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-  * Bruce Barlow, brilliant young scientist and so-called "conqueror of the planets," combats menaces to the Earth, taking him to Saturn, the center of the Earth, and Venus. //Note: This series, written in 1940, was set in the then-far-off year of 1980. Although the technology for interplanetary travel shown in this series is still too advanced for 1980, this series is still conceivably possible, although events would have to be much more secretive than depicted.// [Whirlwind Comics #1-3]+  * [[Bruce Barlow]], brilliant young scientist and so-called "conqueror of the planets," combats menaces to the Earth, taking him to Saturn, the center of the Earth, and Venus. //Note: This series, written in 1940, was set in the then-far-off year of 1980. Although the technology for interplanetary travel shown in this series is still too advanced for 1980, this series is still conceivably possible, although events would have to be much more secretive than depicted.// [Whirlwind Comics #1-3]
  
 === June, 1980 === === June, 1980 ===
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 === August, 1982 === === August, 1982 ===
  
-  * **[[Golden Man|Golden Lad]]** comes out of suspended animation after 36 years when the Minstrel forgets to pay the Keeper. Fighting alongside Thunderbunny on a **single case**, he is shot by an energy cannon and instantly ages to an old man. He falls unconscious and is taken away to the hospital, but not until he tells Thunderbunny about the Keeper and the other golden age heroes the villain is keeping captive. //Note: Golden Lad is referred to as Golden Kid in this story. Only a few heroes are pictured (none Charlton or Earth-4 characters); they include Bulletman, the Spirit, Miss Fury, and Blackhawk. The actual heroes kept captive by the Keeper are their closest visual Earth-4 counterparts: Torpedo Man (or Dynamo), the Grey Mask, Black Venus, and the Golden Eagle, and other heroes who disappeared unaccountably in the 1940s.// [Charlton Bullseye v2 #10]+  * **[[Golden Man|Golden Lad]]** comes out of suspended animation after 36 years when the Minstrel forgets to pay the Keeper. Fighting alongside Thunderbunny on a **single case**, he is shot by an energy cannon and instantly ages from his preserved 14-year-old form to an old man. He falls unconscious and is taken away to the hospital, but not until he tells Thunderbunny about the Keeper and the other golden age heroes the villain is keeping captive. //Note: Golden Lad is referred to as Golden Kid in this story. Only a few heroes are pictured (none Charlton or Earth-4 characters); they include Bulletman, the Spirit, Miss Fury, and Blackhawk. The actual heroes kept captive by the Keeper are their closest visual Earth-4 counterparts: Torpedo Man (or Dynamo), the Grey Mask, Black Venus, and the Golden Eagle, and other heroes who disappeared unaccountably in the 1940s.// [Charlton Bullseye v2 #10]
  
 === September, 1982 === === September, 1982 ===
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 === October, 1982 === === October, 1982 ===
  
-  * The Sentinels of Justice (Captain Atom, Blue Beetle III, Nightshade, and the Question, as well as the Peacemaker, Son of Vulcan, and Tyger) travel to the parallel universes of Earth-1 and Earth-2, where they meet those worlds' Justice League of America and Justice Society of America. The Sentinels, the JLA, and the JSA team up to stop a plan by the rulers of Earth-4's Land of the Nightshades, Earth-2's Fairyland, and Earth-1's Magic Land to conquer all three parallel Earths. Amongst the super-villains that the Sentinels and the other teams fight are the Ghost, Doctor Spectro, Major Force, Punch and Jewelee, the Madmen, and the Squids. At the conclusion of this case, Doctor Fate causes everyone on all three Earths and related dimensions to forget that this case occurred at all. ["[[http://the5earths.50megs.com/earth-2/timespast/jsa1982-01.htm|JSA: Times Past, 1982: Crisis on Earth-Four]]"]+  * The Sentinels of Justice (Captain Atom, Blue Beetle III, Nightshade, and the Question, as well as the Peacemaker, Son of Vulcan, and Tyger) travel to the parallel universes of Earth-1 and Earth-2, where they meet those worlds' Justice League of America and Justice Society of America. The Sentinels, the JLA, and the JSA team up to stop a plan by the rulers of Earth-4's Land of the Nightshades, Earth-2's Fairyland, and Earth-1's Magic Land to conquer all three parallel Earths. Amongst the super-villains that the Sentinels and the other teams fight are the Ghost, Doctor Spectro, Major Force, Punch and Jewelee, the Madmen, and the Squids. At the conclusion of this case, Doctor Fate causes everyone on all three Earths and related dimensions to forget that this case occurred at all. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/jsa-tp1982-01/|Justice Society of America: Times Past, 1982: Crisis on Earth-Four]]"]
  
 === November, 1982 === === November, 1982 ===
  
-  * A Central City bank teller named David Carson unwittingly travels to the Fifth Plane, where he learns he is [[Lord Cumulus]], ruler and protector of that dimension's Fen-Ra. There, Lord Cumulus defends Fen-Ra against the evil [[Prince Chaos]]. Lord Cumulus is assisted by the wizard [[Lugulbanda]] and the immortal female warrior [[Sargon]], mistress of war. //Note: The events and characters of First Comics' Warp series (and possibly some other characters in the First Comics universe) exist on Earth-4 thanks to a crossover story in E-Man (First) #13.// [Warp #1, based on the Warp! sci-fi stage plays by Stuart Gordon and Bury St. Edmund]+  * A bank teller from Central City, Iowa, named David Carson unwittingly travels to the Fifth Plane, where he learns he is [[Lord Cumulus]], ruler and protector of that dimension's Fen-Ra. There, Lord Cumulus defends Fen-Ra against the evil [[Prince Chaos]]. Lord Cumulus is assisted by the wizard [[Lugulbanda]] and the immortal female warrior [[Sargon]], mistress of war. //Note: The events and characters of First Comics' Warp series (and possibly some other characters in the First Comics universe) exist on Earth-4 thanks to a crossover story in E-Man (First) #13.// [Warp #1, based on the Warp! sci-fi stage plays by Stuart Gordon and Bury St. Edmund]
  
 === December, 1982 === === December, 1982 ===
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   * **[[Sentinels of Justice|The Sentinels of Justice]]** return to battle the Manipulator (secretly a businessman named Jonathan Barrington Collingsworth, Jr., head of Cross Industries) and his team of hired criminals (Iron Arms, the Mad Men, Fiery-Icer, and the Banshee II). An unknown foe is, in turn, secretly controlling the Manipulator's mind. //Note: This story establishes that the Sentinels of Justice have been operating as a team for a while now. Lt. Fisher is now Capt. Fisher in the Hub City Police Department. The Banshee II has vastly upgraded his flight suit by this time.// ["Sentinels of Justice," Americomics Special #1 (August, 1983)]   * **[[Sentinels of Justice|The Sentinels of Justice]]** return to battle the Manipulator (secretly a businessman named Jonathan Barrington Collingsworth, Jr., head of Cross Industries) and his team of hired criminals (Iron Arms, the Mad Men, Fiery-Icer, and the Banshee II). An unknown foe is, in turn, secretly controlling the Manipulator's mind. //Note: This story establishes that the Sentinels of Justice have been operating as a team for a while now. Lt. Fisher is now Capt. Fisher in the Hub City Police Department. The Banshee II has vastly upgraded his flight suit by this time.// ["Sentinels of Justice," Americomics Special #1 (August, 1983)]
-  * Scientist Dr. Ed Serch invents an experimental space environmental suit. After an accident while wearing it, his assistant Mac Rey becomes the electromagnetically super-powered action hero known as **[[Static (Ed Serch)|Static]]** and has his first case. [Eclipse Monthly #1]+  * Scientist Dr. Ed Serch invents an experimental space environmental suit. After an accident while wearing it, his assistant Mac Rey becomes the electromagnetically super-powered action hero known as **[[Static (Mac Rey)|Static]]** and has his first case. [Eclipse Monthly #1]
   * E-Man battles the Feeder (an extraterrestrial sentient pocket of energy like E-Man) and his costumed henchmen, all called Thoughtmaster. Michael Mauser takes on his 18-year-old nephew, Donald Duke, as an apprentice in the private eye business. [E-Man (First) #6-7]   * E-Man battles the Feeder (an extraterrestrial sentient pocket of energy like E-Man) and his costumed henchmen, all called Thoughtmaster. Michael Mauser takes on his 18-year-old nephew, Donald Duke, as an apprentice in the private eye business. [E-Man (First) #6-7]
  
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   * August 6: Two weeks before this date, an anthropologist named Don Johnston studying a newly discovered Indian tribe in South America, ingests a potion that gives him visions of the future in which the world is destroyed by fire on August 6, 1986. When the date comes and goes without incident, Johnston is relieved. On that same date, the planet Sondu eighty light years away is destroyed in the same way as Johnston's visions. //Note: This story, published in 1960, takes place in 1986 in the regular Earth-4 timeline, since there are no world-changing events causing it to be an alternate timeline.// ["The Incredible Visions," Strange Suspense Stories (Charlton) #50]   * August 6: Two weeks before this date, an anthropologist named Don Johnston studying a newly discovered Indian tribe in South America, ingests a potion that gives him visions of the future in which the world is destroyed by fire on August 6, 1986. When the date comes and goes without incident, Johnston is relieved. On that same date, the planet Sondu eighty light years away is destroyed in the same way as Johnston's visions. //Note: This story, published in 1960, takes place in 1986 in the regular Earth-4 timeline, since there are no world-changing events causing it to be an alternate timeline.// ["The Incredible Visions," Strange Suspense Stories (Charlton) #50]
-  * Booster Gold battles Agent Broderick of the Transdimensional Police, Time Division, from his native era of the 30th century, who believes Booster Gold will eventually become the tyrant Monarch in a few decades. Booster Gold convinces Agent Broderick to let him remain in the 20th century for now. ["Sentinels of Justice: Atomic Nightmare, Chapter 3: Time Cop"]+  * Booster Gold battles Agent Broderick of the Transdimensional Police, Time Division, from his native era of the 30th century, who believes Booster Gold will eventually become the tyrant Monarch in a few decades. Booster Gold convinces Agent Broderick to let him remain in the 20th century for now. ["Sentinels of Justice: Atomic Nightmare, Chapter 3: Booster Gold in Time Cop"]
   * ["Sentinels of Justice: Duplicity"]   * ["Sentinels of Justice: Duplicity"]
  
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