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Major event/story arc (usually 3 issues or more).	Origin and/or first public appearance of a character/team.	Major events which are pre-Crisis or otherwise out-of-continuity	Death of a hero/villain

1930

Testing his invention, the faster-than-light ship, Paran Katar (future father of Katar Hol) arrives on Earth where he will spend the next several years under the alias of Perry Carter.
Comet X passes close to Earth, activating the mutant abilities of newborn Adam Blake
The Starheart fragment in the shape of a lantern is brought out of China and given to a mental patient, whom it then cures

1932

Johnny Chambers' parents die. His guardian, Professor Ezra Gill, develops a math formula for coordinating gravity and electricity: 3X2(9YZ)4A, unlocking the secret of space and time. Z25Y(2AB)6 stops it. Later, Gill dies	All-Star Squadron #65 (January 1987)
November: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of United States. Henry Knight elected to Congress

1933

In Keystone City, KS District Attorney Clifford DeVoe (age 30) begins to form a secret criminal organization as The Thinker
January 30: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
March 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugerated
A gigantic ape is shot down off a New York City skyscraper. The body is picked up by the government's Project "M"	Young All-Stars #12 (May 1988)

1934

August 19: Hitler becomes sole ruler of Germany

1935

June: Dr. Richard Occult and Rose Psychic, followers of the Seven, become active mystics and set up paranormal investigation agency.

1936

----Dr. Mist teaches magicians	Secret Origins Vol. 2 #
June: Jesse Owens and Will Everett win at Berlin Olympic Games.
November 1: Franklin Delano Rosevelt re-elected
December: Lee W. Travis becomes publisher of the New York Daily Globe-Leader
December 31: Louis Sendak meets his future wife Elinore at a new Years Eve party in Times Square

1937

June: Brian O'Brien (age 48) begins adventuring as The Clock.	Funny Pages #6 (November 1936) / Feature Funnies #3 (December 1937)
From 1902 to 1936 A.D., Whip Whirlwind time-jumps to a number of times and establishes a number of heroic identities. He finally reappears in 1937 and becomes Quicksilver. (By the late 20th century he uses the name Max Mercury.)
Nadir, Master of Magic begins using his magical abilities to fight crime.	New Adventure Comics #17 (July 1937)
September 10: Zatara (age 19½) has his first professional engagement as a stage magician.	Secret Origins #27 (June 1988)
November 7: While studying many books on magic, he discovers one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks (Leonardo is an ancestor of Zatara, whose family line contains the blood of the Homo Magi). It is then that he first learns to wield true magic.	Secret Origins #27 (June 1988)

1938

Winter: Having once again taken up his stage career after a few months of study, Zatara the magician begins using his special abilities in the fight against crime and Nazi spies.
Upon returning from Asia wealthy socialite Wesley Dodds is haunted by strange dreams, that makes him don a cape and gas-mask to become the Sandman.
June: Kryptonian scientist Jor-El sends the gestation matrix of his unborn son into hyperspace towards Earth, a world 50 light years distant. The planet Krypton explodes, killing all its inhabitants. Prior to the planet's destruction, Manhunter agents of Krypton, aware of the effects of a yellow sun on a Kryptonian, contact their superiors regarding Jor-El's son.
October 30: Dressed up for a costume ball Lee Travis, publisher of the New York Daily Globe-Leader, fights a group of criminals dressed up as Martians during Orson Welles broadcast of "War of the Worlds" and decides to keep on fighting for good as the Crimson Avenger.	Secret Origins #5
December 7-9: The Crimson Avenger stops the German SS division known as The Black Cross, gets "gas gun"	Crimson Avenger #1-#4
December 31: Rex Tyler develops Miraclo at age 23 and begins adventuring as The Hour-Man. Meets The Sandman	Sandman Mystery Theatre #29-#32

1939

February: Ted Knight meets Wesley Dodds. The Mist begins villainous career	Sandman Mystery Theatre #37-#41
April: "Red" Dugan, "Whitey" Smith and "Blooey" Blue begin adventuring as Red, White and Blue; "Hop" Harrigan (age 17) begins adventuring	All-American Comics #1
April 13: Sandra Knight (age 21) foils an assassination attempt and begins adventuring as The Phantom Lady.	All-Star Squadron #41
April 30: The New York World's Fair opens, Mayor LaGuardia is attacked by The Phantom of the Fair	Secret Origins #7 [Note: No longer in continuity]
Spring: Terrence Curtis secretly splits the atom.
June 10: The Sandman and The Crimson Avenger save England's Royal Family from Elektro	Secret Origins #7 [Note: No longer in continuity]
August: Kent Thurston begins adventuring as the Hooded Justice. After just one appearance he changes his name to the Invisible Justice, and later again to the Invisible Hood.	Smash Comics #1 (August 1939) [Quality Comics]
---- Wes Dodds and others assist Janos Prohaska	Sandman Mystery Theatre #48-#48
Summer: Scientist Darrel Dane (age 23) develops a formula for shrinking living creatures. Having tested it on rat with good results, Darrel decides to test the formula on himself shrinking him to six inches high. Soon afterwards he begins adventuring as the Doll Man	Feature Comics #27 (December 1939) [Quality Comics]
---- Johnny Thunder (age 22) begins adventuring	Flash Comics #1 (January 1940)
While a student at Midwestern University in Keystone City, Jay Garrick accidentally inhaled the fumes of an experimental form of "hard water," which somehow enabled him to tap into the Speed Force, thus endowing him with superspeed powers. When the father of his fiancee was kidnapped he created the identity of the Flash and rescued him.	Flash Comics #1 (January 1940)
September 1: Germany attacks Poland; Janos Prohaska (age 27) joins with others to become Blackhawk and the Blackhawk Squadron	Military Comics #1
September 8: After subconscious help from the Thanagarian alien Paran Katar, Carter Hall (age 25) begins adventuring as The Hawkman, meets Shierra Saunders (age 24), and defeats Dr. Anton Hastor	Flash Comics #1 (January 1940)
September 8: Libby Lawrence meets Rick Cannon, her father is killed.	All-Star Squadron #61 (September 1986)
September 14: The Ultra-Humanite is defeated [Zilch]
October: Al Pratt is mugged, he meets Joe Morgan and begins training
October 31: Detective Jim Corrigan (age 39) is murdered, joins with The Avenging Spirit to become The Spectre	More Fun Comics #52-53
November: Alan Ladd Scott (age 25) finds the "magic lantern", begins adventuring as The Green Lantern	All-American Comics #16
November 15: Hank Heywood (age 23) begins adventuring as Steel	Steel, the Indestuctable Man #1
November 20: Having perfected the Gravity Rod, a device able to harness cosmic energy, Theodore Knight dons a costume and use the device to fight crime in Opal City as Starman.
Winter: District Attorney Brian Butler (age 33) begins adventuring as Mr. Scarlett	Wow Comics #1
December: Steel defeats The Mineral Master (Dr. Moag), captures the mobster Emil "Sledgehammer" Sledgski and captures The Gadgeteer (Roger Romaine)	Steel, the Indestuctable Man #2-#4
c. 1939??? A.D. Richard Henry Benson ???... the Avenger ... Justice, Inc..
1939 A.D. Terrence Curtis secretly splits the atom. Carter Hall, the reincarnation of the Egyptian prince Khufu, becomes the golden age Hawkman. Johnny Thunder discovers his Thunderbolt. Rodney E. Gaynor becomes the second El Castigo the Whip. Rex Tyler becomes the golden age Hourman. King Standish a.k.a. the King ??? The time-traveling 1990's Hawkman and Flash?? meet Carter Hall.
----------Claiming to be a distant relative, Perry Carter manages to join archeologist Carter Hall's expedition to the temple of Horus and destroy all but a few of the samples of Thanagarian technology that they discover.???????????

1940

--------------Zilch Begins----------- January: Richard Grey Jr. (age 28) returns to America and begins adventuring as The Black Condor, taking on the identity of murdered US congressman Thomas Wright	Crack Comics #1
--Sven Nelson investigates a mysterious pyramid with his son Kent ( 12 ). Accidentily triggering a guardian device, Nabu kills Sven and adopts and transforms Kent into the composite entity known as Doctor Fate ( 27* )//MF# 55//; Doctor Fate battles the wizard Wotan and meets Inza Cramer ( 21 )///ASSq# 47///
Rex and Pooch are whelped; Pooch goes into K-9 training, Rex is given a Cortoxin/Steroid compound that causes increased stamina and super-intellegence
February: Steel battles The Black Assassin, then is captured by Nazis
February: Alan Armstrong begins adventuring as Spy-Smasher	Whiz Comics #1 [#2 in indica] (February 1940)
February: The wizard Shazam reawakens Prince Amentep from a 400 year sleep. Amentep begins adventuring as Ibis the Invincible	Whiz Comics #1 [#2 in indica] (February 1940)
March: During an escape attempt at a concentration camp, a Nazi Major is disfigured; he later undergoes metahuman augmentation to become Baron Blitzkrieg
March: "King" Standish begins adventuring?	Flash Comics #3
April: Alan Scott meets Irene Miller, has first big case as The Green Lantern, moves to Gotham City and begins work at WGBS	All-American Comics #18-#19
April: Dave Clark (age 24) begins adventuring as Midnight	Smash Comics #18
May: Jim Barr (age 25) develops Nth Metal variant and Miraclo/Steroid compound, and begins adventuring as Bulletman	Master Comics #1
May: Tom Halloway begins adventuring as The Spider, clandestinely begins criminal activities; Jim Lockhart begins adventuring as The Red Torpedo	Crack Comics #1
May: Tom Dalton begins adventuring as Magno	Smash Comics #13
May: Dr. Charles McNider is blinded by gangsters, undergoes experimental eye and brain surgery
May 10: Winston Spenser Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England
May 11: The Blackhawk Squadron's first mission under the direction of MI-5 takes place; members present include: Janos (Blackhawk) Prohaska, Stanislaus Drozowski and Zegota Juanuszatis of Poland, Boris Zinoviev of Russia, Ian Holcolmb-Baker of England, Andre Blanc-DuMont of France, Olaf Friedriksen of Sweeden, Ritter Henricksen of Denmark, Carlo "Chuck" Sirianni and Weng "Chop Chop" Chen of the United States [Zinoviev, Holcomb-Baker and "Zeg" are killed in action before 1942]	Military Comics #1
June 4: Libby Lawrence (age 20) swims to England as Dunkirk evacuations end
July: French Legionaire Tom Corbett (age 20) finds the "Neonic Pool", begins adventuring as Neon the Unknown
July: District Attorney Rich Raliegh (age 28) begins adventuring as The Red Bee	Hit Comics #1
July: A elderly patriot named Sam collects the American Talisman and becomes Uncle Sam	National Comics #1
August: The Flash and Green Lantern defeat Alien X, its' existience is covered up by the US government	Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends #1-#2
August: John Sargent (age 21) begins stage career and adventuring as Sargon the Sorcerer	All-American Comics #25
August: Libby Lawrence begins adventuring as Liberty Belle	All-Star Squadron #61
August: Dr. Charles McNider (age 29) discovers his "night vision", begins adventuring as Dr. Mid-Nite	All-American Comics #25
September: Assisted by his time-travelling son Ray, Happy Terril is merged with the "light creature", and begins adventuring as The Ray	Smash Comics #14
October: Abigial "Ma" Hunkel (age 34), inspired by the costumed Green Lantern, begins adventuring as The Red Tornado	All-American Comics #20
October: the Crimson Avenger and Wing begin wearing "super-heroic" costumes	Detective Comics #44
October: Al Pratt (age 18) ends his training, begins adventuring as The Atom	All-American Comics #18
November: Max Mercury appears, begins adventuring	National Comics #5
November: Hitler's Black Cross troops aquire the Spear of Destiny
November 9: To help thwart the invasion of England by Nazi Germany, President Roosevelt supplies Brittish Intelligence (MI-5) with the services of Flash and Green Lantern, who undertake a secret mission against fifth columnists in Scotland, but are defeated and taken to Berlin to be executed. Learning of their capture, Dr. Fate takes Hourman with him to free the heroes, but Valkyries are summoned from the Asgardian plane to battle them. Fate then summons Sandman, Atom, Hawkman, and the Spectre from America to help the Brittish successfully repel the German naval attack. Then the heroes suddenly find themselves in Washinton D.C. where they unite in stopping a long-range bomber from launching a missile over the White House. The Atom then saves the president from being killed by a valkyrie, whereupon the warrior-maidens vanish. The eight heroes then deside to meet a few weeks later to officially form the Justice Society of America.	Secret Origins #31
November 22: The first meeting of the Justice Society of America took place, and the group was officially formed. Hawkman is elected team chairman. Johnny Thunder and The Red Tornado sneak into the meeting. Johnny Thunder given honorary status. They begin on their first case, tracking down spies suspected by J. Edgar Hoove (he is awarded "associate status").	All-Star Comics #3-#4
November 25: "Tex" Thompson (age 31) begins adventuring as Mr. America	Action Comics #33
Late November: The Justice Society took on their first case and went up against a group of fifth columnists known as the Grey Shirts.

1941

While treating an important witness against a top mobster, Dr. Charles McNider is caught in a bomb blast meant for his patient. Allthough he survived, McNider is blinded by the blast seemingly ending his career. Sometime later he discovers that he has regained his sight in darkness and is only incapable of seeing in daylight. This discovery leads him to create the costumed identity of Dr. Mid-Nite.
Sargon
Museum curator Dr. Moresby found the block of ice, that had kept the Sir Justin in suspended animation since the 6th century, floating off Englands coast. Moresby freed the ancient warrior and brought him to New York City and gave him the identity of Justin Arthur, his assistant. Later, Sir Justin stopped a group of group of criminals that had robbed the museum. After that he decided to keep on fighting injustice as the Shining Knight.
Star-Spangled Kid, Stripesy
Dr. Fate new helmet
When country singer Greg Sanders father, a sheriff in Wyoming, was killed by a group of thieves, Greg returned to track them down. When he had found and apprehended the thives he decided to continue fighting crime as the Vigilante.
Shiera becomes Hawkgirl
Johnny Quick
December 7: The JSA'ers (exept for Hawkman, Dr. Mid-Nite, and Atom) are captured by Per Degaton a time traveller from 1947 and his helpers Wotan, Solomon Grundy, the Alchemist, and the Sky Pirate, all of whom he had plucked from sometime in the future. The JSA'ers were then brought to a cavern beneath a volcanic isle, where they were held captive by Wotan's magic auras.
7:55 A.M. the Japaneese initiated an unexpected aerial attack on Pearl Harbor.
As the news reach the U.S., the President send out for the JSA. Hawkman I, Atom I, and Dr. Mid-Nite responded to the calling and were joined by Liberty Belle, Johnny Quick, and Robotman. Together the six heroes agreed to join forces as the All-Star Squadron upon the request of President. The heroes then sat out to find and rescue the missing JSA'ers, and with the help of Phantom Lady I and the Shining Knight they succeeded. Degaton and the other villains however managed to escape as they were sent back to the time their own time.
December 8: Dragon King....... magical barrier [All-Star Squadron #4] U.S. declared war on Japan.
December 9: At a special meeting of the JSA it was decided to disband the JSA for the duration of the war, as the members wanted to enlist in the U.S. Army	All-Star Comics #11 / All-Star Squadron #5
Denette Reilly discovered that her brother was also the hero known as Firebrand. When Danette tried on one of her brothers costumes she suddenly burst into flames. Realizing that she was able to control the flow of the flames she decided to assume the identity of Firebrand II and joining the Squadron. Later Hawkman I, Atom I, Dr. Mid-Nite, Liberty Belle, Shining Knight, Johnny Quick, and Firebrand II took off for Mexico to find Shiera Hall. Here they encountered the Feathered Serpent, who held Shiera captive. .....
December 22: With the JSA enlisted the All-Star Squadron is called in to make sure that Winston Churchill arrives safely in the States. Baron Blitzkrieg ......'s attempt to replace the Prime Minister with a robot however succeds and it is only....... [All-Star Squadron #7????????]
December 31: [All-Star Squadron #8-9]

1942

January: The Vigilante becomes the guardian for Daniel Leong (age 15), who begins adventuring with him as Stuff the Chinatown Kid	Action Comics #45
January 2: Manilla taken by Japanese forces (Who is he/she???)
January 7: The All-Star Squadron battle Dr. Hastor	All-Star Squadron #10-#12
January 11: The Seven Soldiers of Victory battle Dr. Wilfred Doome	Leading Comics #3
January 13: First organizational meeting of the All-Star Squadron; Liberty Belle elected chairwoman	All-Star Squadron #13
January 15: Jim Harper (age 22) begins adventuring as The Guardian and battle Joe Morgan and the Starheart along with Flash, Green Lantern, Wildcat and Atom	All-Star Squadron Annual #1
January 15: Harper then becomes legal "guardian" for members of the Newsboy Legion SSC# 7 )
January 16: All-Star Squadron battle Nuclear (Percy Playboy)	All-Star Squadron #14
January 17: All-Star Squadron join forces with 1960's Justice Society and the Justice League of America to stop Per Degaton	All-Star Squadron #14-#15 / Justice League of America #209-#211

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1950

The Justice Society breaks up in response to governmental pressures. The Seven Soldiers of Victory are scattered across time and presumed dead.