
Robotman For years, Dr. Robert Crane and his assistant, Chuck Grayson, worked to perfect a mechanical robot. When Crane was shot during a robbery and lay dying, Grayson successfully performed an operation to put his brain into the skull of the robot. Grayson had been accused of killing Crane and was arrested. Crane fashioned a…

Liberty Belle When we last saw Libby Lawrence, Rick Cannon had helped her escape from Poland to Amsterdam. Then… …he helped her escape to France, but she arrived just as the country surrendered to Hitler a month later. Then, one more time, he helped her escape to the United States. Libby became a darling of…

Clarice Winston When we last saw Clarice Winston, Jim Corrigan had bargained to save her life and was bound with the Spectre Force. Soon after, he told her there was no future between them (because he was dead) and said goodbye. I can’t explain in a way to make you understand. It’s just how it…

Roderick Burgess, Pt. 3 In 1936, Ethel Cripps left Ruthven Sykes and took the Dreamstone with her. Roderick Burgess was watching, and since Sykes was no longer protected by it, Burgess killed him… Blackhawk Janos Prohaska was a famed Polish aviator who flew with the Bill Heywood Squadron on the side of the Republicans against…

Dr. occult At the end of their training when Doctor Occult and Rose Psychic left the Citadel and Zator told them to use their abilities to fight evil in the world, they journeyed to China and eventually to New York City of the 1920s. He chose the name, “Richard,” and began college studies in science…

Unity Kinkaid In 1932, Unity Kinkaid was raped and gave birth to a baby girl. The scandal was silenced. The baby was adopted, but Unity knew nothing of any of this. She’d slept through the entire ordeal. Monolith In the Summer of 1932, unemployed veterans marched on Washington to claim their congressionally mandated bonus following…

Dr. Occult In the night of the millennium… December 31 of the last year of the nineteenth century… somewhere in the American midwest… The demon Koth appeared before the cult; however, with a different response than they had hoped… Zator, a disciple of the mystic cult, the Seven, rescued the children and took them to…

Here he comes — as young as the Liberty Bell, as old as the very concept of freedom —the living embodiment of the American Dream! He is your uncle, my uncle, the uncle of those who fight for freedom everywhere! In 1777, in the Pennsylvania woods, a supply train headed for Valley Forge, was pursued…

Reincarnarnations In the 18th Century, Prince Khufu lived as an unnamed Afro-American slave… …and Vandal Savage lived both as Blackbeard and, later, as an advisor to Napolean. 1739 King George deputized Jane de la Marie to capture the notorious highwayman, Tom Palmer. In doing so, she would free her husband from imprisonment in the Tower…

1753 The redman’s attacks on the western-most colonies had become more and more savage — and usually caught us by surprise… Jeremy Coe discovered an immense underground cave in Gotham Town that he used as a base of operations… Here’s where I hide — and disguise myself as an Indian! See all those bats? The’ve…