Superman completes building work on his Secret Citadel in the mountains in upstate New York.
On trial as a public menace, Robotman reveals that he is Robert Crane's brain in a robot body; the court declares him a human being. [“The Trial of Robotman,” Star Spangled Comics #15 (December, 1942); “To Slay the Body Electric,” All-Star Squadron #17 (January, 1983)]
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Ghost Patrol (Fred, Pedro, and Slim). [Flash Comics #29]
Olympic champion Will Everett becomes Amazing-Man, originally one of the Ultra-Humanite's super-powered agents. [“The Secret Origin of Amazing-Man,” All-Star Squadron #23 (July, 1983)]
The All-Star Squadron meets Tarantula and battles Fairy Tales Fenton (secretly an agent of the Ultra-Humanite), posing as Thor once more and now wielding the legendary hammer of Thor (last seen in Hawkman's hands in All-Star Comics #3). [“Vengeance from Valhalla,” All-Star Squadron #18 (February, 1983)]
February 1: 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. [“Satan's Son Sells Out to the Japs,” Police Comics #9 (May, 1942)]
February 1: The Spider battles a Japanese spymaster known as the
Yellow Scorpion, who leads a group of Japanese saboteurs, but escapes. [Alias the Spider, Crack Comics #23 (May, 1942)]
February 1: The Spectre encounters his old foe Kulak the high priest of Brztal in a distant dimension, and holds him at bay for a full week's time. [“For the Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light,” All-Star Squadron #20 (April, 1983)]
February 8: Superman battles Alexei Luthor, who uses the Powerstone to become powerful. [“When Titans Clash,” Superman #17 (July-August, 1942)]
February 8: Batman and Robin battle the Joker. [Batman #11 (June-July, 1942)]
February 8: The Flash travels back in time to ancient Rome, where he is enslaved, then stops an early assassination attempt on Julius Caesar. [“The Tale of the Time Capsule,” All-Flash #4 (Spring, 1942)]
February 8: The All-Star Squadron is summoned to the old World's Fair grounds, where they discover that the entire membership of the Justice Society of America, along with Wonder Woman, are unconscious and have been captured by the Brain Wave. The Brain Wave forces the unconscious JSAers to experience lifelike dreams of going to war against the Imperial Japanese forces and finally against Japan itself, with the final result of them dying in their dreams. The All-Star Squadron joins the JSA's dream in order to save them but are also all killed in dreams. Green Lantern arrives and joins the dream battle, only to wreak vengeance on the Japanese by exploding a bomb that destroys an entire city. The feedback defeats the Brain Wave, who escapes, while the JSA prevent Green Lantern from taking his own life in remorse, and he helps the JSA and the All-Stars escape their dream prison. [“The Justice Society Joins the War on Japan,” All-Star Comics #11 (June-July, 1942); “Death, Considered as a State of Mind,” All-Star Squadron #19 (March, 1983); “For the Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light,” All-Star Squadron #20 (April, 1983)]
February 8-10: The Ultra War:
February 8-9: Superman arrives at the World's Fair grounds with the Powerstone and meets with the All-Star Squadron and the JSA. Hawkman explains that, before the Brain Wave captured them all, the War Department asked him to reform the JSA as the Justice Battalion of America for the duration of the war, with a new headquarters at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. All JSA members are relieved of their duties in the armed services, except Johnny Thunder, who remains in the Navy. After Johnny Thunder asks Wonder Woman to be the team's secretary, she accepts. Liberty Belle suggests making the Perisphere into All-Star Squadron's headquarters. Three JSAers (Doctor Fate, the Atom, and Hawkman) and Firebrand find the ninth-floor hotel headquarters of the JSA on fire and put out the flames, but they are then attacked by Cyclotron (Terry Curtis/Terry Kurtzberger) and green-furred subterranean men called the Sub-Men, who want the hammer of Thor. [“A Tale of Three Citadels,” All-Star Squadron #21 (May, 1983)]
February 9: Superman brings Green Lantern and Liberty Belle to his Secret Citadel, where they are attacked by
Deathbolt, Sub-Men, and the Ultra-Humanite in the body of Dolores Winters, who seizes the Powerstone. Cyclotron, having recognized Firebrand as his old flame Danette Reilly, kidnaps her from her home. [“The Powerstone Corrupts Absolutely,” All-Star Squadron #22 (June, 1983)]
February 9: Doctor Fate and the Atom stop Amazing-Man, who tries to steal the Helm of Nabu from the Tower of Fate in Salem, Massachusetts. Kent Nelson dons the Helm of Nabu for the first time in over half a year. [“When Fate Thy Measure Takes,” All-Star Squadron #23 (July, 1983)]
February 9-10: Robin battles Sub-Men, who kidnap Dr. Chuck Grayson. Ultra-Humanite starts a fire on the SS Normandie. Brainwave, Junior, appears from the future year of 1983 and meets Tarantula, who gains a new costume designed by his German housekeeper, Olga Clatterbuck. [“A Gauntlet Hurled,” Infinity Inc. #2 (May, 1984); “The Man Who'll Know Too Much,” All-Star Squadron #24 (August, 1983)]
February 10: The members of Infinity Inc. (Fury, Nuklon, Northwind, Jade, Obsidian, and Silver Scarab) appear from the future year of 1983 and are immediately enslaved by the Ultra-Humanite. The JSA meets at the War Department, where they are told of a threat to the United States by the Black Dragon Society. The All-Stars battle Amazing-Man, who joins them against the Ultra-Humanite when he learns that Detroit (where his parents live) is threatened. The All-Stars battle the Infinitors but vanish when they make physical contact, replaced by super-villains from the future. [“The Infinity Syndrome,” All-Star Squadron #25 (September, 1983)]
February 10: Super-villains from Limbo in the future (the Mist, Vulcan, Psycho-Pirate II, the Brain Wave, the Monocle, Rag Doll – all members except Vulcan of the Ultra-Humanite's Secret Society of Super-Villains in the future) appear and battle the All-Stars. Phantom Lady gains the ability to become invisible. Brainwave, Junior, reveals that the Ultra-Humanites of present and future have teamed up across time to make this plan succeed. The members of Infinity Inc., now freed from Ultra's control, free themselves. [“Talons Across Time,” All-Star Squadron #26 (October, 1983)]
February 10-11: The All-Star Squadron and Infinity Inc. battle the Ultra-Humanite and his agents when they attempt to destroy the three branches of the U.S. government: the Supreme Court, the Congress, and the President. The All-Stars and the Infinitors also prevent Ultra-Humanite from stealing Robotman's body to house his brain. The Atom is exposed to a high amount of radiation when battling Cyclotron, which years later grants him amazing strength. Cyclotron sacrifices his life in a doomed attempt to kill the Ultra-Humanite by exploding his body, but the Ultra-Humanite manages to teleport himself away in time. Infinity Inc. is sent back to the future, and the super-villains from the future are sent back to their prison in Limbo. The Atom (Al Pratt) and Firebrand (Danette Reilly) rescue Terri-Lynn Kurtzberger, Terry Curtis' orphaned infant daughter. [“The Ultra War,” All-Star Squadron Annual #2 (1983)]
February 11-12: The Justice Battalion of America, witnessing the Atom collapse in a hospital from radiation poisoning via the Magic Sphere, leave Washington, D.C., to join him. At the hospital, they use the Magic Sphere to witness how Doctor Fate sought out the Spectre, only to find him under the control of Kulak, high priest of Brztal, who possesses the Ring of Life that the Spectre once used to overcome him. Kulak breaks through into Earth's dimension, appearing simultaneously everywhere on Earth. Sargon the Sorcerer partially restores the hospitalized Atom's strength, then joins the battle against Kulak, preventing Kulak from entering Earth's dimension by placing Sargon's Ruby of Life in contact with the Ring of Life worn by Kulak. The Spectre, under Kulak's control, appears on Earth, and all of humanity comes under Kulak's spell of hatred, turning everyone against everyone else. While the Justice Battalion battles the possessed Spectre, Sargon rescues Doctor Fate, who appears in Kulak's realm. Kulak seizes the Helm of Nabu and dons it, only to send him hurtling powerless through the dimensions (along with the Helm of Nabu), breaking his spell over the world. [“A Spectre is Haunting the Multiverse,” All-Star Squadron #27 (November, 1983); “By Hatred Possessed,” All-Star Squadron #28 (December, 1983)]
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February 16: The Black Dragon Society, a secret organization of Japanese spies in America, strikes across the country, abducting eight inventors to seize their war inventions for Japan. The Justice Battalion of America, now operating out of a new headquarters at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is assigned to recover the inventors and keep their work out of Japanese hands. Hawkman saves New York City from being bombed by the Black Dragons. [“The Justice Society of America Pursues Victory for America and Democracy,” All-Star Comics #12 (August-September, 1942); “Day of the Black Dragon,” All-Star Squadron #30 (February, 1984)]
February 17-18: Several All-Star Squadron members attend a Press Convention, including Liberty Belle, Johnny Quick, Superman, the Ray, and the Sword. A new group of villains appears, calling themselves the Brotherhood of the Electron: Sieur Satan, Lightning Master, Doctor Doog, and Doctor Light. After they attack the convention and kidnap Superman, a group of All-Stars and Lois Lane defeats the Brotherhood and frees Superman. [“
All-Star Squadron: Times Past, 1942: Overlord of the Underworld”]
February 19: Roosevelt signs an executive order calling for the creation of internment camps for Japanese-born and Japanese-descended U.S. citizens.
February 22: On Earth-X, 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, where his sight is restored. Using his powers, he communicates with his aide Zwerg to orchestrate a wave of Nazi sabotage all along the East Coast, keeping the All-Stars distracted while the Japanese prepare to bomb the California coast. Then Blitzkrieg travels to the Pacific, where the Japanese hand over the captured Hourman to him. [All-Star Squadron #32, 35]
February 22-24: Earth-X:
February 22-23: The All-Star Squadron holds its first general meeting. The Seven Soldiers of Victory (minus the Shining Knight) meets the Justice Battalion of America. Phantom Lady shows off her new green goggles that disguise her face more effectively. Liberty Belle shows off her updated costume (a cape and new gloves, boots, and mask). The Whip has abandoned his fake accent. 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. The All-Stars are divided on whether they should journey to that parallel Earth to fight the more powerful Nazi threat there. Midnight shows up with an injured Doll Man. [“Uncle Sam Wants You,” All-Star Squadron #31 (March, 1984)]
February 23: Midnight and Doll Man arrive at All-Star Squadron Headquarters for the same reason as Uncle Sam, to warn of an attack on Santa Barbara, California, an attack that will occur on both Earth-X and Earth-2. The All-Star Squadron splits into two teams, one to fight off the invasion on Earth-2, and the other to fight it on Earth-X. [“Crisis on Earth-X: The Prequel,” All-Star Squadron #32 (April, 1984)]
February 23: Using the power of the Spectre, Uncle Sam leads an All-Star Squadron task force (Doll Man, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, the Human Bomb, the Ray, and the Red Bee) back to Earth-X. Arriving at Goleta, just outside Santa Barbara, California, as the Japanese invasion begins, the team assists in the defense of California. On Earth-2, arriving at Santa Barbara, Johnny Quick and Firebrand meet Neptune Perkins, while Starman and Liberty Belle battle Tsunami (Miya Shimada), who has kidnapped Capt. Rick Cannon. After Tsunami accidentally kills her own father, she flees. Meanwhile, the Spectre, forbidden to enter Earth-X, inadvertently causes the two parallel universes to enter the same vibrational plane and struggles to keep them from destroying each other. On Earth-X, attacking a Japanese Destroyer, the team finds Baron Blitzkrieg, who has Hourman chained to the front of a cannon, having discovered the Japanese had him. [“The Battle of Santa Barbara, Times Two,” All-Star Squadron #33 (May, 1984)]
February 23: Johnny Quick, Firebrand, and Neptune Perkins investigate a Japanese submarine off the California coast, and Johnny and Neptune are captured. On Earth-X, the team there battles Baron Blitzkrieg, who singlehandedly defeats and captures them. Tsunami returns to the Japanese submarine where she had disembarked earlier, and Starman, Liberty Belle, and Firebrand prevent the Japanese from shelling the oil refineries on the coast, then accidentally destroy the Japanese submarine during a rescue attempt. Tsunami attacks the surviving All-Stars. [“The Wrath of Tsunami,” All-Star Squadron #34 (June, 1984)]
February 23-24: The All-Stars and Neptune Perkins battle Tsunami. Meanwhile, the Spectre is struggling to keep Earth-2 and Earth-X from colliding, causing an atmospheric effect like the Aurora Borealis to appear in the sky. On Earth-X, all of the All-Stars there except the Red Bee, thought dead in the battle, awaken in the ruins of a fortress on the Channel Islands off the California coast, where Baron Blitzkrieg has brought them to die while the Japanese shell the coastline. The Red Bee, having survived and swam all the way there, attacks Baron Blitzkrieg, acting as a diversion just long enough for Hourman to regain his powers through Phantom Lady's black-light ray and break loose, but not before Baron Blitzkrieg breaks the Red Bee's back, killing him. Hourman and Uncle Sam battle Baron Blitzkrieg, who manages to create a vortex himself to escape with three Nazi lackeys back to Earth-2. The Spectre, communicating with the team, says that to maintain the cosmic balance three heroes must remain on Earth-X to compensate for the three Earth-X Nazis. Uncle Sam, the Black Condor, and the Ray stay on Earth-X as the Freedom Fighters, while Hourman, Phantom Lady, Doll Man, and the Human Bomb return to Earth-2. There, Tsunami escapes from Neptune Perkins, while Baron Blitzkrieg finds himself blind once more upon his return, but he also escapes from the All-Stars. Liberty Belle chooses Johnny Quick over Rick Cannon. The Spectre returns to Earth-2 and informs the team of the Red Bee's death. [“That Earths May Live,” All-Star Squadron #35 (July, 1984)]
A Nazi scientist named Hans Gootsden, having invented a spatial-displacement ray, trains it on Captain Marvel in the parallel universe of Earth-S (having observed him through a viewer for months). On Earth-S, Captain Marvel is struck by some type of energy that causes him to disappear. The wizard Shazam tells Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel he is on another Earth, and the two make their way to Earth-2, only to discover that Captain Marvel has come under Hitler's power. On Earth-2 in Berlin, Captain Marvel and Billy Batson are split into two separate beings. Keeping Billy tied up and gagged, Hitler uses Captain Marvel as a new weapon against the British. Note: Although it is late February, 1942, on Earth-2, it is early July, 1942, on Earth-S, since time moves differently in some parallel universes. [“Lightning in Berlin,” All-Star Squadron #37 (September, 1984); “Thunder Over London,” All-Star Squadron #36 (August, 1984)]
February 24: The All-Star Squadron discovers that Adolf Hitler has a so-called super-Nazi (Captain Marvel) under his control, who aids the Luftwaffe in a raid on Britain; the Shining Knight is injured in battle with Captain Marvel. Superman realizes that this super-Nazi looks identical to Captain Marvel from the comics. In Nazi Germany, Hitler, using the Spear of Destiny, is keeping Billy Batson (mystically separated from Captain Marvel) a prisoner. Superman travels to Britain to visit the Shining Knight in the hospital, and he ends up battling Captain Marvel in the skies over London, and Captain Marvel knocks out Superman. The All-Star Squadron battles Captain Marvel, who tries to lure the All-Stars into Nazi-conquered territory, thus placing them under the spell of the Spear of Destiny. Freddy Freeman and Mary Bromfield, having followed the All-Stars from Washington, D.C., turn into Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel. [“Thunder Over London,” All-Star Squadron #36 (August, 1984)]
February 24-25: Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel explain the circumstances that led them to Earth-2. A group of non-magical All-Stars (Batman, Hawkman, Plastic Man, and the Flash) travel to Berlin with Freddy Freeman and Mary Bromfield. There, in Hitler's Reichschancellery, they find Billy Batson gagged and locked away, but they are quickly confronted by Captain Marvel and Adolf Hitler himself. Gootsden uses his spatial-displacement ray to split Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel from Freddy Freeman and Mary Bromfield. Hitler uses Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Junior, and Mary Marvel to deliver a huge bomb toward England. The All-Stars battle the Marvel Family and save Parliament from being blown up. Meanwhile, the All-Stars in Germany escape with Billy, Freddy, and Mary and are shot down in the English Channel, then almost captured by the Germans, until the All-Stars in England and the Marvel Family (now freed, once their alter egos are out from under the Spear of Destiny's influence) rescue them. When all six Earth-S natives speak the magic words Shazam and Captain Marvel, they are instantly transported back to Earth-S, where they are rejoined. [“Lightning in Berlin,” All-Star Squadron #37 (September, 1984)]
February 26: Hourman celebrates his “birthday” (actually the date of his debut, more than two years ago) with the Minute-Men of America, now rather than on December 31st, since Hourman had been missing at that time. Hourman outwits Doctor Destiny. Jimmy Martin becomes Hourman's sidekick, dressing up in a smaller Hourman costume, and saves Hourman's life. Note: Rex Tyler's real birthday is on November 5th, according to the 1976 Super DC Calendar, although the Minute-Men would not know this. This story marks the first Hourman story featuring the Miraclo Ray, which is based on black light. [Hourman, Adventure Comics #71 (February, 1942)]
February 27: Commander Steel discovers that Capt. Brad Farley has been captured by the Nazis, and he goes to see his ex-fiancee Gloria Giles Farley, revealing his identity as Hank Heywood to her. She reveals she is pregnant, and Steel vows to go to Germany and rescue Farley. Liberty Belle and Johnny Quick, having dated over the last two and a half months, have become lovers since they fought Tsunami in California. Hourman explains that he was able to keep his old job at Bannerman Chemical by giving his boss a couple of new chemical discoveries he'd earlier created, and that he had just finished setting up his new black-light-based Miraclo Ray to replace the pills. Watching recent newsreels, the All-Star Squadron sees a newsreel of race-riots in Detroit, in which Will Everett (Amazing-Man) is burnt on a cross by the racist organization called the Phantom Empire until he uses his powers to escape. Commander Steel tells the All-Stars of his decision to rescue Farley in Nazi Germany. The All-Star Special, a Curtis XP-55 Ascender modified by the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy that acts as the team's transport ship, is first used. [“Detroit is Dynamite,” All-Star Squadron #38 (October, 1984)]
February 28: The All-Star Squadron arrives in Detroit, where they witness the Phantom Empire and a mystery man called the Real American at a rally. They also meet Will Everett's mother Lula May Everett and his fiancee, Rachel Lindsay. Jake Everett, Will's father, is injured by racist white protesters while heading to move into his house. Amazing-Man and the All-Stars join the fight to separate the two groups. Amazing-Man fights the Real American and is then knocked out and arrested by the police. [“Nobody Gets Out of Paradise Valley Alive,” All-Star Squadron #39 (November, 1984)]
February 28: Green Lantern and Hawkman arrive in Detroit and encounter the Real American, whose voice is very persuasive, then join the other All-Stars. Together, they arrive at the jail, where the Real American is stirring up the white rioters by lying about Amazing-Man having killed a white man. Robotman, the only All-Star not under the sway of the Real American's voice, creates noise that disrupts his control over the All-Stars and the crowd. Amazing-Man defeats the Real American, who explodes and is revealed to be a robot with a sonic mind-influencing device (secretly supplied to the Phantom Empire by the Monitor). The Phantom Empire falls, its leader defeated. Amazing-Man officially joins the All-Star Squadron. [“The Rise and Fall of the Phantom Empire,” All-Star Squadron #40 (December, 1984)]