Whatever Happened to Binky?

Bertram "Binky" Biggs was a typical teenager who's adventures, or rather misadventures, were notable amid the more renowned contemporaneous superhero tales at the same time. In start contrast with the often tense drama surrounding costumed crusaders protecting the planet, Binky's more comedic antics displayed that now all was serious on Earth. But which Earth? Actually, Earths One and Two, each of which had their own version of Binky.

The golden age Binky debuted in 1948, and proceeded to navigate into young adulthood alongside family and friends. Among these were his older sister Lucy and younger brother "Allergy", as well as his girlfriend Peggy and frenemy Sherwood. His tales continued to be told throughout the next decade until 1958, when apparently he grew up and grew out of his youthful pursuits. An interesting event occurred early on in his courtship of Peggy, when the young couple witnessed a super-feat of the Superman of their world, Earth-Two!

The silver age Binky debuted in 1967, and as with his counterpart he too had big sister Lucy and little brother "Allergy", as well his own Peggy and schoolmate Sherwood. His tales were told only until 1972, at which point he mysteriously disappeared from reality! Where did he go? His friends and family would like to know!

It was later revealed that the red-haired Jonni DC, herself originating from Earth-Two, for a time operated on Earth-One. There she was seemingly self-appointed to erase anomalies from reality, such as a temporal duplicate of Wonder Woman when she was a baby known as Wonder Tot, and the heroine's Chinese foe Egg Fu.

For whatever reason, the Earth-One Binky was also someone whom Jonni believed needed to be removed from reality, leaving those he left behind mystified as to where he went. During this same time period, a massive shift in the cosmic balance occurred through an accidental opened a hyper-space between three separate universes!

This incident occurred when Earth-One research scientist Enrichetta Negrini, activated an experimental hyper-space device, which sent numerous random individuals to each other’s Earths. This drew the enigmatic the Anti-Matter Man from the Anti-Matter Universe of Qward, who's presence might have destroyed all three realities but for the intervention of the Justice League and Justice Society.

In fact, Jonni DC herself may possibly have been one of those individuals from Earth-Two pulled over to Earth-One during this event. And apparently, she was in possession of the spherical "DC-Dial" of Earth-Two's reality, which transformed her into a superhuman entity.

It’s been theorized that Jonni’s actions were motivated as a counter-balance to a similar spherical object,, the H-Dial of Earth-One. This device was discovered around the same time by high school student Robbie Reed, who became various superheroes when he dialed “H-E-R-O”. His girlfriend Suzy Shoemaker on occasion used his H-Dial, such as when she became Gem Girl!

While Suzy and her boyfriend spawned new superhumans, of whom such as Giantman and Mighty Muppet were recurring characters, Suzy’s Earth-Two counterpart Jonni erased some individuals from existence! Whether counterparts Suzy and Jonni met in person is unknown.

Hopefully, the aspiring adventurer Ambush Bug, who sensed a "disturbance in the force", eventually tracked down Binky and reunited him with his loved ones. Yeah, probably not!

Whatever Happened to the Buddak?

We have previously considered versions of the Maltusians existing in the Earth-Two universe. While those beings originating from the planet Maltus in the Earth-One universe migrated to the planet Oa, this did not occur with their counterparts. As there was no corresponding world at the center of their universe like Oa (or in other positive matter universes) these individuals remained there and became know as the Buddak. Unlike the benevolent Guardians of the Universe, whom the Maltisians became, the Buddak sought personal power. Seeking to create a world in the center of their universe just as Oa was in its realm, they tried to remake Earth-Two into such a planet. Doctor Fate and the Superman of Earth-One defeated three Buddak, others remained on their world.

We gain insight into a probable scenario when, years later, the Controller assumed control of a world like the one they originated from, in order to develop weaponry to help achieve their goal of multiversal order. One such device, the Miracle Machine, produced unexpected results on its world leaving it in shambles. Two Controllers are shown left behind to deal with the consequences of their disastrous creation. The Machine teleports to another planet in Earth-One’s dimensional plane, which briefly causes Superman and his Clark Kent selves to separate.

The logical assumption is that the Controllers setup their central operations base on the Buddak* world, left without leaders as their three primary overlords perished in their earlier battle with Superman and Doctor Fate. We can make this connection, as it was later revealed that they were a faction of Maltus who disagreed with the Guardians faction as to how to govern their universe. These Controllers ended up moving to “a specific segment of the multiple universes”. The closest and most accessible universe to the one they came from was that is Earth-Two.

Hence, left forsaken by its previous overlords of the Buddak and then left severely damaged by its next overseers in the Controllers. Their planet was seemingly left is a dissolute state. 

One of these two Controllers filled the role in that universe corresponding to the Monitor and Anti-Monitor in the Earth-One positive matter universe and the anti-matter universe of Qward. The other was the Controller impersonating the Time Trapper who tormented Wonder Woman and later the Super Friends on Earth-One,

* Since the remaining Buddak migrated to Earth-Two centuries earlier, to become the so-called leprechauns, this alternate Maltus found its once thriving culture henceforth no more.

Whatever Happened to the Perisphere and Trylon

A central mystery in the history of the Justice Society was its short-lived satellite headquarters, secretly designed by the sinister Eliminations, Inc. which sought revenge for the heroic team's defeat of its predecessor, the Binary Brotherhood. Retrofitting equipment from their Flying Eye craft, which the Binary Brotherhood’s “Brain Trust” developed as a subterfuge for an alien attack, in order to unite adversarial nations of World War II in peace. When members of the Justice Society of America, accompanied by the All-Star Squadron, thwarted their misguided plan for world peace… the Brotherhood became Eliminations, Inc. This sinister scientists’ society formed a plan to strike back at their costumed foes. In order to accomplish this, they used a historic headquarters, where both teams met until 1945, as a potential death trap!

On Earth-One and Earth-Prime, like Earth-Two, the Perisphere and Trylon were the centerpieces of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. By 1940, both structures had falled into disrepair, and were soon after scrapped with the metal being used for the war effort... at least on other Earths. On Earth-Two, perhaps due to superior construction techniques (given that technology on this world was decades ahead of their parallel planets in a number of ways), both building remained until the spring of 1942 when the All-Star Squadron claimed both as their new base of operations. However, once this team dissolved in 1945 at the conclusion of the war, the question remained... whatever happened to these two landmarks?

Again, on other Earths in 1949, the next World’s Fair took place in Haiti. However, on Earth-Two, that year's World’s Fair took place in the midwestern metropolis known as Civic City. There, both buildings were transplanted to that city's designated fair grounds, and were still there the following year in 1950 when disasters struck this burgeoning burg. The sinister Diamond Men from below Earth-Two rose to the surface, both through a notable local geyser and a deep lake within the city's bounderies. On hand to deal with and defeat the Diamond Men were the Justice Society, although one of the subterranean race's incursion into Civic City seemingly toppled the Perisphere and Trylon.

However, the following year in 1951, the Justice Society were lured into orbit above Earth-Two by a mysterious benefactor, who claimed to have bequeathed them a satellite headquarters, specifically designed by his organization. This turned out to be a death trap, one which the seven Society members were able to escape, after which Green Lantern transported the satellite back to Earth. He and his teammates then brought its creators... Professor Ivo and his Eliminations, Inc. cohorts to justice. However, a subsequent congressional hearing into the activities and secret identities of the Justice Society caused the heroes to retire from their costumed crusader for the next twelve years.

Interestingly, the size, shape and dimensions of the JSA satellite mirrored that of the former Perisphere, originally of New York and then of Civil City. It seems that this was one and the same structure, modified by technology incorporated into the Brain Trust's Flying Eye from nearly a decade prior. While its counterpart Perisphere on Earth-One was melted down into scrap metal, it is quite likely that some of this material formed the basis of the Justice League's satellite which they designed in the late 1970s. Like the Perisphere/satellite of Earth-Two, the League's satellite would eventually be destroyed by an attack by an alien race, although their attacker came from another world… the Martians! As for the satellite/Perisphere, it was last seen brought back to the surface Earth-Two by Green Lantern, possibly also turned to scrap metal.

Whatever Happened to Hourman & the Challengers

The Challengers of the Unknown were a quartet of costumed crusaders, each specialists in specific disciplines, who believed they cheated death by surviving a plane crash. Motivated by this, they were the premier non-superhero team of protectors on Earth-One during the latter half of the 20th century. Hourman and the Minute-Men were a team of powered protectors who south to save innocents from various threats on Earth-Two during the middle part of the 20th century.

There came a point after all four Challengers settled down to have families when they limited their adventuring to raise their families. One of their wives, Ace’s wife June Robbins, was a long-time honorary fifth Challenger back in their younger days. While Prof Davis, Red Ryan, and Ace Morgan had sons resembling each of them, Rocky Davis had a daughter named Roxanne. Nevertheless, this girl was confident enough to join in with the boys on both of their adventures, paving the way for the next generation of the Challengers.

Chemist Rex Tyler as Hourman began recruiting local lads in Appleton City... which soon changed its name to Cosmos... in order to aid him in tracking down common crooks, mad scientists, bizarre aliens, and the like. Among the regulars were Jimmy Martin and Thorndyke Tompkins of his Minute Men of America, while other kids from across the country such as Les Sparks assisted while visiting Cosmos. Although Rex had a son who likewise followed in his footsteps, he was emotionally closer to his junior sidekicks back in the early 1940s than his teenage son in the 1970s and 1980s. The Minute-Men only lasted for a couple of years (much like Rex’s girlfriend Regina Paige Bannermain, niece of Tyler’s boss, who shared with Hourman and the Minute Men in at least three of their adventures).

With all these aspiring mystery men, Hourman allowed them to energize themselves using his experimental Miraclo Black Light Ray. This activated the Miraclo pills he previously created. Similarly, the Challengers had several temporary powers during a few cases which like Hourman included superhuman strength and physique. Likewise, the Miraclo pill and ray the Minute Men were exposed to mirrored the liquid light and Prof's chemical anecdote used by their foe Multi-Man.

Decades later, Rex met the next generation of aspiring youths, only these four sought to plunder Tyler Chemical. Their goal was  to steal Tyler’s experimental TCR-113 chemical, which they claimed would harm future generations. An Hourman, partially empowered by a deteriorating Miraclo pill, successfully defeated the quartet and recovered the TCR-113, claiming that his alter ego’s company would use this chemical only for beneficial purposes to humanity.

While these young teen teams were not as legendary as the Teen Titans and Blue Boys, nor the Forever People or Infinity, Inc., they were still notable footnotes in history.

Whatever Happened to Jon Valor - The Black Pirate of 2 Worlds

Jon Valor was a British nobleman seeking to enforce Justine on the high seas. In order to secure his identity, he adopted the privateer alter ego of Black Pirate, using his athletic prowess and skill as a swordsman as a costumed crusader during the latter half of the 16 century. Eventually, he was captured by the Spanish Armada, and while in captivity wed local noblewoman Donna Bonita, which led to his being enlisted in Spain's service. 

Raising their son Justin, Jon trained the lad into becoming his sidekick. The pair had many adventures, little aware that they had identical counterparts with similar history in another Earth. 

On Earth-Two, Jon and Justin continues to work aids bu side, with Justin eventually replacing his different colored outfit for one matching his sire. This was no doubt to train to succeed him as the next Black Pirate. The pair were brought forward to 1985, where they helped Firebrand and other historical heroes defend Cape Canaveral from Ultra-Humanite and his forces during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

On Earth-One, Justin appeared to have been lost at sea after he and his father battled a vessel filled with lost pirates. Five years later, while being sent to the Netherlands by the King of England to root out a new brand of pirates, Jon encountered his long lost son. Justin had been rescued by Puritans, and while suffering temporary amnesia was converted to their cause. He was behind the latest pirate sittings, seeking to obtain funds for his people’s cross-Atlantic journey. Assisting his son one last time, Black Pirate helped defeat the English fleet arriving on Dutch shores, and saw his son off as Justin and the Puritans sailed away to America.

Soon after this, Black Pirate and other historic heroes of Earth-One were pulled into 1978 by the Lord of Time. Pirate and his four allies battled the Justice League and Justice Society, before aiding them in saving all time from the Lord’s destructive Eternity Brain at the end of time. Following this, Jon returned to his native time and his waiting wife.

The adventures of the Black Pirates and the Justins (in Sensation and All-American Comics) seem to have mirrored one another up to the point where they diverged, when the one Justin left for America and the other carried on the family tradition. It seems that this Earth-Two Justin had a son who, in the 1800s, was named Jon after his great-great grandfather and became his generation’s Black Pirate (as chronicled in Action Comics).

Whatever Happened to Crimson Avenger... and Law's Legionnaires

When Lee Walter Travis decided to adopt the alter ego of Crimson Avenger, he stepped outside his comfort zone as a wealthy newspaper publisher and into the world of costumed crimefighting. As a member of Law's Legionnaires... also known as the Seven Soldiers of Victory, he and his sidekick Wing had several adventures alongside his teammates. The last was a monumental clash with the alien Nebula Man, which caused Lee and the other Soldiers except Wing to be sent to various past centuries. Now in ancient Mexico, Travis became amnesiac and believed himself to be the ruler of its native people. This effect, along with new superhuman powers, were caused by exposure to a fragment of the Nebula Man. When the Justice Society and Justice League retrieved the Legionnaires, returning them to the 20th century to battle their old foe the Iron Hand, Lee discovered that his dear friend Wing sacrificed his life to destroy Nebula Man.

After a brief retirement, in 1980 Lee resumed his heroic career as Crimson Avenger defending Metropolis, while in his professional career he had moved his newspaper the Daily Globe-Leader to that city and renamed it the Daily Planet. However, the next year, Travis learned that he was succumbing to an incurable condition brought on by the Nebula radiation. Deciding to have one final adventure, Crimson Avenger swung from the balcony of his hospital room, saving a lad named Umberto who fell from his mom's apartment window. Then, the Avenger arrived at his original destination, a tanker in distress due to crooks seizing it for its experiemental chemicals onboard. After subduing them and freeing the vessel's crew, he ordered them to abandon ship and flee on its lifeboat while he piloted the volatile vessel out of theharbor. By doing so, the Avenger saved countless citizens on the shores surrounding Metropolis Bay, and seemingly died.

However, due to the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Travis at the instant prior to his perishing was jettisoned from this time period to that of four years in the future. There, equipped with scuba gear he had donned to escape the ship once it cleared the harbor, he ended up arriving on a world now encased in an energy dome along with countless cities from across the Multiverse. 

Now residing with the city and its inhabitants on a new world named Telos, Avenger and his teammates protected Metropolis from various threats for an entire year before the dome collapsed. The ruler of this world sought to pit inhabitants of various cities against one another, and this involved the Crimson and some of his fellow Legionnaires battling the invader hordes of the Antimatter Universe of Qward known as the Thunderers. 

Ultimately, the Qwardians prevailed against the remained Legionnaires, with both Crimson Avenger and his teammate Vigilante dying after being overwhelmed by superior numbers of Thunderers. Prior to this, Stripesy succumbed to pneumonia, while his partner Star-Spangled Kid was heavily involved with Infinity Inc. who were fighting off a different attack on Metropolis led by Jonah Hex and his warriors of the future.

Perhaps the most tragic losses, however, were those of the Battling Bowmen, as Green Arrow and Speedy died back on Earth-Two in the waning hours of the Crisis, as they tried to save cartoonist/reporter Scribby Jibbet from a time-displaced pterodactyl, Instead, the pair fell to their death during this valiant effort, leaving it to the sole remaining active Legionnaire the Shining Knight to come to the rescue.

Meanwhile, on Earth-S and Earth-Four, the Earth-One Green Arrow and Speedy were battling an army of villians invading these parallel planets. Both of them, unlike their counterparts, survived.

Towards the end of the Convengence event, Shining Knight invited Scribby to join him as a new Legionnaire in place of his fallen comrades. As the journalist was chronicling his adventures on this alien world under the dome, he witnessed as Metropolis and all that resided within its border was returning once more to Earth-Two. During this transition, he noted that memories of the past year on Telos were fading away, as reality was once more being restored.

Now back on Earth-Two, the fallen Legionnaires Vigilante's body was found on the streets of Metropolis, surrounded by the city's new conquerors from the Antimatter Universe. And in a cemetary, a grave marked for Pat "Stripesy" Dugan left a mystery as to what happened to fell this strong Soldier. Sadly, the final selfless sacrifice of Crimson Avenger would be left untold, as memories faded from the collective conscience of man.

Those heroes remaining, such as Shining Knight and Scribby as well as Superman, Power Girl and others would undoubtedly have vanquished the Thunderers, sending them back to Qward. This then left those in Metropolis to rebuild their city once more, which had been devastated by natural disasters of the Crisis and warfare on planet Telos.

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Interestingly, the counterparts of the Crimson Avenger and Wing, Flamebird and Nightwing, had a similar eventuality. For years, they resided with their fellow Kryptonians within the shrunken bottled city of Kandor, kept safely inside the Earth-One Superman's Fortress of of Solitude. After a series of adventures wherein Superman and Jimmy Olsen adopted the aliases of Nightwing and Flamebird, a Kandorian version of Gotham City's Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin, scientist Van-Zee and his assistant Ak-Var borrowed these costumes for their own crimefighting escapades.

Eventually, Superman and Supergirl were able to restore Kandor and its citizens to their normal height, on a planet orbiting a red sun known as Rokyn. On this world, the former Kryptonians no longer had superhuman powers, and revealed that this world shifted between universes from time-to-time. As such, Nightwing and Flamebird along with their city were kept in a transitory state, much as the Earth-Two city of Metropolis, between universes... only Rokyn's shifting state wasn't temporary as were those of the cities on Telos.

Whatever Happened to Air Wave?

Larry Jordan always believed in the law. So much so, that he toiled away for an undisclosed amount of time as humble law clerk, until the day he became first an assistant district attorney and then a district attorney. Still not thinking this was sufficient to quench his thirst for justice, Larry used his aptitute as an amateur inventor to develop a special costume. As the masked man known as Air Wave, Jordan captured criminals that he could then help to convict in a court of law.

His notoriety led to membership in the All-Star Squadron, with which he participated in occasional adventures alongside fellow superheroes including the original Green Lantern. Then sometime after World War II concluded, Jordan journeyed along with a few fellow All-Stars from his native world of Earth-Two to the then hero-less parallel planet of Earth-One. There, he contined his costumed career, on and off, from the 1950s into the early 1960s.

On this new world, Jordan used his past experience to become a Manhattan district attorney. As Air Wave, he briefly met Superboy, whom he though was more impetus than the Superman of Earth-Two.

Around these time, Larry developed improvements to his costume, allowing him to convert his body into energy enabling him to ride broaadcast waves. However, the suit malfunctioned, and so Jordan confronted a burglar in his home without his tools... leaving himself vulnerable to a fatal shooting. He left behind a widow and an orphaned son.

Years later, as an older teenager, that son Hal donned his father's experimental suit in order to carry on his father's heroic legacy. On his first adventure, he met the modern day Green Lantern as the two green guardians battled a technical supervillian. After this, the two men learned two things, that they were both cousins and both named Hal. Their identical first names was based on a relative. In addition to Green Lantern, Green Arrow and Black Canary helped to train the young Air Wave, until he was skilled enough to operate on his own when he moved to Dallas, Texas. However, a question arises as to how the two Hals were related, as Uncle Larry was of another Earth than the Jordan family of Earth-One.

This question is easily answered in the third member of the Air Wave family.  Larry's wife Helen was faced with a daunting task, when he husband died while saving her and their son. Immediately after this occured, she found Larry's special costume, and wore it in order to track down her husband's killer. Then after raising young Hal for years, the mental stress of this trauma became too much, and so she sent her boy to live with is cousins Jack and Jan in Dallas.

Unlike her counterpart, the Helen Jordan of Earth-Two ... who was Sargon's occasional foe Lightning Bug... Helen didn't use such electronic technology for crime, setting a good example for her son that set his life course.

And it seems that before marrying Larry, her maiden name was already Jordan, a part of the Jordan clan of whom her nephew Hal "Green Lantern", Jack and the other family members native to Earth-One. Apparently, when moving from Earth-Two, Larry sought out his new world's Jordans.

Whatever Happened to the Golden Age Atom?

Tiny Titans. Mighty Mites. The Atoms were, on the surface, background characters amidst their more prominent teammates within their World's Greatest Heroes. However, both were critical members on several cases of these twin teams, as they packed quite a bunch and also contributed with their tremendous scholastic and scientific knowledge. While on Earth-Two, Al Pratt was a charter member of the Justice Society of America as the Atom, the Atom of Earth-One was the third recruit following the founding of the Justice League of America. Regardless, they both were present for the vast majority of their teams' earliest adventures.

In fact, Ray-Atom was active for the majority of the League's history, while still having a steady amount of solo adventures, only tapering off for a few years in the early 1970s. As for Al-Atom, during the 1940s until 1951 he was continuously active with the Society, contributing to the second most number of adventures in that team's golden age history, second only to best pal Hawkman. And when the Society was revived in 1963, he was present during six of their first nine case, until 1971. Then, Al disappeared until seven years later in 1978! Where was he during this time?

A couple hints can be found both in his last adventure with the Society, and the last of his solo teamups with counterpart Ray-Atom which preceded that tale. During that teamup of the Tiny Titans, Al was match-made in a blind date with Marion Thayer. Years later, he was shown to be married to a "Mary". It seems the pairing of Al and Marion proved ultimately unsuccessful, although it would apparently reawaken the love he had for Mary, as they married in the 1970s.

Shortly after this romantic meeting, Ray-Atom and Al-Atom along with their League and Society allies battled the maddened alien A-Rym and his symbiotic pet Teppy. Both separated, the boy on Earth-Two and his pet on Earth-One, each attacked the two teams of heroes who were trying to restrain them. In fact Teppy, who it was noted had Kryptonian-level strength like his master, gave Al-Atom a devastating blow. Although he got up to mount a counter-attack, that was it for Al's contribution to this adventure, as the two groups soon reunited the two aliens as they were summoned to their home.

It seems that Al-Atom perhaps needed time to recover, and thus could not assist the Society during any subsequent adventures during his recuperation. And perhaps, now having settled down with a wife after years as a bachelor, he may have been hesitant at placing his life at risk. 

In fact, it was only due to the fact that his old foe the Wizard mentally lured him into a battle with  Blockbuster and the Secret Society of Super-Villains that Al came out of retirement (at the same time Ray-Atom battled the Villians). Although present with the Justice Society during a confrontation involving the Master Summoner, this was it as to his participation with the Justice Society. Al would battle a house thief, join occasional Society/League crossovers, and participate in adventures involving Ultra-Humanite and Per Degaton. 

Bottom line: This was a man who grew out of his years as a vigorous and excitable youth, now a seasoned man in his middle age now teaching as a nuclear physics instructor rather than student, who cherished settling down with his wife instead of the next thrilling tale. A lesson that, sadly, his counterpart Ray Palmer learned the hard way, as his own marriage ended due to superheroics.

Whatever Happened to the Secret Society of Super-Villains?

Undoubtedly the most successful team of supervillains had to have been the Crime Syndicate of Earth-Three, due to a few key factors. First, they were a tight-knit band of felons bound by a common interest, that dealt decisively with any competition... be it criminals or other costumed characters. Second, there world only had one actual superhero... Alex Luthor. Third, the only other individuals that dared to oppose them were bounty hunters such as Johnny Quick's adversaries in the Rogues Hunters. As such, they were the longest lasting team of caped and cowled crooks, that proved unbeatable for years. However, the Crime Syndicate's dominance came to an end following a battle with the Justice League and Justice Society, leading to their banishment into interdimensional Limbo for an untold period of time, encaged in a globe created by their enemies. This green globe prevented the Syndicators from using their specific powers and skills to break free.

Yet perhaps none had as wide-spread a tyrannical grasp on villainy across various universes as had the Secret Society of Super-Villains. Originally created from behind the scenes by Darkseid of the extra-dimensional world known as Apokolips, several villains led this team on Earths One and Two throughout the decades, from Manhunter to Gorilla Grodd to Lex Luthor to the Wizard. After the Villains broke apart into two teams, one on each Earth, they disbanded. 

However, the last leader, Ultra-Humanite, assembled a new Society which nearly won before internal scabbles once more fractured the villains' once more. Ten members of the Society, from Earths One and Two, were then left in interdimensional Limbo. Prior to this, five former Society members under Wizard’s leadership also were trapped there when journeying from Earth-Two to Earth-One.

The Earth-One villains later led by Ultra returned to their world, to be sent to various prisons, while Society pulled the Earth-Two villains from the early 1980s into the 1940s for a battle with the All-Star Squadron, which they ultimately lost.

Those six remaining members were then sent back to Limbo... according to Johnny Quick... save for Ultra. Although later, only Brain Wave was shown as still there! Where were fellow members Mist, Monocle, Rag Doll, Psycho-Pirate and Vulcan when Ultra-Humanite and Brain Wave had a final battle in that realm? Well, recall that the Crime Syndicate was likewise trapped in Limbo. Logically, it seems that those five Secret Society cronies helped the Crime Syndicate escape their globe-prison, and the Syndicate returned the favor by returning all of them to their respective Earths. At least for a few years, until the Crisis on Infinite Earths pulled them all into a Multiversal conflict.

* For those who might say, “But the Crime Syndicate were still shown in their green bubble within Limbo in 1984, remember that time is meaningless there. And Luthor mentions having several battles with the Syndicate since 1982. Plus all points in the timestream of Earths One and Two were accessible to the "present" in Limbo as the Secret Society of the 80's traveled to the 40's, as one such example.

Whatever Happened to... the Lost Moons of Krypton?

Both Kryptons in the universes of Earths One and Two had twin moons encircling those now extinct planets. One of these moons was named Mithen, and was less notable than their famous  celestrial contemporaries. Meet Wegthor and Koron.

Wegthor was the primary moon of Krypton-One, which was colonized as a lunar colony staff with 500 colonists. These Kryptonians and their new home were destroyed by a missle, built and sent by the scientist Jax-Ur, which strayed from its intended trajectory of an astronid. Jax-Ur was banished to the Phantom Zone for this serious infraction.

Koron was its twin, which orbited Krypton-Two. When an experimental life-extending serum created by Zor-L was used on a gigantic Snagriff, which made it invulnerable and changed its metabolism. To save his world from the creature, Jor-L exiled it to Koron, which was later propelled from its parent planet when Krypton-Two exploded. The Snagriff at almost all the moon, until it entered Earth-Two's orbit when it disintegrated. Later, the Snagriff joined it when consuming several volatile atomic bombs while battling its jailer's son, Superman!

Whatever Happened to the Starfish Conqueror?

Starro the Starfish Conqueror was a mysterious entity originating from outerspace. When he arrived on Earth-One, he sought to dominate that world's lifeforms. To this end, he mutated three duplicates, although each of these was dispatched by five members of the newly formed Justice League of America. From a local boy in Happy Harbor, Snapper Carr, the Leaguers learned of Starro's vulnerability... lime, which the lad used on his family's lawn during the alien invasion.

As such, Green Lantern used his power ring to dowse Starro in a thick covering of lime, which immobiized him. Something similar worked on Earth-Two with the shark-shaped spacecraft made of Metal-X, which Green Lantern alongside his Justice Society allies drenched the animalistic alien in acid.

As for Starro, a fragment of the creature had survived and nurtured itself in the poisonous waters of Earth-One, spawning a duplicate that gained even greater mental abilities while gaining a weakened immune system when removed from these toxic waters. However, despite retaining the transmitted memories of the original, this new Starro needed years to grow to maturity. Meanwhile, a fake Starro was built by T.O. Morrow to battle the League when they teamed up with the Society. This synthetic Starro of Earth-One was like the Metal-X ship of Earth-Two, a cybernetic rather than biological being.

Back over on Earth-Two, the actual doppelgänger of Starro and its replicants was the undersea tyrant Nyarl-Amen and his Fishmen, which launched an attack on Hawaii that was repelled by Doctor Fate. Decades later, Fate along with his Justice Society colleague Hourman faced the Psycho-Pirate, who spawned a replica of Nyarl-Amen along with other older adversaries of the hero to briefly confuse him.

Once strong enough, Earth-One’s Starro enlisting the aid of various marine life as well as members of Aqualad's undersea people. Starro sought revenge against Aquaman, who was one of the five originally defeating him. However, the Marine Marvel used his telepathic abilities to summon porcupine fish, which sprayed fresh water on the antagonistic alien. Aquaman then called upon his League teammate Green Lantern to dispose of their enemy, yet even still, Starro was able to jettison another fragment into space to fight another day.

And so it was that yet a third Starro, not counting the three starfish he mutated during his first appearance, appeared to once more war against humanity. This time, Starro was largely successful in mentally dominating millions of New Yorkers, including several members of the Justice League. However, Starro misjudged the Red Tornado, who unlike the other Leaguers was not human and so was not suspectible to the creature's mind control tactics. Leading the charge with his remaining teammates, Reddy was able to shut off the source of the alien's strength, while the other heroes used ice cold freezing blasts from Firestorm and Green Lantern to render this Starro inert. However, Starro had a contingency plan with yet another fragment of his former body.

This latest piece entered a space warp, arriving on Earth-C, whereby a new Starro was created in that univere. This version only had the memories of the original, and of the duplicate that had fought Aquaman, unaware of his counterpart's third attempt in New York.

This Starro's arrival on this new world inadvertently created the circumstances that empowered six new superheroes, who would become Captain Carrot and his Zoo Crew. Together with a visiting Superman, who had been displaced from Earth-One in the same space warp, these new champions were able to replicate the lime dowsing technique used by the League years earlier. This time, it finally seemed as if the threat of Starro had finally been extinguished, and indeed under normal circumstances this would indeed have been the case. However, unlike what had previously transpired, another entity engineered an unlikely resurrection of the Starfish Conqueror... Brainiac!

Brainiac along with Lex Luthor of Earth-One assembled a legion of doom from various eras and from five Earths, in order to implement of coordinated attack on three of those Earths. Starro was dispatched with several other supervillains to Earth-S, yet despite his awesome abilities, it proved unable to defeat Superman. This was no doubt due to the fact that Brainiac sent the being to a section of Earth-S placed under a deep freeze by the Icicle, Captain Cold and Killer Frost... a tactile mistake for the rogue robot. Whether this Starro was the original or replica that battled the League on Earth-One, or the clone that battled the Zoo Crew on Earth-S, is unknown?

The Starros of Earth-One, Earth-C and Earth-S, Metal-X of Earth-Two, the Starros of the Post-Crisis Earths... each were terrifying space-faring foes of mankind. And yet, despite their massive mental might, they each came up short when faced with their World's Greatest Superheroes!
  

The Russian Blackhawk or Whatever Happened to Boris

Boris was the missing eighth member of the Blackhawk Squadron, which consisted of their leader along with Andre, Chuck, Henrickson, Olaf, Stanislaus and Chop-Chop. Each member originated in a different country that had each been displaced by the Axis Powers during World War II. As to Boris' home nation, that was Russia, then part of the Soviet Union. Early on in the career of the Squadron, Boris mysteriously disappeared. What became of the Earth-Two version is unknown, although perhaps similar to his Earth-One cosmic twin. That twin became Anti-Man,

During a mission in Angola, Boris had been separated from his compatriots, and presumed dead. In fact, he had been mutated into his superpowered form, and was consumed with revenge over his former teammates having unknowingly abandoning him.

Despite possession potent powers, Anti-Man still lost to the combined might of the modern day Blackhawks, and finally found the death so long denied him. If,  in fact, a similar event transpired with his Earth-Two counterpart, that Boris didn't seek out his Squadron. Perhaps, the Earth-One version, he simply couldn't locate the sensational seven... as they ventured to a third Earth.

Those Earth-Two Blackhawks had indeed disappeared on April 1, 1942, recruited by Uncle Sam along with several members of the All-Star Squadron to join him in fighting the Axis Powers on Earth-X. That world did not currently have superheroes nor mystery men, as they were then called, and so these All-Stars turned Freedom Fighters traveled there to protect that world.

However, at some point between that spring day in 1942 and the late summer date of September 19, 1944, the Blackhawks had returned to the planet of their birth. It would seem that their travel back there was unexpected, as Sam referred to the Blackhawks as among those Freedom Fighters who had perished. However, like Plastic Man (who during a cosmic Convergence event, actually moved to Earth-Twelve to start a family), the Blackhawks simply traveled through the Multiverse. 

On this date, both the Blackhawks and Earth-Two's Batman were on the trail of German Nazi Captain Hauptmann and his "Ice Station Alpha". During the conclusion of this tale, Batman expressed the desire to once again work alongside this Squadron. And further tales of these Blackhawks would be chronicled throughout the remainder of the 1940's until the mid 1950's. Yet still no sign of their world's Boris.

Whatever Happened to the Golden Age Aquaman

The scenario: A device from across the universe arrives in orbit over Earth-One. From this object, rays are projected that manipulates dimensional time reflex, which causes the "black city" of Necrus to appear. The soldiers from Necrus attack a nearby undersea settlement of surface dwellers and obliterate it, given its ruler's xenophobic nature. When Aquaman hears this, he recalls past encounters with this ruler, Mongo.

Although the villain traps him in an impenetrable bubble, another beam from the alien object causes a second Aquaman to appear and lead the Atlantean armies against Necrus. He defeats  those forces, though at the cost of his life. After a funeral, the native Aquaman appears and along with his wife Mera defeats Mongo, who retreats to his city that vanishes from whence it came.

When examined further, the identity of the second Aquaman appears to clarify with the clues presented in this tale. First, the alien orbiter opens dimensions and time to transferring objects from one location to another. Second, the Earth-One Aquaman recognizes the city of Necrus, though it is not native to his world's oceans  Third, when the second Aquaman appeared, it was assumed that this was a clone although the same ray didn't clone Necrus but simply materialized it and its citizens into Earth-One's dimension. This indicates that the other Aquaman was from another dimension and possibly an earlier time. Finally, the imprisoned Aquaman used his own telepathic connection with the other version of him to mentally guide him, until that one died. Aquaman's Justice League allies held a funeral for his twin.

It appears that this other Aquaman originated on Earth-Two, the only other Aquaman known to exist in the pre-Crisis Multiverse. It was he who had previous battles with Mongo and his minions when their city appeared periodically. This Aquaman last appeared in the fall of 1956, and so given the twenty year vibratory gap between the two universes, would appear on Earth-One at a time when he was biologically the same age as his counterpart.

There is precedent for counterparts sharing memories and merging with one another. When the Supermen of Earths One and Two merged in order to battle Krogg, they acted as one. And later, when Atoman of Earth-Two journeyed to Earth-One, that world's Superman suddenly gained memories of his counterpart due to the dimensional transfer.

It was the golden age Marine Marvel that passed away and was honored by the Justice League, unaware that this was the Aquaman from the universe of their friends in the Justice Society. Mongo and Necrus returned to their trans-dimensional existence after defeat.

And so answers the question as to whatever happened to the Golden Age Aquaman.