| * 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)] |