< 1932 >
Frankenstein is recovered by S.H.A.D.E. and becomes their operative. He reconnects with The Bride who is also an operative, but refuses to work with him.
30-year-old Robert Turowski begins his designs for a device that can absorb ambient kinetic energy. He presents his designs to Midwestern University, who decline to fund his research. He continues working on it on his own.
27-year-old Gavyn, posing as an earth scientist, creates his Cosmic Rod & becomes the first Starman.
35-year-old Wesley Dodds, still unsatisfied with the limits of the law & plagued with prophetic dreams, dons his gas mask & becomes Sandman.
20-year-old Al Pratt returns to Calvin College, where he helps thwart the kidnapping of Mary James, first using the name 'The Atom' as a heroic moniker.
22-year-old Alan Armstrong begins designing weapons for the Secret Intelligence Service.
22-year-old Rex Tyler graduates with a bachelors in biochemistry, and starts working at Bannerman Chemicals.
25-year-old Iron Munro earns a masters degree in physics.
24-year-old Steve Trevor becomes an army intelligence operative.
24-year-old Isabella Maru completes her schooling & begins her advanced studies, specializing in human biochemistry.
24-year-old Harold Shapiro earns his masters degree, and becomes a history professor.
18-year-old Shane Hawkins takes over his families general store. He sets up his first amateur "ham" radio.
16-year-old Jackie Johnson becomes a junior boxing champion.
15-year-old Zinda Blake first learns to fly.
13-year-old Sandra Knight attends a European finishing school where she studies Savate.
12-year-old Will Everett becomes the first student from a segregated school to compete in track on the state level in Mississippi. He earns the nickname "Amazing'.