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| * Tyrone Neville becomes the [[Gallant Knight]]. [Feature Funnies #7] | * Tyrone Neville becomes the [[Gallant Knight]]. [Feature Funnies #7] |
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| ==== 1642 ==== | ===== 12th century ===== |
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| * A brilliant scientist named [[Cyrus Smythe|Dr. Cyrus Smythe]] of London invents a formula that can change living creatures into giants. But after he changes a monkey he experimented upon into a giant, the giant monkey attacks him, and his body is smashed against a cabinet full of chemicals, causing his brain to become immortal even as his body dies. Smythe's brain survives in his coffin for the next 300 years, becoming embittered against all of humanity over that time. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #11 (September, 1942)] | * A young man named Robert Fitzooth becomes known as **[[Robin Hood (Earth-X)|Robin Hood]]**, prince of outlaws, and gathers a band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest near Nottingham, England. Together, Robin Hood and his Merry Men fight against the tyrannical King John and his local representative, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin Hood's Merry Men, numbering about 200, include Little John, Will Scarlet, Friar Tuck, and Allan-a-Dale. |
| | * Heading to Nottingham to become a forester, Robin Hood is tricked by the King's Foresters into shooting a stag to prove his skill with a bow and arrow, only to be arrested and sentenced to death for killing the king's deer. A young woodcutter named Will Stutely saves Robin Hood's life, becoming the first of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest as they both become outlaws. ["The Outlawing of Robin Hood," Robin Hood Tales (Quality) #1 (February, 1956)] |
| | * Robin Hood and Little John rescue a friend named Tanner, who was taken prisoner by the Sheriff of Nottingham and sentenced to death for being friendly with Robin Hood. After Tanner is brought safely to their camp, he is made one of the Merry Men. ["The Trapping of Robin Hood," Robin Hood Tales (Quality) #1 (February, 1956)] |
| | * Robin Hood and his Merry Men free the serfs kept in chains in Castle Fury by the villainous Sir Roger the Black, and Robin Hood gives the nobleman's treasure to the serfs, letting them decide how to administer justice. ["The Black Knight of Castle Fury," Robin Hood Tales (Quality) #1 (February, 1956)] |
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| ===== 17-18th Centuries ===== | ===== 17-18th Centuries ===== |
| * Adventures on the Spanish Main begins. [Buccaneers #19] | * Adventures on the Spanish Main begins. [Buccaneers #19] |
| * Corsair Queen begins adventures. [Buccaneers #25] | * Corsair Queen begins adventures. [Buccaneers #25] |
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| | ==== 1642 ==== |
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| | * A brilliant scientist named [[Cyrus Smythe|Dr. Cyrus Smythe]] of London invents a formula that can change living creatures into giants. But after he changes a monkey he experimented upon into a giant, the giant monkey attacks him, and his body is smashed against a cabinet full of chemicals, causing his brain to become immortal even as his body dies. Smythe's brain survives in his coffin for the next 300 years, becoming embittered against all of humanity over that time. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #11 (September, 1942)] |
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| ==== 1776 ==== | ==== 1776 ==== |
| ==== 1810 ==== | ==== 1810 ==== |
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| * Uncle Sam becomes the champion hammer thrower. ["The Return of King Killer," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] | * Uncle Sam wins the championship in a hammer throwing contest. ["The Return of King Killer," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] |
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| ==== 1812 ==== | ==== 1812 ==== |
| * Paul Bunyan begins adventures in a small logging village in Maine. [National Comics #1] | * Paul Bunyan begins adventures in a small logging village in Maine. [National Comics #1] |
| * Sgt. Jim Reynold (brothers named Tom and Pinky) of the RCMP begins adventures. [Feature Funnies #14] | * Sgt. Jim Reynold (brothers named Tom and Pinky) of the RCMP begins adventures. [Feature Funnies #14] |
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| | ==== 1864 ==== |
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| | * Homesteaders Clem and Sarah Gallent are murdered by the Black Gang, a gang of bandits who want their land. The only survivor is their son Donny Gallent, who vows to avenge his parents and spends the next 10 years training to become a vigilante. [The Lone Star Rider, Smash Comics #2 (September, 1939)] |
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| | ==== 1874 ==== |
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| | * Donny Gallent grows up to be **[[Lone Star Rider|the Lone Star Rider]]**, pledged to champion the poor and helpless. The Lone Star Rider rides a white horse named **Light'nin'** and wears a yellow shirt, blue pants and bandana, and a tan cowboy hat. In his **only known case**, the Lone Star Rider captures a fleeing bandit named Snake McCade and delivers him to the sheriff of the town of Sage. [The Lone Star Rider, Smash Comics #2 (September, 1939)] |
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| ==== Circa 1890 ==== | ==== Circa 1890 ==== |
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| * Max Crandall, traveling forward through time from the 1890s, becomes known as **Lightning** and battles crooks during the Jazz Age. After a few years, he manages to travel through time once again, this time reaching the year 1986. | * Max Crandall, traveling forward through time from the 1890s, becomes known as **Lightning** and battles crooks during the Jazz Age. After a few years, he manages to travel through time once again, this time reaching the year 1986. |
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| | ==== 1926 ==== |
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| | * During a forest fire in the Northwest, forest ranger Frank Vance falls unconscious while searching for his very young missing daughter, Carol Vance. Seeing young Carol walk unharmed from a burning cabin, the Lord of Fire approaches the tot and is so impressed that she shows no fear that he makes her mistress of flame, having immunity against injury by fire. The next day Carol is found in the burned-out ruins of the forest, completely unharmed. Now an orphan, Carol is adopted and raised by the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. John Martin. ["Introducing Wildfire," Smash Comics #25 (August, 1941)] |
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| ==== Circa 1927 ==== | ==== Circa 1927 ==== |
| * [[Slim and Tubby]] begins. [Feature Funnies #1] | * [[Slim and Tubby]] begins. [Feature Funnies #1] |
| * [[Jim Swift]] begins adventures. [Feature Funnies #1] | * [[Jim Swift]] begins adventures. [Feature Funnies #1] |
| * [[Crack Casey]] has a single case. [Feature Funnies #1] | * [[Crack Casey]] of the U.S. Navy has a **single case** in Shanghai, preventing two men from robbing a young woman who is the ward of a German man. //Note: This story has never been completed.// [Crack Casey, Feature Funnies #1 (October, 1937)] |
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| === September, 1937 === | === September, 1937 === |
| * The Spider is framed for kidnapping Thomas Andrews, controlling stockholder of Mercury Realty Corporation, causing share prices to plummet. Suspecting Andrews of faking his kidnapping, the Spider demands the ransom money even as he learns that Andrews' stockbroker is buying shares at a cheap price, then distributes the half-million dollars to the stockholders who lost money on the Mercury shares. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #3 (July, 1940)] | * The Spider is framed for kidnapping Thomas Andrews, controlling stockholder of Mercury Realty Corporation, causing share prices to plummet. Suspecting Andrews of faking his kidnapping, the Spider demands the ransom money even as he learns that Andrews' stockbroker is buying shares at a cheap price, then distributes the half-million dollars to the stockholders who lost money on the Mercury shares. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #3 (July, 1940)] |
| * The Clock's secret identity of Brian O'Brien is discovered by gangsters, who tell Capt. Kane about it, so Kane arrests Brian on suspicion of being the vigilante, until Brian's name is cleared when Pug Brady arrives dressed as the Clock. [The Clock, Crack Comics #3 (July, 1940)] | * The Clock's secret identity of Brian O'Brien is discovered by gangsters, who tell Capt. Kane about it, so Kane arrests Brian on suspicion of being the vigilante, until Brian's name is cleared when Pug Brady arrives dressed as the Clock. [The Clock, Crack Comics #3 (July, 1940)] |
| * March 22-25: In a Midwestern town called Glen Valley, an old shopkeeper named Samuel who speaks out against a terrorist group called the Black Legion is found by the spirit of Uncle Sam, who joins with him to gain a physical body and fight injustice as **Uncle Sam**, possessing super-strength, invulnerability, super-speed, and occasional mystical powers, such as the ability to understand all languages. The Black Legion terrorizes Glen Valley, shooting down several citizens while riding motorcycles equipped with machine-guns. The shopkeeper Samuel, thought to have gone crazy by his neighbors for dressing up like Uncle Sam, soon proves useful when he rounds up all the members of the Black Legion in town for the police. That evening in a migrant camp on the outskirts of the western town of Everytown, USA, an old man named Ezra Smith speaks out against the rise of the Purple Shirts, a fascist group led by a man called Scar, assisted by another named Snyle, and secretly run by Andel Cobra, who hopes to topple the U.S. government by capitalizing on dissatisfaction caused by the Great Depression. After Smith is murdered by Snyle, his young grandson [[Buddy Smith]] (a boy with strawberry blond hair) flees and is found by Uncle Sam, who asks him to be his assistant. From their hidden fortress in Box Valley, the Purple Shirts plan to overthrow the U.S. government using tanks and armaments secretly supplied by Gatch Gozan, agent of Nazi Germany. After the Purple Shirts kidnap President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and bring him back to their fortress, Uncle Sam discovers their location from Snyle, who was shot by Scar for being weak, and allows himself to be led inside while Buddy gets help from the U.S. Army. Uncle Sam appeals to the patriotism of several American Purple Shirts, who begin fighting the German Purple Shirts, allowing Uncle Sam to rescue the president while army troops arrive to topple the organization. Uncle Sam take in Buddy Smith as his foster son, settling down in Everytown, and the two spend much of their time traveling around America. //Note: As National Comics #2 indicates, Uncle Sam cannot be photographed unless he wants to be.// ["The True Story of Uncle Sam," National Comics #5 (November, 1940); Uncle Sam, National Comics #1 (July, 1940); "The Coming of Uncle Sam," Secret Origins v2 #19 (October, 1987)] | * March 22-25: In a Midwestern town called Glen Valley, an old shopkeeper named [[Uncle Sam (Samuel Smith)|Samuel Smith]] who speaks out against a terrorist group called the Black Legion is found by the spirit of Uncle Sam, who joins with him to gain a physical body and fight injustice as **Uncle Sam**, possessing super-strength, invulnerability, super-speed, and occasional mystical powers, such as the ability to understand all languages. The Black Legion terrorizes Glen Valley, shooting down several citizens while riding motorcycles equipped with machine-guns. The shopkeeper Samuel, thought to have gone crazy by his neighbors for dressing up like Uncle Sam, soon proves useful when he rounds up all the members of the Black Legion in town for the police. That evening in a migrant camp on the outskirts of the western town of Everytown, USA, an old man named Ezra Smith speaks out against the rise of the Purple Shirts, a fascist group led by a man called Scar, assisted by another named Snyle, and secretly run by Andel Cobra, who hopes to topple the U.S. government by capitalizing on dissatisfaction caused by the Great Depression. After Smith is murdered by Snyle, his young grandson [[Buddy Smith]] (a boy with strawberry blond hair) flees and is found by Uncle Sam, who asks him to be his assistant. From their hidden fortress in Box Valley, the Purple Shirts plan to overthrow the U.S. government using tanks and armaments secretly supplied by Gatch Gozan, agent of Nazi Germany. After the Purple Shirts kidnap President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and bring him back to their fortress, Uncle Sam discovers their location from Snyle, who was shot by Scar for being weak, and allows himself to be led inside while Buddy gets help from the U.S. Army. Uncle Sam appeals to the patriotism of several American Purple Shirts, who begin fighting the German Purple Shirts, allowing Uncle Sam to rescue the president while army troops arrive to topple the organization. Uncle Sam take in Buddy Smith as his foster son, settling down in Everytown, and the two spend much of their time traveling around America. //Note: As National Comics #2 indicates, Uncle Sam cannot be photographed unless he wants to be. The Uncle Sam story in National Comics #20 indicates that Uncle Sam is Buddy Smith's actual uncle, indicating that Buddy's grandfather Ezra Smith may be this Uncle Sam's father, making his true name Samuel Smith. This explains why Uncle Sam was given custody of Buddy after his grandfather's death.// ["The True Story of Uncle Sam," National Comics #5 (November, 1940); Uncle Sam, National Comics #1 (July, 1940); "The Coming of Uncle Sam," Secret Origins v2 #19 (October, 1987)] |
| * March 23-25: The 10-foot-tall, super-strong lumberjack **Paul Bunyan**, still as youthful as he was 50 years earlier when he became a legend in the logging communities of the north with his giant blue ox **Babe** at his side, moves to the Northwestern United States and gets a job with the North American Timber Co. In his first adventure, Paul stops a rival timber company's plan to flood a populated valley, and he is promoted to chief foreman. [Paul Bunyan, National Comics #1 (July, 1940)] | * March 23-25: The 10-foot-tall, super-strong lumberjack **Paul Bunyan**, still as youthful as he was 50 years earlier when he became a legend in the logging communities of the north with his giant blue ox **Babe** at his side, moves to the Northwestern United States and gets a job with the North American Timber Co. In his first adventure, Paul stops a rival timber company's plan to flood a populated valley, and he is promoted to chief foreman. [Paul Bunyan, National Comics #1 (July, 1940)] |
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| * [[Dick Mace]], a young American detective, begins adventures. [Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * [[Dick Mace]], a young American detective, begins adventures. [Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * U.S. Navy Lt. Roy Lincoln of Washington, D.C., a chemist and the son of a famous explosives expert, assists his father to create a new super-explosive called 27-QRX. After German agents kill his father, Roy ingests the explosive capsule to keep it from them, inadvertently gaining invulnerability and the power to cause explosions with his hands, and accidentally destroys the lab, killing the four Nazi agents. Roy creates an invulnerable suit from the same kind of fibro-wax used to house the explosive capsule, which is equipped with an air-lung allowing him to swim underwater, and becomes the mystery-man known as **[[Human Bomb|the Human Bomb]]**. Discovering that the German Consul is behind the murder of his father, he uses his explosive power to kill him. //Note: Roy Lincoln is engaged to be married to Jean Caldwell, a strawberry blonde woman. Roy is a reserve member of the U.S. Navy. The Human Bomb later uses his ability to create explosions from his hands to propel himself through the air with giant leaps.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * U.S. Navy Lt. Roy Lincoln of Washington, D.C., a chemist and the son of a famous explosives expert, assists his father to create a new super-explosive called 27-QRX. After German agents kill his father, Roy ingests the explosive capsule to keep it from them, inadvertently gaining invulnerability and the power to cause explosions with his hands, and accidentally destroys the lab, killing the four Nazi agents. Roy creates an invulnerable suit from the same kind of fibro-wax used to house the explosive capsule, which is equipped with an air-lung allowing him to swim underwater, and becomes the mystery-man known as **[[Human Bomb|the Human Bomb]]**. Discovering that the German Consul is behind the murder of his father, he uses his explosive power to kill him. //Note: Roy Lincoln is engaged to be married to Jean Caldwell, a strawberry blonde woman. Roy is a reserve member of the U.S. Navy. The Human Bomb later uses his ability to create explosions from his hands to propel himself through the air with giant leaps.// [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| * Carol Vance Martin becomes **[[Wildfire]]**. [Smash Comics #25] | |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2 at Wake Island, Red Torpedo battles and captures Black Shark again, who uses a powerful <em>Bat Plane</em> while working alongside Japanese soldiers. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2 at Wake Island, Red Torpedo battles and captures Black Shark again, who uses a powerful <em>Bat Plane</em> while working alongside Japanese soldiers. [The Red Torpedo, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * Test pilot [[Tex "Spitfire" Adams]] begins adventures in his Spitfire. [Crack Comics #15] | * Test pilot [[Tex "Spitfire" Adams]] begins adventures in his Spitfire. [Crack Comics #15] |
| * Paul Bunyan leaves the North Woods and begins traveling throughout the Western United States, briefly getting a job as a cowhand at a ranch in the Colorado foothills before moving on to other adventures. [Paul Bunyan, National Comics #14 (August, 1941)] | * Paul Bunyan leaves the North Woods and begins traveling throughout the Western United States, briefly getting a job as a cowhand at a ranch in the Colorado foothills before moving on to other adventures. [Paul Bunyan, National Comics #14 (August, 1941)] |
| * April 12: In her first case as a costumed mystery-woman, Phantom Lady saves a bomb inventor named Raphael from Wenner, a man who planned to steal his uranium explosive and sell it to foreign powers. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] | * April 12: In her first case as a costumed mystery-woman, Phantom Lady saves a bomb inventor named Raphael from Wenner, a man who planned to steal his uranium explosive and sell it to foreign powers. [Phantom Lady, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)] |
| | * April 12: Wealthy young socialite Carol Vance Martin becomes **[[Wildfire]]**, the mistress of flame. Wildfire can fly and create a sheath of flame around her, and she is able to command fire and reshape it into various forms, such as a physical hand that can hold people without burning them. Wildfire can also throw precise flame-darts, create an impregnable shield of flame, and even create small flame-beings that can act independently. In her first known case, Wildfire saves a new munitions plant used for U.S. defense after it was set on fire by saboteurs. Learning that they work for the Green Masked Bund, Wildfire tracks them down to their headquarters, where she rescues the kidnapped Senator Raymond, who has been forced to sign a letter advocating that the U.S. refuses aid to other democracies. //Note: Wildfire has appeared in public before this story, since she is already known by name.// ["Introducing Wildfire," Smash Comics #25 (August, 1941)] |
| * April 12: The Spider foils the plans of a Nazi saboteur named Hansel, who sets off five explosions in a week to sabotage the city's work on a tunnel under the river in New York City. The Spider escapes a murder attempt by Hansel and his men, and kills Hansel before the police arrive. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)] | * April 12: The Spider foils the plans of a Nazi saboteur named Hansel, who sets off five explosions in a week to sabotage the city's work on a tunnel under the river in New York City. The Spider escapes a murder attempt by Hansel and his men, and kills Hansel before the police arrive. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">April 10-13: On Earth-2, the Black Condor again battles Jaspar Crow, this time in Miami, Florida, when Crow uses a freighter line to smuggle guns to revolutionaries in Cuba, and Crow is arrested and charged for his crimes for the first time. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">April 10-13: On Earth-2, the Black Condor again battles Jaspar Crow, this time in Miami, Florida, when Crow uses a freighter line to smuggle guns to revolutionaries in Cuba, and Crow is arrested and charged for his crimes for the first time. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #15 (August, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">June 9: On Earth-2, the Ray uncovers a Nazi laboratory built below the site of a more recently built U.S. Army base and stops the Nazi agents, who are armed with advanced tanks and an atom-smasher ray. [The Ray, Smash Comics #27 (October, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">June 9: On Earth-2, the Ray uncovers a Nazi laboratory built below the site of a more recently built U.S. Army base and stops the Nazi agents, who are armed with advanced tanks and an atom-smasher ray. [The Ray, Smash Comics #27 (October, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">June 9: On Earth-2, after his scientist friend Dr. Bond is kidnapped on the streets of Metropolis, the Invisible Hood discovers that a mastermind called the [[White Wizard]] has constructed a fantastic underground city below Metropolis and, with the help of three other kidnapped scientists, has been building advanced weaponry in order to seize control of Metropolis. Although the Invisible Hood saves the four scientists, stops the villain, and escapes from the underground city before it explodes, the White Wizard himself escapes by car. <em>Note: The fact that this story is set in the city of Metropolis, home of Superman, indicates that the Invisible Hood is now on Earth-2.</em> [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #27 (October, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">June 9: On Earth-2, after his scientist friend Dr. Bond is kidnapped on the streets of Metropolis, the Invisible Hood discovers that a mastermind called the [[White Wizard]] has constructed a fantastic underground city below Metropolis and, with the help of three other kidnapped scientists, has been building advanced weaponry in order to seize control of Metropolis. Although the Invisible Hood saves the four scientists, stops the villain, and escapes from the underground city before it explodes, the White Wizard himself escapes by car. <em>Note: The fact that this story is set in the city of Metropolis, home of Superman, indicates that the Invisible Hood is now on Earth-2.</em> [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #27 (October, 1941)]</span></html> |
| | * June 9: Wildfire saves the town of Pleasantville from the Fire Cult and its leader the Fire-Devil, masked men who set the town ablaze in an effort to extort $50,000. [Wildfire, Smash Comics # (October, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">June 5-10: On Earth-2, the Black Condor again battles Jaspar Crow, who forces a harsh new tax bill for American Indians to go through, causing strife. The Black Condor learns that Nazi agents have provided arms to the Indians and incited them to violence, and he stops the riots, exposes the German agents, and defeats the tax bill. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #17 (October, 1941)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">June 5-10: On Earth-2, the Black Condor again battles Jaspar Crow, who forces a harsh new tax bill for American Indians to go through, causing strife. The Black Condor learns that Nazi agents have provided arms to the Indians and incited them to violence, and he stops the riots, exposes the German agents, and defeats the tax bill. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #17 (October, 1941)]</span></html> |
| * June 22: German troops successfully smash into the Soviet Union. //Note: In Earth-X history, the Nazis were able to largely defeat the Soviet Union before the United States became involved in the war. Because the war on the Eastern Front was much less difficult, the Germans were able to better defend the Western Front.// ["Uncle Sam Wants You," All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)] | * June 22: German troops successfully smash into the Soviet Union. //Note: In Earth-X history, the Nazis were able to largely defeat the Soviet Union before the United States became involved in the war. Because the war on the Eastern Front was much less difficult, the Germans were able to better defend the Western Front.// ["Uncle Sam Wants You," All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, a judge paroles Tough Tony, a juvenile member of a gang of tire thieves, into rookie patrolman Chuck Lane's custody at Chuck's request. That night, Tony discovers that Chuck is the Jester and promises not to tell his secret. When the Jester encounters the gang of tire thieves, the leader Dagger Joe assumes wrongly that Tony ratted on him, and Tony decides to help the Jester when the crooks use underhanded methods to fight the mystery-man, such as ganging up on him and slugging him from behind. <em>Note: This story takes place a year earlier than when it was told, placing it around September, 1941, when the Jester was still on Earth-2. By September, 1942, Tony is no longer known as "Tough Tony" and has fully reformed.</em> [The Jester, Smash Comics #37 (November, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, a judge paroles Tough Tony, a juvenile member of a gang of tire thieves, into rookie patrolman Chuck Lane's custody at Chuck's request. That night, Tony discovers that Chuck is the Jester and promises not to tell his secret. When the Jester encounters the gang of tire thieves, the leader Dagger Joe assumes wrongly that Tony ratted on him, and Tony decides to help the Jester when the crooks use underhanded methods to fight the mystery-man, such as ganging up on him and slugging him from behind. <em>Note: This story takes place a year earlier than when it was told, placing it around September, 1941, when the Jester was still on Earth-2. By September, 1942, Tony is no longer known as "Tough Tony" and has fully reformed.</em> [The Jester, Smash Comics #37 (November, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * Rod Reilly's fiancee Joan Rogers, a volunteer nurse at the Red Cross, discovers that the foreign Dr. Kruger has poisoned an emergency blood reserve at City Hospital with paralysis culture. After preventing the contaminated blood from infecting soldiers at Camp Roberts, the Firebrand saves Joan and Slugger Dunn from Kruger and his accomplices, and Kruger is shot by a hospital guard. [The Firebrand, Police Comics #6 (January, 1942)] | * Rod Reilly's fiancee Joan Rogers, a volunteer nurse at the Red Cross, discovers that the foreign Dr. Kruger has poisoned an emergency blood reserve at City Hospital with paralysis culture. After preventing the contaminated blood from infecting soldiers at Camp Roberts, the Firebrand saves Joan and Slugger Dunn from Kruger and his accomplices, and Kruger is shot by a hospital guard. [The Firebrand, Police Comics #6 (January, 1942)] |
| | * September 5: Passing through the Southwest, Wildfire stops a gang of saboteurs armed with freeze guns and saves several oil fields from being set afire. [Wildfire, Smash Comics #30 (January, 1942)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">September 5: On Earth-2, the Ray and Bud discover a secret Nazi base beneath a testing field armed with powerful magnetic generators meant to cause the secret test of a new dive bomber to fail. Bud is shot by one of the Nazi agents, and the Ray stops two German agents named Adolf and Von Ribboncounter who escape by plane with the plans for the bomber. The Ray brings Bud to a hospital to recuperate. [The Ray, Smash Comics #30 (January, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">September 5: On Earth-2, the Ray and Bud discover a secret Nazi base beneath a testing field armed with powerful magnetic generators meant to cause the secret test of a new dive bomber to fail. Bud is shot by one of the Nazi agents, and the Ray stops two German agents named Adolf and Von Ribboncounter who escape by plane with the plans for the bomber. The Ray brings Bud to a hospital to recuperate. [The Ray, Smash Comics #30 (January, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">September 5: On Earth-2, Kent Thurston (the Invisible Hood) discovers that his invisible hooded robe has been stolen. Elsewhere, the White Wizard uncovers the secret of invisibility from the stolen robe. Days later, a horde of invisible raiders wearing invisible robes begin a series of raids, causing havoc in Metropolis. Despite lacking invisibility, Thurston confronts the White Wizard and his invisible raiders, managing to destroy all but the original invisible robe, but the White Wizard escapes again. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #30 (January, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">September 5: On Earth-2, Kent Thurston (the Invisible Hood) discovers that his invisible hooded robe has been stolen. Elsewhere, the White Wizard uncovers the secret of invisibility from the stolen robe. Days later, a horde of invisible raiders wearing invisible robes begin a series of raids, causing havoc in Metropolis. Despite lacking invisibility, Thurston confronts the White Wizard and his invisible raiders, managing to destroy all but the original invisible robe, but the White Wizard escapes again. [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #30 (January, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">September 5-6: On Earth-2, the Black Condor captures Mysto the Hindu, who is responsible for the thefts of War Department documents and a bank robbery, but the real mastermind, Jaspar Crow, eludes capture. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #20 (January, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">September 5-6: On Earth-2, the Black Condor captures Mysto the Hindu, who is responsible for the thefts of War Department documents and a bank robbery, but the real mastermind, Jaspar Crow, eludes capture. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #20 (January, 1942)]</span></html> |
| | * September 20-22: A pall of darkness settles over Washington, D.C., blotting out all light in the city in a black fog. Investigating, Uncle Sam discovers pellets that have been dropped on the city, even as other cities along the Atlantic are similarly struck with the black fog, causing many accidents and a high death toll. After Chicago is bombed with black fog pellets, Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith discover that the Nazi bomber is on Owl Island. Rescued by the U.S. Navy, Uncle Sam uses a weather-control device invented by Prof. Nelson to create an electrical storm first over the black fog-afflicted Denver and San Francisco, freeing those cities. Meanwhile, Buddy stowed away aboard the Nazi bomber and threw black fog pellets inside before bailing out to be saved by Uncle Sam. The German creator of the black fog goes down with the bomber, while German soldiers escape by parachute and are arrested. Later, after all the cities have been freed from the black fog, President Roosevelt thanks Uncle Sam in a public ceremony. ["The Black Fog Mystery," National Comics #19 (January, 1942)] |
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| === October, 1941 === | === October, 1941 === |
| * The Clock meets [[Butch]], a tough-girl sidekick. [Crack Comics #21] | * The Clock meets [[Butch]], a tough-girl sidekick. [Crack Comics #21] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Happy Terrill becomes a war correspondent when he and Bud travel to Syria on assignment. One week later, Happy is seemingly killed by a bomb, while Bud is taken in by a local girl who nurses him back to health. Later, Happy recovers in an underground passage and becomes the Ray, then meets the girl who turns out to be an American reporter, Sue Saunders of the New York Star. The Ray stops a group of Syrians working for German agents who try to destroy the French garrison. The Ray tells Bud to give Sue the story and his photos. ["Who Is Monsieur Le Rat?" Smash Comics #31 (February, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Happy Terrill becomes a war correspondent when he and Bud travel to Syria on assignment. One week later, Happy is seemingly killed by a bomb, while Bud is taken in by a local girl who nurses him back to health. Later, Happy recovers in an underground passage and becomes the Ray, then meets the girl who turns out to be an American reporter, Sue Saunders of the New York Star. The Ray stops a group of Syrians working for German agents who try to destroy the French garrison. The Ray tells Bud to give Sue the story and his photos. ["Who Is Monsieur Le Rat?" Smash Comics #31 (February, 1942)]</span></html> |
| | * After the ghost of Simon Bolivar appeals to the ghost of George Washington for help, Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to put an end to the anti-American sentiments there that are secretly financed by the Nazis to create divisions in the Americas. They soon uncover and defeat a Nazi plot using tribes from the Amazon jungle to destroy the coastal defenses of Brazil, with the help of a group of patriotic Brazilians. //Note: This story indicates that Buddy Smith is Uncle Sam's actual nephew.// [Uncle Sam, National Comics #20 (February, 1942)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 2-4: On Earth-2, after Senator Tom Wright is framed for selling secrets to the press, the Black Condor learns that Jaspar Crow has placed hidden microphones in every committee room in the Senate. Meanwhile, Tom's fiancée Wendy Foster overhears Jaspar Crow making a deal with Nazi Germany to sell them transcripts of all the Senate committee meetings. After the Black Condor saves Wendy, Crow falls from a plane while escaping but manages to survive. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 2-4: On Earth-2, after Senator Tom Wright is framed for selling secrets to the press, the Black Condor learns that Jaspar Crow has placed hidden microphones in every committee room in the Senate. Meanwhile, Tom's fiancée Wendy Foster overhears Jaspar Crow making a deal with Nazi Germany to sell them transcripts of all the Senate committee meetings. After the Black Condor saves Wendy, Crow falls from a plane while escaping but manages to survive. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</span></html> |
| | * October 5: Uncle Sam and Buddy Smith encounter the great violinist Malvolo, whose hands were crushed in a train wreck and replaced with the cursed hands of a killer, causing him to become deranged, and giving him the ability to command a horde of fierce apes. ["The Fiddler of Death," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 9: On Earth-2, the Spider chases after the Crow after he breaks out of prison, but the Crow steals his amazing car, the <em>Black Widow</em>. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">October 9: On Earth-2, the Spider chases after the Crow after he breaks out of prison, but the Crow steals his amazing car, the <em>Black Widow</em>. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #21 (February, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * October 10: Reserve officers Rod Reilly and Slugger Dunn report for duty in the U.S. Navy as an ensign and a seaman, respectively, assigned to the Destroyer //Russell//, currently performing Atlantic convoy patrol duties. When his ship is attacked by German U-boats, Rod becomes the Firebrand and commandeers one of the U-boats, then sails to a German submarine base and disguises himself as a German officer in order to access the base. Fighting their way through, Rod and Slugger steal a bomber and bomb the base before returning to the American air base, which has been taken over by Nazi spies. Rod and Slugger recapture the base and imprison the spies. //Note: According to All-Star Squadron #1, Rod Reilly is assigned to the U.S.S. Arizona at the U.S. Naval base in Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, contradicting this story and thus indicating that both Earth-X and Earth-2 have nearly identical Firebrands but with some differences; the Earth-2 Firebrand has a sister named Danette, for example, is based in the Pacific on the U.S.S. Arizona, and is injured during the attack on Pearl Harbor, while the Earth-X Firebrand is an only child, is based in the Atlantic on the U.S.S. Russell, and sustains no injuries forcing him to retire from crime-fighting, as proven by the Firebrand story in Police Comics #9, which takes place on December 31, 1941, and features an able-bodied Rod Reilly as Firebrand -- a story that cannot take place on Earth-2. The date of October 10, 1941, comes from All-Star Squadron #5// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)] | * October 10: Reserve officers Rod Reilly and Slugger Dunn report for duty in the U.S. Navy as an ensign and a seaman, respectively, assigned to the Destroyer //Russell//, currently performing Atlantic convoy patrol duties. When his ship is attacked by German U-boats, Rod becomes the Firebrand and commandeers one of the U-boats, then sails to a German submarine base and disguises himself as a German officer in order to access the base. Fighting their way through, Rod and Slugger steal a bomber and bomb the base before returning to the American air base, which has been taken over by Nazi spies. Rod and Slugger recapture the base and imprison the spies. //Note: According to All-Star Squadron #1, Rod Reilly is assigned to the U.S.S. Arizona at the U.S. Naval base in Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, contradicting this story and thus indicating that both Earth-X and Earth-2 have nearly identical Firebrands but with some differences; the Earth-2 Firebrand has a sister named Danette, for example, is based in the Pacific on the U.S.S. Arizona, and is injured during the attack on Pearl Harbor, while the Earth-X Firebrand is an only child, is based in the Atlantic on the U.S.S. Russell, and sustains no injuries forcing him to retire from crime-fighting, as proven by the Firebrand story in Police Comics #9, which takes place on December 31, 1941, and features an able-bodied Rod Reilly as Firebrand -- a story that cannot take place on Earth-2. The date of October 10, 1941, comes from All-Star Squadron #5// [The Firebrand, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)] |
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| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Plastic Man joins the FBI under unknown circumstances, working under the direction of Chief Branner of Earth-2. <em>Note: Plastic Man's association with the FBI must take place out of sequence of his own adventures, since he is already an FBI agent by December, 1941, according to All-Star Squadron #1.</em></span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Plastic Man joins the FBI under unknown circumstances, working under the direction of Chief Branner of Earth-2. <em>Note: Plastic Man's association with the FBI must take place out of sequence of his own adventures, since he is already an FBI agent by December, 1941, according to All-Star Squadron #1.</em></span></html> |
| | * Uncle Sam stops a sabotage plot in the factories of Autoville, then single-handedly builds a new town to house the workers, who had previously been forced to live in trailers and shacks. Uncle Sam then captures the leaders of the sabotage group, including businessman I.J. Grab. ["The Man Behind the Man Behind the Gun," National Comics #21 (March, 1942)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">Returning to Earth-2, Uncle Sam begins searching for recruits for a team of heroes to fight the Axis on Earth-X. In doing so, he inadvertently gains the attention of Midnight and Doll Man, who begin investigating him, independent of one another. [All-Star Squadron #31-32]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">Returning to Earth-2, Uncle Sam begins searching for recruits for a team of heroes to fight the Axis on Earth-X. In doing so, he inadvertently gains the attention of Midnight and Doll Man, who begin investigating him, independent of one another. [All-Star Squadron #31-32]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Happy Terrill and Bud remain in the Near East while on assignment. After fellow reporter Sue Saunders reads a scroll revealing the location of the Isle of Darkness in the Aegean Sea, the Ray battles a group of Nazis and Syrians seeking a prophetic scroll, which is destroyed by fire before the full prophecy can be read. The ancient Greek man, having guarded the scroll of the prophet Hippotius without fail for centuries, follow it into the fire, killing himself. [The Ray, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Happy Terrill and Bud remain in the Near East while on assignment. After fellow reporter Sue Saunders reads a scroll revealing the location of the Isle of Darkness in the Aegean Sea, the Ray battles a group of Nazis and Syrians seeking a prophetic scroll, which is destroyed by fire before the full prophecy can be read. The ancient Greek man, having guarded the scroll of the prophet Hippotius without fail for centuries, follow it into the fire, killing himself. [The Ray, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * **Jack and Jill Doe's** last case. [National Comics #22] | * **Jack and Jill Doe's** last case. [National Comics #22] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">December 4: On Earth-2, the Human Bomb captures a Human Bomb impostor who ransacked the FBI offices in order to grab evidence proving that a publisher named Henry Vogelman is the head of a Nazi propaganda and sabotage ring. <em>Note: There's snow on the ground, indicating it is either winter or as close to winter as possible.</em> [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">December 4: On Earth-2, the Human Bomb captures a Human Bomb impostor who ransacked the FBI offices in order to grab evidence proving that a publisher named Henry Vogelman is the head of a Nazi propaganda and sabotage ring. <em>Note: There's snow on the ground, indicating it is either winter or as close to winter as possible.</em> [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #7 (February, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * December 7: On Earth-2, Uncle Sam, having recruited the Red Torpedo, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown, and the Invisible Hood, finally travels to Rex Tyler's lab and recruits Hourman, who names their team **[[Freedom Fighters|the Freedom Fighters]]**. Bringing the team back to Earth-X over the Pacific Ocean some miles west of Hawaii, Uncle Sam and his Freedom Fighters successfully battle a squadron of Japanese Zeros. Miss America uses her matter-creating powers to create out of thin air the Red Torpedo's flying submarine, upon which the team is resting when one Zero divebombs the team and crashes into the submarine, disintegrating the submarine and apparently killing **the Red Torpedo**, **Magno**, **Neon the Unknown**, and **the Invisible Hood**, although **Miss America** survives, as do Uncle Sam and Hourman. The Japanese, meanwhile, call off the Pearl Harbor attack, figuring the chances of a surprise attack are now slim. The U.S. does not enter the war at this time. //Note: This occurs sometime after Hourman takes a leave of absence from the Justice Society of America on Earth-2, which occurs on June 28, 1941, as shown in All-Star Squadron Annual #3. Although there is a reference to Uncle Sam visiting Hourman in the summer, he actually visits him on the morning of December 7, a date which is confirmed later in the same issue.// [All-Star Squadron #31-32] | * December 7: On Earth-2, Uncle Sam, having recruited the Red Torpedo, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown, and the Invisible Hood, finally travels to Rex Tyler's lab and recruits Hourman, who names their team **[[Freedom Fighters|the Freedom Fighters]]**. Bringing the team back to Earth-X over the Pacific Ocean some miles west of Hawaii, Uncle Sam and his Freedom Fighters successfully battle a squadron of Japanese Zeros. Miss America uses her matter-creating powers to create out of thin air the Red Torpedo's flying submarine, upon which the team is resting when one Zero divebombs the team and crashes into the submarine, disintegrating the submarine and apparently killing the whole team, although in fact each member survives. The Japanese, meanwhile, call off the Pearl Harbor attack, figuring the chances of a surprise attack are now slim. The U.S. does not enter the war at this time. //Note: This occurs sometime after Hourman takes a leave of absence from the Justice Society of America on Earth-2, which occurs on June 28, 1941, as shown in All-Star Squadron Annual #3. Although there is a reference to Uncle Sam visiting Hourman in the summer, he actually visits him on the morning of December 7, a date which is confirmed later in the same issue.// [All-Star Squadron #31-32] |
| * December 7: The same vortex that transports Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters to Earth-X also transports Midnight and Doll Man, who independently track Uncle Sam down to Rex Tyler's lab and decide to jump into the vortex when they see the others disappearing into it. The two also end up on Earth-X, only across the world in German-Occupied Paris, France. There, Midnight and Doll Man save the lives of two French Resistance fighters (a blonde named Simone and an unnamed male) and are soon introduced to the head of the local Resistance. They fight with the French Resistance for the next two months. [All-Star Squadron #32] | * December 7: The same vortex that transports Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters to Earth-X also transports Midnight and Doll Man, who independently track Uncle Sam down to Rex Tyler's lab and decide to jump into the vortex when they see the others disappearing into it. The two also end up on Earth-X, only across the world in German-Occupied Paris, France. There, Midnight and Doll Man save the lives of two French Resistance fighters (a blonde named Simone and an unnamed male) and are soon introduced to the head of the local Resistance. They fight with the French Resistance for the next two months. [All-Star Squadron #32] |
| * Hourman is found unconscious by the Japanese, who keep him a prisoner for the next two months, trying to discover the secret of his tremendous strength. [All-Star Squadron #35] | * Hourman is found unconscious by the Japanese, who keep him a prisoner for the next two months, trying to discover the secret of his tremendous strength. [All-Star Squadron #35] |
| === February, 1942 === | === February, 1942 === |
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| | * After being released from U.S. military custody, Uncle Sam returns to Everytown where he is reunited with his nephew, Buddy Smith. After Buddy is framed for murder, Uncle Sam discovers the true killer to be gang lord "Jook" Jagger, who used a gang of kids to kill his enemy, Mike Ratzoff. Uncle Sam proves Buddy innocent and captures Jagger, then in juvenile court a few days later, Uncle Sam asks for custody of the four remaining kids in the gang, after their leader Spike is killed. [Uncle Sam, National Comics #22 (April, 1942)] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 1: On Earth-2, Plastic Man battles a scientist gang leader called Hairy Arms, who attempts to take over New York City with an army of robots, which is only stopped by Eel O'Brian and a group of patriotic crooks</span><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">. ["Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs," Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 1: On Earth-2, Plastic Man battles a scientist gang leader called Hairy Arms, who attempts to take over New York City with an army of robots, which is only stopped by Eel O'Brian and a group of patriotic crooks</span><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">. ["Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs," Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 1: On Earth-2, the Spider battles a Japanese spymaster known as the </span></html>[[Yellow Scorpion]],<html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);"> who leads a group of Japanese saboteurs, but escapes. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 1: On Earth-2, the Spider battles a Japanese spymaster known as the </span></html>[[Yellow Scorpion]],<html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);"> who leads a group of Japanese saboteurs, but escapes. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Phantom Lady and Black Condor team up against a crooked politician. ["<a href="http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-pl-bc-tp1942/">The Brave and the Bold: Phantom Lady and Black Condor: Times Past, 1942: Lethal Legislation</a>"]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">On Earth-2, Phantom Lady and Black Condor team up against a crooked politician. ["<a href="http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/bravebold-e2-pl-bc-tp1942/">The Brave and the Bold: Phantom Lady and Black Condor: Times Past, 1942: Lethal Legislation</a>"]</span></html> |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 10-11: On Earth-2, while visiting an aircraft plant in Los Angeles, Phantom Lady and the All-Star Squadron battle Fury and Northwind, and the Mist and Vulcan from the future. Together they battle the Ultra-Humanite and his agents, and Phantom Lady and the others are placed into Limbo by the Brain Wave of the future. Later, after the Ultra-Humanite's plot is stopped, they are brought back from Limbo. ["The Infinity Syndrome," All-Star Squadron #25 (September, 1983); "Talons Across Time," All-Star Squadron #26 (October, 1983); "The Ultra War," All-Star Squadron Annual #2 (1983)]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 10-11: On Earth-2, while visiting an aircraft plant in Los Angeles, Phantom Lady and the All-Star Squadron battle Fury and Northwind, and the Mist and Vulcan from the future. Together they battle the Ultra-Humanite and his agents, and Phantom Lady and the others are placed into Limbo by the Brain Wave of the future. Later, after the Ultra-Humanite's plot is stopped, they are brought back from Limbo. ["The Infinity Syndrome," All-Star Squadron #25 (September, 1983); "Talons Across Time," All-Star Squadron #26 (October, 1983); "The Ultra War," All-Star Squadron Annual #2 (1983)]</span></html> |
| * February 22: Uncle Sam, still locked away in a padded cell, has another vision of an attack on U.S. soil, this time on the coast of California. He now finally succeeds in creating a vortex that transports him back to Earth-2. Unbeknownst to him, one of his preliminary attempts allows Baron Blitzkrieg to transport himself from Earth-2 to the Berlin, Germany, of Earth-X. [All-Star Squadron #32, 35] | * February 17: In New Orleans during Mardi Gras, Wildfire fights a killer called the Frog, who wears a frog-like green costume and uses water gimmicks. The Frog manages to murder five victims before Wildfire finally captures him and unmasks him as Froggy Miller, a former soldier in the U.S. Army who resembled a frog and was booted out of the army for cowardice and thievery, but swore to get revenge on his fellow soldiers. [Wildfire, Smash Comics #32 (March, 1942)] |
| | * February 22: Uncle Sam has another vision of an attack on U.S. soil, this time on the coast of California. He now finally succeeds in creating a vortex that transports him back to Earth-2. Unbeknownst to him, one of his preliminary attempts allows Baron Blitzkrieg to transport himself from Earth-2 to the Berlin, Germany, of Earth-X. [All-Star Squadron #32, 35] |
| * February 22: Baron Blitzkrieg of Earth-2, displaying his powers and loyalty to the Adolf Hitler of Earth-X, is hailed a hero by the Nazis. Hearing of masked men fighting for the French Resistance in Paris, he travels there. Midnight and Doll Man, having learned of a planned Japanese attack on the U.S. set to take place the next day, battle German soldiers, resulting in Doll Man being injured. As Baron Blitzkrieg confronts Midnight on the edge of a rooftop, the latter spots the tell-tale signs of Uncle Sam's vortex just below him and leaps into it with Doll Man in his hand, followed by a few Nazi soldiers. They all ended up in Earth-2's New York City. Back on Earth-X, Baron Blitzkrieg mentally commands his aide Zwerg on Earth-2 to authorize an outbreak of Axis sabotage on the American East Coast in order to keep most All-Star Squadron members too busy to interfere with the invasion on either Earth's California. [All-Star Squadron #32, 35] | * February 22: Baron Blitzkrieg of Earth-2, displaying his powers and loyalty to the Adolf Hitler of Earth-X, is hailed a hero by the Nazis. Hearing of masked men fighting for the French Resistance in Paris, he travels there. Midnight and Doll Man, having learned of a planned Japanese attack on the U.S. set to take place the next day, battle German soldiers, resulting in Doll Man being injured. As Baron Blitzkrieg confronts Midnight on the edge of a rooftop, the latter spots the tell-tale signs of Uncle Sam's vortex just below him and leaps into it with Doll Man in his hand, followed by a few Nazi soldiers. They all ended up in Earth-2's New York City. Back on Earth-X, Baron Blitzkrieg mentally commands his aide Zwerg on Earth-2 to authorize an outbreak of Axis sabotage on the American East Coast in order to keep most All-Star Squadron members too busy to interfere with the invasion on either Earth's California. [All-Star Squadron #32, 35] |
| * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 22: On Earth-2, Plastic Man, the Jester, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb, the Red Bee, Manhunter, the Black Condor, and the Ray are among the attendees of the first meeting of the full roster of the All-Star Squadron. Uncle Sam, finally able to return to Earth-2 from Earth-X, addresses the team and pleads for their help to return to prevent the invasion of the U.S. mainland. [All-Star Squadron #31]</span></html> | * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">February 22: On Earth-2, Plastic Man, the Jester, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb, the Red Bee, Manhunter, the Black Condor, and the Ray are among the attendees of the first meeting of the full roster of the All-Star Squadron. Uncle Sam, finally able to return to Earth-2 from Earth-X, addresses the team and pleads for their help to return to prevent the invasion of the U.S. mainland. [All-Star Squadron #31]</span></html> |
| === September, 1942 === | === September, 1942 === |
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| | * September 24: In her last known case, **Wildfire** (Carol Vance Martin) stops a criminal gang led by the Dean of Darkness after Carol and other air raid wardens are kidnapped for ransom during a test blackout. ["Dean of Darkness," Smash Comics #37 (November, 1942)] |
| * **The Mouthpiece** has his last known case. [Police Comics #13] | * **The Mouthpiece** has his last known case. [Police Comics #13] |
| * **"Prop" Powers'** chronicled adventures end. [National Comics #26] | * **"Prop" Powers'** chronicled adventures end. [National Comics #26] |