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Any sign of a "master DCU Chronology"?

Is there any way to search indexed comics for specific characters?

=Only by entering the name into the Search field and comb-searching the results.

Even better you can open the character's profile page and click "What links here" and you will get a list of all the issues (and profiles) that link to the ccharacter. Unfortunately the list is ordered in order of page creation. Personally I would have preferred an alphabetical list, but as far as I know I can't force the wiki to do that. --Tenzel Kim 19:25, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

=For some years, I have been engaged in building a character guide. It has no chronological information but follows the publications. So far 360 publications (series, minis, specials) covering some 7000 issues have been entered, resulting in 63000 listings. That´s just 16 per cent of the DC total, but anything helps. So, if you want specific character data give me a ring. --FrankFlynn61 08:33, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

That sounds interesting and while it might not be 100% accurate as some stories have to be moved around a bit it could probably be of a great deal of help. I'm personally working on a master DCU chronology sheet in excel and have tried all sorts of different ways to set it up properly and think I have finally found a way that is fairly easy to understand. Unfortunately it is very much in the early stages as I've done a lot of different lists over the years, and since they have been done is as many different ways combining it takes A LOT of time and I find discrepancies that I have to reinvestigate and fix. Whenever I start work on the sheet I end up burning myself out fairly quick. I've tried making a google spreadsheet version of the document so that we could have a number of people working on it but unfortunately the formatting options are not as good as in excel.
Let me see if I can whip something up that I can show you all so that we can discuss how to include issues that have not been fully investigated but that is known to take place at least after some specific issue for instance.--Tenzel Kim 19:25, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
It is certainly not accurate in a chronological sort of way, but tells you which issue a character appeared in. So it might be helpful in tracking down missing appearances.
Chronology is not my strong suit; I am more historically minded, as you know. --FrankFlynn61 19:46, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

So... been working on a "Master Chronology" and this spread sheet is a good starting point. It is a Post-Crisis viewpoint, so the entries for Superman, Batman and Robin are just their appearances post-C. Wonder Woman is a big toss up, so i didn't include her, or Black Canary pre JLA #75 (except for flashback stuff). I won't start adjusting chronologies until we come to a consensus. So, let me know of any changes needed or additions or subtractions!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/150bant0Y0e1jxNWP5kV2hF1nIgSPn9KV/view?usp=sharing

Just checked the Flash part which is consistent with the order in the Flash Chronology aside from two places.
First the Guide has Flash 131 before JLA 13 where you have it the other way around. No idea what prompted the different order in the Guide though as JLA was published before Flash 131 and I don't see anything in the issues to indicate that the order should be different, so I'd say that should be changed.
Second the Guide has JLA 18 before GL 20 where you have it the other way around. JLA 18 (march) was published before GL 20 (april) so unless you've found something that means they should be reversed I'd say we should go with that order.
Finally you don't have any listing for Flash #147-148. I see we have them in between JLA 30 and Legends of the DC Universe #12. DarkMark puts JLA 29-30 in between Flash 147 and 148, so maybe those issues should get another look.
I will take a look at the others as well. Just getting started --Tenzel Kim (talk) 08:08, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=16nogglyHUdbdG0EZ3d72DQHqM5t-mtSN

Part 2 of the Pre-Crisis chronology

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1d01CAheh2rX6k1oS5PReZzq63q0H-9WR

... and part 3! Dig in!!

Are we ready to start Post-Crisis?

Well, here's part One (Legends through Breakdowns):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PRJ0tLHE0gdCK8AwgsBDuLKowpHA0QpQ/view?usp=sharing

Enjoy!