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| * June 24: The Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. | * June 24: The Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. |
| ===July, 1970=== | ===July, 1970=== |
| * Selina Kyle, a young flight attendant for Speed Airlines, sustains a head injury that causes her to have amnesia. She soon turns to crime, eventually establishing a reputation for herself as a master thief called the Cat, later known as the Catwoman. ["The Secret Life of the Catwoman," Batman #62 (December, 1950-January, 1951)] | * Selina Kyle, a young flight attendant for Speed Airlines, sustains a head injury that causes her to have amnesia. She soon turns to crime, establishing a reputation for herself as a master thief called the Cat. //Note: The Cat eventually comes to be known as Catwoman after the debut of Batman.// ["The Secret Life of the Catwoman," Batman #62 (December, 1950-January, 1951)] |
| ===September, 1970=== | ===September, 1970=== |
| * Jim Rook finally gets a record deal. [Whatever Happened to Nightmaster?] | * Jim Rook finally gets a record deal. [Whatever Happened to Nightmaster?] |
| * Superman gives Billy Cramer a special ultrasonic whistle to summon his help whenever he needs it. Over the next few months, Superman and Billy make a great team. ["Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3] | * Superman gives Billy Cramer a special ultrasonic whistle to summon his help whenever he needs it. Over the next few months, Superman and Billy make a great team. ["Terminus," Superman: The Secret Years #3] |
| ===October, 1970=== | ===October, 1970=== |
| * October 14: The Batman, wearing a crude-looking original costume with longer ears and a bigger utility belt, makes his first public appearance. In his very first case, the Batman is tricked by a thief named "Slugsy" Kyle and is knocked out and briefly captured after he trails him to the Gotham Glass Works factory. Finally, the Batman manages to outwit Kyle and capture him. Soon after, the Batman stops two bank robbers on a rooftop after they robbed the First Federal Bank. Capturing them and tying them up, the Batman leaves them for Police Commissioner James W. Gordon and his men to find, along with a hastily scrawled note identifying himself only with a bat-symbol, which gives him the name of the Bat. Officer Collins, spotting the Batman fleeing the scene, fires off two shots until Gordon stops him. //Note: The Batman's first case supposedly takes place on December 4, according to 1976 Super DC Calendar, but this date is not a full moon in 1970, and it seems to be nearly two months too late to be Batman's “first case,” so it's possible this date refers to another event. The Batman's public debut takes place exactly 15 years before the events of Batman #400, which shows Batman celebrating a major anniversary of his debut. After getting out of jail in 1974, Kyle becomes the villain known as the Clock. Although the scene of Batman fighting two crooks on a rooftop is based on "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" from Detective Comics #27, it cannot be that case, which actually occurs on Earth-1 in a different way in 1978, as depicted in Detective Comics #387. The appearance of a full moon places this story on October 14, 1970. Originally using a crude bat-costume with large bat-ears as an initial test, Batman creates over the next couple of months a sleeker-looking costume with smaller bat-ears that becomes his defined look. He also begins building his crime-fighting tools, such as the Batcave, the Batmobile, and the Batplane, keeping him busy until he has his first official case in December. However, Batman's exploits are largely unknown by the general public until mid-1971, and the Batman is believed to be an urban myth until then. Since there is no clear demarcation between the Golden Age and Silver Age Batman, and since the Silver Age Batman is generally accepted to have had many of the same early adventures as the Golden Age Batman, it's likely that his career begins earlier than previously believed. It is worthwhile to note that Dennis O'Neil once stated that Bruce Wayne became Batman before he turned 21 years old, which would happen on February 19, 1971, just four months after this event.// ["The Legend of the Batman: Who He is and How He Came to Be," Batman #1 (Spring, 1940); "Batman's First Case," Detective Comics #265 (March, 1959); "Earth: Without a Justice League," Justice League of America #37 (August, 1965); "The Man Behind the Mask," The Untold Legend of the Batman #3 (September, 1980); "Resurrection Night," Batman #400 (October, 1986)] | * October 14-17: The Batman, wearing a crude-looking original costume with longer ears and a bigger utility belt, makes his first public appearance. In his very first case, the Batman is tricked by a thief named "Slugsy" Kyle and is knocked out and briefly captured after he trails him to the Gotham Glass Works factory. Finally, the Batman manages to outwit Kyle and capture him. Soon after, the Batman stops two bank robbers on a rooftop after they robbed the First Federal Bank. Capturing them and tying them up, the Batman leaves them for Police Commissioner James W. Gordon and his men to find, along with a hastily scrawled note identifying himself only with a bat-symbol, which gives him the name of the Bat. Officer Collins, spotting the Batman fleeing the scene, fires off two shots until Gordon stops him. The Batman then foils a blackmail/murder plot at a chemical plant, and the first photograph of the Batman is taken. //Note: The Batman's first case supposedly takes place on December 4, according to 1976 Super DC Calendar, but this date is not a full moon in 1970, and it seems to be nearly two months too late to be Batman's “first case,” so it's possible this date refers to another event. The Batman's public debut takes place exactly 15 years before the events of Batman #400, which shows Batman celebrating a major anniversary of his debut. After getting out of jail in 1974, Kyle becomes the villain known as the Clock. Although the scene of Batman fighting two crooks on a rooftop is based on "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" from Detective Comics #27, it cannot be that same case, which actually occurs on Earth-1 in a different way in 1978, as depicted in Detective Comics #387, but some of the details of the case may still have occurred at this time. The appearance of a full moon places this story on October 14, 1970. Originally using a crude bat-costume with large bat-ears as an initial test, Batman creates over the next couple of months a sleeker-looking costume with smaller bat-ears that becomes his defined look. He also begins building his crime-fighting tools, such as the Batcave, the Batmobile, and the Batplane, keeping him busy until he has his first official case in December. However, Batman's exploits are largely unknown by the general public until mid-1971, and the Batman is believed to be an urban myth until then. Since there is no clear demarcation between the Golden Age and Silver Age Batman, and since the Silver Age Batman is generally accepted to have had many of the same early adventures as the Golden Age Batman, it's likely that his career begins earlier than previously believed. It is worthwhile to note that Dennis O'Neil once stated that Bruce Wayne became Batman before he turned 21 years old, which would happen on February 19, 1971, just four months after this event.// ["The Legend of the Batman: Who He is and How He Came to Be," Batman #1 (Spring, 1940); "Batman's First Case," Detective Comics #265 (March, 1959); "Earth: Without a Justice League," Justice League of America #37 (August, 1965); "The Man Behind the Mask," The Untold Legend of the Batman #3 (September, 1980); Batman: Future Tales, 2045: And in the End...; "Resurrection Night," Batman #400 (October, 1986)] |
| ===November, 1970=== | ===November, 1970=== |
| * November 3: | * November 3: |
| * Superman and Batman and Robin are reunited for the first time since August; they begin teaming up regularly from this point on. ["Batman -- Double for Superman," World's Finest Comics #71] | * Superman and Batman and Robin are reunited for the first time since August; they begin teaming up regularly from this point on. ["Batman -- Double for Superman," World's Finest Comics #71] |
| * Superman meets Dan Delta, the toughest private detective in Metropolis, who also bears a striking resemblance to Superman. //Note: Dan Delta is actually Slam Bradley using a pseudonym for an unknown reason. At some point after this story, Slam Bradley resumes his private investigation practice in Gotham City under his original name, as seen in Detective Comics #500.// ["Superman's Last Hour," Superman #92 (September, 1954)] | * Superman meets Dan Delta, the toughest private detective in Metropolis, who also bears a striking resemblance to Superman. //Note: Dan Delta is actually Slam Bradley using a pseudonym for an unknown reason. At some point after this story, Slam Bradley resumes his private investigation practice in Gotham City under his original name, as seen in Detective Comics #500.// ["Superman's Last Hour," Superman #92 (September, 1954)] |
| * October 31: Dressing up as Robin Hood for a Halloween costume ball, Oliver Queen stops a gang of robbers and, finding it more thrilling than the dull life as a businessman, decides to continue fighting crime in the modified Robin Hood costume under the name of the Green Arrow. Inspired by the Batman's Bat-Cave and //Batmobile//, Green Arrow begins building his own Arrowcave beneath his mansion and begins developing his //Arrowcar//, as well as his many trick arrows. Green Arrow starts regularly patrolling Star City around this time, though most of his cases in these early months merely involve petty crimes. //Note: Although there are very few accounts of this time period, Green Arrow originally operated solo for a few months before taking on Speedy as his crime-fighting partner.// ["[[http://www.5earths.com/earth-1/greenarrow-e1-1986-03-1/|Green Arrow: Unfinished Business, Chapter 1: At the Beginning]]"] | * October 31: Dressing up as Robin Hood for a Halloween costume ball, Oliver Queen stops a gang of robbers and, finding it more thrilling than the dull life as a businessman, decides to continue fighting crime in the modified Robin Hood costume under the name of the Green Arrow. Inspired by the Batman's Bat-Cave and //Batmobile//, Green Arrow begins building his own Arrowcave beneath his mansion and begins developing his //Arrowcar//, as well as his many trick arrows. Green Arrow starts regularly patrolling Star City around this time, though most of his cases in these early months merely involve petty crimes. //Note: Although there are very few accounts of this time period, Green Arrow originally operated solo for a few months before taking on Speedy as his crime-fighting partner.// ["[[https://5earths.com/earth-1/greenarrow-e1-1986-03-1/|Green Arrow: Unfinished Business, Chapter 1: At the Beginning]]"] |
| ===November, 1972=== | ===November, 1972=== |
| * Giganta, a female gorilla evolved into a huge, powerful blonde woman, battles Wonder Woman. [Wonder Woman #163] | * Giganta, a female gorilla evolved into a huge, powerful blonde woman, battles Wonder Woman. [Wonder Woman #163] |
| ====1974==== | ====1974==== |
| ===Unspecified month in 1974=== | ===Unspecified month in 1974=== |
| * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter), after a time travel trip from 1965, are stranded in the year 1974 when Dr. Wilfred Doome of Earth-2 steals his Time Sphere's engine. While building a new engine, Rip and his allies learn that history never records them returning to their native time. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/dc-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-02-2/|DC Universe: 1943: The Space-Time Gambit, Book 2, Chapter 2: To Save the Past]]"] | * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter), after a time travel trip from 1965, are stranded in the year 1974 when Dr. Wilfred Doome of Earth-2 steals his Time Sphere's engine. While building a new engine, Rip and his allies learn that history never records them returning to their native time. ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/dc-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-02-2/|DC Universe: 1943: The Space-Time Gambit, Book 2, Chapter 2: To Save the Past]]"] |
| * Jefferson Pierce (the future Black Lightning) and his wife Lynn Stewart are divorced. | * Jefferson Pierce (the future Black Lightning) and his wife Lynn Stewart are divorced. |
| * Maxine Baker is born to Buddy Baker (Animal Man) and his wife Ellen Baker. Maxine is their second child, as their son Cliff was born in 1970. | * Maxine Baker is born to Buddy Baker (Animal Man) and his wife Ellen Baker. Maxine is their second child, as their son Cliff was born in 1970. |
| * July 20-22 | * July 20-22 |
| * Several heroes -- the Martian Manhunter, the Flash, Superman, Batman, Robin, Roy Raymond, the Blackhawks, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Vigilante, Robotman, Congo Bill, Congorilla, Plastic Man, Rex the Wonder Dog, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman, as well as test pilot Hal Jordan -- unite against Commander Blanx and his white Martian invaders; they agree to form a team at some point in the future. ["The Origin of the Justice League, Minus One," Justice League of America #144 (July, 1977).] | * Several heroes -- the Martian Manhunter, the Flash, Superman, Batman, Robin, Roy Raymond, the Blackhawks, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Vigilante, Robotman, Congo Bill, Congorilla, Plastic Man, Rex the Wonder Dog, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman, as well as test pilot Hal Jordan -- unite against Commander Blanx and his white Martian invaders; they agree to form a team at some point in the future. ["The Origin of the Justice League, Minus One," Justice League of America #144 (July, 1977).] |
| * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter), having built a new engine for the Time Sphere, fight off the Blackhawks, Plastic Man, and Jimmy Olsen, each group mistakenly thinking they're enemies. After this incident, the Time Masters leave this time for a short trip to the Civil War, then travel to the year 12 million A.D., where they are enslaved by the Sunset Lords, who use their time travel knowledge to attempt to take over the 20th century. After the Challengers of the Unknown, Swamp Thing, and Deadman rescue them, they choose to live in the Challengers' time of 1982 instead of returning to either 1974 or their native time of 1965. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/dc-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-02-2/|DC Universe: 1943: The Space-Time Gambit, Book 2, Chapter 2: To Save the Past]]"; "The War at Time's End," Challengers of the Unknown #86 (April-May, 1978); "Twelve Million Years to Twilight," Challengers of the Unknown #87 (June-July, 1978)] | * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter), having built a new engine for the Time Sphere, fight off the Blackhawks, Plastic Man, and Jimmy Olsen, each group mistakenly thinking they're enemies. After this incident, the Time Masters leave this time for a short trip to the Civil War, then travel to the year 12 million A.D., where they are enslaved by the Sunset Lords, who use their time travel knowledge to attempt to take over the 20th century. After the Challengers of the Unknown, Swamp Thing, and Deadman rescue them, they choose to live in the Challengers' time of 1982 instead of returning to either 1974 or their native time of 1965. ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/dc-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-02-2/|DC Universe: 1943: The Space-Time Gambit, Book 2, Chapter 2: To Save the Past]]"; "The War at Time's End," Challengers of the Unknown #86 (April-May, 1978); "Twelve Million Years to Twilight," Challengers of the Unknown #87 (June-July, 1978)] |
| * July 25: The Jimmy Olsen Fan Club is officially founded by Tommy Todd. ["The Jimmy Olsen Signal-Watch," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #37 (June, 1959).] | * July 25: The Jimmy Olsen Fan Club is officially founded by Tommy Todd. ["The Jimmy Olsen Signal-Watch," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #37 (June, 1959).] |
| * July 27: Luthor recreates Bizarro #1, who creates for himself a Bizarro-Lois Lane and battles Superman before leaving for outer space in search of a new home. ["The Battle with Bizarro," Action Comics #254 (July, 1959); "The Bride of Bizarro," Action Comics #255 (August, 1959).] | * July 27: Luthor recreates Bizarro #1, who creates for himself a Bizarro-Lois Lane and battles Superman before leaving for outer space in search of a new home. ["The Battle with Bizarro," Action Comics #254 (July, 1959); "The Bride of Bizarro," Action Comics #255 (August, 1959).] |
| * August 22: Supergirl meets Jerro, a teenaged merman from Atlantis, who becomes her first real romance when they kiss. ["Supergirl's First Romance," Action Comics #269 (October, 1960).] | * August 22: Supergirl meets Jerro, a teenaged merman from Atlantis, who becomes her first real romance when they kiss. ["Supergirl's First Romance," Action Comics #269 (October, 1960).] |
| ===September, 1974=== | ===September, 1974=== |
| * The Sandman (Dr. Garrett Sanford) meets and befriends a young boy named Jed Walker. [The Sandman #1] | |
| * September 8: President Ford grants former President Nixon a pardon. | * September 8: President Ford grants former President Nixon a pardon. |
| * September 19: Jimmy Olsen briefly gains invulnerability after bathing in an underground stream rumored to be a branch of the fabled river Styx. ["Superman's Pal of Steel," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #34 (January, 1959).] | * September 19: Jimmy Olsen briefly gains invulnerability after bathing in an underground stream rumored to be a branch of the fabled river Styx. ["Superman's Pal of Steel," Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #34 (January, 1959).] |
| * December 10: The Supergirl Emergency Squad, made up of several young women in the bottle city of Kandor (members of the Supergirl Fan Club there), is formed. ["Supergirl's Super Boy-Friends," Action Comics #290 (July, 1962).] | * December 10: The Supergirl Emergency Squad, made up of several young women in the bottle city of Kandor (members of the Supergirl Fan Club there), is formed. ["Supergirl's Super Boy-Friends," Action Comics #290 (July, 1962).] |
| * December 21: Mr. Mxyzptlk sets his sights on Supergirl during Superman's absence, first transforming the entire population of New York City temporarily into Bizarros, then proposing to Supergirl and bringing her supposedly dead parents Zor-El and Allura back to her for the ceremony (though they were not dead but merely stuck in the Survival Zone). Zor-El outwits Mxy, causing him to say his name backwards, and the imp vanishes back to the fifth dimension, sending Zor-El and Allura back to the Survival Zone (though Supergirl does not learn this) and restoring the New Yorkers to normal. ["The Bride of Mr. Mxyzptlk," Action Comics #291 (August, 1962).] | * December 21: Mr. Mxyzptlk sets his sights on Supergirl during Superman's absence, first transforming the entire population of New York City temporarily into Bizarros, then proposing to Supergirl and bringing her supposedly dead parents Zor-El and Allura back to her for the ceremony (though they were not dead but merely stuck in the Survival Zone). Zor-El outwits Mxy, causing him to say his name backwards, and the imp vanishes back to the fifth dimension, sending Zor-El and Allura back to the Survival Zone (though Supergirl does not learn this) and restoring the New Yorkers to normal. ["The Bride of Mr. Mxyzptlk," Action Comics #291 (August, 1962).] |
| * December 25: The Sandman and Jed Walker rescue Santa Claus from the Seal Men. [The Best of DC #22] | |
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| ====1976==== | ====1976==== |