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-====== Timeline of Earth-X (prehistory to 1950s) ======
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   * 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>
-  * April 12-19: Criminal "Eel" O'Brien is shot and doused with acid at the Crawford Chemical Works, and discovers his body has become completely pliable and elastic, allowing him to stretch and become any shape at will. He decides to fight crime with his powers and becomes the mystery-man known as **[[Plastic Man]]**. In his first case, he captures his old gang, led by Skizzle Shanks. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)]
+  * April 12-19: "Eel" O'Brien, a criminal wanted in eight states and a top safe-cracker, is shot and doused with acid at the Crawford Chemical Works in Mammoth City. Fleeing into the swamp and the mountains, Eel is found by a monk named Brother Willis and brought to a mountain retreat called Rest-Haven, where he soon discovers that his body has become completely pliable and elastic, allowing him to stretch and become any shape at will. Deciding to turn over a new leaf and fight crime with his powers, Eel finds a rubber costume and becomes the mystery-man known as **[[Plastic Man]]**. In his first case, he captures his old gang, led by Skizzle Shanks. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #1 (August, 1941)]
   * April 21: The Jester nabs a group of Nazi saboteurs after they target the Navy yard. [The Jester, Smash Comics #25 (August, 1941)]
   * April 22: **USA the Spirit of Old Glory** has her last case of this era before transferring her magic to Joan Dale to become Miss America. [USA, the Spirit of Old Glory, Feature Comics #48 (September, 1941)]
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   * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">May 11: On Earth-2, while investigating the assassination of a government official in Washington, D.C., the Ray uncovers a Nazi spy ring that has its own poison gas factory. The Ray smashes the ring and brings its leader to justice. [The Ray, Smash Comics #26 (September, 1941)]</span></html>
   * May 11: The Invisible Hood discovers a plot by a Nazi spy named Zergon (disguised as Lt. Jergens of the U.S. Navy) to steal the //Waterbug//, an advanced submarine invented by Prof. Saxon, in order to sell it to Nazi Germany. After the Invisible Hood saves the lives of Prof. Saxon and his daughter, Jane Saxon, they take the original model of the //Waterbug// into battle with the stolen current //Waterbug//, destroying both it and Zergon and his men. //Note: After this story, the Invisible Hood is switched over to Earth-2.// [Invisible Justice, Smash Comics #26 (September, 1941)]
-  * May 10-12: Plastic Man gets a job with the New York City Police Department under Captain Murphy when he captures both a Canadian opium-smuggling ring and Senator A.J. Simms, who is involved in the ring. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #2 (September, 1941)]
+  * May 10-12: Plastic Man gets a job with the Mammoth City Police Department under Captain Murphy when he captures both a Canadian opium-smuggling ring and Senator A.J. Simms, who is involved in the ring. [Plastic Man, Police Comics #2 (September, 1941)]
   * The Jester captures a young man named Terry Hills after he stages the elaborate murder of his father using radio in order to receive an early inheritance of $10-million. //Note: After this story, the Jester is switched over to Earth-2, as indicated by Chuck Lane's superior officer Inspector Mulligan being renamed Detective McGinty as of the Jester story in Smash Comics #27.// [The Jester, Smash Comics #26 (September, 1941)]
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   * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 7-9: On Earth-2, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders a complete halt to all foreign assistance, including war relief, and dismantles all U.S. Army encampments. Investigating, the Black Condor discovers that the president has been replaced by a German-controlled double while First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt is on vacation. After Wendy Foster is kidnapped, the Black Condor tracks her down and rescues the real President Roosevelt, then takes over a German warship off the coast preparing for an invasion and uses its radio to relay the president's message to revert all his changes. The Black Condor then delivers the warship, along with the captured Nazis, and returns both President Roosevelt and Wendy to America. Tom Wright receives the Congressional Medal of Honor since his first investigation revealed that the president had been kidnapped. [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #19 (December, 1941)]</span></html>
   * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 16: On Earth-2, Roy Lincoln accompanies his fiancée Jean Adams to a diplomat's ball in Washington, D.C. There they witness the murder of Colonel Stanford, an important figure in the diplomatic service. Trailing the killers as the Human Bomb, he discovers that the real Stanford is still alive and being kept a prisoner by a ring of Nazi spies in order to learn his secrets, while the man who was killed was an impostor meant to make everyone think Stanford was dead rather than kidnapped. The Human Bomb rescues Stanford and calls in the police to round up the espionage ring. <em>Note: The name of Roy Lincoln's fiancée is now Jean Adams, not Jean Caldwell, indicating that he is now on Earth-2.</em> [The Human Bomb, Police Comics #5 (December, 1941)]</span></html>
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">August 18: On Earth-2, Plastic Man stops Prof. McSneer and his gigantic Eight Ball, which he used to destroy Denver, Colorado, and prevents it from doing damage to Kansas City. <em>Note: The Eight Ball is similar to the later War Wheel encountered a few times by the Blackhawks.</em> ["The Eight Ball," Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</span></html>
   * Buddy Smith invents the Bumble-Boat, a type of submersible craft, and Uncle Sam helps him build the first prototype. After testing it for the U.S. Navy, Uncle Sam and Buddy use the Bumble-Boat to evade new submersible German battleships invented by a disgruntled American inventor whose ideas had earlier been ridiculed by the Navy. Thanks to their ability to go underwater, the German battleships evade the Navy fleet and nearly launch an invasion of the Atlantic Coast, before Uncle Sam and Buddy use the Bumble-Boat to torpedo the battleships, weakening them before the Navy can finally destroy them. Thanks to their success, the Navy buys Buddy's plans and soon builds a small fleet of Bumble-Boats. //Note: This story takes place in late August, about a week before school starts.// ["Raiders of the Deep," Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter, 1941)]
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   * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">November 4: On Earth-2, Tom Hallaway is made the sole heir of his old friend and fellow big-game hunter, Arthur Henderson, who tells Tom he knows he is the Spider and fears for the life of his adopted daughter if she inherits his fortune. After Henderson is killed by a sniper, Henderson's adopted daughter has her policeman boyfriend try to arrest Tom for the murder. As the Spider he tracks down the real killer, Henderson's half-brother who is now the Henderson family lawyer. Tom confronts Henderson's half-brother and tricks him into confessing that he murdered Henderson. After the half-brother is arrested, Tom ensures that Henderson's adopted daughter receives her rightful inheritance. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #22 (March, 1942)]</span></html>
   * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">November 4-5: On Earth-2, after a spate of disastrous weather hits the Midwest, as well as several defense supply areas, Dr. Foster plans to share his food concentrate formula with the chemists of America to help with relief, but before he can do so a robed figure steals it from him at gunpoint. Deducing that the Great Lakes area will be next, the Black Condor visits Detroit just as an unnatural tidal wave rises from Lake Erie. The Black Condor disables a passing plane responsible for the weather changes, and within the plane Jaspar Crow reports to Adolf Hitler himself about his failure, and he is angered when Hitler refuses to pay him for the food concentrate formula. As the Black Condor enters the plane, Crow offers to join forces with him against Hitler for holding out on him, telling him the formula is in a U-boat on its way to Germany. The Black Condor finds the U-boat and takes the formula from its captain, then returns to Crow and is double-crossed as expected. Crow escapes by parachute before the Black Condor can deliver the captured plane to the U.S. Army. Later, the Foster Food Pills are delivered to the stricken areas. <em>Note: Foster Food Pills, in modified form, are later delivered to resistance fighters in Occupied Europe by the Justice Society of America, as seen in All-Star Comics #14.</em> [The Black Condor, Crack Comics #22 (March, 1942)]</span></html>
+  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236);">November 15: On Earth-2, Plastic Man stops Prof. McSneer and his gigantic Eight Ball, which he used to destroy Denver, Colorado, and prevents it from doing damage to Kansas City. <em>Note: The Eight Ball is similar to the later War Wheel encountered a few times by the Blackhawks.</em> ["The Eight Ball," Police Comics #8 (March, 1942)]</span></html>
   * November 24-26: Despite receiving the highest marks in college, Dan Richards graduates at the bottom of his class at Empire City's Police Academy, thanks to being distracted by his work on a private crime laboratory, to the great disappointment of his girlfriend [[Kit Kelly]]. During their first patrol the next day, Dan covers the beat of his Kit's brother Jim Kelly along his own when Jim walks off with crooked politician Al Armand. When Armand tries to pay Jim to kill a crook named Johnny Cosentino while in the line of duty, Cosentino instead murders Armand and frames Jim, and Dan arrives on the scene. Jim is charged with murder, while Dan is suspended until the case can be investigated. Consulting his crime laboratory, Dan looks up Cosentino's usual haunts and prepares to confront him while masked and in costume as **[[Manhunter (Dan Richards)|Manhunter]]**. At midnight, Manhunter and his dog [[Thor (dog)|Thor]] the Thunder Dog track down Cosentino and his gang and terrorize Cosentino into confessing to the murder as well as his other recent crimes, then deliver him to Police Headquarters where he repeats his confession to the chief of police. Thor is trained to keep away from Dan Richards while he's in his civilian garb, only appearing when Dan has become Manhunter, and often only after Manhunter uses a supersonic whistle to call him. //Note: The origin of Manhunter in Secret Origins v2 #22 places this story in late November, a fortnight (14 days) before Pearl Harbor. In Secret Origins v2 #22, Al Armand is called Jerry Armand, while Jim Kelly is called Jim Kelley, Dan is inspired by the Manhunters of the Earth-1 universe to become Manhunter, and he is given a robotic dog named Thor to be his partner, all of which are untrue for the Earth-X Manhunter. Dan Richards' full name is Donald Daniel Richards, but he prefers to go by Dan. After this story, Manhunter is switched over to Earth-2. Manhunter apparently operates in Empire City on Earth-X (which may actually be New York City), but during his very brief stay on Earth-2 he operates specifically in New York City. Manhunter goes through quite a few costume changes after his initial appearance, wearing a different variation of his costume nearly each time he appears for a few months until he settles on a final version; although Manhunter is often depicted with no mask in his early cases, Manhunter always wore a mask while in costume.// [Manhunter, Police Comics #8 (March, 1942); "No Man Escapes the Manhunters, Chapter III: Dan Richards, Manhunter," Secret Origins v2 #22 (January, 1988)]
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   * Destiny arrests Oscar Jones, who killed 711. [Police Comics #17]
   * The Spider Widow and the Raven battle the Spider Man, a small Nazi saboteur wearing nothing but a spider mask and shorts, and riding a giant, lifelike mechanical spider who kills and terrorizes workers at a factory being used in the defense effort. [The Spider Widow and the Raven, Feature Comics #66 (March, 1943)]
-  * The Jester encounters Lady Satan, who tries to scheme Inspector Mulligan into marrying an older accomplice for the insurance money they'd gain upon his death. Despite her obvious guilt, Lady Satan sweet-talks her way out of jail. [The Jester, Smash Comics #41 (March, 1943)]
+  * The Jester encounters Lady Satan, who tries to trick Inspector Mulligan into marrying an older accomplice in a scheme to gain insurance money upon his death. Despite her obvious guilt, Lady Satan sweet-talks her way out of jail. [The Jester, Smash Comics #41 (March, 1943)]
   * January 21: Plastic Man is drafted into the armed forces, but President Roosevelt himself personally asks Plastic Man to join the FBI instead. Plastic Man and Woozy Winks begin working under the direction of Chief Branner. //Note: According to All-Star Squadron #1, Plastic Man was already an FBI agent before Pearl Harbor, but that was only when he was on Earth-2.// [Plastic Man, Police Comics #18 (April, 1943)]
   * January 21-22: The Black Condor battles the [[Black Dragon Society (Earth-X)|Black Dragon Society]] led by Draku, who kidnaps Wendy Foster in an attempt to gain Dr. Foster's formula for neutralizing the effects of poison gas. After the Black Condor saves both Wendy and Dr. Foster, Draku is crushed to death by a fallen stone idol, and Dr. Foster presents his formula to the Army Medical Society. ["Black Dragon," Crack Comics #28 (March, 1943)]
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   * A crook called Makeup impersonates and frames Manhunter for a bank robbery committed by his gang. Once again Thor clears Manhunter's name by proving which one is the fake. [Manhunter, Police Comics #97 (December, 1949)]
-==== 1950 ====
+**Continue to [[Timeline of Earth-X (1950s to the future)]]**
-=== Unspecified month in 1950 ===
+**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]]
-  * <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.
-**Continue to [[Timeline of Earth-X (1960s to the future)]]**
-**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]]