References are printed in bold text as Issue:Page:Panel. PP and PA are the Planetary Preview and Planetary / Authority crossover, respectively. If you would like to add to or correct entries on this timeline, please send email to mikecap@world.std.com with references as appropriate. This document was created by Mike Caprio with help from Chris Pinard (slarti@gweep.net).
Early Cretaceous: | 4:16:1 | Shiftship Crashes |
January 1, 1900: | 1:9:1 | Born - Elijah Snow, Dr. Axel Brass, Jenny Sparks, John Stone(?) |
< 1919: | 13:15:4 | Elijah Snow meets John Griffin, the Invisible Man |
1919: | 13:18:1 | Elijah Snow meets Lady Van Helsing in New York City |
13:3:1 | Elijah Snow finds Baron Frankenstein's lab in Germany | |
1920s: | 15:12:1 | Sliding Albion's first incursion into our space |
1920: | 13:14:2 | Elijah Snow finds Sherlock Holmes and a vampire in Big Ben (or is it 221B Baker St.?) |
????: | 5:6:2 | Elijah Snow meets H.G. Wells |
1925: | 13:22:3 | Sherlock Holmes dies of old age |
2:9:2 | Elijah Snow learns Japanese | |
12:10:3 | First Planetary guide published | |
1930s: | 5:6:3 | Dr. Axel Brass meets Jenny Sparks |
1930: | 15:11:1 | Carlton Marvell conferences with Axel Brass and Edison to discuss rocket science |
January 1931: | PA:5:3 12:6:4 | Elijah Snow meets someone much like H.P. Lovecraft in Judgement, RI |
1931 | 15:12:3 | Carlton Marvell gates into the Dreamtime and goes through |
1932: | PP:4:5 | Born - David Paine |
1935: | 1:13:4 | Dr. Axel Brass's group builds HQ in Adirondacks |
????: | 5:7:3 | Dr. Axel Brass meets The High (John Cumberland) |
????: | 15:8:4 | Dr. Axel Brass and Elijah Snow cross paths at Fear Quay, Blazing Hawk Mountain, and the hidden city of Opak-Re |
1939: | 5:14:1 | Dr. Axel Brass's group fights Daemonites in Paris |
PA:22:1 | Elijah Snow and Jenny Sparks sleep together | |
1940: | 1:15:4 | Edison and Dr. Axel Brass build computers |
1942: | 1:13:3 | Dr. Axel Brass eliminates his need for food and sleep |
1943: | 1:13:3 | Dr. Axel Brass stops aging |
1944: | 1:13:3 | Dr. Axel Brass learns to close his wounds with his mind |
January 1, 1945: | 1:22:1 | Dr. Axel Brass's group is destroyed fighting off invaders from a parallel Earth inside their snowflake quantum computer; Brass alone survives |
VE Day, 1945: | 1:9:2 | An associate of Dr. Axel Brass is killed in Berlin, his diary is taken by a russian soldier and locked into a KGB vault |
August 7, 1945: | 2:20:2 | A bright light is witnessed at Island Zero |
1949: | 10:21:1 | A "friend" of The Four (Elijah Snow) writes an entry about an offshoot of grecian civilization in that year's planetary guide |
August 1950: | 2:20:4 | Monsters appear on Island Zero |
1950: | 8:17:3 | The Radioactive Woman is brought back to life by Randall Dowling and Anna Hark at City Zero |
1952: | PP:4:5 | David Paine begins working on description theory |
1959: | 6:4:2 | Artemis creates a rocket for travel to the moon |
6:8:5 11:13:2 | John Stone fires on Nautilus while Elijah Snow, a woman from Florida and William Leather are aboard | |
???? 1960s: | 7:20:5 | Born - Jack Carter |
1960: | 8:6:5 | The Radioactive Woman goes into hiding |
June 6, 1961: | 6:6:3 | Artemis sends The Four to the moon; they never make it, instead they encounter a strange force in space |
June 11, 1961: | 6:14:1 | Artemis-L returns to Earth |
November 22, 1963: | 6:14:4 | A competing Russian lunar launch disappears completely; The Four go underground |
1962: | PP:7:3 | David Paine becomes an incredible creature via a description theory bomb |
1964: | 6:15:1 | The Four take over the Artemis project |
???? 1960s: | 5:6:4 7:4:5 | Elijah Snow meets The High (John Cumberland) who is with Jenny Sparks |
1967: | 11:9:1 | Bride kills Elijah's girlfriend in Marrakesh |
< 1969: | 10:15:4 | The Four kill three potential heroes |
1969: | 11:9:5 | Elijah Snow meets John Stone |
???? (Saigon bug-out): | 1:11:1 | Elijah Snow leaves Vietnam |
???? (mid-70s): | 2:20:5 | Monsters of Island Zero "die off" |
1977: | 3:11:1 | Michelle of HK Planetary office is born |
1983: | PP:8:4 | The creature that was David Paine dies in a shaft after 21 years of capture |
1985: | 7:7:1 | The Shifting Man fell out of a shiftdoor wearing a bleed-suit |
1987: | 7:12:1 | Jack Carter stops a British government assassin from killing a potential messiah |
1989: | 1:2:4 | Elijah Snow moves to the desert (not actually true if he left after going MIA) |
2:17:3 | Ryu eats human flesh in a sex club in Osaka | |
1993: | 3:10:4 | Michelle joins the HK Planetary office |
1994: | 9:19:3 | Ambrose Chase meets the Fourth Man (Elijah Snow) |
????: | 14:4:4 | Ambrose Chase brings down an abduction vessel in Brazil |
1995: | 1:11:4 | The year Jakita Wagner joined Planetary (claimed by her 1:11:4, refuted 9:22:4) |
14:21:2 | Elijah Snow is taken by the Four and has memory blocks placed on him | |
9:22:4 | The Fourth Man (Elijah Snow) goes MIA | |
????: | 2:10:1 | Jakita Wagner visits Island Zero with Ambrose Chase |
1997: | 1:8:4 | Planetary raids KGB vaults of forbidden knowledge |
6:19:1 | Jakita Wagner and Broken Earth-A?? | |
9:7:2 | Planetary raids The Four's Fictionaut project in England; Ambrose Chase is shot and disappears in a reality distortion field | |
1999: | 1:3:4 | Elijah Snow (re)joins Planetary |