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| ==== 1951 ==== | ==== 1951 ==== |
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| * Senator Joseph McCarthy is killed in a car accident. His place on the House Un-American Activities Committee is taken over by Senator Andrew O'Fallon, who decides to investigate the Justice Society of America. Since O'Fallon follows closely in McCarthy's footsteps, this era of communist-hunting becomes known as McCarthyism. //Note: In the real world, McCarthy died in 1957.// ["I Accuse," America Vs. the Justice Society #1 (January, 1985)] | * Senator Joseph McCarthy is killed in a car accident. His place on the House Un-American Activities Committee is taken over by Senator John O'Fallon, who decides to investigate the Justice Society of America. Since O'Fallon follows closely in McCarthy's footsteps, this era of communist-hunting becomes known as McCarthyism. //Note: In the real world, McCarthy died in 1957.// ["I Accuse," America Vs. the Justice Society #1 (January, 1985)] |
| * Doctor Occult battles a vampiress named Rosa and other vampires in San Francisco. Tracing their origin, Doctor Occult reaches Grim Island and meets Doctor Mist of Earth-1, Captain Marvel of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4. Together, the mystical heroes of five Earths confront Gareth to stop his island from being a menace to each of their worlds as a gateway to Hell. After a short battle commences, a time-traveling Abby Cable of Earth-1 from 1987 convinces Gareth to allow the other mystics to help him ward off the forces of Hell by founding a new school of magic called the Grimoire Academy to defend five Earths from a demonic invasion. Doctor Occult becomes one of the school's founding fathers. Grim Island is renamed Grimoire Island. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] | * Doctor Occult battles a vampiress named Rosa and other vampires in San Francisco. Tracing their origin, Doctor Occult reaches Grim Island and meets Doctor Mist of Earth-1, Captain Marvel of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4. Together, the mystical heroes of five Earths confront Gareth to stop his island from being a menace to each of their worlds as a gateway to Hell. After a short battle commences, a time-traveling Abby Cable of Earth-1 from 1987 convinces Gareth to allow the other mystics to help him ward off the forces of Hell by founding a new school of magic called the Grimoire Academy to defend five Earths from a demonic invasion. Doctor Occult becomes one of the school's founding fathers. Grim Island is renamed Grimoire Island. ["[[https://5earths.com/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] |
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| === January, 1951 === | === January, 1951 === |
| === February, 1951 === | === February, 1951 === |
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| * After nearly being killed by Eliminations, Inc., the JSA is called to appear before Congress on charges of consorting with a foreign agent. When Senator Andrew O'Fallon asks them to unmask and reveal their true identities, the JSA opt to disappear dramatically from the hearing and disband. //Note: Vandal Savage, in prison at the time, has claimed responsibility for the JSA's retirement; it is unclear whether this is true or just braggadocio on Savage's part.// [] | * After nearly being killed by Eliminations, Inc., the JSA is called to appear before Congress on charges of consorting with a foreign agent. When Senator John O'Fallon asks them to unmask and reveal their true identities, the JSA opt to disappear dramatically from the hearing and disband. //Note: Vandal Savage, in prison at the time, has claimed responsibility for the JSA's retirement; it is unclear whether this is true or just braggadocio on Savage's part.// [] |
| * Edmund Blake, now 15 years old, joins Gateway City's Fair Play Club and is devastated when he hears of the JSA's retirement. [Showcase: Team Justice: 1959: Justice in the Making, Chapter 1: The Lost Generation] | * Edmund Blake, now 15 years old, joins Gateway City's Fair Play Club and is devastated when he hears of the JSA's retirement. [Showcase: Team Justice: 1959: Justice in the Making, Chapter 1: The Lost Generation] |
| * Days after her retirement as Black Canary, Dinah Drake Lance and Larry Lance learn she is pregnant with their child. ["The Doppelganger Gambit," Justice League of America #220 (November, 1983)] | * Days after her retirement as Black Canary, Dinah Drake Lance and Larry Lance learn she is pregnant with their child. ["The Doppelganger Gambit," Justice League of America #220 (November, 1983)] |
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| * Halk Kar (Earth-2 counterpart of Mon-El) has adventure on Earth [Ed Hamilton & Al Plastino] ["Superman's Big Brother," Superman #80 (January-February, 1953)] | * Halk Kar (Earth-2 counterpart of Mon-El) has adventure on Earth [Ed Hamilton & Al Plastino] ["Superman's Big Brother," Superman #80 (January-February, 1953)] |
| * The Grimoire Academy of Applied Learning on the multi-dimensional Grimoire Island opens its doors to students from Earth-2, Earth-1, Earth-S, Earth-X, and Earth-4. This school is built and founded by the 16-year-old prodigy Gareth Gallowglass of Earth-1, Doctor Occult of Earth-2, Doctor Mist of Earth-1, Shazam of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4,who each contribute their knowledge and experience to the curriculum. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] | * The Grimoire Academy of Applied Learning on the multi-dimensional Grimoire Island opens its doors to students from Earth-2, Earth-1, Earth-S, Earth-X, and Earth-4. This school is built and founded by the 16-year-old prodigy Gareth Gallowglass of Earth-1, Doctor Occult of Earth-2, Doctor Mist of Earth-1, Shazam of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4,who each contribute their knowledge and experience to the curriculum. ["[[https://5earths.com/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] |
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| === February, 1952 === | === February, 1952 === |
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| * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/adamblake-e2-tp1954-02/|Blake's Seven: Times Past, 1955: Blake's Joke]]"] | * ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/adamblake-e2-tp1954-02/|Blake's Seven: Times Past, 1955: Blake's Joke]]"] |
| * Senator Andrew O'Fallon is censured by the Senate for helping to instigate a culture of fear and paranoia during the McCarthyism era. O'Fallon dies not long afterward under mysterious circumstances. | * Senator John O'Fallon is censured by the Senate for helping to instigate a culture of fear and paranoia during the McCarthyism era. O'Fallon dies not long afterward under mysterious circumstances. |
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| ==== 1955 ==== | ==== 1955 ==== |
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| * Edmund Blake, in his final year at Harmouth College, is racing for his college in the Harmouth-Vinton Crew Race, when an excursion steamer overturns; he and his fellow students save the people, with the help of the Atom and Hawkman, who are visiting. [All-Star #48] | * Edmund Blake, in his final year at Harmouth College, is racing for his college in the Harmouth-Vinton Crew Race, when an excursion steamer overturns; he and his fellow students save the people, with the help of the Atom and Hawkman, who are visiting. [All-Star #48] |
| | * Senator John O'Fallon dies in a mysterious house fire. Afterward, his son Andrew K. (A.K.) O'Fallon blames the Justice Society of America for his death, devoting the rest of his life as publisher of the //Capitol Globe// in Washington, DC, to smearing the JSA's reputation whenever he can. ["Witness for the Persecution," America Vs. the Justice Society #1 (January, 1985)] |
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| === April, 1958 === | === April, 1958 === |
| === December, 1965 === | === December, 1965 === |
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| * December 8: Wesley Dodds' memories of being the Sandman are jarred when gangster "Snooze" Simpson, whom he put in prison in 1945 as the Sandman, attempts to exact his revenge with the help of the daughter of Dr. Raymond Baxter, the psychiatrist who hypnotized Wes into forgetting that he was the Sandman back in 1949, since she learned Wesley's secret identity then while still a teenager. Wesley finally remembers being the Sandman when Sandy Hawkins' full name is mentioned. The Sandman comes out of retirement, builds a new Sand-Car out of a sports car, invents a sand-gun with the ability to form stone and glass shapes out of sand, and rejoins the Justice Society of America. He also secretly begins trying to find a cure for Sandy, who was accidentally transformed into a silicoid monster in 1945, but is unsuccessful for almost a decade. //Note: Although this story is published in 1982 and apparently takes place shortly before issue #47, it must take place sometime before the Sandman's return to the JSA in Justice League of America #46.// ["Whatever Happened to the Sandman?" DC Comics Presents #42 (February, 1982); "Crisis Between Earth-One and Earth-Two," Justice League of America #46 (August, 1966)] | * December 8: Wesley Dodds' memories of being the Sandman are jarred when gangster "Snooze" Simpson, whom he put in prison in 1947 as the Sandman, attempts to exact his revenge with the help of the daughter of Dr. Raymond Baxter, the psychiatrist who hypnotized Wes into forgetting that he was the Sandman back in 1950, since she learned Wesley's secret identity then while still a teenager. Wesley finally remembers being the Sandman when Sandy Hawkins' full name is mentioned. The Sandman comes out of retirement, builds a new Sand-Car out of a sports car, invents a sand-gun with the ability to form stone and glass shapes out of sand, and rejoins the Justice Society of America. He also secretly begins trying to find a cure for Sandy, who was accidentally transformed into a silicoid monster in 1947, but is unsuccessful for almost a decade. //Note: Although this story is published in 1982 and apparently takes place shortly before issue #47, it must take place sometime before the Sandman's return to the JSA in Justice League of America #46.// ["Whatever Happened to the Sandman?" DC Comics Presents #42 (February, 1982); "Crisis Between Earth-One and Earth-Two," Justice League of America #46 (August, 1966)] |
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| ==== 1966 ==== | ==== 1966 ==== |