle with him until Neon manages to convince Damus to leave Hitler's service and flee the country. //Note: Adolf Hitler is called Otto Shickler in this story, but Shickler is a thinly veiled version of Hitler.// [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #11 (May, 1941)] | * January 13: Adolf Hitler, frustrated by how such figures as Neon the Unknown have thwarted his plans again and again, consults the last living necromancer in Germany, Damus the wizard. Damus summons Neon the Unknown and has a wizard's battle with him until Neon manages to convince Damus to leave Hitler's service and flee the country. //Note: Adolf Hitler is called Otto Shickler in this story, but Shickler is a thinly veiled version of Hitler.// [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #11 (May, 1941)] |
| * February 12: Neon the Unknown exposes a secret pact between Adolf Hitler and Tchebitsky, the leader of the small country of Slovia, to allow Nazi Germany to annex it, and he leads a revolution that ousts Tchebitsky and fights off a German invasion. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #12 (June, 1941)] | * February 12: Neon the Unknown exposes a secret pact between Adolf Hitler and Tchebitsky, the leader of the small country of Slovia, to allow Nazi Germany to annex it, and he leads a revolution that ousts Tchebitsky and fights off a German invasion. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #12 (June, 1941)] |
| * February 12: After Bud is kidnapped, the Ray rescues him from a crook called the Beetle who uses him to deliver a stolen contract for supplies meant for war-torn China to Long Woo, a Tong leader in San Francisco's Chinatown. //Note: After this story, the Ray and Bud are switched over to Earth-2.// [The Ray, Smash Comics #23 (June, 1941)] | * February 12: After Bud is kidnapped, the Ray rescues him from a crook called the Beetle who uses him to deliver a stolen contract for supplies meant for war-torn China to Long Woo, a Tong leader in San Francisco's Chinatown. //Note: After this story, the Ray and Bud are switched over to Earth-2.// [The Ray, Smash Comics #23 (June, 1941)] |
| | * February 11-13: After a gang boss called the Crab tries to extort $5-million from New York City and makes good on his threat by killing several policemen in an explosion, Capt. Kane summons the Clock for help. The Clock captures the Crab Gang. [The Clock, Crack Comics #13 (June, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 12-13: On Earth-2, the Black Condor investigates the murder of an inventor named Carl Stark by thugs in order to gain a remote-control bomb detonator that they use to destroy several buildings at once with pre-planted bombs. The Black Condor also prevents the Senate from being destroyed in the same way and discovers that the man behind the attacks is U.S. Army General Korn. After his arrest, Korn claims that he was the real inventor of the remote-control detonator and used Stark as his front-man. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #13 (June, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 12-13: On Earth-2, the Black Condor investigates the murder of an inventor named Carl Stark by thugs in order to gain a remote-control bomb detonator that they use to destroy several buildings at once with pre-planted bombs. The Black Condor also prevents the Senate from being destroyed in the same way and discovers that the man behind the attacks is U.S. Army General Korn. After his arrest, Korn claims that he was the real inventor of the remote-control detonator and used Stark as his front-man. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #13 (June, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * February 21: Midnight investigates a string of bank robberies by an eccentric old scientist named [[Mortimer "Doc" Wackey]], who uses a formula to turn adults into babies almost instantly. After Midnight and his talking monkey Gabby confront him, Doc Wackey turns Midnight into a baby until Gabby uses an untested antidote to change him back to normal. After Midnight chases down the fleeing Doc Wackey, he offers him a chance to become his partner against crime, and the mad scientist accepts. //Note: Doc Wackey creates several more inventions, including a wrist radio for Midnight and his aides, and the Visoscope, which enables them to view any location. Prior to reforming, Doc Wackey's partner in crime was Prof Porgy, as revealed in Smash Comics #35.// [Midnight, Smash Comics #23 (June, 1941)] | * February 21: Midnight investigates a string of bank robberies by an eccentric old scientist named [[Mortimer "Doc" Wackey]], who uses a formula to turn adults into babies almost instantly. After Midnight and his talking monkey Gabby confront him, Doc Wackey turns Midnight into a baby until Gabby uses an untested antidote to change him back to normal. After Midnight chases down the fleeing Doc Wackey, he offers him a chance to become his partner against crime, and the mad scientist accepts. //Note: Doc Wackey creates several more inventions, including a wrist radio for Midnight and his aides, and the Visoscope, which enables them to view any location. Prior to reforming, Doc Wackey's partner in crime was Prof Porgy, as revealed in Smash Comics #35.// [Midnight, Smash Comics #23 (June, 1941)] |
| === March, 1941 === | === March, 1941 === |
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| * Doll Man gains a one-time only partner in young Ray Corley, who learns his secret identity and who goes to school with Tommy Roberts, younger brother of his fiancée Martha Roberts. //Note: This story is set in the spring.// [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #43 (April, 1941)] | |
| * Chic Carter, crime reporter, has first public case as a mystery-man named **[[the Sword]]**. [Smash Comics #24] | * Chic Carter, crime reporter, has first public case as a mystery-man named **[[the Sword]]**. [Smash Comics #24] |
| * Wings Wendall dons a new costume. [Smash Comics #24] | * Wings Wendall dons a new costume. [Smash Comics #24] |
| * **The Scarlet Seal's** last case. [Smash Comics #24] | * **The Scarlet Seal's** last case. [Smash Comics #24] |
| * USA the Spirit of Old Glory stops the Advance Front, an army of Nazi American fifth columnists, from marching on Washington, D.C. [USA, the Spirit of Old Glory, Feature Comics #46 (July, 1941)] | * Usa the Spirit of Old Glory foils a plan by Nazi German General Von Roth to attack the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, with an army of German and Fifth Columnist soldiers. [Usa, the Spirit of Old Glory, Feature Comics #46 (July, 1941)] |
| * USA the Spirit of Old Glory assists the FBI to capture a gang of Nazi saboteurs. //Note: The FBI man called the chief is most likely Tim Healy, whose Earth-2 counterpart later employs Joan Dale, alias Miss America.// [USA, the Spirit of Old Glory, Feature Comics #47 (August, 1941)] | * Usa the Spirit of Old Glory assists the FBI to capture a gang of Nazi saboteurs. By this time Usa has taken a job at a large munitions factory, working with several other young women in the shell department. //Note: The FBI man called the chief is most likely Tim Healy, whose Earth-2 counterpart later employs Joan Dale, alias Miss America.// [Usa, the Spirit of Old Glory, Feature Comics #47 (August, 1941)] |
| * Merlin the Magician personally presents a huge diamond called the All-Seeing Eye to Prime Minister Winston Churchill for England's war effort. [National Comics #13] | * Merlin the Magician personally presents a huge diamond called the All-Seeing Eye to Prime Minister Winston Churchill for England's war effort. [National Comics #13] |
| * **Wizard Wells'** last adventure. [Crack Comics #14] | * **Wizard Wells'** last adventure. [Crack Comics #14] |
| * The Invisible Hood travels to Panama and is taken to the hidden Mayan city of Tempera, ruled by the tyrant Chac Mool, who overthrew the real ruler Chima and works with Nazi agents planning to blow up the Panama Canal. The Invisible Hood defeats the false ruler and the Nazi agents and restores Chima to the throne. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #24 (July, 1941)] | * The Invisible Hood travels to Panama and is taken to the hidden Mayan city of Tempera, ruled by the tyrant Chac Mool, who overthrew the real ruler Chima and works with Nazi agents planning to blow up the Panama Canal. The Invisible Hood defeats the false ruler and the Nazi agents and restores Chima to the throne. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #24 (July, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">March 13: On Earth-2, the Ray captures a group of Nazi spies led by a circus performer named Vera. <em>Note: As of this issue, Happy Terrill works for a newspaper called The Star, indicating that this story and those following take place on Earth-2.</em> [The Ray, Smash Comics #24 (July, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">March 13: On Earth-2, the Ray captures a group of Nazi spies led by a circus performer named Vera. <em>Note: As of this issue, Happy Terrill works for a newspaper called The Star, indicating that this story and those following take place on Earth-2.</em> [The Ray, Smash Comics #24 (July, 1941)]</span></html> |
| | * March 12-14: Doll Man gains a one-time only partner in young Ray Corley, who learns his secret identity and who goes to school with Tommy Roberts, younger brother of his fiancée Martha Roberts. //Note: This story is set in the spring.// [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #43 (April, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">March 12-15: On Earth-2, Jaspar Crow (of Earth-2) hires a man to discredit the Black Condor by masquerading him and causing strife amongst steel workers who go on strike against the horrible conditions Crow forces them to work under. The real Black Condor intervenes and terrorizes Crow into signing a humane labor contract. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #14 (July, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">March 12-15: On Earth-2, Jaspar Crow (of Earth-2) hires a man to discredit the Black Condor by masquerading him and causing strife amongst steel workers who go on strike against the horrible conditions Crow forces them to work under. The real Black Condor intervenes and terrorizes Crow into signing a humane labor contract. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #14 (July, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * March 15: Rod Reilly, an idle millionaire playboy, becomes a crime-fighter named **[[Firebrand (Earth-X)|Firebrand]]** in order to take down the crime syndicate that controlled New York City, but the police mistakenly believe that the Firebrand is the leader of the syndicate. The Firebrand is assisted by his manservant, ex-prize-fighter [[Slugger Dunn (Earth-X)|"Slugger" Dunn]], who left the ring to become Firebrand's only confidant. Rod has recently become engaged to a debutante named [[Joan Rogers (Earth-X)|Joan Rogers]]. Rod's father is wealthy steel tycoon [[Emerald Ed Reilly (Earth-X)|"Emerald" Ed Reilly]], while his mother is unnamed. Firebrand is a top-notch athlete who possesses incredible acrobatic skills and is able to scale a building using suction-cups. Firebrand leaves a flaming torch of justice wherever he strikes against crime. ["Bust-Out in the Big House," Freedom Fighters #12 (January-February, 1978)] | * March 15: Rod Reilly, an idle millionaire playboy, becomes a crime-fighter named **[[Firebrand (Earth-X)|Firebrand]]** in order to take down the crime syndicate that controlled New York City, but the police mistakenly believe that the Firebrand is the leader of the syndicate. The Firebrand is assisted by his manservant, ex-prize-fighter [[Slugger Dunn (Earth-X)|"Slugger" Dunn]], who left the ring to become Firebrand's only confidant. Rod has recently become engaged to a debutante named [[Joan Rogers (Earth-X)|Joan Rogers]]. Rod's father is wealthy steel tycoon [[Emerald Ed Reilly (Earth-X)|"Emerald" Ed Reilly]], while his mother is unnamed. Firebrand is a top-notch athlete who possesses incredible acrobatic skills and is able to scale a building using suction-cups. Firebrand leaves a flaming torch of justice wherever he strikes against crime. ["Bust-Out in the Big House," Freedom Fighters #12 (January-February, 1978)] |
| | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">March 15: On Earth-2, Rod Reilly becomes the Firebrand under nearly identical circumstances as his Earth-X counterpart, except that the Earth-2 Reilly has a sister, Danette Reilly. ["Bust-Out in the Big House," Freedom Fighters #12 (January-February, 1978)]</span></html> |
| * March 22: One evening while waiting on the steps of the United States Capitol, Sandra Knight saves her father [[Henry Knight|Senator Harold Henry Knight]] (a former judge) from getting shot by an assassin named Ace Diamond, and calls herself a "phantom lady" while doing so. Modifying a useless black-light ray device sent to her father to create her blackout ray, Sandra decides to start adventuring as a costumed mystery-woman called **[[Phantom Lady (Earth-X)|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. Don Borden, a State Department investigator, is Sandra Knight's fiancé. //Note: While the Earth-2 Sandra Knight received a black-light ray from Prof. Abraham Davis, the Earth-X Sandra Knight may have received the invention from a different inventor entirely, possibly having some connection with the Black Condor's black light ray. Sandra Knight of Earth-X may have a cousin named Ted Knight, but he never becomes a mystery-man like his Earth-2 counterpart, who becomes Starman. Phantom Lady's blackout ray is originally called a black lantern. Sandra Knight is trained in Jiu-Jitsu.// ["Carnival of Death," Freedom Fighters #15 (July-August, 1978); "Catch a Falling Starman," All-Star Squadron #41 (January, 1985)] | * March 22: One evening while waiting on the steps of the United States Capitol, Sandra Knight saves her father [[Henry Knight|Senator Harold Henry Knight]] (a former judge) from getting shot by an assassin named Ace Diamond, and calls herself a "phantom lady" while doing so. Modifying a useless black-light ray device sent to her father to create her blackout ray, Sandra decides to start adventuring as a costumed mystery-woman called **[[Phantom Lady (Earth-X)|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. Don Borden, a State Department investigator, is Sandra Knight's fiancé. //Note: While the Earth-2 Sandra Knight received a black-light ray from Prof. Abraham Davis, the Earth-X Sandra Knight may have received the invention from a different inventor entirely, possibly having some connection with the Black Condor's black light ray. Sandra Knight of Earth-X may have a cousin named Ted Knight, but he never becomes a mystery-man like his Earth-2 counterpart, who becomes Starman. Phantom Lady's blackout ray is originally called a black lantern. Sandra Knight is trained in Jiu-Jitsu.// ["Carnival of Death," Freedom Fighters #15 (July-August, 1978); "Catch a Falling Starman," All-Star Squadron #41 (January, 1985)] |
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| * [[Archie Atkins]], desert scout, begins adventures in Africa. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * [[Archie Atkins]], desert scout, begins adventures in Africa. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * [[Col. Shot]] and [[Slim Shell]] (Shot and Shell) begin adventures in the U.S. Army Corps. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * [[Col. Shot]] and [[Slim Shell]] (Shot and Shell) begin adventures in the U.S. Army Corps. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * Larry Noble (also called Jerry), an ex-Hollywood stuntman and the son of Senator Walter Q. Noble, with his pet eagle, Sam, has first public case as [[the Yankee Eagle]], helping out the U.S. Navy. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * Jerry Noble, son of Senator Walter Q. Noble, accompanied by his pet eagle Sam, has his first public case as the [[Yankee Eagle]], assisting the U.S. Navy as a Naval Intelligence agent. The Yankee Eagle has the unique ability to communicate with and influence all animals, allowing him to train them to perform complicated actions such as performing the duties of the entire crew of a large Navy ship. Left independently wealthy after his mother's death, Jerry has a ranch stocked with several free-roaming animals outside of San Diego and has a servant called Chalky, who acts as his all-around assistant. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * The [[Death Patrol]], an independent flying squadron led by [[Del Van Dyne]], and comprised of several escaped criminals ([[Butch]], [[Hank]], [[Peewee]], [[Slick]], [[Gramps]]) are formed. **Peewee** is killed. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * Millionaire playboy [[Del Van Dyne]], fired from a pilot's job at Universal Airlines in New York City, decides to fight for the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.), since America hasn't yet entered the war. Meanwhile, five criminals (safe cracker [[Butch O'Keefe]], cattle-rustler [[Hank]], forger [[Peewee]], con man [[Slick Ward]], and pickpocket [[Gramps]]) escape from prison and try to commandeer Van Dyne's plane, only to find themselves on a trip to England, during which time he convinces the ex-convicts to fight the Nazis instead of returning to America where they'd be marked men. Impressing R.A.F. Col. Rider by stopping a German bombing raid with a single stratoliner, the six impudent men demand their own squadron with their own uniforms. Given a difficult first assignment and expected to fail, the men capture attack plans from Gen. Von Plump at his headquarters in Ostend, then return with only one casualty when Peewee is shot in the back. Col. Rider gives the men the promised uniforms (with prison stripes) and promises support, and they form an independent "Foreign Legion of the air" called the [[Death Patrol]]. Since they take the most difficult assignments the R.A.F. gives them, they often need new recruits as replacements for those who have fallen. //Note: It's possible that some of the Death Patrol's later adventures only take place on Earth-12, as they become progressively more cartoonish and unbelievable.// [Death Patrol, Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * [[Capt. Foghorn]], a privateer like his ancestor John Paul Jones, begins adventures on the four-masted schooner Albatross, a deceivingly advanced ship built in the form of an old schooner, and even equipped with a Q-boat; the ship's crew are all children, and the Captain's officers are first mate Bob Wayne, bosun Dick Martin, and Marmaduke "Freckles" Van Weyden. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * [[Capt. Foghorn]], a privateer like his ancestor John Paul Jones, begins adventures on the four-masted schooner Albatross, a deceivingly advanced ship built in the form of an old schooner, and even equipped with a Q-boat; the ship's crew are all children, and the Captain's officers are first mate Bob Wayne, bosun Dick Martin, and Marmaduke "Freckles" Van Weyden. [Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * In his first published case, the Firebrand fights crooks with a protection racket aimed at window-washers and steeplejacks who murder anyone with a sniper rifle who doesn't agree to pay them. He soon discovers the protection racket is merely used as a front so that a thug working for a diamond smuggler named Baron Von Hanson can take a murdered window-washer's job and case offices where valuable items are kept. Firebrand forces the Baron to donate the stolen jewels to a war relief fund, then flee the country. Firebrand is wrongly assumed by the police to be the head of the protection racket. //Note: Firebrand has been active prior to this case and is believed by police to be a criminal. Slugger Dunn is also referred to as Slugger Shea on another occasion.// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * In his first published case, the Firebrand fights crooks with a protection racket aimed at window-washers and steeplejacks who murder anyone with a sniper rifle who doesn't agree to pay them. He soon discovers the protection racket is merely used as a front so that a thug working for a diamond smuggler named Baron Von Hanson can take a murdered window-washer's job and case offices where valuable items are kept. Firebrand forces the Baron to donate the stolen jewels to a war relief fund, then flee the country. Firebrand is wrongly assumed by the police to be the head of the protection racket. //Note: Firebrand has been active prior to this case and is believed by police to be a criminal. Slugger Dunn is also referred to as Slugger Shea on another occasion.// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2 at Wake Island, Red Torpedo battles and captures Black Shark again, who uses a powerful <em>Bat Plane</em> while working alongside Japanese soldiers. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2 at Wake Island, Red Torpedo battles and captures Black Shark again, who uses a powerful <em>Bat Plane</em> while working alongside Japanese soldiers. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * Test pilot [[Tex "Spitfire" Adams]] begins adventures in his Spitfire. [Crack Comics #15] | * Test pilot [[Tex "Spitfire" Adams]] begins adventures in his Spitfire. [Crack Comics #15] |
| * Neon the Unknown finds mines placed in New York Harbor that destroy war supplies heading to England. He soon discovers and destroys an underwater Nazi base with an arsenal large enough to invade the United States. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #14 (August, 1941)] | * Neon the Unknown finds mines placed in New York Harbor that destroy war supplies heading to England. He soon discovers and destroys an underwater Nazi base with an arsenal large enough to invade the United States. //Note: This is probably the same rebuilt base that the Red Torpedo destroyed one year earlier in Crack Comics #4.// [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #14 (August, 1941)] |
| * An epidemic of blindness plagues factories with defense contracts all over America, and the FBI discovers that all or most of the men hired to replace them are members of the Black Legion, the fifth columnist organization. Uncle Sam also discovers that military personnel are also going blind. Uncle Sam meets with President Roosevelt and the Congress to come up with a plan to fight the Black Legion. Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith find the Pacific Island base used by the Black Legion and discover their plans to make not only all of America's armed forces blind but the entire country in preparation for a massive invasion. Uncle Sam causes all the Black Legion workers to become blind, and the U.S. Army Air Corps brings down all the planes over the Atlantic before they can drop the blindness powder on the country. Then everyone afflicted with blindness is cured by an antidote created by a team of government doctors. The Black Legion in America is rounded up and arrested, and President Roosevelt publicly thanks Uncle Sam. [Uncle Sam, National Comics #14 (August, 1941)] | * An epidemic of blindness plagues factories with defense contracts all over America, and the FBI discovers that all or most of the men hired to replace them are members of the Black Legion, the fifth columnist organization. Uncle Sam also discovers that military personnel are also going blind. Uncle Sam meets with President Roosevelt and the Congress to come up with a plan to fight the Black Legion. Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith find the Pacific Island base used by the Black Legion and discover their plans to make not only all of America's armed forces blind but the entire country in preparation for a massive invasion. Uncle Sam causes all the Black Legion workers to become blind, and the U.S. Army Air Corps brings down all the planes over the Atlantic before they can drop the blindness powder on the country. Then everyone afflicted with blindness is cured by an antidote created by a team of government doctors. The Black Legion in America is rounded up and arrested, and President Roosevelt publicly thanks Uncle Sam. [Uncle Sam, National Comics #14 (August, 1941)] |
| * Paul Bunyan leaves the North Woods and begins traveling throughout the Western United States, briefly getting a job as a cowhand at a ranch in the Colorado foothills before moving on to other adventures. [Paul Bunyan, National Comics #14 (August, 1941)] | * Paul Bunyan leaves the North Woods and begins traveling throughout the Western United States, briefly getting a job as a cowhand at a ranch in the Colorado foothills before moving on to other adventures. [Paul Bunyan, National Comics #14 (August, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Red Torpedo invades the Black Shark's island stronghold and retrieves his stolen craft, which he flies to a secret island. [The Red Torpedo Vs. the Black Shark, Crack Comics #17 (October, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Red Torpedo invades the Black Shark's island stronghold and retrieves his stolen craft, which he flies to a secret island. [The Red Torpedo Vs. the Black Shark, Crack Comics #17 (October, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * [["Chop-Chop"]] (Weng Chan, a.k.a. Liu Huang, a.k.a. Wu Cheng) joins the Blackhawks, first as a cook and later as a pilot. [Military Comics #3] | * [["Chop-Chop"]] (Weng Chan, a.k.a. Liu Huang, a.k.a. Wu Cheng) joins the Blackhawks, first as a cook and later as a pilot. [Military Comics #3] |
| * Justin Wright becomes **[[Just 'N' Right]]** and has a single case. [Doll Man #1] | * Justin Wright becomes **[[Just 'N' Right]]** and has a **single case**. [Doll Man #1] |
| * The Spider battles an invasion of the Green Horde, green-skinned monster men from beneath the earth in Manhattan, armed with green rays and a green gas that causes many people to become paralyzed. Defeated by the horde, the Spider is brought to the underground world to meet the leader, who claims that his brain controls his men and that he can blow up every surface city at the touch of a button. The Spider overcomes the leader and chokes him to death, causing all the invaders to collapse and die, and he reverses the paralyzing green gas. //Note: After this story, the Spider is switched over to Earth-2.// [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #17 (October, 1941)] | * The Spider battles an invasion of the Green Horde, green-skinned monster men from beneath the earth in Manhattan, armed with green rays and a green gas that causes many people to become paralyzed. Defeated by the horde, the Spider is brought to the underground world to meet the leader, who claims that his brain controls his men and that he can blow up every surface city at the touch of a button. The Spider overcomes the leader and chokes him to death, causing all the invaders to collapse and die, and he reverses the paralyzing green gas. //Note: After this story, the Spider is switched over to Earth-2.// [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #17 (October, 1941)] |
| * Doll Man and Dr. Roberts foil a Nazi fifth columnist plan to ship faulty aluminum ore to aircraft manufacturers. [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #49 (October, 1941)] | * Doll Man and Dr. Roberts foil a Nazi fifth columnist plan to ship faulty aluminum ore to aircraft manufacturers. [The Doll Man, Feature Comics #49 (October, 1941)] |
| * Firebrand uncovers a plot to swindle poor Oklahoma farmers out of their land, which holds large pockets of oil beneath them, all to supply the Axis with millions of barrels of oil. [The Firebrand, Police Comics #3 (October, 1941)] | * Firebrand uncovers a plot to swindle poor Oklahoma farmers out of their land, which holds large pockets of oil beneath them, all to supply the Axis with millions of barrels of oil. [The Firebrand, Police Comics #3 (October, 1941)] |
| * 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. //Note: After this story, Sandra Knight begins wearing a green domino mask whenever she becomes Phantom Lady, in order to disguise herself a bit more now that she is better known; this is, of course, a retcon from All-Star Squadron, which pictured her first in a green mask and then in green-tinted goggles.// [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #3 (October, 1941)] | * 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. //Note: After this story, Sandra Knight begins wearing a green domino mask whenever she becomes Phantom Lady, in order to disguise herself a bit more now that she is better known; this is, of course, a retcon from All-Star Squadron, which pictured her first in a green mask and then in green-tinted goggles.// [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #3 (October, 1941)] |
| * Doll Man battles a winged super-villain called the Vulture, alias a man named Aylmer who owes money to the mob and goes on a theft spree in New York City, and later strikes dead his father, a pet show owner. Doll Man saves Martha Roberts, who is targeted by the Vulture when she wears a valuable diamond, but the villain escapes. //Note: Although they were shown to be engaged as early as the Doll Man's origin story, this story implies that Darrel and Martha are merely dating, and that he hasn't yet popped the question.// ["The Vulture," Doll Man Quarterly #1 (Autumn, 1941)] | |
| * Darrel Dane is briefly framed for murder by a couple of confidence men with a fake oil field, and even Martha Roberts and Dr. Roberts think he's guilty, until Doll Man clears his name. ["Black Gold," Doll Man Quarterly #1 (Autumn, 1941)] | * Darrel Dane is briefly framed for murder by a couple of confidence men with a fake oil field, and even Martha Roberts and Dr. Roberts think he's guilty, until Doll Man clears his name. ["Black Gold," Doll Man Quarterly #1 (Autumn, 1941)] |
| * Darrel Dane battles a costumed thief called the Black Gondolier. //Note: Martha Roberts is again referred to as Darrel Dane's fiancée in this story.// ["The Black Gondolier," Doll Man Quarterly #1 (Autumn, 1941)] | * Darrel Dane battles a costumed thief called the Black Gondolier. //Note: Martha Roberts is again referred to as Darrel Dane's fiancée in this story.// ["The Black Gondolier," Doll Man Quarterly #1 (Autumn, 1941)] |
| * June 9: Wildfire saves the town of Pleasantville from the Fire Cult and its leader the Fire-Devil, masked men who set the town ablaze in an effort to extort $50,000. [Wildfire, Smash Comics # (October, 1941)] | * June 9: Wildfire saves the town of Pleasantville from the Fire Cult and its leader the Fire-Devil, masked men who set the town ablaze in an effort to extort $50,000. [Wildfire, Smash Comics # (October, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">June 5-10: On Earth-2, the Black Condor again battles Jaspar Crow, who forces a harsh new tax bill for American Indians to go through, causing strife. The Black Condor learns that Nazi agents have provided arms to the Indians and incited them to violence, and he stops the riots, exposes the German agents, and defeats the tax bill. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #17 (October, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">June 5-10: On Earth-2, the Black Condor again battles Jaspar Crow, who forces a harsh new tax bill for American Indians to go through, causing strife. The Black Condor learns that Nazi agents have provided arms to the Indians and incited them to violence, and he stops the riots, exposes the German agents, and defeats the tax bill. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #17 (October, 1941)]</span></html> |
| | * June 9-10: Doll Man battles a winged super-villain called [[Vulture (Aylmer)|the Vulture]], who uses a compact energy machine to fly, guiding his flight with mechanical wings. The Vulture is a short man named Aylmer who owes money to the mob and goes on a theft spree in New York City, and later strikes dead his father, a pet shop owner. Doll Man saves Martha Roberts, who is kidnapped by the Vulture when she wears the valuable Ronker Diamond, but the villain escapes. //Note: Although they were shown to be engaged as early as the Doll Man's origin story, this story implies that Darrel and Martha are merely dating, and that he hasn't yet popped the question.// ["The Vulture," Doll Man Quarterly #1 (Autumn, 1941)] |
| * June 22: German troops successfully smash into the Soviet Union. //Note: In Earth-X history, the Nazis were able to largely defeat the Soviet Union before the United States became involved in the war. Because the war on the Eastern Front was much less difficult, the Germans were able to better defend the Western Front.// ["Uncle Sam Wants You," All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)] | * June 22: German troops successfully smash into the Soviet Union. //Note: In Earth-X history, the Nazis were able to largely defeat the Soviet Union before the United States became involved in the war. Because the war on the Eastern Front was much less difficult, the Germans were able to better defend the Western Front.// ["Uncle Sam Wants You," All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)] |
| * June 22: While battling Nazi spies on Earth-2, Uncle Sam suddenly has an urge to create a vortex that allows him to return from Earth-2 to Earth-X. There, he learns that the Nazis have been more successful in their war plans on Earth-X, and that there are no powerful masked mystery-men to defend freedom. //Note: Uncle Sam is unaware at this time due to a Nazi occult spell that he is from Earth-X, and he either does not remember the handful of mystery-men that still exist on Earth-X, or does not take them seriously since they have no powers.// ["Uncle Sam Wants You," All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)] | * June 22: While battling Nazi spies on Earth-2, Uncle Sam suddenly has an urge to create a vortex that allows him to return from Earth-2 to Earth-X. There, he learns that the Nazis have been more successful in their war plans on Earth-X, and that there are no powerful masked mystery-men to defend freedom. //Note: Uncle Sam is unaware at this time due to a Nazi occult spell that he is from Earth-X, and he either does not remember the handful of mystery-men that still exist on Earth-X, or does not take them seriously since they have no powers.// ["Uncle Sam Wants You," All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)] |
| * 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. //Note: Don Borden sees Phantom Lady face to face and does not recognize her as Sandra Knight, indicating she has already begun using a green mask, even though it's not pictured in this story. Phantom Lady is switched over to Earth-2 after this story.// [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #4 (November, 1941)] | * 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. //Note: Don Borden sees Phantom Lady face to face and does not recognize her as Sandra Knight, indicating she has already begun using a green mask, even though it's not pictured in this story. Phantom Lady is switched over to Earth-2 after this story.// [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #4 (November, 1941)] |
| * Roy Lincoln discovers a liquid that, upon exposure to his explosive hands, becomes charged with deadly explosive power like nitro-glycerine. Later, as he and his fiancée Jean Caldwell take a plane to Havana, Cuba, to meet her parents, Roy spots a German U-boat approaching a tanker. Becoming the Human Bomb, he leaps out of the plane and destroys the torpedoes the U-boat fires on the tanker, then disables the U-boat, allowing the tanker to tow it to Havana where the crew are taken prisoner. //Note: After this story, the Human Bomb is switched over to Earth-2.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #4 (November, 1941)] | * Roy Lincoln discovers a liquid that, upon exposure to his explosive hands, becomes charged with deadly explosive power like nitro-glycerine. Later, as he and his fiancée Jean Caldwell take a plane to Havana, Cuba, to meet her parents, Roy spots a German U-boat approaching a tanker. Becoming the Human Bomb, he leaps out of the plane and destroys the torpedoes the U-boat fires on the tanker, then disables the U-boat, allowing the tanker to tow it to Havana where the crew are taken prisoner. //Note: After this story, the Human Bomb is switched over to Earth-2.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #4 (November, 1941)] |
| | * Darrel Dane (Doll Man), Martha Roberts, and Dr. Roberts travel to Java, where they learn about plans for a secret Axis sneak attack at the U.S. military base in Manila, Philippines, from Dr. Roberts' disgraced old friend Grimm. After Grimm is murdered to silence him, Doll Man stops the attack from occurring, and despite his past traitorous actions Grimm is honored as a hero. //Note: After this story, Doll Man, Martha Roberts, and Dr. Roberts are switched over to Earth-2.// [Doll Man, Feature Comics #50 (November, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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. <em>Note: The Black Shark escapes custody again after this story.</em> [The Red Torpedo and the Black Shark, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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. <em>Note: The Black Shark escapes custody again after this story.</em> [The Red Torpedo and the Black Shark, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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. <em>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.</em> [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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. <em>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.</em> [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * July 8: Miss America foils a gang of fifth columnists when they try to forcefully recruit a young German-born American Hugo Wolsak. [Miss America, Military Comics #2 (September, 1941)] | * July 8: Miss America foils a gang of fifth columnists when they try to forcefully recruit a young German-born American Hugo Wolsak. [Miss America, Military Comics #2 (September, 1941)] |
| * July 9: Midnight and Gabby the talking monkey battle a group of criminals armed with a liquefying ray, who use it to loot Big City while causing destruction. [Midnight, Smash Comics #28 (November, 1941)] | * July 9: Midnight and Gabby the talking monkey battle a group of criminals armed with a liquefying ray, who use it to loot Big City while causing destruction. [Midnight, Smash Comics #28 (November, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">July 9: On Earth-2, after training for several months, Madam Brawn and her Crime School for Delinquent Girls take over the protection racket in New York City currently run by Lefty Goon. Plastic Man, having gone undercover as Eel O'Brian to join Lefty's mob, prevents Madam Brawn's girls from being killed in a tank attack, but ends up warning them enough to wipe out Lefty's entire gang when they attack. Plastic Man lets Madam Brawn and her girls go after warning them to leave the city, but Madam Brawn vows to take her revenge. //Note: "Windy City" is most likely referring to New York City rather than Chicago, since Plastic Man's Earth-2 cases all take place in New York City, and New York City's Columbus Circle is pictured on the splash page of this story.// ["Crime School for Delinquent Girls," Police Comics #4 (November, 1941); Plastic Man, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">July 9: On Earth-2, after training for several months, Madam Brawn and her Crime School for Delinquent Girls take over the protection racket in New York City currently run by Lefty Goon. Plastic Man, having gone undercover as Eel O'Brian to join Lefty's mob, prevents Madam Brawn's girls from being killed in a tank attack, but ends up warning them enough to wipe out Lefty's entire gang when they attack. Plastic Man lets Madam Brawn and her girls go after warning them to leave the city, but Madam Brawn vows to take her revenge. <em>Note: "Windy City" is most likely referring to New York City rather than Chicago, since Plastic Man's Earth-2 cases all take place in New York City, and New York City's Columbus Circle is pictured on the splash page of this story.</em> ["Crime School for Delinquent Girls," Police Comics #4 (November, 1941); Plastic Man, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</span></html> |
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| === August, 1941 === | === August, 1941 === |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, the Red Torpedo again battles the Black Shark, who makes a deal with the Nazi high command to destroy the Red Torpedo, and manages to capture him using a device that causes the South Seas waters to freeze into icebergs around the Torpedo's craft. The Black Shark throws the Red Torpedo into a volcano on his island stronghold, but the Torpedo escapes, finds a supply of dynamite, and throws it into the volcano in order to destroy the base. The Red Torpedo then captures the Black Shark upon his return to the island, delivering him into the custody of the British Navy. [The Red Torpedo Vs. the Black Shark, Crack Comics #19 (December, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, the Red Torpedo again battles the Black Shark, who makes a deal with the Nazi high command to destroy the Red Torpedo, and manages to capture him using a device that causes the South Seas waters to freeze into icebergs around the Torpedo's craft. The Black Shark throws the Red Torpedo into a volcano on his island stronghold, but the Torpedo escapes, finds a supply of dynamite, and throws it into the volcano in order to destroy the base. The Red Torpedo then captures the Black Shark upon his return to the island, delivering him into the custody of the British Navy. [The Red Torpedo Vs. the Black Shark, Crack Comics #19 (December, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Rick Raleigh meets Valerie Ransome, who helps him take down a gang of crooks as the Red Bee. Rick and Valerie begin dating, and Valerie quickly becomes pregnant. [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #19 (January, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Rick Raleigh meets Valerie Ransome, who helps him take down a gang of crooks as the Red Bee. Rick and Valerie begin dating, and Valerie quickly becomes pregnant. [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #19 (January, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, while on a case in Texas, the Ray's kid sidekick Jackie "Bud" Budsworth suddenly remembers that Happy Terrill is the Ray. [The Ray, Smash Comics #29 (December, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, while on a case in Texas, the Ray's kid sidekick Jackie "Bud" Budworth suddenly remembers that Happy Terrill is the Ray. [The Ray, Smash Comics #29 (December, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, a mad scientist invents a machine that allows solid objects to pass through steel walls, using it to derail and rob a subway train (causing many deaths) and then a bank vault with the help of his gang. After they capture rookie patrolman, Chuck Lane, he becomes the Jester and captures them all, stopping their crime spree. [The Jester, Smash Comics #29 (December, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, a mad scientist invents a machine that allows solid objects to pass through steel walls, using it to derail and rob a subway train (causing many deaths) and then a bank vault with the help of his gang. After they capture rookie patrolman, Chuck Lane, he becomes the Jester and captures them all, stopping their crime spree. [The Jester, Smash Comics #29 (December, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Phantom Lady exposes Captain Ortega of Parador as a Nazi spy and stops him before he can sink a U.S. Navy ship. <em>Note: As of this story, Sandra Knight and Don Borden seem to merely be dating, instead of being engaged as in earlier stories, indicating that Phantom Lady is now on Earth-2.</em> [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Phantom Lady exposes Captain Ortega of Parador as a Nazi spy and stops him before he can sink a U.S. Navy ship. <em>Note: As of this story, Sandra Knight and Don Borden seem to merely be dating, instead of being engaged as in earlier stories, indicating that Phantom Lady is now on Earth-2.</em> [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * August 6-7: The U.S. Naval base on Guam Island is bombed by Japanese bombers, while Japanese warships shell Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. At a special meeting of Congress, Uncle Sam warns Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, not to leave the Eastern Seaboard unguarded in order to protect the West Coast. Suspecting a trick, Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith travel to Maine, where they soon discover that a fleet of German ships are about to invade America through New England. Uncle Sam calls Stimson for reinforcements, but only a few fighters can engage the enemy air force providing cover for the fleet. Portland, Maine, is raided by bombers, while German soldiers parachute into Boston, Massachusetts. Uncle Sam and Buddy use shrewd tactics, including setting fire to oil atop the water, to stop the invasion in its tracks and finally force the Germans to surrender. [Uncle Sam, National Comics #18 (December, 1941)] | * August 6-7: The U.S. Naval base on Guam Island is bombed by Japanese bombers, while Japanese warships shell Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. At a special meeting of Congress, Uncle Sam warns Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, not to leave the Eastern Seaboard unguarded in order to protect the West Coast. Suspecting a trick, Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith travel to Maine, where they soon discover that a fleet of German ships are about to invade America through New England. Uncle Sam calls Stimson for reinforcements, but only a few fighters can engage the enemy air force providing cover for the fleet. Portland, Maine, is raided by bombers, while German soldiers parachute into Boston, Massachusetts. Uncle Sam and Buddy use shrewd tactics, including setting fire to oil atop the water, to stop the invasion in its tracks and finally force the Germans to surrender. [Uncle Sam, National Comics #18 (December, 1941)] |
| * August 7: Midnight once more battles Chango the Magician, who briefly hypnotizes Gabby to work for him, and temporarily turns Midnight into a small dog, before escaping once more. ["The Return of Chango," Smash Comics #29 (December, 1941)] | * August 7: Midnight once more battles Chango the Magician, who briefly hypnotizes Gabby to work for him, and temporarily turns Midnight into a small dog, before escaping once more. ["The Return of Chango," Smash Comics #29 (December, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 7: On Earth-2, Plastic Man once again fights Madam Brawn and her girl gang when they rob the ocean liner //Argo//, but after they knock him out with an explosive, they mold his features into that of Eel O'Brian and intoxicate him with marijuana, causing him to go on a public shooting spree as the Eel before coming to his senses. During their final confrontation, Madam Brawn is killed when she falls onto a spike on the docks, and Plastic Man reveals that he is really Eel O'Brian before she dies. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 7: On Earth-2, Plastic Man once again fights Madam Brawn and her girl gang when they rob the ocean liner <em>Argo</em>, but after they knock him out with an explosive, they mold his features into that of Eel O'Brian and intoxicate him with marijuana, causing him to go on a public shooting spree as the Eel before coming to his senses. During their final confrontation, Madam Brawn is killed when she falls onto a spike on the docks, and Plastic Man reveals that he is really Eel O'Brian before she dies. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 7-8: On Earth-2, the Invisible Hood discovers that a solid stone fortress called the Fortress of Doom, built by King Damba on a Caribbean island, is serving as a German base to attack passing British ships. Fighting a German agent known only as the Baron, the Invisible Hood escapes from the Fortress of Doom moments before British bombers destroy it. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #29 (December, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 7-8: On Earth-2, the Invisible Hood discovers that a solid stone fortress called the Fortress of Doom, built by King Damba on a Caribbean island, is serving as a German base to attack passing British ships. Fighting a German agent known only as the Baron, the Invisible Hood escapes from the Fortress of Doom moments before British bombers destroy it. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #29 (December, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 7-9: On Earth-2, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders a complete halt to all foreign assistance, including war relief, and dismantles all U.S. Army encampments. Investigating, the Black Condor discovers that the president has been replaced by a German-controlled double while First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is on vacation. After Wendy Foster is kidnapped, the Black Condor tracks her down and rescues the real President Roosevelt, then takes over a German warship off the coast preparing for an invasion and uses its radio to relay the president's message to revert all his changes. The Black Condor then delivers the warship, along with the captured Nazis, and returns both President Roosevelt and Wendy to America. Tom Wright receives the Congressional Medal of Honor since his first investigation revealed that the president had been kidnapped. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #19 (December, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 7-9: On Earth-2, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders a complete halt to all foreign assistance, including war relief, and dismantles all U.S. Army encampments. Investigating, the Black Condor discovers that the president has been replaced by a German-controlled double while First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is on vacation. After Wendy Foster is kidnapped, the Black Condor tracks her down and rescues the real President Roosevelt, then takes over a German warship off the coast preparing for an invasion and uses its radio to relay the president's message to revert all his changes. The Black Condor then delivers the warship, along with the captured Nazis, and returns both President Roosevelt and Wendy to America. Tom Wright receives the Congressional Medal of Honor since his first investigation revealed that the president had been kidnapped. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #19 (December, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * After the ghost of Simon Bolivar appeals to the ghost of George Washington for help, Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to put an end to the anti-American sentiments there that are secretly financed by the Nazis to create divisions in the Americas. They soon uncover and defeat a Nazi plot using tribes from the Amazon jungle to destroy the coastal defenses of Brazil, with the help of a group of patriotic Brazilians. //Note: This story indicates that Buddy Smith is Uncle Sam's actual nephew.// [Uncle Sam, National Comics #20 (February, 1942)] | * After the ghost of Simon Bolivar appeals to the ghost of George Washington for help, Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to put an end to the anti-American sentiments there that are secretly financed by the Nazis to create divisions in the Americas. They soon uncover and defeat a Nazi plot using tribes from the Amazon jungle to destroy the coastal defenses of Brazil, with the help of a group of patriotic Brazilians. //Note: This story indicates that Buddy Smith is Uncle Sam's actual nephew.// [Uncle Sam, National Comics #20 (February, 1942)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 2-4: On Earth-2, after Senator Tom Wright is framed for selling secrets to the press, the Black Condor learns that Jaspar Crow has placed hidden microphones in every committee room in the Senate. Meanwhile, Tom's fiancée Wendy Foster overhears Jaspar Crow making a deal with Nazi Germany to sell them transcripts of all the Senate committee meetings. After the Black Condor saves Wendy, Crow falls from a plane while escaping but manages to survive. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 2-4: On Earth-2, after Senator Tom Wright is framed for selling secrets to the press, the Black Condor learns that Jaspar Crow has placed hidden microphones in every committee room in the Senate. Meanwhile, Tom's fiancée Wendy Foster overhears Jaspar Crow making a deal with Nazi Germany to sell them transcripts of all the Senate committee meetings. After the Black Condor saves Wendy, Crow falls from a plane while escaping but manages to survive. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 1-5: On Earth-2, Plastic Man attempts to infiltrate the United Crooks of America organization as Eel O'Brian after committing a major fur robbery. Days later, he is voted in as a member and initiated through hazing. After Eel joins two other members on a job stealing the Swagger gem collection, Plastic Man captures the crooks, then delivers the rest of the organization to the police. //Note: Thanks to this major case, in an untold tale shortly after this story Plastic Man is invited to join the FBI, working under the direction of Chief Branner of Earth-2, since he is already an FBI member by December 6, 1941, as seen in All-Star Squadron. Plastic Man becomes President Roosevelt's FBI liaison as well.// ["United Crooks of America," Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 1-5: On Earth-2, Plastic Man attempts to infiltrate the United Crooks of America organization as Eel O'Brian after committing a major fur robbery. Days later, he is voted in as a member and initiated through hazing. After Eel joins two other members on a job stealing the Swagger gem collection, Plastic Man captures the crooks, then delivers the rest of the organization to the police. <em>Note: Thanks to this major case, in an untold tale shortly after this story Plastic Man is invited to join the FBI, working under the direction of Chief Branner of Earth-2, since he is already an FBI member by December 6, 1941, as seen in All-Star Squadron. Plastic Man becomes President Roosevelt's FBI liaison as well.</em> ["United Crooks of America," Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * October 5: Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith encounter the great violinist Malvolo, whose hands were crushed in a train wreck and replaced with the cursed hands of a killer, causing him to become deranged, and giving him the ability to command a horde of fierce apes. ["The Fiddler of Death," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] | * October 5: Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith encounter the great violinist Malvolo, whose hands were crushed in a train wreck and replaced with the cursed hands of a killer, causing him to become deranged, and giving him the ability to command a horde of fierce apes. ["The Fiddler of Death," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 9: On Earth-2, the Spider chases after the Crow after he breaks out of prison, but the Crow steals his amazing car, the <em>Black Widow</em>. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 9: On Earth-2, the Spider chases after the Crow after he breaks out of prison, but the Crow steals his amazing car, the <em>Black Widow</em>. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * December 7: The same vortex that transports Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters to Earth-X also transports Midnight and Doll Man, who independently track Uncle Sam down to Rex Tyler's lab and decide to jump into the vortex when they see the others disappearing into it. The two also end up on Earth-X, only across the world in German-Occupied Paris, France. There, Midnight and Doll Man save the lives of two French Resistance fighters (a blonde named Simone and an unnamed male) and are soon introduced to the head of the local Resistance. They fight with the French Resistance for the next two months. [All-Star Squadron #32] | * December 7: The same vortex that transports Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters to Earth-X also transports Midnight and Doll Man, who independently track Uncle Sam down to Rex Tyler's lab and decide to jump into the vortex when they see the others disappearing into it. The two also end up on Earth-X, only across the world in German-Occupied Paris, France. There, Midnight and Doll Man save the lives of two French Resistance fighters (a blonde named Simone and an unnamed male) and are soon introduced to the head of the local Resistance. They fight with the French Resistance for the next two months. [All-Star Squadron #32] |
| * Hourman is found unconscious by the Japanese, who keep him a prisoner for the next two months, trying to discover the secret of his tremendous strength. [All-Star Squadron #35] | * Hourman is found unconscious by the Japanese, who keep him a prisoner for the next two months, trying to discover the secret of his tremendous strength. [All-Star Squadron #35] |
| * 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] | |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">December 7-8: On Earth-2, Ensign Rod Reilly and Seaman Slugger Dunn of the U.S. Navy are caught in the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Both men are injured, while Rod falls into a coma and is later forced to retire as [[Firebrand (Earth-2|Firebrand]]. Rod's sister Danette Reilly, a geologist, meets the Shining Knight and is nearly killed when she is struck by a bolt of power from the evil wizard Wotan and knocked into a man-made volcano, which later causes her to develop flame-powers. ["The World on Fire," All-Star Squadron #1 (September, 1981)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">December 7-8: On Earth-2, Ensign Rod Reilly and Seaman Slugger Dunn of the U.S. Navy are caught in the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Both men are injured, while Rod falls into a coma and is later forced to retire as [[Firebrand (Earth-2|Firebrand]]. Rod's sister Danette Reilly, a geologist, meets the Shining Knight and is nearly killed when she is struck by a bolt of power from the evil wizard Wotan and knocked into a man-made volcano, which later causes her to develop flame-powers. ["The World on Fire," All-Star Squadron #1 (September, 1981)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">December 6-8: On Earth-2, when President Roosevelt asks his FBI liaison Plastic Man to contact the Justice Society of America, Plastic Man meets Hawkman at the JSA's meeting room, and they discover the JSA members have each been kidnapped by unknown super-villains. Plastic Man and Hawkman are attacked by King Bee and his lackeys, who disappear. Plastic Man meets Doctor Mid-Nite, the Atom, Johnny Quick, Liberty Belle, and Robotman, and becomes a charter member of the All-Star Squadron, acting as its FBI liaison under President Roosevelt's direction. The All-Star Squadron then travel to San Francisco, California, swapping secret identities and origin stories along the way, and where they battle and defeat Per Degaton's invading army. Sandra Knight and her father Senator Henry Knight are in San Francisco on a fact-finding trip when the city is attacked by Per Degaton's forces. Phantom Lady meets the fledgling All-Star Squadron and becomes one of its charter members. <em>Note: After this story, Phantom Lady replaces her handheld blackout ray with a wrist-mounted ray, and her green domino mask with green-tinted goggles allowing her to see in black-light. More importantly, Phantom Lady figures out a way to somehow internalize the black-light and make herself invisible, indicating she may have a super-power that the black-light brings out. Plastic Man displays changes into several new shapes in this story. </em> ["The World on Fire," All-Star Squadron #1 (September, 1981); "The Tyrant Out of Time," All-Star Squadron #2 (October, 1981); "The Dooms of Dark December," All-Star Squadron #3 (November, 1981); "Day of the Dragon King," All-Star Squadron #4 (December, 1981)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">December 6-8: On Earth-2, when President Roosevelt asks his FBI liaison Plastic Man to contact the Justice Society of America, Plastic Man meets Hawkman at the JSA's meeting room, and they discover the JSA members have each been kidnapped by unknown super-villains. Plastic Man and Hawkman are attacked by King Bee and his lackeys, who disappear. Plastic Man meets Doctor Mid-Nite, the Atom, Johnny Quick, Liberty Belle, and Robotman, and becomes a charter member of the All-Star Squadron, acting as its FBI liaison under President Roosevelt's direction. The All-Star Squadron then travel to San Francisco, California, swapping secret identities and origin stories along the way, and where they battle and defeat Per Degaton's invading army. Sandra Knight and her father Senator Henry Knight are in San Francisco on a fact-finding trip when the city is attacked by Per Degaton's forces. Phantom Lady meets the fledgling All-Star Squadron and becomes one of its charter members. <em>Note: After this story, Phantom Lady replaces her handheld blackout ray with a wrist-mounted ray, and her green domino mask with green-tinted goggles allowing her to see in black-light. More importantly, Phantom Lady figures out a way to somehow internalize the black-light and make herself invisible, indicating she may have a super-power that the black-light brings out. Plastic Man displays changes into several new shapes in this story. </em> ["The World on Fire," All-Star Squadron #1 (September, 1981); "The Tyrant Out of Time," All-Star Squadron #2 (October, 1981); "The Dooms of Dark December," All-Star Squadron #3 (November, 1981); "Day of the Dragon King," All-Star Squadron #4 (December, 1981)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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 </span></html>[[Firebrand (Danette Reilly)|Firebrand II]]<html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">, she joins the All-Star Squadron. ["Never Step on a Feathered Serpent," All-Star Squadron #5 (January, 1982)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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 </span></html>[[Firebrand (Danette Reilly)|Firebrand II]]<html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">, she joins the All-Star Squadron. ["Never Step on a Feathered Serpent," All-Star Squadron #5 (January, 1982)]</span></html> |
| | * 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] |
| | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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. <em>Note: Martha is active as Doll Girl for the next two months, but retires as Doll Girl when Doll Man returns from Earth-X.</em> ["<a href="https://5earths.info/earth-2/allstarsquadron-tp1942-01/">All-Star Squadron: Times Past, 1942: Gender Gasp</a>"]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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)]</span></html> |
| * 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)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 1: On Earth-2, the Spider battles a Japanese spymaster known as the </span></html>[[Yellow Scorpion]],<html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);"> who leads a group of Japanese saboteurs, but escapes. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 1: On Earth-2, the Spider battles a Japanese spymaster known as the </span></html>[[Yellow Scorpion]],<html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);"> who leads a group of Japanese saboteurs, but escapes. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Phantom Lady and Black Condor team up against a crooked politician. ["<a href="http://www.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>"]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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>"]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">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)]</span></html> |
| * 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)] |
| === May, 1942 === | === May, 1942 === |
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| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Rick Raleigh, Jr., son of Richard Raleigh (the Red Bee) and Valerie Ransome, is born. Although he never knew his father, he grew up under his father's shadow and eventually grew embittered against other mystery-men who overshadowed the Red Bee.</span></html> ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/worldsfinest-e2-tp1959-01/|World's Finest: Superman and Batman: Times Past, 1959: 'Tis the Season for Death]]"] | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Rick Raleigh, Jr., son of Richard Raleigh (the Red Bee) and Valerie Ransome, is born. Although he never knew his father, he grew up under his father's shadow and eventually grew embittered against other mystery-men who overshadowed the Red Bee.</span></html> ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/worldsfinest-e2-tp1959-01/|World's Finest: Superman and Batman: Times Past, 1959: 'Tis the Season for Death]]"] |
| * King Killer, enemy of Uncle Sam, aligns himself with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. [Uncle Sam Quarterly #3] | * King Killer, enemy of Uncle Sam, aligns himself with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. [Uncle Sam Quarterly #3] |
| * Uncle Sam meets and teams up with John Bull, the Spirit of Great Britain. [Uncle Sam Quarterly #3] | * Uncle Sam meets and teams up with John Bull, the Spirit of Great Britain. [Uncle Sam Quarterly #3] |
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| * The Dragon (Red McGraw) is killed in battle while fighting the Japanese in Occupied China. He leaves behind a wife and son in the United States. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects"] | * The Dragon (Red McGraw) is killed in battle while fighting the Japanese in Occupied China. He leaves behind a wife and son in the United States. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects"] |
| * The White School on the multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline is attacked and bombed by a group of former students turned Nazi mystics from Earth-X, members of the Thule Society who seek to use the Clock Tower to conquer parallel universes and other dimensions. To defend itself, the island disappears into the mystical dimension of Darkworld, causing the Nazi mystics to drown in the ocean. Most of the instructors and students are saved, each returning to his or her world of origin and given partial amnesia about the island and the school. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-s/bravebold-es-mm-ab1987/|The Brave and the Bold: Mary Marvel and Atom Blake: Magic and Demons and Ghouls, Oh My!]]"] | * The White School on the multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline is attacked and bombed by a group of former students turned Nazi mystics from Earth-X, members of the Thule Society who seek to use the Clock Tower to conquer parallel universes and other dimensions. To defend itself, the island disappears into the mystical dimension of Darkworld, causing the Nazi mystics to drown in the ocean. Most of the instructors and students are saved, each returning to his or her world of origin and given partial amnesia about the island and the school. ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-s/bravebold-es-mm-ab1987/|The Brave and the Bold: Mary Marvel and Atom Blake: Magic and Demons and Ghouls, Oh My!]]"] |
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| === January, 1945 === | === January, 1945 === |
| === Unspecified month in 1948 === | === Unspecified month in 1948 === |
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| * The multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline emerges into the physical realm from the Darkworld, appearing as a seemingly new island in the South Pacific simultaneously on Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-S, Earth-X, and Earth-4. Gareth Gallowglass, a 12-year-old psychic prodigy from Earth-1, takes up residence on the island, now called Grim Island, after his fellow Sentinels of Magic of Earth-1 are killed protecting the five Earths from being invaded by Hell. ["[[http://www.5earths.com/earth-1/showcase-e1-sentinelsofmagic-tp1948/|Showcase: The Sentinels of Magic: Times Past, 1948: Sacrifices Must Be Made]]"] | * The multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline emerges into the physical realm from the Darkworld, appearing as a seemingly new island in the South Pacific simultaneously on Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-S, Earth-X, and Earth-4. Gareth Gallowglass, a 12-year-old psychic prodigy from Earth-1, takes up residence on the island, now called Grim Island, after his fellow Sentinels of Magic of Earth-1 are killed protecting the five Earths from being invaded by Hell. ["[[https://5earths.com/earth-1/showcase-e1-sentinelsofmagic-tp1948/|Showcase: The Sentinels of Magic: Times Past, 1948: Sacrifices Must Be Made]]"] |
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| === February, 1948 === | === February, 1948 === |
| === June, 1949 === | === June, 1949 === |
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| * **Quicksilver** disappears after his last case for several years when his full super-speed returns, causing him to accidentally travel through time to the 1830s where he is known as Windrunner, until he manages to travel through time again to the 1890s where he is known as Whip Whirlwind, and then finally reaches 1986, where he is known under his old stage name, Max Mercury. [National Comics #73] | * **Quicksilver** disappears after his last case for several years when his full super-speed returns, causing him to accidentally travel through time to the 1830s where he is known as Windrunner, travels through time again to the 1890s where he is known as Whip Whirlwind, and then to the 1920s where he is known as Lightning, before he then finally reaches 1986, where he uses his old stage name, Max Mercury. [National Comics #73] |
| * June 10: An old Vaudeville impersonator called Mimic the Great, now broke and unable to get a new job in show business, uses his skills in disguise to impersonate Manhunter, framing him for a robbery. Thanks to Thor recognizing the false Manhunter as a fake, the real Manhunter's name is cleared. ["Mimic the Great," Police Comics #93 (August, 1949)] | * June 10: An old Vaudeville impersonator called Mimic the Great, now broke and unable to get a new job in show business, uses his skills in disguise to impersonate Manhunter, framing him for a robbery. Thanks to Thor recognizing the false Manhunter as a fake, the real Manhunter's name is cleared. ["Mimic the Great," Police Comics #93 (August, 1949)] |
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