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 CAPTAIN COMET (Adam Blake)CHRONOLOGY 
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Captain Comet (Adam Blake)
The Original Universe

CHRONOLOGY

Captain Comet first appeared in Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #9 (June 1951).

Below is the definitive list of appearances of Captain Comet in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.

Follow the links for a complete index of the issue, including story and creator info as well as full character chronology and in some cases story synopses.

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Captain Comet Chronology

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Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #9 (June 1951): "The Origin of Captain Comet"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #10 (July 1951): "The Air Bandits from Space"
Secret Origins Annual Vol. 2 #1/2 (1987): "The Secret Origin of Captain Comet" [Retells Strange Adventures #9 and #10 with new information]
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #11 (August 1951): "The Day the Past Came Back"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #12 (September 1951): "The Girl from the Diamond Planet"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #13 (October 1951): "When Earth Was Kidnapped"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #14 (November 1951): "Destination Doom"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #15 (December 1951): "Captain Comet - Enemy of Earth"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #16 (January 1952): "The Ghost of Captain Comet"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #17 (February 1952): "Beware the Synthetic Men"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #18 (March 1952): "The World of Flying Men"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #19 (April 1952): "Secret of the Twelve Eternals"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #20/4 (May 1952): "Slaves of the Sea-Master"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #21 (June 1952): "Eyes of Other Worlds"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #22 (July 1952): "Guardians of the Clockwork Universe"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #23/4 (August 1952): "The Brain Pirates of Planet X"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #24/5 (September 1952): "Doomsday on Earth"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #25 (October 1952): "The Day That Vanished"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #26 (November 1952): "Captain Comet vs. Miss Universe"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #27 (December 1952): "The Counterfeit Captain Comet"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #28 (January 1953): "Devil's Island in Space"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #29 (February 1953): "The Time Capsule from 1,000,000 BC"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #30 (March 1953): "Menace from the World of Make-Believe"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #31/4 (April 1953): "Lights, Camera--Invasion"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #32 (May 1953): "The Challenge of Man-Ape the Mighty"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #33 (June 1953): "The Human Beehive"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #34 (July 1953): "The Lady or the Tiger-Man"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #35 (August 1953): "The Cosmic Chessboard"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #36 (September 1953): "The Grab-Bag Planet"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #37 (October 1953): "The Invaders From the Golden Atom"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #38 (November 1953): "The Seeing-Eye Humans"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #39 (December 1953): "The Guilty Gorilla"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #40 (January 1954): "The Mind Monster"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #41 (February 1954): "The Beast From Out of Time"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #42 (March 1954): "The Planet of Ancient Children"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #43 (April 1954): "The Phantom Prize-Fighter"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #44 (May 1954): "The Plant That Plotted Murder"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #46/4 (July 1954): "Interplanetary War Base"
Strange Adventures Vol. 1 #49/4 (October 1954): "The Revolt of the Thinking Machine"
DC Universe: Legacies #5/2 (November 2010): "Snapshot: Resistance!"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #2 (July-August 1976): "No Man Shall I Call Master!"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #3 (September-October 1976): "War for Earthdeath"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #4 (November-December 1976): "When Thieves Fall Out"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #5 (January-February 1977): "Endgame"
DC Special #27 (April-May 1977): "Danger: Dinosaurs At Large"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #6 (March-April 1977): "Captains Cataclysmic!"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #7 (May-June 1977): "Luthor's League of Super-Villains!"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #8 (July-August 1977): "Let the Villain Fit the Crime"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #9 (September 1977): "Turnabout Is Unfair Play"
Super-Team Family #13 (October-November 1977): "Ragnarok Night"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #10 (October 1977): "Triumph and Treachery"
DC Special Series #6 (1977): "Death Times Five"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #11 (December 1977): "A Changing of the Guard"
Justice League of America #157 (August 1978): "Till Doom Do Us Part"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #12 (January 1978): "The Plunder Plan"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #13 (March 1978): "One Earth Too Many"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #14 (April-May 1978): "Crisis on Earth-3 (Reprise)"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #15 (June-July 1978): "The Wizard's War of the Worlds"
DC Comics Presents #22 (June 1980): "Plight of the Human Comet"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 (August 1985): "Worlds in Limbo"
All-Star Squadron #53 (January 1986): "Worlds in Turmoil" [Note: In between panels of Crisis on Infinite Earths #5]
Crisis on Infinite Earths #10 (January 1986): "Death at the Dawn of Time!"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 (February 1986): "Aftershock"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (March 1986): "Final Crisis"
DC Comics Presents #91 (March 1986): "The Brains That Stormed Metropolis"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #18 (August 1990): "From the Jaws of Victory..." [Flashback]
L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #16 (June 1990): "Monster, Monster!"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #17 (July 1990): "The Power of Positive Thinking"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #18 (August 1990): "From the Jaws of Victory..."
L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #19 (September 1990): "Bitter Victory"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #20 (October 1990): "Girl Trouble"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #21 (November 1990): "Light and Shade"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #22 (December 1990): "Starrdoom"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #23 (January 1991): "I, Durlan"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #24 (February 1991): "The Empire: Strike Back!"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #25 (March 1991): "Doomsday"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #26 (April 1991): "Bangs and Whimpers"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #27 (May 1991): "Deals With the Devil"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #29 (July 1991): "Traffic In, Traffic Out"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #30 (August 1991): "Welcome to the War!"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #31 (September 1991): "Where Dreams End"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 Annual #2 (1991): "2001!"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #32 (October 1991): "Seeds of Dissent"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #33 (November 1991): "Fault Lines"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #34 (December 1991): "Major Quake"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #35 (January 1992): "Aftershocks!"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #36 (February 1992): "In the Name of L.O.V.E."
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #37 (March 1992): "The G'odd Squad"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #38 (April 1992): "Welcome to the Palace of Pleasure"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #39 (May 1992): "Payback Time!"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #40 (June 1992): "Costs"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #41 (early July 1992): "Caring"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #42 (late July 1992): "Revolution"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #43 (early August 1992): "Something in the Air"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #44 (late August 1992): "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #45 (September 1992): "New Perspectives"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #46 (November 1992): "Transitions"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #47 (December 1992): "Culmination of Patterns"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #48 (January 1993): "Prices"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #49 (February 1993): "Family Ties"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #50 (March 1993): "Showdown"
DC Universe: Trinity #1/3 (August 1993): "L.E.G.I.O.N. '93"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #44 (August 1993): "Trinity, Part 2: Urban Renewal"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #57 (August 1993): "Trinity Part 3: Police Action"
Darkstars #11 (August 1993): "Escalation of Hostilities"
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #45 (September 1993): "Trinity, Part 5: Turf War"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #58 (September 1993): "Split Decision"
Darkstars #12 (September 1993): "Aftershock"
DC Universe: Trinity #2 (September 1993): "Reunion"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 Annual #4 (1993): "Blood Relatives"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #59 (October 1993): "Spooked"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #60 (November 1993): "Ghost of a Chance"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '93 #61 (December 1993): "Death of the Party!"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '94 #62 (January 1994): "Big Babies!"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '94 #63 (February 1994): "We Fight and Fight and Fight"
L.E.G.I.O.N. '94 #67 (June 1994): "Dark Quark!"
R.E.B.E.L.S. '95 #11 (September 1995): "Comet's Tail" [Flashback]
R.E.B.E.L.S. '95 #10 (August 1995): "Comet's Trial"
R.E.B.E.L.S. '95 #11 (September 1995): "Comet's Tail"
R.E.B.E.L.S. '95 #12 (October 1995): "Fire and Ice"
R.E.B.E.L.S. '95 #14 (December 1995): "Howl"
R.E.B.E.L.S. '96 #16 (February 1996): "Expiring Minds"
R.E.B.E.L.S. '96 #17 (March 1996): "Deliverance"
Showcase '96 #10/2 (November 1996): "The Future"
Showcase '96 #11 (December 1996): "Brain in Vain"
Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #94 (July 1997): "22 Pages About the Legion of Super-Heroes"
Rann-Thanagar War #2 (August 2005): "Dark Resurrection"
Rann-Thanagar War #3 (September 2005): "Planetfall"
Rann-Thanagar War #4 (October 2005): "Deadly Harvest"
Rann-Thanagar War #5 (November 2005): "Betrayed"
Rann-Thanagar War #6 (December 2005): "Seven Hells"
Hawkman Vol. 4 #49 (April 2006): "Coalition in Crisis, Part Three"
Infinite Crisis #1 (December 2005): "DC Comics Presents Infinite Crisis"
Infinite Crisis #3 (February 2006): "Divine Intervention"
Infinite Crisis #4 (March 2006): "Homecoming"
Rann-Thanagar War: Infinite Crisis Special #1 (April 2006): "Hands of Fate"
Infinite Crisis #6 (May 2006): "Touchdown"
52 #31 (February 2007): "Human Resources"
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #1 (November 2006): "Eschatology" [Flashback pgs 5-22]
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #2 (December 2006): "A Question of Resurrection"
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #1 (November 2006): "Eschatology" [Flashback pgs 1-4]
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #3 (January 2007): "Weird and Weirder"
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #4 (February 2007): "Going Dark"
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #5 (March 2007): "Holy Warriors"
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #6 (April 2007): "Bugs"
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #7 (May 2007): "Ultimatum"
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #7/2 (May 2007): "Seduction!"
Mystery in Space Vol. 2 #8 (June 2007): "The Decision"
Rann/Thanagar Holy War #1 (July 2008): "The Dawning"
Rann/Thanagar Holy War #2 (August 2008): "Seek and Ye Shall Find!"
Rann/Thanagar Holy War #3 (September 2008): "Restoration"
Rann/Thanagar Holy War #4 (October 2008): "Return of the Prodigal"
Rann/Thanagar Holy War #5 (November 2008): "Cursed Be the Peacemakers!"
Rann/Thanagar Holy War #6 (December 2008): "The Demiurge"
Rann/Thanagar Holy War #7 (January 2009): "On the Eve of..."
Rann/Thanagar Holy War #8 (February 2009): "Sacrifice and Loss"
Strange Adventures Vol. 3 #1 (May 2009): "Starting Over"
Strange Adventures Vol. 3 #2 (June 2009): "Erroneous Assumptions"
Strange Adventures Vol. 3 #3 (July 2009): "Go Away!"
Strange Adventures Vol. 3 #4 (August 2009): "Depart Immediately! Or You Will Be Destroyed!"
Strange Adventures Vol. 3 #5 (September 2009): "Too Weird"
Strange Adventures Vol. 3 #6 (October 2009): "Mindscape"
Strange Adventures Vol. 3 #7 (November 2009): "Debate"
Strange Adventures Vol. 3 #8 (December 2009): "Hard Bargaining"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #9 (December 2009): "Strange Companions"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #10 (January 2010): "The Son & the Stars, Part One"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #11 (February 2010): "The Son & the Stars, Part Two"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #12 (March 2010): "Secret Weapons"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #13 (April 2010): "Tests, Allies, Enemies"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #14 (May 2010): "In the Flesh"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #15 (June 2010): "What Happens in Vega..."
R.E.B.E.L.S. #16 (July 2010): "What Happens in Vega..., Part 2"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #17 (August 2010): "What Happens in Vega..., Conclusion"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #18 (September 2010): "Sons of Brainiac, Part 1: Brainchild"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #19 (October 2010): "Sons of Brainiac, Part 2: Name and Number"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #21 (December 2010): "To Be a R.E.B.E.L., Part 1"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #22 (January 2011): "To Be a R.E.B.E.L., Part 2"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #23 (February 2011): "To Be a R.E.B.E.L., Conclusion"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #24 (March 2011): "Starstruck, Part 1"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #25 (April 2011): "Starstruck, Part 2"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #27 (June 2011): "Starstruck, Part 4"
R.E.B.E.L.S. #28 (July 2011): "Starstruck, Conclusion"