raul grau
Apr 16, 2004, 06:37 am
<img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/xovers/dc/zerohourcrisisintime.jpg" align=left alt="Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!"></a>Published in: Zero Hour: Crisis In Time! & Various monthly DC titles, July-September, 1994
Writers: Dan Jurgens (Zero Hour, Showcase '94 #8-9, Superman #93), Beau Smith (Guy Gardner: Warrior #24)
Pencilers: Dan Jurgens (Zero Hour, Superman #93), Jerry Ordway (Zero Hour), Joe Rubinstein (Superman #93), Mitch Byrd (Guy Gardner: Warrior #24)
Major Characters Involved: Parallax (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=31166), Superman (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?postid=743752#post743752), Waverider, Extant, Green Arrow I (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=29708), Warrior (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?postid=803234#post803234), Damage (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?postid=774571#post774571). Hawkman III, Spectre I
Plot: Parallax attempts to erase and restructure the whole of the universe, leading to multiple time anomalies.
Reading Order:
Showcase '94 #8 - While investigating time anomalies, Waverider locates Monarch (Hank Hall).
Showcase '94 #9 - Monarch steals a time gauntlet from Waverider, and then evolves into Extant.
Zero Hour #4 - Flash (Wally West) is among those who vanish attempting to close the growing time vortexes. Superman puts out a call to rally costumed heroes to deal with this crisis.
Superman #93 - Superman meets his biological parents, who seek to return with him to an alternate Krypton.
Zero Hour #3 - The Justice Society of America falls before Extant. A large collection of heroes gathers together under Superman's leadership. Variants of Hawkman combine as part of one being.
Zero Hour #2 - The surviving JSA members announce their retirement. Superman's forces travel to the past and future to close the time vortexes. Extant sends the Team Titans to destroy the heroes.
Guy Gardner: Warrior #24 - Attempting to alter the past, Guy Gardner leads a team of heroes on a time traveling adventure.
Zero Hour #1 - Parallax (Hal Jordan) is revealed to be the manipulator behind the crisis. All of reality fades away.
Zero Hour #0 - Parallax is defeated by Waverider's forces. Parallax and Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) become lost in the timestream. The combined heroes restart the universe.
Related Issues:
Team Titans #23-24 - Monarch is revealed to be the creator of the Team Titans.
Steel #8 - The family of Steel (John Henry Irons) encounters time discrepancies in Washington, DC.
The Outsiders (2nd series) #10-11 - The Outsiders witness time portals into their individual pasts.
Batman #511 - Batman first encounters the time displaced Batgirl.
Flash (2nd series) #94 - Flash (Wally West) is shunted into the 64th century.
Superman: The Man of Steel #37 - Superman deals with multiple variants of the Batman.
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #31 - A variant Alfred Pennyworth appears.
Detective Comics #678 - Batman finds himself in a timeline where his parents are still alive.
Green Lantern (3rd series) #54-55 - After encountering a temporal overlap, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) meets with Superman and Metron.
Legionnaires #18 - The time-traveling trio of Legionnaires receives the message from Superman.
Valor #23 - In the 30th century, Valor and the Legion of Super-Heroes fight alongside a variant Superboy.
Superboy (2nd series) #8 - Superboy receives the message from Superman and battles a time displaced, former Superboy (Clark Kent).
Darkstars #24 - Darkstar (Donna Troy) fights to prevent Entropy from capitalizing on the growing chaos.
Justice League America #92 - Triumph explains how he became shifted out of phase with the timestream a decade earlier.
Justice League Task Force #16 - Martian Manhunter finds that he does not recall his earlier meeting with Triumph.
Justice League International (2nd series) #68 - Triumph leads a group of former Justice League members to confront alien forces.
Hawkman (2nd series) #13 - Variant hawk heroes combine to form one Hawkman, who then battles the Hawkgod.
LEGION '94 #70 - Vril Dox launches a probe to investigate the time anomalies.
Adventures of Superman #516 - A temporal shift replaces Superman with Alpha Centurion as the hero of Metropolis.
Action Comics #703 - Time vortexes open throughout Metropolis.
Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #61 - The Legion bands together one final time before the 30th century vanishes entirely.
Green Arrow (2nd series) #90 - Two divergent versions of Green Arrow (Ollie Queen) pursue a criminal.
Damage #6 - Damage experiences a series of time fluctuations, then vanishes.
Catwoman (1st series) #14 - Catwoman battles cavemen as Gotham becomes a prehistoric jungle.
Anima #7 - Animus attempts to escape from his captivity, while reality dissolves.
Robin (4th series) #10 - Robin (Tim Drake) teams with a young version of the original Robin (Dick Grayson).
Showcase '94 #10 - Clock King, Time Commander, Chronos, and Calendar Man encounter the Lord of Time and repeating timelines.
Notes:
The meeting between Batman and Superman (shown in Zero Hour #4) is told in greater detail in Batman #511 and Superman: The Man of Steel #37.
After vanishing in Zero Hour #4, the Flash (Wally West) next appears in The Flash #0.
As mentioned in Zero Hour #4, the Outsiders had disbanded in The Outsiders (2nd series) #11.
The story of Impulse (Bart Allen), including his arrival from the 30th century, was told in The Flash (2nd series) #92-94.
The return and history of Triumph are shown in Justice League America #91-92, Justice League Task Force #15-16, and Justice League International (2nd series) #67-68.
Guy Gardner received his new, biological armor in Guy Gardner: Warrior #23.
David Knight (named the new Starman in Zero Hour #1) makes his next appearance in Starman #0.
After being wiped out entirely in Zero Hour #1, the Leymen are reformed in Primal Force #0
The origin of Time Trapper and the final mission of the Legion of Super-Heroes are chronicled in the End of an Era crossover (Legionnaires #17-18, Valor #22-23, and Legion of Super-heroes #60-61).
Hal Jordan abandoned his Green Lantern identity and became Parallax in Green Lantern (3rd series) #48-50. He and Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern) disappear in Zero Hour #0 and reappear in Green Lantern (3rd series) #0.
Writers: Dan Jurgens (Zero Hour, Showcase '94 #8-9, Superman #93), Beau Smith (Guy Gardner: Warrior #24)
Pencilers: Dan Jurgens (Zero Hour, Superman #93), Jerry Ordway (Zero Hour), Joe Rubinstein (Superman #93), Mitch Byrd (Guy Gardner: Warrior #24)
Major Characters Involved: Parallax (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=31166), Superman (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?postid=743752#post743752), Waverider, Extant, Green Arrow I (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=29708), Warrior (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?postid=803234#post803234), Damage (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?postid=774571#post774571). Hawkman III, Spectre I
Plot: Parallax attempts to erase and restructure the whole of the universe, leading to multiple time anomalies.
Reading Order:
Showcase '94 #8 - While investigating time anomalies, Waverider locates Monarch (Hank Hall).
Showcase '94 #9 - Monarch steals a time gauntlet from Waverider, and then evolves into Extant.
Zero Hour #4 - Flash (Wally West) is among those who vanish attempting to close the growing time vortexes. Superman puts out a call to rally costumed heroes to deal with this crisis.
Superman #93 - Superman meets his biological parents, who seek to return with him to an alternate Krypton.
Zero Hour #3 - The Justice Society of America falls before Extant. A large collection of heroes gathers together under Superman's leadership. Variants of Hawkman combine as part of one being.
Zero Hour #2 - The surviving JSA members announce their retirement. Superman's forces travel to the past and future to close the time vortexes. Extant sends the Team Titans to destroy the heroes.
Guy Gardner: Warrior #24 - Attempting to alter the past, Guy Gardner leads a team of heroes on a time traveling adventure.
Zero Hour #1 - Parallax (Hal Jordan) is revealed to be the manipulator behind the crisis. All of reality fades away.
Zero Hour #0 - Parallax is defeated by Waverider's forces. Parallax and Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) become lost in the timestream. The combined heroes restart the universe.
Related Issues:
Team Titans #23-24 - Monarch is revealed to be the creator of the Team Titans.
Steel #8 - The family of Steel (John Henry Irons) encounters time discrepancies in Washington, DC.
The Outsiders (2nd series) #10-11 - The Outsiders witness time portals into their individual pasts.
Batman #511 - Batman first encounters the time displaced Batgirl.
Flash (2nd series) #94 - Flash (Wally West) is shunted into the 64th century.
Superman: The Man of Steel #37 - Superman deals with multiple variants of the Batman.
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #31 - A variant Alfred Pennyworth appears.
Detective Comics #678 - Batman finds himself in a timeline where his parents are still alive.
Green Lantern (3rd series) #54-55 - After encountering a temporal overlap, Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) meets with Superman and Metron.
Legionnaires #18 - The time-traveling trio of Legionnaires receives the message from Superman.
Valor #23 - In the 30th century, Valor and the Legion of Super-Heroes fight alongside a variant Superboy.
Superboy (2nd series) #8 - Superboy receives the message from Superman and battles a time displaced, former Superboy (Clark Kent).
Darkstars #24 - Darkstar (Donna Troy) fights to prevent Entropy from capitalizing on the growing chaos.
Justice League America #92 - Triumph explains how he became shifted out of phase with the timestream a decade earlier.
Justice League Task Force #16 - Martian Manhunter finds that he does not recall his earlier meeting with Triumph.
Justice League International (2nd series) #68 - Triumph leads a group of former Justice League members to confront alien forces.
Hawkman (2nd series) #13 - Variant hawk heroes combine to form one Hawkman, who then battles the Hawkgod.
LEGION '94 #70 - Vril Dox launches a probe to investigate the time anomalies.
Adventures of Superman #516 - A temporal shift replaces Superman with Alpha Centurion as the hero of Metropolis.
Action Comics #703 - Time vortexes open throughout Metropolis.
Legion of Super-Heroes (3rd series) #61 - The Legion bands together one final time before the 30th century vanishes entirely.
Green Arrow (2nd series) #90 - Two divergent versions of Green Arrow (Ollie Queen) pursue a criminal.
Damage #6 - Damage experiences a series of time fluctuations, then vanishes.
Catwoman (1st series) #14 - Catwoman battles cavemen as Gotham becomes a prehistoric jungle.
Anima #7 - Animus attempts to escape from his captivity, while reality dissolves.
Robin (4th series) #10 - Robin (Tim Drake) teams with a young version of the original Robin (Dick Grayson).
Showcase '94 #10 - Clock King, Time Commander, Chronos, and Calendar Man encounter the Lord of Time and repeating timelines.
Notes:
The meeting between Batman and Superman (shown in Zero Hour #4) is told in greater detail in Batman #511 and Superman: The Man of Steel #37.
After vanishing in Zero Hour #4, the Flash (Wally West) next appears in The Flash #0.
As mentioned in Zero Hour #4, the Outsiders had disbanded in The Outsiders (2nd series) #11.
The story of Impulse (Bart Allen), including his arrival from the 30th century, was told in The Flash (2nd series) #92-94.
The return and history of Triumph are shown in Justice League America #91-92, Justice League Task Force #15-16, and Justice League International (2nd series) #67-68.
Guy Gardner received his new, biological armor in Guy Gardner: Warrior #23.
David Knight (named the new Starman in Zero Hour #1) makes his next appearance in Starman #0.
After being wiped out entirely in Zero Hour #1, the Leymen are reformed in Primal Force #0
The origin of Time Trapper and the final mission of the Legion of Super-Heroes are chronicled in the End of an Era crossover (Legionnaires #17-18, Valor #22-23, and Legion of Super-heroes #60-61).
Hal Jordan abandoned his Green Lantern identity and became Parallax in Green Lantern (3rd series) #48-50. He and Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern) disappear in Zero Hour #0 and reappear in Green Lantern (3rd series) #0.