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- | ====1970==== | ||
- | ===January, 1970=== | ||
- | * District Attorney Larry Jordan is gunned down by Joe Parsons. Helen Jordan dons the Air Wave costume for one case to bring her husband' | ||
- | * Gregori Arcane is blown up by a mine, but is patched together by his necromancer brother Anton Arcane to become the Frankenstein-like creature called the Patchwork Man, and is kept imprisoned for ten years. [Swamp Thing #3] | ||
- | * After his last recorded case at this time, Johnny Peril spends the next decade searching out dark secrets forbidden to most men, possibly while working at the Grimoire Academy of Applied Learning. [Unexpected #117] | ||
- | ===March, 1970=== | ||
- | * During Spring Break, Clark Kent and his friend Ted O'Hara travel by Jeep through the Southwest. Donning a buffalo skin and headdress, Ted is possessed by the spirit of an American Indian medicine man with magical powers and helps Dr. John Navarro (the great-great grandson of the medicine man) in Cedarville to complete an operation. //Note: Ted O'Hara is originally from Smallville and was a friend of Clark' | ||
- | ===May, 1970=== | ||
- | * Lorna Martin learns that Clark Kent is Superboy using her ESP powers, but keeps the secret to herself. Returning to Dimension 7 at the end of the semester, she asks the Council of Mentors to allow her to bring Superboy back with her, but her request is denied, and she remains there for years. ["The Girl Who Worshipped Clark Kent," Action Comics #411] | ||
- | * May 1: U.S. troops invade Cambodia. | ||
- | * May 4: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmen at a protest against U.S. incursion into Cambodia. | ||
- | * May 6: Cliff Baker is born to Buddy Baker (Animal Man) and his wife Ellen Baker. | ||
- | * May 14: Prof. Thaddeus V. Maxwell tries to prove that his student Clark Kent is Superboy, but Clark outwits him by inwardly renaming himself Superman in order to thwart a lie-detector test. On that same day, the school for underprivileged youth begun by Marla Harvey is completed, and Superman dedicates it to the same young woman who, one year earlier, had challenged Superboy to become a Superman. //Note: The world would not officially acknowledge Superboy as Superman until the next year.// [" | ||
- | ===June, 1970=== | ||
- | * June 3: 15-year-old Jimmy Olsen leaves his home in Mapleton to live in nearby Metropolis for the summer, travels back in time 20 years to Krypton and becomes Kal-El' | ||
- | * June 24: The Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. | ||
- | ===July, 1970=== | ||
- | * Selina Kyle, a young flight attendant for Speed Airlines, sustains a head injury that causes her to have amnesia. She soon turns to crime, eventually establishing a reputation for herself as a master thief called the Cat, later known as the Catwoman. ["The Secret Life of the Catwoman," | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * Jim Rook finally gets a record deal. [Whatever Happened to Nightmaster? | ||
- | * Lex Luthor escapes from reform school, and Superman tries to track him down. Clark Kent meets Billy Cramer, a younger shy boy from Smallville. Superman catches Lex Luthor and takes him to prison, since he turns 21 later this month. Ducky Ginsberg is crippled in a drunk driving accident he caused. //Note: This story reveals that Lana Lang has already transferred from Metropolis University to Hudson University.// | ||
- | * Billy Cramer moves into Clark' | ||
- | * September 15 | ||
- | * Bruce Wayne, musing on how to inspire fear in criminals, witnesses a bat flying through his open window. This seminal event inspires him to become the Batman. //Note: The date is derived by the full moon, which must be the last full moon before the Batman' | ||
- | * September 20: Clark Kent meets the beautiful Lori Lemaris, who is secretly a mermaid and who ignores Billy Cramer' | ||
- | * Clark Kent begins dating Lori Lemaris. Meanwhile, Superman tries to crack the Bermuda Triangle mystery and discovers a thriving community of people who fell through a rip in space in the Bermuda Triangle into another dimension. Since they are happy there, he vows at their request not to let anyone know what happened to them. Clark reveals his secret identity of Billy Cramer, since he is his new best friend. ["The Girl in Superman' | ||
- | * Superman gives Billy Cramer a special ultrasonic whistle to summon his help whenever he needs it. Over the next few months, Superman and Billy make a great team. [" | ||
- | ===October, 1970=== | ||
- | * October 14: The Batman, wearing a crude-looking original costume with longer ears and a bigger utility belt, makes his first public appearance. In his very first case, the Batman is tricked by a thief named " | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * November 3: Harvey Dent is elected as Gotham City's youngest district attorney. | ||
- | * The Batman, wearing a new, permanent costume, visits the offices of Police Commissioner James W. Gordon and offers his services to the police, but Gordon rebuffs him, telling him that police work isn't for amateurs. The Batman then visits Harvey Dent, the newly elected district attorney on the eve of his election, and makes the same offer, which Dent accepts. The Batman and Harvey Dent begin a friendship and secret working relationship that lasts for the next six months. //Note: The Batman' | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * Pete Ross, visiting from Raleigh University, is reunited with Clark Kent and meets Billy Cramer. Later, Clark visits Billy' | ||
- | * December 4: In the Batman' | ||
- | * The Batman' | ||
- | * December 4-6: The Batman encounters an extortionist called Doctor Death, who uses a death pollen to extract a tribute from wealthy people. After the Batman pursues the villain to his house, Doctor Death dies in a fiery inferno that consumes his entire laboratory and home, but Doctor Death escapes via a secret passage after sustaining first-degree burns. Unknown to the Batman, Doctor Death is really an agent of the true mastermind, Dr. Karl Hellfern, who averts all suspicions by working through proxies. Around this time, the Batman is considered an outlaw by the police. //Note: There is a reference to the Batman battling a Doctor Death in his first year in Untold Legend of the Batman #3, but since the Earth-1 Doctor Death is actually introduced for the first time later on in a present-day story, the original Doctor Death is likely a different man acting as an agent for Dr. Karl Hellfern, whose reputation remains intact.// ["The Batman Meets Doctor Death," | ||
- | * December 12: The Batman, discovering that Doctor Death is still alive, encounters him again and recovers stolen diamonds from the widow of the man he killed (secretly at the behest of Dr. Karl Hellfern), before capturing him for the police. //Note: After this story, Dr. Karl Hellfern decides to forgo his risky extortion schemes for over a decade, concentrating instead on building a legitimate front business while secretly selling his formulas to the underworld.// | ||
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- | ====1971==== | ||
- | ===January, 1971=== | ||
- | * At Raleigh College, Lois Lane is a new reporter at the Raleigh Review, where she is assigned three stories as part of a hazing process. The first is a story on how she joins the men's fencing team. Coincidentally, | ||
- | * January 26: The Batman battles his first costumed foe, the Monarch of Menace, who manages to outwit both the police and the Batman during his crime-spree before vanishing without a trace. Dana Drye, the greatest living detective, deduces that the Batman is Bruce Wayne, but he keeps it to himself rather than tell the police. ["The Monarch of Menace," | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | * February 1-7: The Batman encounters Prof. Hugo Strange for the first time, foiling a crime wave enabled by a thick, heavy artificial fog created by Strange' | ||
- | * Clark Kent and Lois Lane, leading student reporters at their respective colleges, are invited to meet Daily Planet reporter/ | ||
- | ===March, 1971=== | ||
- | * The Batman completes the construction of the original Batmobile, a powerful black convertible sedan with no special features. ["The Origin of Robin," | ||
- | * March 12-13: While testing out the Batmobile, the Batman saves the lives of the Jones family, who decide to name their newborn baby after him, calling him Batman Jones. On the way back to Gotham City, the Batman stumbles upon a spy plot to begin an international crisis by blowing up a foreign ship, the //Ronij//, and prevents that from happening. Discovering that the head of the foreign spies is Count Grutt, the Batman confronts Grutt, only for the count to accidentally impale himself upon his own sword. ["The Career of Batman Jones," | ||
- | * The Batman takes in a teenage boy named John Vance after he becomes a witness to a bank robbery. After Batman disguises him in a smaller Batman costume, Vance calls himself Batman, Junior and helps Batman take down Birrel Binter, the head of the bank robbers, but Vance also lets slip an important clue to his identity by revealing he is a school athlete, which would cause him trouble years later. [" | ||
- | ===April, 1971=== | ||
- | * The Batman completes construction of the first Batplane, then uses it to save a biplane from crashing into the streets of Gotham City during an exhibition flight. [" | ||
- | * Prof. Hugo Strange breaks out of prison, then kidnaps five insane inmates from Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. [The Giants of Hugo Strange, Batman #1 (Spring, 1940)] | ||
- | ===May, 1971=== | ||
- | * The Batman meets Lee Collins, an Australian boomerang expert who teaches the Batman how to expertly use a boomerang over several weeks of training. ["The 100 Batarangs of Batman," | ||
- | * A genius laboratory worker, deciding to steal $1,000,000 and then retire, dons an ingeniously built red helmet with one-way see-through red glass and an oxygen system allowing him to breathe while underwater. Calling himself the Red Hood, he begins a crime spree, and the Batman originally doubts the Red Hood's description from the eyewitness reports. ["The Man Behind the Red Hood," Detective Comics #168 (February, 1951)] | ||
- | * May 3: Anti-war militants disrupt government business in Washington, D.C., during the 1971 May Day Protests. | ||
- | * May 8-10: After transforming five men into 15-foot-tall giant monster-men, | ||
- | * May 11: During the trial of Sal " | ||
- | * May 26: After Clark Kent and Lori Lemaris have been dating for several months, Lori tells him she must return home to her parents tomorrow night. Clark determines to propose to her and tell her his secret identity, but he is restricted to his dormitory as part of a fraternity initiation. He creates a diversion allowing him to leave, and after bringing Lori to a romantic spot by the seaside, Clark proposes. Lori reveals she knows he is Superman but says they cannot marry. Feeling jealous, Superman follows her to her trailer house and hears her sending messages, concluding that she may be a spy. Searching her trailer after she leaves, Superman finds a large water tank and, realizing she is a mermaid, determines to confront her. ["The Girl in Superman' | ||
- | * May 27: Billy Cramer tries to cheer up the heartbroken Clark Kent and uses his ultrasonic whistle to summon Superman, but Superman angrily tells Billy not to use it except in emergencies. [" | ||
- | * Superman confronts Lori Lemaris, but the state dam bursts at that moment, and he brings Lori with him to help with rescue operations. After he restores the dam, Superman returns to Lori's trailer, where she explains that as a mermaid from Atlantis she possesses telepathy. Every 100 years someone is chosen to go to the surface world to report on its progress. Superman and Lori Lemaris share one last kiss underwater, and she returns to her people. ["The Girl in Superman' | ||
- | * While moping over the loss of Lori Lemaris, Superman learns of a tsunami in in the South Pacific and is about to save everyone on the resort island of Pandango when he hears Billy Cramer' | ||
- | ===June, 1971=== | ||
- | * June 3: The Batman encounters the Red Hood for the first time, but the slippery criminal makes his escape. ["The Man Behind the Red Hood," Detective Comics #168 (February, 1951)] | ||
- | * Lee Collins presents the Batman with his first batarang upon the completion of his boomerang training. ["The 100 Batarangs of Batman," | ||
- | * June 7-11: The Batman battles a vampire known only as the Master Monk after he kidnaps Bruce Wayne' | ||
- | * June 12: Harvey Dent's bandages come off, and he learns that his surgery has failed to save his face. The trauma leads him to become a criminal called Two-Face, using Boss Maroni' | ||
- | ===July, 1971=== | ||
- | * July 5: The voting age in the United States is lowered from age 21 to age 18. | ||
- | * July 11: One month after their last encounter, Batman and three security guards corner the Red Hood at the Ace Chemical Processing Plant next to the Monarch Playing Card Company, which the Red Hood has just robbed, completing his goal of stealing $1,000,000. Escaping by jumping into a catch basin full of chemical wastes, the Red Hood swims out to the river, then returns home to discover that the chemicals have caused his hair to become green, his skin chalk-white, | ||
- | * July 12: Two-Face and his gang begin a crime wave that confuses the public, as he is a thief and killer when the coin lands scarred side up, and a philanthropist when it lands unscarred side up. ["The Crimes of Two-Face," | ||
- | * July 15-16: While the Haly Circus is in Newtown, John and Mary Grayson fall to their deaths during a trapeze act before 10-year-old Dick Grayson' | ||
- | * July 16-17: The Batman confronts Two-Face, still believing that his friend Harvey Dent can be redeemed, but Two-Face tries to kill him twice. Finally, when Two-Face flips his coin to determine whether he should continue as a criminal or give himself up to the law, the coin lands on its side, leaving the decision to fate instead of chance. //Note: Although Robin the Boy Wonder appears in the original version of this story, on Earth-1 Dick Grayson has not yet become Robin at this time and plays no role in this case.// ["The Crimes of Two-Face," | ||
- | * July 28: The Batman first meets the Catwoman, originally known as the Cat, when she steals a valuable emerald necklace on a yacht. //Note: This is Dick Grayson' | ||
- | ===August, 1971=== | ||
- | * August 12: Missing for 11 weeks, Superman stews in regret and spends some time in the other-dimensional world beyond the Bermuda Triangle while Perry White tries to track down the reason for Superman' | ||
- | * August 3-14: Batman solves the Case of the Prophetic Pictures with the secret help of a disguised Dick Grayson, still in training. ["The Case of the Prophetic Pictures," | ||
- | * August 18: A week after sending up his satellites, Luthor publicly challenges Superman to a one-on-one duel with him, or he will destroy the world with his satellites. Perry and Henderson summon Superman from the Bermuda Triangle dimension using the whistle. Superman battles Luthor, who has given himself powers equal to a Kryptonian' | ||
- | * Superman dismantles all of his Superboy robots except his greatest creation, a Superboy robot that can think independently, | ||
- | * Superman creates his first four atomic-powered Superman robots, including Robot X-3, and trains them. //Note: This marks the last time the aging Krypto appears on Earth before his return in 1974.// [Superman' | ||
- | * The Anti-Superboy Gang, an informal alliance of gangsters formed when Superman was Superboy, changes its name to the Anti-Superman Gang after Superboy is acknowledged as Superman. | ||
- | * During the time Clark Kent finishes his final year at Metropolis University, Superman establishes a worldwide patrol and begins to focus less specifically on Metropolis, so that by mid-1972 Metropolis is not known as Superman' | ||
- | * August 25: Dick Grayson becomes Robin the Boy Wonder, crime-fighting partner of the Batman, donning a costume once used by Bruce Wayne as a boy while training under private detective Harvey Harris. ["The Origin of Robin," | ||
- | * August 28-29: While Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are visiting Bruce' | ||
- | * August 30-31: Shunned by the other professors for his old clothing and strange methods, such as firing off a gun in class, psychology Professor Jonathan Crane of Gotham City University decides to become a criminal called the Scarecrow in order to have more money to spend on books. ["The Scarecrow," | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * Back at school for his final term, Clark Kent is reunited with Ducky Ginsberg, who has given up drinking after being put in a wheelchair. [" | ||
- | * Tony Gordon, son of James and Thelma Gordon, begins attending college. | ||
- | * September 2-4: Batman and Robin confront Prof. Hugo Strange when the villain uses fear dust in his crimes. Strange is thought to be dead after he falls over a cliff. [" | ||
- | * September 3-5: Batman and Robin battle the Scarecrow for the first time, who murders a man in cold blood. As Prof. Jonathan Crane, he is fired from Gotham City University for his outrageous teaching methods. ["The Scarecrow," | ||
- | * September 5-6: Another murder at the movie studio occurs before Batman saves Julie Madison from Clayface, who is revealed to be former top actor Basil Karlo, the bitter star of the original //Dread Castle// film who hated the director for casting another actor in one of his greatest roles. ["The Murders of Clayface," | ||
- | * September 8-9: Batman discovers that the Scarecrow is Prof. Jonathan Crane, and he and Robin manage to track him down and arrest him. ["The Scarecrow," | ||
- | * September 3-14: Batman and Robin meet renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Albert Ekhart during the case of the Ugly Man. ["The Ugliest Man in the World," | ||
- | ===October, 1971=== | ||
- | * Robotman goes into semi-retirement after his last case. [Detective Comics #202] | ||
- | * October 3: The Catwoman appears for the first time in her original costume, a black dress with a cat' | ||
- | * October 1-5: Batman and Robin return to Newtown, where they wreak havoc on " | ||
- | * October 11-15: The Joker begins a series of murders by announcing them on the radio beforehand, then managing to kill each victim despite police protection with his Joker venom, which causes its victims to die with a grisly smile on their lips. The Joker' | ||
- | * October 22: Bruce Wayne and Julie Madison call off their engagement after Julie dons her stage name of Portia Storme to become a star actress. [" | ||
- | * October 25: The United Nations admits the People' | ||
- | * October 29-30: Bruce Wayne is reunited with an old friend, Linda Page, who is now a nurse. They begin dating. [" | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * November 2-3: After a year of pursuing Batman as a wanted vigilante, Commissioner James W. Gordon comes face to face with Batman when he saves him from being stabbed by a criminal, so he lets him go free. Later that evening when Batman visits Gordon in his office, Gordon attempts to arrest him. But Batman manages to convince him that they' | ||
- | * November 7: Commissioner James W. Gordon makes Batman an honorary member of the Gotham City Police Department, officially ending his status as an outlaw vigilante. ["The People Versus the Batman," | ||
- | * November 8-17: Batman and Robin encounter the Penguin, who is using the alias of a collector named Mr. Boniface, and who briefly frames Batman for his crimes. ["The Penguin," | ||
- | * November 18: With the death of Dana Drye, Batman becomes known as the greatest living detective. ["The Case Batman Failed to Solve," | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * December 10: Robin has his first solo case when he brings in Champ Trask and his gang. [" | ||
- | * December 13 | ||
- | * Batman and Robin battle the Scarecrow a second time. Bruce Wayne and Linda Page decide to break up after this case, though they remain friends. ["The Scarecrow Returns," | ||
- | * Lois Lane graduates from Raleigh College one semester early and immediately moves to Metropolis, obtaining a job as a waitress at Harry' | ||
- | * December 14: Alfred Pennyworth becomes the butler for Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson, not knowing they are Batman and Robin. ["The Secret of Batman' | ||
- | * December 14-20: Batman and Robin have their final encounter with Two-Face, alias Harvey Dent, who decides to reform and seek help after his fiancee Gilda Gold is accidentally shot. Dent's sentence is considerably reduced, thanks to Batman. ["The End of Two-Face," | ||
- | * December 20-23: Batman and Robin fight Joe Coyne and his penny plunderers, taking a large model penny in the crime for the Batcave' | ||
- | * December 30: While visiting London, Batman and Robin assist Inspector Smythe of Scotland Yard against international spy Count Florian, nicknamed the Man Without a Country and the Man with a Thousand Eyes. ["The Man with a Thousand Eyes," World' | ||
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- | ====1972==== | ||
- | ===January, 1972=== | ||
- | * January 1: Commissioner James W. Gordon begins using the Bat-Signal, a modified searchlight used to summon Batman and Robin. ["Case of the Costume-Clad Killers," | ||
- | * January 1: Superman encounters the adult Mr. Mxyzptlk, who takes office as mayor of Metropolis after a successful election in November, 1971. ["Mr. Mxyztplk, Mayor of Metropolis," | ||
- | * January 7-10: Batman and Robin battle remotely controlled robot dinosaurs on Dinosaur Island and receive a robotic tyrannosaurus rex for their trophy room in the Batcave. [" | ||
- | * January 12-13: Batman and Robin battle Tweedledum and Tweedledee. [" | ||
- | * January 15: Lois Lane meets Superman while working as a waitress at Harry' | ||
- | * January 16-18: Daily Planet editor Perry White promises to hire Lois Lane if she can get three scoops in three days. Lois exposes Henry Blaine at the Metropolis Safe Company as the man behind the safe crackers known collectively as the Ghost; at the same time, Superman restores power at the Metropolis Hospital and inadvertently assists Lois in her scoop. The next day, Lois takes the first ever picture of the Rajah of Sari, exposing his true identity as a notorious jewel thief; at the same time, Superman uses his super-breath to help a grounded plane' | ||
- | * January 19-20: Alfred Pennyworth discovers that Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are Batman and Robin after Batman is brought home injured, and Robin gets Alfred to see to his wounds. Bruce then shows Alfred the Batcave and assigns him to keep it tidy. ["The Secret of Batman' | ||
- | * January 23-24: Batman and Robin battle the Cavalier. ["The Cavalier of Crime," | ||
- | * January 29: Bruce Wayne is awarded full custody of Dick Grayson after a brief legal battle with Dick's Uncle George and Aunt Clara. [" | ||
- | * January 30-31: Batman and Robin battle the Robber Baron. ["The Voyage of the S.S. Batman," | ||
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- | ===February, | ||
- | * While working at Bannerman Pharmaceuticals, | ||
- | * Lois Lane begins dating Ted " | ||
- | * February 3-10: After the Joker makes an attempt to assassinate elderly J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, he becomes the most wanted man in America. Batman and Robin pursue the Joker across the country until they capture him. //Note: J. Edgar Hoover is called G. Henry Mover in this story. Hoover dies of natural causes later this year on May 2, 1972.// ["The Cross Country Crimes," | ||
- | * February 21: Batman and Robin travel through time for the first time through hypnosis performed by Prof. Carter Nichols, visiting ancient Rome. ["It Happened in Rome," Batman #24 (August-September, | ||
- | * February 21-27: President Nixon makes an unprecedented visit to the People' | ||
- | * February 29: Dr. Albert Ekhart successfully restores Harvey Dent's face with plastic surgery, and Dent serves out the rest of his reduced sentence. ["The End of Two-Face," | ||
- | ===March, 1972=== | ||
- | * March 2-5: The Joker and the Penguin team up against Batman and Robin. [" | ||
- | * March 12: Batman delivers a bat-themed crib to the Jones family for one-year-old Batman Jones, who grows up idolizing Batman and dressing like him. ["The Career of Batman Jones," | ||
- | * March 25-26: Private detectives Hawke and Wrenn impersonate Batman and Robin in a scheme to get more business for their failing detective agency, and end up needing to be saved by the real Batman and Robin. [" | ||
- | ===April, 1972=== | ||
- | * Alec Holland marries Linda Asherman. | ||
- | * April 26-28: Batman and Robin battle the Riddler. ["The Riddler," | ||
- | * April 29-30: Batman discovers the name of his parents' | ||
- | ===May, 1972=== | ||
- | * Green Arrow makes his debut. [Adventure Comics #218] | ||
- | * May 1-4: The Joker begins driving a Jokermobile, | ||
- | * May 4-5: Catwoman begins driving a Kitty Car, patterned after Batman' | ||
- | * May 9-11: Bruce Wayne begins dating Vicki Vale, photojournalist for Picture Magazine who begins to suspect he is really Batman. Batman and Robin battle the Mad Hatter. ["The Scoop of the Century," | ||
- | * May 12-14: Batman and Robin fight the Riddler a second time, after which he spends a few years locked up in jail. [" | ||
- | * May 15: Governor George Wallace of Alabama is shot at a rally in Maryland. | ||
- | * May 21-28: While on the trail of a crook named Mr. Phaeton, Batman discovers a settlement of mermen and mermaids and is briefly transformed into a Bat-Merman. [" | ||
- | * May 25: Unable to prove his guilt, Batman forces a confrontation with Joe Chill and reveals that he is Bruce Wayne, whose parents Chill murdered nearly 14 years ago. Terrified, Chill runs off to tell his men that he caused Batman to be born, and the men angrily shoot him down before he can tell them his real name. ["The Origin of the Batman," | ||
- | * May 31: Clark Kent graduates from Metropolis University. He and his friends Tommy Lee and Ducky Ginsberg celebrate with their graduating class, which numbers 1355. As Superman he spends the next two weeks equipping his secret laboratory in a cave on Mount Kadens, his Mountain of Solitude, before briefly returning to Smallville to gather his belongings. //Note: The date of commencement, | ||
- | ===June, 1972=== | ||
- | * Lois Lane breaks it off with Ted " | ||
- | * At age 17, Jimmy Olsen graduates from Mapleton High School, where he is popular and a hero of the football team. Having completed high school, Jimmy is able to move to Metropolis permanently and work full-time at the Daily Planet in his copy boy job. ["The Dragon Delinquent," | ||
- | * June 6: The first international editions of the Daily Planet in France, Greece, Holland, Italy, and Japan are published. [Action Comics #211] | ||
- | * June 5-8: Batman and Robin battle international spy Count Florian once more, this time bringing him to justice. ["The Man with a Thousand Eyes," World' | ||
- | * June 9-10: While chasing crooks, Batman crashes the Batmobile, destroying it and injuring his leg, incapacitating him for a few weeks. During that time, Batman designs a new stylized Batmobile, which Robin builds under his direction. ["The Batmobile of 1950," Detective Comics #156 (February, 1950)] | ||
- | * June 13: Clark Kent travels to Metropolis from Smallville via train, secretly clearing a cave-in in a train tunnel during the short journey. Upon reaching Metropolis, he immediately heads for the Daily Planet to ask for a job from Perry White, whom he met years earlier when Perry spoke at Smallville High, but Clark is rebuffed and told to come back the next day. Clark then goes apartment-hunting and obtains apartment 3D at 344 Clinton St. Later that day, Superman catches a gang of warehouse robbers, then prevents a disaster at a steel mill. Finally, Superman also announces that Metropolis is officially his chosen home, and the //Daily Planet// publishes this story under the headline: //' | ||
- | * June 14: Clark Kent returns to the Daily Planet to ask Perry White for a job, but he is rebuffed again. Deciding to live on his savings for a while, he concentrates on fighting crime as Superman over the next few weeks before again seeking employment as Clark. Superman' | ||
- | * June 17: Five men are arrested while trying to bug Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C.'s Watergate complex, beginning the Watergate Scandal. | ||
- | * June 14-19: Robin battles Crazy-Quilt, | ||
- | * June 15-21: Superman battles Lex Luthor, who has somehow prematurely aged by about thirty years, now appearing as an overweight man in his fifties. [" | ||
- | * June 21: The new Batmobile is completed, and Batman reveals to Robin that he has healed from his leg injury. ["The Batmobile of 1950," Detective Comics #156 (February, 1950)] | ||
- | * June 22-23: Superman battles the Toyman, the Prankster, and the Puzzler after those three villains escape from prison, but they each prove to be no match for the grown-up Superman. ["The Million Dollar Question," | ||
- | * June 23: Superman rescues a disabled ship from sinking. Later, after Clark Kent's landlady Mrs. Smith wonders where he gets his rent money, he decides to get a job immediately to avert any suspicion. ["How Perry White Hired Clark Kent," Superman #133 (November, 1959)] | ||
- | * June 26: Millionaire Floyd Lawton becomes Deadshot, a tuxedo-wearing vigilante who is secretly building a criminal empire. He quickly gains fame and recognition while Batman and Robin are taking a short vacation. ["The Man who Replaced Batman," | ||
- | * June 24-28: Since he's thus far been unable to get a job as a reporter, Clark takes a job as a taxi driver. On his first day, Clark' | ||
- | * June 29: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional. | ||
- | * June 29-30: Perry White interviews Clark Kent and introduces him to staff reporter Lois Lane. After Clark claims to know every major Daily Planet headline for the past 30 years, Perry has him prove it, and Clark recites 500 headlines. After Lois asks Perry to give Clark a chance, Perry has Clark do a story about an old gorilla at the zoo in order to get rid of him. Clark uses a gorilla outfit to stage a mock battle between a younger gorilla with the old one in order to get a rousing story. But Perry still refuses to hire Clark and has him cover a carnival opening that night. When two kids are stranded at the top of a Ferris wheel, Superman secretly fixes it and then sits on another gondola behind the kids as Clark in order to write a first-hand account. Perry still won't hire him, thinking he was goofing off on a Ferris wheel, but Lois persuades him again to give Clark one last chance. So Perry asks Clark to get a picture of Superman with a piece of kryptonite captured from the Anti-Superman Gang to find out if it really affects him, but when he opens the lead-lined box, Clark faints from the radiation. He manages to cause his stomach to rumble so that Perry and Lois think he's starving for lack of money, and they take him to a restaurant, where Perry promises him a job if he can get the picture. Getting rid of the kryptonite and replacing it with a fake lookalike, Superman takes a picture of himself at super-speed being unaffected by it, causing Perry and Lois to think the kryptonite is fake. Perry tells Clark to visit him the next day. //Note: Clark Kent has met Lois Lane at least three times earlier, twice when they were teenagers, and once a few months earlier, just before Lois began working for the Daily Planet.// ["How Perry White Hired Clark Kent," Superman #133 (November, 1959)] | ||
- | ===July, 1972=== | ||
- | * July 1: Perry White, having finally looked at Clark Kent's resume, decides to officially hire him as the Daily Planet' | ||
- | * June 29-July 2: Batman and Robin return to Gotham City from their vacation, only to learn that Deadshot has effectively replaced them as Gotham' | ||
- | * July 2: Finding rookie reporter Clark Kent shy but attractive, Lois Lane begins casually dating him. ["How Lois Lane Fell in Love With Superman," | ||
- | * July 4-5: Robin is recruited by Brane Taylor, the Batman of the year 3051, after Brane' | ||
- | * July 18-19: After Superman temporarily loses his powers from red kryptonite exposure while on the deserted Bamboo Island with Lois Lane, he learns how much she dislikes him and prefers Clark Kent. He soon wins her heart with his self-sacrifice, | ||
- | * July 21: Batman finally confronts Deadshot on Gotham Bridge and, after Deadshot fails to kill Batman, forces Floyd Lawton to confess to secretly being a criminal posing as a hero. ["The Man who Replaced Batman," | ||
- | * July 22: Lois Lane first suspects Clark Kent of being Superman. ["When Lois First Suspected Clark Was Superman," | ||
- | * July 22-23: Batman and Robin lose the original Batplane during a test for the United States Air Force, prompting them to begin designing and building a sleek new Batplane. ["The Birth of Batplane II," Batman #61 (October-November, | ||
- | * July 23-26: After Catwoman sustains a head injury while saving Batman' | ||
- | * July 25-26: It -- a strange being looking like a rainbow-colored spinning top -- menaces Metropolis after being brought here from another dimension during an electrical storm. After evacuating the city, Superman sends it home with a bolt of lightning. //Note: This is the only Superman adventure known to occur in exactly the same way on both Earth-1 and Earth-2. A few years later, Superman encounters a similar creature also referred to as It, which is from a different other-dimensional species.// [" | ||
- | * July 27-28: Batman and Robin first battle Killer Moth, alias millionaire Cameron Van Cleer, who patterns himself after Batman by building a Mothcave and driving a Mothmobile. //Note: Killer Moth's true name is never revealed, as Cameron Van Cleer is an alias.// ["The Origin of Killer Moth," Batman #63 (February-March, | ||
- | * July 28-31: Clark Kent takes a few days before and after the weekend to visit Smallville before his assignment to cover Superman' | ||
- | ===August, 1972=== | ||
- | * August 1-2: Batman and Robin complete the new Batplane. ["The Birth of Batplane II," Batman #61 (October-November, | ||
- | * August 3: Superman is given honorary citizenship in all United Nations member nations for saving the world from destruction. ["The Story of Superman' | ||
- | * August 5: Jimmy Olsen (now 17 years old) gets his first scoop -- a story on mobsters Turk Moraine and Big Mike Arnstein -- and is promoted from copy boy to cub reporter at the Daily Planet after Superman saves his life. Superman then gives his young pal a signal watch. //Note: This story is a correction of an earlier Jimmy Olsen story from Superman' | ||
- | * August 6: Superman battles Vance Corlin, a man with temporary Kryptonian-like super-powers. His father, a disgraced Metropolis University professor named Dr. Charles Corlin, raised Vance on an island that duplicates the conditions of Krypton in order to make him a tool of revenge. After Superman shows Vance that Dr. Corlin was in the wrong, Vance tries to undo the damage he caused even as his temporary powers disappear, and he even destroys the equipment on the island that recreates Krypton' | ||
- | * August 7: Superman builds a fortress in space disguised as a spherical meteor to use as his headquarters, | ||
- | * August 8-9: Superman, Batman and Robin team up for the first time against a smuggling ring using liquid kryptonite against Superman. Batman impersonates Superman for the first time. ["The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team," World' | ||
- | * August 13: Steve Trevor' | ||
- | * August 14-15: Selina Kyle, furious over a newspaper story about how Batman triumphed over Catwoman, returns to crime as Catwoman. At the conclusion of this case, Catwoman goes missing for five years, and her absence has never been explained. ["The Crimes of the Catwoman," | ||
- | * August 27-31: When Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne each go on vacations on the cruise-ship Varania, they accidentally learn each other' | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * Animal Man has an adventure. [When Trouble Comes A Calling] | ||
- | * Lana Lang comes to Metropolis to find work at the Daily Planet and is hired by Perry White. She soon gets another job with the Federal Syndicate news service. [Superman #78] | ||
- | * Garfield Logan contracts a rare disease in Africa. His father cures him but alters the boy's genetic structure, turning him green and giving him powers. | ||
- | * Superman becomes Jimmy Olsen' | ||
- | * Lois Lane wins the Metropolis Journalism Award for her outstanding news stories over the past year. ["The Confessions of Superman," | ||
- | * Superman battles a telepathic shapeshifter sent to this time from the far future that is able to take on the properties of anything it resembles. When it takes on Superman' | ||
- | * September 4: Wonder Woman (Princess Diana) comes to " | ||
- | * September 5: 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, are killed by eight members of an Arab terrorist group; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed. | ||
- | * September 8: Jefferson Pierce (the future Black Lightning) wins his first gold medal for the Decathlon race at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany. Around this time, Jefferson Pierce marries Lynn Stewart; their marriage is a rocky one and doesn' | ||
- | * September 15-16: Batman and Robin battle the Human Firefly, alias lighting-effects genius Garfield Lynns. ["The Human Firefly," | ||
- | * September 4-19: Batman and Robin battle the Joker, who embarks on a series of crimes after a four-month-long absence. ["The Crimes of Batman," | ||
- | * Wonder Woman meets the criminal called the Angle Man. [Wonder Woman #164] | ||
- | ===October, 1972=== | ||
- | * October 2-6: Batman and Robin battle the Red Hood and manage to solve the mystery of his secret identity with the help of a State University criminology class. The Red Hood is revealed as the Joker, whose secret origin is finally told. ["The Man Behind the Red Hood," Detective Comics #168 (February, 1951)] | ||
- | * Priscilla Rich becomes the Cheetah and battles Wonder Woman. [Wonder Woman #160] | ||
- | * Wonder Woman meets the evil Dr. Psycho. [Wonder Woman #160] | ||
- | * Superman and Batman and Robin are reunited for the first time since August; they begin teaming up regularly from this point on. [" | ||
- | * Superman meets Dan Delta, the toughest private detective in Metropolis, who also bears a striking resemblance to Superman. //Note: Dan Delta is actually Slam Bradley using a pseudonym for an unknown reason. At some point after this story, Slam Bradley resumes his private investigation practice in Gotham City under his original name, as seen in Detective Comics #500.// [" | ||
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- | ===November, | ||
- | * Giganta, a female gorilla evolved into a huge, powerful blonde woman, battles Wonder Woman. [Wonder Woman #163] | ||
- | * Wonder Woman meets Paula von Gunta, a female criminal. [Wonder Woman #163] | ||
- | * November 28-30: Lex Luthor creates the Phantom Superman, an artificial gray-colored duplicate of Superman with all his abilities that needs to be recharged with atomic energy from time to time. Superman defeats and destroys the duplicate. ["The Phantom Superman," | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * Eel O' | ||
- | * December 7-9: Four super-powered survivors from the peaceful planet Blanth arrive on Earth, but after Superman discovers the men are a danger to the world, he finds another planet for them to live on. ["The Men Without a World," | ||
- | * December 23-24: Batman uses the Super-Signal (based on the Bat-Signal but with a Superman insignia) for the first time to summon Superman to Gotham City. Superman and Batman battle a space-creature with various powers, including the ability to change its shape, that proves to be a child. ["The Contest of Heroes," | ||
- | * December 25: The Christmas bombing of North Vietnam causes widespread criticism of the U.S. and President Nixon. | ||
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- | ====1973==== | ||
- | ===January, 1973=== | ||
- | * January 1: Superman becomes a medical doctor (Dr. Superman) in order to operate on a blind girl named Alice Norton. ["The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman," | ||
- | * January 27: The Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts. | ||
- | * January 24-31: To launch three new international editions of the Daily Planet, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen are temporarily assigned as the managing editors of the Bombay, Paris, and London editions of the Daily Planet for one week. //Note: The Paris Daily Planet was already launched on June 6, 1972, but this may be part of a relaunching.// | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | * Arthur Curry has his first public case as Aquaman. [Adventure Comics #215] | ||
- | * February 26-27: Batman gains Kryptonian-like super-powers for 24 hours, while Superman is weakened by kryptonite and drives the Supermobile, | ||
- | ===March, 1973=== | ||
- | * An accident leads George Szerro to only be able to handle cold temperatures. He becomes Mr. Zero. | ||
- | ===April, 1973=== | ||
- | * The mysterious Black Orchid makes her public debut. [Adventure Comics #428] | ||
- | * April 7-10: Superman battles the Mighty K, a human crook claiming to be from Krypton who was really given temporary Kryptonian-type super-powers (along with a kryptonite immunity) for three days by a scientist named Doc Winters. ["The Man Who Was Mightier than Superman," | ||
- | * April 30: President Nixon accepts responsibility but not blame for the Watergate Scandal, accepting the resignations of H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman as well as firing John W. Dean III as counsel. | ||
- | ===May, 1973=== | ||
- | * The team of Green Arrow and Speedy have their first public case together. [Adventure Comics #218 -- takes place exactly one year before Adventure Comics #251.] | ||
- | * Jonathan Ross, son of Pete and Susan (who dies while Jon is very young) Ross, is born in Smallville. | ||
- | * May 7: Lois Lane temporarily gains super-strength (although she does not realize it) when Superman uses an alien ray on her to outwit a group of tiny green aliens from the planet Thura. ["The Midget Menace," | ||
- | * May 19: The International World' | ||
- | * May 30-31: A super-powered family of six from the planet Skar, led by Vitor Vall, briefly settle on Earth while under the false belief that Superman is their lost cousin; Superman finds the cousin (his exact double) and reunites the family, who leaves Earth. ["The Super-Family from Outer Space," | ||
- | * May 31: Jimmy Olsen temporarily gains x-ray vision but loses it the next day. [" | ||
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- | ===June, 1973=== | ||
- | * June 1: A military junta abolishes the monarchy in Greece and proclaims the nation a republic. | ||
- | * June 3: Superman destroys the Daily Planet building and several other structures after discovering that they have been transformed by an alien civilization into bombs as part of a plan to invade Earth, a plot already uncovered by elderly billionaire Ebeneezer Walker. Superman rebuilds an exact copy of the Daily Planet building later that day. [" | ||
- | * June 4: Superman is summoned to the year 2956 A.D. by Craig King, the Superman of the future, to briefly take his place after King is injured. ["The Superman of Tomorrow," | ||
- | * June 20: While using the monitor in his Satellite of Solitude in outer space, Superman is attacked by an evil space cloud-intelligence called Urko the Terrible, who hates all other forms of life and is able to animate objects. When he's unable to destroy Superman, he attempts to destroy the Earth until Superman stops him by propelling a small sun at Urko, consuming him. Superman realizes that outer space is a poor location for his fortress. [" | ||
- | * June 25: Superman relocates his meteor fortress to the center of the Earth, only to be attacked by flame-people who think him to be an invader. After he saves them from being destroyed by water, they ask him to stay, but Superman realizes the center of the Earth isn't as peaceful as he'd like, and continues his search for a better location for his fortress. [" | ||
- | * June 26-27: Mr. Mxyzptlk briefly takes on a secret identity as a Daily Planet reporter. //Note: Mr. Mxyzptlk' | ||
- | * June 28: Superman discovers a rocket ship from Krypton containing war weapons that arrives on Earth by accident after Jor-El sent it into space decades ago. He places the weapons and ship within the Earth' | ||
- | ===July, 1973=== | ||
- | * Kathy Kane becomes Batwoman. [Detective Comics #233] | ||
- | * July 3: Discovering a journal written by his father Jor-El and a few films from the last days of Krypton in a preserved Kryptonian laboratory, Superman learns that Jor-El briefly possessed super-powers after simulating an Earthlike environment on Krypton. ["The First Superman of Krypton," | ||
- | * July 7-9: Clark Kent (Superman) becomes the guardian of Baby Bliss, a toddler who temporarily gains super-powers from eating Kryptonian food from a canister that fell from Kal-El' | ||
- | * July 12: Lex Luthor creates a suit of electronic armor with a unique alloy which is powered by Superman' | ||
- | * July 13-19: Superman meets Super-Ape, a young ape from Krypton able to speak who has acted as protector of his section of Africa for years. He reunites Super-Ape on another planet with the three other Kryptonian apes sent to other worlds before Krypton' | ||
- | ===August, 1973=== | ||
- | * August 2-3: Perry White, Jr., just out of college at age 21, begins interning at the Daily Planet. [" | ||
- | * August 7: Jimmy Olsen gains super-speed for a day after accidentally drinking a super-speed serum invented by Prof. Claude. [" | ||
- | * August 15: The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of U.S. combat activity in Southeast Asia. | ||
- | * August 16-19: Lois Lane briefly gains super-powers and becomes the first Superwoman before suddenly losing her powers. ["The Superwoman of Metropolis," | ||
- | * August 19-20: Superman battles the Petrified Spaceman, who possesses the ability to manifest several super-powers. After discovering the Spaceman is a lost traveler from the Ice World, Superman returns him to his home planet, which he left thousands of years ago. ["The Invulnerable Enemy," | ||
- | * August 26: Superman is split into two identical beings by the U.S. government' | ||
- | * August 26-27: Jimmy Olsen temporarily gains invulnerability after witnessing the Q-Bomb test. ["The Boy of Steel," | ||
- | * August 30-31: After experiencing a plane accident in the remote Arctic wilderness as a passenger, Superman decides to build his Fortress of Solitude there. After testing the door, he installs it and completes the construction of the Fortress. He fills it with his super-weapons, | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * When four adventurers (Prof Haley, Red Ryan, Ace Morgan, and Rocky Davis) survive a plane crash that should have killed them, they decide that they are " | ||
- | * September 9: Superman temporarily gains a new super-power -- super-magnetism. [" | ||
- | * September 11: Chile' | ||
- | * September 11-12: Superman and his younger self Superboy switch places for two days after a criminal scientist fired a ray at Superboy in the past. //Note: Although Superman' | ||
- | * September 28-29: Superman builds Superman Island to house a vault full of kryptonite meteors for a scientist' | ||
- | ===October, 1973=== | ||
- | * October 6: The Yom Kippur War begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur. | ||
- | * October 10: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns. | ||
- | * October 17: Superman temporarily becomes Superbaby once again. [" | ||
- | * October 20: President Nixon fires special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus, | ||
- | * October 23 | ||
- | * Barry Allen becomes the Flash. [Showcase #4] | ||
- | * The world briefly believes that Superman actually died two years earlier while saving the Earth and was replaced by a robot, until Superman reappears to clear up the deception. ["The Death of Superman," | ||
- | * October 30-31: Lois Lane briefly gains super-strength for a second time and assists Superman. ["The Three Men of Steel," | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * The Flash first battles Captain Cold. [Showcase #8] | ||
- | * November 1: After ingesting super-power pills created by Jor-El, Superman temporarily loses his super-powers due to kryptonite exposure, while Batman and Robin both gain Kryptonian super-powers. They defeat Elton Craig, a criminal who has become a super-thief by also ingesting those pills. ["The Reversed Heroes," | ||
- | * November 5: Superman' | ||
- | * November 4-10: Jimmy Olsen receives a preserved dinosaur egg from Superman that soon hatches, giving birth to Danny the dinosaur. After a week, Superman takes Danny to a world populated by dinosaurs. [" | ||
- | * November 11: Egypt and Israel sign a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire accord, ending the Yom Kippur War. | ||
- | * November 15-18: Jimmy Olsen gains fame as the heroic Human Fish, alias Merman Olsen, until it is revealed to be a hoax perpetuated by Superman. ["The Merman of Metropolis," | ||
- | * November 19-24: With an alien spacesuit that grants him super-powers, | ||
- | * November 24: Superman burns an entire uninhabited planet to ash with his heat vision in order to get rid of the extra x-ray energy in his body. ["The Man with the Triple X-ray Eyes," Action Comics #227 (April, 1957).] | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * Travis Morgan meets Machiste. [Warlord #2] | ||
- | * December 2-4: Lex Luthor and the Joker team up for the first time against Superman and Batman. [" | ||
- | * December 9-14: Superman' | ||
- | * December 16-17: After a piece of ancient Atlantis rises to the surface, its properties temporarily grant normal people super-powers | ||
- | * December 18-21: Lana Lang returns to Metropolis to look for work in TV commercials, | ||
- | * December 24-27: Superman, Batman and Robin work with the international Club of Heroes. ["The Club of Heroes," | ||
- | * December 28: Superman intentionally switches places for three hours with his younger self from a time between his Superbaby and Superboy days, all to provide assistance to a couple of midget performers during a stage play called "The Super-Rescue of Lois Lane, Girl Reporter." | ||
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- | ====1974==== | ||
- | ===Unspecified month in 1974=== | ||
- | * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter), after a time travel trip from 1965, are stranded in the year 1974 when Dr. Wilfred Doome of Earth-2 steals his Time Sphere' | ||
- | * Jefferson Pierce (the future Black Lightning) and his wife Lynn Stewart are divorced. | ||
- | * Maxine Baker is born to Buddy Baker (Animal Man) and his wife Ellen Baker. Maxine is their second child, as their son Cliff was born in 1970. | ||
- | ===January, 1974=== | ||
- | * January 2-7: Superman gains the new super-power to create a smaller version of himself that has all his powers, and he spends days trying to figure out how to get rid of it. Finally, the smaller Superman sacrifices itself to save Superman from green kryptonite, and the power disappears. [" | ||
- | * January 9: An evolution accelerator invented by Prof. Phineas Potter causes Jimmy Olsen to become the most intelligent man in the world for 12 hours, during which time he saves the Earth. ["The Super-Brain of Jimmy Olsen," | ||
- | * January 17-20: 14-year-old Johnny Kirk lands on Earth once more and is adopted by Superman, becoming Superman, Junior; the two move to Smallville under assumed names, but Superman' | ||
- | * January 23: Jimmy Olsen becomes the king of Vumania, an abandoned island kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean. //Note: This story takes place during Chinese New Year.// ["Sir Jimmy Olsen, Knight of Metropolis," | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | * From a computer, Travis Morgan and Tara learn the origins of Skartaris. [Warlord #5] | ||
- | * February 5 | ||
- | * Perry White celebrates his 25th anniversary since beginning work at the Daily Planet. //Note: This means Perry White was hired on February 5, 1949, after having made a name for himself at the Gotham Gazette.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | ||
- | * Patty Hearst, granddaughter of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. | ||
- | * February 7: Batwoman briefly gains super-powers after ingesting a super-power pill invented by Jor-El and stolen by Elton Craig. ["The Super-Batwoman," | ||
- | * February 8: Lois Lane briefly gains super-powers from a flying cape, power gloves, and super-goggles sent to Earth by Jor-El. ["The Forbidden Box from Krypton," | ||
- | * February 14-15: Superman contracts a space-virus that briefly causes his heat-vision to become cold-vision. ["The Man with the Zero Eyes," Superman #117 (November, 1957).] | ||
- | * February 16: Superman meets Gollo from the Super-Chameleon race on the planet Zar. ["The Creature of 1,000 Disguises," | ||
- | * February 17: Superman, Batman, and Robin are trapped and placed in suspended animation, sleeping for nearly 1,000 years until the year 2957, where they battle the evil Rohtul, descendant of Lex Luthor, before returning to the present in a time machine before they were trapped. ["The Three Super Sleepers," | ||
- | * February 20-23: Using a spacecraft invented by Prof. Phineas Potter, Jimmy Olsen briefly visits the planet Dorth, where he has Superman' | ||
- | ===March, 1974=== | ||
- | * March 6-7: Tharn from the planet Kormo, a super-powered boy with amnesia, briefly becomes Superman' | ||
- | * March 22-24: Jimmy Olsen becomes Elastic Lad when he gains stretching powers from an alien bottle of liquid. ["The Elastic Lad," Superman' | ||
- | ===April, 1974=== | ||
- | * The Flash battles Mr. Element then Dr. Alchemy. [Showcase #13-14] | ||
- | * The Green Arrows of the World, international archers inspired by the American Green Arrow, have their first (and only) meeting in Star City. | ||
- | * Betty Kane becomes Bat-Girl. | ||
- | * April 2: Superman and Lois Lane are nearly wed after a whirlwind romance when Jimmy Olsen uses the power of subliminal suggestion to make Superman want nothing more than to wed Lois, but Jimmy tricks Lois into calling off the ceremony just as the effect wears off Superman. [" | ||
- | * April 11 | ||
- | * Kara Zor-El is sent in a rocket-ship from Argo City to Earth by her parents, Zor-El and Allura. After Kara's departure, Zor-El and Allura manage to escape into the Survival Zone. //Note: The date of April 11 is given in the 1976 Super DC Calendar as when Supergirl arrived on Earth, but since we know that actually happened on May 18, the April 11 date is likely when she left Argo City.// | ||
- | * The rocket-ship containing Kara Zor-El of Argo City passes by the asteroid where Biron the horse (formerly a centaur) has been exiled for 3000 years, freeing him. He follows the rocket to Earth and watches as she becomes Supergirl, hoping to meet her someday. Until then, he poses as an ordinary horse on Earth. ["The Secret Origin of Supergirl' | ||
- | * April 19-20: Superman meets King Krypton, a Kryptonian scientist (whose name is never revealed) who changed himself into a gorilla and also escaped Krypton' | ||
- | * April 22-24: Jimmy Olsen briefly becomes a giant after ingesting a formula invented by Prof. Phineas Potter. ["The Human Skyscraper," | ||
- | * April 29: Jimmy Olsen meets and falls in love with Lois Lane's younger, airline stewardess sister, Lucy Lane. ["Lois Lane's Sister," | ||
- | ===May, 1974=== | ||
- | * May 1-4: A magic totem grants Jimmy Olsen three wishes. The first is to create a female counterpart of Superman called Super-Girl, who becomes Superman' | ||
- | * May 6: | ||
- | Adam Strange' | ||
- | * May 6-7: Futureman (XL-49) from the 30th century travels back in time to woo Lois Lane and propose to her (although his real plan is to make Superman fall in love with her and marry her). She accepts after realizing Superman will never propose (again), but just as they are about to travel to the 30th century in a time bubble, Superman kisses her passionately, | ||
- | * May 15: A magical beam causes Lois Lane and Lana Lang to merge into one person named Lana Lane, to whom Superman is briefly engaged until he safely splits them apart again, and they lose all memory of the event. [" | ||
- | * May 16-17: Lana Lang gains super-strength and invulnerability from a serum and becomes a celebrity as the costumed heroine, the Girl Atlas, beginning a months-long tour for charity. ["The Girl Atlas," | ||
- | * May 17: Superman officially adopts Jimmy Olsen as his son for 30 days. ["The Son of Superman," | ||
- | * May 18: Supergirl, Superman' | ||
- | * May 20-22: The Daily Planet staff travel to Hollywood to play themselves in scenes from a new movie by Mammoth Studios about Superman called The Life of Superman, but while Perry White, Clark Kent, and Jimmy Olsen play themselves, Lois Lane is replaced by an actress. //Note: The movie in question is known by a few names before the final name is settled on, including "The Exploits of Superman" | ||
- | * May 26: Superman briefly takes on a new masked partner called Powerman, who turns out to be a robot. ["The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team," World' | ||
- | ===June, 1974=== | ||
- | * Aquaman battles Electric Man for the 1st time. [Adventure Comics #254] | ||
- | * Wonder Woman first battles the Duke of Deception. [Wonder Woman #104] | ||
- | * Green Arrow busy on Starfish Island. [as told in Adventure Comics #256] | ||
- | * The Flash first battles Mirror Master. [The Flash #105] | ||
- | * June 2-4: Pvt. Jones at Camp Metropolis briefly gains super-powers and becomes the Super-Sergeant after being affected by a super-helmet Superman was testing for the U.S. Army, but he soon loses his powers. ["The Super-Sergeant," | ||
- | * June 6-7: Batman is briefly given super-powers by aliens who wanted to see who would win in a fight between Batman and Superman. ["The Battle of the Super-Heroes," | ||
- | * June 11 | ||
- | * Supergirl meets Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad, who take her back to the 30th century to try out for the Legion of Super-Heroes. Unfortunately, | ||
- | * Superman temporarily switches places in time with Superbaby. ["Lois Lane and the Babe of Steel," | ||
- | * June 17: Superman' | ||
- | * June 22: After suffering writer' | ||
- | * June 23-26: Krypto the Superdog returns to Earth, having aged quite a bit, and becomes Jimmy Olsen' | ||
- | * June 27: Supergirl meets Krypto. [" | ||
- | ===July, 1974=== | ||
- | * June 27-July 4: Superman and Lois Lane are trapped for one week on a tropical island surrounded by green kryptonite dust. Superman reveals his identity as Clark Kent and proposes, but on the day they are to be wed by a tribal chief, the kryptonite cloud disappears, allowing them to escape. Superman then claims that he needed to keep Lois away from Metropolis for one week during the trial of a criminal gang that she exposed. ["Mrs. Superman," | ||
- | * July 4: Supergirl learns Superman' | ||
- | * July 4-5: Hyper-Man of Oceania, a duplicate of Superman, visits Earth and impersonates Clark Kent in order to keep Superman' | ||
- | * July 7-8: Clark Kent and Lois Lane are among the first civilians to travel into space on the experimental rocket ship //the Columbus//, which travels 10,000 miles from Earth, breaking all rocket records. They witness Brainiac shrink nine Earth cities, including Paris, Rome, London, New York City, and Metropolis, placing them in bottles on his ship to later be restored to full size on his planet of Colu. Superman battles Brainiac and recovers the bottle-city of Kandor from him after discovering its existence. ["The Super-Duel in Space," | ||
- | * July 9-10: After saving an alien woman who claims to be a descendant of Circe, Superman is briefly given the head and paws of a lion through an evolution serum after spurning her offer of marriage. ["The Lady and the Lion," Action Comics #243 (August, 1958).] | ||
- | * July 11: Lois Lane visits Kandor for the first time, then under false pretenses she is briefly married to Zak-Kul, a renegade scientist of Kandor posing as Superman. ["The Shrinking Superman," | ||
- | * July 11: On the planet Oceania, Chester King (Hyper-Man) and Lydia Long are married. ["The Superman from Outer Space," | ||
- | * July 19-20: Drinking liquid kryptonite, Lex Luthor creates a Kryptonite Monkey and briefly becomes the Kryptonite Man. Superman creates a lead suit of armor to battle him. ["The Kryptonite Man," Action Comics #249 (February, 1959).] | ||
- | * July 20-22 | ||
- | * Several heroes -- the Martian Manhunter, the Flash, Superman, Batman, Robin, Roy Raymond, the Blackhawks, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Vigilante, Robotman, Congo Bill, Congorilla, Plastic Man, Rex the Wonder Dog, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman, as well as test pilot Hal Jordan -- unite against Commander Blanx and his white Martian invaders; they agree to form a team at some point in the future. ["The Origin of the Justice League, Minus One," Justice League of America #144 (July, 1977).] | ||
- | * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter), having built a new engine for the Time Sphere, fight off the Blackhawks, Plastic Man, and Jimmy Olsen, each group mistakenly thinking they' | ||
- | * July 25: The Jimmy Olsen Fan Club is officially founded by Tommy Todd. ["The Jimmy Olsen Signal-Watch," | ||
- | * July 27: Luthor recreates Bizarro #1, who creates for himself a Bizarro-Lois Lane and battles Superman before leaving for outer space in search of a new home. ["The Battle with Bizarro," | ||
- | * July 27-29: John Corben becomes the first Metallo and fights Superman, then dies. ["The Menace of Metallo," | ||
- | * July 30-31: Lana Lang decides to quit being the Girl Atlas after her muscles bulk up from constant use over the last two months. Superman gives her a serum that takes away her powers and gives her back her girlish figure. ["The Girl Atlas," | ||
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- | ===August, 1974=== | ||
- | * The Flash first battles Gorilla Grodd, then the Pied Piper. [The Flash #106] | ||
- | * July 29-August 2: Superman, Batman, and Robin battle the Moonman, an astronaut who gains powers and becomes evil under a full moon. ["The Menace of the Moonman," | ||
- | * August 2-3: Superman is reunited with Lori Lemaris and proposes to her again, but she becomes injured. He searches the worlds for a cure and finds Ronal, a brilliant mer-man doctor from another planet who cures her as he waits for news of her condition. [" | ||
- | * August 3-5: Supergirl makes her first public appearance in disguise as the adult super-heroine Mighty Maid as part of Superman' | ||
- | * August 8-9: President Richard M. Nixon announces his resignation. He is succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford. | ||
- | * August 12: Superman learns that Lori Lemaris and Ronal have fallen in love and plan to marry. [" | ||
- | * August 13-14: Supergirl adopts a cat named Streaky, who briefly gains super-powers from x-kryptonite to become Streaky the Supercat. [" | ||
- | * August 18: Jimmy Olsen visits Kandor for the first time, but he is secretly replaced by a Kandorian named El Gar Kur, who battles Superman while posing as Jimmy and tries to destroy Kandor before he is arrested. ["The War Between Superman and Jimmy Olsen," | ||
- | * August 20: Hal Jordan becomes Green Lantern of Earth in Coast City. [Showcase #22] | ||
- | * August 22: Supergirl meets Jerro, a teenaged merman from Atlantis, who becomes her first real romance when they kiss. [" | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * The Sandman (Dr. Garrett Sanford) meets and befriends a young boy named Jed Walker. [The Sandman #1] | ||
- | * September 8: President Ford grants former President Nixon a pardon. | ||
- | * September 19: Jimmy Olsen briefly gains invulnerability after bathing in an underground stream rumored to be a branch of the fabled river Styx. [" | ||
- | * September 20: A chimpanzee named Toto is bombarded with radiation from uranium and kryptonite and is enlarged to become Titano the Super-Ape; after a battle, Superman puts him into the prehistoric past. [" | ||
- | * September 22: Supergirl celebrates her 16th birthday with Superman, Batman, Robin, Jerro, Lori Lemaris, Ronal, and Krypto. [" | ||
- | * September 23-24: Superman, Batman, and Robin battle a criminal scientist called the Atom-Master, | ||
- | ===October, 1974=== | ||
- | * Aquaman talks about his past to some Navy men (origin). [Adventure Comics #260] | ||
- | * Pamela Isley poisoned for the first time by Prof. LeGrande. [World' | ||
- | * October 8-9: Linda Lee (Supergirl) is briefly adopted by a dishonest couple named Mr. and Mrs. Dale. [" | ||
- | * October 9-10: Jimmy Olsen wears a costume as Elastic Lad for the first time when he temporarily regains his powers. ["The Elastic Lad of Metropolis," | ||
- | * October 11: A Kryptonian caveman trapped in a meteor for centuries lands on Earth and battles Superman, Batman, and Robin before finally dying from centuries-long exposure to cosmic rays. ["The Caveman from Krypton," | ||
- | * October 16: Jimmy Olsen meets the President of the United States (Gerald Ford). ["The M.C. of the Midnight Scare Theater," | ||
- | * October 21: J'onn J' | ||
- | * October 30: Supergirl time-travels to the 21st century, where she secretly helps an orphaned boy named Tommy at the Interplanetary Orphanage, not knowing he would grow up to be Col. Tommy Tomorrow of the Space Planeteers. [" | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * Aquaman meets Lisa Morel (first Aquagirl). [Adventure Comics #266] | ||
- | * Green Arrow and Aquaman team up to track the Wizard and Shark Norton. [Adventure Comics #267] | ||
- | * November 6: Traveling through space in an experimental rocket, Jimmy Olsen lands on the planet Zolium, where he briefly becomes Super-Lad until Superman brings him back to Earth. ["The Super-Lad of Space," | ||
- | * November 7-8: Linda Lee's (Supergirl) fellow orphan Dick Wilson (later known as Dick Malverne) begins to suspect her of having super-powers. ["The Great Supergirl Mirage," | ||
- | * November 9: The JLA is officially formed -- with charter members Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Superman & Batman -- when extraterrestrials from Appellax invade Earth. [Justice League of America #9] | ||
- | * November 15: Jimmy Olsen meets Supergirl while he is blinded, and he refuses to believe that she is who she says she is. [" | ||
- | * November 16: Superman and Superboy switch places in time due to an accident with a time telescope. //Note: While Superman' | ||
- | * November 15-20: Van-Zee, a Kandorian scientist who is a double for Superman, is accidentally enlarged, falls in love with Lois Lane and is rejected but finds love in her look-a-like, | ||
- | * November 15-21: While in Hawaii, Lois Lane's legs are crushed while skindiving, even though she is saved by Aquaman. A surgeon named Dr. Hanson performs an experimental surgery on Lois, giving her mermaid fins in place of legs. Aquaman gives her a tour of the seven seas, while Lois becomes an unofficial queen of the sea. Since Lois is miserable as a mermaid, Superman studies every medical textbook available at super-speed and becomes a doctor by passing all required exams, then operates on Lois, restoring her legs to normal. ["The Mermaid from Metropolis," | ||
- | * November 29: On his 20th birthday, Jimmy Olsen becomes Super-Jimmy when he is given temporary super-powers by Prof. Potter, but it causes Superman to concurrently lose his powers, so Super-Jimmy finds a way to restore Superman' | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * Aqualad (Garth) becomes Aquaman' | ||
- | * Teenager Wally West of Blue Valley becomes Kid-Flash, the Flash' | ||
- | * December 5: Supergirl travels back into the past for the first time, visiting a prehistoric age where she saves a tribe from a fire-breathing sea serpent. ["The Cave-Girl of Steel," | ||
- | * December 12-15: Superman brings Lois Lane back to her hometown of Pittsdale to visit her parents and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Pittsdale Star, the town newspaper. While there, a series of misunderstandings end up in a wedding ceremony for Superman and Lois, which is only called off thanks to help from Lois' sister Lucy Lane. [" | ||
- | * December 16: Van-Zee and his wife Sylvia return to Earth after one month from an other-dimensional Venus, where five years passed from their point of view, along with their two children, Lyle-Zee and Lita Van-Zee. The family goes to live in Kandor. ["The Super-Family of Steel," | ||
- | * December 5-17: Superman joins the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of general by the time he is honorably discharged. [" | ||
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- | ====1975==== | ||
- | ===January, 1975=== | ||
- | * Ralph Dibny becomes the Elongated Man. [The Flash #112] | ||
- | * The Flash first battles the Trickster. [The Flash #113] | ||
- | * Aquaman battles the Human Flying Fish. [Adventure Comics #272] | ||
- | * January 1: John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, and John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty for the Watergate cover-up. They are later sentenced to 30 months to eight years in jail. | ||
- | * December 31-January 2: A scientist from Kandor named Kull-Ex tricks Superman into switching places with him, enabling Kull-Ex to impersonate Superman and do much to damage his reputation in order to gain revenge on the son of Jor-El for a perceived theft from his father, Zell-Ex. After Superman proves that Jor-El never stole any idea from Zell-Ex, the scientist returns to Kandor, vowing to devote the rest of his life to scientific research. //Note: Although this is not explained in the story, Kull-Ex probably spends a small amount of time incarcerated in the Phantom Zone after going to trial in Kandor for his crimes.// ["The Super-Outlaw from Krypton," | ||
- | * January 3: Jimmy Olsen discovers the genuine genie lamp used by Aladdin and temporarily becomes a genie himself, switching places with Abdul the real genie, until he manages to outsmart him and switch back. [" | ||
- | * January 5-7: Jimmy Olsen returns to Hollywood to film several scenes playing himself for a movie called Perils of Superman' | ||
- | * January 12 | ||
- | * Supergirl is temporarily reverted to infancy through magic after immersing herself in the Fountain of Youth. ["The Girl Superbaby," | ||
- | * The JLA battle Starro for the first time. [" | ||
- | * January 25: Pre-production begins on a movie called The Daily Planet Story, which is about Perry White, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen. //Note: The roles of Perry, Clark, and Jimmy are supposedly played respectively by Clark Gable, Rock Hudson, and Dwayne Hickman, real actors who may be too old by 1975 to pull off those roles or, in Gable' | ||
- | * January 27: Linda Lee (Supergirl) is adopted on a 30-day trial basis by Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins, who years ago lost a daughter who would have been Linda' | ||
- | * January 29: Superman battles Super-Menace, | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | * Dr. Arthur Light creates a space warp to Thanagar, steals some high tech devices. Thanagarian hawk-policeman Katar Hol trails the villain to Earth to retrieve the stolen property. [DC SUPER-STARS #14] | ||
- | * Dane Dorrance forms the Sea Devils. [Showcase #27] | ||
- | * February 1: Superman goes back in time and returns to Krypton before his birth, where he becomes Jor-El' | ||
- | * February 1: The JLA battles Xotar, the Weapons Master. [" | ||
- | * February 11: Superman battles a flame-dragon from Krypton that has Kryptonian powers as well as flame-breath. //Note: This story takes place during Chinese New Year.// [" | ||
- | * February 11: Thanks to Prof. Phineas Potter, Jimmy Olsen briefly gains the ability to breathe flame. //Note: This story takes place during Chinese New Year.// ["The Human Flame-Thrower," | ||
- | * February 11-12: Professor Ivo creates Amazo, a villainous android with the powers of the Justice League. ["Case of the Stolen Super-Powers," | ||
- | * February 13-20: Brainiac makes a deal with Superman to destroy both Lois Lane and Lana Lang in exchange for sparing the Earth from a doomsday bomb. So Superman grants super-powers first to Lana, then Lois, who become Super-Lana and Super-Lois over the course of a week, allowing them to survive Brainiac' | ||
- | * February 22: Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins decide to return Linda Lee (Supergirl) to Midvale Orphanage, explaining that they couldn' | ||
- | * February 22-23: Superman discovers that Bizarro #1 has populated an entire world with Bizarros like himself and Bizarro-Lois, | ||
- | * February 25-26: Superman is forced to marry an alien princess named Jena on the planet Adoria but manages to convince her father to annul the marriage after he makes himself unbearable. ["The Captive of the Amazons," | ||
- | * February 23-28: Jimmy Olsen briefly becomes a werewolf under the full moon after drinking a werewolf potion created by the wizard Merlin. He is only cured by a kiss in the dark from a mysterious virgin girl who is really Supergirl. ["The Wolf-Man of Metropolis," | ||
- | ===March, 1975=== | ||
- | * March 1: Supergirl builds her own Fortress of Solitude in a remote part of the Arabian Desert. [" | ||
- | * March 1-4: A teenaged Kandorian named Dik-Rey poses as a boy scientist named Tom Baker, who briefly becomes a superhero named Power Lad while Supergirl is taking his place in Kandor. ["Tom Baker, Power Lad," Superman' | ||
- | * March 3-5: Lois Lane is wooed by a super-powered alien, Astounding Man from the planet Roxnon, whose proposal she accepts until she learns he is really an android controlled by a very old man who worships Lois from afar. Lois substitutes herself for an android lookalike in the ceremony, controlled by an old woman named Geena, and Superman brings Lois back to Earth, leaving the old couple to live a blissfully happy virtual marriage through their android proxies. //Note: This story never explains if the old man ever learns that Lois returns to Earth, though it is possible that he stopped observing Earth after this moment and never learned the truth.// ["Lois Lane Weds Astounding Man," Superman' | ||
- | * March 4-7: Exposed to red kryptonite, Supergirl loses her memory and lands in Smallville, where she takes the name of Gloria Smith and goes to live in the house of a scientist and his wife, Prof. Ralph and Ellen Evans. She then makes her first public appearance as Supergirl in Smallville, quickly becoming adopted by the town. After Superman returns from the Fortress of Solitude, where he has been busy trying to find a way to restore Kandor to normal size, he discovers Supergirl acting openly in Smallville. Using an amnesia gas he once hid underground as Superboy, Superman causes the entire town of Smallville (as well as Supergirl) to forget about Supergirl' | ||
- | * March 15-20: Prof. Brant and his wife temporarily adopt Linda Lee after the professor discovers Supergirl' | ||
- | * March 21-22: Superman, Lori Lemaris, and Ronal concoct an elaborate hoax to make it seem that Ronal is dying and makes Superman promise to become a Super-Merman and marry Lori, all so that Lois Lane will accept the marriage proposal of Brett Rand, a self-made millionaire who had a crush on Lois years when they were students at Raleigh College together. After Lois turns Brett down, Superman explains the hoax. ["The New Life of Super-Merman," | ||
- | * March 24: Becoming so frustrated by Lois Lane's pestering him, Superman travels to an alternate timeline version of 1972 and as Clark Kent becomes a radio disc jockey after graduation instead of a reporter, gaining a secretary named Liza Landis who begins to suspect him of being Superman and pesters him even more than Lois did until she quits. After Lois herself of that timeline arrives to interview Clark, Superman returns to the present in his own timeline and learns that Liza Landis has married the radio station owner and is now very overweight. [" | ||
- | * March 27: The JLA first battles Despero. ["The World of No Return," | ||
- | * March 22-28: Bizarro #1 and Bizarro-Lois Lane have a son, Bizarro #1-Junior, born sometime earlier with human looks. Since he is considered disfigured by Bizarro standards, causing widespread fear and anger among the citizens of Bizarro World, Bizarro #1 sends his son by rocket-ship into space for his own safety. He lands on Earth and is brought to Midvale Orphanage, then adopted by Superman and Supergirl for a few days. Bizarro # | ||
- | * March 28-30: The Superman Emergency Squad, led by Superman' | ||
- | * March 31: The JLA makes its first interdimensional trip to Magic-Land after villains from that world made Earth and Magic-Land briefly switch places, causing magic to work on Earth and science to work on Magic-Land. //Note: This story supposedly takes place four weeks after Halloween (October 31), but this is contradicted by the fact that Merlin attempts to use a springtime spell.// [" | ||
- | ===April, 1975=== | ||
- | * Green Lantern battles the Puppet-Master [Green Lantern v2 #1] | ||
- | * Jim Rook's wife Janet leaves him. [Whatever Happened to Nightmaster? | ||
- | * Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia. | ||
- | * April 1: Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk meet and team up for the first time, causing mischief for Superman, Batman, and Robin. [" | ||
- | * April 2: Superman travels back in time to mid-1930s Chicago, where he gives rise to the legend of the " | ||
- | * April 6: Lois Lane is briefly married a second time to a man from the 23rd century named X-Plam who brings proof of their wedding on that very day. Lois marries him, but once the two go to the 23rd century his normal, grotesque, green appearance returns, and Lois also gains a similar look. X-Plam sees her sadness and sends her back to the 20th century, killing himself in the process. ["The Man Who Married Lois Lane," Superman #136 (April, 1960).] | ||
- | * April 19-20: A series of circumstances puts Lois Lane in the bottle city of Kandor, where she meets Dik-Zee (Van-Zee' | ||
- | * April 21-22: Lois Lane and Lana Lang gain super-powers from a magic lake and briefly become Super-Lois and Super-Lana once more, competing with each other for Superman' | ||
- | * April 23: Lois Lane travels back in time to 12th century England, where she competes for the affections of Robin Hood with a redheaded woman named Laura. Lois then discovers Laura is really a disguised Maid Marian, who asks Lois to be her bridesmaid for their wedding, but at that moment Lois returns to her own time. [" | ||
- | * April 23-26: As the last descendant of Lord Olsen, Jimmy Olsen inherits the ancient Olsen estate of Olsen Castle and lordship in Sweden after he passes a series of supposedly impossible tests with the secret help of Superman, Supergirl, Krypto, and even Bizarro #1. But Jimmy decides to give up his title and donate his estate to make it a museum, since he is allergic to the local flora. ["The Lord of Olsen Castle," | ||
- | * April 27-30: Traveling to Cardiff in New England, Lois Lane meets Lena Thorul and discovers that not only does Lena possess psychic abilities but she is also the sister of Lex Luthor but does not remember that fact. Lex Luthor makes Superman vow to keep that secret. ["The Curse of Lena Thorul," | ||
- | ===May, 1975=== | ||
- | * Green Lantern first learns about Qward and the Weaponers. [Green Lantern v2 #2] | ||
- | * The Flash battles an elusive criminal who no one recalls. [Flash: the Forgotten Rogue] | ||
- | * May 2-4: Jimmy Olsen meets Congo Bill and his assistant Janu (now a grown man) and later uses Bill's magic ring to briefly exchange minds with Congorilla himself. [" | ||
- | * May 11: Kanjar Ro, ruler of the planet Dhor in the Antares star system, enslaves the Justice League of America and uses the gamma metal gong to cause the entire population of Earth to freeze in place, then makes the JLA capture the rival rulers of planets in his star system -- Hyathis of Alstair, Kromm of Mosteel, and Sayyar of Llarr. The heroes free themselves and imprison the four rulers together on a meteor world surrounded by a permanent force-field created by Green Lantern' | ||
- | * May 15: The American merchant ship // | ||
- | * May 17-18: Supergirl and Superman meet their counterparts Marvel Maid and Marvel Man on the planet Terra, where the teenaged Marvel Maid is the planet' | ||
- | * May 18-26: Lois Lane becomes Superwoman once more when she is briefly given super-powers by a Superman robot posing as the real Superman and claiming that he his powers were taken away from him and granted to Lois. The Superman robot, now supposedly a normal man, proposes to Lois, who ultimately rejects him. As Superwoman, Lois wears her Super-Lois costume and saves Metropolis from Hurricane Elsa. Meanwhile, the real Superman loses his powers on a planet where the sun's yellow rays are turned green by that world' | ||
- | * May 28-30: As part of a ruse concocted by Superman and Lois Lane, Aquaman poses as Mental Man, a newspaper comic strip character created and written by Lois, in order to capture a gang of crooks. [" | ||
- | ===June, 1975=== | ||
- | * Krypto the Super-Dog builds his Doghouse of Solitude in space by this time. [Superman #150] | ||
- | * Adam Strange vanguishes the Tornado Tyrant. [Mystery in Space #61] | ||
- | * Liza Warner witnesses her roommates' | ||
- | * Hawkman and Hawkgirl come to Earth after Byth. [The Brave and the Bold #34] | ||
- | * June 2: Lois Lane briefly becomes Elastic Lass. ["The Ten Feats of Elastic Lass," Superman' | ||
- | * June 2: Supergirl travels back into the past and meets Annie Oakley in 1885, Betsy Ross in 1776, and Pocahontas in 1607, encountering green kryptonite in each of those times. After Supergirl asks Superman how it's possible for kryptonite to exist in a time before Krypton' | ||
- | * June 5: Jimmy Olsen purchases the 5 billionth copy of the Daily Planet. ["The Super-Weapon," | ||
- | * June 11: Supergirl is given a second chance to join the Legion of Super-Heroes. She joins the team along with Brainiac Five, whom she learns is the descendant of Brainiac, and who becomes her boyfriend in the future. Brainiac Five gives Supergirl a force-shield belt, but it is accidentally destroyed after Supergirl returns to the present. [" | ||
- | * June 12: Jimmy Olsen wins a prize from Perry White for writing his 1,000th story for the Daily Planet, an honor both Lois Lane and Clark Kent have already received. [" | ||
- | * June 16: On the anniversary of Krypton' | ||
- | * June 16-19: Lois Lane attends a screening of a TV show called People Are Whacky, which sets up people using a computer, and she is called up to meet her perfect match, a man named Roger Warner who is identical to Clark Kent, but who is wealthy and flew over 100 missions as a bomber pilot and collected over a dozen medals for bravery during the Vietnam War. Lois thinks Roger is almost perfect, and the two hit it off, so Roger introduces her to his family. But after Superman accidentally creates a gust of wind that blows Roger' | ||
- | * June 19: Green Arrow joins the JLA. [Justice League of America #4] | ||
- | * June 22: Jimmy Olsen' | ||
- | * June 22-23: Hercules is brought from ancient Greece to present-day Metropolis by Lex Luthor, who uses subliminal teaching techniques to teach him the basics of modern life and the English language overnight. Luthor has Hercules rob Fort Knox by claiming they had stolen his wealth from him, but Hercules realizes that Luthor is evil. Superman allows Hercules to remain in this time at his request and helps Hercules get a job as a reporter at the Daily Planet under the new identity of Roger Tate. Hercules immediately falls in love with Lois Lane while working with her on one of his first assignments, | ||
- | * June 24: Linda Lee (Supergirl) takes a one-week summer job as a junior reporter at the Daily Planet in Metropolis. ["The Mystery Supergirl," | ||
- | * June 24-25: Using a growth ray he found on the beach, Jimmy Olsen accidentally transforms himself into the Turtle Man, a giant the size of a skyscraper, and he destroys the Metropolis Bridge and the Trans-Atlantic Cable. After discovering that Jimmy is being controlled by an Atlantean criminal named Goxo, Superman changes Jimmy back and captures Goxo. ["The Giant Turtle Man," Superman' | ||
- | * June 27: After fighting a super-powered creature called Golanth, Batwoman briefly gains super-powers once again, but Lex Luthor manages to remotely control her body even as he controls Golanth, using her against Superman, Batman, and Robin. After Golanth is damaged, Batwoman loses her powers but regains her control. ["The Super-Batwoman and the Super-Creature," | ||
- | * June 28: Doctor Destiny, a master of gravity, infiltrates the JLA disguised as Green Lantern. ["When Gravity Went Wild," Justice League of America #5 (June-July, 1961).] | ||
- | ===July, 1975=== | ||
- | * Hawkman battles Matter Master for the first time. [The Brave and the Bold #35] | ||
- | * Aquaman finally visits Atlantis, where he becomes their hero. [Showcase #31] | ||
- | * July 5: Superman and Supergirl use their telescopic vision to view the planet Oceania, where that planet' | ||
- | * July 12: Krypto the Superdog and Streaky the Supercat meet and begin their feud. As Supergirl tries to settle the feud, Beppo the Super-Monkey returns after an absence of many years while he wandered the universe. ["The Battle of the Super-Pets," | ||
- | * July 13-15: Batman is transformed into a giant. Superman impersonates Bruce Wayne at a public event to preserve Batman' | ||
- | * July 15: //Apollo// and //Soyuz// spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space. | ||
- | * July 23-24: Hercules, seeking to best his rival Superman for Lois Lane's affections, pleads his case with the immortal Oracle in Greece during the Olympic Festival. Thanks to the Oracle, Hercules visits the legendary Mount Olympus and receives several super-powers and weapons from the Greek gods. Returning to Metropolis, Hercules challenges Superman in an attempt to impress Lois. After a battle, Superman manages to overcome the ancient hero and send Hercules back to his own time, while his memories of his time in the twentieth century disappear. [" | ||
- | * July 25: Jimmy Olsen is sent back to the time of King Arthur and Camelot by a jealous Mr. Mxyzptlk, who loves Jimmy' | ||
- | * July 26-28: Jimmy Olsen and Van-Zee exchange places as Jimmy visits the bottle city of Kandor, but Superman soon explains that due to an unforeseen reason, Jimmy can't return to the outer world. So he settles in to his life in Kandor for a few days until Superman and Van-Zee manage to find a missing element necessary for exchanging them again. ["The Boy in the Bottle," | ||
- | * July 29: Ray Palmer first uses his dwarf star power to become the Atom. [Showcase #34] | ||
- | ===August, 1975=== | ||
- | * Hawkman battles Konrad Kaslak for the first time. [The Brave and the Bold #36] | ||
- | * Aquaman first meets Quisp. [Aquaman #1] | ||
- | * Hawkman battles Shadow Thief for the first time. [The Brave and the Bold #36] | ||
- | * August 6-7: Perry White briefly gains powers and becomes the costumed Masterman, whose consciousness has been taken over by an alien plant intelligence. Superman battles Masterman, and Supergirl kills the alien plant with white kryptonite, restoring Perry to normal. ["The Super-Powers of Perry White," | ||
- | * August 9-14: Lois Lane gains great intelligence and an enlarged, bald cranium after exposure to a machine called the Brain Bank, invented by Prof. Holt. Lois, along with her sister Lucy Lane, relocates to a beach house until the effect disappears. ["Lois Lane's Super-Brain," | ||
- | * August 14-16: Lex Luthor contacts the Legion of Super-Villains in the far future after theorizing that such a group must exist. The LSV visits the present and attacks Superman. Then Superman is lured away from Earth by the Legion of Super-Villains and Lex Luthor, who plan to kill him. The hero is saved by the adult Legion of Super-Heroes. ["The Legion of Super-Villains," | ||
- | * August 16: Superman travels into an alternate timeline version of the 30th century, where he meets Lois 4XR, a descendant of Lois Lane, and learns that everyone on Earth possesses super-powers thanks to a meteor that struck Earth and destroyed Metropolis in 2441 A.D., releasing a gas that imbued super-powers. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of an Earth-2 story from 1949.// ["The Lois Lane of the Future," | ||
- | * August 20: Jimmy Olsen is briefly imbued with aquatic powers by Aquaman as his stand-in, Aqua-Jimmy. ["The Monster that Loved Aqua-Jimmy," | ||
- | * August 22: Jimmy Olsen briefly travels back in time where he meets Thor and becomes his pal, known as Jimmy the Red. Together, they battle Loki, who turns out to be an imp from the fifth dimensional world of Zrfff (an ancestor of Mr. Mxyzptlk who may be impersonating the real Loki). [" | ||
- | * August 23-31: Superman battles Achilles, a modern-day criminal named Cyrus who claims to have gained invulnerability after being dipped in the river Styx as a boy. Superman exposes him as a phony using an invention to repel all magnetic objects. ["The 20th Century Achilles," | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * September 2: Superman meets Prof. Amos Dunn, a scientist who once invented a teleportation ray called the matter-ray and teleported himself to Krypton before that planet' | ||
- | * September 5: President Ford escapes an assassination attempt in Sacramento, California. | ||
- | * September 12-13: Just before Superman and Krypto leave on a mission for another dimension, Superman tells Supergirl that he thinks she's ready to make her public debut. After their departure, a ring of kryptonite dust surrounds Earth, and crooks believe Superman has either died or is unable to return to Earth. Supergirl successfully impersonates Superman until the kryptonite ring disappears, and Superman himself returns, but Supergirl' | ||
- | * September 14-20: Linda Lee (Supergirl) is adopted by Fred and Edna Danvers. Later, Lesla-Lar uses a ray to exchange places with Supergirl, and Supergirl lives for a time in the bottle city of Kandor believing she is Lesla-Lar, while Lesla-Lar as Supergirl frees Lex Luthor and becomes Luthor' | ||
- | * September 22: President Ford escapes a second assassination attempt this month. | ||
- | * September 29-30: Jerro the merman proposes to Supergirl, who tells him she'll have to think about it. Superman returns from a time travel mission to tell Supergirl that he now knows how she regained her powers (having seen Mr. Mxyzptlk at work), and that Supergirl' | ||
- | ===October, 1975=== | ||
- | * The Blackhawks come out of semi-retirement and begin operating as mercenaries. [" | ||
- | * October 8: Lana Lang becomes engages to an astronaut named Doug Tanner after a short but passionate romance. ["The Unforgettable Superman," | ||
- | * October 10: Superman, Batman, and Robin meet and assist Logi, superhero of the planet Durim, to capture three criminals from that world. ["The Mystery of the Alien Super-Boy," | ||
- | * October 13: Lana Lang calls off her engagement to astronaut Doug Tanner, since she realizes she still loves Superman. ["The Unforgettable Superman," | ||
- | * October 16-18: Supergirl first battles Lex Luthor, who opines that Supergirl is just a robot created by Superman. After Luthor is accidentally killed from his own ray while on the run from Supergirl, the heroine visits first Atlantis and then a faraway planet to find a way to bring Luthor back to life. She succeeds in restoring Luthor back to life, but the master criminal is ungrateful. ["The Death of Luthor," | ||
- | * October 19-22: A freak Bizarro who looks completely human and is a perfect-looking duplicate of Superman appears on Earth and proposes to Lois Lane, then traps Lana Lang in a future era after Lana guesses his true identity. Lois becomes briefly married for a third time, but during the wedding ceremony, as Lois is about to kiss the supposed Superman, his appearance suddenly changes back to that of a normal Bizarro, and he returns to the Bizarro World. Superman brings Lana back from the future. ["The Silver Coin of Fate," Superman' | ||
- | * October 24: Don-El, Superman' | ||
- | * October 27-29: The Superman Revenge Squad (formerly the Superboy Revenge Squad) rears its ugly head once more when they attack Superman with nightmare-inducing red kryptonite, then invade Earth with an army of robots, which Superman at first believes is another hallucination. ["The Jury of Super-Enemies," | ||
- | * October 31: The Justice League of America battles the Lord of Time. At the same time, villainous wizard Felix Faust frees the demons three -- Abnegazar, Rath, and Ghast -- from their billion-year-imprisonment beneath the Earth in order to manipulate the JLA. The JLA travels to the year 3786 A.D. to defeat the Lord of Time, but they are unable to reach the 20th century, instead ending up in 2075 A.D., where they defeat the released Abnegazar, Rath, and Ghast, before returning to their own time. ["The Fantastic Fingers of Felix Faust," | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * The JLA and the JSA team up for the first time, but neither team recalls it afterward. [JLA: the Forgotten Crisis] | ||
- | * The Hawks return to Thanagar to report on their stay on Earth to Andar Pol. They battle Byth and Jarl and Hawkman received his Honor Wings which are attached to his cowl. [The Brave and the Bold #42] | ||
- | * November 4: Worrying that Superman will be a bachelor forever, Supergirl plays matchmaker and attempts to set Superman up first with Helen of Troy in the ancient past, then with Saturn Woman (the grown-up Saturn Girl) in the late 30th century, and finally with Luma Lynai, hero of the planet Staryl and a grown-up double for Supergirl herself. But when it turns out that Luma will be weakened by the sun's yellow rays, the burgeoning romance is doomed, and Supergirl gives up playing Cupid for now. [" | ||
- | * November 5: Lex Luthor accidentally creates the Negative Superman, a negative-image duplicate of Superman split from his body. The two magnetically repel each other, and the Negative Superman undoes all the crime-fighting work that Superman accomplishes, | ||
- | * November 1-10: After Lana Lang's mind is inadvertently corrupted by a broach Superman gave her, Lana uses a stolen miniature Phantom Zone projector to send first Lois Lane and then Lori Lemaris into the Phantom Zone during a time Superman is busy with projects for the U.S. government. After discovering the truth, Superman restores Lana, then releases Lois and Lori. ["The Phantom Lois Lane," Superman' | ||
- | * November 11: Lois Lane is summoned to the town of Drywood Gulch, where she meets eight Phantom Zone escapees who claim to have been members of a secret Kryptonian astronaut program. After Superman defeats them all, Lois writes one of her most memorable stories for the Daily Planet. ["The Town of Supermen," | ||
- | * November 29: Jimmy Olsen turns 21 years old and receives a long-promised robot from Superman. He also learns that he will die in six months, so he proposes to Lucy Lane, and they are married in a quick wedding ceremony. Then Jimmy discovers that Lucy was an impostor, meaning the wedding was a sham, and that a group of crooks concocted the hoax to swindle him out of the fortune of millionaire Titus Gates, which he was due to inherit upon reaching 21. Superman uses the Jimmy Olsen robot to help him capture the gang. Since another branch of the family is contesting Gates' will, it would be tied up in the courts for years, leaving Jimmy unable to inherit the fortune. [" | ||
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- | ===December, | ||
- | * The Flash first battles Captain Boomerang. [The Flash #117] | ||
- | * Kanjar Ro escapes and attacks Rann. [Mystery in Space #75] | ||
- | * The Hawks return to Earth to capture the Manhawks. [The Brave and the Bold #43] | ||
- | * December 10: The Supergirl Emergency Squad, made up of several young women in the bottle city of Kandor (members of the Supergirl Fan Club there), is formed. [" | ||
- | * December 21: Mr. Mxyzptlk sets his sights on Supergirl during Superman' | ||
- | * December 25: The Sandman and Jed Walker rescue Santa Claus from the Seal Men. [The Best of DC #22] | ||
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- | ====1976==== | ||
- | ===January, 1976=== | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles Hector Hammond. [Green Lantern v2 #5] | ||
- | * January 3: Quex-Ul is released from the Phantom Zone after his 25-year sentence is up, and after it is discovered that he was innocent of any crime he loses his Kryptonian powers and memory and Superman has him hired as an employee in the Daily Planet' | ||
- | * January 1-3: The Atom joins the JLA ["The Menace of the ' | ||
- | * January 9-10: Supergirl meets Lena Thorul, who has psychic powers, and learns that she is Lex Luthor' | ||
- | * January 16-17: Lesla-Lar releases three Phantom Zone criminals -- General Dru-Zod, Jax-Ur, and Kru-El -- who then disintegrate Lesla, apparently killing her. They team up with Lex Luthor and grant him temporary super-powers, | ||
- | * January 18: The Lois Lane Fan Club holds its first meeting at Metropolis University. ["The Madam Jekyll of Metropolis," | ||
- | * January 24: Lois Lane and Clark Kent are " | ||
- | * January 28: Ralph Dibny (Elongated Man) marries Sue Dearborn. [The Flash #119] | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | * Green Lantern first learns of the Guardians of the Universe. [Green Lantern v2 #6] | ||
- | * Zook becomes J'onn J' | ||
- | * January 29-February 2: When a Kandorian scientist named Than-Ol claims that Superman knows how to enlarge Kandor but will not do it, Superman is declared an enemy of Kandor. He and Jimmy Olsen enter Kandor and assume the secret identities of Nightwing and Flamebird in order to prove Superman' | ||
- | * February 14-15: Jimmy Olsen is briefly engaged to marry Princess Ilona of the Sunev Galaxy but manages to break it off when he learns she already has four husbands. [" | ||
- | * February 16-17: Superman, Batman, and Robin encounter the Crimson Avenger (inventor Albert Elwood) and convince him to give up crime-fighting due to his clumsiness. ["The Mystery of the Crimson Avenger," | ||
- | * February 20: Supergirl first meets Comet the Superhorse and learns his origin. //Note: Although the 1976 Super DC Calendar places this on July 13, that date cannot fit on a compressed timeline in which Linda Danvers begins attending Stanhope College in September, 1976. Therefore, Supergirl' | ||
- | ===March, 1976=== | ||
- | * The Flash first battles the Top. [The Flash #122] | ||
- | * The Atom first battles Jason Woodrue. [The Atom #1] | ||
- | * The Flashes of two Earths meet for the first time. [The Flash #123] | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles Sinestro, the rogue former member of the Green Lantern Corps. Green Lantern also uses his power ring to temporarily turn all the citizens of Coast City completely invisible in order to keep them from becoming victims of Sinestro' | ||
- | * The Metal Men are created by Dr. Will Magnus. [Showcase #37] | ||
- | * The Black Orchid rounds up the rest of the Black Orchid Legion. [The Phantom Stranger v2 #41] | ||
- | * February 19-March 19: Superman is believed to have been exposed to Virus X and will die in a month, so he sets out to accomplish several mighty deeds with the aid of Supergirl, Krypto, Lori Lemaris, the Superman Emergency Squad, and the Legion of Super-Heroes: | ||
- | * March 20-22: Superman, Batman, and Robin fight the team of Lex Luthor and the Joker a second time. [" | ||
- | * March 25-29: Lucy Lane gains temporary super-powers and becomes Super Lucy. Lucy becomes engaged to Howard Hume, a wealthy tycoon, but after Superman and Jimmy Olsen conspire to take her powers away (since they affect Superman' | ||
- | ===April, 1976=== | ||
- | * Green Arrow and the Martian Manhunter answer a distress call from across space. [The Devil You Know] | ||
- | * Hawkman captures I.Q. and his gang. [Mystery in Space #87] | ||
- | * Brothers Hal and Jim help brother Jack with his political campaign. [Green Lantern v2 #9] | ||
- | * Scientist Bruce Gordon becomes the Jekyll/ | ||
- | * Abra Kadabra comes from the 63rd century and battles the Flash. [The Flash #128] | ||
- | * March 30-April 1: Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen discover the lost civilization of Mistri-Lor, ruled by Queen Lura, who proposes to Clark and only reluctantly breaks off the engagement after he pretends to have broken his irreplaceable glasses. [" | ||
- | * April 1 | ||
- | * The JLA first battles Doctor Light. ["The Last Case of the Justice League," | ||
- | * Firing the duplicator ray blindly into space, Bizarro-Junior No. 1 accidentally creates Bizarro-Kltpzyxm, | ||
- | * Supergirl learns that Fred and Edna Danvers had a son named Jan Danvers who was killed in battle in 1964 on Chu-Li Island. [" | ||
- | * April 4: Lucy Lane proposes to Jimmy Olsen, and they become engaged for a while (though Lucy later occasionally dates other men before they break the engagement off). [" | ||
- | * April 8: The Tornado Tyrant, a villain who decides to become a hero, becomes the Tornado Champion and battles a fragment of himself that splits off as an independent Tornado Tyrant, even posing as the Tornado Tyrant to fight the JLA in order to learn how to defeat his nemesis. ["The Triumph of the Tornado Tyrant," | ||
- | * April 9-10: Superman and Jimmy Olsen become Nightwing and Flamebird a second time in order to capture a super-powered thief, who turns out to be their friend Nor-Kann, brainwashed by the Superman Revenge Squad into committing crimes and given super-powers via an energizing jewel. ["The Dynamic Duo of Kandor," | ||
- | * April 14-15: A little girl named Candy gains super-powers after eating from a Kryptonian food cylinder that had fallen from Supergirl' | ||
- | * April 24-26: Evil doubles of the JLA, created by Doctor Destiny' | ||
- | * March 27-April 30: Lena Thorul becomes an amnesiac and travels to the African nation of Turumba, where she becomes known as the Jungle Princess for her exploits in protecting wild animals from poachers, until she is finally brought back to America, where she regains her memory. ["Lena Thorul, Jungle Princess," | ||
- | ===May, 1976=== | ||
- | * The Metal Men first battle Chemo, the giant container of chemicals. [Showcase #39] | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles Sonar. [Green Lantern v2 #14] | ||
- | * Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad work together for the first time. [The Brave and the Bold #54] | ||
- | * May 5: Lucy Lane breaks off her engagement with Jimmy Olsen. ["The Human Robot," | ||
- | * May 7-9: Wonder Man becomes the new hero of Metropolis until Superman learns that he was formerly his strongest Superman robot, Ajax, given a chemically constructed android body with super-powers by the Superman Revenge Squad. After Wonder Man sacrifices himself to save Superman, he is given a hero's burial in Metropolis. [" | ||
- | * May 2-10: Supergirl and Comet the Superhorse visit Zerox, the Sorcerers' | ||
- | * May 24: Jimmy Olsen creates Bizarro-Jimmy Olsen on Bizarro World. [" | ||
- | * May 16-31: A young Phantom Zone criminal named Tor-An escapes and poses as a Midvale High School science teacher named Michael Barnes, who tells Supergirl he's another orphan from Argo City and romances her, soon becoming engaged. Supergirl ignores warnings by both Comet the Super-Horse and Jerro the merman, and goes ahead with the wedding in Kandor. But after Tor-An reveals he tricked her, Supergirl reveals that Saturn Girl posed as her during the wedding ceremony, nullifying it. [" | ||
- | ===June, 1976=== | ||
- | * A tribal witchdoctor kills the Logans, leaving Garfield an orphan. A man named Galtry becomes his guardian. [Tales of the Teen Titans #3] | ||
- | * The Atom first battles Chronos. [The Atom #3] | ||
- | * The Atom enters the Time Pool to help Lady Jane de la Mare capture a notorious highwayman Dick Turpin in 1739. [The Atom #6] | ||
- | * May 31-June 3: The JLA and the JSA of Earth-2 team up for the first time to stop the Crime Champions of both Earths. [" | ||
- | * June 3-6: Superman and Lex Luthor fight hand-to-hand on a planet under the red sun later named Lexor, since Lex is considered a hero there and Superman a villain. ["The Showdown Between Luthor and Superman," | ||
- | * June 9 | ||
- | * The Atom battles Doctor Light on his own. [The Atom #8] | ||
- | * The JLA first battles the Queen Bee. [" | ||
- | * June 15: Jimmy Olsen as Elastic Lad is given honorary membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes. [Superman' | ||
- | * June 18: Linda Danvers (Supergirl) graduates from Midvale High and is given the Stanhope Character Scholarship for perfect conduct in all classes, and for modesty and an excellent character, allowing her to attend Stanhope College in the Fall. [" | ||
- | ===July, 1976=== | ||
- | * The JLA turned evil by Antithesis and battle the Teen Titans. [flashback from Teen Titans #53] | ||
- | * Aquaman meets Mera. [Aquaman #11] | ||
- | * Carol Ferris contacted by the Zamorans and is given the power of Star Sapphire. [Green Lantern v2 #16] | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles Doctor Polaris. [Green Lantern v2 #21] | ||
- | * Hawkman and Hawkgirl meet Adam Strange on Earth. [Mystery in Space #87] | ||
- | * The Flashes of two worlds meet to battle Vandal Savage. [The Flash #137] | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles the Tattooed Man. [Green Lantern v2 #23] | ||
- | * The Atom and Hawkman have their first team up versus some alien invaders. [The Atom #7] | ||
- | * The Flash first battles Professor Zoom. [The Flash #139] | ||
- | * The Flash first battles Heat Wave. [The Flash #140] | ||
- | * Mavis Trent impersonates Hawkgirl. [Mystery in Space #88] | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles the Shark. [Green Lantern v2 #24] | ||
- | * Green Arrow and Martian Manhunter team-up. [The Devil You Know] | ||
- | * July 3: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment. | ||
- | * July 4: The United States celebrates its Bicentennial anniversary. | ||
- | * July 9-10: Jax-Ur, temporarily released from the Phantom Zone, travels back in time with Superman to Krypton before it exploded, where Jax-Ur creates jewel kryptonite. [" | ||
- | * July 11-13: Lex Luthor and Brainiac team up for the first time. Luthor learns that Brainiac is an android, and he upgrades Brainiac' | ||
- | * July 13: The Legion of Super-Pets is formed, consisting of Krypto the Superdog, Streaky the Supercat, Comet the Super-Horse, | ||
- | * July 17 | ||
- | * Jimmy Olsen is nearly married to Rona from the 7th dimension, until the wedding is halted by two Inter-Dimensional Police Patrol officers, who arrest her for the murder of all her previous husbands, all of whom had red hair. [" | ||
- | * Supergirl splits into a good half and a bad half, who becomes Satan Girl and plagues the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century until she is defeated by the Legion of Super-Pets. ["The Condemned Legionnaires," | ||
- | * July 5-19: Lois Lane becomes America' | ||
- | * July 24: Lena Thorul marries FBI agent Jeff Colby, with Linda Danvers (Supergirl) acting as maid of honor. ["The Great Supergirl Double-Cross," | ||
- | * July 24-25: Lex Luthor gains super-powers and becomes a super-hero called the Defender on the planet Lexor, named after him. Ardora falls in love with Lex. [" | ||
- | * July 29-30: Jefferson Pierce (the future Black Lightning) wins his second gold medal for the Decathlon race at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec. | ||
- | ===August, 1976=== | ||
- | * The Teen Titans are formed. [The Brave and the Bold #60] | ||
- | * The Martian Manhunter' | ||
- | * July 31-August 8: Superman uses an experimental red kryptonite antidote that unexpectedly splits him into two -- an evil Superman and a good but unpowered Clark Kent. The evil Superman demands that the United Nations makes him king of Earth. Clark Kent is shot and then transformed by Atlantean scientists into a cyborg Metallo powered by green kryptonite. Just as Clark attempts to kill King Superman, King Superman reveals he isn't really evil but needed to scare off alien robot invaders from the planet Bxpa. King Superman and Clark Kent, Metallo, merge back into a single Superman, who puts a final end to the invasion and reveals the truth to the U.N. [" | ||
- | * August 8: Supergirl battles a super-villainess called Black Flame, alias Zora of Kandor, and takes away her powers with gold kryptonite. ["The Maid of Menace," | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * Hawkman, Hawkgirl and Adam Strange save the Earth and Rann from destruction. [Mystery in Space #90] | ||
- | * Adam Strange proposes marriage to Alanna. [Mystery in Space #90] | ||
- | * Doom Patrol formed. [MY GREATEST ADVENTURE #80] | ||
- | * The Metal Men first battle the Missle Men. [Metal Men #1] | ||
- | * Speedy joins the Titans [Teen Titans #4] | ||
- | * Green Arrow and Wonder Woman team up to solve a bizarre robbery that could mean the end of the world. [The Horn Blows At Midnight] | ||
- | * Green Lantern learns that Carol Ferris is the Star Sapphire. [Green Lantern v2 #26] | ||
- | * The Atom uses the Time Pool to go to Baltimore in 1849 to help Edgar Allan Poe solve the myster of a missing gold shipment. [The Atom #12] | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles Black Hand. [Green Lantern v2 #29] | ||
- | * Finding her father gone and his house in a shambles, Zatanna discovers Zatara' | ||
- | * September 5: Lana Lang proposes to Clark Kent after Lois Lane convinces her he's Superman, but breaks off the engagement later the same day when he convinces her he's not. ["Lois Lane, Cupid," | ||
- | * September 6: Linda Danvers (Supergirl) begins attending Stanhope College in Stanhope. [" | ||
- | * September 9: Bizarro-Lex Luthor is created, and he replaces all of the perfect duplicates of Superman' | ||
- | * September 6-21: Superman loses his memory due to radiation from a rare type of red kryptonite that lasts for weeks, and he falls in love and proposes to Sally Selwyn, daughter of wealthy rancher Digby Selwyn, under the name of Jim White. After a jealous suitor attempts to drown him he is saved by Aquaman and his memory is restored, although his memories during this period of amnesia are gone. ["The Sweetheart Superman Forgot," | ||
- | * September 22: Bizarro-Superman No. 1 leads an army of Bizarro-Supermen on an invasion of Earth, causing havoc as they try to make the world more imperfect. ["The Bizarro Invasion of Earth," | ||
- | * September 26-27: Jimmy Olsen and Robin the Boy Wonder team up for the first time while secretly helping Superman and Batman. Jimmy and Robin use an abandoned mountain observatory as their headquarters, | ||
- | ===October, 1976=== | ||
- | * Batman begins wearing a modified version of his costume with a yellow oval around the bat insignia. Batman and Robin also begin driving a new sports car version of the // | ||
- | * The Doom Patrol battles the Brotherhood of Evil for the first time. [Doom Patrol #86] | ||
- | * Mr. Zero is approached by a television producer about using his likeness in a program about fictional exploits of Batman. Zero agrees and signs the rights to Mr. Reizod. | ||
- | * Zatanna seeks aid from Hawkman to find her father. [Hawkman #4] | ||
- | * The Blackhawks go into retirement when Chuck apparently dies. [" | ||
- | * Zatanna, disguised as an old witch, fights Batman and Robin [Detective Comics #355] | ||
- | * September 24-October 5: Supergirl discovers that her real parents, Zor-El and Allura, are still alive in the Survival Zone and finds a way to free them. Zor-El and Allura decide to live in Kandor in order to spare Fred and Edna Danvers from having to give up their foster daughter Linda Danvers. //Note: The Super DC Calendar places Supergirl' | ||
- | * October 8: Superman suddenly recalls his time as Jim White, when he was engaged to Sally Selwyn, but he allows her to believe that his double, Ned Barnes, is the real Jim White, after his death. ["The Man Who Stole Superman' | ||
- | * October 9: Lex Luthor travels into the past of an alternate timeline and passes himself off as Luthor the Noble on Krypton, managing to woo Lara Lor-Van and even becoming engaged to her, until Jor-El is able to stop the wedding and declare his love. Luthor is then forced to tell the truth about himself, and he returns to the present. //Note: Luthor must have traveled back in time within an alternate timeline in which Superman never worked as Jor-El' | ||
- | * October 19-22: Superman and Batman battle the Composite Superman (Joe Meach), who has all the powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes, | ||
- | * October 22-23: Lois Lane travels back in time to Superboy' | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * Steve Dayton becomes Mento. [Doom Patrol #91] | ||
- | * Metamorpho debuts. [The Brave and the Bold #57] | ||
- | * Doctor Light vows to take out the JLA one by one, and starts with Green Lantern. [Green Lantern v2 #33] | ||
- | * The Atom travels to France in 1888 by the Time Pool to help science-fiction author Jules Verne recover the crystal ball of Nostradamus. [The Atom #17] | ||
- | * November 2: Jimmy Carter is elected U.S. president. | ||
- | * November 8-9: Superman meets Rokk and Sorban, gamblers from the planet Ventura who make high-stakes wagers while tormenting Superman. [" | ||
- | * November 10: Superman and Jimmy Olsen become Nightwing and Flamebird for a third time, this time accompanied by Batman and Robin in Kandor. ["The Feud Between Batman and Superman," | ||
- | * November 11: Jimmy Olsen travels back in time to ancient Israel, where he befriends Mighty Youth, who turns out to be a young Samson, and also starts the world' | ||
- | * November 13-14: The JLA and the JSA battle the Crime Syndicate of America of Earth-3. [" | ||
- | * November 24-25: In order to allow Zor-El and Allura to live with their daughter, Kara Zor-El (Supergirl/ | ||
- | * November 25-27: When Superman loses his powers due to a strange green comet, he selects a Kandorian named Ar-Val to become the new Superman. The power goes to Ar-Val' | ||
- | * November 27: Aquaman marries Mera and is crowned King of Atlantis. ["The Wife of Aquaman," | ||
- | * November 29-30: On his 22nd birthday, Jimmy Olsen becomes temporarily invisible again as part of Superman' | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * December 4: Superman' | ||
- | * December 10: Hawkman joins the JLA. [" | ||
- | * December 16: The JLA first battles Brain Storm (Axel Storm). [" | ||
- | * December 18: Lex Luthor marries Ardora on the planet Lexor, where he is considered a hero. ["The Death of Luthor," | ||
- | * December 16-23: After accidentally discovering that Superman is Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen loyally takes an amnesia potion, which has a delayed effect, taking away his memory while he's in the Southwest. Jimmy meets a Native American man named Broken Spear, who calls him Flame Hair, and as Flame Hair he soon becomes the best pal of a medicine man super-hero called Mighty Eagle. But when Flame Hair accidentally discovers that Mighty Eagle is Broken Spear, he attempts to lose his memory through a knock on the head, inadvertently forgetting all about his life as Flame Hair (as well as Superman' | ||
- | * December 24-25: Zor-El arranges events so that he and Allura can return to Kandor, allowing Fred and Edna Danvers to resume their lives on Earth with their foster daughter, Linda Danvers (Supergirl/ | ||
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- | ====1977==== | ||
- | ===January, 1977=== | ||
- | * Zatanna helps the Atom fight the Druid. [The Atom #19] | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles Evil Star. [Green Lantern v2 #37] | ||
- | * The Flash battles six of his Rogues Gallery at once. [The Flash #155] | ||
- | * Green Lantern and his E-2 counterpart battle Krona. [Green Lantern v2 #40] | ||
- | * The Atom faces the Bat-Knights. [The Atom #22] | ||
- | * Green Lantern helps Zatanna in her search for her father. [Green Lantern v2 #42] | ||
- | * The Flash battles Professor Ivo who infused himself with various JLAers powers. [The Flash #158] | ||
- | * Green Lantern first battles Major Disaster. [Green Lantern v2 #43] | ||
- | * January 2-8: While chasing interplanetary thieves into space, Superman is tricked into entering a red sun system and is stranded without his super-powers on a planet populated by the Thorones, who possess super-powers, | ||
- | * January 9-10: Jimmy Olsen and Lucy Lane are briefly married and regret it until they reveal to each other that they were Magi the Magnificent and Sandra Rogers. Before they can go on their honeymoon, they learn that the marriage was invalid, since the justice of the peace had forgotten to renew his license during a recent illness, and they take this as a sign not to rush into marriage too quickly. ["The Wedding of Magi and Sandra," | ||
- | * January 13-17: Superman briefly adopts the identity of reporter Brad Dexter, working at a newspaper in Chicago alongside a blonde female reporter named Loretta Land. ["The Coward of Steel," | ||
- | * January 21: President Carter pardons Vietnam draft evaders. | ||
- | * January 26-27: Doctor Destiny has by now abandoned a physical Materioptikon, | ||
- | * January 25-28: While under the control of living jewels, Robin the Boy Wonder and Jimmy Olsen form their own team to rival that of Superman and Batman, adopting an abandoned observatory they nickname the Eyrie as their headquarters and using new costumes, until Superman shifts the alien minds back into the jewel-bodies. ["The New Terrific Team," World' | ||
- | * January 30-31: Linda Danvers is chosen as a candidate for the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant. Over the next few months, she participates in and wins local beauty pageants until she finally wins the Miss Universe pageant itself. ["The Prize of Peril," | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | * Superman teams up with the newly formed Teen Titans. [DCCP: Times of the Titans book 2] | ||
- | * Batman battles Eclipso for the first time. [The Brave and the Bold #64] | ||
- | * February 4-5: Superman and Batman are accidentally transported to a parallel universe where their eponymous counterparts are evil criminals, and Lex Luthor and Clayface are heroes. [" | ||
- | * February 17: Superman gains a sword made of Kryptium, which can cut through anything. ["The Ultimate Enemy," | ||
- | * February 20: Linda Danvers wins the Miss Stanhope beauty pageant. ["The Prize of Peril," | ||
- | ===March, 1977=== | ||
- | * Mister Zero is portrayed on the //Batman// television show as Mister Freeze. | ||
- | * Aquaman first battles the Fisherman. [Aquaman #21] | ||
- | * Rac Shade, a secret agent from the Meta-Zone, comes to Earth. [SHADE THE CHANGING MAN #1] | ||
- | * March 1-6: Jimmy Olsen films his own monster movie entitled //Isle of the Monsters//, recruiting Lucy Lane, Prof. Phineas Potter, and Clark Kent to act in the movie along with him. [" | ||
- | * March 7-11: Clark Kent is stranded in Crater Valley amongst a lost colony of Quakers, where the people grow to admire him for who he is, rather than compare him with his alter ego, Superman. Clark vows to return there again. ["The Secret Life of Clark Kent," Action Comics #324 (May, 1965)] | ||
- | * March 20: Linda Danvers wins the Miss Statehood beauty pageant. ["The Prize of Peril," | ||
- | * March 22-23: Brainiac, Lex Luthor, Cosmic King, Saturn Queen, and Lightning Lord form the Cosmic Anti-Superman Gang. ["The Team of Olsen and Brainiac," | ||
- | * March 29: The Earth-1 Johnny Thunder takes control of the Earth-2 Johnny' | ||
- | ===April, 1977=== | ||
- | * Beast Boy makes his debut and becomes a provision member of the Doom Patrol. [Doom Patrol #99] | ||
- | * In Littleville, | ||
- | * Green Lantern and his E-2 counterpart team up to battle Prince Peril. [Green Lantern v2 #45] | ||
- | * April 6-7: A peace-loving old man named Andrew Helm creates the Corti-Conscience Machine, which forces everyone on Earth to obey their conscience, creating instantaneous world peace. But after the machine runs too long and causes an overdose, the world is suddenly struck with war and crime, when no one obeys their conscience. Only Superman is unaffected, so he uses Green Lantern' | ||
- | * April 14-16: Supergirl meets her most fearsome foe yet when she battles Drang the Destroyer, alias Doctor Supernatural, | ||
- | * April 14: The JLA is manipulated by the Key into disbanding and destroying their original Secret Sanctuary hidden in the highest peaks of a mountain range. ["The Key-Master of the World," | ||
- | * April 20: The JLA reunites and battles the Key for the first time, moving their Secret Sanctuary to a hill outside Happy Harbor, Rhode Island. //Note: In reading the early and later descriptions of the Secret Sanctuary, it becomes obvious that they are referring to two different locations. Although this story does not specifically state that the Secret Sanctuary is moved, this is the most ideal time it could have been done.// ["The Key-Master of the World," | ||
- | ===May, 1977=== | ||
- | * Poison Ivy (Pamela Isley) first battles Batman. [Batman #181] | ||
- | * The Atom battles the Bug-Eyed Bandit. [The Atom #26] | ||
- | * The Metal Men battle the Plastic Perils with the help of Flash, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin. [Metal Men #21] | ||
- | * The JLA and JSA must stop the Anti-Matter Man from destroying both worlds. [Justice League of America #46-47] | ||
- | * Zatanna meets Elongated Man. [Detective Comics #355] | ||
- | * May 14: Linda Danvers wins the Miss United States beauty pageant. ["The Prize of Peril," | ||
- | * May 15: Metamorpho turns down JLA membership, and the Justice League battles the Unimaginable for the first time. [" | ||
- | * May 16: Ak-Var (the future Flamebird II) is released from the Phantom Zone and lives in Kandor. He becomes the assistant to Van-Zee (the future Nightwing II) and falls in love with Van-Zee' | ||
- | * May 14-18: Jimmy Olsen becomes a spy. [" | ||
- | * May 18-21: The Toyman is freed from jail for the first time in years. ["The Menace of the Terrible Toyman," | ||
- | * May 23: Scientists create insulin. | ||
- | * May 24: The JLA faces the first incarnation of the Royal Flush Gang. ["The Card Crimes of the Justice League," | ||
- | * May 27-30: Linda Danvers wins the Miss Universe beauty pageant, and she is taken away to compete in the Miss Cosmos beauty pageant, a fake pageant taking place on another planet. After Linda as Supergirl wins the Miss Cosmos beauty pageant, Supergirl is temporarily disfigured. Supergirl saves the Bizarro World from destruction. Later, Linda' | ||
- | ===June, 1977=== | ||
- | * Batman and Green Lantern battle the Time Commander (1st appearance) [The Brave and the Bold #59] | ||
- | * The Key takes out five of the JLAers. [JLA: Hey, Isn't That Me?] | ||
- | * Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) makes her debut. [Detective Comics #359] | ||
- | * The Atom uses the Time Pool to go to American in 1783 to help the Montgolfier brothers makes the first successful hot-air baloon flight using animals. [The Atom #27] | ||
- | * The Atom and the E-2 Atom battle the Thinker. [The Atom #29] | ||
- | * The JLA plus Elongated Man help Zatanna rescue her father. [Justice League of America #51] | ||
- | * At age 10, Princess Koriand' | ||
- | * May 31-June 1: Perry White has a heart attack and is hospitalized, | ||
- | * June 7-9: Supergirl suddenly gives up crime-fighting to become a model in Paris, where she meets and falls for a young Frenchman named Henri. Seeking help to convince her otherwise, Superman recruits Wonder Woman to speak with her, but Wonder Woman likewise suddenly gives up crime-fighting and falls in love with a Frenchman named Andre, Count de Tour. Wonder Woman and Supergirl are each coaxed back into crime-fighting when they stop a shape-changing villain called Multi-Face from completing Operation Armageddon. //Note: The reason, if there is any, behind Supergirl' | ||
- | * June 10: Superman and the Flash hold their historic first race three times around the world, and the race is considered a tie. [" | ||
- | * June 2-18: Superman and Lois Lane run against each other in a bi-election to replace Senator Barton Schlumm, but each are disqualified for various reasons, and the governor finally appoints Perry White as senator. Van Benson becomes the new Daily Planet editor. ["Lois Lane's Anti-Superman Campaign," | ||
- | * June 7-20: After Superman accidentally reveals to Ardora, Lex Luthor' | ||
- | * June 18-25: Van Benson is discovered to be an FBI agent, and Perry White resumes his editorship of the Daily Planet. ["The Satanic Schemes of SKUL," Superman' | ||
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- | ===July, 1977=== | ||
- | * Green Lantern first travels to the 58th century, taking on the identity of Pol Manning. [Green Lantern v2 #51] | ||
- | * The Titans meet Beast Boy [Teen Titans #6] | ||
- | * Arthur Curry, Jr. (Aquababy) is born to Aquaman and Mera. [Aquaman #23] | ||
- | * July 2-3: Superman, Batman, Robin, and Jimmy Olsen meet Brainiac A, an earlier model of Brainiac created by the Computer Tyrants but without a propensity for evil, who has collected three cities inhabited only by criminals, one of which is the ghost city of Jerat, from Krypton, which contains a gang of Kryptonians who stole the Golden Goddess statue from Kryptonopolis decades ago. ["The Invulnerable Super-Enemy," | ||
- | * July 12: Jimmy Olsen time travels back to Krypton before it exploded in a futile attempt to prevent its destruction, | ||
- | * July 19: Steve Dayton (Mento) marries Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl). ["The Bride of the Doom Patrol," | ||
- | * July 17-20: After Lois Lane comes to believe that Bruce Wayne is Superman, Bruce and Lois briefly date, then become engaged. On the wedding day, Lois tells Bruce she can't marry him after she discovers he can't be Superman. [" | ||
- | * July 22: Deng Xiaoping, a purged Chinese leader, is restored to power as the Gang of Four is expelled from the Communist Party. | ||
- | * July 28: The JLA battle the Shaggy Man, a synthetic creature created two years earlier by inventor Andrew Zagarian. ["The Super-Struggle Against the Shaggy Man," Justice League of America #45 (June, 1966)] | ||
- | * July 26-30: Clark Kent is supposedly blinded by a weapon in the form of a capsule, forcing Superman to abandon his Clark Kent identity. ["The New Lives of Superman," | ||
- | ===August, 1977=== | ||
- | * Zatanna meets and briefly dates John Constantine. They break it off after a year because she realizes he is bad for her. | ||
- | * Hal Jordan becomes an insurance claims adjuster. [Green Lantern v2 #53] | ||
- | * Dr. Light takes on the Flash. [The Flash #171] | ||
- | * August 1-2: Superman adopts the identity of English butler William Digby, which he abandons after bringing his employer, a master jewel thief, to justice. ["The New Lives of Superman," | ||
- | * August 3: On the Bizarro World, Bizarro No. 1 creates Bizarro-Batman. ["The Federation of Bizarro Idiots," | ||
- | * August 4-6: Lois Lane briefly becomes Insect Queen II while using Lana Lang's bio-ring. [" | ||
- | * August 14-20: Jimmy Olsen travels to a parallel universe (called Earth-X, but may not be the more famous Earth-X), where he gains super-powers and becomes a super-hero named Steel-Man and fights the LUTHAR League while meeting strange counterparts of his friends on Earth-1. ["The Batman-Superman of Earth-X," | ||
- | * August 5-21: Superman moves to England and adopts the identity of Clark King, becoming a popular disc jockey called Clark the K. Finally, after Clark the K is mobbed by a group of girls, who tear off his outer clothing to reveal his Superman costume beneath, Superman returns to Metropolis and resumes his Clark Kent identity when it is determined that his blindness would be temporary. ["The New Lives of Superman," | ||
- | * August 21-24: Selina Kyle once again becomes the villainous Catwoman after an absence of several years. Lois Lane is kidnapped by the Catwoman and her gang, who turn Lois into a second Catwoman. After Catwoman uses a magic wand once owned by Circe to transform Superman into a black super-cat under her command, Lois fights Catwoman, who is finally arrested by Batman and Robin. Later, Lana Lang uses a magic cat' | ||
- | * June 30-August 26: During Linda Danvers' | ||
- | * August 28: Supergirl fakes a marriage to a villain named Raspor to trap him on a planet, after he boasts about destroying Krypton by planting an N-bomb within its core a hundred years earlier (though he was actually lying). ["The Villain Who Married Supergirl," | ||
- | * August 27-31: Lois Lane temporarily gains cat-like abilities after Princess Zerna of Arctor attempts to take over her body in order to win Superman' | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * Jim Rook releases 'Sing A Song of Sorcery' | ||
- | * September 1-2: Superman discovers Krypton-II, a decoy planet created by Jor-El and populated by androids once used to lure an enemy space armada toward it and away from the real Krypton, temporarily hidden behind a smoke screen. Krypton-II is destroyed when it crashes into the artificial red sun accompanying it. [" | ||
- | * September 3: A lowly government lab worker named Maxwell Jensen is turned into the villainous Parasite, able to absorb others' | ||
- | * September 10: Circus acrobat Boston Brand (Deadman) is murdered. [Strange Adventures #205] | ||
- | * September 11-13: Jimmy Olsen uses Lana Lang's bio-ring to briefly become Insect-Olsen, | ||
- | * September 13-17: During a newspaper deliverymen strike that shuts down the Daily Planet, Superman briefly adopts the identity of Pete the Penman, the notorious forger and counterfeiter in the country who is currently in a coma. As Pete the Penman, Superman becomes a member of underworld mastermind " | ||
- | * September 21: The Nuclear-Proliferation Pact, curbing the spread of nuclear weapons, is signed by 15 countries, including the U.S. and the USSR. | ||
- | * September 23: Superman is supposedly split into two -- Superman and a Super-Clark Kent -- during a hydrogen blast caused by a villain named Baron X. In reality, Super-Clark is really Prof. Vakox, a Phantom Zone criminal, who tries to shunt Superman into the Phantom Zone. //Note: This story is a retelling of the Superman story from Action Comics #222, placing that story on [[Earth-Two]].// | ||
- | * September 24: Barry Allen (Flash) marries Iris West. //Note: The 1976 Super DC Calendar places the wedding on November 24, while The Life Story of the Flash places this in September.// | ||
- | * September 13-27: During a national contest to replace Jimmy Olsen, a teenager named Josh Oberlin becomes Jimmy Olsen' | ||
- | ===October, 1977=== | ||
- | * Doom Patrol sacrifices itself to save Codsville, Maine. [Doom Patrol #121] | ||
- | * Aquaman first battles his half-brother the Ocean Master. [Aquaman #29] | ||
- | * Charley Vicker becomes a Green Lantern. [Green Lantern v2 #56] | ||
- | * October 3-4: The JLA negotiates a new space treaty to set up a new asteroid prison for space criminals called [[Takron-Galtos]]. During Superman' | ||
- | * October 7: Superman encounters Amalak, a planetary conqueror known as the most feared space-pirate of all. ["The Four Element Enemies," | ||
- | * October 12: Eterno the Immortal, a 50-foot-tall half-robot, half-android created by the Xan a billion years ago on Earth, is freed from his eons-long imprisonment in the earth' | ||
- | * October 16-17: Grax, a four-armed, blue-skinned villain with a twentieth order brain, tries to destroy the Earth with a K-Meson bomb but is stopped by Superman with Brainiac' | ||
- | * October 21-22: Brainiac creates Genia, a female version of himself with a twelfth-order intelligence. A disguised Genia tricks Superman, Batman, and Robin into helping Brainiac steal five of Earth' | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * Jim Rook pulled back to Myrra to help them with a menace. Stuck there for five years. [Whatever Happened to Nightmaster? | ||
- | * An Atlantean girl named Tula becomes Aqua-Girl, Aqualad' | ||
- | * The Titans meet D.J. DeeJay [Teen Titans #12] | ||
- | * November 11: Superman visits the 30th century during the time of the Adult Legion of Super-Heroes. ["The Adult Legion," | ||
- | * November 6-18: Clark Kent is temporarily made an agent of the FBI in order to take down a dangerous Soviet defector named Philip Henry Master, alias the Acid Master. [" | ||
- | * November 20: Jimmy Olsen marries Lucy Lane, but when Miss Gzptlsnz, an imp from Mr. Mxyzptlk' | ||
- | * November 18-23: Superman encounters Doctor Kryptonite (alias Dr. Kane), an agent of Intercrime (a precursor to Intergang). Doctor Kryptonite nearly kills both Superman and Krypto when he is captured by aliens from the planet Floridis who believe he is the captive king who fled their world. ["The Face of Fear," Action Comics #349 (April, 1967)] | ||
- | * November 26: Superman and Supergirl stop an alien man named Rinol-Jag, known as the Kryptonian-Killer, | ||
- | * November 27-29: Clark Kent is chosen to play Superman in a movie called //The Superman Saga//, in which he plays Dr. Stan Sage of Midcity Hospital, who is secretly Superman, and which co-stars actress Lyrica Lloyd as Nurse Susan Dale. Producer Marcus Moller gives Clark the new stage name of Claude Keith during filming. ["The Star of Steel," | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * Hawkman battles and then cures the transformed Lionmane. [Hawkman #20] | ||
- | * Hal Jordan meets Guy Gardner. [Green Lantern v2 #59] | ||
- | * Titans teach Ebenezer Scrounge a holiday lesson. [Teen Titans #13] | ||
- | * December 5-10: Clark Kent falls in love with Lyrica Lloyd, his co-star in //The Superman Saga,// and proposes to her, revealing his secret identity of Superman to her in the process. But Lyrica dies from a rare jungle disease she contracted during the filming of //Jungle Princess in Africa,// and Superman is unable to save her life. ["The Star of Steel," | ||
- | * December 12-13: Superman encounters one of his toughest foes, [[Zha-Vam]], | ||
- | * December 20-21: Xan, son of an alien prisoner named Vyl, carries out his father' | ||
- | * December 24: Zha-Vam defeats Superman in battle, forcing him to admit that he is the greatest of all super-heroes. ["The Victory of Zha-Vam," | ||
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- | ===January, 1978=== | ||
- | * Batman teams up with Plastic Man for the first time, vs. the Molder (1st appearance). [The Brave and the Bold #76] | ||
- | * The Creeper debuts. [Showcase #73] | ||
- | * At age 30, Jonny Double quits the San Francisco police force. | ||
- | * January 1: Batgirl helps the JLA against the Queen Bee. [" | ||
- | * January 1-2: Superman learns Zha-Vam' | ||
- | * January 3: The JLA battle four powerful new super-villains given super-powers by black spheres from an ancient parallel universe and are overcome by their sheer power in what they call a super-crisis. After four JLAers are brought to Earth-2 to battle similarly empowered super-villains there, they learn how to defeat them and use that information to defeat the black spheres back on Earth-1. //Note: The super-villains who attack Earth-1 are never named; only the Earth-2 villains are named. It is possible that they may be different on each Earth, though equally as powerful.// ["The Super-Crisis That Struck Earth-Two," | ||
- | * January 4-8: Superman battles Captain Incredible, a super-powered android from the 27th century sent back in time by its creator, Dr. Dane Gnorr, to be Superman' | ||
- | * January 2-11: Supergirl and Batgirl meet while battling a spectral hand of smoke, and they are imprisoned in another dimension. Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite impersonate them in order to upstage Superman and Batman, then claim to be the Black Flame and Catwoman, until the real Supergirl and Batgirl return and reveal their impostors to be Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite. Supergirl and Batgirl become friends at this time. ["The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot," World' | ||
- | * January 19: Superman first encounters Q-energy, which comes from the antimatter universe of Qward and is powerful enough to hurt him. //Note: Q-energy is stated to come from another dimensional universe, which is most likely the antimatter universe of Qward.// ["The Case of the Lethal Letters," | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | * Aquaman first battles Black Manta. [Aquaman #35] | ||
- | * Steve Trevor briefly becomes the super-powered Patriot, while Wonder Woman is briefly robbed of her powers, as part of a scheme of the Angle Man. [Wonder Woman #174] | ||
- | * The Atom saves a mynah bird who becomes his partner Major Mynah. [The Atom #37] | ||
- | * January 29-February 5: The Flash and Superman have their second race when Abra Kadabra and the Reverse-Flash, | ||
- | * February 6-12: Clark Kent assists an archeologist named Prof. Steele, whose expedition is financed by the Daily Planet, when a strange-looking alien attacks. While Superman battles the alien, Prof. Steele is killed by a falling boulder. Clark takes the death very hard and decides he is unable to continue as Superman, desiring instead to start over under a new name in a more ordinary life. Leaving behind his Superman costume in the Fortress of Solitude, Clark flies a spacecraft to the planet Moxia, which is under a red sun and hasn't had a war or crime for nearly a century. There, he adopts the new identity of Clarken, a research and development scientist at the Computron Company, and falls in love with a blonde computer programmer named Lloru, daughter of Rolgar the plant manager. [" | ||
- | ===March, 1978=== | ||
- | * Batman, Batgirl and Wonder Woman battle Copperhead (1st appearance) [The Brave and the Bold #78] | ||
- | * Robby Reed's H-Dial turns him into a villain. [House of Mystery #173] | ||
- | * Deadman seeks Batman' | ||
- | * March 7: An alien conqueror named Kromn appears on Moxia, proclaiming himself the planet' | ||
- | * March 8-11: Superman and Jax-Ur learn that Krypton was actually destroyed by Black Zero, an agent of the interstellar Pirate Empire, and Jax-Ur executes him before being sent back to the Phantom Zone. ["The Man Who Destroyed Krypton," | ||
- | * March 13-15: Jimmy Olsen first discovers his past lives by visiting previous reincarnations. [" | ||
- | * March 12-18: Superman battles the Annihilator, | ||
- | * March 19-23: The Parasite is accidentally brought back to life by an alien geographer whom he kills by absorbing his life force. Gaining journalistic abilities through brief contacts with Daily Planet reporters, the Parasite becomes reporter Larcon P. Leech and teams up with Clark Kent as a tryout, even as he slowly begins to steal Superman' | ||
- | ===April, 1978=== | ||
- | * Sargon the Sorcerer turns evil, and the Flash must battle him. [The Flash #186] | ||
- | * Hawk & Dove make their debut. [Showcase #75] | ||
- | * Angel and Ape get their first case. [Showcase #77] | ||
- | * April 8-16: Superman is infected by Virus X, known as Kryptonian leprosy, which was created by Lex Luthor. Since there is no cure for Virus X, Superman says goodbye to the world and all the people he loves, before being placed in a rocket to be shot into Flammbron, the hottest sun in the universe, in order to ensure that the Virus X strain in his body is also destroyed. The people of Lexor, learning of Luthor' | ||
- | * April 16-19: Supergirl contacts Kandor and asks the Kandorians to choose a new Superman from their worthiest candidates, and the Kandorians cut off all outside communication as they make their decision. In Superman' | ||
- | ===May, 1978=== | ||
- | * Private detective Jonny Double has first public case. [Showcase #78] | ||
- | * May 20-25: Lois Lane is brought to the year 4068 A.D., where she learns that she and Superman will be married but killed on the way to their honeymoon in an ambush by the Executioners, | ||
- | ===June, 1978=== | ||
- | * Mera is abducted. Aquaman quests to find her. [Aquaman #40] | ||
- | * Jonny Double meets Zatanna. [Disappearing Act] | ||
- | * Hal Jordan becomes a travelling salesman for the Merlin Toy Company. [Green Lantern v2 #70] | ||
- | * Garfield Logan lands the part of Tork on 'Space Trek 2020'. | ||
- | * June 4: The android Red Tornado II, created by T.O. Morrow to be a mole in the JSA, ends up saving both the JLA and the JSA from Morrow' | ||
- | * June 7: Superman battles Vor-Kil, an escaped prisoner from the Phantom Zone. ["The Super Heat-Wave of Metropolis," | ||
- | * June 6-8: A warlord named Klamos the Mighty who has conquered an entire distant galaxy and rules from the planet Cronta, has his emissaries search the universe for the most beautiful and powerful females. Wonder Woman and Supergirl are captured and taken to Cronta, where they are forced to battle all other contestants until they are the only two left. Teaming up, Wonder Woman and Supergirl overcome Klamos and discover he is a robot controlled by a dwarfish, homely man named Grok, who posed as Klamos' | ||
- | * June 11: The JLA is briefly captured by Doctor Anomaly, who is really a scientist named Dr. Phineas Quayle who traveled through time from the 1930s to find that the world has not become the futuristic wonderland that science fiction always promised, and he places the blame on the public' | ||
- | * June 12-15: Orr, the Bizarro World of the far future, by which time the Bizarros have evolved to a more logical, humanlike state, temporarily displaces the present-day Bizarro World when the Orrians mistake Superman and Batman for the founders of their world. ["The Hunter and the Hunted," | ||
- | * June 16-17: Superman returns to Earth after visiting New Krypton on the anniversary of the original Krypton' | ||
- | * June 18-24, 1978: Vitar, a member of the Superman Emergency Squad of Kandor, grows jealous of Superman having two girlfriends (Lois Lane and Lana Lang) and determines to win them both from him. Masquerading as a genie from a bottle by using an enlarging spray, Vitar meets both Lois and Lana and appeals to them to give him a chance by coming to live in Kandor for a while, since he's willing to marry one of them, while Superman has been keeping them both at a distance for years. Despite Superman' | ||
- | ===July, 1978=== | ||
- | * Titans meet the Starfire from Russia [Teen Titans #18] | ||
- | * June 30-July 3: Jimmy Olsen passes through an ancient obelisk-like artifact discovered by Prof. Lewis Lang and finds himself on a parallel Earth known as the Planet of the Capes in which a ruling class who wears capes rules over everyone else as slaves. Jimmy discovers that the mysterious scientist named Dr. X, who supplies the ruling class with capes, is really that universe' | ||
- | * June 24-July 4: In Kandor, Lois Lane becomes a detective, while Lana Lang becomes an archeologist. After spending a week in the Isolation Zone for being AWOL from the Superman Emergency Squad, Vitar romances Lois and Lana, but find a rival in Vitar' | ||
- | * July 5-6: Lois Lane meets " | ||
- | * July 20-25: When Superman' | ||
- | ===August, 1978=== | ||
- | * Wonder Woman loses her powers when the Amazons leave for another dimension, and she becomes a martial arts master under her name, Diana Prince. [Wonder Woman #178] | ||
- | * Wildcat (Ted Grant) crosses over from Earth-2 and spends time as a hero here. [Lost Heroes] | ||
- | * August 2-6: The Big Four Syndicate, each one having one of Superman' | ||
- | * August 3-7: Linda Danvers co-stars in a movie called //Queen of the Islands//, starring Zita Monroe and Brand Burton (also the director-producer), | ||
- | * August 7: The now-powerless Wonder Woman (Diana Prince) tries resigns from the JLA, but she is instead granted a leave of absence. ["A Matter of Menace," | ||
- | * August 13-15: Jimmy Olsen is temporarily given the ability to breathe water and command sea creatures by the god Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, who uses Aqua-Jimmy in his attempt to cause Aquaman' | ||
- | * August 8-16: Lois Lane is given super-powers by Dr. Cor-Lar of Kandor, and she becomes Super-Lois, proposing to Superman now that she's invulnerable to everything, including kryptonite. After Superman accepts Lois' proposal, and they set a wedding date, Dr. Cor-Lar tricks Lois into thinking she'll die if she doesn' | ||
- | * August 17-20: Lois Lane, feeling dejected when Superman forgets her birthday for no good reason, decides to start a new life in Coral City, Florida, as a nurse under the name of Lois Lorne. ["Get Out of My Life, Superman," | ||
- | * August 20: The JLA meets the Creeper and a would-be teenage super-hero called the Mind-Grabber Kid (alias Lucian Crawley), who possesses telekinesis. [" | ||
- | * August 10-24: Lex Luthor and the Joker team up against Superman and Batman once more, this time using a chronal displacer to bring into the present Benedict Arnold, Baron von Munchhausen, | ||
- | * August 31: After discovering that the Martian civilization has been destroyed by the Blue Flame of Mars, because of Commander Blanx of the White Martians, J'onn J'onzz (Martian Manhunter) resigns from the JLA to help his people find a new world. ["And So My World Ends," Justice League of America #71 (May, 1969)] | ||
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- | ===September, | ||
- | * Dick Grayson starts college at Hudson University in New Carthage. Batman and Alfred move to the Wayne Foundation building. [Batman #217] | ||
- | * Oliver Queen grows a beard and mustache, while Green Arrow adopts a new costume, but continues to wear his original costume during JLA cases until mid-October. [The Brave and the Bold #85] | ||
- | * Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) goes bankrupt when rival businessman John Deleon frames him in order to take over the Queen Fund's accounts, an experience that radicalizes Green Arrow and causes him to adopt very liberal views. //Note: These events occur about a month before the rest of this story.// ["In Each Man There is a Demon," | ||
- | * Jonny Double involved with a case with the Challengers. [Challengers of the Unknown #74] | ||
- | * Zatanna helps the Flash fight Xarkon. [The Flash #198] | ||
- | * While Batman nabs a spy selling secrets to the Soviets, Wildcat must confront an old rival in the ring. [The Brave and the Bold #88] | ||
- | * September 1-11: Mordru the Merciless of the 30th century gets his revenge on Superman by imprisoning him in a super-vault, | ||
- | * September 4-20: Lois Lane, now living as Nurse Lois Lorne in Coral City, meets an astronaut named Commander Rand Kirby and falls in love as she nurses him back to health after a rocket accident. Meanwhile, Superman has been pining for Lois ever since she left Metropolis. When Perry White sends Clark Kent down to Coral City for a story on the new Venus Project at the Cape Coral National Space Center, Clark discovers that Lois has fallen in love with someone else, and Superman' | ||
- | * September 22: On the anniversary of United Worlds Day, Earth is made an honorary member of the United Worlds, an interplanetary organization much like the United Nations, thanks to Superman and the JLA. ["The Only Way to Kill Superman," | ||
- | ===October, 1978=== | ||
- | * Aquaman and Mera are reunited. [Aquaman #48] | ||
- | * Hawkman battles the Gentleman Ghost for the first time. [The Atom and Hawkman #43-44] | ||
- | * September 27-October 1: Fed up by Lois Lane's utter disinterest in Clark Kent, Superman becomes a carnival fortune-teller named Dr. Astar. Clark supposedly commits suicide by jumping over a waterfall in a fit of despair. Dr. Astar begins romancing Lois. [" | ||
- | * October 5-6: The JLA and the JSA team up to battle Aquarius on Earth-2, who forces the mind-controlled JSA to fight the JLA. When Larry Lance is killed, Black Canary decides to relocate to Earth-1. But as Superman brings her there, she is discovered to have been exposed to a fatal dose of radiation from Aquarius. Thunderbolt brings them to the Thunderbolt dimension, where he exchanges Black Canary' | ||
- | * October 7-8: Jimmy Olsen temporarily gains hyper-strength after ingesting a serum called hyperon, invented by Dr. Fludder. [" | ||
- | * October 12: Superman meets his godfather, Rol-Nac, a space traveler who visited Krypton before its destruction and became close friends with Jor-El and Lara, naming their son Kal-El in the naming ceremony. //Note: Although Rol-Nac is mentioned as a new member of the Superman Family who will be seen again very soon, he never appears again except in a flashback to his time on Krypton.// ["The Devil' | ||
- | * October 13: Black Canary discovers that she possesses ultrasonic powers (her canary cry), but she is initially unable to emit them in the right direction. ["In Each Man There is a Demon," | ||
- | * October 9-10, 14: The Robot-Teacher from Krypton, invented by Jor-El to teach Kal-El how to properly use his super-powers on Earth, returns to Earth to force Supergirl to retire, convinced that females are unable to handle super-powers, | ||
- | * October 14-16: Superman is summoned to Oa by the Guardians of the Universe in order to save time itself from the invasion of faster-than-light beings from another dimension called the Anachronids. Superman and the Flash hold their third race, with the Flash holding a green medallion that uses all the energy from the Central Power Battery, temporarily leaving the entire Green Lantern Corps helpless. Superman and the Flash, entering the universe where the Anachronids came from, discover that Kru-El, Jax-Ur, General Zod, and Prof. Vakox escaped from the Phantom Zone into this dimension and created the robotic Anachronids in order to weaken the barriers between the Phantom Zone and Earth-1, thereby freeing all the prisoners and leaving them to rule what remains of the universe. As time begins to go awry, Superman and the Flash manage to turn off the Anachronids at the last moment, thereby saving the universe. ["Race to Save the Universe," | ||
- | * October 16: Karol Wojtyla, a Polish cardinal, becomes Pope John Paul II. | ||
- | * October 16-19: When Superman (as Dr. Astar) finds a shrine to Clark Kent in Lois Lane's apartment, he realizes that Lois is pining for Clark, so as Dr. Astar he predicts Clark' | ||
- | * October 20-22: While battling an intelligent space seed seeking to destroy the Earth, Superman and the Flash switch costumes in order to confuse the seed, but lose their memories and awaken on Earth, where they assume each other' | ||
- | * October 22-24: Super-Pancho becomes the guardian of Remora Island in the South Pacific. ["The Revolt of the Super-Slave," | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * Travis Morgan' | ||
- | * November 1-11: A spy takes the place of Clark Kent, who is accidentally struck by an invisible amnesia ray from an other-dimensional super-computer Superman brought to Earth. Sent off in a helicopter that crashes, Superman emerges from the burning wreckage without any memory of being Clark Kent. Searching for a clue to his secret identity, he theorizes that he may be the missing President of the United States. Disguising himself as the President, Superman assumes presidential duties in the White House until he discovers that the real President is returning from secret treaty negotiations out at sea. Returning to Metropolis, Superman wonders if he is a wrestler called the Masked Superman, and he assumes his identity. After discovering that the Masked Superman was only a fan of his, Superman searches for the wrestler all over the world and finds him an amnesiac shipwrecked on an island, then uses a fear tactic to restore his memory before bringing him home. Superman, fearing he might be Jud " | ||
- | * November 16: The JLA members reveal their secret identities to each other after Doctor Light uses their lack of knowledge of each other' | ||
- | * November 18: The followers of Jim Jones commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. | ||
- | * November 18-19: Supergirl meets the teenage super-hero Volar, alias Ren Uoxon of the planet Torma, 2nd planet of star-sun 447B. Hoping that Volar will be her perfect romantic match, Supergirl is shocked to learn that Volar is really a girl disguised as a boy in order to be accepted in her extremely chauvinistic society. Once it becomes impossible to maintain the disguise, Volar determines to continue being a hero as a girl, even if it means fighting centuries-old prejudices. ["The Heroine Haters," | ||
- | * November 12-14, 19: Lois Lane meets Dahr-Nel of Krypton and, while she's angry with Superman, becomes engaged with him. But as they use a time transport to take them to a future era similar to that of lost Krypton, Dahr-Nel is killed through a fluke chemical reaction that turns his body into green kryptonite. ["Lois Lane's Future Husband," | ||
- | * November 20-23: Superman and Diana Prince (who has apparently regained her Wonder Woman powers, as well as gained some new ones) become engaged after spending much time together. But Lois Lane discovers the real Diana Prince locked away, and the fake Diana unmasks herself as a Phantom Zone prisoner named Ar-Ual, who plans to take Wonder Woman' | ||
- | * November 25: Superman and Supergirl meet Princess Vee-Raa, who claims to be from Galaxy XL-9; in reality, she is from the Inner-World and is the sister of Prince Raynor. ["The Jilting of Supergirl," | ||
- | * November 29-30: Jimmy Olsen meets a man who believes he is his father, Mark Olsen, learning that Mark has spent four out of five years in self-imprisonment in a glass prison beneath his mansion in order to pay for a terrible crime against a tribe in the Yucatan. After learning his father' | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * December 1-2: Lois Lane temporarily switches places with the Lois Lane from an alternate mirror universe in which that Lois has married Superman, and they have a young son named Jor. ["The Lois Lane in the Mystic Mirror," | ||
- | * December 14-15: Fired from the Daily Planet, Clark Kent takes up a new career as a stage magician called Kento the Great, using magic equipment left to him by the late Mr. Presto. [" | ||
- | * December 16-17: Because of his massive inferiority complex, Snapper Carr falls under the influence of John "Mr. Average" | ||
- | * December 17: Jimmy Olsen learns that the man who thinks he is his father Mark Olsen is really his father' | ||
- | * December 11-12, 18-19: Supergirl meets and falls in love with Prince Raynor of the Inner-World, | ||
- | * December 25: Batman is able to spend the evening with the GCPD without any crimes happening. [Batman #219] | ||
- | * December 27: Perry White fires Jimmy Olsen, who gets a new job as a publicity agent for Kento the Great (Clark Kent). [" | ||
- | * December 30: Perry White rehires Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen with raises in exchange for an exclusive story. [" | ||
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- | ====1979==== | ||
- | ===January, 1979=== | ||
- | * JLA moves to their satellite headquarters. [Justice League of America #78, 130] | ||
- | * Jimmy Olsen is promoted from cub reporter to full reporter at the Daily Planet. [Superman' | ||
- | * The New Year brings a new mystery for the Caped Crusader. [Lights Out!] | ||
- | * Dr. Light finds paradise in a faraway space system, until an familiar sight comes and interupts his fun. [Twenty-six Light Years From Home] | ||
- | * Deimos takes Joshua Morgan. Travis and his friends must find the child. [Warlord #16] | ||
- | * The Flash learns that Iris is from the 30th Century. [The Flash #203] | ||
- | * Jimmy Olsen is reunited with his father, Prof. Mark Olsen. [Superman' | ||
- | * Dr. Arthur Swenson, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is assassinated, | ||
- | * January 7: The Pol Pot regime in Cambodia collapses. | ||
- | * January 16: The Shah leaves Iran after a year of turmoil. | ||
- | ===February, | ||
- | * Green Arrow and Black Canary begin to date. [Justice League of America #79] | ||
- | * Orion comes to Earth, followed by Lightray. [New Gods #1] | ||
- | * Flash battles the evil Sargon once more. [The Flash #207] | ||
- | * Green Arrow and Green Lantern become well-travelled heroes for about seven months. [Green Lantern v2 #76 - 89] | ||
- | * February 1: The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini takes over Iran in a revolution. | ||
- | ===March, 1979=== | ||
- | * Kirk Langstrom turned into the Man-Bat. [Detective Comics #400] | ||
- | * At age 13, Raven first learns of her father. [Tales of the Teen Titans #2] | ||
- | * Lois Lane is briefly married a fourth time to death-row convict Johnny Adonis as his last request, but although a jailbreak stops his execution he is later killed saving her life. [Superman' | ||
- | * Scott Free becomes Mister Miracle. [Mister Miracle #1] | ||
- | * March 28: The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident occurs, releasing radiation. | ||
- | ===April, 1979=== | ||
- | * The Teen Titans attempt to prove the Mad Mod's innocence. [False Suit] | ||
- | * Batman seeks an amnesiac Wildcat in Mexico. [The Brave and the Bold #97]. | ||
- | ===May, 1979=== | ||
- | * Leo Barone witnesses the murder of a close friend and vows to bring the murderer, Joey Catigliano, to justice. [ B&B: Cats] | ||
- | * The JLA and Zatanna fight the heroes of Angor. [Justice League of America #87] | ||
- | * Zatanna and her manager Jeff Sloane have adventures in another dimenstion. [Adventure Comics #413-415] | ||
- | * The JLA and JSA (including both Robins) battle Solomon Grundy. [Justice League of America #91-92] | ||
- | * Superman meets the Forever People of New Genesis and the villainous Darkseid of Apokolips. [The Forever People #1] | ||
- | * Morgan Edge (actually an evil clone), owner of Galaxy Broadcasting, | ||
- | * Clark Kent becomes a TV reporter for WGBS. [Action Comics #398] | ||
- | * Scott Free meets Barda. [Mister Miracle #4] | ||
- | * All kryptonite on Earth is permanently turned into iron due to the explosion of a kryptonite reactor; as a result a sand-creature called the Quarrmmer is created, which begins to suck away Superman' | ||
- | * Travis Morgan storms the castle of Deimos, and must fight a clone of his son aged to maturity. [Warlord #20-21] | ||
- | * The JLA battles Johnny Dune. [Justice League of America #95] | ||
- | * May 3: Margaret Thatcher becomes the new British prime minister. | ||
- | ===June, 1979=== | ||
- | * Kid Flash and Mal are hurled back in time and cause an alternate reality. Upon correcting the problem, they bring a caveman, Gnarrk, back to the present day with them. Gnarrk falls in love with Lilith. [Teen Titans #32-33] | ||
- | * The JLA, Adam Strange and Sargon battle the cosmic vampire Starbreaker. [Justice League of America #96-98] | ||
- | * Jonny Double hired by Nasthalia Luthor to trail Linda Danvers. [Adventure Comics #418] | ||
- | * Lana Lang gives up her love for Superman and leaves Metropolis to take a job overseas as a European correspondent for the Galaxy Broadcasting System. [Superman' | ||
- | * Superman becomes the temporary guardian of Gregor Nagy. [Action Comics #400] | ||
- | * Green Arrow learns that Roy Harper has been doing heroin. [Green Lantern v2 #86-86] | ||
- | * June 14: President Carter and Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement. | ||
- | ===July, 1979=== | ||
- | * Superman and Supergirl deal with a threat from space and the parties behind it. [Rocks And A Hard Place] | ||
- | * With the help of Diana Prince and I-Ching, Superman discovers that the Quarrmmer has exactly half of all his powers, but he decides he doesn' | ||
- | * July 14-19: Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, and the Sandinistas form the government. | ||
- | ===August, 1979=== | ||
- | * Green Arrow joins a monastery [The Flash #218] | ||
- | ===September, | ||
- | * JLA and JSA rescue the time lost Seven Soldiers of Victory [Justice League of America #100-102] | ||
- | * Lex Luthor commits his first known murder. [Action Comics #407] | ||
- | ===October, 1979=== | ||
- | * Lex Luthor creates the Galactic Golem. [Superman #248] | ||
- | * Superman encounters the Terra-Man (Toby Manning). [Superman #249] | ||
- | * Lucy Lane is apparently killed in a canoeing accident, and Lois Lane discovers that she was a member of the 100. [Superman' | ||
- | * The Phantom Stranger seeks the aid of the JLA. [Justice League of America #103] | ||
- | ===November, | ||
- | * Barbara Gordon is elected to Congress. Leaves Gotham for Washington DC. [Detective Comics #424] | ||
- | * Elongated Man and Red Tornado join the JLA. [Justice League of America #105, 106] | ||
- | * As a result of her sister' | ||
- | * Jonny Double and Diana Prince work together on a case. [Wonder Woman #199] | ||
- | * Mister Miracle and Big Barda are married. [Mister Miracle #18} | ||
- | * JLA and JSA team up with Freedom Fighters on Earth-X. [Justice League of America #107-108] | ||
- | * Travis Morgan learns the truth about the sinking of Atlantis and his prior incarnations through history. [Warlord #27] | ||
- | * November 4: The Iran Hostage Crisis begins when Iranian militants seize the U.S. embassy in Tehran. | ||
- | ===December, | ||
- | * Hawkman and Hawkgirl return to Thanagar. [Justice League of America #109] | ||
- | * Jason Blood becomes the Demon Etrigan once more when Morgaine Le Fey returns. [The Demon #1] | ||
- | * The real Morgan Edge reassumes control of Galaxy Broadcasting when his evil clone dies after attempting to kill him. [Superman' | ||
- | * John Stewart fills in for Hal during a JLA holiday case. [Justice League of America #110] | ||
- | * The Odd Man has a single public case before disappearing. [Detective Comics #487] | ||
- | * December 27: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, | ||
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