Planetary Timeline

Events that occur within the continuity of Warren Ellis's Planetary.

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:4:16:1Shiftship Crashes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
January 1, 1900:1:9:1Born - Elijah Snow, Dr. Axel Brass, Jenny Sparks, John Stone(?)
 
 
 
 
< 1919:13:15:4Elijah Snow meets John Griffin, the Invisible Man
1919:13:18:1Elijah Snow meets Lady Van Helsing in New York City
 13:3:1Elijah Snow finds Baron Frankenstein's lab in Germany
 
1920s:15:12:1Sliding Albion's first incursion into our space
 
1920:13:14:2Elijah Snow finds Sherlock Holmes and a vampire in Big Ben (or is it 221B Baker St.?)
 
????:5:6:2Elijah Snow meets H.G. Wells
 
1925:13:22:3Sherlock Holmes dies of old age
 2:9:2Elijah Snow learns Japanese
 12:10:3First Planetary guide published
 
1930s:5:6:3Dr. Axel Brass meets Jenny Sparks
 
1930:15:11:1Carlton 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
193115:12:3Carlton Marvell gates into the Dreamtime and goes through
1932:PP:4:5Born - David Paine
 
1935:1:13:4Dr. Axel Brass's group builds HQ in Adirondacks
 
????:5:7:3Dr. Axel Brass meets The High (John Cumberland)
 
????:15:8:4Dr. Axel Brass and Elijah Snow cross paths at Fear Quay, Blazing Hawk Mountain, and the hidden city of Opak-Re
 
1939:5:14:1Dr. Axel Brass's group fights Daemonites in Paris
 PA:22:1Elijah Snow and Jenny Sparks sleep together
1940:1:15:4Edison and Dr. Axel Brass build computers
 
1942:1:13:3Dr. Axel Brass eliminates his need for food and sleep
1943:1:13:3Dr. Axel Brass stops aging
1944:1:13:3Dr. Axel Brass learns to close his wounds with his mind
 
January 1, 1945:1:22:1Dr. Axel Brass's group is destroyed fighting off invaders from a parallel Earth inside their snowflake quantum computer; Brass alone survives
VE Day, 1945:1:9:2An 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, 1945:2:20:2A bright light is witnessed at Island Zero
 
 
1949:10:21:1A "friend" of The Four (Elijah Snow) writes an entry about an offshoot of grecian civilization in that year's planetary guide
August 1950:2:20:4Monsters appear on Island Zero
1950:8:17:3The Radioactive Woman is brought back to life by Randall Dowling and Anna Hark at City Zero
 
1952:PP:4:5David Paine begins working on description theory
 
 
1959:6:4:2Artemis 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:7:20:5Born - Jack Carter
1960:8:6:5The Radioactive Woman goes into hiding
June 6, 1961:6:6:3Artemis sends The Four to the moon; they never make it, instead they encounter a strange force in space
June 11, 1961:6:14:1Artemis-L returns to Earth
November 22, 1963:6:14:4A competing Russian lunar launch disappears completely; The Four go underground
1962:PP:7:3David Paine becomes an incredible creature via a description theory bomb
 
1964:6:15:1The 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
 
1967:11:9:1Bride kills Elijah's girlfriend in Marrakesh
 
< 1969:10:15:4The Four kill three potential heroes
 
1969:11:9:5Elijah Snow meets John Stone
 
???? (Saigon bug-out):1:11:1Elijah Snow leaves Vietnam
 
???? (mid-70s):2:20:5Monsters of Island Zero "die off"
 
1977:3:11:1Michelle of HK Planetary office is born
 
 
 
1983:PP:8:4The creature that was David Paine dies in a shaft after 21 years of capture
 
1985:7:7:1The Shifting Man fell out of a shiftdoor wearing a bleed-suit
 
1987:7:12:1Jack Carter stops a British government assassin from killing a potential messiah
 
1989:1:2:4Elijah Snow moves to the desert (not actually true if he left after going MIA)
 2:17:3Ryu eats human flesh in a sex club in Osaka
 
 
1993:3:10:4Michelle joins the HK Planetary office
1994:9:19:3Ambrose Chase meets the Fourth Man (Elijah Snow)
????:14:4:4Ambrose Chase brings down an abduction vessel in Brazil
1995:1:11:4The year Jakita Wagner joined Planetary (claimed by her 1:11:4, refuted 9:22:4)
 14:21:2Elijah Snow is taken by the Four and has memory blocks placed on him
 9:22:4The Fourth Man (Elijah Snow) goes MIA
 
????:2:10:1Jakita Wagner visits Island Zero with Ambrose Chase
 
1997:1:8:4Planetary raids KGB vaults of forbidden knowledge
 6:19:1Jakita Wagner and Broken Earth-A??
 9:7:2Planetary raids The Four's Fictionaut project in England; Ambrose Chase is shot and disappears in a reality distortion field
 
1999:1:3:4Elijah Snow (re)joins Planetary