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| * **Rusty Ryan** forms **[[the Boyville Brigadiers]]**, a team of six patriotic young men in flag-inspired costumes. [Feature Comics #45] | * **Rusty Ryan** forms **[[the Boyville Brigadiers]]**, a team of six patriotic young men in flag-inspired costumes. [Feature Comics #45] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Red Torpedo again battles Black Shark, who is paid by Imperial Japan to kill the Red Torpedo, but he defeats him with the help of an unnamed native girl who warns him of the plan. <em>Note: The Black Shark of Earth-X was previously shown to be a bald man with a goatee, while the Black Shark of Earth-2 is evidently a younger man with a full head of dark hair and a goatee who strongly resembles Black Jack, the enemy of Aquaman; in fact, the timing suggests that the Earth-2 Black Shark becomes known as Black Jack shortly after his last battle with the Red Torpedo and before his first battle with Aquaman later this year. However, the Black Shark seems to be an inventive genius, unlike Black Jack, but it's possible that he simply has an inventor working for him.</em> [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #13 (June, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Red Torpedo again battles Black Shark, who is paid by Imperial Japan to kill the Red Torpedo, but he defeats him with the help of an unnamed native girl who warns him of the plan. //Note: The Black Shark of Earth-X was previously shown to be a bald man with a goatee, while the Black Shark of Earth-2 is evidently a younger man with a full head of dark hair and a goatee who strongly resembles Black Jack, the enemy of Aquaman; in fact, the timing suggests that the Earth-2 Black Shark becomes known as Black Jack shortly after his last battle with the Red Torpedo and before his first battle with Aquaman later this year. However, the Black Shark seems to be an inventive genius, unlike Black Jack, but it's possible that he simply has an inventor working for him.// [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #13 (June, 1941)]</color> |
| * A wave of sabotage sweeps across America, damaging most of the country's arsenals. In Mammoth City, Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith take a stand to prevent the sabotage of Mammoth Arsenal, the destruction of which is intended to be the signal for a German invasion of the United States. [Uncle Sam, National Comics #12 (June, 1941)] | * A wave of sabotage sweeps across America, damaging most of the country's arsenals. In Mammoth City, Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith take a stand to prevent the sabotage of Mammoth Arsenal, the destruction of which is intended to be the signal for a German invasion of the United States. [Uncle Sam, National Comics #12 (June, 1941)] |
| * The Invisible Hood battles the Crystal Queen and Caglio the magician, who steal the ancient Blue Crystal and use its strange powers to kill people with the Blue Death and fire destructive blasts. But the Crystal Queen and Caglio end up killing each other after arguing over control of the Blue Crystal, and the object is apparently lost in an explosion of her fortress, which the Invisible Hood alone survives. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #23 (June, 1941)] | * The Invisible Hood battles the Crystal Queen and Caglio the magician, who steal the ancient Blue Crystal and use its strange powers to kill people with the Blue Death and fire destructive blasts. But the Crystal Queen and Caglio end up killing each other after arguing over control of the Blue Crystal, and the object is apparently lost in an explosion of her fortress, which the Invisible Hood alone survives. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #23 (June, 1941)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, after a political crime lord named Grotoff kidnaps and replaces District Attorney Hawkes, the Red Bee frees Hawkes and the other prisoners, bringing down Grotoff's plans to take control of the Eastern Seaboard's leaders. <em>Note: The District Attorney is named Hawkes as of this issue, indicating that the Red Bee is now on Earth-2, where he is now based not in Superior City, but possibly Queens, NY.</em> [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #12 (June, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, after a political crime lord named Grotoff kidnaps and replaces District Attorney Hawkes, the Red Bee frees Hawkes and the other prisoners, bringing down Grotoff's plans to take control of the Eastern Seaboard's leaders. //Note: The District Attorney is named Hawkes as of this issue, indicating that the Red Bee is now on Earth-2, where he is now based not in Superior City, but possibly Queens, NY.// [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #12 (June, 1941)]</color> |
| * 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)] |
| * When the great physicist Dr. Albert Einstein is the latest in a string of scientist kidnappings, Neon the Unknown tracks him down and discovers that the scientists have all been abducted by a renegade scientist named Dr. Marko. Working in a remote location on a river island near the Grand Canyon, the scientist are forced to create new gases and war materials to be sold to Germany and Japan. Neon puts a stop to the operation, frees the kidnapped scientists, and arrests Marko and his henchmen, delivering them to the FBI. //Note: In the story, Einstein is called Dr. Enfield, but it is obviously the same man with the same appearance as Einstein.// [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #13 (July, 1941)] | * When the great physicist Dr. Albert Einstein is the latest in a string of scientist kidnappings, Neon the Unknown tracks him down and discovers that the scientists have all been abducted by a renegade scientist named Dr. Marko. Working in a remote location on a river island near the Grand Canyon, the scientist are forced to create new gases and war materials to be sold to Germany and Japan. Neon puts a stop to the operation, frees the kidnapped scientists, and arrests Marko and his henchmen, delivering them to the FBI. //Note: In the story, Einstein is called Dr. Enfield, but it is obviously the same man with the same appearance as Einstein.// [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #13 (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)] | * 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)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>March 13: On Earth-2, the Ray captures a group of Nazi spies led by a circus performer named Vera. //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.// [The Ray, Smash Comics #24 (July, 1941)]</color> |
| * 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)] | * 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)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * [[Dick Mace]], a young American detective, begins adventures. [Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * [[Dick Mace]], a young American detective, begins adventures. [Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * U.S. Navy Lt. Roy Lincoln of Washington, D.C., a chemist and the son of a famous explosives expert, assists his father to create a new super-explosive called 27-QRX. After German agents kill his father, Roy ingests the explosive capsule to keep it from them, inadvertently gaining invulnerability and the power to cause explosions with his hands, and accidentally destroys the lab, killing the four Nazi agents. Roy creates an invulnerable suit from the same kind of fibro-wax used to house the explosive capsule, which is equipped with an air-lung allowing him to swim underwater, and becomes the mystery-man known as **[[Human Bomb|the Human Bomb]]**. Discovering that the German Consul is behind the murder of his father, he uses his explosive power to kill him. //Note: Roy Lincoln is engaged to be married to Jean Caldwell, a strawberry blonde woman. Roy is a reserve member of the U.S. Navy. The Human Bomb later uses his ability to create explosions from his hands to propel himself through the air with giant leaps.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * U.S. Navy Lt. Roy Lincoln of Washington, D.C., a chemist and the son of a famous explosives expert, assists his father to create a new super-explosive called 27-QRX. After German agents kill his father, Roy ingests the explosive capsule to keep it from them, inadvertently gaining invulnerability and the power to cause explosions with his hands, and accidentally destroys the lab, killing the four Nazi agents. Roy creates an invulnerable suit from the same kind of fibro-wax used to house the explosive capsule, which is equipped with an air-lung allowing him to swim underwater, and becomes the mystery-man known as **[[Human Bomb|the Human Bomb]]**. Discovering that the German Consul is behind the murder of his father, he uses his explosive power to kill him. //Note: Roy Lincoln is engaged to be married to Jean Caldwell, a strawberry blonde woman. Roy is a reserve member of the U.S. Navy. The Human Bomb later uses his ability to create explosions from his hands to propel himself through the air with giant leaps.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2 at Wake Island, Red Torpedo battles and captures Black Shark again, who uses a powerful //Bat Plane// while working alongside Japanese soldiers. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)]</color> |
| * 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. //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)] | * 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)] |
| * June 9: Roy Lincoln is invited to the White House, where President Roosevelt asks him to become the head of a new naval chemical research laboratory in Washington, D.C. There, the Human Bomb discovers that the President has been blackmailed by the threat of a purple mist. The Human Bomb tries to save the President when a group of armed Nazi assassins enter the White House, hidden by the purple mist. The Human Bomb helps navigate the President's limousine through the purple mist outside, which is full of hidden German tanks and war vehicles, until President Roosevelt is safe from the assassination attempt. Then the Human Bomb returns and stops the rest of the Nazi strike force. //Note: Roy Lincoln's fiancée, seen here for the first time, is Jean Caldwell.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #3 (October, 1941)] | * June 9: Roy Lincoln is invited to the White House, where President Roosevelt asks him to become the head of a new naval chemical research laboratory in Washington, D.C. There, the Human Bomb discovers that the President has been blackmailed by the threat of a purple mist. The Human Bomb tries to save the President when a group of armed Nazi assassins enter the White House, hidden by the purple mist. The Human Bomb helps navigate the President's limousine through the purple mist outside, which is full of hidden German tanks and war vehicles, until President Roosevelt is safe from the assassination attempt. Then the Human Bomb returns and stops the rest of the Nazi strike force. //Note: Roy Lincoln's fiancée, seen here for the first time, is Jean Caldwell.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #3 (October, 1941)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>June 9: On Earth-2, the Ray uncovers a Nazi laboratory built below the site of a more recently built U.S. Army base and stops the Nazi agents, who are armed with advanced tanks and an atom-smasher ray. [The Ray, Smash Comics #27 (October, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>June 9: On Earth-2, the Ray uncovers a Nazi laboratory built below the site of a more recently built U.S. Army base and stops the Nazi agents, who are armed with advanced tanks and an atom-smasher ray. [The Ray, Smash Comics #27 (October, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>June 9: On Earth-2, after his scientist friend Dr. Bond is kidnapped on the streets of Metropolis, the Invisible Hood discovers that a mastermind called the [[White Wizard]] has constructed a fantastic underground city below Metropolis and, with the help of three other kidnapped scientists, has been building advanced weaponry in order to seize control of Metropolis. Although the Invisible Hood saves the four scientists, stops the villain, and escapes from the underground city before it explodes, the White Wizard himself escapes by car. <em>Note: The fact that this story is set in the city of Metropolis, home of Superman, indicates that the Invisible Hood is now on Earth-2.</em> [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #27 (October, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>June 9: On Earth-2, after his scientist friend Dr. Bond is kidnapped on the streets of Metropolis, the Invisible Hood discovers that a mastermind called the [[White Wizard]] has constructed a fantastic underground city below Metropolis and, with the help of three other kidnapped scientists, has been building advanced weaponry in order to seize control of Metropolis. Although the Invisible Hood saves the four scientists, stops the villain, and escapes from the underground city before it explodes, the White Wizard himself escapes by car. //Note: The fact that this story is set in the city of Metropolis, home of Superman, indicates that the Invisible Hood is now on Earth-2.// [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #27 (October, 1941)]</color> |
| * 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)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * 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)] | * 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)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Red Torpedo prevents the Black Shark from seizing a sunken treasure found in a wreck off Cocos Isle. The Black Shark briefly turns against the Japanese after they break a bargain with him, then offers to capture the Red Torpedo but is instead captured by him along with a Japanese admiral. <em>Note: The Black Shark escapes custody again after this story.</em> [The Red Torpedo and the Black Shark, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Red Torpedo prevents the Black Shark from seizing a sunken treasure found in a wreck off Cocos Isle. The Black Shark briefly turns against the Japanese after they break a bargain with him, then offers to capture the Red Torpedo but is instead captured by him along with a Japanese admiral. //Note: The Black Shark escapes custody again after this story.// [The Red Torpedo and the Black Shark, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Spider battles and captures the Crow, a homicidal maniac with a genius-level mind and the most feared man of the underworld. <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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Spider battles and captures the Crow, a homicidal maniac with a genius-level mind and the most feared man of the underworld. //Note: The Spider decides to take over the Crow's criminal operations at this time, ostensibly to turn them toward something good, but this has a corrupting effect on the Spider.// [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #18 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, <strong>Neon the Unknown</strong> has his last solo adventure as he discovers a giant gun cannon operated by the Germans on an island in the Caribbean that has been accurately shelling vital facilities in the U.S. Destroying the giant gun, Neon delivers the Nazis directly to the U.S. Army at Washington, D.C. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #17 (November, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, <strong>Neon the Unknown</strong> has his last solo adventure as he discovers a giant gun cannon operated by the Germans on an island in the Caribbean that has been accurately shelling vital facilities in the U.S. Destroying the giant gun, Neon delivers the Nazis directly to the U.S. Army at Washington, D.C. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #17 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Invisible Hood travels to the Pacific coast to investigate a so-called "invisible raider" that lurks in the clouds and has destroyed several coastal defense factories. After witnessing several planes emerge from the clouds to kidnap two U.S. Navy planes, the Invisible Hood follows them into a huge Zeppelin dirigible containing an armada of German planes. Discovering that kidnapped defense chief Roy Mason is kept prisoner there, the Invisible Hood rescues him and the papers he was carrying to Washington, then fights his way out and destroys the Zeppelin. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #28 (November, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Invisible Hood travels to the Pacific coast to investigate a so-called "invisible raider" that lurks in the clouds and has destroyed several coastal defense factories. After witnessing several planes emerge from the clouds to kidnap two U.S. Navy planes, the Invisible Hood follows them into a huge Zeppelin dirigible containing an armada of German planes. Discovering that kidnapped defense chief Roy Mason is kept prisoner there, the Invisible Hood rescues him and the papers he was carrying to Washington, then fights his way out and destroys the Zeppelin. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #28 (November, 1941)]</color> |
| * 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)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
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| === August, 1941 === | === August, 1941 === |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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. //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.// [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</color> |
| * A wave of sabotage hits the Eastern Seaboard, destroying the Sampson Powder Plant with explosives, and trapping hundreds of people in flooded subway tubes. The Nazi saboteurs frame the Firebrand by leaving his signature torch outside a bombed powerhouse. After he discovers that the saboteurs have kept his friends the Drakes prisoner in their own beachfront home and used it as their base, the Firebrand captures the saboteurs for the police, though he is still thought to be their leader. [The Firebrand, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)] | * A wave of sabotage hits the Eastern Seaboard, destroying the Sampson Powder Plant with explosives, and trapping hundreds of people in flooded subway tubes. The Nazi saboteurs frame the Firebrand by leaving his signature torch outside a bombed powerhouse. After he discovers that the saboteurs have kept his friends the Drakes prisoner in their own beachfront home and used it as their base, the Firebrand captures the saboteurs for the police, though he is still thought to be their leader. [The Firebrand, Police Comics #5 (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 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)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>August 16: On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln accompanies his fiancée Jean Adams to a diplomat's ball in Washington, D.C. There they witness the murder of Colonel Stanford, an important figure in the diplomatic service. Trailing the killers as the Human Bomb, he discovers that the real Stanford is still alive and being kept a prisoner by a ring of Nazi spies in order to learn his secrets, while the man who was killed was an impostor meant to make everyone think Stanford was dead rather than kidnapped. The Human Bomb rescues Stanford and calls in the police to round up the espionage ring. <em>Note: The name of Roy Lincoln's fiancée is now Jean Adams, not Jean Caldwell, indicating that he is now on Earth-2.</em> [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>August 16: On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln accompanies his fiancée Jean Adams to a diplomat's ball in Washington, D.C. There they witness the murder of Colonel Stanford, an important figure in the diplomatic service. Trailing the killers as the Human Bomb, he discovers that the real Stanford is still alive and being kept a prisoner by a ring of Nazi spies in order to learn his secrets, while the man who was killed was an impostor meant to make everyone think Stanford was dead rather than kidnapped. The Human Bomb rescues Stanford and calls in the police to round up the espionage ring. //Note: The name of Roy Lincoln's fiancée is now Jean Adams, not Jean Caldwell, indicating that he is now on Earth-2.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</color> |
| * Buddy Smith invents the Bumble-Boat, a type of submersible craft, and Uncle Sam helps him build the first prototype. After testing it for the U.S. Navy, Uncle Sam and Buddy use the Bumble-Boat to evade new submersible German battleships invented by a disgruntled American inventor whose ideas had earlier been ridiculed by the Navy. Thanks to their ability to go underwater, the German battleships evade the Navy fleet and nearly launch an invasion of the Atlantic Coast, before Uncle Sam and Buddy use the Bumble-Boat to torpedo the battleships, weakening them before the Navy can finally destroy them. Thanks to their success, the Navy buys Buddy's plans and soon builds a small fleet of Bumble-Boats. //Note: This story takes place in late August, about a week before school starts.// ["Raiders of the Deep," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] | * Buddy Smith invents the Bumble-Boat, a type of submersible craft, and Uncle Sam helps him build the first prototype. After testing it for the U.S. Navy, Uncle Sam and Buddy use the Bumble-Boat to evade new submersible German battleships invented by a disgruntled American inventor whose ideas had earlier been ridiculed by the Navy. Thanks to their ability to go underwater, the German battleships evade the Navy fleet and nearly launch an invasion of the Atlantic Coast, before Uncle Sam and Buddy use the Bumble-Boat to torpedo the battleships, weakening them before the Navy can finally destroy them. Thanks to their success, the Navy buys Buddy's plans and soon builds a small fleet of Bumble-Boats. //Note: This story takes place in late August, about a week before school starts.// ["Raiders of the Deep," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] |
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| * When King Killer escapes from prison, President Roosevelt asks Uncle Sam to capture him, but King Killer provides a distraction from his escape by creating a fake gold rush at Ghost City, where he calls himself Rellik ("Killer" backwards). Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith trail King Killer to Ghost City, where Uncle Sam confronts him, and King Killer seemingly dies in a mine explosion. ["The Return of King Killer," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] | * When King Killer escapes from prison, President Roosevelt asks Uncle Sam to capture him, but King Killer provides a distraction from his escape by creating a fake gold rush at Ghost City, where he calls himself Rellik ("Killer" backwards). Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith trail King Killer to Ghost City, where Uncle Sam confronts him, and King Killer seemingly dies in a mine explosion. ["The Return of King Killer," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln is warned by the Black Vanguards to be out of his laboratory by 10 P.M. But when his fiancée Jean Adams arrives unexpectedly just before that time, the Human Bomb tries takes her out of the building before it begins to collapse from a man-made earthquake, and the Black Vanguards, black-clad Nazi agents equipped with flame-guns, arrive in force. The Human Bomb rescues Jean and finds a giant vibrator beneath the laboratory responsible for the earthquake, then traps the Black Vanguards in a vault until the police arrive. [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #6 (January, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln is warned by the Black Vanguards to be out of his laboratory by 10 P.M. But when his fiancée Jean Adams arrives unexpectedly just before that time, the Human Bomb tries takes her out of the building before it begins to collapse from a man-made earthquake, and the Black Vanguards, black-clad Nazi agents equipped with flame-guns, arrive in force. The Human Bomb rescues Jean and finds a giant vibrator beneath the laboratory responsible for the earthquake, then traps the Black Vanguards in a vault until the police arrive. [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #6 (January, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, a judge paroles Tough Tony, a juvenile member of a gang of tire thieves, into rookie patrolman Chuck Lane's custody at Chuck's request. That night, Tony discovers that Chuck is the Jester and promises not to tell his secret. When the Jester encounters the gang of tire thieves, the leader Dagger Joe assumes wrongly that Tony ratted on him, and Tony decides to help the Jester when the crooks use underhanded methods to fight the mystery-man, such as ganging up on him and slugging him from behind. <em>Note: This story takes place a year earlier than when it was told, placing it around September, 1941, when the Jester was still on Earth-2. By September, 1942, Tony is no longer known as "Tough Tony" and has fully reformed.</em> [The Jester, Smash Comics #37 (November, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, a judge paroles Tough Tony, a juvenile member of a gang of tire thieves, into rookie patrolman Chuck Lane's custody at Chuck's request. That night, Tony discovers that Chuck is the Jester and promises not to tell his secret. When the Jester encounters the gang of tire thieves, the leader Dagger Joe assumes wrongly that Tony ratted on him, and Tony decides to help the Jester when the crooks use underhanded methods to fight the mystery-man, such as ganging up on him and slugging him from behind. //Note: This story takes place a year earlier than when it was told, placing it around September, 1941, when the Jester was still on Earth-2. By September, 1942, Tony is no longer known as "Tough Tony" and has fully reformed.// [The Jester, Smash Comics #37 (November, 1942)]</color> |
| * Rod Reilly's fiancee Joan Rogers, a volunteer nurse at the Red Cross, discovers that the foreign Dr. Kruger has poisoned an emergency blood reserve at City Hospital with paralysis culture. After preventing the contaminated blood from infecting soldiers at Camp Roberts, the Firebrand saves Joan and Slugger Dunn from Kruger and his accomplices, and Kruger is shot by a hospital guard. [The Firebrand, Police Comics #6 (January, 1942)] | * Rod Reilly's fiancee Joan Rogers, a volunteer nurse at the Red Cross, discovers that the foreign Dr. Kruger has poisoned an emergency blood reserve at City Hospital with paralysis culture. After preventing the contaminated blood from infecting soldiers at Camp Roberts, the Firebrand saves Joan and Slugger Dunn from Kruger and his accomplices, and Kruger is shot by a hospital guard. [The Firebrand, Police Comics #6 (January, 1942)] |
| * September 5: Passing through the Southwest, Wildfire stops a gang of saboteurs armed with freeze guns and saves several oil fields from being set afire. [Wildfire, Smash Comics #30 (January, 1942)] | * September 5: Passing through the Southwest, Wildfire stops a gang of saboteurs armed with freeze guns and saves several oil fields from being set afire. [Wildfire, Smash Comics #30 (January, 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)] | * 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)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * 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)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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 //Black Widow//. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</color> |
| * October 10: Reserve officers Rod Reilly and Slugger Dunn report for duty in the U.S. Navy as an ensign and a seaman, respectively, assigned to the Destroyer //Russell//, currently performing Atlantic convoy patrol duties. When his ship is attacked by German U-boats, Rod becomes the Firebrand and commandeers one of the U-boats, then sails to a German submarine base and disguises himself as a German officer in order to access the base. Fighting their way through, Rod and Slugger steal a bomber and bomb the base before returning to the American air base, which has been taken over by Nazi spies. Rod and Slugger recapture the base and imprison the spies. //Note: According to All-Star Squadron #1, Rod Reilly is assigned to the U.S.S. Arizona at the U.S. Naval base in Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, contradicting this story and thus indicating that both Earth-X and Earth-2 have nearly identical Firebrands but with some differences; the Earth-2 Firebrand has a sister named Danette, for example, is based in the Pacific on the U.S.S. Arizona, and is injured during the attack on Pearl Harbor, while the Earth-X Firebrand is an only child, is based in the Atlantic on the U.S.S. Russell, and sustains no injuries forcing him to retire from crime-fighting, as proven by the Firebrand story in Police Comics #9, which takes place on December 31, 1941, and features an able-bodied Rod Reilly as Firebrand -- a story that cannot take place on Earth-2. The date of October 10, 1941, comes from All-Star Squadron #5// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)] | * October 10: Reserve officers Rod Reilly and Slugger Dunn report for duty in the U.S. Navy as an ensign and a seaman, respectively, assigned to the Destroyer //Russell//, currently performing Atlantic convoy patrol duties. When his ship is attacked by German U-boats, Rod becomes the Firebrand and commandeers one of the U-boats, then sails to a German submarine base and disguises himself as a German officer in order to access the base. Fighting their way through, Rod and Slugger steal a bomber and bomb the base before returning to the American air base, which has been taken over by Nazi spies. Rod and Slugger recapture the base and imprison the spies. //Note: According to All-Star Squadron #1, Rod Reilly is assigned to the U.S.S. Arizona at the U.S. Naval base in Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, contradicting this story and thus indicating that both Earth-X and Earth-2 have nearly identical Firebrands but with some differences; the Earth-2 Firebrand has a sister named Danette, for example, is based in the Pacific on the U.S.S. Arizona, and is injured during the attack on Pearl Harbor, while the Earth-X Firebrand is an only child, is based in the Atlantic on the U.S.S. Russell, and sustains no injuries forcing him to retire from crime-fighting, as proven by the Firebrand story in Police Comics #9, which takes place on December 31, 1941, and features an able-bodied Rod Reilly as Firebrand -- a story that cannot take place on Earth-2. The date of October 10, 1941, comes from All-Star Squadron #5// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)] |
| * October 11-12: Joan Dale quits the //Daily Star// and joins the FBI as a secretary working for Tim Healy, though she uses her reporting experience to investigate as if she was an FBI agent. As Miss America she creates a patriotically themed costume for herself; prior to this she used her powers in plainclothes. Miss America foils a plot by Ramon and his dance band working for a Nazi agent named Romboli to coordinate the bombing of Camp Bragg by robot-controlled planes, which is her first true public appearance. //Note: Secret Origins v2 #26 places this story on October 11, 1941, and adds a blue domino mask to her costume. After this story, Miss America is switched over to Earth-2.// [Miss America, Military Comics #4 (November, 1941); "The Secret Origin of Miss America," Secret Origins v2 #26 (May, 1988)] | * October 11-12: Joan Dale quits the //Daily Star// and joins the FBI as a secretary working for Tim Healy, though she uses her reporting experience to investigate as if she was an FBI agent. As Miss America she creates a patriotically themed costume for herself; prior to this she used her powers in plainclothes. Miss America foils a plot by Ramon and his dance band working for a Nazi agent named Romboli to coordinate the bombing of Camp Bragg by robot-controlled planes, which is her first true public appearance. //Note: Secret Origins v2 #26 places this story on October 11, 1941, and adds a blue domino mask to her costume. After this story, Miss America is switched over to Earth-2.// [Miss America, Military Comics #4 (November, 1941); "The Secret Origin of Miss America," Secret Origins v2 #26 (May, 1988)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>October 28: On Earth-2, Dr. Foster and Wendy Foster invent Foster Food Pills, a new food concentrate filled with vitamins to send to war-torn countries. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #22 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>October 28: On Earth-2, Dr. Foster and Wendy Foster invent Foster Food Pills, a new food concentrate filled with vitamins to send to war-torn countries. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #22 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>October 30: On Earth-2, three weeks after the Crow stole the <em>Black Widow</em> the Spider figures out where the Crow is now operating from and recaptures him, reclaiming the <em>Black Widow</em>. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>October 30: On Earth-2, three weeks after the Crow stole the //Black Widow// the Spider figures out where the Crow is now operating from and recaptures him, reclaiming the //Black Widow//. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>October 31: On Earth-2, Miss America stops a plot by fifth columnists to use a submarine based below a supposedly haunted house on the New England coast to bomb an ocean liner. [Miss America, Military Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>October 31: On Earth-2, Miss America stops a plot by fifth columnists to use a submarine based below a supposedly haunted house on the New England coast to bomb an ocean liner. [Miss America, Military Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>October 31: On Earth-2, Phantom Lady captures a group of Nazi spies after Sir Edward Hendville is murdered at the English Embassy during a war-relief masquerade. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>October 31: On Earth-2, Phantom Lady captures a group of Nazi spies after Sir Edward Hendville is murdered at the English Embassy during a war-relief masquerade. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Happy Terrill and Bud remain in the Near East while on assignment. After fellow reporter Sue Saunders reads a scroll revealing the location of the Isle of Darkness in the Aegean Sea, the Ray battles a group of Nazis and Syrians seeking a prophetic scroll, which is destroyed by fire before the full prophecy can be read. The ancient Greek man, having guarded the scroll of the prophet Hippotius without fail for centuries, follow it into the fire, killing himself. [The Ray, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Happy Terrill and Bud remain in the Near East while on assignment. After fellow reporter Sue Saunders reads a scroll revealing the location of the Isle of Darkness in the Aegean Sea, the Ray battles a group of Nazis and Syrians seeking a prophetic scroll, which is destroyed by fire before the full prophecy can be read. The ancient Greek man, having guarded the scroll of the prophet Hippotius without fail for centuries, follow it into the fire, killing himself. [The Ray, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Jester stops a series of brutal murders when he discovers that the killer, Sacoris, is procuring corpses for Dr. Reinhart, a famous doctor from Vienna, who ships the bodies to Germany with plans sewn inside them. The Jester captures Sacoris and his gang of Nazi spies. [The Jester, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Jester stops a series of brutal murders when he discovers that the killer, Sacoris, is procuring corpses for Dr. Reinhart, a famous doctor from Vienna, who ships the bodies to Germany with plans sewn inside them. The Jester captures Sacoris and his gang of Nazi spies. [The Jester, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Sandra Knight, Senator Henry Knight, and Don Borden visit Havana, Cuba, where Phantom Lady and Don round up a group of Nazis planning to take over the island nation in a coup. <em>Note: Phantom Lady modifies her costume somewhat after this story, replacing the one-piece yellow top with a split-piece top showing cleavage, as seen in All-Star Squadron #2, which also features the green domino mask she must have been wearing for a few months already.</em> [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, Sandra Knight, Senator Henry Knight, and Don Borden visit Havana, Cuba, where Phantom Lady and Don round up a group of Nazis planning to take over the island nation in a coup. //Note: Phantom Lady modifies her costume somewhat after this story, replacing the one-piece yellow top with a split-piece top showing cleavage, as seen in All-Star Squadron #2, which also features the green domino mask she must have been wearing for a few months already.// [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, after Ensign Rod Reilly and Seaman Slugger Dunn take leave from the <em>U.S.S. Arizona</em> at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Rod saves a Navy admiral as the Firebrand from a gang of Axis spies seeking information for the Japanese. <em>Note: This is the only Firebrand story which takes place only on Earth-2 and has no equivalent on Earth-X. Rod Reilly's ship is erroneously stated to be the U.S.S. Tonsalita, but we know from All-Star Squadron #1 that his ship is really the U.S.S. Arizona.</em> [The Firebrand, Police Comics #12 (October, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, after Ensign Rod Reilly and Seaman Slugger Dunn take leave from the //U.S.S. Arizona// at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Rod saves a Navy admiral as the Firebrand from a gang of Axis spies seeking information for the Japanese. //Note: This is the only Firebrand story which takes place only on Earth-2 and has no equivalent on Earth-X. Rod Reilly's ship is erroneously stated to be the U.S.S. Tonsalita, but we know from All-Star Squadron #1 that his ship is really the U.S.S. Arizona.// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #12 (October, 1942)]</color> |
| * **Madam Fatal's** last case, retires. [Crack Comics #22] | * **Madam Fatal's** last case, retires. [Crack Comics #22] |
| * Red McGraw becomes known as the [[Dragon]]. [Doll Man #2] | * Red McGraw becomes known as the [[Dragon]]. [Doll Man #2] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Invisible Hood has his last solo case battling saboteurs at a steel plant used for national defense. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the Invisible Hood has his last solo case battling saboteurs at a steel plant used for national defense. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>November 4: On Earth-2, Tom Hallaway is made the sole heir of his old friend and fellow big-game hunter, Arthur Henderson, who tells Tom he knows he is the Spider and fears for the life of his adopted daughter if she inherits his fortune. After Henderson is killed by a sniper, Henderson's adopted daughter has her policeman boyfriend try to arrest Tom for the murder. As the Spider he tracks down the real killer, Henderson's half-brother who is now the Henderson family lawyer. Tom confronts Henderson's half-brother and tricks him into confessing that he murdered Henderson. After the half-brother is arrested, Tom ensures that Henderson's adopted daughter receives her rightful inheritance. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #22 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>November 4: On Earth-2, Tom Hallaway is made the sole heir of his old friend and fellow big-game hunter, Arthur Henderson, who tells Tom he knows he is the Spider and fears for the life of his adopted daughter if she inherits his fortune. After Henderson is killed by a sniper, Henderson's adopted daughter has her policeman boyfriend try to arrest Tom for the murder. As the Spider he tracks down the real killer, Henderson's half-brother who is now the Henderson family lawyer. Tom confronts Henderson's half-brother and tricks him into confessing that he murdered Henderson. After the half-brother is arrested, Tom ensures that Henderson's adopted daughter receives her rightful inheritance. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #22 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>November 4-5: On Earth-2, after a spate of disastrous weather hits the Midwest, as well as several defense supply areas, Dr. Foster plans to share his food concentrate formula with the chemists of America to help with relief, but before he can do so a robed figure steals it from him at gunpoint. Deducing that the Great Lakes area will be next, the Black Condor visits Detroit just as an unnatural tidal wave rises from Lake Erie. The Black Condor disables a passing plane responsible for the weather changes, and within the plane Jaspar Crow reports to Adolf Hitler himself about his failure, and he is angered when Hitler refuses to pay him for the food concentrate formula. As the Black Condor enters the plane, Crow offers to join forces with him against Hitler for holding out on him, telling him the formula is in a U-boat on its way to Germany. The Black Condor finds the U-boat and takes the formula from its captain, then returns to Crow and is double-crossed as expected. Crow escapes by parachute before the Black Condor can deliver the captured plane to the U.S. Army. Later, the Foster Food Pills are delivered to the stricken areas. <em>Note: Foster Food Pills, in modified form, are later delivered to resistance fighters in Occupied Europe by the Justice Society of America, as seen in All-Star Comics #14.</em> [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #22 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>November 4-5: On Earth-2, after a spate of disastrous weather hits the Midwest, as well as several defense supply areas, Dr. Foster plans to share his food concentrate formula with the chemists of America to help with relief, but before he can do so a robed figure steals it from him at gunpoint. Deducing that the Great Lakes area will be next, the Black Condor visits Detroit just as an unnatural tidal wave rises from Lake Erie. The Black Condor disables a passing plane responsible for the weather changes, and within the plane Jaspar Crow reports to Adolf Hitler himself about his failure, and he is angered when Hitler refuses to pay him for the food concentrate formula. As the Black Condor enters the plane, Crow offers to join forces with him against Hitler for holding out on him, telling him the formula is in a U-boat on its way to Germany. The Black Condor finds the U-boat and takes the formula from its captain, then returns to Crow and is double-crossed as expected. Crow escapes by parachute before the Black Condor can deliver the captured plane to the U.S. Army. Later, the Foster Food Pills are delivered to the stricken areas. //Note: Foster Food Pills, in modified form, are later delivered to resistance fighters in Occupied Europe by the Justice Society of America, as seen in All-Star Comics #14.// [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #22 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>November 15: On Earth-2, after Prof. McSneer uses his gigantic Eight Ball (ten stories high with 15-foot-thick walls) to loot and destroy Denver, Colorado, Plastic Man prevents it from doing damage to Kansas City and captures McSneer. <em>Note: The Eight Ball is similar to the later War Wheel encountered a few times by the Blackhawks. Plastic Man shape-changes into a giant snake in this story.</em> ["Eight Ball," Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>November 15: On Earth-2, after Prof. McSneer uses his gigantic Eight Ball (ten stories high with 15-foot-thick walls) to loot and destroy Denver, Colorado, Plastic Man prevents it from doing damage to Kansas City and captures McSneer. //Note: The Eight Ball is similar to the later War Wheel encountered a few times by the Blackhawks. Plastic Man shape-changes into a giant snake in this story.// ["Eight Ball," Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * November 24-26: Despite receiving the highest marks in college, Dan Richards graduates at the bottom of his class at Empire City's Police Academy, thanks to being distracted by his work on a private crime laboratory, to the great disappointment of his girlfriend [[Kit Kelly]]. During their first patrol the next day, Dan covers the beat of his Kit's brother Jim Kelly along his own when Jim walks off with crooked politician Al Armand. When Armand tries to pay Jim to kill a crook named Johnny Cosentino while in the line of duty, Cosentino instead murders Armand and frames Jim, and Dan arrives on the scene. Jim is charged with murder, while Dan is suspended until the case can be investigated. Consulting his crime laboratory, Dan looks up Cosentino's usual haunts and prepares to confront him while masked and in costume as **[[Manhunter (Dan Richards)|Manhunter]]**. At midnight, Manhunter and his dog [[Thor (dog)|Thor]] the Thunder Dog track down Cosentino and his gang and terrorize Cosentino into confessing to the murder as well as his other recent crimes, then deliver him to Police Headquarters where he repeats his confession to the chief of police. Thor is trained to keep away from Dan Richards while he's in his civilian garb, only appearing when Dan has become Manhunter, and often only after Manhunter uses a supersonic whistle to call him. //Note: The origin of Manhunter in Secret Origins v2 #22 places this story in late November, a fortnight (14 days) before Pearl Harbor. In Secret Origins v2 #22, Al Armand is called Jerry Armand, while Jim Kelly is called Jim Kelley, Dan is inspired by the Manhunters of the Earth-1 universe to become Manhunter, and he is given a robotic dog named Thor to be his partner, all of which are untrue for the Earth-X Manhunter. Dan Richards' full name is Donald Daniel Richards, but he prefers to go by Dan. After this story, Manhunter is switched over to Earth-2. Manhunter apparently operates in Empire City on Earth-X (which may actually be New York City), but during his very brief stay on Earth-2 he operates specifically in New York City. Manhunter goes through quite a few costume changes after his initial appearance, wearing a different variation of his costume nearly each time he appears for a few months until he settles on a final version; although Manhunter is often depicted with no mask in his early cases, Manhunter always wore a mask while in costume.// [Manhunter, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942); "No Man Escapes the Manhunters, Chapter III: Dan Richards, Manhunter," Secret Origins v2 #22 (January, 1988)] | * November 24-26: Despite receiving the highest marks in college, Dan Richards graduates at the bottom of his class at Empire City's Police Academy, thanks to being distracted by his work on a private crime laboratory, to the great disappointment of his girlfriend [[Kit Kelly]]. During their first patrol the next day, Dan covers the beat of his Kit's brother Jim Kelly along his own when Jim walks off with crooked politician Al Armand. When Armand tries to pay Jim to kill a crook named Johnny Cosentino while in the line of duty, Cosentino instead murders Armand and frames Jim, and Dan arrives on the scene. Jim is charged with murder, while Dan is suspended until the case can be investigated. Consulting his crime laboratory, Dan looks up Cosentino's usual haunts and prepares to confront him while masked and in costume as **[[Manhunter (Dan Richards)|Manhunter]]**. At midnight, Manhunter and his dog [[Thor (dog)|Thor]] the Thunder Dog track down Cosentino and his gang and terrorize Cosentino into confessing to the murder as well as his other recent crimes, then deliver him to Police Headquarters where he repeats his confession to the chief of police. Thor is trained to keep away from Dan Richards while he's in his civilian garb, only appearing when Dan has become Manhunter, and often only after Manhunter uses a supersonic whistle to call him. //Note: The origin of Manhunter in Secret Origins v2 #22 places this story in late November, a fortnight (14 days) before Pearl Harbor. In Secret Origins v2 #22, Al Armand is called Jerry Armand, while Jim Kelly is called Jim Kelley, Dan is inspired by the Manhunters of the Earth-1 universe to become Manhunter, and he is given a robotic dog named Thor to be his partner, all of which are untrue for the Earth-X Manhunter. Dan Richards' full name is Donald Daniel Richards, but he prefers to go by Dan. After this story, Manhunter is switched over to Earth-2. Manhunter apparently operates in Empire City on Earth-X (which may actually be New York City), but during his very brief stay on Earth-2 he operates specifically in New York City. Manhunter goes through quite a few costume changes after his initial appearance, wearing a different variation of his costume nearly each time he appears for a few months until he settles on a final version; although Manhunter is often depicted with no mask in his early cases, Manhunter always wore a mask while in costume.// [Manhunter, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942); "No Man Escapes the Manhunters, Chapter III: Dan Richards, Manhunter," Secret Origins v2 #22 (January, 1988)] |
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| * **Hercules** retires. [Hit Comics #21] | * **Hercules** retires. [Hit Comics #21] |
| * **Jack and Jill Doe's** last case. [National Comics #22] | * **Jack and Jill Doe's** last case. [National Comics #22] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>December 4: On Earth-2, the Human Bomb captures a Human Bomb impostor who ransacked the FBI offices in order to grab evidence proving that a publisher named Henry Vogelman is the head of a Nazi propaganda and sabotage ring. <em>Note: There's snow on the ground, indicating it is either winter or as close to winter as possible.</em> [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>December 4: On Earth-2, the Human Bomb captures a Human Bomb impostor who ransacked the FBI offices in order to grab evidence proving that a publisher named Henry Vogelman is the head of a Nazi propaganda and sabotage ring. //Note: There's snow on the ground, indicating it is either winter or as close to winter as possible.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</color> |
| * December 7: On Earth-2, Uncle Sam, having recruited the Red Torpedo, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown, and the Invisible Hood, finally travels to Rex Tyler's lab and recruits Hourman, who names their team **[[Freedom Fighters|the Freedom Fighters]]**. Bringing the team back to Earth-X over the Pacific Ocean some miles west of Hawaii, Uncle Sam and his Freedom Fighters successfully battle a squadron of Japanese Zeros. Miss America uses her matter-creating powers to create out of thin air the Red Torpedo's flying submarine, upon which the team is resting when one Zero divebombs the team and crashes into the submarine, disintegrating the submarine and apparently killing the whole team, although in fact each member survives. The Japanese, meanwhile, call off the Pearl Harbor attack, figuring the chances of a surprise attack are now slim. The U.S. does not enter the war at this time. //Note: This occurs sometime after Hourman takes a leave of absence from the Justice Society of America on Earth-2, which occurs on June 28, 1941, as shown in All-Star Squadron Annual #3. Although there is a reference to Uncle Sam visiting Hourman in the summer, he actually visits him on the morning of December 7, a date which is confirmed later in the same issue.// [All-Star Squadron #31-32] | * December 7: On Earth-2, Uncle Sam, having recruited the Red Torpedo, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown, and the Invisible Hood, finally travels to Rex Tyler's lab and recruits Hourman, who names their team **[[Freedom Fighters|the Freedom Fighters]]**. Bringing the team back to Earth-X over the Pacific Ocean some miles west of Hawaii, Uncle Sam and his Freedom Fighters successfully battle a squadron of Japanese Zeros. Miss America uses her matter-creating powers to create out of thin air the Red Torpedo's flying submarine, upon which the team is resting when one Zero divebombs the team and crashes into the submarine, disintegrating the submarine and apparently killing the whole team, although in fact each member survives. The Japanese, meanwhile, call off the Pearl Harbor attack, figuring the chances of a surprise attack are now slim. The U.S. does not enter the war at this time. //Note: This occurs sometime after Hourman takes a leave of absence from the Justice Society of America on Earth-2, which occurs on June 28, 1941, as shown in All-Star Squadron Annual #3. Although there is a reference to Uncle Sam visiting Hourman in the summer, he actually visits him on the morning of December 7, a date which is confirmed later in the same issue.// [All-Star Squadron #31-32] |
| * 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] | * 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] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>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)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>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. //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. // ["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)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>December 9: On Earth-2, Danette Reilly discovers that her brother Rod Reilly was the Firebrand when she reads a letter he'd left her. Donning his costume over a red swimming suit, Danette is shocked to discover that she has gained flame-powers. As </color>[[Firebrand (Danette Reilly)|Firebrand II]]<color /#ECECEC>, she joins the All-Star Squadron. ["Never Step on a Feathered Serpent," All-Star Squadron #5 (January, 1982)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>December 9: On Earth-2, Danette Reilly discovers that her brother Rod Reilly was the Firebrand when she reads a letter he'd left her. Donning his costume over a red swimming suit, Danette is shocked to discover that she has gained flame-powers. As </color>[[Firebrand (Danette Reilly)|Firebrand II]]<color /#ECECEC>, she joins the All-Star Squadron. ["Never Step on a Feathered Serpent," All-Star Squadron #5 (January, 1982)]</color> |
| * Uncle Sam washes up on a beach in Hawaii days later and is found by U.S. soldiers who don't believe his story about preventing an invasion of Pearl Harbor, thinking him crazy. Uncle Sam is incarcerated in a padded cell by the military for the next two months, during which time he realizes that by stopping the attack on Pearl Harbor, America does not join in the war effort, allowing the Axis powers to invade even more of Europe and Asia. Uncle Sam spends much of his time attempting to create a vortex to return to Earth-2. [All-Star Squadron #32] | * Uncle Sam washes up on a beach in Hawaii days later and is found by U.S. soldiers who don't believe his story about preventing an invasion of Pearl Harbor, thinking him crazy. Uncle Sam is incarcerated in a padded cell by the military for the next two months, during which time he realizes that by stopping the attack on Pearl Harbor, America does not join in the war effort, allowing the Axis powers to invade even more of Europe and Asia. Uncle Sam spends much of his time attempting to create a vortex to return to Earth-2. [All-Star Squadron #32] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, after Darrel Dane (Doll Man) has been missing for a few days, Martha Roberts uses Darrel's shrinking formula on herself against her father Dr. Roberts' wishes and becomes <strong>Doll Girl</strong>, fighting crime in Doll Man's place. <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>"]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, after Darrel Dane (Doll Man) has been missing for a few days, Martha Roberts uses Darrel's shrinking formula on herself against her father Dr. Roberts' wishes and becomes <strong>Doll Girl</strong>, fighting crime in Doll Man's place. //Note: Martha is active as Doll Girl for the next two months, but retires as Doll Girl when Doll Man returns from Earth-X.// ["<a href="https://5earths.info/earth-2/allstarsquadron-tp1942-01/">All-Star Squadron: Times Past, 1942: Gender Gasp</a>"]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>December 22: On Earth-2, Plastic Man disguises himself as President Roosevelt after learning that an assassin is trying to kill the real president, and survives the explosion of a lifelike robot resembling British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Plastic Man is reunited with the other members of the All-Star Squadron, and they are all present for the meeting between the real Roosevelt and Churchill. ["Carnage for Christmas," All-Star Squadron #7 (March, 1982)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>December 22: On Earth-2, Plastic Man disguises himself as President Roosevelt after learning that an assassin is trying to kill the real president, and survives the explosion of a lifelike robot resembling British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Plastic Man is reunited with the other members of the All-Star Squadron, and they are all present for the meeting between the real Roosevelt and Churchill. ["Carnage for Christmas," All-Star Squadron #7 (March, 1982)]</color> |
| * December 31-January 1, 1942: After his fiancee Joan Rogers' father is attacked by Nazi spies at a New Year's Eve party, Rod Reilly becomes the Firebrand and retrieves plans for a perfected gun sight stolen from an inventor. //Note: This story proves that the Firebrand of Earth-X is not the same man as the Firebrand of Earth-2, who was too injured at this time to fight crime.// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)] | * December 31-January 1, 1942: After his fiancee Joan Rogers' father is attacked by Nazi spies at a New Year's Eve party, Rod Reilly becomes the Firebrand and retrieves plans for a perfected gun sight stolen from an inventor. //Note: This story proves that the Firebrand of Earth-X is not the same man as the Firebrand of Earth-2, who was too injured at this time to fight crime.// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the <strong>Red Bee</strong> has his last solo case. [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #24 (October, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-2, the <strong>Red Bee</strong> has his last solo case. [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #24 (October, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>December 9: On Earth-2, Rod Reilly discovers that his sister Danette Reilly has become the new Firebrand when she visits him in a military hospital in San Francisco, where he and other injured Pearl Harbor soldiers have been taken. Learning of her growing hatred for the Japanese after the December 7th attack, Rod tells her that a Japanese-American soldier saved his life. ["One Day, During the War," All-Star Squadron #13 (September, 1982)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>December 9: On Earth-2, Rod Reilly discovers that his sister Danette Reilly has become the new Firebrand when she visits him in a military hospital in San Francisco, where he and other injured Pearl Harbor soldiers have been taken. Learning of her growing hatred for the Japanese after the December 7th attack, Rod tells her that a Japanese-American soldier saved his life. ["One Day, During the War," All-Star Squadron #13 (September, 1982)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>January 2: On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln and his fiancée Jean Adams witness Major Linwood of the U.S. Army shot down on the street. After Roy fights off the attackers, Linwood gives the Navy man a message for President Roosevelt, who is on board the <em>USS Tuscaloosa</em>. Roy takes the Navy plane meant for Linwood, and Jean joins him. Once they're three hours out over the Atlantic, their plane is shot down by a German U-boat, and Roy waits until Jean passes out to change into his Human Bomb costume and eject from the plane. Taken prisoner on the U-boat, the Human Bomb effects an escape and takes over the ship, warning the <em>Tuscaloosa</em> about their location so the U.S. Navy can take over. [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>January 2: On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln and his fiancée Jean Adams witness Major Linwood of the U.S. Army shot down on the street. After Roy fights off the attackers, Linwood gives the Navy man a message for President Roosevelt, who is on board the //USS Tuscaloosa//. Roy takes the Navy plane meant for Linwood, and Jean joins him. Once they're three hours out over the Atlantic, their plane is shot down by a German U-boat, and Roy waits until Jean passes out to change into his Human Bomb costume and eject from the plane. Taken prisoner on the U-boat, the Human Bomb effects an escape and takes over the ship, warning the //Tuscaloosa// about their location so the U.S. Navy can take over. [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color> |
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| === February, 1942 === | === February, 1942 === |
| * March 3-5: While covering a battle in the air between American and Japanese planes, Happy Terrill's own plane is shot down, and he and his pilot are taken prisoner by the Japanese. As the Ray, he smashes an enemy squadron, and Japanese Army Headquarters in Tokyo orders that the Ray must be destroyed. Happy is taken to a concentration camp on a small island, and that night he smashes a fleet of torpedo boats as the Ray, who then visits Tokyo and taunts the army officials as he learns that their main fleet is hiding in Saki Bay. In reprisal the Japanese promise to execute 100 American prisoners at dawn. The next morning, Happy is among the prisoners taken to the firing squad, but he stops the bullets as the Ray, then hitches a ride with a U.S. plane after Bud signals him with his ring as it passes overhead. Using the Ray's information, a squadron of American planes bombs the Japanese fleet in Saki Bay, including three battleships, while the Ray protects the bombers from anti-aircraft fire. On their way back to the base, the squadron stops to pick up the prisoners at the concentration camp, including Happy himself. [The Ray, Smash Comics #33 (May, 1942)] | * March 3-5: While covering a battle in the air between American and Japanese planes, Happy Terrill's own plane is shot down, and he and his pilot are taken prisoner by the Japanese. As the Ray, he smashes an enemy squadron, and Japanese Army Headquarters in Tokyo orders that the Ray must be destroyed. Happy is taken to a concentration camp on a small island, and that night he smashes a fleet of torpedo boats as the Ray, who then visits Tokyo and taunts the army officials as he learns that their main fleet is hiding in Saki Bay. In reprisal the Japanese promise to execute 100 American prisoners at dawn. The next morning, Happy is among the prisoners taken to the firing squad, but he stops the bullets as the Ray, then hitches a ride with a U.S. plane after Bud signals him with his ring as it passes overhead. Using the Ray's information, a squadron of American planes bombs the Japanese fleet in Saki Bay, including three battleships, while the Ray protects the bombers from anti-aircraft fire. On their way back to the base, the squadron stops to pick up the prisoners at the concentration camp, including Happy himself. [The Ray, Smash Comics #33 (May, 1942)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>March 6: On Earth-2, Sandra Knight (Phantom Lady) and Jonathan Law (Tarantula) go on a double-date with Rex Tyler (Hourman) and Danette Reilly (Firebrand), to a costume ball with Sandra as Firebrand, Jonathan as Hourman, Rex as Tarantula, and Danette as Phantom Lady. The four mystery-men battle German agents called Night and Fog (Nacht and Nebel), who try to blackmail Danette's father, industrialist "Emerald" Ed Reilly in his office, who effectively collaborated with the Nazis before Pearl Harbor out of his Irish hatred for the English. The All-Stars walk in just as the Nazi super-agents have thrown Ed Reilly out the window, and although Firebrand stops his fall, he dies of his injuries after making her promise to make up for what he's done. Hourman is forced to take a Miraclo pill to save Phantom Lady's life when she's thrown out the window as well. ["Night and Fog," All-Star Squadron #44 (April, 1985)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>March 6: On Earth-2, Sandra Knight (Phantom Lady) and Jonathan Law (Tarantula) go on a double-date with Rex Tyler (Hourman) and Danette Reilly (Firebrand), to a costume ball with Sandra as Firebrand, Jonathan as Hourman, Rex as Tarantula, and Danette as Phantom Lady. The four mystery-men battle German agents called Night and Fog (Nacht and Nebel), who try to blackmail Danette's father, industrialist "Emerald" Ed Reilly in his office, who effectively collaborated with the Nazis before Pearl Harbor out of his Irish hatred for the English. The All-Stars walk in just as the Nazi super-agents have thrown Ed Reilly out the window, and although Firebrand stops his fall, he dies of his injuries after making her promise to make up for what he's done. Hourman is forced to take a Miraclo pill to save Phantom Lady's life when she's thrown out the window as well. ["Night and Fog," All-Star Squadron #44 (April, 1985)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>March 11-13: On Earth-2, after Doc Wackey's atom reviser device (which can transmute matter from one substance into another) is stolen by Nazi agents led by Von Kamp, Midnight stops the Nazi invasion of Iceland with the help of Gabby and Doc. Dr. Mortimer Wackey is honored by President Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. <em>Note: The date is surmised by the shape of the quarter moon in the comic with the phases of the moon in the month of March, 1942, the earliest after Pearl Harbor this story can take place. Midnight's vacuum-gun is being repaired, indicating that it was damaged while he was on Earth-X.</em> ["War Over Iceland," Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>March 11-13: On Earth-2, after Doc Wackey's atom reviser device (which can transmute matter from one substance into another) is stolen by Nazi agents led by Von Kamp, Midnight stops the Nazi invasion of Iceland with the help of Gabby and Doc. Dr. Mortimer Wackey is honored by President Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. //Note: The date is surmised by the shape of the quarter moon in the comic with the phases of the moon in the month of March, 1942, the earliest after Pearl Harbor this story can take place. Midnight's vacuum-gun is being repaired, indicating that it was damaged while he was on Earth-X.// ["War Over Iceland," Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</color> |
| * March 15-16: Black Condor saves the life of a former fifth columnist named Jed Hawks, who warns him about a joint German-Japanese attack on the Panama Canal on March 15th, which is today. While Hawks steals a bomber to go to Panama and the Black Condor flies there himself, a two German aircraft carriers sneak into American waters in the Caribbean Sea and release several bombers that strike the Panama Canal. Meanwhile, Japanese submarines wait for the signal to attack from the Pacific. The Black Condor takes over a German bomber and bombs one of the aircraft carriers, but he is shot down by the Germans. Hawks saves the Black Condor's life in his stolen plane, and then sacrifices his life by dive-bombing the plane and destroying the second aircraft carrier. The Black Condor forces the remaining German planes to attack the waiting Japanese submarines, who are forced to retreat, before surrendering at Randolph Field. //Note: The December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor is also mentioned by Black Condor, who can only have remembered that infamous date from Earth-2, as that attack was prevented on Earth-X by the original Freedom Fighters.// [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)] | * March 15-16: Black Condor saves the life of a former fifth columnist named Jed Hawks, who warns him about a joint German-Japanese attack on the Panama Canal on March 15th, which is today. While Hawks steals a bomber to go to Panama and the Black Condor flies there himself, a two German aircraft carriers sneak into American waters in the Caribbean Sea and release several bombers that strike the Panama Canal. Meanwhile, Japanese submarines wait for the signal to attack from the Pacific. The Black Condor takes over a German bomber and bombs one of the aircraft carriers, but he is shot down by the Germans. Hawks saves the Black Condor's life in his stolen plane, and then sacrifices his life by dive-bombing the plane and destroying the second aircraft carrier. The Black Condor forces the remaining German planes to attack the waiting Japanese submarines, who are forced to retreat, before surrendering at Randolph Field. //Note: The December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor is also mentioned by Black Condor, who can only have remembered that infamous date from Earth-2, as that attack was prevented on Earth-X by the original Freedom Fighters.// [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)] |
| * <color /#ECECEC>March 27: On Earth-2, Midnight, Doc Wackey, and Gabby discover a lost tribe of Africans led by the white Jungle Queen while on vacation in the Florida Everglades, learning they are the descendants of a shipload of would-be slaves who were freed by the first mate (Jungle Queen's great-great-grandfather), who detested slavery and whose family protected the Africans from civilization for over a century. After Midnight demonstrates that slavery was abolished long ago and that African-Americans are integrated into American society, the Jungle Queen returns to her tribe to share the good news. <em>Note: This takes place during a Joe Louis boxing fight, the earliest of which must be his March 27th bout with Abe Simon, which took place after Louis joined the U.S. Army.</em> [Midnight, Smash Comics #33 (May, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>March 27: On Earth-2, Midnight, Doc Wackey, and Gabby discover a lost tribe of Africans led by the white Jungle Queen while on vacation in the Florida Everglades, learning they are the descendants of a shipload of would-be slaves who were freed by the first mate (Jungle Queen's great-great-grandfather), who detested slavery and whose family protected the Africans from civilization for over a century. After Midnight demonstrates that slavery was abolished long ago and that African-Americans are integrated into American society, the Jungle Queen returns to her tribe to share the good news. //Note: This takes place during a Joe Louis boxing fight, the earliest of which must be his March 27th bout with Abe Simon, which took place after Louis joined the U.S. Army.// [Midnight, Smash Comics #33 (May, 1942)]</color> |
| * <color /#ECECEC>March 31: On Earth-2, the Spider has his final encounter with the Yellow Scorpion, who escapes after attempting to destroy a U.S. battleship docked in the harbor. The Spider is shot by U.S. Navy men while diverting two torpedoes strapped to a boat, and recuperates under the care of Doc Horton. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #24 (July, 1942)]</color> | * <color /#ECECEC>March 31: On Earth-2, the Spider has his final encounter with the Yellow Scorpion, who escapes after attempting to destroy a U.S. battleship docked in the harbor. The Spider is shot by U.S. Navy men while diverting two torpedoes strapped to a boat, and recuperates under the care of Doc Horton. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #24 (July, 1942)]</color> |
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| * Francisco Rivera, a South American dictator, flees to the Moon in a rocket ship when his dictatorship is about to be overthrown. The paranoid Rivera sabotages his men's space suits, causing them to die upon reaching the Moon, which he proclaims as his new domain. As he slowly dies of starvation and then oxygen deprivation, Rivera writes down his account in a book that will be found by the First Lunar Expedition of 1952, led by the Spirit. //Note: It is possible that the rocket ship used by Rivera was stolen and was the same one invented by Doc Wackey and Prof Porgy in Smash Comics #35, a month earlier.// [The Outer Space Spirit] | * Francisco Rivera, a South American dictator, flees to the Moon in a rocket ship when his dictatorship is about to be overthrown. The paranoid Rivera sabotages his men's space suits, causing them to die upon reaching the Moon, which he proclaims as his new domain. As he slowly dies of starvation and then oxygen deprivation, Rivera writes down his account in a book that will be found by the First Lunar Expedition of 1952, led by the Spirit. //Note: It is possible that the rocket ship used by Rivera was stolen and was the same one invented by Doc Wackey and Prof Porgy in Smash Comics #35, a month earlier.// [The Outer Space Spirit] |
| * While traveling by train through the Appalachian mountains, Dianne Grayton and Tony Grey's train is derailed by Nazi agents who kidnap Dianne and all the important government officials from the train. As the Raven, Tony follows the truck with the prisoners to a ranch hideout in the woods, where he spots a Nazi assaulting Dianne and fights him, giving Dianne a chance to slip into her Spider Widow disguise. Together the two escape on horseback through the woods and summon the U.S. Army out on maneuvers to follow them back to the hideout, where the army captures the spies and frees the prisoners. [The Spider Widow and the Raven, Feature Comics #61 (October, 1942)] | * While traveling by train through the Appalachian mountains, Dianne Grayton and Tony Grey's train is derailed by Nazi agents who kidnap Dianne and all the important government officials from the train. As the Raven, Tony follows the truck with the prisoners to a ranch hideout in the woods, where he spots a Nazi assaulting Dianne and fights him, giving Dianne a chance to slip into her Spider Widow disguise. Together the two escape on horseback through the woods and summon the U.S. Army out on maneuvers to follow them back to the hideout, where the army captures the spies and frees the prisoners. [The Spider Widow and the Raven, Feature Comics #61 (October, 1942)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">A large Nazi expeditionary force invades the United States, but just as it seemed certain to defeat the U.S. military in battle, it turns back into the sea and returns to Europe.</color> //Note: This invasion, never pictured but only mentioned, is most certainly the basis for an untold Freedom Fighters story.// ["The Death of Midnight," Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] | * <color /#FFFF00>A large Nazi expeditionary force invades the United States, but just as it seemed certain to defeat the U.S. military in battle, it turns back into the sea and returns to Europe.</color> //Note: This invasion, never pictured but only mentioned, is most certainly the basis for an untold Freedom Fighters story.// ["The Death of Midnight," Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)]</color> |
| * When the Jester encounters a gang of criminals shrunken to the size of small dolls, he tracks down the criminal scientist known as the Professor, who uses a formula to briefly shrink the Jester himself. After using the formula on the Professor, the Jester uses the antidote on himself and the whole gang before the police arrive to arrest them. //Note: The shrinking formula is eerily similar to the one invented by Darrel Dane, the Doll Man.// [The Jester, Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] | * When the Jester encounters a gang of criminals shrunken to the size of small dolls, he tracks down the criminal scientist known as the Professor, who uses a formula to briefly shrink the Jester himself. After using the formula on the Professor, the Jester uses the antidote on himself and the whole gang before the police arrive to arrest them. //Note: The shrinking formula is eerily similar to the one invented by Darrel Dane, the Doll Man.// [The Jester, Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] |
| * July 27-August 3: Midnight dies in battle with a criminal named Cyclops Ceylon, and the world mourns one of its greatest crime-fighters. Given the opportunity to pass into Heaven, Midnight instead decides to go to Hell in order to pick a fight with the [[Devil (Earth-X)|Devil]], where he learns that the Devil's wife and boss is a female named [[Satan (Earth-X)|Satan]]. Midnight is captured and tortured in Hell over one week. Then Midnight leads a rebellion of American lost souls and successfully prevent the imminent Nazi invasion of the United States by forcing the Devil to order the Nazis to call it off. Just as Midnight is summoned back to Heaven, where he is told that he was taken ahead of schedule, an unnamed professor who struck a deal with Doc Wackey (a life for a life) begins an arcane ritual that brings Midnight back to life after a week of being dead. Midnight is told he was only unconscious and dreaming over that week. ["The Death of Midnight," Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] | * July 27-August 3: Midnight dies in battle with a criminal named Cyclops Ceylon, and the world mourns one of its greatest crime-fighters. Given the opportunity to pass into Heaven, Midnight instead decides to go to Hell in order to pick a fight with the [[Devil (Earth-X)|Devil]], where he learns that the Devil's wife and boss is a female named [[Satan (Earth-X)|Satan]]. Midnight is captured and tortured in Hell over one week. Then Midnight leads a rebellion of American lost souls and successfully prevent the imminent Nazi invasion of the United States by forcing the Devil to order the Nazis to call it off. Just as Midnight is summoned back to Heaven, where he is told that he was taken ahead of schedule, an unnamed professor who struck a deal with Doc Wackey (a life for a life) begins an arcane ritual that brings Midnight back to life after a week of being dead. Midnight is told he was only unconscious and dreaming over that week. ["The Death of Midnight," Smash Comics #36 (October, 1942)] |