Earth-Prime
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Meanwhile on Earth-Prime
After the success of A-list superheroes during the previous three years, 1941 saw the introduction of many more “next-tier” heroes. As you’ve been reading right here on Codex Omniversa, Starman made his debut (on the cover no less) in Adventure Comics #61 in March, Johnny Quick in More Fun Comics #71 in July, and, after…
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Quick Vigilante
Johnny Quick When young Johnny Chambers’ parents were killed in a car crash, Professor Ezra Gill became his guardian. Gill was a genius mathematician working on a formula for something he called, “the secret of space and time.” Gill told Johnny that when he died, he would pass the formula to him if he’d swear…
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Mid-1941
Ian Karkull, Pt. 2 After Dr. Fate left Ian Karkull a shadow to roam the world, Karkull met another villain, Wotan, whom, Dr. Fate had encased in an air bubble and left to die. The diabolic duo capture Inza and when Dr. Fate inevitably recused her… Update: Blackhawk When we first heard of Death Mayhew,…
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Shining Shadows
Ian Karkull One evening Kent Nelson and Inza attended a house party hosted by Everett Dahlen, an archeologist who sought the lost city of Ragnor in the Sahara with his partner, Ian Karkull. The party ended early when Dahlen was discovered dead and Nelson witnessed a strange, shadow-like creature leaving through the window. Meanwhile, in…
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April Fools’
The Freedom Brigade On an alternate earth, a team of superheroes fought crime for decades. When they retired, they led private lives, married, and had children. One day when their city of Megalopolis was threatened by a mad scientist… There was no harm in trying; however, the Freedom Brigade did not come out of retirement…
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Quality
The Spider Tom Hallaway was a millionaire playboy and big game hunter who used his skills to fight crime in the early 1940s using an alias, “the Spider.” Midnight After a long day of broadcasting, Dave Clark inadvertently stumbled into a deadly construction conspiracy and became… Plastic Man Patrick “Eel” O’Brien was a petty crook…
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Starman
When we last saw Ted Knight, Opal City playboy who preferred to devote his time to science rather than parties, he dismissed the television as something that would never catch on. He had subsequently become interested in the exploits of costumed mystery men who had been grabbing the headlines. There’s a temptation, almost, to join…
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Justice (Part 2)
When we last saw the group of heroes that stopped Hitler’s invasion of England, Flash commented that maybe they could have dinner sometime together to at least discuss the possibility of staying together as an army regiment. At a later date, Johnny Thunder was aware of the resulting meeting but was offended he was not…
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Justice (Part 1)
On a stormy night in Washington, D.C., a man named “Smythe” paid President Roosevelt a visit with news that the British spy network had learned Hitler intended to invade England at any moment. Lacking resources to repel a full-scale attack, Smythe was sent to plead for Roosevelt’s help. However, he handed Smythe a folder containing…
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Ladies’ Night Out
Fury, Part 1 It was a day when armored chariots rumbled through the streets, while the blue skies above glistened with the metallic sheen of warbirds bearing death and destruction. It was a time when north-born barbarians ruled Athens and all of Greece. During an escalating argument with her brother, Michael, Helena Kosmatos accused him…
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