< 1931 >
32-year-old Alan Scott finds the starheart, a dense meteor of condensed Oan Energy, and feels compelled to craft it into a lantern & ring & become the Green Lantern.
27-year-old Janos Prohaska ends his service with the Polish Air Service & becomes a soldier of fortune. He enlists the aid of 21-year-old Stanislaus Drozdowski, who is just out of university.
27-year-old John Trujillo undergoes the trials of Nayenezgani, defeating the Anaye as they returned to the wilderness.
25-year-old Gerald Shugel reveals his technique to allow a single chimp brain to drive multiple bodies. He is denied a doctorate and banned from the entire scientific community. He joins the scientists in Germany’s Nazi party.
A group of homeless newsboys, when they are confronted for protection money by local organized crime, choose to stand up to them with all sorts of hijinks. They are assisted by 25-year-old Jim Harper in his identity as the Guardian, a new vigilante, who dubs them the Newsboy Legion.
23-year-old Harold Shapiro chooses to end his baseball career to focus on his studies.
19-year-old Al Pratt tries to protect his date, Mary James, during a mugging, but is knocked out cold. Despondent, he chooses to commit himself to never feeling weak again. He leaves school and retreats to his family farm where he trains nonstop for a full year, developing his own advanced exercise and bodybuilding routines.
17-year-old Langford Terrill moves to Muncie, Indiana. He begins writing investigative stories for the Muncie Star.
12-year-old Roy Lincoln's mother dies of pneumonia. He begins spending his time in his father’s labs, working as an errand boy.