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| Timeline_of_Earth-2_1930s_to_1940s [2019/04/07 06:29] – [1947] docquantum | Timeline_of_Earth-2_1930s_to_1940s [2023/07/30 05:46] – [1941] docquantum |
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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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| * 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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| ===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=== |