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--- Timeline_of_Earth-1_1970s [2016/10/16 20:20] – [1973] docquantum
+++ Timeline_of_Earth-1_1970s [2019/09/03 03:46] – [1972] docquantum
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   * August 13-17: While tracking down a nest of spies, Capt. Steve Trevor of U.S. Army Intelligence is shot down over the Atlantic Ocean. His plane crash-lands in the ocean near Paradise Island, and he is rescued by two Amazons: Princess Diana and her best friend Mala. Without telling her mother Queen Hippolyta, Diana brings the unconscious pilot to her laboratory outside the city, where she and Dr. Althea work day and night to save his life. Diana perfects her purple healing ray just in time to revive Steve back to life and brief consciousness even after he is pronounced clinically dead. Queen Hippolyta is alarmed when she finally learns that a man is on Paradise Island, but she's even more worried when she realizes her daughter may have fallen in love with the man. ["The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #159 (January, 1966); "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," DC Special Series #19 (Fall, 1979)]
   * August 14-15: Selina Kyle, furious over a newspaper story about how Batman triumphed over Catwoman, returns to crime as Catwoman. At the conclusion of this case, Catwoman goes missing for five years, and her absence has never been explained. ["The Crimes of the Catwoman," Detective Comics #203 (January, 1954)]
+  * August 17: Jason Todd, son of circus aerialists Joseph and Trina Todd (the Flying Todds), is born. ["Confrontation," Detective Comics #525 (April, 1983)]
   * August 25-26: When Clark Kent and Lois Lane are sent to Vietnam as medics in order to cover the Vietnam War, Superman protects the remaining U.S. troops from a giant, dull-witted, super-strong man known as King Cong. Later, Superman discovers that King Cong is really an American G.I. named Johnny Morely who has been transformed through the use of a super-drug created by a Vietnamese scientist named Dr. Han, and the effects of the super-drug wear off. //Note: This story is placed years out of sequence because it can only take place during the direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which ends not long after in 1973. // ["The Soldier of Steel," Superman #216 (May, 1969)]
   * August 27-31: When Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne each go on vacations on the cruise-ship Varania, they accidentally learn each other's secret identities of Superman and Batman when forced to share a room. Vowing to keep each other's identities a secret, Superman and Batman team up to capture John Smilter, an asbestos-suited bandit who stole the Fabian diamonds. ["The Mightiest Team in the World," Superman #76 (May-June, 1952)]
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   * September 28-29: Superman builds Superman Island to house a vault full of kryptonite meteors for a scientist's ill-fated attempt to use kryptonite as an energy source. ["The Secret of Superman Island," Action Comics #224 (January, 1957)]
 ===October, 1973===
-  * October 6: The Yom Kippur War begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur. Vicki Vale covers the war for Picture News. ["Cat Tale," Detective Comics #521 (December, 1982)]
+  * October 6: The Yom Kippur War begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur. Vicki Vale covers the war for Picture News Magazine. ["Cat Tale," Detective Comics #521 (December, 1982)]
   * October 10: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns.
   * October 17: Superman temporarily becomes Superbaby once again. ["Superbaby, Jimmy Olsen's Pal," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #18 (February, 1957)]
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   * September 26-27: Jimmy Olsen and Robin the Boy Wonder team up for the first time while secretly helping Superman and Batman. Jimmy and Robin use an abandoned mountain observatory as their headquarters, calling it the Eyrie, which they later make into a trophy hall for Superman's and Batman's shared cases. ["The Olsen-Robin Team Versus the Superman-Batman Team," World's Finest Comics #141 (May, 1964)]
 ===October, 1976===
-  * Batman begins wearing a modified version of his costume with a yellow oval around the bat insignia. Batman and Robin also begin driving a new sports car version of the //Batmobile//. Two new entrances to the Batcave are created, one through a grandfather clock in Wayne Manor, and the other a tunnel leading to a country road. ["The Mystery of the Menacing Mask," Detective Comics #327 (May, 1964); ""Two-Way Gem Caper," Batman #164 (June, 1964)]
+  * Batman begins wearing a modified version of his costume with a yellow oval around the bat insignia. Batman and Robin also begin driving a new sports car version of the //Batmobile//. Two new entrances to the Batcave are created, one through a grandfather clock in Wayne Manor, and the other a tunnel leading to a country road. ["The Mystery of the Menacing Mask," Detective Comics #327 (May, 1964); "Two-Way Gem Caper," Batman #164 (June, 1964)]
+  * Vicki Vale leaves Gotham City to become editor of the Paris branch of Picture News Magazine. During the years she lives in Paris, Vicki is married and divorced before returning to Gotham City. During this time she also covers the Lebanese Civil War. ["The Double Life of Hugo Strange," Batman #356 (February, 1983); "Cat Tale," Detective Comics #521 (December, 1982)]
   * The Doom Patrol battles the Brotherhood of Evil for the first time. [Doom Patrol #86]
   * Mr. Zero is approached by a television producer about using his likeness in a program about fictional exploits of Batman. Zero agrees and signs the rights to Mr. Reizod.