< 38 Years Ago >
23-year-old Johnny Chambers begins using his speed powers as Johnny Quick.
Vandal Savage's organization attempts to launch a network of satellites to take over the world's communications, but are stopped by the All-Star Squadron.
25-year-old Cladina Drake, 24-year-old Dan Garrett, 32-year-old Ted Knight, 17-year-old Lanford Terill, 31-year-old Cliff Steele, 26-year-old Eel O'Brian, 32-year-old Danette Reilly, 25-year-old Libby Lawrence & 23-year-old Johnny Chambers form the All-Star Squadron. Their facilities in the Perisphere from the 1939 world fair are built by 57-year-old Iron Munro, who declines to join the team.
Atrocitus is given a Red Lantern battery by the Controllers, an experiment in manipulating Anti-Oan energy. His followers vie for his favor to become his Red Lanterns, rage-fueled warriors whose power consumes them. The Red Lanterns begin to unify Sector 666 under him and his regime.
The Controllers experiment with Anti-Oan energies. Despite finding them unstable, they secretly craft a Red Lantern Battery for Atrocitus as an experiment. His followers vie for his favor to become his Red Lanterns, rage-fueled warriors whose power consumes them. 25-year-old Bro'Dee witnesses as the Red Lanterns begin to unify Sector 666 under Atrocitus's regime.
29-year-old William Asmodeus Zard returns to America, presenting himselg as mentalist and stage magician the Wizard. He starts building his own secret criminal empire.
25-year-old Jonathan Kent's father passes away, leaving him the farm. He & 24-year-old Martha Clark reconnect over their mutual loss.
33-year-old Thaddeus Sivana's theorums are completely rejected. He is written off as a madman and slips into despair.
24-year-old Jim Harper becomes the adult golden gloves champion.
17-year-old Pat Dugan submits pictures of his rocket car project to hot rod magazine. He's first contacted by 9-year-old Sylvester Pemberton, who offers to give him the funds to build a real rocket car.
17-year-old Morgan Edge goes to college.
17-year-old Paula Brooks moves to America after her father's death and becomes a professional thief.
14-year-old Tobias Whale starts dealing drugs.
13-year-old John Dee steals his mother's pendant for the first time, his obsession deepening.
12-year-old Prince Garnet saves the Lady Emerald from a magical whirlwind, casting himself into the Paths Beyond. He is found by the Lords of Order & Chaos, taken in as their agent, agreeing to pay his debt to them by traveling the Paths and observing the many worlds there, taking the name Rhodo.
11-year-old Lex Luthor stages his father's death when he realizes the insurance payout is all he will ever get from his father.
9-year-old Christopher Chance becomes a ward of the state after he watches as his father is killed by a loan shark's assassin.
7-year-old Angela Roth is abandoned by her mother, and is taken in by the first in a series of abusive foster homes.
7-year-old Jefferson Pierce's father Alvin begins researching real estate developer Victor Swann and his plan of building an arena in Southside Metropolis. 24-year-old Rose Canton's father is killed by Victor Swann and the 100 as they take over Metropolis's underworld. She is placed in a sanitarium.
5-year-old Richard Drakunovski escapes from his captors & begins living as a street thief.
Floyd Lawton is born the son of industrialist, weapons contractor & champion hunter George Lawton.
Pamela Isley is born.
Curt Calhoun is born on a commune to social malcontent parents.
Simon Jones is born.
Edgar Cizko is born.
Giovanni Giuseppe is born to a family of circus acrobats.
Wu Mei-Xing is born to a wealthy Shanghai family.