Earth-Prime
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Green Lantern
Flashback: The Starheart When we last saw the Starheart, Marco Polo had selected it as a gift of appreciation from Kublai Khan in the form of a green lamp. Then… The patient later transformed it into a modern train lantern (see below.) 1940: Albert Dekker Albert Dekker was a ruthless businessman. Denied the contract to…
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Mid-1940s
Baron Blitzkrieg In the early days of Hitler’s Reich, a Prussian nobleman whose name is unknown, offered his castle as a retreat…. It would have been a wonderful way to spend the war years if it hadn’t been for that one young Jew, who broke away from the terrified herd, who struck out with a…
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Hourman & Dr. Fate
Flashback: Rex Tyler On a summer day in 1919 In Ithaca, New York, a mysterious stranger paid 6-year-old Rex Tyler a visit and gave him an hourglass… The memory haunted him until, as an adult, he realized the stranger was his adult self, although he had no explanation for how that could be. Hourman In…
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Crack & Nickel
Red Torpedo James Lockhard was a Navy engineer who invented an amazing one-man submarine he called, “the Red Torpedo.” The Spider In the early 1940s, Tom Hallaway was a millionaire playboy and big game hunter who used his skills to prey on gangsters and racketeers as “the Spider.” Madame Fatal In order to infiltrate criminal…
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The Spectre
FLASHBACK: The Spectre Force When we last saw the Wrath of God (aka the Spectre Force), formerly known as Aztar, the Presence had cast it into limbo… The Wrath of God swept over the Earth in full fury, until the archangel Michael confronted it: The first true “Spectre” was a man from India named Chakara.…
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1940, Part 1
Scribbly Jibbett In the 1940’s, Scribbly Jibbett was an amateur cartoonist who lived in New York City. He was a friend of a woman named Abigail “Ma” Hunkel. To be continued… Black Condor In 1940, a great ocean liner enters the beckoning harbor of the city called New York, at the close of a journey…
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1939, Part 3
Dian Belmont One night, a woman broke into the home of Wesley Dodds… In exchange for helping the Sandman round up her gang, he promised to help “the Lady in Evening Clothes” discover the identity of her father… Lawrence Belmont, an accomplished lawyer and district attorney. Subsequent to this revelation, she began to help the…
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1939, Part 2
Libby Lawrence, Pt. 2 In September of 1941, Libby Lawrence was in Poland with her father, Major James Lawrence. Major Lawrence was killed during an air raid by Nazi fighter planes. It was about this time she met Rick Cannon, whom she did not know was an Army intelligence officer and spy for the USA.…
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1939, Part 1
Wesley Dodds, Pt. 4 (The Sandman) Soon after he began having nightmares, Wesley Dodds built a laboratory in his basement and developed a formula for sedatives and hypnotic gases. An encounter with his old friend, Lee Travis, got him thinking about what he was doing with his life as a playboy. –but what if a…
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1938
Flashback: Lee Travis Although his family felt the pinch of the depression, Lee Travis’s godfather, Winston W. Smythe, had weathered the stock market better than most and he paid for Lee’s tuition. However, when Lee joined the Abraham Lincoln brigade in 1936… Winston Smythe had a change of heart, and when he died in the…
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