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 ===October, 1939=== ===October, 1939===
  
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, Darrell Dane invents a serum that causes him to shrink to six inches tall. He becomes</span></html> the **[[Doll Man]]**. <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">[The Dollman, Feature Comics #27 (December, 1939)]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, Darrell Dane invents a serum that causes him to shrink to six inches tall. He becomes the **[[Doll Man]]**. [The Dollman, Feature Comics #27 (December, 1939)]</color>
   * Hank Heywood is caught in an explosion caused by the Nazi saboteur called Baron Death and nearly killed. At Heywood's request, Dr. Gilbert Giles begins an experimental procedure to make him into a cybernetic man, half-human and half-robotic. ["From Hell is Forged a Hero," Steel, the Indestructible Man #1 (March, 1978)]   * Hank Heywood is caught in an explosion caused by the Nazi saboteur called Baron Death and nearly killed. At Heywood's request, Dr. Gilbert Giles begins an experimental procedure to make him into a cybernetic man, half-human and half-robotic. ["From Hell is Forged a Hero," Steel, the Indestructible Man #1 (March, 1978)]
   * Wesley Dodds is shot and nearly killed in his own home by the Face, a master of disguise masquerading as a police officer. He is bedridden for about two weeks while in recovery. [The Sandman, Adventure Comics #44 (November, 1939)]   * Wesley Dodds is shot and nearly killed in his own home by the Face, a master of disguise masquerading as a police officer. He is bedridden for about two weeks while in recovery. [The Sandman, Adventure Comics #44 (November, 1939)]
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-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, an inventor and former U.S. Navy Captain Jim Lockhart names himself</span></html> the **[[Red Torpedo]]** <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">after his unique submarine. He stops a German U-boat from sinking a ship full of refugees escaping wartorn Europe. [Crack Comics #1]</span></html+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, an inventor and former U.S. Navy Captain Jim Lockhart names himself the **[[Red Torpedo]]** after his unique submarine. He stops a German U-boat from sinking a ship full of refugees escaping wartorn Europe. [Crack Comics #1]</color
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X,</span></html> the **[[Black Condor]]** (Richard Grey, Jr.), <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">who was raised by unusually intelligent vultures, has first public case bringing Gali Kan to justice in Hindustan after traveling the world for a few years. [Crack Comics #1]</span></html+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, the **[[Black Condor]]** (Richard Grey, Jr.), who was raised by unusually intelligent vultures, has first public case bringing Gali Kan to justice in Hindustan after traveling the world for a few years. [Crack Comics #1]</color
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, playboy Tom Hallaway becomes a crime-fighting vigilante called</span></html> the **[[Spider]]** (Alias the...). <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">He is assisted by a tough guy named Chuck. [Crack Comics #1]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, playboy Tom Hallaway becomes a crime-fighting vigilante called the **[[Spider]]** (Alias the...). He is assisted by a tough guy named Chuck. [Crack Comics #1]</color>
   * Steel battles the Gadgeteer (Col. Roger Romane). ["A Night Without Heroes," Steel, the Indestructible Man #3 (June, 1978); "Greed Games of the Gadgeteer," Steel, the Indestructible Man #4 (August-September, 1978); "Manhunt," Steel, the Indestructible Man #4 (August-September, 1978)]   * Steel battles the Gadgeteer (Col. Roger Romane). ["A Night Without Heroes," Steel, the Indestructible Man #3 (June, 1978); "Greed Games of the Gadgeteer," Steel, the Indestructible Man #4 (August-September, 1978); "Manhunt," Steel, the Indestructible Man #4 (August-September, 1978)]
   * Steel battles Andrew Hawk, a former silent film star now transformed into a monster. ["A Scream in the Night," Steel, the Indestructible Man #5 (October-November, 1978)]   * Steel battles Andrew Hawk, a former silent film star now transformed into a monster. ["A Scream in the Night," Steel, the Indestructible Man #5 (October-November, 1978)]
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-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, in a Midwestern town called Glen Valley, an old shopkeeper named Samuel who speaks out against a terrorist group called the Black Legion is found by the spirit of Uncle Sam, who joins with him to gain a physical body and fight injustice as</span></html> **[[Uncle Sam]]**, <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">possessing super-strength, invulnerability, super-speed, and occasional mystical powers. Uncle Sam defeats the Black Legion and rounds them up for the police. ["The True Story of Uncle Sam," National Comics #5 (November, 1940); Uncle Sam, National Comics #1 (July, 1940)]</span></html+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, in a Midwestern town called Glen Valley, an old shopkeeper named Samuel who speaks out against a terrorist group called the Black Legion is found by the spirit of Uncle Sam, who joins with him to gain a physical body and fight injustice as **[[Uncle Sam]]**, possessing super-strength, invulnerability, super-speed, and occasional mystical powers. Uncle Sam defeats the Black Legion and rounds them up for the police. ["The True Story of Uncle Sam," National Comics #5 (November, 1940); Uncle Sam, National Comics #1 (July, 1940)]</color
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, when the corrupt French Foreign Legion commander Cracket sends a troop of Legionnaires into the desert to die, Tom Corbet is the only survivor. Discovering an oasis with a pool of strange, phosphorescent water, Tom drinks of it and gains great strength and neonic power, enabling him to perform amazing feats, such as matter transmutation, energy blasts, heat, and flight. Using those powers to become</span></html> **[[Neon the Unknown]]**, <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">he discovers the plans of a millionaire named Morgan Crookes, who has rallied the tribal people of Africa, South America, and Australia together to conquer the world from several secret bases hidden in the jungles of those continents. Neon the Unknown leads the Foreign Legion to destroy these bases, along the way battling the tribal armies, which are equipped with modern planes and armaments. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #1 (July, 1940)]</span></html+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, when the corrupt French Foreign Legion commander Cracket sends a troop of Legionnaires into the desert to die, Tom Corbet is the only survivor. Discovering an oasis with a pool of strange, phosphorescent water, Tom drinks of it and gains great strength and neonic power, enabling him to perform amazing feats, such as matter transmutation, energy blasts, heat, and flight. Using those powers to become **[[Neon the Unknown]]**, he discovers the plans of a millionaire named Morgan Crookes, who has rallied the tribal people of Africa, South America, and Australia together to conquer the world from several secret bases hidden in the jungles of those continents. Neon the Unknown leads the Foreign Legion to destroy these bases, along the way battling the tribal armies, which are equipped with modern planes and armaments. [Neon the Unknown, Hit Comics #1 (July, 1940)]</color
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, Richard Raleigh, an assistant D.A. in District Attorney Darrow office in Superior City, becomes</span></html> the **[[Red Bee]]**, <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">a fighting man assisted occasionally by trained bees, one of which is named Michael. The Red Bee helps the D.A. bring down Boss Storm, a corrupt political boss who has controlled city politics for decades. //Note: D.A. Darrow is also called Hawkes. Superior City is located on the Eastern Seaboard, not the Great Lakes area, and thus is not located on Lake Superior as some suggest.// [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #1 (July, 1940)]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, Richard Raleigh, an assistant D.A. in District Attorney Darrow office in Superior City, becomes the **[[Red Bee]]**, a fighting man assisted occasionally by trained bees, one of which is named Michael. The Red Bee helps the D.A. bring down Boss Storm, a corrupt political boss who has controlled city politics for decades. //Note: D.A. Darrow is also called Hawkes. Superior City is located on the Eastern Seaboard, not the Great Lakes area, and thus is not located on Lake Superior as some suggest.// [The Red Bee, Hit Comics #1 (July, 1940)]</color>
   * From this point on, the Crimson Avenger sometimes begins wearing a wide-brimmed red hat instead of his original blue hat, as well as a longer red cloak over a red business suit, and long yellow gloves instead of short gloves. Around this time, the police and the public alike begin to suspect that the Crimson is a masked vigilante rather than a mere masked criminal. [The Crimson Avenger, Detective Comics #38 (April, 1940)]   * From this point on, the Crimson Avenger sometimes begins wearing a wide-brimmed red hat instead of his original blue hat, as well as a longer red cloak over a red business suit, and long yellow gloves instead of short gloves. Around this time, the police and the public alike begin to suspect that the Crimson is a masked vigilante rather than a mere masked criminal. [The Crimson Avenger, Detective Comics #38 (April, 1940)]
   * Hourman battles a mad scientist named Dr. Snegg who brings wax figures to life through an unknown chemical process. [The Hour-Man, Adventure Comics #51 (June, 1940)]   * Hourman battles a mad scientist named Dr. Snegg who brings wax figures to life through an unknown chemical process. [The Hour-Man, Adventure Comics #51 (June, 1940)]
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   * Janice "Peggy" Maloney accompanies Tex Thomson and Bob Daley as Miss X [Action Comics #26]   * Janice "Peggy" Maloney accompanies Tex Thomson and Bob Daley as Miss X [Action Comics #26]
   * Hourman is framed for a series of robberies when a fellow chemist Bob Wallace is turned into another Hourman by Dr. Snegg in order to lure the hero to him. Hourman clears his name by saving the Mayor. [The Hour-Man, Adventure Comics #52 (July, 1940)]   * Hourman is framed for a series of robberies when a fellow chemist Bob Wallace is turned into another Hourman by Dr. Snegg in order to lure the hero to him. Hourman clears his name by saving the Mayor. [The Hour-Man, Adventure Comics #52 (July, 1940)]
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, an ordinary lineman named Tom Dalton is electrocuted by 10,000 DC volts, then shocked back to life by 10,000 AC volts, causing him to gain powers, including magnetism, super-strength, and telescopic vision. He uses those powers to become</span></html> **[[Magno (Earth-X)|Magno]]**, the Miracle Man. <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">In his first public case, he foils the plans of German agents to capture an American ship. [Magno the Miracle Man, Smash Comics #13 (August, 1940)]</span></html+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, an ordinary lineman named Tom Dalton is electrocuted by 10,000 DC volts, then shocked back to life by 10,000 AC volts, causing him to gain powers, including magnetism, super-strength, and telescopic vision. He uses those powers to become **[[Magno (Earth-X)|Magno]]**, the Miracle Man. In his first public case, he foils the plans of German agents to capture an American ship. [Magno the Miracle Man, Smash Comics #13 (August, 1940)]</color
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, Lanford "Happy" Terrill, reporter for The Daily Globe, a New York City newspaper, gains super-powers in an accident that turns him into</span></html> the **[[Ray]]**, <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">possessing the powers of traveling along light beams, magnetism, teleportation, and even some powers to transform objects. It's possible that the Ray's powers are only limited by his imagination, although he is weakened by darkness and regains his powers through external light. [The Ray, Smash Comics #14 (September, 1940); Cancelled Comics Cavalcade #1]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, Lanford "Happy" Terrill, reporter for The Daily Globe, a New York City newspaper, gains super-powers in an accident that turns him into the **[[Ray]]**, possessing the powers of traveling along light beams, magnetism, teleportation, and even some powers to transform objects. It's possible that the Ray's powers are only limited by his imagination, although he is weakened by darkness and regains his powers through external light. [The Ray, Smash Comics #14 (September, 1940); Cancelled Comics Cavalcade #1]</color>
   * April 3: While pursuing criminals after their attempted murder of Jim Corrigan, the Spectre encounters [[Zor (Anti-Spectre)|Zor]], a spirit confined to Earth who has spread evil over the world for centuries, and whose power rivals that of the Spectre. The first battle between the two spirits ends in a draw, until Zor disappears and decides to threaten the Spectre by impersonating Corrigan and kidnapping his former fiancee Clarice Winston. Appealing to the Voice to save Clarice, the Spectre is granted the power to pursue Zor through the dimensions until he finds Zor's castle. Within, the Spectre is nearly trapped for an eternity, until he tricks Zor into falling into his own trap, then frees Clarice and brings her back to Earth. [The Spectre, More Fun Comics #55 (May, 1940)]   * April 3: While pursuing criminals after their attempted murder of Jim Corrigan, the Spectre encounters [[Zor (Anti-Spectre)|Zor]], a spirit confined to Earth who has spread evil over the world for centuries, and whose power rivals that of the Spectre. The first battle between the two spirits ends in a draw, until Zor disappears and decides to threaten the Spectre by impersonating Corrigan and kidnapping his former fiancee Clarice Winston. Appealing to the Voice to save Clarice, the Spectre is granted the power to pursue Zor through the dimensions until he finds Zor's castle. Within, the Spectre is nearly trapped for an eternity, until he tricks Zor into falling into his own trap, then frees Clarice and brings her back to Earth. [The Spectre, More Fun Comics #55 (May, 1940)]
  
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   * When an invasion force of tiny men equipped with a flying ship and powerful guns invade New York City, causing panic, Doctor Fate destroys them, and he and Inza Cramer track down their creators to a cave in the Catskills. There they encounter three giants in a cave in the Catskills whom Fate identifies with the Norns or the Fates, and Fate removes their power to create life, then traps them within the cave. [Doctor Fate, More Fun Comics #60 (October, 1940)]   * When an invasion force of tiny men equipped with a flying ship and powerful guns invade New York City, causing panic, Doctor Fate destroys them, and he and Inza Cramer track down their creators to a cave in the Catskills. There they encounter three giants in a cave in the Catskills whom Fate identifies with the Norns or the Fates, and Fate removes their power to create life, then traps them within the cave. [Doctor Fate, More Fun Comics #60 (October, 1940)]
   * In return for archeologists profaning his tomb, [[Kulak]], high priest of Brztal, attempts to destroy modern civilization through the whispering death, which causes people to turn against each other in hatred, followed by a plague of locusts. When the Spectre stops Kulak's plans, the two battle until the Spectre uses his Ring of Life against Kulak, briefly gaining the upper hand. Kulak fights back with legions of the undead of Brztal while causing the Earth's oceans to rise, until the Spectre manages to cause Kulak to be overcome by his own incantation by breaking it midway through, then puts the world's oceans back where they belong. [The Spectre, All-Star Comics #2 (Fall, 1940)]   * In return for archeologists profaning his tomb, [[Kulak]], high priest of Brztal, attempts to destroy modern civilization through the whispering death, which causes people to turn against each other in hatred, followed by a plague of locusts. When the Spectre stops Kulak's plans, the two battle until the Spectre uses his Ring of Life against Kulak, briefly gaining the upper hand. Kulak fights back with legions of the undead of Brztal while causing the Earth's oceans to rise, until the Spectre manages to cause Kulak to be overcome by his own incantation by breaking it midway through, then puts the world's oceans back where they belong. [The Spectre, All-Star Comics #2 (Fall, 1940)]
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, radio announcer Dave Clark becomes</span></html> **[[Midnight]]** <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">in Big City when he learns that the Carleton Construction Company has been building with inferior concrete, causing an apartment building to collapse and then the Tri-State Dam. Midnight brings Morris Carleton to justice and decides to keep up his mystery-man act. Midnight also meets Rod Reilly briefly at Carleton's party. [Midnight, Smash Comics #18 (January, 1941)]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, radio announcer Dave Clark becomes **[[Midnight]]** in Big City when he learns that the Carleton Construction Company has been building with inferior concrete, causing an apartment building to collapse and then the Tri-State Dam. Midnight brings Morris Carleton to justice and decides to keep up his mystery-man act. Midnight also meets Rod Reilly briefly at Carleton's party. [Midnight, Smash Comics #18 (January, 1941)]</color>
   * Johnny Thunder is fired from the FBI after he unwittingly aids a female spy's escape, so he decides to become a costumed mystery-man known as the Thunderbolt, wearing a costume sewn by his mother. As the Thunderbolt, he captures the spy known as La Belle Tartes. [Johnny Thunderbolt, Flash Comics #7]   * Johnny Thunder is fired from the FBI after he unwittingly aids a female spy's escape, so he decides to become a costumed mystery-man known as the Thunderbolt, wearing a costume sewn by his mother. As the Thunderbolt, he captures the spy known as La Belle Tartes. [Johnny Thunderbolt, Flash Comics #7]
   * Hourman battles Dr. Togg, based on Wide Island, who commands a group of intelligent, flying hybrid creatures created from wolves and buzzards, which he calls the Gombezi. [The Hour-Man, Adventure Comics #57 (December, 1940)]   * Hourman battles Dr. Togg, based on Wide Island, who commands a group of intelligent, flying hybrid creatures created from wolves and buzzards, which he calls the Gombezi. [The Hour-Man, Adventure Comics #57 (December, 1940)]
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   * Hop Harrigan becomes Guardian Angel. [All-American Comics #25]   * Hop Harrigan becomes Guardian Angel. [All-American Comics #25]
   * The fish-men of Nyarl-Amen return after 50,000 years in an attempt to restore their domination over the world, beginning with attacking and capturing the Pearl Harbor Naval Base at Hawaii while wielding tridents that shoot bolts of lightning. Doctor Fate subdues the fish-men with fire, then destroys the underwater city of Nyarl-Amen, killing all life within. [Doctor Fate, More Fun Comics #65 (March, 1941)]   * The fish-men of Nyarl-Amen return after 50,000 years in an attempt to restore their domination over the world, beginning with attacking and capturing the Pearl Harbor Naval Base at Hawaii while wielding tridents that shoot bolts of lightning. Doctor Fate subdues the fish-men with fire, then destroys the underwater city of Nyarl-Amen, killing all life within. [Doctor Fate, More Fun Comics #65 (March, 1941)]
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, rookie patrolman Chuck Lane becomes</span></html> **[[Jester II (Chuck Lane)|the Jester]]** <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">in New York City. As the direct descendant of a real court jester, Lane took his mystery-man gimmick from his ancestor. [Smash Comics #22]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, rookie patrolman Chuck Lane becomes **[[Jester II (Chuck Lane)|the Jester]]** in New York City. As the direct descendant of a real court jester, Lane took his mystery-man gimmick from his ancestor. [Smash Comics #22]</color>
   * ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/hourman-tp1941-01/|Hourman: Times Past, 1941: Time Management]]"]   * ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/hourman-tp1941-01/|Hourman: Times Past, 1941: Time Management]]"]
   * The Spectre battles huge, ravenous monsters when they attack Cliffland, Ohio, but falls prey to green eye-beams that paralyze him. Trailing them back to an art museum, the Spectre enters the world of a painting populated by monsters who desire life in the physical world. After escaping from the world in the painting, the Spectre burns the painting to destroy the gateway to reality. [The Spectre, More Fun Comics #66 (April, 1941)]   * The Spectre battles huge, ravenous monsters when they attack Cliffland, Ohio, but falls prey to green eye-beams that paralyze him. Trailing them back to an art museum, the Spectre enters the world of a painting populated by monsters who desire life in the physical world. After escaping from the world in the painting, the Spectre burns the painting to destroy the gateway to reality. [The Spectre, More Fun Comics #66 (April, 1941)]
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   * Ted Knight, newly recovered from his months-long illness, witnesses Batman and Robin in action while having dinner with his girlfriend Doris Lee in Gotham City. Several days later, he meets his cousin Sandra Knight in Washington, D.C., who shows him her laboratory, filled with inventions by Prof. Abraham Davis (now missing for six months), including a prototype black-light ray and the prototype gravity rod that he developed with Prof. Davis' assistance. After three days of work, Ted figures out how to successfully power the rod with cosmic rays, and he decides to become the mystery man called **[[Starman]]**, spending the next several days designing and creating a costume. He also decides to keep up his pretense of being sickly in order to preserve his secret identity. ["Catch a Falling Starman," All-Star Squadron #41 (January, 1985)]   * Ted Knight, newly recovered from his months-long illness, witnesses Batman and Robin in action while having dinner with his girlfriend Doris Lee in Gotham City. Several days later, he meets his cousin Sandra Knight in Washington, D.C., who shows him her laboratory, filled with inventions by Prof. Abraham Davis (now missing for six months), including a prototype black-light ray and the prototype gravity rod that he developed with Prof. Davis' assistance. After three days of work, Ted figures out how to successfully power the rod with cosmic rays, and he decides to become the mystery man called **[[Starman]]**, spending the next several days designing and creating a costume. He also decides to keep up his pretense of being sickly in order to preserve his secret identity. ["Catch a Falling Starman," All-Star Squadron #41 (January, 1985)]
   * Sandra Knight prevents the kidnapping of her father, Senator Henry Knight, and is referred to as a "phantom lady," inspiring her to become a mystery-woman. [Freedom Fighters #15]   * Sandra Knight prevents the kidnapping of her father, Senator Henry Knight, and is referred to as a "phantom lady," inspiring her to become a mystery-woman. [Freedom Fighters #15]
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, chemist Roy Lincoln of Washington, D.C., son of a famous explosives expert, assists his father to create a new super explosive 27-QRX. Nazi agents kill his father, and he ingests the explosive capsule, gaining invulnerability and the power to cause explosions with his hands, and becomes the mystery-man known as</span></html> the **[[Human Bomb]]**. <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">After he discovers that the German Consul is behind the murder of his father, he uses his explosive power to kill him. [Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)]</span></html+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, chemist Roy Lincoln of Washington, D.C., son of a famous explosives expert, assists his father to create a new super explosive 27-QRX. Nazi agents kill his father, and he ingests the explosive capsule, gaining invulnerability and the power to cause explosions with his hands, and becomes the mystery-man known as the **[[Human Bomb]]**. After he discovers that the German Consul is behind the murder of his father, he uses his explosive power to kill him. [Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)]</color
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, having an hour to spend before a meeting, Daily Star reporter Joan Dale falls asleep at the foot of the Statue of Liberty and wishes for the power to do good; then the spirit of liberty herself (which is actually USA the Spirit of Old Glory) grants Joan the magical power of transmuting anything or anyone and several other magical powers, such as teleportation and imbuing personalities into objects she's transformed. Joan becomes the patriotic mystery-woman known as</span></html> **[[Miss America]]**, <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">originally acting in an ordinary red dress. [Miss America, Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, having an hour to spend before a meeting, Daily Star reporter Joan Dale falls asleep at the foot of the Statue of Liberty and wishes for the power to do good; then the spirit of liberty herself (which is actually USA the Spirit of Old Glory) grants Joan the magical power of transmuting anything or anyone and several other magical powers, such as teleportation and imbuing personalities into objects she's transformed. Joan becomes the patriotic mystery-woman known as **[[Miss America]]**, originally acting in an ordinary red dress. [Miss America, Military Comics #1 (August, 1941)]</color>
   * Hourman, with the help of the Minute-Men of America, exposes a corrupt mayor who is in cahoots with Big Benny, the crooked political boss of that town. Months later, Hourman witnesses the low-rent Hour Man Apartments being opened, replacing a crime-ridden slum. [The Hour Man, Adventure Comics #66 (September, 1941)]   * Hourman, with the help of the Minute-Men of America, exposes a corrupt mayor who is in cahoots with Big Benny, the crooked political boss of that town. Months later, Hourman witnesses the low-rent Hour Man Apartments being opened, replacing a crime-ridden slum. [The Hour Man, Adventure Comics #66 (September, 1941)]
   * With the Flash becoming an inactive JSA member to devote more time to his solo cases (GL becomes chairman), Johnny Thunder crashes his going-away party and petitions to be allowed to join.  The other members concoct their version of a snipe hunt, in which Johnny is to apprehend "Killer" McPanzee, ostensibly a dangerous criminal but in reality a rather timid old coot. ["The Justice Society of America Initiates Johnny Thunder," All-Star Comics #6 (August-September, 1941)]   * With the Flash becoming an inactive JSA member to devote more time to his solo cases (GL becomes chairman), Johnny Thunder crashes his going-away party and petitions to be allowed to join.  The other members concoct their version of a snipe hunt, in which Johnny is to apprehend "Killer" McPanzee, ostensibly a dangerous criminal but in reality a rather timid old coot. ["The Justice Society of America Initiates Johnny Thunder," All-Star Comics #6 (August-September, 1941)]
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   * April 12: After a series of electrical outages plagues the East Coast, FBI agent Woodley Allen (Doris Lee's uncle) contacts Starman just outside New York City to stop the Brotherhood of the Electron and its leader, Doctor Doog ("good" spelled backwards). Starman frees Prof. Abraham Davis (kidnapped six months ago for his invention called the Ultra-Dynamo), who gives him his blessing to use the gravity rod without realizing Starman is his fellow collaborator Ted Knight. Immediately after his first case as Starman, Ted formally proposes to Doris Lee, who becomes his fiancée. Starman primarily operates in New York City at this time, but he also has his ancestral home in Opal City and another residence in Washington, D.C. Starman's nicknames include the Astral Avalanche, the Astral Avenger, the Astral Crime-Crusher, the Astral Man, the Astral Traveler, the Crime-Crusher of the Constellations, the Crimson Cavalier, the Crimson Crime-Crusher, the Dark Knight, the Man of Night, the Mystery Man of Night, and the Scarlet Scourge. //Note: When he tells his story later on to Jonathan Law, Ted Knight omits the fact that he and Abraham Davis created the gravity rod together in order to harness the cosmic energy that Ted had discovered, since he wanted to downplay his own scientific background. The next story indicates that Ted and Doris have become formally engaged by then.// ["The Amazing Starman," Adventure Comics #61 (April, 1941); "Catch a Falling Starman," All-Star Squadron #41 (January, 1985)]   * April 12: After a series of electrical outages plagues the East Coast, FBI agent Woodley Allen (Doris Lee's uncle) contacts Starman just outside New York City to stop the Brotherhood of the Electron and its leader, Doctor Doog ("good" spelled backwards). Starman frees Prof. Abraham Davis (kidnapped six months ago for his invention called the Ultra-Dynamo), who gives him his blessing to use the gravity rod without realizing Starman is his fellow collaborator Ted Knight. Immediately after his first case as Starman, Ted formally proposes to Doris Lee, who becomes his fiancée. Starman primarily operates in New York City at this time, but he also has his ancestral home in Opal City and another residence in Washington, D.C. Starman's nicknames include the Astral Avalanche, the Astral Avenger, the Astral Crime-Crusher, the Astral Man, the Astral Traveler, the Crime-Crusher of the Constellations, the Crimson Cavalier, the Crimson Crime-Crusher, the Dark Knight, the Man of Night, the Mystery Man of Night, and the Scarlet Scourge. //Note: When he tells his story later on to Jonathan Law, Ted Knight omits the fact that he and Abraham Davis created the gravity rod together in order to harness the cosmic energy that Ted had discovered, since he wanted to downplay his own scientific background. The next story indicates that Ted and Doris have become formally engaged by then.// ["The Amazing Starman," Adventure Comics #61 (April, 1941); "Catch a Falling Starman," All-Star Squadron #41 (January, 1985)]
   * April 12: Criminal scientific wizard Ian Karkull perfects a shadow-maker machine that can transform a human into shadow and back again with a materializer beam. When he sends a criminal in shadow form to murder his old partner, Everett Dahlen, Doctor Fate tracks him down just as Karkull is sending his shadow men to rob a bank, but Karkull incapacitates Fate with a beam of transareal power. When Fate recovers and defeats his gang, Karkull turns himself into a shadow to hide, but is trapped in that form when Fate destroys the machine that can return his material form. Shortly after, Wotan (who is still trapped underground) astral projects his soul to the upper world, where he encounters Ian Karkull in his shadow form. With Karkull's help, Wotan is freed from his prison through an incantation. Wotan and Karkull then travel to the Arctic Circle, where they begin building strange weapons to attack the world from their base, a domed city. [Doctor Fate, More Fun Comics #69 (July, 1941); Doctor Fate, More Fun Comics #70 (August, 1941)]   * April 12: Criminal scientific wizard Ian Karkull perfects a shadow-maker machine that can transform a human into shadow and back again with a materializer beam. When he sends a criminal in shadow form to murder his old partner, Everett Dahlen, Doctor Fate tracks him down just as Karkull is sending his shadow men to rob a bank, but Karkull incapacitates Fate with a beam of transareal power. When Fate recovers and defeats his gang, Karkull turns himself into a shadow to hide, but is trapped in that form when Fate destroys the machine that can return his material form. Shortly after, Wotan (who is still trapped underground) astral projects his soul to the upper world, where he encounters Ian Karkull in his shadow form. With Karkull's help, Wotan is freed from his prison through an incantation. Wotan and Karkull then travel to the Arctic Circle, where they begin building strange weapons to attack the world from their base, a domed city. [Doctor Fate, More Fun Comics #69 (July, 1941); Doctor Fate, More Fun Comics #70 (August, 1941)]
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">April 12: On Earth-X, Sandra Knight saves her father, Senator Henry Knight, from would-be kidnappers who call her a "phantom lady." Sandra Knight soon begins adventuring as a costumed mystery-woman called</span></html> **[[Phantom Lady (Earth-X)|Phantom Lady]]**, <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">using a black-light ray invented by a scientist-friend of her cousin Ted Knight. Her love interest is Don Borden, a State Department investigator. In her first case as a costumed mystery-woman, Phantom Lady saves a bomb inventor named Raphael from Wenner, a man who planned to steal his uranium explosive and sell it to foreign powers. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)]</span></html+  * <color /#ECECEC>April 12: On Earth-X, Sandra Knight saves her father, Senator Henry Knight, from would-be kidnappers who call her a "phantom lady." Sandra Knight soon begins adventuring as a costumed mystery-woman called **[[Phantom Lady (Earth-X)|Phantom Lady]]**, using a black-light ray invented by a scientist-friend of her cousin Ted Knight. Her love interest is Don Borden, a State Department investigator. In her first case as a costumed mystery-woman, Phantom Lady saves a bomb inventor named Raphael from Wenner, a man who planned to steal his uranium explosive and sell it to foreign powers. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)]</color
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">April 12-19: On Earth-X, Criminal "Eel" O'Brien is shot and doused with acid at the Crawford Chemical Works, and discovers his body has become completely pliable and elastic, allowing him to stretch and become any shape at will. He decides to fight crime with his powers and becomes the mystery-man known as</span></html> **[[Plastic Man (Earth-2)|Plastic Man]]**. <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">In his first case, he captures his old gang, led by Skizzle Shanks. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>April 12-19: On Earth-X, Criminal "Eel" O'Brien is shot and doused with acid at the Crawford Chemical Works, and discovers his body has become completely pliable and elastic, allowing him to stretch and become any shape at will. He decides to fight crime with his powers and becomes the mystery-man known as **[[Plastic Man (Earth-2)|Plastic Man]]**. In his first case, he captures his old gang, led by Skizzle Shanks. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)]</color>
  
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   * Victor Leong becomes Stuff the Chinatown Kid [?]   * Victor Leong becomes Stuff the Chinatown Kid [?]
   * Needing help to battle Doctor Poison, Wonder Woman recruits Etta Candy and ninety-nine other girls from the Beeta Lambda Holliday College for Women in Washington, D.C. They become known as the Holliday Girls (known members include Betty, Brenda, Dorothy Lord, Eve Brown, Faith Alden, Gay, Gell Osey, Glamora Treat, Hester, Janet Foster, Jean Townsend, Lillie, Lita Little, Lorrie, Marcia, Marcy Young, Mary Lane, Patsy Peters, Roberta "Bobbie" Strong, Ruth Rorick, Susan Tardee, Tina Toy, Thelma Tall, Tress Akter, Virginia True, and Millie &amp; Tillie Heyday). [Sensation #2]   * Needing help to battle Doctor Poison, Wonder Woman recruits Etta Candy and ninety-nine other girls from the Beeta Lambda Holliday College for Women in Washington, D.C. They become known as the Holliday Girls (known members include Betty, Brenda, Dorothy Lord, Eve Brown, Faith Alden, Gay, Gell Osey, Glamora Treat, Hester, Janet Foster, Jean Townsend, Lillie, Lita Little, Lorrie, Marcia, Marcy Young, Mary Lane, Patsy Peters, Roberta "Bobbie" Strong, Ruth Rorick, Susan Tardee, Tina Toy, Thelma Tall, Tress Akter, Virginia True, and Millie &amp; Tillie Heyday). [Sensation #2]
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, Donald Daniel Richards becomes</span></html> **[[Manhunter]]**. <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">[Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, Donald Daniel Richards becomes **[[Manhunter]]**. [Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</color>
   * November 4: Prof. Juniper Grimm completes the Time-Sphere, a time machine allowing him to briefly visit New York City in the 30th century. But Starman's old enemy the Light, hearing about the Time-Sphere's existence, kidnaps Prof. Grimm and seizes the time machine, then uses it to bring back Futurites -- giant men in protective suits from the future -- to terrorize New York City. Starman is nearly defeated when his gravity rod's stellar energy is depleted, except for a timely eclipse that allows it to quickly recharge, giving Starman the boost he needs to escape and defeat the Light and defeat one of the Futurites. The other Futurites escape back to the future with the Time-Sphere. //Note: The present year of 1942 is mentioned, but this is a chronicler's error.// ["The Invaders from the Future," Adventure Comics #71 (February, 1942)]   * November 4: Prof. Juniper Grimm completes the Time-Sphere, a time machine allowing him to briefly visit New York City in the 30th century. But Starman's old enemy the Light, hearing about the Time-Sphere's existence, kidnaps Prof. Grimm and seizes the time machine, then uses it to bring back Futurites -- giant men in protective suits from the future -- to terrorize New York City. Starman is nearly defeated when his gravity rod's stellar energy is depleted, except for a timely eclipse that allows it to quickly recharge, giving Starman the boost he needs to escape and defeat the Light and defeat one of the Futurites. The other Futurites escape back to the future with the Time-Sphere. //Note: The present year of 1942 is mentioned, but this is a chronicler's error.// ["The Invaders from the Future," Adventure Comics #71 (February, 1942)]
   * November 4: When Morton Kirk invents a space-folding machine that can instantly transport objects from one place to another with a purple ray, he realizes how dangerous his invention is when he briefly transports an active volcano and wild animals from a distant jungle into Cliffland. After ceasing his experiments, Kirk is imprisoned by his assistant, Nat Rhodes, who then blackmails the city with the device. The Spectre swats away icebergs before they can damage buildings, then saves Cliffland from being deluged by water from the ocean. Kirk stops Rhodes by transporting them both into a distant sea, where they drown. [The Spectre, More Fun Comics #73 (November, 1941)]   * November 4: When Morton Kirk invents a space-folding machine that can instantly transport objects from one place to another with a purple ray, he realizes how dangerous his invention is when he briefly transports an active volcano and wild animals from a distant jungle into Cliffland. After ceasing his experiments, Kirk is imprisoned by his assistant, Nat Rhodes, who then blackmails the city with the device. The Spectre swats away icebergs before they can damage buildings, then saves Cliffland from being deluged by water from the ocean. Kirk stops Rhodes by transporting them both into a distant sea, where they drown. [The Spectre, More Fun Comics #73 (November, 1941)]
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   * December 4: Starman visits outer space for the first time when he is placed in a rocket and shot out of Earth's atmosphere by a criminal seeking a family inheritance. ["The Case of the Murders in Outer Space," Adventure Comics #73 (April, 1942)]   * December 4: Starman visits outer space for the first time when he is placed in a rocket and shot out of Earth's atmosphere by a criminal seeking a family inheritance. ["The Case of the Murders in Outer Space," Adventure Comics #73 (April, 1942)]
   * December 4-6: Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy battle a criminal named Fairy Tales Fenton, a former professor of metallurgy who poses as the Norse god Thor. Sandy is hospitalized with injuries sustained during the battle. ["The Villain from Valhalla," Adventure Comics #75 (June, 1942)]   * December 4-6: Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy battle a criminal named Fairy Tales Fenton, a former professor of metallurgy who poses as the Norse god Thor. Sandy is hospitalized with injuries sustained during the battle. ["The Villain from Valhalla," Adventure Comics #75 (June, 1942)]
-  * December 7: Uncle Sam, having recruited the Red Torpedo, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown, and the Invisible Hood, finally travels to Rex Tyler's lab and recruits Hourman, who names their team the [[Freedom Fighters]]. Bringing the team back to Earth-X over the Pacific Ocean some miles west of Hawaii, Uncle Sam and his Freedom Fighters successfully battle a squadron of Japanese Zeros. Miss America uses her matter-creating powers to create out of thin air the Red Torpedo's flying submarine, upon which the team is resting when one Zero dive-bombs the team and crashes into the submarine, disintegrating the submarine and apparently killing <html><span style="color:#FF0000;font-weight:bold;">the Red Torpedo</span>, <span style="color:#FF0000;font-weight:bold;">Magno</span>, <span style="color:#FF0000;font-weight:bold;">Neon the Unknown</span>, and <span style="color:#FF0000;font-weight:bold;">the Invisible Hood</span>, although <span style="color:#FF0000;font-weight:bold;">Miss America</span></html> survives, as do Uncle Sam and Hourman. The Japanese, meanwhile, call off the Pearl Harbor attack, figuring the chances of a surprise attack are now slim. The U.S. does not enter the war at this time. //Note: This occurs sometime after Hourman takes a leave of absence from the Justice Society of America on Earth-2, which occurs on June 28, 1941, as shown in All-Star Squadron Annual #3. Although there is a reference to Uncle Sam visiting Hourman in the summer, he actually visits him on the morning of December 7, a date which is confirmed later in the same issue.// [All-Star Squadron #31-32]+  * December 7: Uncle Sam, having recruited the Red Torpedo, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown, and the Invisible Hood, finally travels to Rex Tyler's lab and recruits Hourman, who names their team the [[Freedom Fighters]]. Bringing the team back to Earth-X over the Pacific Ocean some miles west of Hawaii, Uncle Sam and his Freedom Fighters successfully battle a squadron of Japanese Zeros. Miss America uses her matter-creating powers to create out of thin air the Red Torpedo's flying submarine, upon which the team is resting when one Zero dive-bombs the team and crashes into the submarine, disintegrating the submarine and apparently killing <color #FF0000>**the Red Torpedo**</color>, <color #FF0000>**Magno**</color>, <color #FF0000>**Neon the Unknown**</color>, and <color #FF0000>**the Invisible Hood**</color>, although <color #FF0000>**Miss America**</color> survives, as do Uncle Sam and Hourman. The Japanese, meanwhile, call off the Pearl Harbor attack, figuring the chances of a surprise attack are now slim. The U.S. does not enter the war at this time. //Note: This occurs sometime after Hourman takes a leave of absence from the Justice Society of America on Earth-2, which occurs on June 28, 1941, as shown in All-Star Squadron Annual #3. Although there is a reference to Uncle Sam visiting Hourman in the summer, he actually visits him on the morning of December 7, a date which is confirmed later in the same issue.// [All-Star Squadron #31-32]
   * December 7: The same vortex that transports Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters to Earth-X also transports Midnight and Doll Man, who independently track Uncle Sam down to Rex Tyler's lab and decide to jump into the vortex when they see the others disappearing into it. The two also end up on Earth-X, only across the world in German-Occupied Paris, France. There, Midnight and Doll Man save the lives of two French Resistance fighters (a blonde named Simone and an unnamed male) and are soon introduced to the head of the local Resistance. They fight with the French Resistance for the next two months. [All-Star Squadron #32]   * December 7: The same vortex that transports Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters to Earth-X also transports Midnight and Doll Man, who independently track Uncle Sam down to Rex Tyler's lab and decide to jump into the vortex when they see the others disappearing into it. The two also end up on Earth-X, only across the world in German-Occupied Paris, France. There, Midnight and Doll Man save the lives of two French Resistance fighters (a blonde named Simone and an unnamed male) and are soon introduced to the head of the local Resistance. They fight with the French Resistance for the next two months. [All-Star Squadron #32]
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, Hourman is found unconscious by the Japanese, who keep him a prisoner for the next two months, trying to discover the secret of his tremendous strength. [All-Star Squadron #35]</span></html+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, Hourman is found unconscious by the Japanese, who keep him a prisoner for the next two months, trying to discover the secret of his tremendous strength. [All-Star Squadron #35]</color
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">On Earth-X, Uncle Sam washes up on a beach in Hawaii days later and is found by U.S. soldiers who don't believe his story about preventing an invasion of Pearl Harbor, thinking him crazy. Uncle Sam is incarcerated in a padded cell by the military for the next two months, during which time he realizes that by stopping the attack on Pearl Harbor, America does not join in the war effort, allowing the Axis powers to invade even more of Europe and Asia. Uncle Sam spends much of his time attempting to create a vortex to return to Earth-2. [All-Star Squadron #32]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>On Earth-X, Uncle Sam washes up on a beach in Hawaii days later and is found by U.S. soldiers who don't believe his story about preventing an invasion of Pearl Harbor, thinking him crazy. Uncle Sam is incarcerated in a padded cell by the military for the next two months, during which time he realizes that by stopping the attack on Pearl Harbor, America does not join in the war effort, allowing the Axis powers to invade even more of Europe and Asia. Uncle Sam spends much of his time attempting to create a vortex to return to Earth-2. [All-Star Squadron #32]</color>
   * December 6: //Note: This story features a scene with Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Green Lantern similar to the cover of Comic Cavalcade #1. This story features a scene with Superman, Batman, and Robin similar to the cover of World's Finest Comics #6.// [Justice League of America #193]   * December 6: //Note: This story features a scene with Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Green Lantern similar to the cover of Comic Cavalcade #1. This story features a scene with Superman, Batman, and Robin similar to the cover of World's Finest Comics #6.// [Justice League of America #193]
   * December 7: All-Star Squadron is founded by FDR on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbor. [Roy Thomas] [All-Star Squadron #1]   * December 7: All-Star Squadron is founded by FDR on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbor. [Roy Thomas] [All-Star Squadron #1]
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   * February 17-18: Several All-Star Squadron members attend a Press Convention, including Liberty Belle, Johnny Quick, Superman, the Ray, and the Sword. A new group of villains appears, calling themselves the Brotherhood of the Electron: Sieur Satan, Lightning Master, Doctor Doog, and Doctor Light. After they attack the convention and kidnap Superman, a group of All-Stars and Lois Lane defeats the Brotherhood and frees Superman. ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/allstarsquadron-tp1942-02/|All-Star Squadron: Times Past, 1942: Overlord of the Underworld]]"]   * February 17-18: Several All-Star Squadron members attend a Press Convention, including Liberty Belle, Johnny Quick, Superman, the Ray, and the Sword. A new group of villains appears, calling themselves the Brotherhood of the Electron: Sieur Satan, Lightning Master, Doctor Doog, and Doctor Light. After they attack the convention and kidnap Superman, a group of All-Stars and Lois Lane defeats the Brotherhood and frees Superman. ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/allstarsquadron-tp1942-02/|All-Star Squadron: Times Past, 1942: Overlord of the Underworld]]"]
   * February 19: Roosevelt signs an executive order calling for the creation of internment camps for Japanese-born and Japanese-descended U.S. citizens.   * February 19: Roosevelt signs an executive order calling for the creation of internment camps for Japanese-born and Japanese-descended U.S. citizens.
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">February 22: On Earth-X, Uncle Sam, still locked away in a padded cell, has another vision of an attack on U.S. soil, this time on the coast of California. He now finally succeeds in creating a vortex that transports him back to Earth-2. Unbeknownst to him, one of his preliminary attempts allows Baron Blitzkrieg to transport himself from Earth-2 to the Berlin, Germany, of Earth-X, where his sight is restored. Using his powers, he communicates with his aide Zwerg to orchestrate a wave of Nazi sabotage all along the East Coast, keeping the All-Stars distracted while the Japanese prepare to bomb the California coast. Then Blitzkrieg travels to the Pacific, where the Japanese hand over the captured Hourman to him. [All-Star Squadron #32, 35]</span></html>+  * <color /#ECECEC>February 22: On Earth-X, Uncle Sam, still locked away in a padded cell, has another vision of an attack on U.S. soil, this time on the coast of California. He now finally succeeds in creating a vortex that transports him back to Earth-2. Unbeknownst to him, one of his preliminary attempts allows Baron Blitzkrieg to transport himself from Earth-2 to the Berlin, Germany, of Earth-X, where his sight is restored. Using his powers, he communicates with his aide Zwerg to orchestrate a wave of Nazi sabotage all along the East Coast, keeping the All-Stars distracted while the Japanese prepare to bomb the California coast. Then Blitzkrieg travels to the Pacific, where the Japanese hand over the captured Hourman to him. [All-Star Squadron #32, 35]</color>
   * February 22-24: Earth-X:   * February 22-24: Earth-X:
     * February 22-23: The All-Star Squadron holds its first general meeting. The Seven Soldiers of Victory (minus the Shining Knight) meets the Justice Battalion of America. Phantom Lady shows off her new green goggles that disguise her face more effectively. Liberty Belle shows off her updated costume (a cape and new gloves, boots, and mask). The Whip has abandoned his fake accent. Uncle Sam, finally able to return to Earth-2 from Earth-X, addresses the team and pleads for their help to return to prevent the invasion of the U.S. mainland. The All-Stars are divided on whether they should journey to that parallel Earth to fight the more powerful Nazi threat there. Midnight shows up with an injured Doll Man. ["Uncle Sam Wants You," All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)]     * February 22-23: The All-Star Squadron holds its first general meeting. The Seven Soldiers of Victory (minus the Shining Knight) meets the Justice Battalion of America. Phantom Lady shows off her new green goggles that disguise her face more effectively. Liberty Belle shows off her updated costume (a cape and new gloves, boots, and mask). The Whip has abandoned his fake accent. Uncle Sam, finally able to return to Earth-2 from Earth-X, addresses the team and pleads for their help to return to prevent the invasion of the U.S. mainland. The All-Stars are divided on whether they should journey to that parallel Earth to fight the more powerful Nazi threat there. Midnight shows up with an injured Doll Man. ["Uncle Sam Wants You," All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)]
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     * February 23: Using the power of the Spectre, Uncle Sam leads an All-Star Squadron task force (Doll Man, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb, the Ray, and the Red Bee) back to Earth-X. Arriving at Goleta, just outside Santa Barbara, California, as the Japanese invasion begins, the team assists in the defense of California. On Earth-2, arriving at Santa Barbara, Johnny Quick and Firebrand meet Neptune Perkins, while Starman and Liberty Belle battle Tsunami (Miya Shimada), who has kidnapped Capt. Rick Cannon. After Tsunami accidentally kills her own father, she flees. Meanwhile, the Spectre, forbidden to enter Earth-X, inadvertently causes the two parallel universes to enter the same vibrational plane and struggles to keep them from destroying each other. On Earth-X, attacking a Japanese Destroyer, the team finds Baron Blitzkrieg, who has Hourman chained to the front of a cannon, having discovered the Japanese had him. ["The Battle of Santa Barbara, Times Two," All-Star Squadron #33 (May, 1984)]     * February 23: Using the power of the Spectre, Uncle Sam leads an All-Star Squadron task force (Doll Man, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb, the Ray, and the Red Bee) back to Earth-X. Arriving at Goleta, just outside Santa Barbara, California, as the Japanese invasion begins, the team assists in the defense of California. On Earth-2, arriving at Santa Barbara, Johnny Quick and Firebrand meet Neptune Perkins, while Starman and Liberty Belle battle Tsunami (Miya Shimada), who has kidnapped Capt. Rick Cannon. After Tsunami accidentally kills her own father, she flees. Meanwhile, the Spectre, forbidden to enter Earth-X, inadvertently causes the two parallel universes to enter the same vibrational plane and struggles to keep them from destroying each other. On Earth-X, attacking a Japanese Destroyer, the team finds Baron Blitzkrieg, who has Hourman chained to the front of a cannon, having discovered the Japanese had him. ["The Battle of Santa Barbara, Times Two," All-Star Squadron #33 (May, 1984)]
     * February 23: Johnny Quick, Firebrand, and Neptune Perkins investigate a Japanese submarine off the California coast, and Johnny and Neptune are captured. On Earth-X, the team there battles Baron Blitzkrieg, who singlehandedly defeats and captures them. Tsunami returns to the Japanese submarine where she had disembarked earlier, and Starman, Liberty Belle, and Firebrand prevent the Japanese from shelling the oil refineries on the coast, then accidentally destroy the Japanese submarine during a rescue attempt. Tsunami attacks the surviving All-Stars. ["The Wrath of Tsunami," All-Star Squadron #34 (June, 1984)]     * February 23: Johnny Quick, Firebrand, and Neptune Perkins investigate a Japanese submarine off the California coast, and Johnny and Neptune are captured. On Earth-X, the team there battles Baron Blitzkrieg, who singlehandedly defeats and captures them. Tsunami returns to the Japanese submarine where she had disembarked earlier, and Starman, Liberty Belle, and Firebrand prevent the Japanese from shelling the oil refineries on the coast, then accidentally destroy the Japanese submarine during a rescue attempt. Tsunami attacks the surviving All-Stars. ["The Wrath of Tsunami," All-Star Squadron #34 (June, 1984)]
-    * February 23-24: The All-Stars and Neptune Perkins battle Tsunami. Meanwhile, the Spectre is struggling to keep Earth-2 and Earth-X from colliding, causing an atmospheric effect like the Aurora Borealis to appear in the sky. On Earth-X, all of the All-Stars there except the Red Bee, thought dead in the battle, awaken in the ruins of a fortress on the Channel Islands off the California coast, where Baron Blitzkrieg has brought them to die while the Japanese shell the coastline. The Red Bee, having survived and swam all the way there, attacks Baron Blitzkrieg, acting as a diversion just long enough for Hourman to regain his powers through Phantom Lady's black-light ray and break loose, but not before Baron Blitzkrieg breaks <html><span style="color:#FF0000;font-weight:bold;">the Red Bee</span>'s</html> back, killing him. Hourman and Uncle Sam battle Baron Blitzkrieg, who manages to create a vortex himself to escape with three Nazi lackeys back to Earth-2. The Spectre, communicating with the team, says that to maintain the cosmic balance three heroes must remain on Earth-X to compensate for the three Earth-X Nazis. Uncle Sam, the Black Condor, and the Ray stay on Earth-X as the **Freedom Fighters**, while Hourman, Phantom Lady, Doll Man, and the Human Bomb return to Earth-2. There, Tsunami escapes from Neptune Perkins, while Baron Blitzkrieg finds himself blind once more upon his return, but he also escapes from the All-Stars. Liberty Belle chooses Johnny Quick over Rick Cannon. The Spectre returns to Earth-2 and informs the team of the Red Bee's death. ["That Earths May Live," All-Star Squadron #35 (July, 1984)]+    * February 23-24: The All-Stars and Neptune Perkins battle Tsunami. Meanwhile, the Spectre is struggling to keep Earth-2 and Earth-X from colliding, causing an atmospheric effect like the Aurora Borealis to appear in the sky. On Earth-X, all of the All-Stars there except the Red Bee, thought dead in the battle, awaken in the ruins of a fortress on the Channel Islands off the California coast, where Baron Blitzkrieg has brought them to die while the Japanese shell the coastline. The Red Bee, having survived and swam all the way there, attacks Baron Blitzkrieg, acting as a diversion just long enough for Hourman to regain his powers through Phantom Lady's black-light ray and break loose, but not before Baron Blitzkrieg breaks <color #FF0000>the Red Bee's</color> back, killing him. Hourman and Uncle Sam battle Baron Blitzkrieg, who manages to create a vortex himself to escape with three Nazi lackeys back to Earth-2. The Spectre, communicating with the team, says that to maintain the cosmic balance three heroes must remain on Earth-X to compensate for the three Earth-X Nazis. Uncle Sam, the Black Condor, and the Ray stay on Earth-X as the **Freedom Fighters**, while Hourman, Phantom Lady, Doll Man, and the Human Bomb return to Earth-2. There, Tsunami escapes from Neptune Perkins, while Baron Blitzkrieg finds himself blind once more upon his return, but he also escapes from the All-Stars. Liberty Belle chooses Johnny Quick over Rick Cannon. The Spectre returns to Earth-2 and informs the team of the Red Bee's death. ["That Earths May Live," All-Star Squadron #35 (July, 1984)]
   * A Nazi scientist named Hans Gootsden, having invented a spatial-displacement ray, trains it on Captain Marvel in the parallel universe of Earth-S (having observed him through a viewer for months). On Earth-S, Captain Marvel is struck by some type of energy that causes him to disappear. The wizard Shazam tells Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel he is on another Earth, and the two make their way to Earth-2, only to discover that Captain Marvel has come under Hitler's power. On Earth-2 in Berlin, Captain Marvel and Billy Batson are split into two separate beings. Keeping Billy tied up and gagged, Hitler uses Captain Marvel as a new weapon against the British. //Note: Although it is late February, 1942, on Earth-2, it is early July, 1942, on Earth-S, since time moves differently in some parallel universes.// ["Lightning in Berlin," All-Star Squadron #37 (September, 1984); "Thunder Over London," All-Star Squadron #36 (August, 1984)]   * A Nazi scientist named Hans Gootsden, having invented a spatial-displacement ray, trains it on Captain Marvel in the parallel universe of Earth-S (having observed him through a viewer for months). On Earth-S, Captain Marvel is struck by some type of energy that causes him to disappear. The wizard Shazam tells Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel he is on another Earth, and the two make their way to Earth-2, only to discover that Captain Marvel has come under Hitler's power. On Earth-2 in Berlin, Captain Marvel and Billy Batson are split into two separate beings. Keeping Billy tied up and gagged, Hitler uses Captain Marvel as a new weapon against the British. //Note: Although it is late February, 1942, on Earth-2, it is early July, 1942, on Earth-S, since time moves differently in some parallel universes.// ["Lightning in Berlin," All-Star Squadron #37 (September, 1984); "Thunder Over London," All-Star Squadron #36 (August, 1984)]
   * February 24: The All-Star Squadron discovers that Adolf Hitler has a so-called super-Nazi (Captain Marvel) under his control, who aids the Luftwaffe in a raid on Britain; the Shining Knight is injured in battle with Captain Marvel. Superman realizes that this super-Nazi looks identical to Captain Marvel from the comics. In Nazi Germany, Hitler, using the Spear of Destiny, is keeping Billy Batson (mystically separated from Captain Marvel) a prisoner. Superman travels to Britain to visit the Shining Knight in the hospital, and he ends up battling Captain Marvel in the skies over London, and Captain Marvel knocks out Superman. The All-Star Squadron battles Captain Marvel, who tries to lure the All-Stars into Nazi-conquered territory, thus placing them under the spell of the Spear of Destiny. Freddy Freeman and Mary Bromfield, having followed the All-Stars from Washington, D.C., turn into Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel. ["Thunder Over London," All-Star Squadron #36 (August, 1984)]   * February 24: The All-Star Squadron discovers that Adolf Hitler has a so-called super-Nazi (Captain Marvel) under his control, who aids the Luftwaffe in a raid on Britain; the Shining Knight is injured in battle with Captain Marvel. Superman realizes that this super-Nazi looks identical to Captain Marvel from the comics. In Nazi Germany, Hitler, using the Spear of Destiny, is keeping Billy Batson (mystically separated from Captain Marvel) a prisoner. Superman travels to Britain to visit the Shining Knight in the hospital, and he ends up battling Captain Marvel in the skies over London, and Captain Marvel knocks out Superman. The All-Star Squadron battles Captain Marvel, who tries to lure the All-Stars into Nazi-conquered territory, thus placing them under the spell of the Spear of Destiny. Freddy Freeman and Mary Bromfield, having followed the All-Stars from Washington, D.C., turn into Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel. ["Thunder Over London," All-Star Squadron #36 (August, 1984)]
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   * March 12: After a swift battle, Doctor Fate and the All-Stars are captured by Wotan, who has allied himself with Adolf Hitler, and who destroys Blackhawk's plane, apparently killing both Blackhawk and his passenger, Hourman. Another prisoner is discovered to be Doctor Occult, who was recently captured by Wotan. The British Army moves in, only to be massacred by Wotan's knight-robots. Hourman and Blackhawk, who had survived the explosion of Blackhawk's plane, battle the knight-robots. The Shining Knight comes out of Wotan's spell and battles Wotan. Hourman is forced to take a second Miraclo pill to survive, but this causes him to have a heart attack. Doctor Fate takes him to a hospital. ["Death-Sword at Sunrise," All-Star Squadron #49 (September, 1985)]   * March 12: After a swift battle, Doctor Fate and the All-Stars are captured by Wotan, who has allied himself with Adolf Hitler, and who destroys Blackhawk's plane, apparently killing both Blackhawk and his passenger, Hourman. Another prisoner is discovered to be Doctor Occult, who was recently captured by Wotan. The British Army moves in, only to be massacred by Wotan's knight-robots. Hourman and Blackhawk, who had survived the explosion of Blackhawk's plane, battle the knight-robots. The Shining Knight comes out of Wotan's spell and battles Wotan. Hourman is forced to take a second Miraclo pill to survive, but this causes him to have a heart attack. Doctor Fate takes him to a hospital. ["Death-Sword at Sunrise," All-Star Squadron #49 (September, 1985)]
   * March 30-31: Starman discovers that a doctor named Ivan Caroff has developed an animalizing lamp that can imbue animalistic characteristics and an animal-like appearance to humans, and his panther-man Klaw is behind a recent theft and murder. But after Caroff captures Starman, the hero is briefly given a lion's head and characteristics, which Starman manages to cure through the use of his gravity rod. Then Caroff is accidentally exposed to his own ray, which at first imbues him with a pig's characteristics before finally dissolving his body entirely through overexposure. Starman then melts the animalizing lamp in order to keep it out of the wrong hands. ["The Case of the Monstrous Animal-Men," Adventure Comics #74 (May, 1942)]   * March 30-31: Starman discovers that a doctor named Ivan Caroff has developed an animalizing lamp that can imbue animalistic characteristics and an animal-like appearance to humans, and his panther-man Klaw is behind a recent theft and murder. But after Caroff captures Starman, the hero is briefly given a lion's head and characteristics, which Starman manages to cure through the use of his gravity rod. Then Caroff is accidentally exposed to his own ray, which at first imbues him with a pig's characteristics before finally dissolving his body entirely through overexposure. Starman then melts the animalizing lamp in order to keep it out of the wrong hands. ["The Case of the Monstrous Animal-Men," Adventure Comics #74 (May, 1942)]
-  * March 31: The Spider has his final encounter with the <html><span style="color:#FF0000;">Yellow Scorpion</span>,</html> who escapes after attempting to destroy a U.S. battleship docked in the harbor. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #24 (July, 1942)]+  * March 31: The Spider has his final encounter with the <color #FF0000>Yellow Scorpion,</color> who escapes after attempting to destroy a U.S. battleship docked in the harbor. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #24 (July, 1942)]
   * March 30-April 1: Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy begin driving the new, streamlined //Sandcar//. Sandman's costume now has a purple band stretching horizontally from shoulder to shoulder to meet his cowl. ["Mr. Noah Raids the Town," Adventure Comics #76 (July, 1942)]   * March 30-April 1: Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy begin driving the new, streamlined //Sandcar//. Sandman's costume now has a purple band stretching horizontally from shoulder to shoulder to meet his cowl. ["Mr. Noah Raids the Town," Adventure Comics #76 (July, 1942)]
  
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   * In a country in Northern Africa ruled by a sultan (probably Egypt), the Masked One founds a small but determined war party called the Cavaliers.   * In a country in Northern Africa ruled by a sultan (probably Egypt), the Masked One founds a small but determined war party called the Cavaliers.
   * In the United States, Mr. Crown founds the Swordsmen Party and begins warning the government about a secret enemy threatening America, urging a preemptive strike. In reality, the "secret enemy" are the American people themselves, who are placed in the grip of paranoia, seeing enemies in every corner. This coincides with the so-called Red Scare, which runs from 1947 to 1954.   * In the United States, Mr. Crown founds the Swordsmen Party and begins warning the government about a secret enemy threatening America, urging a preemptive strike. In reality, the "secret enemy" are the American people themselves, who are placed in the grip of paranoia, seeing enemies in every corner. This coincides with the so-called Red Scare, which runs from 1947 to 1954.
-  * <html><span style="color:#FF0000;font-weight:bold;">Captain Triumph</span></html> retires from superheroics. [Crack Comics #62]+  * <color #FF0000>**Captain Triumph**</color> retires from superheroics. [Crack Comics #62]
  
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