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| | * William Asmodeus Zard, the future Wizard, studies hypnotism and black magic under a lama-master, whom he later murders. //Note: Although Zard claims to have visited Germany and procured the Spear of Destiny for Adolf Hitler himself, eventually to sequester himself to study in a European castle throughout World War II, Per Degaton confirms that he lied about this, and that he remained in Tibet for several more years, possibly even until after the end of World War II.// ["Hostile Witness," America Vs. the Justice Society #3 (March, 1985); "D-Day for Degaton," America Vs. the Justice Society #4 (April, 1985)] |
| * Clark Kent graduates from Smallville High School and begins attending Metropolis University, studying journalism. | * Clark Kent graduates from Smallville High School and begins attending Metropolis University, studying journalism. |
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| * June 27: At the behest of the conscience-stricken Green Lantern, the Justice Society pledge themselves to raise a million dollars for children orphaned by World War II. Johnny Thunder himself pledges to raise $300,000, but has no idea how he will do it. [All-Star Comics #7 (October-November, 1941)] | * June 27: At the behest of the conscience-stricken Green Lantern, the Justice Society pledge themselves to raise a million dollars for children orphaned by World War II. Johnny Thunder himself pledges to raise $300,000, but has no idea how he will do it. [All-Star Comics #7 (October-November, 1941)] |
| * June 28: | * June 28: |
| * The Justice Society, along with non-members, defeat Ian Karkull, who bathes most of them with mystical radiation, retarding their aging. Green Lantern takes leave of absence and becomes an honorary member, Hawkman becomes the chairman, Hourman takes leave of absence in order to find out how to remove side effects from Miraclo use, and he temporarily retires as a mystery-man. Starman applies to join the Justice Society in Hourman's place and is invited to the next JSA meeting. [All-Star Squadron Annual #3 (1984)] | * The Justice Society, along with non-members, defeat Ian Karkull, who bathes most of them with mystical radiation, retarding their aging. Green Lantern takes leave of absence and becomes an honorary member, Hawkman becomes the chairman, Hourman takes leave of absence in order to find out how to remove side effects from Miraclo use, and he temporarily retires as a mystery-man. Starman applies to join the Justice Society in Hourman's place and is invited to the next JSA meeting. ["The Justice Society Adventure the World's Not Ready to Learn About Yet," All-Star Squadron Annual #3 (1984)] |
| * Kent Nelson, realizing that Nabu is attempting to fully possess and control him as Doctor Fate through the Helm of Nabu, places the Helm aside. He and Inza Cramer create a half-helmet, using from this point on the powers he was taught to use by Nabu rather than the full spectrum of Doctor Fate powers that Nabu possesses. [All-Star Squadron Annual #3 (1984); "When Fate Thy Measure Takes," All-Star Squadron #23 (July, 1983)] | * Kent Nelson, realizing that Nabu is attempting to fully possess and control him as Doctor Fate through the Helm of Nabu, places the Helm aside. He and Inza Cramer create a half-helmet, using from this point on the powers he was taught to use by Nabu rather than the full spectrum of Doctor Fate powers that Nabu possesses. ["The Justice Society Adventure the World's Not Ready to Learn About Yet," All-Star Squadron Annual #3 (1984); "When Fate Thy Measure Takes," All-Star Squadron #23 (July, 1983)] |
| * The Crimson Avenger, long known as an outlaw vigilante, works alongside the police for the first time after his secret identity of Lee Travis is framed for grand theft. [The Crimson Avenger, Detective Comics #57 (November, 1941)] | * The Crimson Avenger, long known as an outlaw vigilante, works alongside the police for the first time after his secret identity of Lee Travis is framed for grand theft. [The Crimson Avenger, Detective Comics #57 (November, 1941)] |
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| * July 8: At the Justice Society of America's monthly meeting, Starman (who was invited as a new member) and Doctor Mid-Nite (who arrives with information on a rash of insanity) win their spurs as new members when the Justice Society, in their individual cases, are stymied when important witnesses seemingly go insane with a strong fear of light. The JSA battle Professor Elba, who is secretly Prof. Able, secretly manipulated into committing his crimes by the Brain Wave (Dr. Henry A. King) in his first foray against the JSA. The JSA meet Dr. King without knowing who he is, and he places a posthypnotic command into all JSAers minds to come when he summons them. ["Two New Members Win Their Spurs," All-Star Comics #8 (December, 1941-January, 1942); "For the Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light," All-Star Squadron #20 (April, 1983)] | * July 8: At the Justice Society of America's monthly meeting, Starman (who was invited as a new member) and Doctor Mid-Nite (who arrives with information on a rash of insanity) win their spurs as new members when the Justice Society, in their individual cases, are stymied when important witnesses seemingly go insane with a strong fear of light. The JSA battle Professor Elba, who is secretly Prof. Able, secretly manipulated into committing his crimes by the Brain Wave (Dr. Henry A. King) in his first foray against the JSA. The JSA meet Dr. King without knowing who he is, and he places a posthypnotic command into all JSAers minds to come when he summons them. ["Two New Members Win Their Spurs," All-Star Comics #8 (December, 1941-January, 1942); "For the Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light," All-Star Squadron #20 (April, 1983)] |
| * July 6-11: Starman battles an occultist named Cuthbert Cain, who uses a camera to make men his slaves, including FBI troubleshooter Woodley Allen. As he attempts to make Starman his slave, Cain accidentally takes a picture of himself and disappears, apparently dead. ["The Case of the Camera Curse," Adventure Comics #66 (September, 1941)] | * July 6-11: Starman battles an occultist named Cuthbert Cain, who uses a camera to make men his slaves, including FBI troubleshooter Woodley Allen. As he attempts to make Starman his slave, Cain accidentally takes a picture of himself and disappears, apparently dead. ["The Case of the Camera Curse," Adventure Comics #66 (September, 1941)] |
| * Richard "Buck" Dare becomes Captain X of the R.A.F. | |
| * July 21-28: J. Edgar Hoover calls on the Justice Society again, this time to ask their help in routing out Nazi and Fascist spies in Mexico and South America. J. Edgar Hoover voted in as Associate Member of the JSA. //Note: Dian Belmont's appearance in this story means that it takes place before her supposed death in August, 1941.// [Justice Society of America, All-Star Comics #9 (February-March, 1942)] | * July 21-28: J. Edgar Hoover calls on the Justice Society again, this time to ask their help in routing out Nazi and Fascist spies in Mexico and South America. J. Edgar Hoover voted in as Associate Member of the JSA. //Note: Dian Belmont's appearance in this story means that it takes place before her supposed death in August, 1941.// [Justice Society of America, All-Star Comics #9 (February-March, 1942)] |
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| ===January, 1942=== | ===January, 1942=== |
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| * At the stroke of midnight, Commander Steel is given a signal that triggers Baron Blitzkrieg's posthypnotic command to assassinate both Roosevelt and Churchill at the White House. The All-Star Squadron stops him and brings him out of the spell, and Commander Steel joins the All-Star Squadron. The feedback damages Baron Blitzkrieg, who is later brought back to Berlin by his dwarf aide, Zwerg. ["Should Old Acquaintance Be Destroyed," All-Star Squadron #9 (May, 1982)] | * December 31-January 1: At the stroke of midnight, Commander Steel is given a signal that triggers Baron Blitzkrieg's posthypnotic command to assassinate both Roosevelt and Churchill at the White House. The All-Star Squadron stops him and brings him out of the spell, and Commander Steel joins the All-Star Squadron. The feedback damages Baron Blitzkrieg, who is later brought back to Berlin by his dwarf aide, Zwerg. ["Should Old Acquaintance Be Destroyed," All-Star Squadron #9 (May, 1982)] |
| | * January 1-5: Dr. Wilfred Doome, a self-proclaimed great scientist, uses a time machine to bring five of the greatest conquerors of all time to the present and engages them to seek out the five rarest metals on Earth, all to help him build a machine that will open the gate to the future. The Seven Soldiers of Victory overhear their plans and plan to stop them. At the U.S.-Canada border, the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy battle Napoleon, who tries to steal a gold shipment. At the Florida Everglades, Green Arrow and Speedy battle Alexander the Great, who tries to steal robots powered by radium, which were invented by scientist Leo Starr. In Alaska, the Shining Knight battles Genghis Khan, who tries to steal a platinum shipment. In South Dakota, the Vigilante and Billy Gunn battle Attila the Hun, who tries to steal Tantalum. At sea, the Crimson Avenger and Wing battle Nero, who tries to seize a shipment of uranium. Regrouping, the Seven Soldiers converge on Dr. Doome's tower on Long Island, but Doome escapes into the past. Speedy grabs a time-rod, and the team steps into the time machine, only to arrive in the 12th century B.C. during the siege of Troy, where they meet Ulysses. When Doome returns to the present, Speedy uses the time-rod to return the team there also. Then, when Doome escapes into the future, the time machine blows up, but the team survives. ["The Tyrants of Time," Leading Comics #3 (Summer, 1942); "A Man Called Doome," All-Star Squadron #29 (January, 1984)] |
| * Hawkgirl begins wearing a beak-less mask. ["If An Eye Offend Thee," All-Star Squadron #10 (June, 1982)] | * Hawkgirl begins wearing a beak-less mask. ["If An Eye Offend Thee," All-Star Squadron #10 (June, 1982)] |
| * Akhet the Star-Smasher, an apparent alien with a huge, powerful, mechanical flying eye-shaped spacecraft, appears to each major leader on Earth, demanding the planet's surrender to the Binary Brotherhood of Proxima Centauri. The All-Star Squadron discovers that Akhet is a ruse perpetrated by Dr. Anton Hastor, Hawkman's old enemy. Hawkman defeats Hastor and thus the flying eye. ["If An Eye Offend Thee," All-Star Squadron #10 (June, 1982); "Star-Smasher's Secret," All-Star Squadron #11 (July, 1982); "Doomsday Begins at Dawn," All-Star Squadron #12 (August, 1982)] | * January 5-7: Akhet the Star-Smasher, an apparent alien with a huge, powerful, mechanical flying eye-shaped spacecraft, appears to each major leader on Earth, demanding the planet's surrender to the Binary Brotherhood of Proxima Centauri. The All-Star Squadron discovers that Akhet is a ruse perpetrated by Dr. Anton Hastor, Hawkman's old enemy. Hawkman defeats Hastor and thus the flying eye. ["If An Eye Offend Thee," All-Star Squadron #10 (June, 1982); "Star-Smasher's Secret," All-Star Squadron #11 (July, 1982); "Doomsday Begins at Dawn," All-Star Squadron #12 (August, 1982)] |
| * Dr. Wilfred Doome, a self-proclaimed great scientist, uses a time machine to bring five of the greatest conquerors of all time to the present and engages them to seek out the five rarest metals on Earth, all to help him build a machine that will open the gate to the future. The Seven Soldiers of Victory overhear their plans and plan to stop them. At the U.S.-Canada border, the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy battle Napoleon, who tries to steal a gold shipment. At the Florida Everglades, Green Arrow and Speedy battle Alexander the Great, who tries to steal robots powered by radium, which were invented by scientist Leo Starr. In Alaska, the Shining Knight battles Genghis Khan, who tries to steal a platinum shipment. In South Dakota, the Vigilante and Billy Gunn battle Attila the Hun, who tries to steal Tantalum. At sea, the Crimson Avenger and Wing battle Nero, who tries to seize a shipment of uranium. Regrouping, the Seven Soldiers converge on Dr. Doome's tower on Long Island, but Doome escapes into the past. Speedy grabs a time-rod, and the team steps into the time machine, only to arrive in the 12th century B.C. during the siege of Troy, where they meet Ulysses. When Doome returns to the present, Speedy uses the time-rod to return the team there also. Then, when Doome escapes into the future, the time machine blows up, but the team survives. ["The Tyrants of Time," Leading Comics #3 (Summer, 1942); "A Man Called Doome," All-Star Squadron #29 (January, 1984)] | |
| * January 7: The All-Star Squadron holds its first meeting and elects Liberty Belle as chairwoman. ["One Day, During the War," All-Star Squadron #13 (September, 1982)] | * January 7: The All-Star Squadron holds its first meeting and elects Liberty Belle as chairwoman. ["One Day, During the War," All-Star Squadron #13 (September, 1982)] |
| * January 8: Commander Steel learns that his former fiancee Gloria Giles is now married to Brad Farley, and that her father died a year earlier. ["One Day, During the War," All-Star Squadron #13 (September, 1982)] | * January 8: Commander Steel learns that his former fiancee Gloria Giles is now married to Brad Farley, and that her father died a year earlier. ["One Day, During the War," All-Star Squadron #13 (September, 1982)] |
| * January 25-26: Robotman is arrested for being a public menace. ["The Trial of Robotman," Star Spangled Comics #15 (December, 1942); "To Slay the Body Electric," All-Star Squadron #17 (January, 1983)] | * January 25-26: Robotman is arrested for being a public menace. ["The Trial of Robotman," Star Spangled Comics #15 (December, 1942); "To Slay the Body Electric," All-Star Squadron #17 (January, 1983)] |
| * Thomas N. Thomas and Daniel Dunbar become TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite. [Star Spangled Comics #7] SHOULD BE EARLIER | * Thomas N. Thomas and Daniel Dunbar become TNT and Dan the Dyna-Mite. [Star Spangled Comics #7] SHOULD BE EARLIER |
| | * January 30-31: When Percival Popp attempts to play matchmaker with Jim Corrigan and Clarice Winston, he inadvertently uncovers a plot by an artist named Armand to steal Clarice's soul through black magic by painting it on canvas with the aid of a metal figure. After Armand throws the small figure off the docks, causing Clarice to fall into a coma, Popp attempts to save her by retrieving it. Realizing that Popp may discover his corpse, still buried in a barrel of cement, the Spectre appeals to the Voice to restore his body to life. Now fully alive once more thanks to the Ray of Life, Jim Corrigan swims to the surface, where he and Popp confront Armand, returned to retrieve the metal figure himself. After Armand shoots him, Corrigan realizes that although he is once more alive he still retains the supernatural powers of the Spectre, which he uses to cause Armand to vanish. Given a new lease on life, Corrigan resumes his relationship with Clarice. //Note: This is the first story that suggests Jim Corrigan and the Spectre are separate individuals. This story must take place sometime before All-Star Comics #13, since in that issue the Spectre is taken by surprise that he needs to breathe oxygen as a living human being once more, as if this has only happened recently. This story also takes place shortly before All-Star Squadron #20.// [The Spectre, More Fun Comics #75 (January, 1942)] |
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| ===February, 1942=== | ===February, 1942=== |
| * 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 30-31: When Percival Popp attempts to play matchmaker with Jim Corrigan and Clarice Winston, he inadvertently uncovers a plot by an artist named Armand to steal Clarice's soul through black magic by painting it on canvas with the aid of a metal figure. After Armand throws the small figure off the docks, causing Clarice to fall into a coma, Popp attempts to save her by retrieving it. Realizing that Popp may discover his corpse, still buried in a barrel of cement, the Spectre appeals to the Voice to restore his body to life. Now fully alive once more thanks to the Ray of Life, Jim Corrigan swims to the surface, where he and Popp confront Armand, returned to retrieve the metal figure himself. After Armand shoots him, Corrigan realizes that although he is once more alive he still retains the supernatural powers of the Spectre, which he uses to cause Armand to vanish. Given a new lease on life, Corrigan resumes his relationship with Clarice. //Note: This is the first story that suggests Jim Corrigan and the Spectre are separate individuals. This story must take place shortly before All-Star Comics #13, since in that issue the Spectre is taken by surprise that he needs to breathe oxygen as a living human being once more, as if this has only happened recently.// [The Spectre, More Fun Comics #75 (January, 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 <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 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)] |
| * Hourman [Adventure Comics #78-79] | * Hourman [Adventure Comics #78-79] |
| * June 10-11: Superman and Wonder Woman battle Baron Blitzkrieg and Sumo the Samurai over the fate of a prototype nuclear device. [All-New Collectors' Edition C-54] | * June 10-11: Superman and Wonder Woman battle Baron Blitzkrieg and Sumo the Samurai over the fate of a prototype nuclear device. [All-New Collectors' Edition C-54] |
| | * Green Arrow, Speedy and the Crimson Avenger investigate a series of sensational escapes of several vicious criminals from prison, all arranged by the sinister Skull, who claims to be the wealthiest man in the world and who obtained these criminals to gain for him things that his money could not buy. After individually overcoming the escaped criminals, the Law's Legionnaires confront the Skull for a showdown match with him before he can use the machine his aide had stolen to give him perpetual life. Ironically, the Skull instead ends up prematurely aging himself with the machine and dies. ["The Miracles That Money Couldn't Buy," Leading Comics #5 (Winter, 1942-1943)] |
| * Tex Thompson becomes the Americommando, carrying out undercover operations in Europe while disguised as a German officer. (Action Comics #52, Secret Origins #29) | * Tex Thompson becomes the Americommando, carrying out undercover operations in Europe while disguised as a German officer. (Action Comics #52, Secret Origins #29) |
| * June 28-30: Starman encounters the Mist once again after the criminal breaks out of prison by making his prison cell invisible with the use of smuggled-in inviso-solution. While recapturing the Mist, Starman sustains a broken rib, and Ted Knight is hospitalized for a few days afterward. Doris Lee begins to suspect a connection between Ted Knight and Starman. //Note: It's probable that Woodley Allen figures out that Starman is his niece Doris' fiancé Ted Knight due to both men having a broken rib at the same time. Starman is called the Astral Avenger for the first time in this story.// ["Finders Keepers," Adventure Comics #77 (August, 1942)] | * June 28-30: Starman encounters the Mist once again after the criminal breaks out of prison by making his prison cell invisible with the use of smuggled-in inviso-solution. While recapturing the Mist, Starman sustains a broken rib, and Ted Knight is hospitalized for a few days afterward. Doris Lee begins to suspect a connection between Ted Knight and Starman. //Note: It's probable that Woodley Allen figures out that Starman is his niece Doris' fiancé Ted Knight due to both men having a broken rib at the same time. Starman is called the Astral Avenger for the first time in this story.// ["Finders Keepers," Adventure Comics #77 (August, 1942)] |
| * Doctor Fate begins using a second headquarters in a towering castle called Castle Destiny, high in the mountains, possibly to continue his medical studies. ["The Two Fates," More Fun Comics #83 (September, 1942)] | * Doctor Fate begins using a second headquarters in a towering castle called Castle Destiny, high in the mountains, possibly to continue his medical studies. ["The Two Fates," More Fun Comics #83 (September, 1942)] |
| * On an alternate Earth, the Justice Society and then the universe is destroyed by a visiting Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite of Earth-1. [World's Funnest] | * On an alternate Earth, the Justice Society and then the universe is destroyed by a visiting Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite of Earth-1. [World's Funnest] |
| * Green Arrow, Speedy and the Crimson Avenger investigate a series of sensational escapes of several vicious criminals from prison, all arranged by the sinister Skull, who claims to be the wealthiest man in the world and who obtained these criminals to gain for him things that his money could not buy. After individually overcoming the escaped criminals, the Law's Legionnaires confront the Skull for a showdown match with him before he can use the machine his aide had stolen to give him perpetual life. Ironically, the Skull instead ends up prematurely aging himself with the machine and dies. ["The Miracles That Money Couldn't Buy," Leading Comics #5 (Winter, 1942-1943)] | |
| * July 18: To get much-needed foodstuffs to resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries, Hawkman devises a capsule containing molecularly-reduced dinners which can be expanded to full size with a special solution, and the Justice Battalion members each choose a country to which to deliver the meals and to aid the local resistance. They are absent from America on their assignment for one month. Hawkman travels to occupied France, where he aids an imprisoned French Resistance leader known as the Sly One. Starman travels to occupied Poland, where he aids Polish Resistance fighters dressed as medieval knights, akin to the Bowman of Mons. The Atom travels to occupied Holland. Doctor Fate travels to Germany and visits concentration camps, feeding the prisoners and teaching them how to commit sabotage without being found out. Doctor Mid-Nite visits occupied Norway. The Spectre travels to occupied Belgium, where he aids a group of patriots by bringing two Nazis to Pluto (presumably the Hyperspace version of Pluto seen in last issue). Johnny Thunder visits occupied Czechoslovakia. The Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy (who has accompanied him for the trip) visit occupied Greece and help prevent the planned invasion of Turkey by passing on information to the Allies. //Note: It's possible that Wonder Woman also visited an occupied country such as Russia or China and was thus also occupied for one month, even though it is not mentioned in this story; it has been stated that Wonder Woman took an active role in more JSA cases than is officially acknowledged in the comics. According to Young All-Stars #27, the Spectre and Doctor Fate create temporary ectoplasmic shields to ward off the effects of the Spear of Victory and the Holy Grail, which the Axis uses to turn any magic-based heroes into Nazis; this took a special spell that took a lot of energy out of both of them.// ["Food for Starving Patriots," All-Star Comics #14 (December, 1942-January, 1943)] | * July 18: To get much-needed foodstuffs to resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries, Hawkman devises a capsule containing molecularly-reduced dinners which can be expanded to full size with a special solution, and the Justice Battalion members each choose a country to which to deliver the meals and to aid the local resistance. They are absent from America on their assignment for one month. Hawkman travels to occupied France, where he aids an imprisoned French Resistance leader known as the Sly One. Starman travels to occupied Poland, where he aids Polish Resistance fighters dressed as medieval knights, akin to the Bowman of Mons. The Atom travels to occupied Holland. Doctor Fate travels to Germany and visits concentration camps, feeding the prisoners and teaching them how to commit sabotage without being found out. Doctor Mid-Nite visits occupied Norway. The Spectre travels to occupied Belgium, where he aids a group of patriots by bringing two Nazis to Pluto (presumably the Hyperspace version of Pluto seen in last issue). Johnny Thunder visits occupied Czechoslovakia. The Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy (who has accompanied him for the trip) visit occupied Greece and help prevent the planned invasion of Turkey by passing on information to the Allies. //Note: It's possible that Wonder Woman also visited an occupied country such as Russia or China and was thus also occupied for one month, even though it is not mentioned in this story; it has been stated that Wonder Woman took an active role in more JSA cases than is officially acknowledged in the comics. According to Young All-Stars #27, the Spectre and Doctor Fate create temporary ectoplasmic shields to ward off the effects of the Spear of Victory and the Holy Grail, which the Axis uses to turn any magic-based heroes into Nazis; this took a special spell that took a lot of energy out of both of them.// ["Food for Starving Patriots," All-Star Comics #14 (December, 1942-January, 1943)] |
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| | * The Seven Soldiers of Victory are offered $1 billion to recover a fortune in gold that was hidden away in the Andes Mountain range by the Incan Indians from murderous Spaniards. In order to gain a billion dollars for the U.S. war effort, the team agrees and makes it a competition, following a map and obscure clues in search of the treasure. But an unknown enemy sets the Law's Legionnaires against each other, pitting Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy against Green Arrow and Speedy, and the Shining Knight against the Vigilante. Finally, the Legionnaires team up, find the treasure, and defeat the crooks. ["The Treasure That Time Forgot," Leading Comics #6 (Spring, 1943)] |
| * Having passed his medical school exams, Dr. Kent Nelson begins his one-year internship at the Weatherby Free Clinic run by Dr. Roland. As Doctor Fate, he stops wearing his Cloak of Healing in solo cases, donning it only for his adventures with the JSA. ["The Man Who Changed Faces," More Fun Comics #85 (November, 1942)] | * Having passed his medical school exams, Dr. Kent Nelson begins his one-year internship at the Weatherby Free Clinic run by Dr. Roland. As Doctor Fate, he stops wearing his Cloak of Healing in solo cases, donning it only for his adventures with the JSA. ["The Man Who Changed Faces," More Fun Comics #85 (November, 1942)] |
| * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/misterterrific-tp1942-01/|Mister Terrific: Times Past, 1942: Enigma]]"] | * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/misterterrific-tp1942-01/|Mister Terrific: Times Past, 1942: Enigma]]"] |
| ===January, 1943=== | ===January, 1943=== |
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| * The Seven Soldiers of Victory are offered $1 billion to recover a fortune in gold that was hidden away in the Andes Mountain range by the Incan Indians from murderous Spaniards. In order to gain a billion dollars for the U.S. war effort, the team agrees and makes it a competition, following a map and obscure clues in search of the treasure. But an unknown enemy sets the Law's Legionnaires against each other, pitting Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy against Green Arrow and Speedy, and the Shining Knight against the Vigilante. Finally, the Legionnaires team up, find the treasure, and defeat the crooks. ["The Treasure That Time Forgot," Leading Comics #6 (Spring, 1943)] | |
| * Ted Knight completes a device called the RadCAM for the Manhattan Project. A Nazi agent steals it and uses it to transform another Nazi agent into a super-villain called the Aryan Flame. Starman battles the Aryan Flame with the help of Johnny Quick and Captain Triumph, who successfully contain him, but the villain later apparently dies. Frustrated with the direction of the project, Ted quits the project and gives up all atomic power research. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/starman-e2-tp1945-01-01/|Starman: Times Past, 1945: Nuclear Furnace, Chapters 1-3]]"] | * Ted Knight completes a device called the RadCAM for the Manhattan Project. A Nazi agent steals it and uses it to transform another Nazi agent into a super-villain called the Aryan Flame. Starman battles the Aryan Flame with the help of Johnny Quick and Captain Triumph, who successfully contain him, but the villain later apparently dies. Frustrated with the direction of the project, Ted quits the project and gives up all atomic power research. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/starman-e2-tp1945-01-01/|Starman: Times Past, 1945: Nuclear Furnace, Chapters 1-3]]"] |
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| * Dr. Kent Nelson and Inza Cramer become engaged at this time. ["The Case of the Healthy Patient," More Fun Comics #90 (April, 1943)] | * Dr. Kent Nelson and Inza Cramer become engaged at this time. ["The Case of the Healthy Patient," More Fun Comics #90 (April, 1943)] |
| * The Spectre encounters the costumed super-villain Spectrum, the king of color, who uses a combination of color and sound to manipulate emotions and hypnotize people. Spectrum is revealed to be Hal Herman, a movie studio gag man, formerly of the color department, who tries to kill Corrigan in order to hypnotize Clarice Winston into marrying him. After the Spectre pursues him, Spectrum crashes into a paint shop and drowns in colorful paints. //Note: After this story, Jim Corrigan has a change of heart and breaks off his relationship with Clarice Winston a second and final time, possibly reasoning that she'll always be in danger as long as he's around, and she deserves better. Corrigan also moves from Cliffland to Gotham City after this story, as evidenced by the references to Gotham Town in issue #82 and Gotham City in issues #88, #92, and #94 (notwithstanding the single reference to Calver City in issue #84), and the distinct lack of any references to Cliffland. The reference to Times Square in issue #92 and Long Island in issue #93 indicate that the Spectre is actually operating in New York City, which is also nicknamed Gotham. Detective Corrigan is transferred to Gotham's Fifth Precinct. Percival Popp decides to follow Corrigan to Gotham City, still trying to be his partner despite Corrigan's insistence that he's a lone wolf. Unknown to Percival Popp, his short-lived girlfriend Bubbles Twinkletoes becomes pregnant with Popp's child, Nelly Poplaski, who is born in Cliffland in November, 1943, though Popp wouldn't learn of her existence until at least 1945.// ["King of Color," More Fun Comics #80 (June, 1942)] | * The Spectre encounters the costumed super-villain Spectrum, the king of color, who uses a combination of color and sound to manipulate emotions and hypnotize people. Spectrum is revealed to be Hal Herman, a movie studio gag man, formerly of the color department, who tries to kill Corrigan in order to hypnotize Clarice Winston into marrying him. After the Spectre pursues him, Spectrum crashes into a paint shop and drowns in colorful paints. //Note: After this story, Jim Corrigan has a change of heart and breaks off his relationship with Clarice Winston a second and final time, possibly reasoning that she'll always be in danger as long as he's around, and she deserves better. Corrigan also moves from Cliffland to New York City after this story, as evidenced by the references to Gotham Town in issue #82 and Gotham City in issues #88, #92, and #94 (notwithstanding the single reference to Calver City in issue #84), and the distinct lack of any references to Cliffland. The reference to Times Square in issue #92 and Long Island in issue #93 indicate that the Spectre is actually operating in New York City, which is also nicknamed Gotham. Detective Corrigan is transferred to New York City's Fifth Precinct. It is likely that, as a consequence of leaving Cliffland, Corrigan is forced by the Voice to give up his original body, which is restored to its deceased condition in a barrel of cement near the wharves at Cliffland, since that body is still there and undiscovered until 1988. Percival Popp decides to follow Corrigan to New York City, still trying to be his partner despite Corrigan's insistence that he's a lone wolf. Unknown to Percival Popp, his short-lived girlfriend Bubbles Twinkletoes (her real name is probably something hard to remember or pronounce, such as Babette Trzebiatowski) becomes pregnant with Popp's child, Nelly Poplaski, who is born in Cliffland in November, 1943, though Popp wouldn't learn of her existence until at least 1945.// ["King of Color," More Fun Comics #80 (June, 1942)] |
| * Trying the age-old tactic of divide and conquer, Adolf Hitler sends several of his handpicked agents into America to incite racial, religious, and class hatred and to weaken the country for his gain. Hawkman stumbles onto the plot and sends the other Justice Battalion of America members to trouble spots. They are assisted by the JSA's fan club, the Junior Justice Society. ["The Justice Society Fights for a United America," All-Star Comics #16 (April-May, 1943)] | * Trying the age-old tactic of divide and conquer, Adolf Hitler sends several of his handpicked agents into America to incite racial, religious, and class hatred and to weaken the country for his gain. Hawkman stumbles onto the plot and sends the other Justice Battalion of America members to trouble spots. They are assisted by the JSA's fan club, the Junior Justice Society. ["The Justice Society Fights for a United America," All-Star Comics #16 (April-May, 1943)] |
| * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-atom-dmn-tp1943/|The Brave and the Bold: The Atom and Doctor Mid-Nite: Times Past, 1943: The Methuselah Menace]]"] | * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-atom-dmn-tp1943/|The Brave and the Bold: The Atom and Doctor Mid-Nite: Times Past, 1943: The Methuselah Menace]]"] |
| * Upset with the fact that the Seven Soldiers of Victory seem to be wise to his vast criminal organization's plans, the Dummy, with the use of a time machine, sends each of the heroes to a different era in the past. Green Arrow and Speedy are hurled back into the days of the Three Musketeers and are arrested along with the three for dueling, and because of the disappearance of the Queen's pearl necklace. The Crimson Avenger and Wing find themselves into ancient China of 225 B.C. and meet up with an inventor, who shows them his creations. In the end, our heroes must battle the Japanese with one of that inventor's creations: gunpowder. The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy find themselves aboard a Viking ship, helping Eric the Red and Leif Ericson battle their enemies, then agree to help them find food for their people, leading to the discovery of Vineland (America). Three of the Dummy's men use the time machine to go back into the time of the ancient Romans, where Vigilante has been sent, to rob Crassus, a millionaire by contemporary standards. The Shining Knight lands in ancient Italy to discover Leonardo Da Vinci attempting to fly with one of his contraptions, and saves him from one of his enemies. Then he discovers that da Vinci has invented a time machine, and the Knight decides to put it to good use. The Shining Knight uses the time machine to bring each of the Soldiers back to the present time in order to round up the Dummy and his men. [Leading Comics #8 (Fall, 1943)] | * Upset with the fact that the Seven Soldiers of Victory seem to be wise to his vast criminal organization's plans, the Dummy, with the use of a time machine, sends each of the heroes to a different era in the past. Green Arrow and Speedy are hurled back into the days of the Three Musketeers and are arrested along with the three for dueling, and because of the disappearance of the Queen's pearl necklace. The Crimson Avenger and Wing find themselves into ancient China of 225 B.C. and meet up with an inventor, who shows them his creations. In the end, our heroes must battle the Japanese with one of that inventor's creations: gunpowder. The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy find themselves aboard a Viking ship, helping Eric the Red and Leif Ericson battle their enemies, then agree to help them find food for their people, leading to the discovery of Vineland (America). Three of the Dummy's men use the time machine to go back into the time of the ancient Romans, where Vigilante has been sent, to rob Crassus, a millionaire by contemporary standards. The Shining Knight lands in ancient Italy to discover Leonardo Da Vinci attempting to fly with one of his contraptions, and saves him from one of his enemies. Then he discovers that da Vinci has invented a time machine, and the Knight decides to put it to good use. The Shining Knight uses the time machine to bring each of the Soldiers back to the present time in order to round up the Dummy and his men. [Leading Comics #8 (Fall, 1943)] |
| * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-dmn-sm-tp1943/|The Brave and the Bold: Doctor Mid-Nite and the Sandman: Times Past, 1943: Assignment: London]]"] | * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-dmn-sm-tp1943/|The Brave and the Bold: Doctor Mid-Nite and the Sandman: Times Past, 1943: Assignment: London]]"] |
| * After Jim Corrigan rejects him one last time, Percival Popp begins an informal partnership with Corrigan's alter ego, the Spectre, since Popp has a knack for accidentally uncovering criminal schemes. //Note: Jim Corrigan has relocated to Gotham City (called Gotham Town) by this time.// ["The Truth Hurts," More Fun Comics #82 (August, 1942)] | * After Jim Corrigan rejects him one last time, Percival Popp begins an informal partnership with Corrigan's alter ego, the Spectre, since Popp has a knack for accidentally uncovering criminal schemes. //Note: Jim Corrigan has relocated to New York City (called Gotham Town) by this time.// ["The Truth Hurts," More Fun Comics #82 (August, 1942)] |
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| ===July, 1943=== | ===July, 1943=== |
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| * Newspaper publisher Rex Morgan summons the Justice Society to accept the written challenge of the Psycho-Pirate, a mysterious criminal who exploits emotions in his crimes, and who dares the JSA members to stop six emotion-based crimes he has planned. Hawkman foils a crime based on love, in which the Psycho-Pirate had Shiera Sanders kidnapped to act as leverage. Starman foils a crime based on hate. Doctor Mid-Nite frees an entire suburban city cut off from the outside world and gripped with fear of a plague being loosed upon them. Johnny Thunder is manipulated by conceit into getting himself captured, until the Thunderbolt saves the day. The Spectre foils a scheme based on greed. The Atom, tricked into thinking the JSA has been defeated, almost gives in to despair, but when he fights back, he is shot in the shoulder by the Psycho-Pirate. The assembled Justice Society gathers back at the //Courier// newspaper offices, where the wounded Atom manages to reveal that the Psycho-Pirate is really Charley Halstead, the //Courier// linotyper who is Rex Morgan's best friend and was jealous of his success. As Halstead is taken into custody, he vows to have his revenge on the JSA. The Spectre and Starman resign from the Justice Society shortly after this case. //Note: Wonder Woman does not appear in this story.// ["The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate," All-Star Comics #23 (Winter, 1944-1945)] | * Newspaper publisher Rex Morgan summons the Justice Society to accept the written challenge of the Psycho-Pirate, a mysterious criminal who exploits emotions in his crimes, and who dares the JSA members to stop six emotion-based crimes he has planned. Hawkman foils a crime based on love, in which the Psycho-Pirate had Shiera Sanders kidnapped to act as leverage. Starman foils a crime based on hate. Doctor Mid-Nite frees an entire suburban city cut off from the outside world and gripped with fear of a plague being loosed upon them. Johnny Thunder is manipulated by conceit into getting himself captured, until the Thunderbolt saves the day. The Spectre foils a scheme based on greed. The Atom, tricked into thinking the JSA has been defeated, almost gives in to despair, but when he fights back, he is shot in the shoulder by the Psycho-Pirate. The assembled Justice Society gathers back at the //Courier// newspaper offices, where the wounded Atom manages to reveal that the Psycho-Pirate is really Charley Halstead, the //Courier// linotyper who is Rex Morgan's best friend and was jealous of his success. As Halstead is taken into custody, he vows to have his revenge on the JSA. The Spectre and Starman resign from the Justice Society shortly after this case. //Note: Wonder Woman does not appear in this story.// ["The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate," All-Star Comics #23 (Winter, 1944-1945)] |
| * October 31: Accepted as a candidate for officers' training school, Jim Corrigan decides to allow the Spectre to continue his war on crime by splitting off from him, with the result that he's now always invisible. The invisible Spectre remains in Gotham City and fights crime with the aid of his cat's-paw Percival Popp, acting as a kind of guardian angel. //Note: This story is necessarily placed here, since the Spectre is not invisible in any of his JSA cases, requiring that this story and all that follow it take place afterward.// ["Crime-Buster by Proxy," More Fun Comics #90 (April, 1943)] | * October 31: Accepted as a candidate for officers' training school, Jim Corrigan decides to allow the Spectre to continue his war on crime by splitting off from him, with the result that he's now always invisible. The invisible Spectre remains in New York City and fights crime with the aid of his cat's-paw Percival Popp, acting as a kind of guardian angel. //Note: This story is necessarily placed here, since the Spectre is not invisible in any of his JSA cases, requiring that this story and all that follow it take place afterward.// ["Crime-Buster by Proxy," More Fun Comics #90 (April, 1943)] |
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| ===November, 1944=== | ===November, 1944=== |
| ===February, 1945=== | ===February, 1945=== |
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| * The Justice Society of America battles the Stalker in an untold case. Rex Tyler becomes Hourman for the first time in two years in order to break up a group of eight Nazi occultists with the help of Doctor Occult, the Spectre (who is still invisible), Doctor Fate (who still lacks the Helm of Nabu), Zatara the Magician, and Sargon the Sorcerer. But when an other-dimensional being called the Stalker arrives, bent on ending all war by eliminating all life, the Spectre, Fate, Zatara, and Sargon are absorbed, while Hourman and Occult barely escape with their lives. Hawkman calls in the entire membership of the JSA to face the Stalker. When the Stalker attacks Washington, D.C., the JSA attacks the Stalker en masse, injuring him enough that he must take time to heal, but he brings the eight dead occultists back to life to act as his disciples and sends them out. Green Lantern and Johnny Thunder defend Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union from a disciple with ice powers. Starman and the Atom defeat the radioactive disciple threatening the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Hawkman and Wildcat travel to Angola, where with the help of the Manhunter and the Tigress they stop an animalistic disciple from blowing up Africa by igniting the world's largest underground oilfield. Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl travel to Iwo Jima in the Pacific, where they confront a water-powered disciple with the help of Steve Trevor. Doctor Mid-Nite and Hourman travel to Scotland, where they stop a diseased disciple from unleashing stockpiles of super-anthrax guarded by the U.S. Army. The Flash and Mister Terrific travel to Dresden in Germany, where they battle an explosive disciple amidst the Allied bombing and meet the disguised Tex Thomson, the Americommando. The Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy return to New York City, where they, along with the Star-Spangled Kid, Stripesy, and the King, face an insanity-producing disciple who has caused the city's population to go mad. Superman, Batman, and Robin battle another disciple in the skies who has wind powers. Together, the assembled JSA learns that the Stalker is located in Antarctica, and with the help of the All-Star Squadron they attack the Stalker at his base, where they destroy his engine and finally subdue the Stalker himself, freeing the Spectre, Doctor Fate, Zatara, and Sargon. //Note: This story has never been told on Earth-2, but it has been referred to on occasion in Earth-2 stories. Although this story is based on the Justice Society Returns storyline from All-Star Comics v2 #1-2, All-American Comics v2 #1, Adventure Comics v2 #1, Thrilling Comics v2 #1, Sensation Comics v2 #1, Smash Comics v2 #1, National Comics v2 #1, and Star Spangled Comics v2 #1, that story is a Post-Crisis story set in the combined DC Universe in which several details differ somewhat from what occurs on Earth-2, including the erroneous inclusion of a few Quality Comics characters who were actually on Earth-X at this time.// | * The Justice Society of America battles the Stalker in an untold case. Rex Tyler becomes Hourman for the first time in two years in order to break up a group of eight Nazi occultists with the help of Doctor Occult, Sargon the Sorcerer, Zatara the Magician, the Spectre (who is still invisible), and Doctor Fate (who still lacks the Helm of Nabu but is given a mystical replica made by Sargon the Sorcerer and the Spectre to temporarily grant him mystic powers). But when an other-dimensional being called the Stalker arrives, bent on ending all war by eliminating all life, the Spectre, Fate, Zatara, and Sargon are absorbed, while Hourman and Occult barely escape with their lives. Hawkman calls in the entire membership of the JSA to face the Stalker. When the Stalker attacks Washington, D.C., the JSA attacks the Stalker en masse, injuring him enough that he must take time to heal, but he brings the eight dead occultists back to life to act as his disciples and sends them out. Green Lantern and Johnny Thunder defend Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union from a disciple with ice powers. Starman and the Atom defeat the radioactive disciple threatening the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Hawkman and Wildcat travel to Angola, where with the help of the Manhunter and the Tigress they stop an animalistic disciple from blowing up Africa by igniting the world's largest underground oilfield. Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl travel to Iwo Jima in the Pacific, where they confront a water-powered disciple with the help of Steve Trevor. Doctor Mid-Nite and Hourman travel to Scotland, where they stop a diseased disciple from unleashing stockpiles of super-anthrax guarded by the U.S. Army. The Flash and Mister Terrific travel to Dresden in Germany, where they battle an explosive disciple amidst the Allied bombing and meet the disguised Tex Thomson, the Americommando. The Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy return to New York City, where they, along with the Star-Spangled Kid, Stripesy, and the King, face an insanity-producing disciple who has caused the city's population to go mad. Superman, Batman, and Robin battle another disciple in the skies who has wind powers. Together, the assembled JSA learns that the Stalker is located in Antarctica, and with the help of the All-Star Squadron they attack the Stalker at his base, where they destroy his engine and finally subdue the Stalker himself, freeing the Spectre, Doctor Fate, Zatara, and Sargon. //Note: This story has never been told on Earth-2, but it has been referred to on occasion in Earth-2 stories. Although this story is based on the Justice Society Returns storyline from All-Star Comics v2 #1-2, All-American Comics v2 #1, Adventure Comics v2 #1, Thrilling Comics v2 #1, Sensation Comics v2 #1, Smash Comics v2 #1, National Comics v2 #1, and Star Spangled Comics v2 #1, that story is a Post-Crisis story set in the combined DC Universe in which several details differ somewhat from what occurs on Earth-2, including the erroneous inclusion of a few Quality Comics characters who were actually on Earth-X at this time.// |
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| ===March, 1945=== | ===March, 1945=== |
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| * May 2: Germany unconditionally surrenders to the Allies, ending World War II in Europe. | * May 2: Germany unconditionally surrenders to the Allies, ending World War II in Europe. |
| * May 7: In a laboratory located in Germany's Black Forest, two scientists named Dr. Teufel and Dr. Melch create a super-soldier powerful enough to fight Superman even as the Third Reich is falling to the invading Allied forces. Dr. Melch's son Heinrich Melch is granted great strength through a green meteorite (which, unknown to anyone at the time, is kryptonite) found by Teufel, which causes Heinrich to glow green at first until he controls his radiation. Dr. Teufel gives Heinrich a lead-lined orange and yellow costume and dubs the young man <font color="#38761d">**Atoman**</font>. But Nazi Germany surrenders the war the very next day, and Heinrich instead travels to Metropolis in the United States, where he eventually joins the //Daily Star// as its newest reporter, Henry Miller. [Superman radio serial (October 11-December 3, 1945; "The Secret Origins of the Superman and Batman Team," World's Finest Comics #271 (September, 1981)] | * May 7: In a laboratory located in Germany's Black Forest, two scientists named Dr. Teufel and Dr. Melch create a super-soldier powerful enough to fight Superman even as the Third Reich is falling to the invading Allied forces. Dr. Melch's son Heinrich Melch is granted great strength through a green meteorite (which, unknown to anyone at the time, is kryptonite) found by Teufel, which causes Heinrich to glow green at first until he controls his radiation. Dr. Teufel gives Heinrich a lead-lined orange and yellow costume and dubs the young man **Atoman**. But Nazi Germany surrenders the war the very next day, and Heinrich instead travels to Metropolis in the United States, where he eventually joins the //Daily Star// as its newest reporter, Henry Miller. [Superman radio serial (October 11-December 3, 1945; "The Secret Origins of the Superman and Batman Team," World's Finest Comics #271 (September, 1981)] |
| * Neptune Perkins and Hawkman first team up; capture a gang of criminals [Flash Comics #66] | * Neptune Perkins and Hawkman first team up; capture a gang of criminals [Flash Comics #66] |
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| ===August, 1945=== | ===August, 1945=== |
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| * The Spectre has his last case with Percival Popp. //Note: Sometime after this story, Percival Popp discovers that he has a daughter named Nelly, who was born in Cliffland in 1943 to his short-lived girlfriend, Bubbles Twinkletoes.// ["The Unsafe Safe," More Fun Comics #101 (January-February, 1945)] | * The Spectre has his last case with Percival Popp. //Note: Sometime after this story, Percival Popp (J. Percival Poplaski) discovers that he has a daughter named Nelly, who was born in Cliffland in 1943 to his short-lived girlfriend, Bubbles Twinkletoes. Returning to Cliffland, Percival marries Bubbles, who forces him to shut down his private investigation business and get a job as a security guard at an office building. Percival helps raise his daughter Nelly Poplaski, and after he discovers that she has powers, he keeps it a secret from her mother and eventually creates the short-lived identity of the Spectress for her in 1956, when she is nearly thirteen years old.// ["The Unsafe Safe," More Fun Comics #101 (January-February, 1945)] |
| * August 14: | * August 14: |
| * America celebrates V-J Day after the official surrender of Japan to the Allies. | * America celebrates V-J Day after the official surrender of Japan to the Allies. |
| ===September, 1945=== | ===September, 1945=== |
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| * When the evil astral being Azmodus arrives on Earth and takes a human host, some cosmic fluke causes both Azmodus and the Spectre to be trapped in their human hosts for the next two decades. The Spectre now finds himself entirely unable to leave or separate from Corrigan's body. ["War That Shook the Universe," Showcase #60 (January-February, 1966)] | * When the evil astral being Azmodus arrives on Earth from the astral world of Tholagga and takes a human host, some cosmic fluke causes both Azmodus and the Spectre to be trapped in their human hosts for the next two decades. The Spectre now finds himself entirely unable to leave or separate from Corrigan's body. //Note: The name of Azmodus' original human host remains unknown.// ["War That Shook the Universe," Showcase #60 (January-February, 1966)] |
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| ===October, 1945=== | ===October, 1945=== |
| * Kathy Kane inherits her uncle's fortune and becomes Batwoman. [Detective Comics #233 - date refers to Earth-2 version only] | * Kathy Kane inherits her uncle's fortune and becomes Batwoman. [Detective Comics #233 - date refers to Earth-2 version only] |
| * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/misterterrific-tp1947-01/|Mister Terrific: Times Past, 1947: A Thousand Weapons to Choose From]]"] | * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/misterterrific-tp1947-01/|Mister Terrific: Times Past, 1947: A Thousand Weapons to Choose From]]"] |
| | * July 27: Ted Grant fights Juan "Kid" Montez, also known as "Mauler" Montez, the future father of Yolanda Montez, alias Wildcat II and Catwoman II. //Note: Date comes from a poster printed in Infinity Inc. #30.// |
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| ===August, 1947=== | ===August, 1947=== |
| ===September, 1947=== | ===September, 1947=== |
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| * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-dmn-guardian-tp1947/|The Brave and the Bold: Doctor Mid-Nite and the Guardian: Times Past, 1952: Shedding Some Light]]"] | * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-dmn-guardian-tp1947/|The Brave and the Bold: Doctor Mid-Nite and the Guardian: Times Past, 1947: Shedding Some Light]]"] |
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| ===October, 1947=== | ===October, 1947=== |
| ===October, 1948=== | ===October, 1948=== |
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| * October 26: The Seven Soldiers of Victory battle the Nebula-Man (the transformed Dr. Wilfred Gwythyr Doome) and are time-lost. Wing How apparently dies in battle with the Nebula-Man, but in reality he is taken to the Nebula-Man's realm. Wesley Dodds, the former Sandman, later begins searching for his missing friend Lee Travis (the Crimson Avenger) but is unsuccessful. ["The Unknown Soldier of Victory," Justice League of America #100 (August, 1972).] | * October 26: A giant menace called the Nebula-Man (the transformed Dr. Wilfred Gwythyr Doome) walks over the world, conquering everyone who tries to stop him, and killing many people. Finally, the Seven Soldiers of Victory come out of retirement to stop the Nebula-Man in the Himalayas near Mount Everest. The Seven Soldiers battle the Nebula-Man, giving them enough time to complete the Nebula-Rod, which gathers nebuloid-energy from space to channel against the opposing nebula threat. Wing How uses the new secret weapon to destroy the Nebula-Man, sacrificing his life in the process, though in reality he is taken to the Nebula-Man's realm. Holy men from a nearby temple who witnessed the battle place Wing's body in a grave. The destruction of the Nebula-Man causes each of the Seven Soldiers of Victory to be sent into a different era in the past. //Note: It is not known if the Hand had anything to do with the appearance of the Nebula-Man, but he eventually learned how to create his own construction of nebuloid-energy, since he threatens the Earth with it in 1972.// ["The Unknown Soldier of Victory," Justice League of America #100 (August, 1972).] |
| * The Crimson Avengers is sent to the time of the Aztecs, where he gains powers and is mistaken for the sun god Huitzilopotchli. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/crimsonavenger-tp1948-01/|The Crimson Avenger: Times Past, 1948: Losing Myself]]"] | * The Crimson Avenger is sent to the time of the Aztec Empire, where he has amnesia and gains strange powers from a fragment of the Nebula-Man and is worshipped as Huitzilopochtli, sun god of the Aztecs. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/crimsonavenger-tp1948-01/|The Crimson Avenger: Times Past, 1948: Losing Myself]]"] |
| * Green Arrow is sent to the time of Robin Hood, where he takes that hero's place in a tournament after he is injured. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/greenarrow-e2-tp1948-01/|Green Arrow: Times Past, 1948: The Ballad of Green Arrow]]"] | * The Shining Knight is sent to the time of Genghis Khan, where he falls under the control of a shaman and is made to serve Khan as his knight, fighting at the forefront of Khan's invading horde. |
| * Stripesy is sent to ancient Egypt during the time of Akhenaten, where he gains super-strength and is injured. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/showcase-e2-stripesy-tp1948/|Showcase: Stripesy: Times Past, 1948: Danger in Ancient Egypt]]"] | * Green Arrow is sent to the time of Robin Hood, where he takes that hero's place in a tournament after he is injured, and is arrested by the Sheriff of Nottingham. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/greenarrow-e2-tp1948-01/|Green Arrow: Times Past, 1948: The Ballad of Green Arrow]]"] |
| * Speedy is sent to ancient Greece, where he seeks help from Circe to return to his own time but is instead turned into a centaur. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/showcase-e2-speedy-tp1948/|Showcase: Speedy: Times Past, 1948: Transformations]]"] | * Stripesy is sent to ancient Egypt during the time of Akhenaten, where he gains super-strength and is injured. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/showcase-e2-stripesy-tp1948/|Showcase: Stripesy: Times Past, 1948: Danger in Ancient Egypt]]"] |
| | * The Vigilante is sent to North America before the time of Columbus, where he is captured by Native Americans. |
| | * The Star-Spangled Kid is sent back to the time of cavemen 50,000 years ago, where he isolates himself to avoid infecting the cavemen who have no immunity to his cold. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/starspangledkid-tp1948-01/|The Star-Spangled Kid: Times Past, 1948: The Caveman Kid]]"] |
| | * Speedy is sent to ancient Greece, where he seeks help from the sorceress Circe to return to his own time but is instead turned into a centaur and brought to the isle of Aeaea. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/showcase-e2-speedy-tp1948/|Showcase: Speedy: Times Past, 1948: Transformations]]"] |
| | * Wesley Dodds, the former Sandman, later begins searching for his missing friend Lee Travis (the Crimson Avenger) but is unsuccessful. |
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| ===November, 1948=== | ===November, 1948=== |