Ultraman

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35 years ago (dream realm memory) - Krypton is destroyed.  Jor-el's son is rocketed to Earth.  Zod & the Phantom Zone criminals escape and attempt to sustain themselves on the ruined hunks of their planet.  Zod's son Lor-Zod is kept in a hyperbaric chamber with sustained exposure to Kryptonite.
​20 years ago (dream realm memory) - The remains of Krypton are fully converted to Kryptonite, killing the survivors from the Phantom Zone.  Lor-Zod is sent to Earth, where he becomes the adopted brother of Clark Kent.  He kills Clark and his adopted parents, assuming the name and creating his own organization, the Terror Legion.
​13 years ago (dream realm memory) - Clark Kent arrives in Metropolis and assumes the role of Ultraman.  Both he and Owlman attempt to take over the Crime Syndicate.  They arrive at a truce with Ultraman as public leader but Owlman secretly controlling their resources.
​12 years ago (dream realm memory) - Ultraman and Superwoman begin a relationship.
​12 years ago - The Justice League are attacked in their dreams by Doctor Destiny.  They follow him back into the Dream Dome defeating him and disabling his technology.  The Dream Dome builds a dream reflection of the world and populates it with nightmare mirrors of the Justice League.  They remember their own history, coming together as the Crime Syndicate and dominating their world.
​9 years ago - Morpheus returns to the Dreaming.  While reclaiming his realm, he disabled the Dream Dome, the technology built by Garrett Sanford while lost in the Dreaming.  The dream reflection of the world that is home to the Crime Syndicate, no longer protected by the Dome, is set adrift in its own corner of the Dreaming.
7 years ago - The Crime Syndicate confirms that their world is in fact merely a dream reflection of the real world.  They escape, and attack the Justice League to take their place.  The League is defeated, and has to regroup.  They are assisted in finally defeating the Crime  Syndicate by Owlman.
The Crime Syndicate is really one collective storytelling entity.  While Grant Morrison's take on these characters did give them a little more backstory, the point has never really been for any of them to have a lot of story of their own, so making character specific timelines becomes kind of beside the point. 

Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric.  These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large.  They only exist on these pages. ​

Ultraman's Story

The entire idea of 'Evil Superman' is such a commonly explored concept in so many mediums it's practically a trope unto itself.  There's characters that are deliberately meant as evil Superman pastiches, from Homelander, The Plutonian, and Omni-Man to Injustice Superman, Red Son Superman, and Superboy-Prime.. and then there's actually attempts to do a Superman story that just thoroughly miss the mark because they forget to make Superman a good person.  

The fun thing about Ultraman, in the face of all this, is that he really is the original take.  All those other characters (Hyperion, the Sentry...) are all just copying this.  

In the comics Ultraman is a human astronaut who was exposed to Kryptonite (or anti-kryptonite depending on the version), which gave him his powers.  We could do that, but this was a chance for us to mix it up a little bit, so we gave him a much more fun backstory, stirring up references to Zod's son Lor-Zod, to Mon-el, and even to an Earth-3 version of the Legion.  This is why we went with this version of the Crime Syndicate, because we get to use all these desperate ideas that wouldn't have made it in otherwise. 

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