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====== Timeline of Earth-12 ====== | ====== Timeline of Earth-12 ====== | ||
- | Please note that Earth-12 | + | [[Earth-12]] contains |
- | Earth-12 | + | Not all humor characters exist on Earth-12, however, since several |
- | Not all humor characters exist on Earth-12, however, since several humor series are more or less based in a realistic setting. Humor characters who live in fantastical settings, interact with fantasy characters, | + | This timeline began as Mikel Midnight' |
===== Ancient History ===== | ===== Ancient History ===== | ||
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* Chubblock Homes has first public case as consulting detective. | * Chubblock Homes has first public case as consulting detective. | ||
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+ | ===== 20th century ===== | ||
==== 1913 ==== | ==== 1913 ==== | ||
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* The archeologist Maryland Smith has adventures. | * The archeologist Maryland Smith has adventures. | ||
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+ | ==== 1937 ==== | ||
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+ | === August, 1937 === | ||
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+ | * Adventures under the big top at Bangs Bros. Mammoth Show Circus begin, featuring world-famous clowns Flip Flanagan and Butch Snyder, daredevil Hal Thompson, child of the circus Myra La Belle, ringmaster Silk Fowler, the fat lady Lotta, the bearded lady Mademoiselle Fringe, the midget Major Speck, young circus fan Red O'Hare and his dog Whiskers, and circus worker Speed Jackson. Jeff Bangs is the circus owner. [Big Top, Feature Funnies #1 (October, 1937)] | ||
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+ | === November, 1937 === | ||
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+ | * [[Flossie]], | ||
==== 1938 ==== | ==== 1938 ==== | ||
* Mr. Brent, strong enough to shatter concrete or turn boulders into sand with his bare hands, becomes Mr. Might. He was born Barb-Ell of the planet Neon, son of Dumb-Ell. After the citizens of Neon ignored his warnings of their planet' | * Mr. Brent, strong enough to shatter concrete or turn boulders into sand with his bare hands, becomes Mr. Might. He was born Barb-Ell of the planet Neon, son of Dumb-Ell. After the citizens of Neon ignored his warnings of their planet' | ||
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+ | === May, 1938 === | ||
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+ | * After dictator Gil O. Teen the First of Pyromania orders that all men with beards shall either be shot, boycotted, or sent to concentration camps, a young red-haired artist named [[Archie O' | ||
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+ | === June, 1938 === | ||
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+ | * Archie O' | ||
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+ | === August, 1938 === | ||
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+ | * The Earl of Wintergreen becomes Archie O' | ||
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+ | === September, 1938 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Former dictator Gil O. Teen leads a rebellion against King Archie O' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1938 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Archie O' | ||
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+ | === November, 1938 === | ||
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+ | * While visiting America, King Archie O' | ||
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+ | === December, 1938 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * After his ministers Hodge, Podge, and Fudge arrange for Archie O' | ||
==== 1939 ==== | ==== 1939 ==== | ||
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* John Claypool, Lord Gravestone has first public case as Darwin of the Apes. He eventually marries and settles down with his wife, Jayne. | * John Claypool, Lord Gravestone has first public case as Darwin of the Apes. He eventually marries and settles down with his wife, Jayne. | ||
* Prince Nabob has first public case as the Sub-Moron/ | * Prince Nabob has first public case as the Sub-Moron/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | === February, 1939 === | ||
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+ | * **Flossie** has her last published adventure as an ordinary schoolgirl. [Flossie, Feature Funnies #17 (February, 1939)] | ||
+ | * [[Mortimer Mum]], a bald, middle-aged man with a white mustache and a top hat who never speaks, begins adventures. [Mortimer Mum, Feature Funnies #19 (April, 1939)] | ||
==== 1940 ==== | ==== 1940 ==== | ||
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* Joseph Jones becomes General Glory. | * Joseph Jones becomes General Glory. | ||
- | === May, 1940 === | + | === February, 1940 === |
- | * After the stork delivers the strongest baby in the world to a destitute family, [[Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite]] decides to strike out on his own, frustrated at his father' | + | * **Mortimer Mum** has his last published adventure as a middle-aged man who never speaks. [Mortimer Mum, Feature Comics #31 (April, 1940)] |
- | === June, 1940 === | + | === March, 1940 === |
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+ | * March 24: After the stork delivers the strongest baby in the world to a destitute family, [[Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite]] decides to strike out on his own, frustrated at his father' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1940 === | ||
* Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite visits a recruiting office and quickly proves, through a series of increasingly difficult tests, that he's worth 100,000 recruits and ends up filling the quota himself by joining the U.S. Army. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #33 (June, 1940)] | * Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite visits a recruiting office and quickly proves, through a series of increasingly difficult tests, that he's worth 100,000 recruits and ends up filling the quota himself by joining the U.S. Army. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #33 (June, 1940)] | ||
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+ | === May, 1940 === | ||
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+ | * Deciding that the New York Yankees have held the championship long enough, Poison Ivy joins the Brooklyn Dodgers as a water boy, then doses them with water from the Fountain of Youth, causing them to become younger and younger until they disappear. As the last team member, Poison Ivy then plays against the Yankees, beating them with 268 home runs. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #34 (July, 1940)] | ||
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+ | === August, 1940 === | ||
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+ | * Building the smallest, fastest fighting plane in the world, Poison Ivy flies off to stop the big war between Plutonia and Takeoveria. Confronting Mr. Gunn who sells munitions to both sides, Poison Ivy forces him to throw away all his munitions and sell both sides only cream puff ammunition from now on. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #37 (October, 1940)] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1940 === | ||
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+ | * September 16: Poison Ivy fights Muscletoe, a short but powerful villain known as the wrecker of the super guys of the comics, after he hospitalized a super fellow called the Great Colosso. Discovering that Muscletoe' | ||
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+ | === November, 1940 === | ||
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+ | * November 15: Poison Ivy runs for mayor of a town against a gangster named Sardini, who uses crooked methods to get himself elected, winning 90,000 votes to Poison Ivy's one vote, in a town of only 15,000. Writing a letter to the U.S. president, Poison Ivy is able to get the town placed under martial law, and everyone in town except for a newborn baby is arrested for being part of Sardini' | ||
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+ | === December, 1940 === | ||
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+ | * Poison Ivy plays hockey for the New York Strangers against the Toronto Tea Leafs, winning the game with 86 goals. //Note: The New York Strangers and the Toronto Tea Leafs are spoofs of the hockey teams the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs, respectively.// | ||
==== 1941 ==== | ==== 1941 ==== | ||
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* In Germany, the Masked Swastika has first public case. | * In Germany, the Masked Swastika has first public case. | ||
- | === July, 1941 === | + | === January, 1941 === |
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+ | * A scientist who invented a time machine invites Poison Ivy to travel to the past and give every famous villain in history a good licking. Poison Ivy time travels to 1876 where he knocks out Chief Sitting Bull, then to 1725 where he fights Captain Kidd. Poison Ivy attempts to travel to 1200 to battle Genghis Khan, only to accidentally travel to the future year of 2100, where Poison Ivy is instead beaten up by one of his own great-great-great-grandchildren. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #42 (March, 1941)] | ||
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+ | === March, 1941 === | ||
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+ | * [[Miss Winky]], a brunette dancer and actress who also enjoys baseball and football, begins adventures as an all-American girl. [Miss Winky the All-American Girl, National Comics #9 (March, 1941)] | ||
+ | * Poison Ivy forces the Great Colosso, a super guy who is a conscientious objector, to join the U.S. Army. Poison Ivy then puts the Great Colosso through basic training. //Note: The Great Colosso, not named as such here, first appeared in the Poison Ivy story in Feature Comics #38.// [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #44 (May, 1941)] | ||
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+ | === May, 1941 === | ||
* Tired of being just plain Cupid, the cherubic winged [[Cyclone Cupid]] goes to Earth and tries to be a crime-fighter like the ones from the comic-books. In his first adventure, Cyclone Cupid stops a union racketeer trying to start a fight with a police officer on the picket line, using his arrows to make the crook love the cop, then another arrow to pin him to the wall. But when he goes to get his reward, he's so disgusted by how small the reward is that he pickets the police station, petitioning for bigger rewards. [Cyclone Cupid, He Ain't Stupid, National Comics #13 (July, 1941)] | * Tired of being just plain Cupid, the cherubic winged [[Cyclone Cupid]] goes to Earth and tries to be a crime-fighter like the ones from the comic-books. In his first adventure, Cyclone Cupid stops a union racketeer trying to start a fight with a police officer on the picket line, using his arrows to make the crook love the cop, then another arrow to pin him to the wall. But when he goes to get his reward, he's so disgusted by how small the reward is that he pickets the police station, petitioning for bigger rewards. [Cyclone Cupid, He Ain't Stupid, National Comics #13 (July, 1941)] | ||
- | === October, 1941 === | + | === August, 1941 === |
* When America is invaded by the Germans, who starve the nation to force a surrender, General Alarm announces from a dirigible above that he has enough food for all if they surrender. Cyclone Cupid punctures the dirigible with arrows, causing not gas but soup to pour down onto the streets, allowing everyone to get their fill. [Cyclone Cupid, He Ain't Stupid, National Comics #16 (October, 1941)] | * When America is invaded by the Germans, who starve the nation to force a surrender, General Alarm announces from a dirigible above that he has enough food for all if they surrender. Cyclone Cupid punctures the dirigible with arrows, causing not gas but soup to pour down onto the streets, allowing everyone to get their fill. [Cyclone Cupid, He Ain't Stupid, National Comics #16 (October, 1941)] | ||
+ | * Poison Ivy fights his own double, who is equally powerful, created by the artist who draws him when he's forced to cut his feature down to one page. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #49 (October, 1941)] | ||
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+ | === December, 1941 === | ||
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+ | * December 4: Entering a ski contest, Poison Ivy makes a super-record jump, remaining high in the stratosphere for seven months until ice forces him down in July, 1942. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #51 (December, 1941)] | ||
==== 1942 ==== | ==== 1942 ==== | ||
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* Thomas N. Thomas & Daniel Dunbar become TNT & Dan the Dyna-Mite. | * Thomas N. Thomas & Daniel Dunbar become TNT & Dan the Dyna-Mite. | ||
* Theodore Grant becomes Wildcat. | * Theodore Grant becomes Wildcat. | ||
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+ | === July, 1942 === | ||
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+ | * Poison Ivy finally lands back on earth after his seven-month super-record jump in a ski contest, when ice forces him down from the stratosphere. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #51 (December, 1941)] | ||
+ | * When Poison Ivy is hospitalized after capturing 643 enemy spies, he is discovered to have red nitroglycerine running through his veins instead of blood. Given a nitroglycerine blood transfusion, | ||
+ | * Poison Ivy's grandfather, | ||
==== 1943 ==== | ==== 1943 ==== | ||
- | === October, 1943 === | + | === February, 1943 === |
- | * When Vaudeville magician Professor Zomby is drafted into the U.S. Army, his French assistant is ordered to take over his act, despite his inexperience. When the amateur magician asks for a volunteer for a disappearing act, a bespectacled schoolboy | + | |
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+ | === July, 1943 === | ||
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+ | * Poison Ivy fights a rival musclebound boy named Poison Oak, who is fast enough to dodge every blow that Poison Ivy throws at him, though he is still hospitalized for pneumonia from the breeze. [Poison Ivy, Feature Comics #71 (September, 1943)] | ||
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+ | === August, 1943 === | ||
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+ | === September, 1943 === | ||
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+ | * The same crook who tried to kidnap Poison Ivy two years ago after he was first delivered to his family by the stork returns for revenge by stabbing the boy, but only manages to sink the ship recently tattooed on Poison Ivy's chest. [Poison Ivy, Feature Comics #73 (November, 1943)] | ||
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+ | === December, 1943 === | ||
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+ | * Tired of so many war heroes showing him up, Poison Ivy decides to get a war trophy of his own and travels to war-torn Europe, bringing back Adolf Hitler himself as a trophy. [Poison Ivy, Feature Comics #75 (February, 1944)] | ||
==== 1944 ==== | ==== 1944 ==== | ||
* The British Commando Unit Captain Darcy and his Rifle Brigade travel to the Middle Eastern country of Sidi Boomboom, where they compete with the American adventurer known as Maryland Smith in " | * The British Commando Unit Captain Darcy and his Rifle Brigade travel to the Middle Eastern country of Sidi Boomboom, where they compete with the American adventurer known as Maryland Smith in " | ||
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+ | === May, 1944 === | ||
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+ | * Getting out of the hospital, Poison Oak attempts to get his revenge on Poison Ivy, but completely fails to harm him and ends up hospitalizing himself out of exhaustion. [Poison Ivy, Feature Comics #79 (July, 1944)] | ||
==== 1941-1945 ==== | ==== 1941-1945 ==== | ||
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* Dinah Drake becomes Black Canary in Park City (later Gotham) [Robert Khaniger & Carmine Infantino] | * Dinah Drake becomes Black Canary in Park City (later Gotham) [Robert Khaniger & Carmine Infantino] | ||
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+ | === February, 1947 === | ||
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+ | * During a walk across the United States, Poison Ivy stops in the desert to snack on a lollipop and sits on an atomic bomb in a test area a moment before it explodes, but Poison Ivy is unharmed. Twelve days later, scientists find a note from Poison Ivy demanding a box of lollipops to replace the ones destroying the atom bomb test. [Poison Ivy, Feature Comics #109 (April, 1947)] | ||
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+ | ==== 1949 ==== | ||
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+ | === January, 1949 === | ||
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+ | * In his last known adventure, **Poison Ivy** gets a job in construction and nearly gets his boss in trouble for disregarding the child labor law. [Poison Ivy, Feature Comics #132 (March, 1949)] | ||
==== late 1940's - early 1950's ==== | ==== late 1940's - early 1950's ==== | ||
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* Ra'Gan (as leader), with Tor, and Xeo comprise the Blackhawks. They encounter the original Blackhawk, time-traveling from April, 1960. [Blackhawk #147] [Dick Dillin] | * Ra'Gan (as leader), with Tor, and Xeo comprise the Blackhawks. They encounter the original Blackhawk, time-traveling from April, 1960. [Blackhawk #147] [Dick Dillin] | ||
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+ | ==== 2100 ==== | ||
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+ | * A time-traveling Poison Ivy from 1941 is beaten up by one of his great-great-great-grandchildren who is alive at this time. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #42 (March, 1941)] | ||
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