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-====== Timeline of Earth-X (1960s to the future) ======+====== Timeline of Earth-X (1950s to the future) ======
  
-**Return to [[Timeline of Earth-X (prehistory to 1950s)]]**+**Return to [[Timeline of Earth-X (prehistory to 1940s)]]** 
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 +==== 1950 ==== 
 + 
 +=== Unspecified month in 1950 === 
 + 
 +  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, the Spider is murdered by the Shade.</span></html> 
 + 
 +=== February, 1950 === 
 + 
 +  * **Stuntman Stetson** retires. [Feature Comics #144] 
 +  * The notorious criminal Killer Jordan frames Manhunter for the murder of Frankie Green, but Manhunter tracks Jordan down and clears his name. ["On a Charge of Murder," Police Comics #99 (April, 1950)] 
 + 
 +=== June, 1950 === 
 + 
 +  * **Lady Luck** retires. [Lady Luck #90] 
 +  * In his last case, **Manhunter** and his dog **Thor** battle and capture Canis, a criminal biologist who has given himself canine abilities such as extrasensory perception, night-vision, and animal ferocity by injecting himself with a glandular serum, in order to assist his gang commit robberies. //Note: At some point after this story, Thor dies, possibly explaining why Dan Richards retires as Manhunter despite vowing to continue until the underworld is completely conquered.// ["The Power of the Dog," Police Comics #101 (August, 1950)] 
 + 
 +=== July, 1950 === 
 + 
 +  * **Torchy Todd's** adventures end. [Torchy #6] 
 + 
 +==== 1951 ==== 
 + 
 +=== Unspecified month in 1951 === 
 + 
 +  * Margo the Magician battles ghostly pirates in San Francisco. Tracing their origin, Margo reaches the multi-dimensional Grim Island and meets Doctor Occult of Earth-2, Doctor Mist of Earth-1, Captain Marvel of Earth-S, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4. Together, the mystical heroes of five Earths confront Gareth to stop his island from being a menace to each of their worlds as a gateway to Hell. After a short battle commences, a time-traveling Abby Cable of Earth-1 from 1987 convinces Gareth to allow the other mystics to help him ward off the forces of Hell by founding a new school of magic called the Grimoire Academy to defend five Earths from a demonic invasion. Margo the Magician becomes one of the school's founding fathers. Grim Island is renamed Grimoire Island. ["[[http://www.5earths.com/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] 
 + 
 +=== February, 1951 === 
 + 
 +  * South Korea, backed by the Nazi puppet government of Japan, invades North Korea, which is backed by the Allies, and the Korean War begins. The Blackhawks pledge to fight for North Korea. //Note: This is the very first Quality Comics story mentioning the Korean War, although Korea remains unnamed in the story. The Korean War exists on Earth-X because of this story and depictions of the Korean War in G.I. Combat.// [Blackhawk #39] 
 + 
 +=== July, 1951 === 
 + 
 +  * [[Pete "T-Man" Trask]], Treasury Agent, begins adventures. [T-Man #1] 
 + 
 +=== October, 1951 === 
 + 
 +  * Martha Roberts, fiancée of Darrel Dane (Doll Man) becomes mystery woman **[[Doll Girl]]**, teaming up with him as the Doll Team. [Doll Man #37] 
 + 
 +==== 1952 ==== 
 + 
 +=== January, 1952 === 
 + 
 +  * The Grimoire Academy of Applied Learning on the multi-dimensional Grimoire Island opens its doors to students from Earth-X, Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-S, and Earth-4. This school is built and founded by the 16-year-old prodigy Gareth Gallowglass of Earth-1, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, Doctor Mist of Earth-1, Doctor Occult of Earth-2, Yarko the Great of Earth-4, and Shazam of Earth-S, who each contribute their knowledge and experience to the curriculum. ["[[http://www.5earths.com/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] 
 + 
 +=== August, 1952 === 
 + 
 +  * The First Lunar Expedition occurs when the Spirit agrees to go on a voyage to the Moon in a rocket ship invented by Prof. Hartley Skol, chairman of the Interplanetary Flight Commission. Since the experimental ship is largely manned by convicts receiving pardons for their crimes in exchange for assisting with the dangerous voyage, the Spirit is recruited to head the crew and keep them in line. On the Moon, the men discover a book that indicates a South American dictator named Francisco Rivera escaped to the Moon ten years earlier when his overthrow was imminent. [The Outer Space Spirit] 
 + 
 +=== September, 1952 === 
 + 
 +  * The First Lunar Expedition led by the Spirit returns to Earth after more than five weeks in space and on the Moon. Dutch Birch, a crewman, decides to stay behind on the Moon and is equipped with enough supplies to keep him alive for the next two months. The rocket ship is drawn back to Earth by the Central Rocket Station in Central City. The rocket ship has a close encounter with a UFO on the way back. [The Outer Space Spirit] 
 + 
 +==== 1953 ==== 
 + 
 +=== August, 1953 === 
 + 
 +  * **Doll Man** and **Doll Girl** have their last solo case. [Doll Man #47] 
 + 
 +=== December, 1953 === 
 + 
 +  * The Korean War ends with a ceasefire and an armistice signed by Japan-backed South Korea. //Note: This is the last known Quality Comics issue depicting the Korean War as being fought in the present, indicating that this war on Earth-X lasted until this time.// [G.I. Combat #13] 
 + 
 +==== 1954 ==== 
 + 
 +  * Imperial Japan (a puppet government of the Third Reich), begins flexing its military might to recapture lost territory in China and Indochina. The United States becomes involved in the Indochina Wars, fighting Japanese and Japanese-backed troops in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. //Note: This is speculation based on the numerous wars fought in Indochina as depicted in G.I. Combat from this issue on, although on Earth-X the enemy is Imperial Japan, not the Communists.// [G.I. Combat #14] 
 + 
 +=== December, 1954 === 
 + 
 +  * In his last solo case, **Plastic Man** battles the Wizard. //Note: Although the Plastic Man series continues until #64, all issues from next issue on contain reprints only.// [Plastic Man #52] 
 + 
 +==== 1956 ==== 
 + 
 +=== October, 1956 === 
 + 
 +  * **The Blackhawks** go into semi-retirement as Blackhawk marries and has a son. [Blackhawk #107] 
 +  * **T-Man's** adventures end. [T-Man #38] 
 +  * The Indochina Wars end with victory for Imperial Japan (a puppet government of the Third Reich) over Allied forces. //Note: This is speculation based on the last issue of G.I. Combat published by Quality Comics.// [G.I. Combat #43] 
 + 
 +==== 1957 ==== 
 + 
 +  * After a 10-year cold war between the Allies and the Axis, Nazi Germany uses a faked English attack on a German ocean liner to invade England, where it installs its own puppet government led by Oswald Mosely. Queen Elizabeth II and much of the Royal Family is rescued and brought to safety in Canada. Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936, is invited back to England to assume the throne as king. Many underground resistance groups throughout the British Isles are formed and fight back against the Occupation for the next decade. 
 + 
 +=== June, 1957 === 
 + 
 +  * Will Prohaska Hawk, son of Blackhawk (Janos Prohaska) and Bart Hawk's sister, is born.
  
 ==== 1960 ==== ==== 1960 ====
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   * Andre of the Blackhawks is killed.   * Andre of the Blackhawks is killed.
-  * November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by an American gunman with Nazi sympathies. The Nazis use opportunity of the panic and confusion in the aftermath to invade America and take Washington. Destroying America's most precious documents -- the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and others -- Germany declares America conquered, although it takes the next three years before the invasion is complete as there are pockets of resistance movements all over the country. Richard Von Zell, an American with Nazi loyalites, officially becomes the chief Nazi magistrate of America in place of the fallen Presidency and take the White House as his seat of power for Hitler. Rod Reilly (formerly known as Firebrand, he becomes the leader of the American Resistance), begins posing as a collaborator and bringing information about rebel movements to Von Zell. However, they would actually lead the Nazi agents into traps, where, as Rod Reilly, the resistance leader, he would capture or kill them. [some of this is information revealed by Bob Rozakis as plans for an untold story and the rest is speculation]+  * November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by an American gunman with Nazi sympathies. The Nazis take advantage of this opportunity, with all the panic and confusion in the aftermath, to invade America and control Washington, D.C. Destroying America's most precious documents -- the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and others -- Germany declares America conquered, although it takes the next three years before the invasion is complete, since there are still many pockets of resistance movements all over the country. Richard Von Zell, an American with Nazi loyalites, officially becomes the chief Nazi magistrate of America in place of the fallen presidency, and takes the White House as his seat of power for Hitler. Rod Reilly (formerly known as Firebrand), becomes the leader of the American Resistance. As Firebrand he poses as a Nazi collaborator, bringing information about rebel movements to Von Zell, while as Rod Reilly he leads the Nazi agents into traps, capturing or killing them with the assistance of his resistance fighters. [some of this is information revealed by Bob Rozakis as plans for an untold story and the rest is speculation]
  
 === December === === December ===
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 ==== 1966 ==== ==== 1966 ====
  
-  * Von Zell vows to kill Reilly when he discovers the latter's duplicity, but Rod Reilly somehow escapes to Earth-1 with barely his life. Pursuing him, Richard Von Zell, carrying an armload of silver bars to use to pay his way, crosses the dimensional barrier into Earth-1 as well. But the journey turns Von Zell into a Midas with a silver touch. With his new power, Von Zell becomes Raphael Van Zandt, amassing power and wealth while searching for Reilly. (Earth-1 time: 1977)+  * Von Zell vows to kill Reilly when he discovers the latter's duplicity, but Rod Reilly somehow escapes to Earth-1 with barely his life. Pursuing him, Richard Von Zell, carrying an armload of silver bars to use to pay his way, crosses the dimensional barrier into Earth-1 as well. But the journey turns Von Zell into a Midas with a silver touch. With his new power, Von Zell becomes Raphael Van Zandt, amassing power and wealth while searching for Reilly. The Freedom Fighters mistakenly believe that Firebrand is a traitor after he goes missing.
   * By this time, the Nazis have secretly created an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to help them with governing world affairs. Judging the Nazi high echelon to be unbalanced and dangerously irrational, this artificial intelligence slowly begins to take over the worldwide Nazi Empire, replacing its leaders with android duplicates over the next two years. The upper echelon of the Nazi government are eventually made to forcibly retire in secret by this artificial intelligence and are effectively imprisoned in richly furnished compounds in South America. This artificial intelligence desired order above all, so many of the more twisted aspects of Nazi rule were ended in favor of more logical government rule. To that end, work began on mind-control rays to control the world's population and establish firm order.   * By this time, the Nazis have secretly created an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to help them with governing world affairs. Judging the Nazi high echelon to be unbalanced and dangerously irrational, this artificial intelligence slowly begins to take over the worldwide Nazi Empire, replacing its leaders with android duplicates over the next two years. The upper echelon of the Nazi government are eventually made to forcibly retire in secret by this artificial intelligence and are effectively imprisoned in richly furnished compounds in South America. This artificial intelligence desired order above all, so many of the more twisted aspects of Nazi rule were ended in favor of more logical government rule. To that end, work began on mind-control rays to control the world's population and establish firm order.
  
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 === July === === July ===
  
-  * A lower-level Nazi faction decides to take advantage of the disappearance of the Freedom Fighters and try to take control of New York on July 4th, the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Plastic Man leads a small team of former Freedom Fighters to stop them, including the Raven, Spider Widow, the Great Defender, the Jester, and the Ghost of Flanders. The Nazis are defeated but at a terrible price, as half of these heroes lay dead -- the Raven, the Jester (Robert Mason), and the Ghost of Flanders lay dead. The Spider-Widow (Raven's wife) retires permanently to raise her children, the Great Defender (Stormy Foster) retires to run his business, while Plastic Man retires and burdens himself for three deaths. ["Feature: Young Allies: Choices"]+  * A lower-level Nazi faction decides to take advantage of the disappearance of the Freedom Fighters and try to take control of New York on July 4th, the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Plastic Man (Eel O'Brian) leads a small team of former Freedom Fighters to stop them, including the Raven (Tony Grey), Spider Widow (Dianne Grey, nee Dianne Grayton), the Great Defender (Stormy Foster), the Jester (Robert Mason), and the Ghost of Flanders (Rip Graves). The Nazis are defeated but at a terrible price, as half of these heroes -- the Raven, the Jester (Robert Mason), and the Ghost of Flanders -- are killed. Dianne Grey retires as the Spider Widow permanently to raise her children, Stormy Foster retires as the Great Defender to run his business, and Eel O'Brian retires as Plastic Man, guilt-ridden over the three deaths. ["Feature: Young Allies: Choices"]
  
 === August === === August ===
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 === February === === February ===
  
-  * Clark Kent, now 21 years old and a graduate of the Agronomics program at Kansas State University, begins using his super-powers more actively under the guise of the **[[Guardian Angel]]**, secretly protecting Smallville, Kansas, from various threats. ["Freedom Fighters: What If?"]+  * Clark Kent, now 21 years old and a graduate of the Agronomics program at Kansas State University, begins using his super-powers more actively under the guise of the **[[Guardian Angel (Clark Kent)|Guardian Angel]]**, secretly protecting Smallville, Kansas, from various threats. ["Freedom Fighters: What If?"]
  
 === July === === July ===
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   * The Ray II goes on special assignment in England, assisting the Occupation forces there to subdue the English Resistance.   * The Ray II goes on special assignment in England, assisting the Occupation forces there to subdue the English Resistance.
-  * The Freedom Fighters return to Earth-X, but are separated. The Nazis capture Uncle Sam, planning to use his power for their own as well as deal a blow to the Allied forces' morale, but Sam's teammates manage to retrieve him from Nazi Germany and return him safely to the USA. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues, Books One to Three"] +  * The Freedom Fighters return to Earth-X, but are separated. The Nazis capture Uncle Sam, planning to use his power for their own as well as deal a blow to the Allied forces' morale, but Sam's teammates manage to retrieve him from Nazi Germany and return him safely to the USA. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"] 
-  * Dr. Ulla Minerva, head of the Reich's Ministry of Science, gives 96-year-old Adolf Hitler a new, healthy, robust body, which looks like his younger self, only stronger and with self-healing abilities. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues, Book Two"]+  * Dr. Ulla Minerva, head of the Reich's Ministry of Science, gives 96-year-old Adolf Hitler a new, healthy, robust body, which looks like his younger self, only stronger and with self-healing abilities -- and places him under her complete control. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"]
  
 === December === === December ===
  
-  * ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues, Book Three"]+  * ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"]
  
 ==== 1986 ==== ==== 1986 ====
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   * Zero, ghost detective, travels from the year 1941 and helps set the Earth free from Martian domination. //Note: The Martians in this story are obviously descended from settlers from Earth. This story indicates that Mars, which has no native population, will be populated by humans in the future.// [Feature Comics #42]   * Zero, ghost detective, travels from the year 1941 and helps set the Earth free from Martian domination. //Note: The Martians in this story are obviously descended from settlers from Earth. This story indicates that Mars, which has no native population, will be populated by humans in the future.// [Feature Comics #42]
  
-**Timeline of Earth-X:** [[Timeline of Earth-X (prehistory to 1950s)|prehistory to 1950s]] | [[Timeline of Earth-X (1960s to the future)|1960s to the future]]+**Timeline of Earth-X:** [[Timeline of Earth-X (prehistory to 1940s)|prehistory to 1940s]] | [[Timeline of Earth-X (1960s to the future)|1950s to the future]]