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This section details the stories established just before the Image era of Wildstorm but also details several things in the past that weren't established until later eras. Unless otherwise noted, the events are listed during the approximate time period they are supposed to occur.


(SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT)

1900's

  • The Bleed Universe: Zealot is exiled to Earth as a warning to her Kheran political party. ("A thousand years" before StormWatch Vol 2 #9)
1900-
  • January 1st: Elijah Snow is born in the United States.
  • January 1st: Bret Leather is born in Texas.
  • January 1st: Lord Kevin Sack is born in England.
1905-
  • Albert Einstein publishes special theory of relativity. (Contemporary accounts)
1906-

1910's

1910-
  • The High is fired into the WildStorm Universe from a parallel Earth as a baby. He is adopted and raised as human by unknown parents. (StormWatch Vol 1 #48)
1914-
  • World War I begins. (Historical accounts)
1915-
  • The Midnighter is sent back in time by Anton Paulus to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The Midnighter is interrupted by the Temporal Police from the 96th Century, and sent forward in time to 1945. (Midnighter #2)
1916-
1918-
  • World War I ends. (Historical accounts)
1919
  • Elijah Snow meets Lady Van Helsing in New York City which leads him to Baron Frankenstein's lab in Germany. Prior to this, Snow had also met John Griffin and H.G. Wells (Planetary #13)

1920's

  • William Leather is born, son of Miriam Langham & Danny Vincenzo. (Planetary #22, actual date is conjecture)
1920 -
1925-
  • After finding out his position in Sliding Albion's government, Jenny Sparks wounds Regis. Sparks believed that she had killed him, but in reality she had only managed to castrate him. (The Authority Vol 1 #7)
1928-
  • Wild Times Universe: Grifter is a cop tired of taking pay-offs in Chicago. (Wild Times: Grifter)
1929 -
  • Kazien, Sum, & Wai Gamorra are born on Gamorra Island, then called Parousia Island. (The Authority Vol 1 #1; This conflicts with information given previously in Deathblow & Cybernary, stating that Clan Gamorra created the nation in the 1500s, however, it's possible that the two Kaizens (the genuine article & the imposter Yon Khol) wrote two different histories for themselves and their citizens. WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3 lists Kaizen's year of birth as 1924)

1930's

  • Jenny Sparks comes to America to investigate a Shiftship incursion, which later turned out to be The High. (StormWatch Vol 1 #50)
  • Dr. Axel Brass meets Jenny Sparks, and on another occaison, The High. (Planetary #5)
  • Dr. Axel Brass and Elijah Snow cross paths at Fear Quay, Blazing Hawk Mountain, and the hidden city of Opak-Re (Planetary #15)
1930
  • Carlton Marvell conferences with Axel Brass and Edison to discuss rocket science. (Planetary #15)
  • A portable televideo device made of gold is discovered by the Cummings Scientific Club in Africa. (Planetary #17)
1931
  • Carlton Marvell gates into the Dreamtime and goes through. (Planetary #15)
1932
1933
1934
  • Jakita Wagner is born in the hidden city of Opak-Re, to Lord Kevin Sack and Anaykah. (Planetary #17)
1935-
  • Axel Brass and his associates build their headquarters in the Adirondack Mountains. (Planetary #1)
1938-
  • The High's activities are first recorded. Beatings on corrupt landlords, Nazi bunds, and munitions tycoons. He also quietly averted a few natural disasters. (StormWatch Vol 1 #48)
1939-
  • 19 May: Austen T. Blanchard, callsign: Cowboy, enlists with the U.S. Army 5th Ranger Battalion.
  • World War II begins.
  • Anton Paulus is born in Hamburg, Germany. His father is Sebastian Paulus, a right-wing extremist who publicly called Adolf Hitler a "jumped-up Austrian Plebe". The Paulus family was sent to the Belsen death camp for the insult. (Midnighter #5)
  • Stalin orders the invasion of Finland, which started a chain of events that would end in its almost total destruction by genetically-engineered SPBs. (StormWatch Team Achilles #8)

1940's

1940-
  • Axel Brass and his associates create a quantum computer and install it into their hideaway in the Adirondack Mountains. (Planetary #1)
  • 9 September: Andrzej Taszycki, callsign: Bullet, enlists in the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne 505th Para Infantry.
1941-
  • 10 October: Chester R. Brophy, callsign: Claymore, enlists in the United States Marines 23rd Regiment, 4th Division. (Team Zero #2)
  • The High largely vanishes from the public eye, though he occaisionally resurfaces in times of political unrest. (StormWatch Vol 1 #48)
1942-
  • 19 January: Billy S. Miller, callsign: Grifter, enlists with the U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit.
  • 17 March: Samuel (Saito) Nakadai, callsign: Deadeye, enlists in the U.S. Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
  • Axel Brass eliminates his need for food and sleep. (Planetary #1)
1943-
  • Jenny Sparks works as an Allied operative against the Nazi superbeings to prevent the Nazis from obtaining valuable artifacts and ancient weapons. She rescues a Tibetan egg from the Nazis. The egg was prophesied to open and bring forth a being that will usher a new age. She is captured, but before being sent to a dissection camp, her childhood friend, Adolf Hitler, who upon accidentally noticing her being dragged away, remembers her and orders her to be released and sent to England with the egg. (Jenny Sparks #4)
1944-
  • Axel Brass develops the ability to close wounds with his mind. (Planetary #1)
  • Logan was sent by Allied agents to recover the Lazarus Scroll from the Nazis. He was caught by the Nazi Eikert, who attempted to take the Scroll. Eikert ordered his men to kill Logan, who fought and tried to escape. The Coda member Zannah arrived seeking the Scroll as well, and helped Logan escape. They tracked Eikert and he revealed himself as an alien Daemonite. Zannah killed him, and the two retrieved the Scroll. After Logan met with Nick Fury, he and Zannah met up again and boarded a train for Vienna. Zannah began to explain the significance of the Scroll, which was a Daemonite item that they were seeking to reclaim. Logan's senses gave away the presence of another Daemonite on the train with them, but found themselves confronted by not only it, but a mysterious man named Kenyan whom both Logan and Zannah were familiar with. As the two battled Kenyan and the alien, Kenyan got possession of the Scroll and escaped the train before a bomb on it exploded. Logan and Zannah managed to jump from the train in time as well. They tracked Kenyan to a cave where he was attempting to use the Scroll to revive Ebron, the Queen Daemonite. Logan attacked Kenyan, and Zannah threw a powerful crystal into the forehead of a weak Ebron, causing the area to explode. Logan managed to pull himself from the rubble, but could only find one of Zannah's broken swords. (WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age)
  • Wild Times Universe: The DV8 Project (re-interpreted as the Super-Soldier project) produces three viable heroes that are sabotaged by Russian scientist Ivana Baiul. (Wild Times: Dv8)
1945-
  • January 1: Axel Brass and his associates attempt to end World War II using their quantum computer but instead are attacled by a team of superhumans from a parallel Earth. Brass and his people repel the invaders but Brass, the lone survivor, remains trapped in the mountain hideout until 1999. (Planetary #1)
  • April 30: The Midnighter, blackmailed into a time-travelling assassination attempt, decides not to kill Adolf Hitler and instead exact bloody revenge on Anton Paulus, the man who forced him back in time. He instructs a german soldier named Alfred Wolfrum to deliver a message to Paulus sixty-one years in the future: "I am coming." (Midnighter #7)
  • May 8: An associate of Dr. Axel Brass is killed in Berlin, his diary is taken by a Russian soldier and locked into a KGB vault. (Planetary #1)
  • After World War II, the United States take Wernher Von Braun and his men of the Mittelwerk to America. They also take Hitler's secret engineers and analysts, who were unknown save for the fact that they operated at the highest levels of Nazi security. While Von Braun would later be credited with starting the Apollo space program, the secret engineers created the Artemis program. (Planetary #6)
  • August 7: The day after the Hiroshima bomb is dropped, nearby settlements report seeing strange lights on Island Zero. (Planetary #2)
  • Sum, Wai, & Kaizen Gamorra take over the island nation of Parousia. (The Authority Vol 1 #1)
1947-
1949-
  • February 4: Dan Quayle is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He would become America's Vice President under George H.W. Bush between 1989 - 1993. He would also one day be possessed by the Daemonite B'Lial. (Historical accounts & WildC.A.T.s #1)

1950's

  • Jackson Dane is born in Battle Creek, Missouri. (The year of birth given in WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2 is 1960, but it would seem to be in error, as it would've put Dane in his early teens when he was a member of Team 7. It seems far more likely that Dane was born in the mid-50s)
  • The Establishment obtains a miniature, caged baby universe and uses it to power their secret facility in Rendlesham. (The Authority: World's End #15)
1950-
  • Korean War begins. (Historical accounts)
  • August: Giant monsters appear on Island Zero. Their origins are never explained. ("Five years after Hiroshima" Planetary #2)
  • The Radioactive Woman is brought back to life by Randall Dowling and Anna Hark at City Zero (Planetary #8)
1951
1952
1953-
  • Donovan Crane is born. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • Korean War ends. (Historical accounts)
  • Sliding Albion starts Parallel World War One with their version of Europe. In a move fueled by desperation and contempt, Sliding Albion attempts to deflect a biological attack into WildStorm's London. The attempt failed, and Sliding Albion is presumed destroyed. While the bacterial attack did not kill any inhabitants, some Londoners gained super powers. (StormWatch Vol 1 #44)
1955-
  • Alexander Thomas Fairchild is born in Iowa. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • The Soviet Union decommissions their flying battle barges as the United States decommissions the atomic superman Adam Bomb. Both would be revived by the demon Ghoulgotha in the year 2000. (The Authority Annual 2000)
  • Wild Times Universe: Wetworks is a team of Deep Sea explorers investigating the Marianas Trench and finding a race of cannibalistic mer-people. The team discovers a cave filled with symbiotes that give them powers, and defeat the monsters and their giant sea creature, with only a little help from Superman. (Wild Times Wetworks)
1958-
1959-
  • Rayna Masters is born. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
  • Vietnam War begins. (Historical accounts)
  • The Artemis project creates a booster rocket comparable to the Satrun V. (Planetary #6)
  • John Stone fires on Nautilus while Elijah Snow, a woman from Florida and William Leather are aboard. William Leather shoots someone. (Planetary #6 & Planetary #11)

1960's

  • Charlie Arrows served within the British military and was stationed in the South Pacific. He spent several months doing manual labor, preparing fortifications and buildings for an experiment headed up by the British Rocket Group. The experiment failed and wiped out nearly everyone present, and most of the survivors died shortly after due to various cancers. For some reason Arrows survived and came out of the mishap with a limited form of precognition. He used this to help him as a career criminal throughout the 70's and 80's.
  • Warblade (Reno Bryce) is born in Hong Kong. (Conjecture. WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3 lists his age as "mid-30s")
  • A Daemonite Plot to cripple US space launches prompts the formation of a US superhuman team, influenced by the Kheribum. the Team, called Team One, consists of Majestic (Majestros), Lucy Blaise (Zannah), John Colt (Yon Khol), Think Tank (Henry Bendix), Marc Slayton (The half-breed son of Lord S'ylton, who would later become Backlash), Mason, Isiah King, and Regiment. They are commanded by Saul Baxter(Lord Emp) and Miles Craven, later head of I.O. On their first mission, they encounter Helspont and a crime ring run by a superhuman named Slaughterhouse Smith. However, the team doesn't last long, and soon break up. The US governemnt continue to experiment with covert and overt Superhuman teams. (see Team One series).
  • Elijah Snow meets The High (John Cumberland) who is with Jenny Sparks (Planetary #5)
1960- 1961-
  • Jackson King is born to Isaiah and Mary King. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • June 1: The Artemis project sends Randall Dowling, Kim Suskind, Jacob Greene, & William Leather to the Moon, only they never make it. They mysteriously vanish into the Bleed and return to Earth five days later with superpowers. (Planetary #6)
  • David Paine becomes an incredible creature via a description theory bomb After a twenty four day chase by the military, the monster Paine is dropped down a five-mile pit and kept there without food and water. (Planetary Preview)
1962-
1963-
  • November 22: The Russians send a rocket ship to the Moon, along the exact same trajectory of the Project Artemis rocket. The craft disappears. The Four go into hiding. (Planetary #6)
1964-
  • International Operations is founded as an adjunct to the Central Intelligence Agency. It would eventually outgrow its parent agency to become the leading intelligence service in the United States. (The Kindred Preview)
1965-
  • Hellstrike (Nigel William Keane) is born in Belfast, Ireland. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • Hazard (Alexander Hutton) is born. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • International Operations begins experiments with the Gen-Factor in a secret research lab on Caballito Island. They experiment on animals which would later result in the creation of the Kindred. John Lynch's first command was heading the security of Caballito's compound. When the experiments were cancelled, Lynch destroyed many, but not all, of the Kindred, believing the survivors would kill each other off. They didn't. (The Kindred #3. Actual date is conjecture, but it had to be after I.O.'s creation in 1964, and these experiments preceeded Team 7.)
1966-
1967-
  • John Cooper Hawksmoor is born in New York City, New York. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • Jeremy Stone is born in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Conjecture, age is given as "approximately 30 in (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • The American aircraft carrier USS John F Kennedy is launched, named after the 35th President and christened by his nine year old daughter. It would be destroyed in the year 2000 by a massive tidal wave. (The Authority Vol 1 #17).
  • The Renegade Doctor murders three countries in alphabetical order, killing 12 million people. Every superhuman on the planet was forced to team up to stop him. He was captured and confined in a temporal prison twenty million years in the past. (The Authority Vol 1 #17)
  • Miles Craven recruits Doctor Nicolas Robertson, a scientist fascinated by time travel, and Doctor Alexander Deveraux, a scientist who believed that aliens influenced the history of Earth, into International Operations. Their work would lay the foundation for The Puritans, a splinter sect of I.O. who worked to rid the Earth of alien influence. (WildC.A.T.s #39)
  • Zealot & Soldier track down and destroy the trans-dimensional terrorist organization known as The Quiet Men. Although they believed the Quiet Men to be totally eliminated, they would re-surface decades later. (Thirty years before Grifter Vol 2 #8)
1968-
  • Serge (Jean-Yves Banks) is born in Kingston, Jamaica. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • Dingo is kidnapped from the Caballito Island laboratory and sold to the Irish Republican Army. He is freed from capture by a former soldier, who raises him as his son, and trains him in combat and tracking. (Backlash #7)
1969-
  • Dozer (Joseph H. Mendoza) is born in Canton, Ohio, to Juvendio and Maria-Luiza Mendoza. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • Shire (Svetlana Grozny) is born in Soviet Russia. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • Jenny Sparks and her counterculture superhero group provide security at the Isle of Wight music festival. Jenny's teammate Abel Eternity overdoses on drugs and Sparks is forced to kill him, which drives the group apart. (StormWatch Vol 1 #44)
  • Wild Times Universe: The Gen13 kids attend Woodstock, dodge the draft, and almost get arrested by the original Teen Titans before escaping to London. (Wild Times: Gen 13)

1970's

  • The Drummer is born (Date is conjecture, the Drummer's age has never been stated.)
  • Winter (Nikolas Kamarov) is born in Russia. (Conjecture. WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3 lists Winter's age as "Mid-20s")
  • International Operations agent Malcolm Jones retires from the agency after a dispute with his director. Jones moves to England and works for MI6. (Sleeper #8)
  • The Bleed Universe: A new Kheran government sends medics to Earth to perform experiments on human beings. One such human being is Jack Hawksmoor, who would later become the StormWatch Weatherman ("Twenty-odd years" before StormWatch Vol 2 #9)
  • Interpol sent Sean Cassidy to protect some nuclear warheads from international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. The Jackal showed up, with a superhuman named Vortex in tow, and they attacked Cassidy's squad, killing most. Before Cassidy could take them down, a group of Black Razors led by John Lynch arrived and shot down Carlos' operatives, hitting Cassidy as well by accident. Sean was taken to a hospital to recover. Vortex, whose powers were barely controlable, was placed in a containment unit. (Gen 13/Generation X #1)
1970-
  • Allegra (Jennifer Gold) is born in Albaquerque, New Mexico. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • Nathaniel Blackbird is born. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
  • GQ (Stephen Connor) is born to General John Connor of the United States Air Force. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
  • Henry Bendix meets Rose Tattoo beneath a Russian Science City. Bendix was working for Nixon's government and Rose was an agent of the High. (StormWatch Vol 1 #50. Actual date is conjecture, between Team One breaking up in the "late sixties" and the end of Nixon's presidency in 1974.)
1971-
  • Nataly Lakota Redbird is born. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • Jester (Cord Dexter Lemoyne) is born in Morgan City, Louisiana, to Yves and Marie Lemoyne. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • Flint (Victoria Ngengi) is born in Kenya. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • Condition Red (Max Cash) is born to Jacob & Sylvia Cash. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
1972-
  • Grail (Joel Alonday) is born in Pampanga, Phillipines to Delfin and Norma Alonday. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
  • An experimental cold fusion bomb is detonated near Quantico, Virginia, leaving a crater six times the size of Three Rivers Stadium. That crater would one day house the headquarters and training facilities for Department PSI. (Backlash #25)
  • Mystique (posing as Leni Zauber) was hired by one government agency to infiltrate Numidia's Super Soldier Program just as Miles Craven hired Madamoiselle Mirielle Duplessis to do the same. Neither was aware of the other's true purpose, but both suspected the other of being a covert op. Shortly after, two separate teams of covert soldiers, Team 7 (Craven's team) and Team X were sent in after her to locate and destroy a location that was trying to produce Super Soldiers. Team 7's helicopter was targeted by Numidian forces and shot down, but the men survived. Elsewhere, Team X found their way into the base. There, Omega Red and Madamoiselle Mirielle Duplessis met and attacked them. Outside, Team 7 arrived and launched an assault on the compound. "Zauber" attempted to cause friction between Duplessis and Omega Red by claiming Duplessis was a spy. During the chaos, Team 7 and Team X met up, and after a stand-off, realized they were working towards the same goal. They searched the compound and found a lab with several Super Soldiers in stasis tubes. Omega Red released the soldiers, who attacked the two Teams. Meanwhile, "Zauber" and Duplessis continued to fight, each accusing the other of being a double agent. Craven's assistant Gabriel telepathically contacted Team 7 to warn them that Craven was going to blow up the complex with them inside. The two teams escaped, and the members of Team 7 used their psychic link to psionically blast the compound apart. As they began to fly away, Duplessis appeared out of the rubble. She was rescued by them, but revealed herself to actually be "Zauber", and then shapeshifted to her true form of Mystique, Team X's covert op. As they flew away in a helicopter, Omega Red dug himself out of the ruins. (Team X/Team 7)
1973-
  • Taboo (Amanda Reed) is born in New York City. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • Pilgrim (Martiza Blackbird) is born in Aspen, Colorado. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • The Black Halo/Omni (Quentin Taylor) is born in Dayton, Ohio. His mother is Katherine Tayler. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
1974-
  • Swift (Shen Li-Min) is born in Tibet. Whether or not she hatched from an egg is unclear. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • Brass (Hershel Goldstein) is born in the United States. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
  • Fahrenheit (Lauren Pennington) is born in the United States. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
  • Union (Ohmen) is born on the planet Aegena to Hadron and Maita. On a parallel Aegena, another version of Ohmen is born, who would grow up to become the vicious Sword of Damocles. (Union #0, year of birth given in WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
  • Darnell is born on the planet Aegena. He is the son of the Directorate's Prince Darian. (Union #0)
  • Elijah Snow tells John Stone that he was hidden in the hold of the Nautilus (Planetary #11)
1975-
  • Vietnam War ends. (Historical accounts)
  • Pagan is born in Papua New Guinea to a U.S. Army Colonel sent to New Guinea to test chemical weapons. The Colonel fell in love with a native woman, who bore him a deformed, reptilian son due to the chemicals he was testing. The Colonel fled, leaving only his dogtags inscribed with the word "PAGAN", which the mother mistook for a name. (StormWatch Vol 1 #21)
  • Mary Adams, wife of Link (Lincoln Adams) dies of breast cancer. The grief nearly destorys Link, but he would go on to join StormWatch in the near future. (StormWatch PHD #23)
1976-
  • The Edward H. Levi Federal Penitentiary (commonly known as Purgatory Max) is built to control the growing criminal SPB population. (Backlash #1)
  • Professor X, having sensed through Cerebro the runaway's disappearance, sent Nightcrawler to scout the estate of Blair Cameron, a member of the British arm of the Hellfire Club. While there, he was attacked by the WildC.A.T. known as Warblade, who believed him to be an alien Daemonite. The two battled briefly beore a trio of Hellfire soldiers attacked both of them. Warblade then realized that one of the guards was the Daemonite he was seeking, not Nightcrawler and killed him. Warblade left, leaving Nightcrawler with many questions. Two months later, the WildC.A.T.s leader, Lord Emp (Jacob Marlowe), received an invitation to join the Hellfire Club, and sent Spartan and Voodoo with him to investigate undercover. At the same time, Professor X sent a small team of X-Men to the area to investigate. Marlowe, Voodoo (his "secretary") and Spartan (his "assistant") arrived at Cameron's estate. They were welcomed and treated to decadence. The team of X-Men arrived on the location, and Wolverine recognized the Daemonites. he led an attack against them. They were aided by the arrival of the WildC.A.T. members Warblade and Zealot, whom Wolverine remembered from their encounter decades earlier. Cameron's troops assaulted the undercover C.A.T.s and took them prisoner. Cameron revealed to them that he had joined forces with the Daemonites to help raise hell on Earth. To unleash a demon, he required two beings: a virgin (the runaway) and an immortal (Emp). Cameron invoked a spell that gave rise to the demonic Lord of All That is Not. Before the creature could claim its sacrifices, Spartan broke free and tried to attack it. Just then, the combined units of X-Men and WildC.A.T.s broke in and attacked Cameron's followers. The demon, without a sacrifice, returned to its dimension, causing a large explosion that apparently killed Cameron, but the others survived. They found themselves face to face with a large number of Daemonites and Hellfire soliders. In the ensuing battle, many of the Daemonites and Hellfire Club soldiers were slain by the WildCA.T.s. The X-Men, disgusted by the WildC.A.T.s' bloodthirsty ways, left, warning them not to cross paths again. (WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Modern Age. Actual date is conjecture, placed here because it best fits the era of X-Men shown.)
1977-
  • Sarah Rainmaker is born in San Carlos, Arizona, to Stephen Callahan and Rebecca Rainmaker. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
1978-
  • Cybernary (Katrina Cupertino) is born on Gamorra Island. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • Ladytron (Maxine Manchester) is born. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
1979-
  • MET-L (Albert "Cisco" Kaplan) is born on Gamorra Island. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • International Operations Black Razors hunt down former Team 7 member Stephen Callahan and his family. Callahan's wife Rachel is killed, and their two children, Matthew & Nicole are taken into custody where they would develop their Gen-Active powers under the supervision of Ivana BaiulGen 13 Vol 1 #1) and her Project: Genesis program. Stephen Callahan himself is put in suspended animation, although his former comrades believe him to have been killed as well. (

1980's

  • Elijah Snow, Ambrose Chase, and Jakita Wagner rescue The Little Drummer Boy (aka The Drummer) from Randall Dowling's Internet control project. (Planetary #23)
1980-
  • Disperse (Capri Toriamo) is born on a parallel, magic-centered Earth. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
1981-
  • Sheba is born. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #3)
1982-
  • Crimson/Jet/Backlash (Jodi Morinaka Slayton) and her twin brother Aries are born in Japan to Lynn Morinaka. Their father is Marc Slayton. Kaizen Gamorra would abduct Aries. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #1)
  • Geek (Herbert Eugene Wiesenthal) is born to Abraham and Fran Wiesenthal. (WildStorm Universe '97 Sourcebook #2)
  • Alessandra Fermi's latent superpowers activate during her first opera singing lesson. Her voice shatters the glasses of her tutor, blinding him. She would never sing again, however, it attracted the attention of StormWatch. (StormWatch Special #1)
  • Logan returned to San Francisco and home to his girlfriend Sung Li, who was in tears. She explained that she had called her mother, and the woman told her she didn't have a daughter. When Li then went to her home, her mother threatened to call the police. Logan and Li went back to her mother's home, and she greeted them happily. She claimed not to know what they were talking about concerning the earlier incidents. Sung's mother then attacked her, and a small group of ninjas crashed through the window. They attacked Logan, but Sung's mother was cut and killed by one on accident. Logan fell out of a window with some of them, and the rest launched a rain of arrows down at him. Michael Cray, aka Deathblow, witnessed the events, and shot one of the ninjas to keep him from killing Logan. Cray then escaped with Logan, taking him to his home to recover. Once he did, Cray told him that he was in the area because he was following a letter sent to him regarding his old Team 7 mate Phil Chang. The address on the letter was Logan and Sung's home, but Logan did not know anything about the letter. The group of ninjas arrived, almost destroying Cray's home in the process, and the two made another escape. They returned to Logan's place to find it in shambles and Sung Li missing. However, a mysterious grinning man in a top hat was there. The strange man, after Wolverine unsuccessfully tried to kill him, explained he was working for the Librarian, a mystical being who is held prisoner in a library that contained all knowledge. The top hat-wearing man then transported Logan and Cray to the Library, where they encountered the Librarian. The Librarian explained that Sung Li was a direct descendent of the high priestess that had put her followers' souls into an urn to await the day they would return to the world. The odd behavior in Li's mother was one sign that the time was near. The Librarian gave Logan a talisman to place on the urn to keep this from happening and returned the two to Earth. Cray offered to help Logan in his search, and the two suited up. They followed the Librarian's directions and found a group of the high priestess' followers who had kidnapped her. They ran through many of them before Logan located the urn. A mysterious group of archers appeared to help Logan and Cray, and when Logan placed the talisman on the urn, all of the ninjas fell over, their life forces drained. Li emerged from a dimensional door and the three left the area. Cray departed, and Logan took Sung Li home. Later on, he caught her putting away a robe resembling the Librarian's, and realized she was indeed the Librarian the entire time. She tried to explain that she did what she had to to save the world, but Logan, disillusioned that she may have only used him instead of actually loving him, left her. (Deathblow and Wolverine)
1983-
  • The creature that was David Paine dies in a shaft after 21 years of capture (Planetary Preview)
1985-
  • The Shifting Man fell out of a shiftdoor wearing a bleed-suit (Planetary #7)
  • Jenny Sparks discovers that a London SPB known as Firesign was kidnapping and murdering babies to create one for his wife. (StormWatch Vol 1 #44)
1986-
  • Elijah Snow witnesses partial multiversal collapse at an unknown location; a third of the local population dies. (Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth, an opaque reference to the DC Universe crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths, published in 1986)
  • John Stone acquires the Devil's Paw by cutting it off its previous owner. The Devil's Paw had killed 180 people prior to this. ("Twenty years" before Planetary #25)
1987-
  • Jack Carter stops a British government assassin from killing a potential messiah (Planetary #7)
  • The High sits down on a throne in the Rocky Mountains and does not move until 1997. (StormWatch Vol 1 #48)
1989-
  • Ryu, a mildly infamous Japanese novelist with dreams of armed insurrection, eats the raw flesh of his dead girlfriend at a sex club in Osaka. (Planetary #2)
  • Finland government completes a Super-Soldier Program originally designed to repel Soviet Invasion. However, by the time the program was successfully completed, the Soviet Union had collapsed. (StormWatch Team Achilles #8)

1990's

  • Sir Malcom Jones retires from MI6 after years of serving both American & British intelligence and retires in secret in Yucatan. ("Over ten years" before Sleeper #8)
1990-
  • Amanda Reed, a prostitute living in the streets of New York is offered a large sum of money by the Cabal to participate in a biological experiment. She was joined with a vampiric symbiote, trained by Pike, and took up the name Taboo. (Backlash #4)
  • The Persian Gulf War begins. (Historical accounts)
  • Deathblow and his partner covertly infiltrated the Central American nation of Costa Mesa to intercept drug traffickers. They were discovered, and Deathblow's partner was captured, tortured, and killed by General Manuel Ortega. (Deathblow Vol 1 #0)
1991-
  • The Persian Gulf War ends. (Historical accounts)
  • Dingo leaves his adopted father in New Zealand to search for clues to his origin. (Four years before Backlash #7)

The Distant Past
WildStorm Timeline "Image era"



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