News Files - 1921 - 1940

1921 AD
In the Narrows, Dr. Amadeus Arkham founds the asylum that will bear his name. He will be imprisoned there himself in 1929.

1927 AD
An elderly Bat Lash, along with Biff Bradley, Hans von Hammer, the enigmatic Miss Fear, and a young Chop-Chop, attempts to recover mystic Chinese artefacts from 'Dragon Island', but they are outmanoeuvred.

1933 AD
A giant gorilla is killed in New York. Meanwhile, "Dutch" Mallone, a gangster living in Elmhurst, Queens, was arrested and charged with tax evasion. Mallone spent the rest of his life in prison, but it was long rumoured that before he was arrested, he had stashed away millions of dollars somewhere.

1934 AD
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, a young Prussian nobleman, is recruited by the German government's intelligence services.

1934 AD
German scientist Baron Zemo offers his services to the German government as a designer of new technology and weaponry for the military and intelligence services.

1936 AD
Archaeologist Indiana Jones goes on a quest for the lost Ark of the Covenant. His exploits are later made into a series of films.

1938 AD
Dubbed the Sub-Mariner by air breathers, Namor makes several attacks on the surface world. He attacks New York, destroying a Kord Industries plant.

1939 AD
The American government, realizing that war against Germany was probably imminent, and wishing to come up with an American counterpart to the Nazi agent the Red Skull, assigned Dr. Abraham Erskine to work on Project: Rebirth, a means to create perfect super-soldiers.

1940 AD
A British hunting expedition enters the African nation of Wakanda. One of the members noted the existence of a mound of an unusual type of ore, which he named Vibranium. He took samples of it back to Britain.