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1962: Beginning of the Glory Days

April 10, 1962: Mr. Invincible, the Father of Heroes, begins his career to save lives.

April 17, 1962: Captain Cosmo emerges

May 5, 1963: Panzer terrorizes Chicago; he is defeated by Mr. Invincible

May 30, 1963: Solitude Corrections Center is built to house supervillains

July 8, 1965: The Dynamic Duo (Betty Bombshell and Anna Atomic) emerges

September 3, 1970: The Dynamic Duo goes public with their identities

1975: Starboy emerges as Captain Cosmo’s sidekick

1977: Starboy becomes Darkstar, betraying (and killing) Captain Cosmo

June 21, 1978: Anna Atomic of the Dynamic Duo dies of cancer

1986: Miss Nemesis disappears

May 20, 1987: Rumors of the Silent Knight emerge

January 1, 1988: Minuteman emerges

February 7, 1988: Olympia and Diamond Girl emerge

1991: Minuteman’s legs are broken by Titan.

January 1, 1992: Minuteman commits suicide

January 14, 1992: Olympia kills Titan

1995: Darkstar disappears

September 1, 1998: Olympia retires, marking the end of the Glory Days

2002: Silent Knight disappears

March 29, 2012: The Hero Society of America is formed

April 4, 2012: Attack on Solitude Transport Vehicles are made

May 4, 2012: Sen. Preach attempts to pass a bill for registering superhuman; it fails

June 1, 2012: The Hero Society is nationally recognized, and the President awards them with medals

Timeline of The Four Horsemen

1962: Leon Sault, Jude Morton, David Keller, and Sylvia Parks first encounter each other in a bank briefly before it is burglarized. They all separately pursue the thieves and meet again when they converge to stop them. The four part on good terms.

1962: The four meet again a month later, inspired by recent developments in society (such as various heroes rising) and decide to form a team together to fight crime.

1962: Three months pass of successful crime fighting but the team has no unity. They fight together but for themselves. The issue comes to a head and they all agree to begin working together as a singular force rather than four individual heroes trying to get famous.

1962: The four take on the team name The Four Horsemen. They choose monikers and begin developing a hideout underneath an old warehouse. Officially the hideout is called Purgatory. A space where the Horsemen could relax, train, and investigate.

1963: Leon Sault is paralyzed in a fight with a villain known as Morbus. The team realizes that they have gone too public and should refocus on fighting the fights that heroes like Mr. Invincible would never see. They also begin to establish the successor system. Leon Sault's role as Azrael is reduced to a consultant role. He runs tests and offers leads but leaves field work behind. The Four Horsemen, become three.

1963: Leon is hospitalized after complications with his spinal cord emerge as a result of whatever Morbus did to him. His family become bitter towards the rest of the team and resentful. Leon is forced to officially leave the team as a result of his condition. His body continues to deteriorate slowly.

1963: Morbus is captured and incarcerated. The remaining three Horsemen begin looking for Leon's successor. they begin to develop a collection of souvenirs from their various enemies.

1966: The collection has grown to include Bloodstone, Brightside, Amendial, The Hornet, and Mr. Nemesis (A weak telepath imitating Miss Nemesis).

1966: Morbus escapes from prison and the Horsemen are unable to find him during the fallout.

1966: Purgatory is attacked by several dozen mindless citizens with black veins spread throughout their bodies. The Horsemen manage to beat them and get them to the same hospital Leon is being treated at. The Horsemen are forced to form a new base. The Stable is built.

1966: Leon Sault's infection manifests in full. His body disappears. The doctors claim that he passed away in his sleep.

1971: An infected Leon Sault begins attacking the members of the Horsemen in their homes. He attacks David Keller first and David, unprepared, is killed in the fight. Jude and Sylvia prepare themselves for an attack but it doesn't come.

1971: Jude and Sylvia try to keep the team functioning but it is hard. The Horsemen fall into a dark period where they attempt to hunt down Leon Sault. They bring in Richard Shaw as the new Azrael but David's replacement is unwilling to take the mantle after hearing what happened to her mentor.

1971: Leon Sault begins attacking the families of the Horsemen. No one is killed but many family members are hospitalized.

1975: Richard Shaw catches Leon trying to kill Sylvia while she sleeps and he captures Leon. They try to figure out what happened to him and draw connections to the horde that attacked Purgatory but Leon's body begins to deteriorate into a black slime before they can figure it out.

1977: The Horsemen track down Morbus and figure out that he is behind the infections. They fight, Richard is wounded and infected but Morbus is once again arrested. This time the Horsemen ensure that he is held in a maximum security prison. He does not escape again. The Horsemen fear for Richard health and develop a cure for Morbus's disease using his blood. Richard is cured.

1980: The Horsemen return to the status quo doing the work that the world needs them to do without any overarching issues for a long time.

1984: Jude and Sylvia recruit new successors and begin to train them. Richard begins looking for his own.

1988: Richard begins to feel lingering effects of Morbus's disease.

1988: Owen Hunt is recruited to be the next Azrael after Richard Shaw's illness begins taking a toll on his abilities.

1990: Owen Hunt, Annabel Grey, Alice Sitwell and Mathis McLeod take over the mantles of the Four Horsemen and the team is stronger than ever before.

1996: The collection of souvenirs from villains is labeled "The Gallery" by Alice and it grows larger as the Horsemen continue their work.

2009: The Gallery had grown to include Obsidian, The Jester, Royal Pain, Meteor, Shiver, Shaman, Silk, Cobra, The Magnet, Ironeye, Red Baron, Splicer, Megadrone, and several others.

2009: The Horsemen begin to interfere with Mr. Fraus.

2010: The Horseman Purge wipes out all but Owen Hunt.

January 2, 2012: A Night On The Town - Owen Hunt and Susan Isley go out on the town for a little breather. The life of a hero is hard, they discover what it is like to be normal for once.

May 3, 2012: The Most Dangerous Game - Free from the grasp of Mr. Fraus the Horsemen begin new work in the dark to protect the light. They come into a grueling battle of wits with an old villain, Legerdemain. Many things are said, questions are asked and answered, dark paths are taken, and a hero nearly falls but the Horsemen stay united against their foe and persevere.

April 7, 2012: What We Leave Behind - Azrael and Nergal (Owen Hunt and Samuel Shaw) attempt to track down a healer for Andrea and instead find themselves caught in the past. Owen leaves the team for a short time to investigate the healer, Katrina Knight who bares an exact resemblance to Alice Sitwell, a woman Owen loved before she was murdered. He uncovers many dark truths and even more questions but at the end of the day his team is complete. Katrina becomes the fourth Horseman, Minerva.

July 4, 2012: The Doctor and The Arsonist - Agent Dain and Agent Halo of the SIA work to bring in an arsonist who has been burning down buildings all over Chicago. The arsonist flees to hide with Doctor Holloway and the two agents find themselves in a difficult situation. through teamwork they manage to apprehend the men. In doing so they bring an end to Holloway's experiments and irritate the man behind Holloway.

March 27, 2012: The Waxman and The Raven - Andrea Grey is captured trying to apprehend a serial killer known only as the Waxman. She is tortured for days before Owen Hunt brutally brings the Waxman's terror to an end and allows him to die. Owen finds her with the aid of the newest member of the team, Samuel Shaw (The Raven). Left on the brink of death the newest member of the team will struggle to find a way to help fix Andrea.

March 15, 2012: Death of a Horseman - Following the murder of her mother, Andrea Grey seeks out Owen Hunt and discovers that he is the last of the Four Horsemen, a team her mother was a member of in better days. With Owen's aid Andrea tracks down her mother's killer and then the man behind it all. She allows her anger to take over and murders the man. Owen recognizes something in her and together they begin to reform The Four Horsemen.

December 31, 2012: Cold Winds Rising - Mr. Fraus makes moves behind the shadows to gather a team. His motives are unclear but one fact remains crystal, it is going to be a hard year for superheroes.

June 7, 2012: Night and Day - Captain Cosmo II is called upon to help a retired hero with a very difficult task, arresting his clone. After a long night of uncertainty and lies the local super prison has one more inmate, but was it the right one?

September 16, 2012: Bloodsports - A Chameleon in the sewers hunts this age's Jack the Ripper and ultimately defeats him. It was a night of bloodshed and gore but ultimately one that ended well.

November 2, 2012: The SIA Agent and The Three Little Bugs - A lone agent, Tony, infiltrates and carefully discovers evidence linking Lulu Pate, Liliana Wall, and Peter Samson to various smuggling, extortion, and violent crimes. The trio are arrested and the nightclub is shut down. This damages the profit of a local crime lord but ultimately does not disrupt his global operation.

August 11, 2012: A Landslide at The Docks - A lone hero named Evergreen brings an end to Don O'Connor's smuggling ring in the Chicago docks by arresting O'Connor before he could move a shipment of explosives into circulation. With Don's arrest his criminal allies begin to express doubt in the man behind it all further irritating said man.

May 4 - May 7, 2012: Recruitment Drive - With the end of a tale comes a new beginning, the death and history of Criss-Cross sparked a fire in Olympia, a champion of good from the past as she returns into the fold promising to continue Dwight’s dream and begin a new era for the supers of Chicago. A volunteer group of a number of heroes with reasons of their own, the Hero Society of Chicago is formed, providing the city with noble protectors, a new day. Could this be the Glory Days once more?

October 31, 2012: The Horsemen and The Curious Cases - Another days work for the Horsemen who set out on Halloween to bring an end to a reign of terror through Chicago. Divided into two teams the Horsemen strike out and apprehend Garrett Franklin and Victor Graham. Unbeknownst to them their actions irritate a more powerful presence looming over.

June 3, 2012: Chicago Confidential - Reporter Eva Allen and her companion Ciri take on West Valley Park as they investigate the emerging vigilante group known as the Merry Men, only to be drawn into the lives of the Merry Men themselves and their crusade against the filth of their streets, streets that have otherwise been in the hands of crooked cops and vile criminals.

April 2, 2012: Mission: Implausible - An unlikely group of would-be heroes who attend the same school find themselves looking into the mysterious disappearances of their classmates. With the help of a questionable stranger who provides them with the whereabouts of their friends, they go on a rescue mission, finding their friends encased in pods ready to be shipped to an undisclosed location. Warded off by incoming police and the chance of other shady characters arriving, the high-schoolers are left to uncover the truth themselves. They are discovered for their efforts, but find a new opportunity as Legacy, a sub-group of the Hero Society, keepers of the peace as they further their search for who kidnapped their friends.

March 17 - April 12, 2012: Who Killed Dwight Goodwin? -After the death of a renowned and retired superhero Dwight Goodwin/Criss-Cross, theories emerge surrounding the mysterious details of his sudden, unexplained death. Azrael begins an extensive investigation, sinking deep into the history of the Glory Days to uncover the culprit, only to find a trail of death that ends when the killer is revealed to be none other than Mrs. Goodwin herself, whose dormant insecurities at the absence of her husband surfaced under the influence of a dastardly evil-doer. Dwight’s family broken and traumatized, the reality of one’s sacrifices become clear.