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+ | ==== 1960 ==== | ||
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+ | === January, 1960 === | ||
+ | * Capt. Nathaniel Christopher Adam (who sometimes uses the aliases Allen Adam or John Adam) rematerializes after being exploded in space. He creates a costume made of radiation-blocking diulustel and becomes the super-powered **[[Captain Atom]]**, America' | ||
+ | * An oil company employee in the Middle East named Phil Winship discovers a time-travel device shaped as a helmet, which he uses to travel back 20,000 years. In this past era he discovers an unnamed civilization that possesses aircraft and advanced science. When the helmet is destroyed, he is likewise stranded in that time, and he soon adapts to the civilization and forgets his original time of 1960. ["The Time Cap," Unusual Tales #20] | ||
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+ | === April, 1960 === | ||
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+ | * [[Konga]], a small chimpanzee taken from Africa, is turned into a giant, 25-foot-tall gorilla by daily injections of chemicals derived from carnivorous plants. He goes on a rampage in London before being **killed** and reverting to his small chimpanzee size. [Konga (1960 American International film); Konga #1] | ||
+ | * Captain Atom saves the life of Igor Kriss (born Igor Stefanovich Kriskovsky), | ||
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+ | === May, 1960 === | ||
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+ | * A 37-year-old man named [[George Clinton]] spontaneously becomes a human powerhouse, building up large amounts of electricity in his body that he can discharge at will. He retains this ability just long enough to discharge a powerful bolt of electricity into the sky, then **returns to normal**. Little does he know that this discharge of electricity utterly destroys a group of spaceborne monsters in the upper atmosphere that would have infected the Earth with new and terrible diseases from another galaxy. ["The Human Powerhouse," | ||
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+ | === June, 1960 === | ||
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+ | * Captain Atom helps his friend Jeff " | ||
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+ | === July, 1960 === | ||
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+ | * **The Mysterious Traveler**' | ||
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+ | === October, 1960 === | ||
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+ | * Captain Atom encounters the extraterrestrials known as the Space Prowlers and stops their planned invasion of Earth. [Space Adventures #37] | ||
+ | * Captain Atom first encounters the Silver Ladies of Venus, an extraterrestrial species of superhuman women who are telepathic and can exist in the vacuum of space near Venus. //Note: They are not native to Venus and have only settled there at some point in the past, using technology to survive. Although it is not explained here, the Silver Ladies can only exist in the vacuum of space through the use of transparent, | ||
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+ | === November, 1960 === | ||
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+ | * Captain Atom prevents three separate attempts to begin a nuclear war. [Space Adventures #38] | ||
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+ | === December, 1960 === | ||
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+ | * **[[Phantom Lady]]**, now 40 years old, goes into costume a **single time** to stop armed criminals but is trapped by them. The mystical being known as Azagoth approaches her, saving her, and begins teaching her over the next decade to become a powerful sorceress. She ceases to age and becomes a young woman again. //Note: The Azagoth of Earth-4 is a creature from the Land of the Nightshades, | ||
+ | * During the final months of President Dwight Eisenhower' | ||
+ | * Salvagers Joe Ryan and Sam Slade capture [[Gorgo]], an amphibious baby dinosaur, off the coast of Ireland and become famous. They sell him to Dorkin' | ||
+ | * A dinosaur-like monster called [[Reptilicus]] is grown from a discarded limb found frozen in Lapland in the Arctic Circle. Reptilicus attacks Copenhagen, Denmark. //Note: Reptilicus' | ||
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+ | ==== 1961 ==== | ||
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+ | === January, 1961 === | ||
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+ | * After a final case for President Eisenhower, Captain Atom is introduced to President John F. Kennedy, who was informed of his existence sometime after winning the Presidential election. | ||
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+ | === June, 1961 === | ||
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+ | * Bob and Sandra Kenton create [[Konga II]] when they turn another chimpanzee into a 25-foot-tall monster. [Konga #2] | ||
+ | * After Ogra and Gorgo' | ||
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+ | === August, 1961 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Betsy Crane|Nurse Betsy Crane]] begins adventures. [Nurse Betsy Crane #12] | ||
+ | * In **Captain Atom**' | ||
+ | * Mandel Astro, dictator of the Latin American nation of Bota, sends Dr. Valzo to find Ogra and Gorgo to control them and make them national super-weapons. Valzo captures Gorgo, subduing him with electricity, | ||
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+ | === September, 1961 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Gorgo playfully grabs a nuclear depth bomb being tested by the U.S. Navy. He and his mother are caught in the underwater blast but are relatively unharmed. Meanwhile, a U.S. astronaut named Maj. Charles X. Dunne orbits the earth and re-enters the atmosphere, only to be retrieved by Gorgo. The U.S. military sets out to rescue Maj. Dunne, but Gorgo and his mother Ogra leave him unharmed. After some days, Maj. Dunne gains Gorgo' | ||
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+ | === October, 1961 === | ||
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+ | * On a South Seas tropical island, Konga II battles a group of Nazis who plan to use atomic power to conquer the world. He inadvertently causes the death of Adolf Hitler or a man who is Hitler' | ||
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+ | === November, 1961 === | ||
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+ | * After his hide turns from green to red, Reptilicus is renamed Reptisaurus. [Reptisaurus #3] | ||
+ | * Professor Henry Stoddard and his assistants, Jason and Maria, track down Ogra and Gorgo in tropical waters. Following them, the U.S. military attacks the monsters, who travel northward underwater and soon reach New York City, causing destruction in their path. After the U.S. military uses nuclear depth bombs in the sea outside New York Harbor, an ancient sea creature trapped for millions of years is set free and attacks New York City in search of food. Ogra attacks and kills the creature to protect her baby, Gorgo, and they flee back into the ocean. [Gorgo #5] | ||
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+ | ==== 1962 ==== | ||
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+ | === January, 1962 === | ||
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+ | * After months of work, Bob and Sandra Kenton are able to use a shrinking serum of his own invention to reverse Konga II's growth, turning him back into the small size of a chimpanzee, but it soon wears off. [Konga #5] | ||
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+ | === February, 1962 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * U.S. General Canfield hires Professor Stoddard to track down Ogra and Gorgo once again to destroy them once and for all. Meanwhile, in a lost city of Atlantis populated by mutated yellow reptilian humanoids who communicate through telepathy, they planned to attack the surface world. But while sending their army toward the surface, they attacked Ogra and Gorgo, who attacked them and destroyed this Atlantis and killed all its inhabitants, | ||
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+ | === April, 1962 === | ||
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+ | * The USSR begins testing new hydrogen bomb rockets underwater in the Arctic Ocean, disturbing Ogra and Gorgo. Under cover of a hurricane, USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev sends a huge fleet of unmanned, robotically controlled atomic submarines (controlled by a manned mother submarine) with hydrogen rockets to conquer the world' | ||
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+ | === May, 1962 === | ||
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+ | * Still imprisoned, Clyde " | ||
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+ | === July, 1962 === | ||
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+ | * Konga II discovers a tropical land full of dinosaurs beneath the ice-crust in Antarctica. Finding that the dinosaur inhabitants were unfriendly and all wanted to fight him, he leaves and heads north for a tropical island. [Konga #8] | ||
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+ | === August, 1962 === | ||
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+ | * [[Cynthia Doyle]], nurse, begins adventures. [Cynthia Doyle, Nurse in Love #66] | ||
+ | * In the Arctic Ocean, Generalissimo Chang plans to test Red China' | ||
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+ | === September, 1962 === | ||
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+ | * Wandering into Siberia, Konga II frees an exiled Czech performer named Stanlut Leon Kazhov, who directs Konga II west to destroy Soviet installations. Konga II destroys a Soviet missile base with a new series of nuclear weapons, then leaves the USSR with Kazhov, heading for a tropical island. [Konga #9] | ||
+ | * Spotted in the fishing waters off the Chinese coast, Gorgo is mistaken as the Dragon of China, whom the enemies of Communism in China rally behind as a symbol of freedom. Pre-Communist leader Li T'ze takes the opportunity to rise against the Communist government before leading half a million people to freedom in Taiwan. Ogra and Gorgo go on a rampage in Red China, causing much damage to the nation' | ||
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+ | === October, 1962 === | ||
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+ | * The USSR secretly sends nuclear missiles and germ weapons via cargo ship to Fidel Castro in Cuba. President Kennedy learns of this illegal cargo, causing the Cuban Missile Crisis to occur. Gorgo, passing by and seeing the ships, is curious and investigates in Cuba, only to be attacked by Fidel Castro' | ||
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+ | === November, 1962 === | ||
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+ | * [[Sue Smith]] and [[Sally Smith]], two nurses with special training, volunteer for hazardous missions of mercy with the Emergency Corps rescue team. [Sue and Sally Smith, Flying Nurses #48] | ||
+ | * [[Dr. Landon]], surgeon, and [[Dr. Burke]], psychiatrist, | ||
+ | * Ogra and Gorgo are in the South Pacific near the coast of Sydney, Australia, when giant extraterrestrial creatures (having brown fur, a horn, and a single eye) currently living on Venus reach the Earth in their gigantic spacecraft. The Venusians attack Melbourne, which evacuates, and the military drops an atomic bomb on the spacecraft, which is unaffected. Gorgo, investigating, | ||
+ | * During the Venusian invasion, a smaller race of octopus-like Venusians secretly lands a spacecraft on Earth to build a scientific study city on an isolated tropical island. Gorgo spots them when they land. The Venusians release the Gifted Ones, shapeshifters under Venusian control that can impersonate humans, and the Gifted Ones begin capturing and impersonating all the top scientists of the world. Tracking down the missing scientists to the octopus-like Venusians' | ||
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+ | === December, 1962 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Tom Brent|Dr. Tom Brent]] begins adventures as a young intern at a hospital. [Doctor Tom Brent, Young Intern #1] | ||
+ | * Alex Berlitz, Hollywood director, captures footage of Gorgo on film in the South Pacific and films a movie. [Gorgo #11] | ||
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+ | ==== 1963 ==== | ||
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+ | * Steve Austin finishes college and joins the U.S. Army, flying helicopters in Vietnam for several months. [The Six Million Dollar Man (1974 ABC television series)] | ||
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+ | === February, 1963 === | ||
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+ | * [[Scot Jackson]] and the [[Rodmasters]], | ||
+ | * [[Rick Roberts]], teenage hotrodder, begins adventures. [Teenage Hotrodders #1] | ||
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+ | === March, 1963 === | ||
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+ | * [[Lee Barry]], student nurse, begins adventures. [Three Nurses #18] | ||
+ | * [[Anne Allen]], registered nurse, begins adventures. [Three Nurses #18] | ||
+ | * [[Nancy White]], visiting nurse, begins adventures. [Three Nurses #18] | ||
+ | * [[Warlord (Earth-4)|The Warlord]] first becomes known to THUNDER after he attempts to steal the latest atomic engine. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1] | ||
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+ | === April, 1963 === | ||
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+ | * // | ||
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+ | === May, 1963 === | ||
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+ | * **Reptisaurus**' | ||
+ | * A 15-foot, frog-like extraterrestrial named Koorii from the planet Corpus III witnesses as Ogra and Gorgo are caught in a nuclear test on an island controlled by Red China. Ogra and Gorgo attack military installations on China' | ||
+ | * Rex King, heir to the throne of the kingdom of Baronkhan, is born to Princess Lisandra. Some time later, Rex King is orphaned and adopted by the Phantom XXI, who is unaware of his true identity. //Note: This date is speculative and is based on events shown in the Phantom comic strip. After the Phantom XXI's death, the Phantom XXII takes over as Rex's guardian.// | ||
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+ | === June, 1963 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Jerry Starr|Dr. Jerry Starr]], emergency doctor, has **only two cases**. [Emergency Doctor #1] | ||
+ | * [[John Johnson|Dr. John Johnson]], emergency doctor, has **only one case**. [Emergency Doctor #1] | ||
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+ | === July, 1963 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Dan Garret, the original [[Blue Beetle (Dan Garret)|Blue Beetle]], returns from a coma-like state and operates under the name of the **Human Fly**, having **a brief career** before disappearing once more. //Note: A Blue Beetle story in Americomics #3 reveals that the eternally young Dan Garret had a brief career in the 1960s. We posit that Garret uses the name Human Fly based on the reprint issues published by IW Publishing/ | ||
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+ | === August, 1963 === | ||
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+ | * **Dr. Tom Brent**' | ||
+ | * Dr. Carl Engstrom, now a university professor, returns to the Land That Time Forgot in the heart of Africa and discovers that his daughter Gloria has grown up to become the White Goddess of the prehistoric ape-men there. Meanwhile, Gorgo traveled deep inland into Africa to reach the Land That Time Forgot, followed by his mother Ogra. The two monsters battle the dinosaurs there, inadvertently saving Engstrom and Gloria from being sacrificed by the ape-men to a tyrannosaurus rex. Engstrom believes the monsters have destroyed all the dinosaurs there before fleeing back into the ocean. [Gorgo #15] | ||
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+ | === September, 1963 === | ||
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+ | * **Dr. Landon** and **Dr. Burke**' | ||
+ | * **Sue and Sally Smith**' | ||
+ | * Archeologists Prof. Cyrus Coffin and his brother Elias Coffin discover an ancient Greek scroll describing the legend of Athena and Arachne, in which a young woman named Arachne challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving contest but was turned into a spider by the goddess. A rival archeologist named Hal Carter forces the Coffin brothers to share credit for the discovery with him, but Elias plans revenge when he has his young daughter, also named Arachne, weave a scarf according to the ancient instructions. Then he planned to have Arachne send the scarf to Carter so that the still-living ancient spider Arachne would destroy him. Unfortunately, | ||
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+ | === October, 1963 === | ||
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+ | * U.S. Senator Sam Brockton has founded a new political party whose main purpose is to destroy Ogra and Gorgo and other monsters, who he sees as the main threat to civilization. Meanwhile, scientists test an atomic bomb in the South Seas, creating the Chloryllfids, | ||
+ | * Police Chief David Crowell of an unnamed U.S. city stops a threat by an alien who pirate broadcasts over unused television channels all across the country, showing its power and demanding the world' | ||
+ | * Five men are recruited by the CIA for a special mission to rescue Dr. Ernst Von Essen, a naturalized American scientist originally from Germany, from his communist captors in East Germany. They become [[Fightin' | ||
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+ | === December, 1963 === | ||
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+ | * **Cynthia Doyle**' | ||
+ | * Gorgo destroys two Soviet missile bases in the Caribbean Sea secretly set up to aid Cuba against the U.S. [Gorgo #17] | ||
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+ | ==== 1964 ==== | ||
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+ | * Steve Austin transfers from the U.S. Army into the U.S. Air Force and becomes a test pilot. He is also briefly married to a woman named Karen, who becomes pregnant with their son but does not tell Austin. [The Six Million Dollar Man (1974 ABC television series)] | ||
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+ | === January, 1964 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Lee Barry**' | ||
+ | * **Anne Allen**' | ||
+ | * **Nancy White**' | ||
+ | * **Nurse Betsy Crane**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1964 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * While on a sabbatical in Egypt from his archeology professor position at Hub City's Second City University, Dr. Daniel Northrup Garrett gains super-powers from a mystic blue scarab to become **[[Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett)|Blue Beetle II]]**. In his first case, he battles the giant mummy of the evil pharaoh, Kha-ef-re. Dr. Garrett is aided by noted female Egyptian archaelogist, | ||
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+ | === May, 1964 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Gorgo battles Dr. Zhunli, a criminal scientist and amateur sorcerer who finds a way to grow to a giant size. [Gorgo #19] | ||
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+ | === August, 1964 === | ||
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+ | * Gorgo saves the U.S. nuclear submarine the U.S.S. Ripper and its crew, thanks to a trained dolphin named Clyde that can somehow communicate with the monster. [Return of Gorgo #3] | ||
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+ | === September, 1964 === | ||
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+ | * Blue Beetle II battles Mr. Thunderbolt, | ||
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+ | === October, 1964 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Sarge Steel]], private detective, returns from a tour of duty as a soldier in Vietnam and begins adventures. [Sarge Steel #1] | ||
+ | * October 10: Charles David Grant, the future Mr. Jigsaw, is born a mutant with control over his molecular structure, enabling him to detach and remotely control parts of his body. | ||
+ | * A hundred miles off the Carolina coast in the North Atlantic Ocean, Gorgo discovers a secret Soviet city underwater that is stockpiled with nuclear weapons. He is attacked and causes much destruction of the city in return, grabbing a nuclear missile before washing up on the Carolina shore. The U.S. military, investigating, | ||
+ | * **[[Mercury Man]]**, a benign, super-powered alien from Mercury who was transformed into mercury, comes to Earth and prevents a nuclear war from breaking out when the new Soviet leader fires nuclear missiles at the USA. With the assistance of Dr. Erika Penn, a scientist, Mercury Man is able to assume a human identity, though he retains the ability to become mercury once more. //Note: This story is set in the mid-1960s, possibly placing it in October, 1964, after Nikita Khrushchev was ousted as the premier, but before Leonid Brezhnev became the new leader. This story very likely takes place at the same time as the events of Gorgo #21.// [" | ||
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+ | === November, 1964 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * In Mexico, Blue Beetle II battles his recurring evil foe [[Praying Mantis Man|the Praying Mantis Man]], who is really Dr. Hunter Mann. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v2 #4] | ||
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+ | === December, 1964 === | ||
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+ | * According to this story, it is the policy of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that Gorgo and **Ogra** (who makes no more appearances) have done more for the free world and all of mankind than he has against man and is not to be considered hostile. Under the direction of Gen. Thung, Red China has begun a massive military build-up in preparation for a planned invasion of all of Asia. Gorgo wanders into Red China and is attacked by the military with nuclear force. Gorgo humiliates Thung, ending his dreams of conquest. [Gorgo #22] | ||
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+ | ==== 1965 ==== | ||
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+ | * Steve Austin joins the U.S. space program as one of six civilians in the astronaut training program, although Austin had worked for a year as a U.S. Air Force test pilot before joining NASA. Sometime during this year, Austin' | ||
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+ | === January, 1965 === | ||
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+ | * Blue Beetle II battles the Red Knight, who is in reality his lifelong friend, NASA physicist Dr. Lewis Coll, inventor of a rocketship that he used to travel to the planet Saturn, where he becomes mad after exposure to a mysterious metallic glass with special properties that he finds there. The hero uses a special powder to break Coll's madness, restoring him to normal. During this case, Blue Beetle II briefly travels to Saturn under his own power. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v2 #5] | ||
+ | * **Mercury Man**' | ||
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+ | === February, 1965 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Prof. Wallace Jennings is murdered by agents of the Warlord, who steal several of his inventions, leaving behind some equipment and a few prototypes of super-weapons that would enable the user to have super-powers. THUNDER begins a search for the right candidates for three of those prototypes. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1965 === | ||
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+ | * John Mann, a newspaper reporter and Korean War veteran with an artificial leg, hurls a challenge at the gods of Mount Olympus and is endowed with their might to become the super-powered action hero, **[[Son of Vulcan|the Son of Vulcan]]**. [Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #46] | ||
+ | * On the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprete, Son of Vulcan first battles his recurring criminal foe, [[Dr. Kong]], and his robotic henchman, the Giant Gladiator. [Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #46] | ||
+ | * While wandering through a small town, David Crandall (whose memories briefly return when Son of Vulcan is created) becomes **[[Nature Man]]** for a **single case**, saving a small town from flooding after a dam bursts. //Note: This story, appearing in 1956, apparently takes place after Nature Boy grew up. After this case, David Crandall loses his memories again and forgets his powers until 1985, but he sporadically has short periods of time when he regains his memories and occasionally acts as the wandering hero Nature Man.// [Nature Boy #3] | ||
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+ | === April, 1965 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Soviet spy chief Comrade Zastrow (Anatoly Prokosha Zastrow) offers former Soviet cosmonaut Igor Kriss (imprisoned in a Siberian gulag since 1960) the opportunity to participate in an experiment meant to recreate in him the nuclear super-powered abilities of Captain Atom. Kriss accepts and begins six months of testing in anticipation of the final experiment. [" | ||
+ | * In an untold tale, Son of Vulcan battles an evil Asian warlord and his army, and later has an underwater battle with a sea creature. [Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #47] | ||
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+ | === May, 1965 === | ||
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+ | * College mythology professor Leonard Lambie, a henpecked husband, is given the powerful Golden Gauntlets of King Midas by the god Mars and becomes the new King Midas. He is a nuisance to the Son of Vulcan. [Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #47] | ||
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+ | === June, 1965 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Blue Beetle II battles Mentor the Magnificent, | ||
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+ | === July, 1965 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The Phantom XXI dies battling former Nazi soldiers with a U-boat and Nazi gold, leaving his son Kit Walker to become **[[Phantom XXII|the Phantom XXII]]**. //Note: The Phantom' | ||
+ | * Ignoring its earlier vow not to harm Gorgo, the Pentagon begins a new attack on Gorgo. Dr. Hobart Howarth, a scientist, uses a time machine that he has invented to send **Gorgo** back to the Late Jurassic Period and is inadvertently pulled back in time with him. When the radiation that the time machine operates on wears off, the two are sent forward in time, first to the Ice Age and then to the 19th century during an unnamed European war. Gen. Barr and a sergeant are sent to the same time period, where they save Howarth' | ||
+ | * Son of Vulcan battles Mars himself, who is disguised as whaler Capt. Tusk. [Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #48] | ||
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+ | === August, 1965 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Blue Beetle II battles Magno-Man (Dr. Louis Forte) and his subterranean agents, who cause earthquakes. He saves New York City from being destroyed. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v3 #52] | ||
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+ | === September, 1965 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * After a long search for the right candidates to use Prof. Jennings' | ||
+ | * Dynamo II battles recurring arch-enemy, [[Iron Maiden|the Iron Maiden]], an agent of the Warlord, for the first time. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1] | ||
+ | * NoMan battles recurring criminal foe [[Demo]], an agent of the Warlord, for the first time. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1] | ||
+ | * [[The Thunder Squad]] -- [[Lightning (Guy Gilbert)|Guy Gilbert]], leader; [[Dynamite Adkins|John Daniel " | ||
+ | * While visiting the United States, Japanese national Tetsuro Tanaka (the Japanese costumed crime-fighter Tiger) at the age of 34 adopts the identity of **[[Judomaster (Tiger Tanaka)|Judomaster II]]**. [speculation] | ||
+ | * Sarge Steel becomes a special agent for the U.S. State Department. [Sarge Steel #6] | ||
+ | * **Konga II**'s last appearance. [Konga #23] | ||
+ | * Son of Vulcan gains a new costume and battles Dr. Kong once again, who is aided by the god Mars (now using the newly created identity of millionaire Warren Masters). [Son of Vulcan #49] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1965 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Captain Atom** reappears for a series of new cases, still top secret. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #78] | ||
+ | * During an intentional re-enactment of Captain Atom's origin, Soviet cosmonaut Igor Kriss is vaporized in an atomic explosion and rematerializes himself. He is given a costume and the name **[[Redstar (Igor Kriss)|Redstar]]**, | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle II battles **the Praying Mantis Man** for the last time, and the villain apparently falls to his death. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v3 #53] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1965 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Peter Cannon, trained by Tibetan monks to harness the energy of his entire brain to perform amazing feats, returns to America as the reluctant action hero, **[[Thunderbolt (Peter Cannon)|Thunderbolt]]**, | ||
+ | * During a battle with Dynamo, **the Warlord** (revealed to be a Subterranean) is killed in an atomic bomb explosion that destroys his Hudson Bay island headquarters, | ||
+ | * During a mission in the South American nation of San Bolivar, the THUNDER Squad' | ||
+ | * Lt. David Jones (possibly a relative of Navy Jones) joins a top secret international organization called U.N.D.E.R.S.E.A. (the United Nations Department of Experiment and Research Systems Established at Atlantis), headed by Prof. Weston (who has discovered the ruins of Atlantis). [[Dr. Fang]] of Red China, who has discovered Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean (populated by water-breathing primitive humans whom Fang enslaves to do Red China' | ||
+ | * Son of Vulcan battles his arch-foe **Dr. Kong** for the last time while playing the part of Achilles in a movie called //Warrior Against Troy// opposite star actress Lisa Connors. [Son of Vulcan #50] | ||
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+ | === December, 1965 === | ||
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+ | * Captain Atom battles recurring criminal foe [[Doctor Spectro]] for the first time. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #79] | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle II battles the Eye of Horus, an ancient Egyptian menace that his predecessor, | ||
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+ | ==== 1966 ==== | ||
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+ | === January, 1966 === | ||
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+ | * Peter Cannon (Thunderbolt) meets Dr. Daniel Northrup Garrett (Blue Beetle II) in their civilian identities, each unaware of the other' | ||
+ | * Dynamo meets a member of the Subterraneans and learns that the Warlord was one of that underground race. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #3] | ||
+ | * Dynamo battles the Red Dragon. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #3] | ||
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+ | === February, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Captain Atom frees an artificial moon from his recurring criminal foe, the tyrant [[Drako]], who seeks to rule the Earth as well. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #80] | ||
+ | * Guy Gilbert of the Thunder Squad becomes the super-agent known as **Lightning**, | ||
+ | * Dynamo battles the Iron Maiden once more. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #4] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[L. Dedd|Mr. L. Dedd]] (full name is Mr. Living Dedd) makes his first appearance. [Ghostly Tales #55] | ||
+ | * [[M.T. Graves|Dr. M.T. Graves]], the ghost fighter, makes his first appearance as a supernaturalist, | ||
+ | * March 10: Representatives of the Soviet Union tell the United Nations Security Council that it has established a base on the planet Venus and claims the entire planet. On March 12, United Nations representatives witness William Fields, alias **[[Merman]]**, | ||
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+ | === April, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Jerry Steele, the hero formerly known as U.S. Jones and V-Man, makes an attempt to establish a new team of heroes called **[[Action Heroes|the Action Heroes]]** and invites action heroes and former boy sidekicks to join. Established heroes Son of Vulcan, Thunderbolt, | ||
+ | * A few days after the Action Heroes meeting, Ted Kord consults his former college roommate Dr. Dan Garrett to help him stop his criminal scientist uncle, Jarvis Kord, on Pago Island. Ted learns Garrett is Blue Beetle III, and **Blue Beetle II** dies stopping Jarvis Kord. Ted Kord, witnessing the death of his friend, begins months of extreme physical training while developing specialized weaponry to become the next Blue Beetle. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v4 #2] | ||
+ | * Prof. Luri Garrett (nee Hoshid), widow of Dr. Daniel Garrett (Blue Beetle II), gives birth to their only child, a daughter named Marian Garrett. //Note: Marian Garrett grows up to become Blue Beetle IV in 1986, acting concurrently with the still-active Blue Beetle III.// [" | ||
+ | * A side effect of Blue Beetle II's death is that the Big Four never forms, since Green Spider, Captain USA, and Superguy lose interest after the Beetle' | ||
+ | * The movie //Warrior Against Troy//, starring **Son of Vulcan** (who makes no more appearances) and star actress Lisa Connors, is released. //Note: This movie was released several months after filming, when the main part of the story takes place. After this story, Johnny Mann finds that he is able to become the Son of Vulcan less and less frequently, until months or years pass between his changes. This situation continues until 1985, when he is able to become Son of Vulcan permanently.// | ||
+ | * Dynamo battles [[Overlord|the Overlord]], ruler of the Subterraneans. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #5] | ||
+ | * The T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents battle [[Mastermind (villain)|the Mastermind]] for the first time. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #5] | ||
+ | * The wild life and adventures of [[Bikini Luv (Earth-4)|Bikini Luv]] begin. //Note: This is the Earth-4 version of Bikini Luv, a character that exists on a comedy version of Earth-4 named Earth-412 (based on the name of Earth-12, home of the Inferior Five).// [Go-Go #1] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Captain Atom battles **Doctor Spectro** once more, who is arrested and does not appear again until 1985. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #81] | ||
+ | * Dynamo battles [[Red Dragon (Ling)|Red Star]] (Ling), agent of the Red Dragon. //Note: The Red Star is not to be confused with Redstar (Igor Kriss) of the Soviet Union.// [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #6] | ||
+ | * The T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents battle Demo, who steals NoMan' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The Subterraneans use Menthor as a bait to trap the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, but **Menthor** sacrifices his life to save them. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #7] | ||
+ | * [[Mike Manly]], secret agent, begins adventures. [Fight the Enemy #1] | ||
+ | * Thunderbolt battles the Tong, a man naming himself after the eponymous Chinese secret society, when his gang begins a crime spree in New York City. [Thunderbolt (Charlton) v2 #53] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Eve Eden, daughter of a United States Senator and an other-dimensional princess, with the power to become a living shadow besides her considerable martial arts expertise, becomes **[[Nightshade]]**, | ||
+ | * **[[Shape|The Shape]]**, a unique artificial life form life form with the power to change its shape, is created by Prof. Saber S. " | ||
+ | * Craig Lawson becomes **[[Raven (Craig Lawson)|the Raven]]**, newest super-agent of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #8] | ||
+ | * The T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents battle **the Overlord** for the last time, when he dies. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #8] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * A trio of young Greenwich Village musicians (Rick Strong, Cindy Carson, and Crunch Wilson) who comprise the folk-rock music group known as the Protestors are given super-abilities by special devices invented by the scientist Kolotov, a Russian exile using the name Jones, and fight crime as **[[Sensational Sentinels|the Sensational Sentinels]]** (**[[Helio]]**, | ||
+ | * A teenage boy becomes **Tiger II**, Judomaster II's teenaged crimefighting partner. [speculation] | ||
+ | * While searching for a cure for his temporarily ill friend Tabu, Thunderbolt travels through the Cave of the Peaks in the Himalayan Mountains and discovers a prehistoric lost land populated by dinosaurs and tribal pygmy warriors. He also encounters the Hooded One in person, although the two do not battle at this time. [Thunderbolt (Charlton) v2 #54] | ||
+ | * [[Old Gypsy]] makes a **single appearance**. [Shadows from Beyond #50] | ||
+ | * Sarge Steel becomes a secret agent. [Secret Agent #10] | ||
+ | * In an untold story, Captain Atom loses his top secret status and becomes known to the public as a super-powered action hero. [speculation based on Captain Atom (Charlton) #83, in which he is known to the public] | ||
+ | * Dynamo battles the agents of S.P.I.D.E.R. (the Secret People' | ||
+ | * Dynamo battles the Red Dragon, who dies. [Dynamo #2] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * After five months of preparation, | ||
+ | * Christopher Smith, a diplomat who devises weaponry to be used against the perpetrators of war, has first public case as the globetrotting action hero known as **[[Peacemaker (Christopher Smith)|the Peacemaker]]**, | ||
+ | * Captain Atom's original costume is punctured, causing him to lose radiation and puts him in a weakened state. While stopping a nuclear reactor from exploding in his weakened state, he loses his powers, seemingly forever. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #83] | ||
+ | * The last surviving Subterranean, | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Thunderbolt battles the Mummy, a scientist named Prof. Hugo Drummond who transferred his mind into the revived mummy of an Egyptian slave. [Thunderbolt (Charlton) v2 #55] | ||
+ | * The Sensational Sentinels battle a robot created by their recurring criminal foe, [[Mind-Bender|the Mind-Bender]] (secretly Prof. John Linden). [Thunderbolt (Charlton) v2 #55] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The depowered Captain Atom is unmasked by a henchman working for a villainous scientist named [[Danton Koste|Prof. Danton Koste]] on live television, but no one recognizes him as Capt. Nathaniel Adam. Captain Atom's powers slowly begin to return, but they are now more limited than before, and he must take time to recharge. Captain Atom battles a man using power-pack-generated robotic arms who calls himself [[Iron Arms]]. Captain Atom -- no longer using his old, damaged costume made of diulustel -- is covered by a liquid metal that is absorbed into his skin and keeps his radiation in check, also serving as a redesigned costume. //Note: Prof. Koste' | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle III battles recurring criminal foe [[Masked Marauder|the Masked Marauder]], who is in reality Count Von Steuben. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #84] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === December, 1966 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The Protestors (the folk-rock band comprising the members of the Sensational Sentinels) make an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. In their last case, **the Sensational Sentinels** battle the Titan, a giant, super-strong android created by the Mind-Bender, | ||
+ | * Thunderbolt battles the Asian warlord calling himself the Dragon. [Thunderbolt (Charlton) v2 #57] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1967 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Irv "the Nerve" Haganah**, a member of the Fightin' | ||
+ | * Captain Atom and Nightshade battle [[Punch (Earth-4)|Punch]] and [[Jewelee (Earth-4)|Jewelee]], | ||
+ | * **Merman**' | ||
+ | * **The Red Star**' | ||
+ | * **Mike Manly**' | ||
+ | * Thunderbolt returns to the prehistoric lost land full of dinosaurs accessible through the Himalayas, discovering it to be ruled by his enemy, the Hooded One. [Thunderbolt (Charlton) v2 #58] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === February, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Vic Sage, a crusading reporter, ferrets out facts by assuming the faceless identity of **[[Question|the Question]]** in Crown City (a city on the eastern coast). He uses a special mask and chemical combination invented by his scientist friend and ally, Prof. Aristotle Rodor. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v4 #1] | ||
+ | * [[Tiffany Sinn]], an undercover operative for the CIA, has her first published adventure. She is nicknamed the CIA Sweetheart. [Career Girl Romances #39] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The Phantom XXII battles his recurring criminal foe, [[Strangol]] the river pirate (whose grandfather, | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle III battles **the Masked Marauder** for the last time. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #86] | ||
+ | * **The Hooded One** makes his last appearance as he tries to kill Thunderbolt in London, England. [Thunderbolt (Charlton) v2 #59] | ||
+ | * The Peacemaker stops the threat of invasion from a group of mutated shapechanging mine slaves in the Ural Mountains that plan to replace the leaders of the world with doubles. //Note: These shapechanging humans also had advanced weaponry from an unnamed underground civilization that must certainly be the Subterraneans who appeared in T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.// [Peacemaker (Charlton) #2] | ||
+ | * The Peacemaker destroys the war machine of Premier Gekk of an unnamed Eastern European nation, saving the world from war and that nation from being destroyed in retaliation. [Peacemaker (Charlton) #2] | ||
+ | * March 15: In 1966, Dr. Anthony Rex, an archeologist and curator of the Museum of Roman Art in London who is a friend of Dr. M.T. Graves, discovers what seems to be a statue of two Roman lovers. A year later, on the anniversary of Julius Caesar' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * April 12: Astronaut Maj. Rex Costello launches a secret mission to land on the moon using a guided missile. There, Costello meets a race of telepathic aliens who do not breathe but live on cosmic rays. He also learns that, in 1945, a small party of Nazis reached the Moon and have lived there ever since, but have been kept isolated since their hatred caused discord among the alien civilization. Costello returns to Earth soon afterward, and the U.S. government determines to secretly colonize the Moon. //Note: This story may mark the genesis of the Moonbase Alpha project, as seen in the timeline in which Space: 1999 takes place.// [" | ||
+ | * Captain Atom and Nightshade battle the Ghost once more. The people of the hidden land of Sunuria, who worship the Ghost as the Faceless One, take him away to Sunuria. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #86] | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle III battles the Squid Gang, secretly led by broke former millionaire Todd Van III. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v4 #1] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The Peacemaker stops the plans of Italian physicist Enrico Lucetti to incite a world war in order to restart the human race from his vast underseas complex. Since 1960, Lucetti has also developed a race of formerly human fish-men. [Peacemaker (Charlton) #3] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Captain Atom battles [[Fiery Icer|the Fiery Icer]] (who **does not reappear** until 1983) for the first time. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #85] | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle III reveals his secret identity of Ted Kord to his love, Tracey Simmons. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v4 #2] | ||
+ | * The Question battles recurring foe Max Bine, alias [[Banshee (Max Bine)|the Banshee II]], a costumed criminal with a flying suit. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v4 #2] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Aaron Piper, art gallery owner and former archeologist, | ||
+ | * **[[Tyro Team|The Tyro Team]]**, a trio of telepathic students (**[[Specs Anders|John " | ||
+ | * Nightshade defeats a super-powered criminal called the Image. [Captain Atom (Charlton) #87-88] | ||
+ | * Dynamo battles **the Iron Maiden** for the last time. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #15] | ||
+ | * Christopher Smith (the Peacemaker) hires Nora O' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Reporter [[Paul Mann]] investigates rumors of flying saucers and meets the supposed aliens, who are actually mutated humans from the year 4000 A.D. who have gone back in time to stop the Great War of 3998 A.D., which nearly destroyed the planet. //Note: Paul Mann is likely related to another reporter with the same surname: John Mann, alias the Son of Vulcan.// [Space Adventures v2 60 (Space Adventures Presents U.F.O. #1)] | ||
+ | * [[Ken King]], motorcycle racer, begins adventures. [World of Wheels #19] | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle III battles recurring criminal foes, [[Madmen|the Madmen]]. [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v4 #3] | ||
+ | * The Phantom XXII battles Strangol with the help of his lover, Diana Palmer. [The Phantom (Charlton) #63] | ||
+ | * **Bikini Luv**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Fightin' | ||
+ | * The Peacemaker saves Washington, D.C., from an attack by Mister Blaze and his Lavamen. [Peacemaker (Charlton) #5] | ||
+ | * Thunderbolt battles the Dragon Master and his men in Australia and New York City. [Thunderbolt (Charlton) v2 #60] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Sam Spolo]], the Spy Smasher, has first public case. //Note: Since Spolo' | ||
+ | * **Sarge Steel**' | ||
+ | * In **Captain Atom**' | ||
+ | * In **Nightshade**' | ||
+ | * The Phantom XXII battles **Strangol** for the last time. [The Phantom (Charlton) #63] | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle III battles the Middle Eastern cult of assassins known as the Men of the Mask. A man named Dan Greer impersonates Dr. Daniel Northrup Garrett and dies in that disguise, causing the end of the investigation into Garrett' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1967 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **[[Sinistro, | ||
+ | * [[Shotgun Harker|Sgt. Arkie " | ||
+ | * Charlie Droople and Dorothy Carson briefly travel to Earth-C4 (a world populated by intelligent funny animals, such as the super-powered Atomic Cat and Atomic Rabbit), and Charlie decides to remain there. After Dorothy returns to the real world, she discovers a comic-book called //The Adventures of Charlie Droople// and wonders why the name sounds familiar. ["The Best of All Possible Worlds," | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1968 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * After having repeated confrontations with Sinistro, in which Green Spider, Captain USA, and Superguy are repeatedly humiliated, the three heroes decide to rethink their earlier Big Four team idea. They form a team called **[[Big Guys|the Big Guys]]** and invite other heroes to join, but no one else does. [speculation] | ||
+ | * [[Bela Von Drak]], a bearded blond European aristocrat, has a **single appearance** in which he tells stories from his vast collection of unlikely tales. //Note: Bela Von Drak may be related in some way to Countess Von Bludd, who occasionally uses the alias of Bella Von Drak.// [Charlton Premiere #4] | ||
+ | * Dr. Niles Corey, leading an expedition with his daughter Cynthia, his assistant Michael Dunlap, and fortune hunter Vance Vargos, discovers the Lost Valley in Africa. The Lost Valley, accessible only through a long, dark tunnel filled with a radioactive fog, is seemingly full of mutated animals grown to gigantic stature by exposure to radiation; in fact, the radioactive fog changes people to a very small stature. All four members of the expedition, shrunken to a height of about six inches, are killed. ["The Expedition," | ||
+ | * Wilbert Bland, an antisocial man who wishes to be left alone, gets his wish when no one but the girl he likes can see or hear him, and the girl is taken away to a psychiatric hospital because she is the only one who sees him. ["The Insignificant Man," Charlton Premiere #4] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Old Witch|The Old Witch]] appears for the first time since the 1940s as the caretaker of the Ghost Manor, formerly owned by the late Mr. Greeves. [Ghost Manor #1] | ||
+ | * **Paul Mann** solves the mystery of the UFO time travelers and travels in time himself in his last known case. [Space Adventures v3 #2] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * June 2: John and Ellen Forbes are summoned to the old dead mining town of Boydston by a letter dated May 20, 1891. Arriving in Boydston, John and Ellen are brought back in time to 1891, where they meet John's great-grandfather, | ||
+ | * The reincarnation of Chufru, the Sun King -- an Egyptian metallurgist, | ||
+ | * Blue Beetle III meets Vic Sage. //Note: Ted Kord and Vic Sage begin their long friendship at this time, which is helped by the fact that both are followers of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Sage moreso than Kord.// [Blue Beetle (Charlton) v4 #5] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Man Mountain Morgan]] begins adventures. [Hercules (Charlton) #6] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **The Question**' | ||
+ | * E-Man and Rosemary Bennett, a time-traveler from the 30th century, travel through time from the year 1984. They visit Chicago during the riots of the 1968 Democratic National Convention and meet Mayor Richard J. Daley. [E-Man (First) #18] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Dynamo battles an agent of S.P.I.D.E.R. called the Ghost II (Tom Conroy), who dies. [T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #19] | ||
+ | * **THUNDER Agents**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Blue Beetle III**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **[[Sentinels of Justice|The Sentinels of Justice]]** is formed by Captain Atom, Blue Beetle III, Nightshade, and the Question, while the Peacemaker and Thunderbolt join later, eventually becoming reserve members. //Note: The Sentinels of Justice, the origin of which has never been told, have probably been active for many years by the time of the Crisis, although the team only ever appeared in one published 1983 story.// [speculation] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === December, 1968 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Flash Gordon]] has adventures on the planet Mongo, a planet that resides in another dimension but occasionally appears in this dimension. //Note: Since the characters of the original Flash Gordon comic strip, first published in 1934, would be 30 years older than the characters in this series, the Flash Gordon comic strip does not take place in its entirety on Earth-4, although some of the events will be similar. Charlton' | ||
+ | * [[Jungle Jim Bradley|" | ||
+ | * [[Dan Flagg]] begins adventures. [Jungle Jim (Charlton) #22] | ||
+ | * In his astral body, Dr. M.T. Graves battles an evil otherdimensional being that seeks to conquer Earth. Seeing that it cannot defeat Dr. Graves, the evil being destroys the Earth. Graves sends his astral body two days back in time to warn his earlier self, changing history by preventing the Earth' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1969 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === February, 1969 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Dan Flagg**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1969 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Professor Danton Koste turns a former henchman named Emil Forsa into the nuclear-powered villain, [[Major Force (Emil Forsa)|Major Force]]. Captain Atom and the Sentinels of Justice battle and defeat Major Force and Iron Arms (who makes **no further appearances** until 1983), but Koste escapes. [" | ||
+ | * [[El Futuro]], an immortal, begins adventures. [Flash Gordon (Charlton) #18] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1969 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[John Allen Wallington]], | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1969 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Man Mountain Morgan**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1969 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[White Angels|The White Angels]], motorcyclists, | ||
+ | * [[Surf Kings|The Surf Kings]], surfers, begin adventures. [Surf n' Wheels #1] | ||
+ | * [[Brick Bradford]] has a **single adventure** with companions Hoppy and Sadie. Together, they use the space-and-time-faring Time-Top to travel to other planets and time periods. [Flash Gordon (Charlton) #17] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1969 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Flash Gordon**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === December, 1969 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **" | ||
+ | * Mr. Partridge dies in unknown circumstances, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1970 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January, 1970 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **The Old Witch**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1970 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Rick Roberts**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1970 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Ken King**' | ||
+ | * **El Futuro**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1970 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Winnie the Witch]]' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1970 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * A widowed mother, [[Shirley Partridge]] (born Shirley Renfrew), joins her five musically gifted children ([[Keith Partridge]], | ||
+ | * June 15: While he is physically present at City Hall getting a marriage license with his fiancee, Helen Watson (the daughter of Police Chief Henry Watson), the normally timid **[[Walter Cooper]]** psychically projects himself to three different places to prevent a bank robbery, save a boy who fell into the river from a bridge, and stop a train before it reaches a broken track. **No further appearances**. ["The Man Who Wasn't There," | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1970 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **The White Angels**' | ||
+ | * **The Surf Kings**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1970 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * After three months as a musical group, the Partridge Family plays their first big show at Caesar' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1970 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Steve Austin participates in Moonshot XYZ, the first of three of his missions to the Moon. //Note: This is speculation based on the reference to a moon landing taking place 20 months before the accident that precedes his becoming a cyborg. It is possible that this moon landing (possibly called Apollo 19, even though it precedes earlier-numbered public Apollo missions) is classified and unknown to the public. This moon landing may have been classified because it involved investigations of extraterrestrial life on the Moon. Austin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1971 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Steve Austin' | ||
+ | * THUNDER is officially disbanded as an active intelligence agency, remaining in name only and in scaled-down form. The super-agents and the Thunder Squad are disbanded, and only NoMan remains as an active agent. [" | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1971 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Carter Primus]], based on his floating home and sea lab off the coast of Nassau, Bahamas, has first public case as an underwater troubleshooter-for-hire. [Primus (1971 syndicated television series); Primus #1] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1971 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Impy]], a ghost, makes his first appearance. [Haunted (Charlton) #1] | ||
+ | * Wealthy businessman Aldous Benton gains the Tabriz Rose, a Persian rug woven by Haji Al Ub centuries ago and cursed to drive any man of evil who owns it mad (including former owner Adolf Hitler), and is himself driven mad and dies trapped in a room as the rug catches fire. ["The Room of Madness," | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1971 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Mister Bones (Earth-4)|Mr. Bones]]' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1971 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **John Allen Wallington, Death Defier**' | ||
+ | * The immortal Count d' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === December, 1971 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Human Fish|Prof. John Willmore]], known to some as the Human Fish because he is a man born with both gills and lungs, keeps his abilities a secret and does special work for the U.S. government. [Primus #1] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1972 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Paramedics [[John Gage]] and [[Roy DeSoto]] at the Los Angeles County Fire Department begin adventures. [Emergency! (1972 NBC television series); Emergency #1] | ||
+ | * In his last known case, **John Willmore** finds his way to the Gulf of Mexico, where red organisms are choking out the normal chain of life. He finds the source -- a strange coral -- and uses flame throwers supplied by the military to destroy the the source, thus cleansing the sea. [Primus #2] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === February, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * In London, England, the mortally ill Dr. Emil Reimer averts death by a complicated scheme in which he hired as his nurse and assistant a 200-year-old witch named Romaine Duvalle. Knowing Romaine was romantically involved with a young surgeon named Dr. David Marsh, Reimer transfers all his worldly goods to Marsh and allows Romaine to perform a spell transferring Reimer' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The Phantom XXII rescues two astronauts named Jim and Alan, whose space capsule crash-lands in the jungles of Bangalla. [The Phantom (Charlton) #50] | ||
+ | * Exploring an almost-insurmountable valley in Bangalla, the Phantom XXII discovers a lost Roman colony called New Rome, which was founded by Roman legionnaires centuries ago. [The Phantom (Charlton) #50] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **The Phantom Lady**, after more than a decade of intense training with the mystical being Azagoth, has become a powerful sorceress and is virtually immortal. [speculation based on Phantom Lady (Paragon) #1] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The Phantom XXII's young ward, Rex King, has adventures with his friend Tomm. [The Phantom (Charlton) #51] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Carter Primus**' | ||
+ | * The Phantom XXII battles his ancestral enemies, the Singh pirates. [The Phantom (Charlton) #52] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Winnie the Witch meets Dr. M.T. Graves. [Ghostly Haunts #27] | ||
+ | * The Partridge Family plays host to Princess Genevieve of an unnamed European nation. Keith Partridge almost causes a diplomatic incident when a photographer captures a picture of him kissing the princess at a drive-in movie theater. //Note: The unnamed European monarchy is not identified in this episode, but the country' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Cyrus Coffin|Prof. Cyrus Coffin]] (an archeology professor at Xanadu University who is nicknamed the Midnight Philosopher) and his niece, [[Arachne Coffin]] (an archeology college student at Xanadu University), | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Sgt. Arkie " | ||
+ | |||
+ | === December, 1972 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * NASA astronaut Steve Austin commands the Apollo 17 space mission, the final manned Moon mission, becoming the last man to officially walk on the Moon. ["The Moon and the Desert, Part 1," The Six Million Dollar Man (1974 ABC television series)] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1973 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **The Fightin' | ||
+ | * **Green Spider** (Johnny Green) dies. The remaining members of **the Big Guys** (**Captain USA** and **Superguy**) decide to retire. [The Paragons: Deus Ex Astra] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January, 1973 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **[[Steve Austin]]**, NASA astronaut and pilot, has an accident in which he loses his right arm, his left eye, and both his legs. The Office of Strategic Operations (OSO) -- initially headed by Oliver Spencer but taken over during this time by Oscar Goldman -- funds an operation in which Austin has six million dollars worth of cybernetic equipment implanted in his body, making him a cyborg with a bionic eye and enhanced strength and speed. He spends months learning how to use his bionic limbs. //Note: Although the serialized version of the original telefilm (which aired in March, 1973) claims that Steve Austin' | ||
+ | * [[David Goldman]], a Jewish man, and [[Eileen O' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1973 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Scot Jackson**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1973 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Edgar Marron]] discovers the secret of teleportation and plans to withdraw a million from his join checking account with his wife, Cynthia. Her father, the wealthy invalid M.J. Sneed, notes that Marron has been reading about teleportation and sets a trap for him. After Marron leaves for the bank, Sneed has the gardener fill the pool with water, guessing that was where Marron teleported from; when Marron returned, he returned to a full pool of water and **died** by drowning. [" | ||
+ | * **Clint Curtis**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1973 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * After traveling through space for a million years since it was born from an exploding star, a sentient pocket of energy able to form itself into any kind of matter inadvertently causes an extraterrestrial starship from the planet Sirius One (which plans to test a dangerous weapon on Pluto) to crash-land on Earth near Pine Hill, New York. [E-Man (Charlton) #1] After arriving on Earth and disguising himself as a fawn, the future E-Man learns English from a Southern girl of the town of Hog Wallow named Maisy-June Bragg, who reads fairy tales out loud to wildlife in the woods every day. After revealing himself to her as being from outer space, E-Man becomes her personal genie, performing tricks for her amusement. When a group of superstitious yokels hunt her down for being a witch, E-Man saves her and creates his first action-hero costume with a cape and logo with the letter G for Genie. After Maisy-June is captured and tied to a stake to be burnt alive, E-Man comes to save her, ditching the cape that just gets in the way. When he scares off the yokels, a scared and angry Maisy-June demands that he kill them all and destroy Hog Wallow for her. E-Man learns from her mother that Maisy-June has serious psychological problems and has been hospitalized much of her life. E-Man returns her to the hospital and leaves, feeling sorry for her. //Note: Maisy-June later recovers and marries a man named Dabney Slocum. Maisy-June Bragg and Dabney Slocum are Earth-4 versions of Daisy-Mae Scragg and Abner Yokum from Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip. The town of Hog Wallow is the Earth-4 version of Dogpatch.// [E-Man (Charlton) #10] | ||
+ | * Ted Kord (Blue Beetle III) and Tracey Simmons are married in a ceremony planned by wedding planner Lemuel Toadkin. The Sentinels of Justice learn that Dan Garret, the original Blue Beetle, is still alive and still as young as he was in the 1940s. //Note: Sometime after this story, the original Blue Beetle appears to die but actually survives, kept in a coma-like state by mysterious gods until he returns once more in 1983.// [" | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1973 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The sentient pocket of energy takes human form under the name **[[E-Man]]** and meets archeology college student (at Xanadu University) and part-time exotic dancer (at the Moist Palms Club, a burlesque club) Katrinka Colchnzski, who uses her stage name of [[Nova Kane]] exclusively, | ||
+ | * Link Chain, known as [[Knight (Link Chain)|the Knight]], has a **single known case** (Operation: Rotten Apple) as a secret agent of a top-secret, counter-espionage organization known as [[C.H.E.S.S.]] (Command for the Hindrance of Espionage, Sabotage and Subversion). //Note: The King and the Queen, directors of CHESS, are Ken Flynn (K-51) and Bikini Luv, respectively.// | ||
+ | * Steve Austin has his first test run as an agent of OSI, infiltrating a terrorist camp where he rescues an Israeli prisoner. Following this test, Steve Austin' | ||
+ | * July 28: Caroline Dean, a martial arts whiz and trained astronaut who has super-strength and super-durability, | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1973 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Sam Spolo**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1973 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * E-Man adopts the name of Alec Tronn, which Nova Kane made up based on the word // | ||
+ | * **[[Killjoy]]**, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1974 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **[[Mastermind (Cy Key)|Mastermind II]]** (real name Cy Key) is brought to Earth from the planet Psi through a psychic research experiment by Dr. Bellum and his daughter Sara, and he has a **single case**. //Note: Cy Key may come from the same planet as Cerebra of the Vanguards, which is called Onym but may also be known by other names, such as Psi. If this is the case, then Cy Key and Cerebra are the last two remaining members of their species.// [Mastermind #1, unpublished; | ||
+ | |||
+ | === February, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Steve Austin battles and destroys a robot duplicate of his friend, Maj. Frederick Sloan, that was invented by the criminal robotics genius [[Chester Jeffrey Dolenz|Dr. Chester Jeffrey Dolenz]], a recurring foe. ["Day of the Robot," | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * After an earthquake sets off a computer-controlled nuclear defense system at Kamkov Island in the Soviet Union, Steve Austin travels with his friend and USSR astronaut Col. Vasily Zhukov to rescue Zhukov' | ||
+ | * March 4: Roger Knight, the U.K.'s Labour Party leader and Leader of the Opposition since 1970, now becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. //Note: In actual history, Labour Party leader Harold Wilson was the UK Prime Minister from 1974 to 1976 (and earlier from 1964 to 1970). In Earth-4' | ||
+ | * During New York City's energy crisis, E-Man helps out by powering hospitals and power generators. Nova Kane hires [[Michael Mauser]], a short, unkempt, tactless, rat-faced private detective with thick glasses (who hates to be called Mickey), to find her missing friend, fellow exotic dancer [[Rosie Redd]]. E-Man ends up having to save both Nova and Mauser from the evil machinations of Samuel Boar, an oil magnate who at this time is the richest, most powerful man in the world. E-Man battles Boar's android, [[Battery|the Battery]], who can absorb all energy (including E-Man) and can absorb matter by turning it into energy. The action hero destroys this version of the Battery and arrests Boar, whose oil empire and wealth are dismantled. Meanwhile, E-Man becomes Michael Mauser' | ||
+ | * **The Partridge Family**' | ||
+ | * Astronauts Maj. Kelly Woods and Maj. Paul Osterman are launched in //Athena One// for a revived Apollo mission to discover new sources of energy in space. The mission is televised and widely publicized because Maj. Woods is the first official American woman in space. Steve Austin serves as Woods' trainer and flight dynamics officer, effectively the chief pilot on the ground. After an explosion damages the capsule and injures Osterman, Woods pilots //Athena One// to Skylab, while Austin pilots a rescue mission with a flight surgeon, Dr. Richard Wolf. Rendezvousing with //Athena One// at Skylab, Austin performs external repairs on the capsule while Dr. Wolf performs the first official surgery in space on Osterman. After Austin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **[[Destiny Fox]]** is a young woman reincarnated from an Apache princess sacrificed 200 years ago to the river spirit Whahanee, who fed on her. She tricks Whahanee into becoming a meal for her instead, gaining all his powers, including immortality. **No further appearances**. [Ghostly Haunts #39] | ||
+ | * A fortune hunter named Jim Kane, searching for the valuable Mugumbo Diamond in the jungles of Africa, instead discovers a white jungle princess named **[[La-Na]]**, | ||
+ | * [[Baron Weirwulf]], who lives in a stately castle with a haunted library looming over the village of Vlk high in the Balkan Mountains, makes his first appearance. [Haunted (Charlton) #17; Ghost Manor v2 #19] | ||
+ | * **David Goldman** and **Eileen O' | ||
+ | * The members of the Partridge family (Shirley Partridge and her five children, Keith Partridge, Laurie Partridge, Danny Partridge, Chris Partridge, and Tracy Partridge), along with their agent Reuben Kincaid, are somehow transported from the year 1974 to the year 2200, where they quickly adapt to life in the future. //Note: This is an as-yet-untold tale based on the fact that the Partridge Family appears in an animated series taking place in the year 2200 A.D. Probably the Partridge Family and Kincaid disappear during a trip by air, when the plane passes through a vortex leading to the future. The public at large only knows that the Partridge Family and their manager have gone missing and are presumed dead, creating a mystery akin to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1938 or the crew and passengers of the Mary Celeste in 1872. The mystery of their disappearance probably makes them more famous when missing than they are before it happens.// [Partridge Family, 2200 A.D. (1974 Hanna-Barbera animated series)] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * While on an expedition in Egypt (as part of Nova Kane's college studies), E-Man and Nova discover an ancient tower that proves to be a time machine in the ruins of the lost city of Naab. They use it to travel back to the year 3,000 B.C., where they discover that Naab was a super-scientific, | ||
+ | * **Killjoy**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * July 4: Steve Austin infiltrates a base operated by an international criminal named Quail. There, with the help of a female Interpol agent known as Violette, Austin sabotages a laser that would have killed everyone at a summit meeting in Paris of the prime ministers of the seven member countries of a neutral septpartite bloc. //Note: Although this episode aired on April 5, it actually takes place three months later in July, as per the title.// ["The Last of the Fourth of Julys," | ||
+ | * After astronaut [[Josh Lang]] is exposed to a strange electrical field while in orbit, he begins exhibiting super-intelligence and the psychic abilities to communicate with dolphins and control the human mind. His friend Steve Austin tries to save his career with NASA but fails to save his life when the psychic power burns out his mind, **killing him**. [" | ||
+ | * Steve Austin discovers what happened to his father, Carl Austin, during World War II. After traveling to a location near the Chinese border, where his father' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Science teacher [[John Butler]] and his family (his wife [[Kim Butler]], their children [[Katie Butler|Katie]] and [[Greg Butler]], and their dog [[Digger (dog)|Digger]]) are exploring the Amazon River when they are sucked into a whirlpool that takes them to the Valley of the Dinosaurs. [Valley of the Dinosaurs (1974 Hanna-Barbera animated series); Valley of the Dinosaurs (Charlton) #1] | ||
+ | * E-Man follows a strange lady from the sea into her own dimension. There, he saves a civilization from a giant, whale-like narwhal monster called Empirex, which can swallow whole cities. [E-Man (Charlton) #5] | ||
+ | * E-Man teams up with Blue Beetle III and Captain Atom for a **single case**, in which they all participate in a parade. //Note: This story has not been told, but it involves E-Man becoming a reserve member of the Sentinels of Justice, whose full-time membership he turns down. Captain Atom is seen using his original costume in this story, although he likely uses it in this one instance, since he is seen again in his second costume exactly one year later, in August, 1975.// [" | ||
+ | * Steve Austin is remotely tested over some weeks by Dr. Dolenz, who plans to build bionic robots based on Austin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * In the province of Bavaria, Germany, a mad scientist named Dr. Franklin Stein attempts to create an artificial man with the help of his assistant, Igor. Needing more human blood to make the artificial man live, Stein acts as host to a traveling couple named John and Mary Benton. When the couple falls asleep, Stein and Igor plan to harvest their blood. Instead, they become the latest victims of the Bentons, who are vampires locally known as the Blood Killers. The Bentons die shortly afterward. //Note: Dr. Franklin Stein is probably a descendant of the infamous 18th century scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein.// | ||
+ | * [[R.H. Von Bludd|Countess R.H. Von Bludd]], having resided in the Dark Valley for 500 years, leaves for civilization and begins preying only on the most evil of men in European cities before returning to her castle momentarily. //Note: At some point after this story, the Countess relocates to the United States.// ["The Card of Death," | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * E-Man and Nova Kane visit the Wunderworld theme park in Florida and meet its founder, William Wunder. But they discover that the Brain from Sirius secretly controls the theme park and has replaced the deceased William Wunder with an android lookalike. With the help of an old man called the Toyman (Wunder' | ||
+ | * **[[Rog 2000]]**, a robot created by a Canadian inventor named Jonathan Burns, has his first public case as a taxi driver and takes on a super-villain named Magno, with the help of **[[Syntac]]** (in her **only appearance**), | ||
+ | * Arachne Coffin wins the Miss Fortune 1974 contest, beating fellow contestant Winnie the Witch. Arachne wins a one-week vacation to the so-called hidden land of Cryptania, where she and her uncle Prof. Cyrus Coffin promptly fall into a crevice and are captured by an underground tribal civilization that wants to sacrifice them to their gods. Jealous of losing the contest, Winnie travels to Cryptania on her flying broomstick and arrives just in time to save Arachne' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Samuel Boar, earlier arrested by E-Man, escapes from prison and heads for the North Pole. [E-Man (Charlton) #8] | ||
+ | * Steve Austin meets the world' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === December, 1974 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * As revenge for keeping him from Juno, Michael of **the Entropy Twins** becomes the super-villain known as TV Man and begins manipulating E-Man' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1975 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Baron Weirwulf becomes the new proprietor of the Haunted Castle. //Note: It is not known whether the Haunted Castle is referring to Cheldenham Castle from Haunted #16, which was referred to as the Haunted Castle, or another location entirely. If the Haunted Castle is Cheldenham Castle, then the ghost of the third Earl of Gilliam would have relaxed his rules about only his descendants occupying it; also, Lady Cynthia Chelden is the owner of Cheldenham Castle as of 1974 and would //// | ||
+ | * **Impy**' | ||
+ | * Baron Weirwulf tells a story of how an old lighthouse keeper, who is an acolyte of Cthulhu, summons a seaborne apparition of Cthulhu called Kulu to exact justice on a murderer named Joe Hardy. //Note: This story likely takes place decades earlier.// ["Out of the Deep," Haunted (Charlton) #21] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === February, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Hearing of Samuel Boar's escape from prison, E-Man tracks him down at the North Pole, where he meets an Australian man named Alfie Alcott and his pet koala, Teddy. Boar has his new, improved Battery absorb E-Man into itself, and he takes E-Man through an entrance in the North Pole to the inner Earth world he calls Nuclia, where dinosaurs still thrive alongside eight-foot-tall, | ||
+ | |||
+ | === April, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Vengeance Squad|The Vengeance Squad]] ([[Eric Redd]], [[Tulsa Coyle]], [[Candy Orr]]) forms and has its first case. //Note: Eric Redd is likely a relative of Rosie Redd, a friend of Nova Kane.// [Vengeance Squad #1] | ||
+ | * [[Mortimer Tishin]] makes his first appearance, although he claims to have been practicing as an undertaker since long before records were kept of his trade. [Beyond the Grave #1] | ||
+ | * A man named Philip Scott is possessed by what seems to be the spirit of Jack the Ripper and kills two airline stewardesses while on a flight to London, England. After Scott is arrested in London, Jack the Ripper appears to possess a young boy named Jackie who was on the flight. [" | ||
+ | * E-Man and Nova are recruited by Gen. Dove to stop an organization of super-geniuses led by Carl Metz that aim to take over the world. The super-geniuses' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Countess R.H. Von Bludd, now residing in an old house somewhere in America in the company of a white cat, begins telling various scary tales to mortal listeners to amuse herself. (She also tells unlikely tales under the pseudonym Bella Von Drak.) //Note: Given her occasional alias of Bella Von Drak, Countess Von Bludd may be related in some way to Bela Von Drak.// [Scary Tales #1] | ||
+ | * [[Col. Whiteshroud]] has first public case as a monster hunter. [Monster Hunters #1] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * The Question battles his old foe, the Banshee II, who was stuck on a deserted island for seven years. //Note: This story takes place exactly eight years after the Banshee' | ||
+ | * E-Man tells Nova Kane about the first human woman he met on Earth, Maisy-June Bragg. Since E-Man put her back into the hospital, Maisy-June recovered and married a man named Dabney Slocum. //Note: Maisy-June Bragg and Dabney Slocum are Earth-4 versions of Daisy-Mae Scragg and Abner Yokum from Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip. The town of Hog Wallow is the Earth-4 version of Dogpatch.// [E-Man (Charlton) #10] | ||
+ | * **Rog 2000**' | ||
+ | * **[[Jaime Sommers]]** sustains major injuries from a skydiving accident, and she is operated on to become the cyborg known as the Bionic Woman. ["The Bionic Woman, Part 1," The Six Million Dollar Man (1974 ABC television series); The Bionic Woman (1976 ABC television series); Bionic Woman #1] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Dee Mun|Mr. Dee Mun]] makes his first appearance. [Creepy Things #2] | ||
+ | * Jaime Sommers supposedly dies when her body rejects its bionic implants; in fact, she clinically dies but is revived and is close to death for months. ["The Bionic Woman, Part 2," The Six Million Dollar Man (1974 ABC television series)] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Captain Atom** and **Nightshade** come out of deep cover assignments to battle their recurring criminal enemy, the Ghost, in Sunuria. All three **do not reappear until 1982**. [Charlton Bullseye #1-2] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Steve Austin discovers that Jaime Sommers is still alive, and he helps her deal with her bionics. Sommers participates in her first mission with OSI, but because of complications, | ||
+ | * Malachi Bolt, the great-grandson of the eccentric 19th century criminal genius Elias Bolt, completes the rebuilding of Bolt Manor in the town of Soulbridge, New York. Discovering his great-grandfather' | ||
+ | * A 15-year-old French schoolgirl named **[[Psyche|Lucille Michaud]]** learns she has amazing psychic powers, including the ability to create an insubstantial, | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Jonathan Drew, who possesses telepathy, telekinesis, | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * A coven of 300-year-old immortal witches at a Victorian mansion at Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, led by Helena Crayle and including Sarah and Nicholas, attempts to make a sacrifice. Instead, the coven is killed when they try to sacrifice a being named Conrad Huber, who is actually a divine being. ["A Special Victim," | ||
+ | |||
+ | === December, 1975 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * A blue-skinned, | ||
+ | * In **E-Man** and **Nova**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1976 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * After months of rehabilitation, | ||
+ | |||
+ | === February, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Prof. Cyrus Coffin** and **Arachne**' | ||
+ | * Steve Austin discovers a colony of extraterrestrial scientists that have been living in the San Andreas mountains since the year 1726 and who built Bigfoot, an android whose mission is to protect the alien base. ["The Secret of Bigfoot," | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **The Vengeance Squad** (**Eric Redd**, **Tulsa Coyle**, **Candy Orr**)' | ||
+ | * In **Michael Mauser**' | ||
+ | * An English sorcerer named Eldritch Claetos uses the stones of the priests of ancient Brytagalon to resurrect the ancient hero Hercules. Unfortunately, | ||
+ | * A drunken former reporter from Chicago named Bennie Franklin learns that the Earth has been invaded by the lizard people, who can change their shape and have replaced key figures. He then remembers that he, too, is a lizard person and resolves to stop drinking. [" | ||
+ | * **Mortimer Tishin**' | ||
+ | * **Mr. Dee Mun**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **The Phantom XXII**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **John and Kim Butler**, and **Katie and Greg Butler**, with their dog **Digger**, have their last adventure in the Valley of the Dinosaurs. [Valley of the Dinosaurs (Charlton) #11] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1977 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Nanako Kuri, a young woman who is the last student of martial arts master Tetsuro Tanaka (Tiger/ | ||
+ | * Captain Atom battles his old foe Iron Arms in an untold tale, putting him in prison for the next six years. //Note: This story might take place somewhat earlier, in 1976 or even 1975, depending on how long Iron Arms was out of prison by 1983.// [" | ||
+ | |||
+ | === January, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Jaime Sommers saves the world from a doomsday device created by Dr. Elijah Cooper, a scientist who wants world peace at any cost. [" | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Mr. Bones**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Jaime Sommers discovers the existence of Max, the first bionic dog. ["The Bionic Dog," The Bionic Woman (1976 ABC television series)] | ||
+ | * **Baron Weirwulf**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === October, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Winnie the Witch**' | ||
+ | * Steve Austin returns to the Moon for the first time since he became a cyborg. ["Dark Side of the Moon, Part 1 and 2," The Six Million Dollar Man (1974 ABC television series)] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === November, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * November 24: Kit Walker (the Phantom XXII) marries Diana Palmer. [speculation based on events in the Phantom comic strip] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === December, 1976 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Countess Von Bludd**' | ||
+ | * **Dr. M.T. Graves**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1978 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === February, 1978 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Mr. L. Dedd**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === March, 1978 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Steve Austin**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === May, 1978 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Jaime Sommers** resigns from OSI, forcing her to flee or be detained as property of the federal government. //Note: Sometime after this episode, OSI's acronym changes to the Office of Special Investigations, | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1978 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Col. Whiteshroud**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === August, 1978 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * A mysterious occult menace threatens the world and keeps several mystical figures busy for the next few years and divides the mystical community. On the side of humanity are the Mysterious Traveler, Doctor Haunt, the Unknown Soldier, Dr. M.T. Graves, Baron Weirwulf, Col. Whiteshroud, | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1978 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * September 5: Roger Knight resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, appointing James Callaghan in his place. //Note: In actual history, Labour Party leader Harold Wilson was the UK Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970, and then 1974 to 1976, when he resigned and appointed James Callaghan, who lost to Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party in early 1979. In Earth-4' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 1979 ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Michael Typhon|Capt. Mike Typhon]], undersea adventurer and scientist, has adventures under the sea traveling in a series of super-advanced submarines, assisted by Lt. Hank Noor and a loyal crew, including Kelland, Mark, Brady, and Bailey. Typhon possesses a charm-dispelling ring handed down his family from ancient times, which comes in handy against mystical threats. In his first adventure, he defeats an evil wizard who controls the undersea world, freeing a woman named Cecilia, who becomes a temporary companion. He later helps protect the kingdom of Mermea, populated by blonde, humanoid, water-breathing Sea Amazons ruled by Queen Mea. //Note: Since Typhon uses a futuristic submarine and ray-guns in his adventures, yet also uses a contemporary-looking submarine and handguns in other adventures, there is an Inter-Ocean Congress, villains wear futuristic-looking costumes, and there are no references to current events, this series likely takes place in the near-future some decades after the end of World War II. We place it in the late 1970s merely to fill a gap.// [Weird Comics #1-7] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === June, 1979 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Kit Walker (the future Phantom XXIII) and Heloise Walker, twins, are born to Kit Walker (the Phantom XXII) and Diana Walker (nee Palmer). [speculation based on the Phantom comic strip] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === July, 1979 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **John Gage** and **Roy DeSoto**' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September, 1979 === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * [[Mike Mist]], private investigator, | ||
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