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- | ====== Timeline of Earth-1 (1950s to 1960s) ====== | ||
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- | ==1950== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1950=== | ||
- | *McCarthyism, | ||
- | *Jonathan and Martha Kent discover that their young foster son Tim Tates (Mighto of the planet Ulgar) has been using his super-powers to commit crimes. After tracking him down, they discover he possesses adult intelligence, | ||
- | ===January, 1950=== | ||
- | January 21 | ||
- | : Pete Ross is born in Smallville. | ||
- | January 31 | ||
- | : President Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb. | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | February 19 | ||
- | : Bruce Wayne (Batman) born to Dr. Thomas and Martha Wayne. | ||
- | February 20 | ||
- | : Hal Jordan is born. | ||
- | February 29 | ||
- | : On Krypton, Kal-El is born to Jor-El and Lara. (Kryptonian date: 39 Eorx, 9998) | ||
- | ===March, 1950=== | ||
- | *On Krypton, Jor-El discovers the Phantom Zone and proposes it successfully as a method of " | ||
- | ===June, 1950=== | ||
- | *King Faraday has his first case. [Danger Trail #1] | ||
- | *On Krypton, a young man named Ak-Var steals a revered relic called a Sun-Stone from a museum as a prank, along with his accomplices Vas-Quor, Brenn-Bir, and Kyl-Ibo. After the theft, his accomplices escape, leaving Ak-Var to be captured by the police. Ak-Var is sentenced to 19.5 Kryptonian years (equivalent to 26.9 Earth years) in the Phantom Zone. '' | ||
- | June 18 | ||
- | : Clark Kent's " | ||
- | June 25 | ||
- | : The Korean War begins with the North Korean invasion of South Korea. | ||
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- | ===July, 1950=== | ||
- | July 17 | ||
- | : Lana Lang is born to Prof. Lewis Lang and Sarah Lang (nee Potter). | ||
- | ===August, 1950=== | ||
- | August 17 | ||
- | : Lois Lane is born in Pittsdale to Sam and Ella Lane. | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | November 1 | ||
- | : An assassination attempt on President Truman by Puerto Rican nationalists occurs. | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | December 5 | ||
- | : Reporter Perry White becomes a part-time, entry-level editor at the Daily Planet, beginning a career as an editor that would result in him becoming editor-in-chief of the paper in 1971. Sometime after this, Perry serves as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, working in the army's intelligence staff during part of the Korean War. [" | ||
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- | ==1951== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1951=== | ||
- | *Doctor Mist is called upon to deal with an increasingly powerful Gareth Gallowglass, | ||
- | *Matthew Cable is born. | ||
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- | ===January, 1951=== | ||
- | January 3 | ||
- | : On Krypton, a criminal named Rog-Ar hypnotizes a scientist named Quex-Ul into believing that he had committed Rog-Ar' | ||
- | ===March, 1951=== | ||
- | February 19 | ||
- | : Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for passing secrets to the Soviet Union. | ||
- | ===May, 1951=== | ||
- | *Adam Blake, now 20 years old and in his senior year at university in Midwest City, displays telekinetic abilities to move objects with his mind. Seeking help to know more about himself, he approaches Prof. Emery Zackro, a physicist who surmises that Adam is a mutant born 100,000 years ahead of his time. Following Zackro' | ||
- | ===July, 1951=== | ||
- | *Captain Comet, traveling through space in the Cometeer, visits the diamond-shaped planet Hyperba, where he meets Radea, a 19-year-old woman who is also an evolved mutant many centuries ahead of her people. Together they overthrow the corrupt Chadra, and Radea becomes Hyperba' | ||
- | *The planet Krypton celebrates the beginning of year 10,000 in the Kryptonian calendar. | ||
- | ===August, 1951=== | ||
- | *After the Earth is swiftly transported to the star of Alpha Centauri, four light years away from the Sun, Captain Comet learns that stone men who have lived in the center of the Earth since it was formed are responsible. After he helps the stone men return to their original star system of Alpha Centauri, he returns the Earth to the Solar System. ["When the Earth Was Kidnapped," | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *Dr. Terrence Thirteen, ghost-breaker, | ||
- | September 8 | ||
- | : 49 nations sign the Japanese peace treaty in San Francisco. | ||
- | September 15 | ||
- | : Adrian L. Chase (Vigilante II) is born to attorney Charles Chase and his wife. | ||
- | ===October, 1951=== | ||
- | *A group of aliens led by one named Sandor, traveling by comet, take over Captain Comet' | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | November 12 | ||
- | : Alec Holland (Swamp Thing) is born to Dr. Larry and Alice Holland. | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | *Captain Comet battles the Synthetic Men, five artificial men built by the government from a new substance called neoplasm, who seek to make thousands of duplicates of themselves to conquer the world. He defeats them by turning their bodies into marble, and the Synthetic Men are mounted as statues outside the small town of Calnit. [" | ||
- | December 24 | ||
- | : The color television is introduced in the United States. | ||
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- | ==1952== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1952=== | ||
- | *Selina Kyle, the future Catwoman, is born. | ||
- | *James W. Gordon is promoted to lieutenant for his bravery as a policeman. | ||
- | ===January, 1952=== | ||
- | *The Grimoire Academy of Applied Learning on the multi-dimensional Grimoire Island opens its doors to students from Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-S, Earth-X, and Earth-4. This school is built and founded by the 16-year-old prodigy Gareth Gallowglass (the island' | ||
- | *Captain Comet and Prof. Emery Zackro travel to the world of Thule in the asteroid belt to investigate a distress signal from Dr. Harkovy, a space pioneer who disappeared in 1937. There they discover that Harkovy' | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | February 6 | ||
- | : Upon the death of King George VI, his daughter becomes Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. | ||
- | ===May, 1952=== | ||
- | *Captain Comet meets the Guardians of the Clockwork Universe and their leader Nestro, who tells him that Radea of Hyperba is acting as their champion. Captain Comet rescues Radea on the planet Lukan, where she was sent to stop the Lukans from moving their planet closer to its sun in order to conquer the planets there. ["The Guardians of the Clockwork Universe," | ||
- | *Mikron O' | ||
- | ===June, 1952=== | ||
- | *On the planet Krypton, Daxamite space explorer Lar Gand crash-lands on Krypton and meets Jor-El and Lara, who befriend him. After several weeks, Jor-El repairs his rocket ship, then sends Lar Gand away just five days before Krypton' | ||
- | June 16 | ||
- | : Krypton explodes; Jor-El and Lara send Kal-El to Earth in a rocket-ship. (Kryptonian date: 39 Ogtal, 10,000) | ||
- | June 17 | ||
- | : Kal-El' | ||
- | June 18 | ||
- | : Kal-El lands on Earth and is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who bring Kal-El to Smallville Orphanage. | ||
- | June 25 | ||
- | : The Kents adopt Kal-El and name him Clark. | ||
- | ===July, 1952=== | ||
- | *The Phantom Stranger' | ||
- | ===August, 1952=== | ||
- | *Alien invaders from the planet Cathor use a somno-ray to cause the entire population of Earth to sleep for 24 hours. Only Captain Comet remains awake to stop the invasion. The next day, the world realizes it has lost a full day, while everyone but Adam Blake has marks on their foreheads. ["The Day That Vanished," | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *Miss Universe, a human-looking plant-like alien with abilities similar to Captain Comet' | ||
- | ===October, 1952=== | ||
- | *An alien scientist disguised as a human named Zdrin clones Captain Comet, then sends Captain Comet and his evil clone to the Planet of Death to remove any resistance to invasion. The real Captain Comet defeats his opponent, who dies on the planet, and returns to Earth, where he sends Zdrin away from Earth. ["The Counterfeit Captain Comet," | ||
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- | ==1953== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1953=== | ||
- | *Pamela Isley is born. | ||
- | *Tony Gordon is born in Gotham City, the son of James W. Gordon and Thelma Gordon. | ||
- | *James Watson and Francis Crick discover DNA. | ||
- | ===January, 1953=== | ||
- | January 20 | ||
- | : Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as president of the United States. | ||
- | ===March, 1953=== | ||
- | *Captain Comet' | ||
- | March 5 | ||
- | : Josef Stalin dies. | ||
- | March 6 | ||
- | : Georgi Malenkov becomes Soviet premier. | ||
- | ===April, 1953=== | ||
- | April 10 | ||
- | : Dag Hammarskjöld begins term as secretary-general of the United Nations. | ||
- | ===May, 1953=== | ||
- | *After Captain Comet sets a world free from the mental control of its dictator, Tiger-Man, he brings a woman named Rana to visit Earth, where she becomes a new library assistant. '' | ||
- | May 10 | ||
- | : John Constantine born to Thomas and Mary-Anne Constantine. '' | ||
- | May 29 | ||
- | : Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the top of Mt. Everest. | ||
- | ===June, 1953=== | ||
- | *Captain Comet is summoned by the Guardians of the Clockwork Universe, who inform him that he must attend a cosmic chess match on Pluto as Earth' | ||
- | June 18 | ||
- | : Egypt becomes a military-ruled republic. | ||
- | June 19 | ||
- | : Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing prison. | ||
- | ===July, 1953=== | ||
- | July 27 | ||
- | : The Korean War ends with the signing of an armistice. | ||
- | ===August, 1953=== | ||
- | August 20 | ||
- | : The Soviet Union announces the explosion of a hydrogen bomb. | ||
- | ===October, 1953=== | ||
- | *After Man-Ape the Mighty escapes prison during his trial and embarks on a series of crimes, Captain Comet tracks him down and captures him and his gang of human criminals. ["The Guilty Gorilla," | ||
- | October 31 | ||
- | : Captain Comet participates in a live-action television reenactment of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Wells in 1938. He battles a small group of real Martians who have used this opportunity to invade Earth. [" | ||
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- | ==1954== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1954=== | ||
- | : Jefferson Pierce (the future Olympic athlete and super-hero Black Lightning) is born in Metropolis. | ||
- | ===January, 1954=== | ||
- | January 21 | ||
- | : The Nautilus, the first atomic submarine, is launched. | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | *The Blackhawks gain a brave mascot hawk named Blackie. [Blackhawk #75] | ||
- | *As part of an experiment, Captain Comet battles and defeats heavyweight boxing champion of the world Rocky Marciano. ["The Phantom Prize Fighter," | ||
- | ===March, 1954=== | ||
- | *Captain Comet stops an invasion of Earth by an alien race of plant-people, | ||
- | March 1 | ||
- | : Puerto Rican nationalists shoot five U.S. congressmen on the floor of the House of Congress; all five recover. | ||
- | March 23 | ||
- | : The Soviet Union grants sovereignty to East Germany. | ||
- | ===April, 1954=== | ||
- | April 24 | ||
- | : J'onn J' | ||
- | ===May, 1954=== | ||
- | May 7 | ||
- | : Dien Bien Phu, the French military outpost in Vietnam, falls under control of the Vietminh army. | ||
- | May 17 | ||
- | : The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously bans racial segregation in public schools. | ||
- | ===June, 1954=== | ||
- | June 17 | ||
- | : The Army v. McCarthy inquiry ends, with the Senate subcommittee report blaming both sides. | ||
- | ===August, 1954=== | ||
- | *In Captain Comet' | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *The Szerro family moves to the U.S. from Poland. | ||
- | September 23 | ||
- | : Barbara Gordon is born in Gotham City, the daughter of James W. Gordon and Thelma Gordon. | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | November 29 | ||
- | : James Bartholomew (Jimmy) Olsen is born in Mapleton, the son of Prof. Mark Olsen and Sarah Olsen. | ||
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- | ==1955== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1955=== | ||
- | *Cory Renwald, now a 25-year-old CIA agent, is assigned to pose as a Soviet defector and emigrates to the Soviet Union to act as a double agent. ["Zero Hour for the Kents," | ||
- | ===January, 1955=== | ||
- | *Slam Bradley, private investigator, | ||
- | *Linda Olsen Asherman, descendent of Alex and Linda Olsen, is born. | ||
- | *Fred Farrell graduates from the Firemen' | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | February 8 | ||
- | : Nikolai Bulganin replaces Malenkov as Soviet premier. | ||
- | ===May, 1955=== | ||
- | May 6 | ||
- | : The Western European Union (WEU) is formed. | ||
- | May 14 | ||
- | : The Warsaw Pact, an Eastern European mutual defense agreement, is signed. | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *Under the name John Jones, J'onn J'onzz joins the Middletown Police Department, using his Martian super-powers in secret to aid his efforts to fight crime as a Manhunter from Mars. '' | ||
- | September 19 | ||
- | : Argentina ousts Juan Domingo Perón as president. | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | December 1 | ||
- | : After Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of the bus, Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a black boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama. | ||
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- | ==1956== | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | February 24 | ||
- | : Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Union' | ||
- | ===May, 1956=== | ||
- | *A film director turned criminal named Leif Conrad recreates his greatest roles from years ago as masked villains the Mad Maestro, the Black Knight, and the Phantom of the City, until he is caught by the police manhunters. ["The Greatest Villain of All Time," Showcase #5] | ||
- | May 21 | ||
- | : The U.S. tests the first aerial H-bomb at Bikini Atoll, causing an explosion equivalent to 10 million tons of TNT. | ||
- | ===June, 1956=== | ||
- | June 28-30 | ||
- | : A workers' | ||
- | ===July, 1956=== | ||
- | July 26 | ||
- | : Egypt takes over the Suez Canal. | ||
- | ===October, 1956=== | ||
- | October 17 | ||
- | : John Stewart, future Green Lantern, is born in Detroit. | ||
- | October 23 | ||
- | : Hungarian students stage a protest against Communism in Budapest, forcing Soviet troops to withdraw. | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | November 1 | ||
- | : Imgre Nagy announces Hungary' | ||
- | November 4 | ||
- | : Soviet troops invade and reclaim Budapest for Communism. | ||
- | November 5 | ||
- | : British and French troops invade Port Said on the Suez Canal. | ||
- | November 6 | ||
- | : The U.S. forces a cease-fire at the Suez Canal, stopping the advance of the British, French, and Israelis. | ||
- | November 25 | ||
- | : While running on the grounds of Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne falls through a hole into a huge cave filled with bats, terrifying him. Later that day, Bruce and his father, Dr. Thomas Wayne, are saved by the Shadow (in his last known appearance before the 1970s), when robber Willy Stamper threatens their lives during a bank robbery. '' | ||
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- | ==1957== | ||
- | ===January, 1957=== | ||
- | January 5 | ||
- | : The Eisenhower Doctrine calls for aid to Middle East countries that resist armed aggression from Communist-controlled nations. | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | September 24 | ||
- | : The Little Rock Nine integrate an Arkansas high school, and President Eisenhower sends troops to quell the mob and protect the school' | ||
- | ===October, 1957=== | ||
- | *Jonathan Sebastian Double is born. | ||
- | October 4 | ||
- | : The Space Age begins as the Russians launch Sputnik I, the first Earth-orbiting satellite. | ||
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- | ==1958== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1958=== | ||
- | *Jack St. Clair Kilby invents the microchip. | ||
- | *Countess Abigail Arcane born to Count Gregori Arcane and Countess Anise Arcane. | ||
- | *Anise Arcane is framed for practicing witchcraft by Anton Arcane. She is burned to death by angry villagers. | ||
- | *Prof. Emery Zackro, ally of Captain Comet, dies. ["No Man Shall I Call Master," | ||
- | ===January, 1958=== | ||
- | January 1 | ||
- | : The European Economic Community becomes effective. | ||
- | January 31 | ||
- | : The U.S. Army's Jupiter-C rocket fires the first American satellite, Explorer I, into orbit. | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | February 1 | ||
- | : Egypt and Syria merge into the United Arab Republic. | ||
- | ===March, 1958=== | ||
- | *James Bond, alias British secret agent 007, battles Doctor No. '' | ||
- | March 27 | ||
- | : Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of the Soviet Union upon the resignation of Bulganin. | ||
- | ===June, 1958=== | ||
- | June 1 | ||
- | : Gen. Charles de Gaulle becomes the premier of France, remaining in power until 1969. | ||
- | June 11 | ||
- | : Superboy makes his debut in Smallville and meets President Eisenhower. [More Fun Comics #101; Superman #144] | ||
- | June 12 | ||
- | : Superboy' | ||
- | June 26 | ||
- | *Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered before eight-year-old Bruce Wayne' | ||
- | *The criminal parents of the future Wrath are killed by police officer James W. Gordon. The future Wrath vows to wage war upon all lawmen. ["The Player on the Other Side," Batman Special #1 (1984)] | ||
- | June 27 | ||
- | : The day after his parents' | ||
- | June 28 | ||
- | : Philip Wayne is appointed Bruce Wayne' | ||
- | |||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *Superboy is revealed to be an extraterrestrial by Perry White. [New Adventures of Superboy #12] | ||
- | *Superboy time travels to the year 1937 to help the 21-year-old Perry White get a job as a reporter at the Daily Planet, whose managing editor at this time is Mr. Hobb. '' | ||
- | *Bruce Wayne joins the Sea Scouts, having been given an exception despite being below the minimum age of 13, and spends the next few months making himself an expert in all the skills that the Sea Scouts teach (including sewing) before finally quitting by the next summer to move on to more advanced training. ["The Origin of Robin," | ||
- | September 22 | ||
- | : Kara Zor-El is born on Argo City, the daughter of Zor-El and Allura. | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | *Zinda Blake becomes Lady Blackhawk and attempts to join the team, eventually becoming the unofficial eighth member. [Blackhawk #133] | ||
- | *Colonel Rick Flag (a USAF test pilot), Karin Grace (a flight nurse and space medicine specialist), | ||
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- | ==1959== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1959=== | ||
- | *Alaska and Hawaii become U.S. states. | ||
- | ===January, 1959=== | ||
- | January 1 | ||
- | : Fidel Castro takes over Cuba after President Batista resigns and flees the country. | ||
- | ===March, 1959=== | ||
- | *Over the course of a few months, the Suicide Squad (traveling in space after reaching the Sun) manages against great odds to pilot the rocket back to Earth, in the process being exposed to radiation that causes them to shrink to about an inch tall. Landing in a lake in an unknown country, the Suicide Squad discovers a plan by an enemy nation (most likely the Soviet Union) to attack the United States using atomic-warhead-equipped submarines; the team, still at small size, sabotages the entire fleet before returning to normal size and escaping to America. ["The Sun Curse," | ||
- | March 31 | ||
- | : On the 70th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower' | ||
- | ===April, 1959=== | ||
- | *Rip Hunter, Time Master, begins his ongoing adventures alongside his team -- Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and young Corky Baxter -- traveling through time in a Time Sphere of his own invention. [Showcase #20] | ||
- | ===June, 1959=== | ||
- | *Patrick " | ||
- | *The nine-year-old Bruce Wayne seeks out Harvey Harris, the greatest private detective alive at this time, to teach him all he can about solving crimes. In order to keep his identity a secret, Bruce sews a medieval-inspired red and green costume and wears a small black mask. After Bruce convinces Harris to take him on as his protege, Harris gives the boy the nickname of Robin. Bruce spends much of this summer being trained by Harris while his guardian (Philip Wayne) is traveling abroad. '' | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *Greg Sanders becomes the Vigilante; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid, becomes his partner. '' | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | *The Suicide Squad battles a gigantic creature that appears to be a transformed scientist named Prof. Duane, who had successfully created a growth formula. The team saves a major U.S. city from both the monster and nuclear annihilation. '' | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | *Brooklyn-based Assistant District Attorney Larry Jordan becomes Air Wave to save District Attorney Cole from Snake Scalotti' | ||
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- | ==1960== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1960=== | ||
- | *Communist China and the Soviet Union split over conflicts in Communist ideology. | ||
- | *There are 900 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam. | ||
- | *Abigail Arcane is born. | ||
- | ===January, 1960=== | ||
- | *Air Wave battles renegade scientist Professor Gurn, former member of Snake Scalotti' | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | *Paul Kirk becomes the Manhunter. '' | ||
- | *Police officer Jim Harper becomes the Guardian and is appointed the legal guardian of the members of the Newsboy Legion. '' | ||
- | *Dr. Robert Crane becomes Robotman. '' | ||
- | *Thomas N. Thomas becomes TNT, while Daniel Dunbar becomes Dan the Dyna-Mite. '' | ||
- | ===April, 1960=== | ||
- | *Air Wave adopts as his sidekick a parrot he calls Static. [Detective Comics #64] | ||
- | April 17 | ||
- | : Clark Kent decides to become a reporter when he grows up; Perry White becomes a part-time editor. [Adventure Comics #152] | ||
- | ===May, 1960=== | ||
- | *Air Wave battles Professor Gurn once more, who has donned a robotic suit to become Machine Man. [Detective Comics #65] | ||
- | May 1 | ||
- | : U.S. pilot Gary Powers, flying a U-2 spy plane, is shot down over Russia. | ||
- | May 16 | ||
- | : Khrushchev kills the Paris summit conference because of the U-2 spy plane. | ||
- | May 20 | ||
- | : Zatanna Zatara is born. | ||
- | May 23 | ||
- | : Israelis capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Eichmann is later executed in Israel in 1962. | ||
- | ===June, 1960=== | ||
- | *After District Attorney Cole is murdered, Larry Jordan (Air Wave) is at first framed for the murder by Grump (a legal clerk in Cole's office), but he clears his name as Air Wave. The mayor appoints Jordan as the acting district attorney for Brooklyn until the next election. [Detective Comics #66] | ||
- | June 11 | ||
- | : On the second anniversary of Superboy' | ||
- | ===July, 1960=== | ||
- | *Spelunker Cave Carson uses his tunnelling machine, the Mighty Mole, and friends to solve a mystery. [The Brave and the Bold #31] | ||
- | ===August, 1960=== | ||
- | *Clark Kent first meets Lois Lane while both are in Metropolis working for the Daily Planet while representing their school newspapers. '' | ||
- | August 7 | ||
- | : Castro' | ||
- | August 19 | ||
- | : U.S. pilot Gary Powers is sentenced to prison as a spy in the Soviet Union for 10 years. Powers is later freed in exchange for a Soviet spy in 1962. | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | *Cave Carson and his team track three powerful robots underground. [The Brave and the Bold #33] | ||
- | |||
- | ==1961== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1961=== | ||
- | *Harvey Dent's girlfriend finds out she's pregnant and he's the father. His parents, enraged that this will interfere with their son's big college plans, pay the girl off to go and have an abortion. They do not want a scandal. She leaves town with the money, but can't go through with the process. Later in the year, she gives birth but leaves the child at an orphange. The name listed on the birth certificate is Duela Dent. [TW: Buzz Buzz] | ||
- | *There are 2,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam. | ||
- | ===January, 1961=== | ||
- | January 3 | ||
- | : The U.S. breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba. | ||
- | January 20 | ||
- | : John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as president of the United States. | ||
- | ===April, 1961=== | ||
- | April 12 | ||
- | : The Soviet Union announces that they' | ||
- | April 17 | ||
- | : The U.S. aids about 1,200 anti-Castro exiles in the invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, but the invasion is crushed. | ||
- | ===May, 1961=== | ||
- | May 5 | ||
- | : Alan Shepard officially becomes the first American man to go into orbit around Earth. | ||
- | ===June, 1961=== | ||
- | *TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite have their last case. [Star Spangled Comics #23] | ||
- | *After Karin Grace is compelled by some unknown force to create several paintings depicting a ruined world overrun with dinosaurs, Gen. Brent reunites the Suicide Squad on a top-secret mission to discover the answer behind it. Karin temporarily gains extra-sensory perception (ESP) abilities, allowing her to transport the team to the parallel world populated by intelligent dinosaurs who plan to invade Earth-1. There, they defeat the powerful mind behind the invasion and return to their world, where Karin loses her ESP abilities. '' | ||
- | ===July, 1961=== | ||
- | *Test pilot Martin Harold Jordan dies during a test flight for Ferris Aircraft, leaving behind his widowed wife, Jessica Elizabeth Jordan, and three sons, Jack Jordan, Hal Jordan, and Jim Jordan. Larry Jordan (Air Wave), learning about his brother' | ||
- | *Around this time, J'onn J'onzz abandons his Detective John Jones identity and takes up a few other identities to explore humanity over the next decade. | ||
- | July 21 | ||
- | : Virgil Grissom becomes the second American astronaut. | ||
- | ===August, 1961=== | ||
- | August 13 | ||
- | : East Germany erects the Berlin Wall, separating East and West Berlin, to halt the flood of East German refugees. | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *The Suicide Squad battles a gigantic, green-skinned, | ||
- | *The Suicide Squad battles the Mirage Master of the M-Dimension, | ||
- | ===October, 1961=== | ||
- | October 29 | ||
- | : The Soviet Union fires a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, the biggest explosion in history. | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | *The Suicide Squad has its last public mission bringing in Sneeko, czar of the international underworld. ["Rain of Fire," The Brave and the Bold #39 (December, 1961-January, | ||
- | November 11 | ||
- | : Dick Grayson is born to John and Mary Grayson. | ||
- | |||
- | ==1962== | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | *Karen Beecher is born. | ||
- | February 20 | ||
- | : John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit Earth, orbiting three times in nearly five hours. | ||
- | ===March, 1962=== | ||
- | March 10 | ||
- | : Clark Kent meets Bruce Wayne without knowing who he is. [World' | ||
- | ===April, 1962=== | ||
- | *Paul Kirk has his last case as Manhunter. '' | ||
- | ===May, 1962=== | ||
- | *Dr. Morton Kirk, believing that Earth will be struck by a giant planet, sends his young son Johnny off in a rocket. Superboy saves the Earth but is unable to find Johnny; the dying Dr. Kirk makes him swear to become his legal guardian if he ever finds him. [Action Comics #232] | ||
- | *Mal Duncan is born. | ||
- | May 16 | ||
- | : Lana Lang briefly gains super-powers once more on her 12th birthday. [Superboy #64] | ||
- | May 28 | ||
- | : Superboy meets Master Mxyzptlk, a teenaged magical imp from the fifth dimensional land of Zrfff whose father and mother are Fuzastl and Tlndsa. [Superboy #78] | ||
- | ===July, 1962=== | ||
- | *Superboy becomes a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes of the 30th century. [Adventure Comics #247] | ||
- | ===August, 1962=== | ||
- | *The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when the Soviets begin building missile bases in Cuba, and President Kennedy orders a Cuban blockade. | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | September 24 | ||
- | : Superboy meets Lex Luthor (for the first time since they were toddlers), and the two become friends. '' | ||
- | ===October, 1962=== | ||
- | October 1 | ||
- | *Clark Kent meets Pete Ross, who soon becomes his best friend. [Superboy #86] | ||
- | *James Meredith, escorted by U.S. marshals, becomes the first black student to register at the University of Mississippi. | ||
- | October 7-8 | ||
- | : Prof. Dalton creates the first Bizarro-Superboy, | ||
- | October 27 | ||
- | : A lab accident makes Luthor lose his hair, and he blames it on Superboy, vowing to be his enemy from now on. '' | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | *The Cuban Missile Crisis ends when the Soviets back down, and Kennedy lifts the Cuban blockade. | ||
- | November 1 | ||
- | : Roy Harper is born. | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | December 24 | ||
- | : Cuba releases 1,113 prisoners captured during the invasion of the Bay of Pigs in 1961. | ||
- | |||
- | ==1963== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1963=== | ||
- | *There are 15,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam. | ||
- | *Betty Friedan publishes '' | ||
- | ===January, 1963=== | ||
- | January 22 | ||
- | : France and West Germany sign a treaty of cooperation, | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | *Hank Hall is born. | ||
- | *A chimpanzee named Bravo becomes the Blackhawks' | ||
- | ===March, 1963=== | ||
- | March 6 | ||
- | : Garth (Aqualad) is born. | ||
- | ===April, 1963=== | ||
- | April 14 | ||
- | : Superboy learns he cannot change history when, on a time-travel trip to the year 1863 to prevent President Abraham Lincoln' | ||
- | April 16 | ||
- | : Superboy discovers Jor-El' | ||
- | April 20 | ||
- | : Lar Gand of Daxam arrives on Earth as an amnesiac and is dubbed Mon-El, but after his memory returns he gets lead poisoning and must be put into the Phantom Zone for 1000 years. [Superboy #89] | ||
- | April 26 | ||
- | : Donna Troy is born. | ||
- | April 29 | ||
- | : Pete Ross learns Clark Kent is Superboy while on a camping trip. [Superboy #90] | ||
- | ===May, 1963=== | ||
- | *Superboy meets Lori Lemaris, but the memory of their meeting is erased from their minds by her father. [Adventure Comics #280] | ||
- | May 12 | ||
- | : The teenaged Lex Luthor attempts to kill Superboy for the first time with his kryptonite constructs but is stopped by members of the Legion of Super-Heroes. [Superboy #86] | ||
- | ===June, 1963=== | ||
- | *Lex Luthor is arrested for the first time and sent to Soames Reform School. [Superboy #92] | ||
- | *Superboy meets Robin the Boy Wonder, who has traveled from the year 1974 to save his life. Together, the two capture Lex Luthor, who leads the Bandit Gang. [Adventure Comics #253] | ||
- | ===July, 1963=== | ||
- | *Not long afterward, Lex Luthor spoils the Superboy Science Fair and is sent to prison for the first time. [Adventure Comics #292] | ||
- | ===August, 1963=== | ||
- | August 28 | ||
- | : Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I have a dream" speech in Washington, D.C., during a civil rights rally attended by a crowd of 200,000. | ||
- | August 30 | ||
- | : A hot line between Washington and Moscow is set up, designed to reduce the risk of accidental war. | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *Clark Kent meets Bruce Wayne in earnest when Bruce moves to Smallville with his foster parents, his uncle and aunt, Dr. Philip Wayne and his wife. With Lana Lang's help, Bruce becomes the Flying Fox by donning a witch doctor' | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | November 22 | ||
- | : President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Both Superboy and the Blackhawks regret that they were not there to prevent it. President Kennedy is succeeded by Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson. | ||
- | November 24 | ||
- | : Harvey Lee Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | *Lilith is born, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Will Clay of Kentucky. | ||
- | |||
- | ==1964== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1964=== | ||
- | *Joe Wilson is born to Slade and Adeline Wilson. | ||
- | *Jan Danvers, son of Fred and Edna Danvers, is killed on Chu-Li Island off the coast of Vietnam. '' | ||
- | *Superboy learns that Jonathan and Martha Kent once had another super-powered foster son before him named Tim Tates. Meeting him in the present and discovering he is a super-villain named Mighto of the planet Ulgar, he manages to defeat him by taking away his super-powers with his only weakness: special ultrasonic musical notes. ["The Kents' First Super-Son," | ||
- | *The Warren Commission concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy. | ||
- | ===January, 1964=== | ||
- | January 16 | ||
- | : Wally West is born. | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | February 9 | ||
- | : The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, launching Beatlemania and the so-called " | ||
- | ===April, 1964=== | ||
- | *The Blackhawks take on new, red-and-green uniforms as well as a new affiliation with a secret government agency. [Blackhawk #197] | ||
- | ===May, 1964=== | ||
- | *Superboy meets Kid Psycho from the 30th century. [Superboy #125] | ||
- | May 1 | ||
- | : Don Hall is born. | ||
- | May 16 | ||
- | : Lana Lang becomes Insect Queen. [Superboy #124] | ||
- | ===June, 1964=== | ||
- | *Three civil rights workers in Mississippi are murdered by members of the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan, sparking national outrage and a massive federal investigation. | ||
- | June 11 | ||
- | : In South Africa, Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment. | ||
- | ===July, 1964=== | ||
- | July 8 | ||
- | : Jonathan and Martha Kent made younger by an elixir from another dimension. [Superboy #145] | ||
- | ===August, 1964=== | ||
- | *While at Camp Smallville 11-year-old Barbara Gordon is briefly imbued by magic to become Mighty Girl until Superboy deduces her power source and takes it away. Barbara vows to become a superhero someday. [Adventure Comics #453] | ||
- | *Cave Carson and his team encounter an energy creature in Xanadu. [Showcase #52] | ||
- | August 2-7 | ||
- | : The Gulf of Tonkin incident sparks the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which enables President Lyndon B. Johnson to increase U.S. troops in Vietnam and begin open warfare against North Vietnam. | ||
- | ===October, 1964=== | ||
- | *Superboy meets the original Air Wave. '' | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | *The Guardian retires as he and the Newsboy Legion have their last case. '' | ||
- | |||
- | ==1965== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1965=== | ||
- | *Betty Kane is born. | ||
- | *Katar Hol of Thanagar becomes a Hawkman and battles the evil Man-Hawks. [The Brave and the Bold #43] | ||
- | *Frances Kane is born. | ||
- | *Victor Stone is born to Silan and Elinore Stone. | ||
- | *John Gnarrk' | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | February 1 | ||
- | : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 blacks are arrested in Selma, Alabama, during three-day demonstrations against voter-registration rules that unfairly exclude blacks from voting. | ||
- | February 21 | ||
- | : Black-nationalist leader Malcolm X is shot to death at a rally in Harlem, New York City. | ||
- | ===April, 1965=== | ||
- | April 17 | ||
- | : The largest anti-war demonstration in the U.S. to date, the March Against the Vietnam War, is held in Washington, D.C., with 15,000 to 20,000 people attending. | ||
- | ===June, 1965=== | ||
- | *Oliver Queen graduates from high school. [Detective Comics #546] | ||
- | *Mark Merlin dies and somehow becomes the Egyptian wizard, Prince Ra-Man. [House of Secrets #73] | ||
- | ===July, 1965=== | ||
- | *Buddy Baker, a Hollywood stuntman, is given the power to use the abilities of any animal within his vicinity through radiation from a crashed flying saucer. [Strange Adventures #180] | ||
- | ===August, 1965=== | ||
- | August 11-17 | ||
- | : A six-day race riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles occurs, resulting in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. | ||
- | ===October, 1965=== | ||
- | *Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter) make a short time travel trip to the year 1974, where they are stranded and ultimately learn that they never returned to their own year of 1965. [[http:// | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | November 17 | ||
- | : Mark and Sarah Olsen, Jimmy Olsen' | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | December 23 | ||
- | : Dawn Granger is born. | ||
- | ==1966== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1966=== | ||
- | *Raven, spawn of Trigon, is born to Arella. | ||
- | *There are 250,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam. | ||
- | ===January, 1966=== | ||
- | January 19 | ||
- | : Indira Gandhi is elected India' | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | *June Moone becomes the Enchantress. [Strange Adventures #187] | ||
- | February 3 | ||
- | : The Soviets make the first unmanned landing on the Moon with the '' | ||
- | ===March, 1966=== | ||
- | March 25-26 | ||
- | : A large, international anti-Vietnam war protest is held, with 20,000 to 25,000 protestors in New York City, along with others in Boston, Philadelphia, | ||
- | ===April, 1966=== | ||
- | April 3 | ||
- | : The Soviet-made '' | ||
- | April 8 | ||
- | : Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary and Leader of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. | ||
- | ===May, 1966=== | ||
- | *Buddy Baker becomes Animal-Man. [Strange Adventures #190] | ||
- | *After his last case as Air Wave, Larry Jordan semi-retires from crime fighting in order to concentrate on his career and personal life. '' | ||
- | *Rachel Green, daughter of Jason Woodrue (while he visits from his dimension) and human woman Ida Green, is born in England; she later becomes Mayflower of the Force of July. | ||
- | May 25 | ||
- | : Charley Parker is born. | ||
- | ===June, 1966=== | ||
- | June 2 | ||
- | : The first U.S. spacecraft to land on another world, '' | ||
- | ===July, 1966=== | ||
- | July 4 | ||
- | : The Freedom of Information Act is signed by President Johnson, taking effect the next year. | ||
- | ===August, 1966=== | ||
- | *Clark Kent learns of the existence of his foster brother Cory Renwald, who is now a double agent for the CIA, acting as a mole in the KGB, and assists him as Superboy. Jonathan and Martha Kent are pleased to learn that their influence helped turn the former juvenile delinquent into a government agent and hero. ["Zero Hour for the Kents," | ||
- | August 13 | ||
- | : Chairman Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution in the People' | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | *Game warden Michael Payson Maxwell becomes the B'wana Beast. [Showcase #66] | ||
- | |||
- | ==1967== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1967=== | ||
- | *Princess Koriand' | ||
- | *Kole Weathers is born to Abel and Marilyn Weathers. | ||
- | *Ronald Rockwell (later known as Ronnie Raymond, who becomes Firestorm as a teenager) is born to Edward and Elaine Rockwell. | ||
- | |||
- | ===January, 1967=== | ||
- | *The Blackhawks fail the test of a secret agency named G.E.O.R.G.E. in front of four super-heroes and the U.S. President, therefore they retire and then begin the "New Blackhawk Era", donning super-hero names, powers and costumes as members of G.E.O.R.G.E. Blackhawk gains the code-name "the Big Eye", Chuck becomes the Listener, Hendrickson the Weapons Master, Olaf the Leaper, Stanislaus the Golden Centurion, Andre becomes M'sieu Machine, and Chop-Chop becomes Dr. Hands. '' | ||
- | January 27 | ||
- | : Three Apollo astronauts, Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee, are killed during a simulated launch. | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | *Superboy meets Takeo Sato, the Japanese actor who plays the movie hero Sunburst, and discovers that he has the character' | ||
- | *B' | ||
- | ===March, 1967=== | ||
- | *Superboy meets Zatara the Magician. [New Adventures of Superboy #49] | ||
- | ===April, 1967=== | ||
- | *Animal-Man battles the Mod Gorilla Boss, which is much later revealed to be a publicity stunt, though Animal-Man didn't know this at the time. After this case, Buddy Baker puts his crime-fighting career as Animal-Man on hiatus in order to get married and start a family, appearing only seldom from this point on. '' | ||
- | ===May, 1967=== | ||
- | *Superboy meets a very young Dick Grayson and Wally West [DCCP: Times of the Titans book 1] | ||
- | ===June, 1967=== | ||
- | *Superboy discovers that his real parents, Jor-El and Lara, survived the destruction of Krypton through the help of a Kryptonian scientist called Dr. Krylo, who preserved them in suspended animation in a space capsule that has been in outer space since Krypton' | ||
- | *Bruce Wayne graduates from high school one year early. [Speculation based on the fact that Bruce graduates from university at age 20 in 1970.] | ||
- | June 5 | ||
- | : The Six-Day War with Israeli forces against Arab forces, ends with Israel' | ||
- | June 17 | ||
- | : The People' | ||
- | ===July, 1967=== | ||
- | *Slam Bradley' | ||
- | July 23 | ||
- | : A large-scale race riot breaks out in Detroit. | ||
- | ===August, 1967=== | ||
- | *While Slam Bradley is out of town, Shorty Morgan has his last known case as a private detective in New York City. '' | ||
- | |||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *At age 17, Bruce Wayne begins attending Gotham University, later majoring in criminology and law. [Speculation based on the fact that Bruce graduates from university at age 20 in 1970.] | ||
- | |||
- | ==1968== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1968=== | ||
- | *Garfield Logan is born to explorers Mark and Marie Logan. | ||
- | ===January, 1968=== | ||
- | *The North Vietnamese launches the Tet Offensive, marking a turning point in the Vietnam War. | ||
- | ===March, 1968=== | ||
- | *Johnny Peril -- newsman, scientist, adventurer, soldier of fortune -- has his first recorded adventure. Johnny is a man without a past who never seems to age. '' | ||
- | March 16 | ||
- | : The My Lai Massacre occurs when U.S. troops kill scores of civilians. When the story goes public in November, 1969, it undermines popular support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam. | ||
- | March 31 | ||
- | : President Johnson announces he will not seek reelection. | ||
- | ===April, 1968=== | ||
- | April 4 | ||
- | : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is slain in Memphis by assassin James Earl Ray. | ||
- | ===May, 1968=== | ||
- | *The Robot-Teacher from Krypton invented by Jor-El returns when Superboy is on the verge of manhood for his final lesson. Clark Kent falls in love for the first time with a Smallville High School student named Misty, who has transferred in from out of state and has quickly become the most popular girl in school, thanks to her beauty and intelligence. Superboy soon discovers that the Robot-Teacher has engineered his first love by taking a beautiful girl (whose true name is unknown) from elsewhere in the country and temporarily rewriting her mind and personality to conform with Superboy' | ||
- | ===June, 1968=== | ||
- | *Hal Jordan, son of Larry and Helen Jordan, born. | ||
- | June 5-6 | ||
- | : Senator Robert Kennedy, Democratic presidential contender, is shot in a Los Angeles hotel by assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day. | ||
- | ===July, 1968=== | ||
- | *The Blackhawks abandon the "New Blackhawk Era" when G.E.O.R.G.E. is completely destroyed, and they return to their original uniforms and methods of operation. ["My Brother, My Keeper," | ||
- | ===August, 1968=== | ||
- | August 9 | ||
- | : Jonathan and Martha Kent die of a fever plague contracted while on a Caribbean vacation. ["The Last Days of Ma and Pa Kent," Superman #161 (May, 1963); "The Story of Superman' | ||
- | August 20-21 | ||
- | : Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia, | ||
- | August 22-30 | ||
- | : Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention. | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *Clark Kent begins attending Metropolis University. Perry White soon proves that Superboy has made Metropolis his new home. Lana Lang also attends Metro U at first, while Pete Ross (who goes on to become a geologist) and Lois Lane attend Raleigh College, which is near Metropolis. Clark' | ||
- | *After their last case, the Blackhawks go into semi-retirement for the first time since they were founded in 1940 in order to concentrate on personal matters and projects. '' | ||
- | September 3 | ||
- | : Superboy' | ||
- | September 17 | ||
- | : This day marks the official day that Superboy makes Metropolis his new home. [" | ||
- | |||
- | ===October, 1968=== | ||
- | *Navy diver Christopher Landau meets the amphibious girl known only as Dolphin. [Showcase #79] | ||
- | *Sargon crosses over from Earth-2. TNT loses control of his powers. [" | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | *The Vigilante goes into semi-retirement after his last case. '' | ||
- | |||
- | ==1969== | ||
- | ===January, 1969=== | ||
- | January 20 | ||
- | : Richard Nixon is inaugurated as president of the United States. | ||
- | ===March, 1969=== | ||
- | *Rock star Jim Rook is pulled into another dimension where he becomes the Nightmaster and stops the warlocks of Myrra. He returns to Earth with a mighty sword. [Showcase #82-84] | ||
- | ===May, 1969=== | ||
- | May 14 | ||
- | : Superboy is challenged to think like a Superman by Marla Harvey, a former Metropolis University student who dies while trying to build a school for underprivileged youths. ["The Day Superboy Became Superman," | ||
- | ===June, 1969=== | ||
- | *USAF pilot Travis Morgan (age 43) finds himself in Skartaris, meets Tara and incurs the wraith of Deimos. [First Issue Special #8] | ||
- | ===July, 1969=== | ||
- | July 20 | ||
- | : Neil Armstrong and " | ||
- | *Abel' | ||
- | *Superboy meets Mr. Lundgren, a school janitor who possesses ESP and knows Superboy' | ||
- | *Superboy battles the Puzzler. [Action Comics #49] | ||
- | ===August, 1969=== | ||
- | August 15-17 | ||
- | : The Woodstock Festival is held in Woodstock, New York. | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | *Lorna Martin arrives from Dimension 7 at the beginning of the Fall semester to carry out her assignment to attend school as an Earth girl. As the most beautiful girl at Metropolis University, she is sought after by many, and even Clark Kent has a crush on her. ["The Girl Who Worshipped Clark Kent," Action Comics #411] | ||
- | *Superboy teaches a lesson to Stan Rivers and the Zeta Mu fraternity, who haze Clark Kent as a prank. '' | ||
- | *Oswald Loomis becomes the Prankster and battles Superboy. [Action Comics #51] | ||
- | ===October, 1969=== | ||
- | *After being contaminated by a powerful strain of bacteria, Superboy is forced to become Super-X for 24 hours, during which time he keeps Lana Lang from learning his identity. ["The Shocking Secret of Super-X," | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | November 21 | ||
- | : The first ARPANET link (the progenitor of the Internet) is established. | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | *Winslow Schott becomes the Toyman and battles Superboy. [Action Comics #64] | ||
- | *After her last semester at Metropolis University, Lana Lang transfers to Hudson University to obtain a television broadcasting degree. [Superman' | ||
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