Corrupt Chronol Clones Cause Cosmic Crisis

The sinister scientists and aspiring authoritarians, T.O. Morrow and Per Degaton, each borrowed technology allowing them to pierce back the veil of time. Borrowing from the intellectual advancements of other more honorable men, Morrow and Degaton. 

Futurenergy helped formulate five chronal clones based on five love interests of the Justice League, in order to ensnare half of its membership. These were Steve Trevor, Jean Loring, Shayera "Hawkgirl" Hol, Midge, and Mera... whose identical appearance to the originals helped lure Wonder Woman, the Atom, Hawkman, Snapper Carr and Aquaman into kissing them. This caused each Leaguer to fall into a comatose state, leaving the remaining members to face automatons replicating old adversaries of the League. Among these, there was a sixth chronol duplicate who appeared in Doctor Light. Once each served his or her purpose, they were promptly erased from existence, while the original five romantic partners of the League were unaware of what transpired to the loves of their lives.

Temporal causality from Per Degaton's time machine, which he stole from Professor Zee, allowed him to pull sixth supervillains from the late 1940s back to December of 1941. These included Per Degaton himself, Wotan, Professor Zobar Zodiak, Sky Pirate, King Bee and the Monster (a seventh cloned creature, Solomon Grundy, was actually the doppelgänger of the Earth-One Solomon Grundy spawned by the Parasite decades later). Due to chronol energy, these crooks were able to exist simultaneous to their younger selves, who were existing in the same time period unaware of these events transpiring. All of these criminals except the Monster were able to ensnare their prey, leaving all save three members of the Justice Society in a comatose state*.

Eventually, thanks to the intervention of the Red Tornado who helped revive the Justice League, and Robotman along with the All-Star Squadron who helped rescue the Justice Society, both Morrow and Degaton were decisively defeated. As with Morrow's clones, Degaton's clones** were each erased from existence as they resumed their lives in the future from which they were originally plucked.

* The ensuing battle between the All-Star Squadron and Justice Society versus Degaton's minions mirrored the battle on another occasion between the Justice League and Queen Bee's Anti-Justice League. 

Twice-Told-Tales: Bald Bad Boys vs Red Tornado

The Weaponers of Qward had a long-standing emnity towards inhabitants of Earth-One, seeking to invade that world using a portal that bridged the gap between the positive-matter universe of Earth with the anti-matter universe their world resided within. Seeking to conquer this planet, making it a base of operations from which to launch attacks again their rival dopplegangers, the Guardians of the Universe from the planet Oa, the Qwardians nearly succeeded thanks to their mastery of the Q-Force. This energy was other universe's correspondencing fundamental force to the emerald energy which the Guardians manifested in their reality.

A similar tale was told years earlier, when sinister scientist T.O. Morrow of Earth-One traveled to Earth-Two to plunder and conquer that world. Utilizing his time grapple and future viewer, he replicated a sentient computer which provided him with the humaniztron. This device could take inorganic material and replicate into human-like authorized beings, from which he built a subservient army of faceless androids. Among these was his greatest creation, the Red Tornado, whom Morrow implanted with the Justice Society to betray them from within. After felonious forays first of Earth-Two and soon after on Earth-One versus the Justice Society and Justice League, the latter of whom he temporarily disabled with deadly clones* of the Leaguer's romantic partners. Morrow's ultimate plan nearly came to fruition when he attempted to launch a war between both Earths with his android forces as the catalyst for this cosmic conflict.

Just as with Morrow and his menacing mechanoids, the Weaponer warlord Kaman and his fellow Qwardans’ schemes were overturned by the Red Tornado. Reddy soon revived and recruited the Justice League and Justice Society to repel the faceless armies staged in Inter-dimensional limbo, he also led the attack against the Qwardians after freeing their captive, Superman who along with Tornado helped revive their fellow Leaguers and Earths population kept comatose by Q-Energy.

As for the raw material which Morrow used as building blocks to build his amazing android army, these were fragments of Earth-One’s Meteor Crater. The Flash of Earth-Two transported this meteor to his world in order to absorb deadly radiation emitted from that world’s sun, after a comet collided with it. While the meteor located within the Meteor Crater of Earth-Two negated the radioactivity lingering in its atmosphere, a second dose was needed from the meteor’s Earth-One doppelgänger. This irradiated meteor dust would have the necessary properties for Morrow’s humaniztron to bring his synthetic creations to artificial life.

Despite having access to awesome power derived from Q-Force irradiated twin suns in Qward's Universe and from an atomic sun in the Limbo realm between universes, neither Kaman and his Weaponers nor Morrow and his androids triumphed. While most of these adversarial androids were evidentially left behind in the Atlantis of Earth-Two, the 1279 Qwardians now on Earth-One made a new home within the Australian outback of Earth-One, in a secluded village named New Qward.

* Morrow used his Futurenergy to create energy duplicates of five friends (Steve Trevor, Jean Loring, Shayera "Hawkgirl" Hol, Midge and Mera Curry) and one foe (Doctor Light) of the League, while Per Degaton's time machine created six temporal duplicates of the Society's old foes (Per Degaton, Wotan, Professor Zodiak, King Bee, Monster and Sky Pirate) from 1948 in 1941. The original friends and foes of these heroes existed separate and simultaneous to their "chronal-clones" on these occasions.

Twice-Told-Tales: Tyrannical Tales of T.O. Morrow

Originally a foe of the Flash and Green Lantern... in order to escape defeat at their hands, T.O. Morrow traveled to Earth-Two. There, he used his 4th-dimension grapple beam and future monitor to pluck devices of later eras into his time period. Among these was a sentient computer based on Hourman's Crime-Caster, which created androids to battle the Justice Society and Justice League.

For the Society, Morrow utilized faceless android assassins, for the League, he used replicas of the League's love interests*. Encountering these automatons, five Leaguers and Socialites were placed in a death-like coma due to exposure to Morrow's Futur-Energy. And a key factor in his grand scheme was the creation of the android Red Tornado, implanted with false memories and thus believing himself to be the original Red Tornado who had tried to join the Society decades earlier. Due to his unpredictable nature, the Tornado's attempts at saving his fellow members would backfire against them.

On Earth-Two, Morrow's atomic clouds... used in the theft of ancient artifacts at the 20th Century museum... mixed with radiation from Starman's cosmic rod animated four giant Egyptian statues in the forms of a cat, eagle, ram and lion. 

While Tornado was able to defeat this quartet with his vortex powers, their potential perhaps inspired Morrow into creating equally massive animal pawns in the form of a dragon, a griffin, a man-monster, and the automaton Super-Duper (who combined Wonder Woman, Hawkman, and Flash into one synthetic being) from within the League's Cave headquarters.

Unlike the four statutes that faced the Society, the four beasts on Earth-One took considerable effort for the League to defeat, although they like their Society counterparts succumbed to the Futur-Energy. Now all of Morrow's foes were disabled... except one!

And that one, Red Tornado, fought against his programming... tracking the radiation from his master's weaponry back to Earth-One. There, he found the immobilized Leaguers, and surmised from Morrow's own recordings how to save them. Using the real love interests of the five Leaguers initially captured to revive them through "a kiss", they accompanied Red Tornado to the secret base of T.O. Morrow. 

There, in dimensional Limbo between the two universes, Morrow planned to start a war between his native Earth-One and adopted Earth-Two. Beaming energy-rays into both worlds designed to agitate their inhabitants and then opening portals between both planets that would cause chaos on each. The villian theorized that by doing this, he would ultimately be the victory. However, his own computer calculated that the only way he could be defeated is by the intervention of his greatest creation, the Red Tornado!

After Red Tornado and the five Leaguers overcame the sinister scientist's synthetic army and destroyed his equipment, they captured Morrow and returned with him to Earth-One. There, Tornado used a rifle powered with the Futur-energy to restore mobility to the remaining Leaguers.

Following this, Tornado then journeyed back to Earth-Two where he did the same for the Justice Society, updating them on what had transpired. At this point, the awesome android proved both his naivite and his ingenuity... leading to him being granted a probationary membership into the Justice Society. However, over the years, Red Tornado never truly felts as if he fit in with this team, and when ultimately sacrificing his life to save Earth-Two from the Iron Hand.

Instead, he ended up being pulled back to Earth-One where he would be found by Morrow, using him in another scheme to destroy the Justice League. When this failed, Tornado instead adopted the “human” alter ego of John Smith and joined the Justice League as a long-serving and honored member. He even gained a girlfriend in Kathy Sutton and an adopted daughter in a girl named Traya whom he rescued from a war torn middle eastern country.

Although he would face future tragedies involving alien entities attempting to manipulate him, Red Tornado’s indomitable heroic spirit kept him grounded to humanity, who unlike his human creator, he sought to be a constructive part.

* Morrow used his Futurenergy to create energy duplicates of five friends (Steve Trevor, Jean Loring, Shayera "Hawkgirl" Hol, Midge and Mera Curry) and one foe (Doctor Light) of the League, while Per Degaton's time machine created six temporal duplicates of the Society's old foes (Per Degaton, Wotan, Professor Zodiak, King Bee, Monster and Sky Pirate) from 1948 in 1941. The original friends and foes of these heroes existed separate and simultaneous to their "chronal-clones" on these occasions.

Crime-Casters - Constructs - Conscious Chaos

For decades, the atmosphere of Earth-One was a breeding ground of transmitted electronic waves produced from a myriad of computing equipment.

Through this, the artificial consciousness known as the Construct was spawned, seeking to assert itself upon humanity and dominate it. To this end, it created robot automatons known as cannons which it sent to dispatch the one true viable threat to its rule...the Justice League of America. However, that team was able to defeat the synthetic being and attempted to erase it from existence.

Instead, it remained and reintegrated into Construct-II and Construct-III, seeking to mentally control Wonder Woman and the Injustice Gang separately and turn them against the League, then later using a reconstructed Red Tornado android. Each time, it failed in its objective to vanquish humanity. Even thousands of years in the future, as Lord of Time's Eternity Brain, it would still fail against the League and Society of Justice.

In fact, a separate, distinct yet similar electronic entity was formed on the Red Tornado's home world of Earth-Two. This being had initially been the creation of Rex "Hourman" Tyler, who built his Crime-Caster artificial intelligence to predict any pending problems across the globe. In the future, this computer developed into a predictive machine which the sinister scientist known as T.O. Morrow plucked from the future of Earth-Two which he first witnessed through a temporal viewer he built on his native planet of Earth-One.

This Crime-Caster in the far future would further develop in certain timelines into the being known as the Hourman android, a self-described "intelligent machine colony". While Morrow brought a copy of this computer back to Earth-One following his defeat at the hands of the Justice Society and Justice League, Rex's first model and what it developed into remained on Earth-Two. And it seems that Morrow's copy of the Tyler machine was the core of the Construct as it formed following its creators defeat. On a fourth occasion, the Construct tried and nearly succeeded in subjecting humanity, however it's own creation in Red Tornado ultimately destroyed this creature completely.

Immortal Man: Evidence He Originated on Earth-Two

The Immortal Man's biggest claim to fame may well be forgotten.. as the founder of the Forgotten Heroes. This team was composed of various plain clothed (and in Animal Man's case, costumed) crusaders of justice on Earth-One, such as Rip Hunter the Time Master, geologist Cave Carson, deep sea divers the Sea Devils, jungle explorer Congo Bill, Suicide Squad leader Rick Flagg and mysterious maiden the Dolphin.. He had assembled them in order to combat his age-old foe, Vandal Savage, however Savage originated on Earth-Two!

As Immortal Man explained to his fellow champions of justice, he and Vandal had been exposed to the same strange comet that bequeathed them both with extensive lifespans. And through the eon they battled one another perpetually. How could this be, if one was on Earth-One and the other on Earth-Two? In his first tale on Earth-One, Vandal mentioned that he left his home world to conquer this parallel planet by changing its history and thereby controlling its greatest champion, Superman, whose counterpart had alongside the Justice Society defeated him shortly before this.

In his next appearance, Savage had created a company known as Abraxas, Inc... designed to employ robotic replicas of the Man of Steel in order to more sufficiently protect Metropolis. However, this was a mere ploy by Vandal to supplant Superman and thereby fracture the public's perception of its once prominent protector. After then manipulating the radioactive Neutron into battling Superman, this lured the hero into the headquarters of Abraxas whereby he was sprayed with spores that Superman innocently spread throughout Metropolis which caused environmental chaos. This tied to ancient alien pyramids as Savage's means of returning Earth-One to prehistoric conditions he could control, although at this point Immortal Man revealed himself while recruiting the Forgotten Heroes into joining him in aiding the Man of Steel while defeating his immortal adversary. Since at this point Immortal Man confirmed their history, and Vandal had just previously mentioned leaving Earth-Two to conquer this new world, it is the inescapable conclusion that Immortal Man originated from Earth-Two as well... only leaving it for Earth-One when Vandal himself did.

What can we conclude from this? The adventures of the various "Immortal Men" accumulated racial memories contained within the comet crystal that the original Immortal Man and his subsequent heirs possessed... all took place on Earth-Two until this tale with the Forgotten Heroes. Thus, the various Immortal Men had counterparts on Earth-One that were also heroic figures from around the globe of Earth-Two, such as:

• Mark the young orphan was the twin of the young Immortal Man that appeared when the Forgotten Heroes met their opposite number, the Forgotten Villains. Each had brief careers before they each perished saving humanity, both manifesting the same set of powers in that sole appearance. 

• Samar the Jungle Man of Earth-Two's Africa had a counterpart in Animal Man (aka Buddy Baker) of Earth-One's Arizona, each with superhuman abilities tied to powers from the jungles similar to wild beasts. Note: Jungle Man's arch foe Karat possessed a helmet that created animal mutants much as that of Atom Master, a villain who battled the Superman and Batman of Earth-One, and later fought Animal Man, Immortal Man and the other Forgotten Heroes. 

• Mark King the English treasure expert of Earth-Two was as intuitive and resourceful as investigator Mark Merlin of Earth-One, whose counterpart was Jock "Merlin" Kellogg prior to Merlin's exile to the planet Ra. When Merlin was transplanted to Ra his memories were placed into the revived Prince Raman who become the counterpart to Mark King. And just as Jock Kellog was aided by Helena, so too Mark was aided by Elsa Magnusson. While Mark Merlin's arch-foe was Doctor-Seven, Jock's close colleague was similarly powered Tor aka Jim Slade. Both Ra-Man and Immortal Man perished during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. 

• Kirk Jason the ancient books editor of Earth-Two was like his counterpart on Earth-One geologist Kenneth Anderson men who gained telekinetic abilities due to their exposure from alien rocks, although while Jason was as his predecessors a hero, Anderson became the villain known as the Annihilator until Batgirl and Supergirl beat him.

• Anton Carter, the prominent former European paleontologist of Earth-Two was matched by Lucian Crawley of Earth-One, a young mutant who like Anton had mental abilities and aspired to be a masked superhero. However, unlike Carter who perished soon after his career began, Crawley used his mind control to strike back at the Justice League out of jealousy then retired. 

• Immortal Man's next identity was unnamed when he appeared on Earth-One following Savage, but this cloned body was the Earth-Two doppleganger to T.O. Morrow who left Earth-One for Earth-Two to construct the Red Tornado to use against the Justice Society and Justice League before returning to his homeworld when Immortal Man perished. Both had telekinetic powers.

• Many others in the Immortal Man line, such as Hotep, Marcus of Rome, Ali Jaba, and Sir Longlance of Earth-Two who each carried Immortal Man's jewel mirrored those Earth-One individuals as Prince Ra-Man of Egypt, Diabolu of Babylon, the Olympian of Greece, and the Wild Huntsman of Germany

• The original Immoral Man, Klarn Arg and arch-enemy Vandar Adg, existed during the same prehistoric era as mortal enemies. Klarn's ancient race on Earth-Two mirrored that of an ancient race on Krypton-One which predated Superman's own people.Originally the ruler of this people, when a meteor threaten his civilization the future Kryptonite Man ordered all save himself to be kept in suspended animation for twenty years to ensure salvation. However due to a malfunction, all save himself perished while he awoke centuries later. This was just prior to his home world self destructing, which he blamed on the current Kryptonians. Mutated by Kryptonite radiation from the space fragment he survived on for decades, Kryptonite Man fed himself from the storehouse found in the Seeders' ships. Seeking out Kryptonian survivors, he battled both Superman and Supergirl, a battled paralleled by Vandar aka Vandal Savage battling Superman and Power Girl a universe away. However, Kryptonite Man gave his life to save Earth-One from an invading fleet of Seedera, far more noble than Savage had been.

Girls of Steel Versus: Matter Manipulators Menacing Men

On twin Earths several nefarious nemesis had the same namesakes. The Luthors, the Hugo Stranges, the Doctor Psychos. But one common name threatened the combined assemblage of their world's greatest heroes... T.O. Morrow. Who were these men... and their own twins?

T.O. Morrow of Earth-One was a genius level scientist who invented a device allowing him to pull items from the future, which he would then claim to invent. Using this tool to become a super villain, Morrow first faced the Flash and Green Lantern, who found a way to defeat him. Seeking a manner to escape, his method led him from is native world of Earth-One to Earth-Two. A similar event occurred with this Morrow's Earth-Two counterpart, the latest incarnation of the heroic Immortal Man, who journeyed to Earth-One in pursuit of his arch-enemy Vandal Savage.

On this new world and a parallel plane of existence, this Morrow utilized a super computer to create an android which would defeat his new world's Justice Society as well as his old foes' Justice League teammates. The Red Tornado was Morrow's means of infiltrating the Society and destroy them. After seemingly succeeding, Thomas turned his attention to the League with similar results. However, the remaining members of the Society assisted the League with the assistance of Red Tornado in once more vanquishing his creator.

Then there was a T.O. Morrow appeared on Earth-Two... who was also a counterpart to the more well known "Tomorrow Man". How is this so? Well, this Morrow was a bald headed scientist who was really a charlatan, employing various gadgets and gimmicks to portray himself as a man from the future. When his duplicity was exposed by the Shining Knight, the golden age Morrow was defeated and jailed.

Getting back to Earth-One's T.O. Morrow, after his second encounter with the Justice League after he recovered his prized creation Red Tornado and rebuilt him, something strange happened to him. His future computer predicted that had he met defeat with the League, he would cease to exist, and this seemed to be the case as Morrow disappeared. 

In fact, he was split into two beings, one was the original who was shunted off into an extra-dimensional world. Another version of him was mutated into Tomorrow the Future Man, a mental mastermind with tremendous powers of the mind. However, this condition caused his life to accelerate and his life would soon be extinguished. Battling the Tornado for control of the android's body which he could implant his mind into, Future Man was once more defeated and perished, and it was this version that was the cosmic twin of Earth-Two's Morrow.

And after this Morrow's second attempt to turn the Red Tornado against the Justice League failed, his computer jettisoned him into another dimension in exile. There, he obtained a power staff allowing him to control reality on his new world, with which he battled the League's Flash and Atom as well as Supergirl. The trio defeated him and brought him back to his home world, although he soon resurfaced to attempt taking control of his android "son". Instead, Morrow unleashed a Tornado Tyrant that had initially merged with the original Red Tornado, and was once more imprisoned at the conclusion of this conflict, 

During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, while Morrow was recruited by the League to assist in reassembling the Red Tornado who once more had his inner Tyrant unleashed, and when this failed the criminal quit while he was ahead... just as his golden age bald headed doppleganger had decades earlier!