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1940: Lab accident changes Jay Garrick into the Flash. In the only plausible origin story of any superhero, he uses his newfound powers to impress women. Turns to crime-fighting when he discovers being the "fastest man alive" doesn't make him the babe magnet he'd hoped it would. -Impressed by success of Superman, Gandalf/Shazam creates Captain Marvel. Superman sues, but they later settle differences. -Batman takes on youthful partner, Dick Grayson/Robin. -Denny Colt takes on identity as "the Spirit." -Members of the Pevensie family cross into Narnia, where they encounter mythic beasts, talking animals, and (Jesus Christ!) a lion. Repeat for 1941 and 1942. -James Bond expelled from Eton after affair with maid. -As war in Asia encroaches on Shangra-La, a still-youthful Dana Adler moves to Americas, has affair with Lazarus Long. -Timeline begins to get really crowded. -Frank Zamboni invents the machine that bears his name. 1941: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; USA enters WW II. -Chief Tool Hitler breaks from the Five's control, madly follows his own world-destroying vision, instead of theirs. Nazis now likely to lose war. "Five" member Rudolph Hess arranges "capture" of his double in Britain so that he will be able to work behind the scenes in post-war world. Double stands trial and is imprisoned. -Clark Kent misreads eye chart due to X-ray vision, is unable to join army and bring immediate end to war. -Lab accident creates Plastic Man. -Dana Adler gives birth to daughter, Gaya. -Ma Hunkel begins career as the Red Tomato, I mean, Tornado. -Rustin Parr unsuccessfully attempts to blame child-murders on older woman. 1942: Disastrous raid on Dieppe. -Wonder Woman leaves Paradise Island. She dates Steve Trevor, but lives with Dana Adler and hangs with sorority girls, thus staving off mother's concerns about her sexuality. -Elmer Fudd shoots Bambi's mother. -"The Five" revive Dracula with a mystic ritual; confused but arrogant as ever, he refuses to join them. -Dr. Reinstein's research results in creation of Captain America. -Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse joins Detachment 2702. -Time- Lord Callahan and Lady Sally arrive from the future, eventually establish (a)saloon and (b) brothel to prevent (c) alien invasion and (d) nuclear war. 1943: Dracula, under the name of "Anthony Alucard," moves to New Orleans where he stays at the Dark Oaks plantation. Will spend next few years doing bit parts in bad movies. -Sub carrying Nazi gold to join the "Golgotha" motherlode sinks. -Frankenstein's Monster rescued from beneath rubble by man seeking cure for lycanthropy. 1944: Allies invade "Fortress Europe" with an Axis to grind. -The "Golgotha" motherlode of stolen gold is seeled; only two survive who know its location. -Joe Kavalier survives accident that wipes out most of Allied base in Antarctica. -Time-travelling Will Riker bounces forward in time, but not place, from early 1900s, and assumes identity of "Ashley Longworth Jr." -Tyrone Slothrop goes AWOL. -Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. -AAB clone "Steve Bollander" born in southern California. -Demon Glyrihflb mates with human female; Jerry Springer conceived.
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