< 40 Years Ago >
Stormwatch has their final battle with with interdimensional android warlord Tao. Richard Occult, 38-year-old Toshiro Mishawa & 33-year-old Jack Marlowe are killed. Marlowe manages to use his own brain's neural map to overload Tao's network, and store himself in the alien supercomputer. Toshiro's inert micronanite colony is collected by S.H.A.D.E., while Marlowe uses Tao's biosynthetic android bodies to build his labs under New York. Jenny Sparks retreats to Great Britain and begins to work as a private investigator, regularly working with British Intelligence.
Rose Psychic inherits the Occult Detective Agency in its entirety when Richard Occult is killed. She begins traversing the Paths Beyond, looking for methods to restore him.
The Challengers of the Unknown agree to help free the imprisoned leader of a native resistance movement. 29-year-old Red Ryan & 34-year-old Rocky Davis are intentionally arrested as part of the breakout.
34-year-old Adam Blake meets Abin Sur, the Green Lantern of sector 2814. He begins to regularly travel outside our solar system, becoming a hero across the galaxy.
22-year-old Dan Garrett becomes a grad student, studying Egyptology. He goes to Egypt to assist professor Luri Hoshid, and in the tomb of Khe-Ef-Re he finds and bonds with the Scarab, becoming the Blue Beetle.
23-year-old Libby Lawrence is magically empowered by the Libery Bell and first begins adventuring as Libery Belle.
30-year-old Ted Knight builds his own Cosmic Rod & becomes the second Starman.
16-year-old Slade Wilson lies about his age to join the Army.
23-year-old Simon Stagg meets & marries his wife.
31-year-old Glenda Mark has her second child.
23-year-old Jonathan Kent returns to the Kent Farm when his term of service is completed. He reconnects with 22-year-old Martha Clark, who is caring for her husband Daniel Fordman as his health declines.
22-year-old Jim Harper becomes a police patrolman.
21-year-old Carmine Falcone returns from Europe to rejoin the family.
20-year-old Ferrin Colos is one of the only survivors of raids on Zamba by the Qinorri raiders. They are rescued by the Darkstar Vardan Radz. Inspired, Ferrin leaves his home planet and begins training to become a Citadel agent.
18-year-old Harvey Bullock becomes a professional boxer.
18-year-old Rupert Thorne attends college thanks to his family connections.
4-year-old Tara first picks up a sword, learning the ways of battle from her father's soldiers.
John Stewart is born.
Jean Loring is born.
Edward Nygma is born to an abusive father.
John Corben is born.
31-year-old Benjamin Love conducts a series of in utero experiments on several unwitting pregnant women's fetuses, which are shut down by 23-year-old Laurel Drake as she infiltrates his hidden S.H.A.D.E. lab. Love stages the children's deaths and brings them to his S.H.A.D.E. labs to raise as part of his experiment, including Bones.
Mark Mardon is born.