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- | * Lt. Jonah Hex surrenders to Union officials at Fort Charlotte. Hex is later balmed | + | * Lt. Jonah Hex surrenders to Union officials at Fort Charlotte. Hex is later blamed |
* January 1: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. | * January 1: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. | ||
* May 2-10: " | * May 2-10: " | ||
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===June, 1940=== | ===June, 1940=== | ||
* The man known as the Unknown Soldier has first case. [Unknown Soldier #249] | * The man known as the Unknown Soldier has first case. [Unknown Soldier #249] | ||
+ | * Young reporter Wayne Clifford is sent by //The New York Courier// to London in order to report on the state of England during the Blitz, where he is mentored by seasoned reporter Ed Barnes and comes up against government news censorship. [" | ||
===August, 1940=== | ===August, 1940=== | ||
* The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | * The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | ||
===October, 1940=== | ===October, 1940=== | ||
* An American correspondent for the London-based newspaper //The Tribute,// Richard " | * An American correspondent for the London-based newspaper //The Tribute,// Richard " | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford is transferred to North Africa, where he becomes a war correspondent alongside British soldiers fighting the Italian invaders. [" | ||
===December, | ===December, | ||
* Captain X steals a dangerous secret weapon -- a ray that instantly dissolves metal -- from the Germans that was invented by a scientist named Graff. [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #3 (December, 1941)] | * Captain X steals a dangerous secret weapon -- a ray that instantly dissolves metal -- from the Germans that was invented by a scientist named Graff. [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #3 (December, 1941)] | ||
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* When the Germans invade Egypt using a fleet of experimental amphibious tank-boats in an attempt to capture the Suez Canal, Captain X acts as a one-man guerrilla army sabotaging and destroying the tanks. //Note: It is likely that the Germans were under strict orders to ensure that the tank-boats were destroyed rather than captured intact by the Allies, explaining how a single man could be so successful in destroying all of them.// [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #5 (February, 1942)] | * When the Germans invade Egypt using a fleet of experimental amphibious tank-boats in an attempt to capture the Suez Canal, Captain X acts as a one-man guerrilla army sabotaging and destroying the tanks. //Note: It is likely that the Germans were under strict orders to ensure that the tank-boats were destroyed rather than captured intact by the Allies, explaining how a single man could be so successful in destroying all of them.// [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #5 (February, 1942)] | ||
===April, 1941=== | ===April, 1941=== | ||
- | * When the Germans bomb London with gas-bombs that cause victims to die quickly, with hideous grins on their faces, Captain X travels to Germany to track down the inventor of the strychnine gas, an English chemist and novelist named Harold Calvert, whose experiments were stolen by German scientist Kurt Norbolt to create the gas. Rescuing Calvert from a concentration camp in Germany, Captain X also steals a tank of the gas from Norbolt and brings it back to England to be analyzed. //Note: It is likely that the strychnine gas is similar in chemical composition to Joker-venom.// | + | * When the Germans bomb London with gas-bombs that cause victims to die quickly, with hideous grins on their faces, Captain X in his last known case travels to Germany to track down the inventor of the strychnine gas, an English chemist and novelist named Harold Calvert, whose experiments were stolen by German scientist Kurt Norbolt to create the gas. Rescuing Calvert from a concentration camp in Germany, Captain X also steals a tank of the gas from Norbolt and brings it back to England to be analyzed. //Note: It is likely that the strychnine gas is similar in chemical composition to Joker-venom.// |
===September, | ===September, | ||
* The adventures of Keen Arrow are first published by Kolossal Komics. //Note: Keen Arrow is a fictional character who predated the real Earth-1 Green Arrow' | * The adventures of Keen Arrow are first published by Kolossal Komics. //Note: Keen Arrow is a fictional character who predated the real Earth-1 Green Arrow' | ||
+ | ===October, 1941=== | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford leaves North Africa for Russia to report on the Eastern Front, but the British supply ship he travels on is attacked by a German U-boat, and it nearly sinks until a Russian ship arrives to tow them to the nearest port. [" | ||
===December, | ===December, | ||
* December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | * December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | ||
- | * With the U.S. officially in the war, Richard " | + | |
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* Sgt. Rock and Easy Company start combat in World War II beginning in North Africa, followed by Italy (1943), France and Belgium (1944), and Germany (1945). | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Company start combat in World War II beginning in North Africa, followed by Italy (1943), France and Belgium (1944), and Germany (1945). | ||
* Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank. | * Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank. | ||
+ | ===February, | ||
+ | * Reporter Wayne Clifford begins dating a young woman named Joy Winters, who wants to be an army nurse. [" | ||
+ | ===March, 1942=== | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford takes a new assignment as a combat reporter at Bataan in the Philippines, | ||
===April, 1942=== | ===April, 1942=== | ||
+ | * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 and establishes a new life for himself on Earth-1. | ||
* The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64] | * The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64] | ||
* Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47] | * Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47] | ||
* Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487] | * Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487] | ||
- | * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 | + | * Combat reporter Wayne Clifford is captured as a prisoner of war by the Japanese along with U.S. troops in Bataan, |
===November, | ===November, | ||
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===June, 1944=== | ===June, 1944=== | ||
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- | * The Blackhawks' | + | * On the eve of D-Day, the Blackhawks |
- | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. are amongst | + | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. are among the Allied soldiers invading Normandy on D-Day. |
* Jimmy Olsen time-travels from the year 1977 to Europe after D-Day and masquerades as Private Von Olsen. He subsequently is promoted first to Captain and then to Adolf Hitler' | * Jimmy Olsen time-travels from the year 1977 to Europe after D-Day and masquerades as Private Von Olsen. He subsequently is promoted first to Captain and then to Adolf Hitler' | ||
* James W. Gordon graduates from law school and decides to become a policeman, entering police academy during the next intake. | * James W. Gordon graduates from law school and decides to become a policeman, entering police academy during the next intake. | ||
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===February, | ===February, | ||
* February 5: Perry White is hired as a full-time reporter at the Daily Planet. //Note: Previously, Perry was a cub reporter at the Chicago Journal in the mid-1930s, then a cub reporter at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter from 1937 to about 1938 or so, then as a full reporter at the Gotham Gazette until 1949, probably acting as a war correspondent from 1942-1945 for that paper.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | * February 5: Perry White is hired as a full-time reporter at the Daily Planet. //Note: Previously, Perry was a cub reporter at the Chicago Journal in the mid-1930s, then a cub reporter at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter from 1937 to about 1938 or so, then as a full reporter at the Gotham Gazette until 1949, probably acting as a war correspondent from 1942-1945 for that paper.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | ||
+ | * February 20: Hal Jordan is born. //Note: Hal Jordan appears to be about a year older than Clark Kent, according to The New Adventures of Superboy #13, which portrays Hal applying to Metropolis University during a time when Clark was only 16 years old.// | ||
===March, 1949=== | ===March, 1949=== | ||
* March 19: Barry Allen is born to Dr. Henry and Nora Allen in Fallville, Iowa. | * March 19: Barry Allen is born to Dr. Henry and Nora Allen in Fallville, Iowa. |