Hi kids! What da heck is "ZERO HOUR"?

[Ms. Kitty]

SO? Anybody know? I know it has something to do with Starman, or someone... :confused: :o is there a book on this? I need help maaaannn. :D

Thankies! :D ;) :p

[Gotham Knights '68]

Zero Hour is available in TPB, but it is hard to find. It's when Hal Jordan became Parallax, and with his new powers tried to re-create the whole world in his "perfect image". It was a big crossover in the DCU. I loved it. ;)

[Ms. Kitty]

What else happened in this crossover besides Hal becoming Parallaxitive ? ;)

Spoil me all ya want!!! :D

[Jor-El]

Besides Parallax attempting to restructure time, Charles McNider (Dr Mid-Nite I) Al Pratt (Atom I) and Rex Tyler (Hourman I) were murdered by Extant. The rest of the JSA were severly aged, and the Hawkmen were merged into the Hawk avatar (don't ask me any Hawkmen questions. :) )

Besides that, I don't think anything of dire consequence really happened, but this was the series that aged Ted Knight so severly that he passed the mantle of Starman onto his son David, (which leads directly into Starman #0)

[The Guard]

Batman discovered that Joe Chill (His parents' killer), might not actually be his parents' murderer. So their killer is a faceless mugger again.

[Anthonynotes]

A complete waste of tree pulp ;-)

Seriously: A sequel to "Crisis On Infinite Earths" designed to "clean up" continuity even more (via trying to eliminate all alternate/future timelines to have "one single true timeline"), which apparently required killing off several JSA members in a lame battle against a lame villain, various time-travel mumbo-jumbo (that even to *this* geek doesn't make sense), and the whole wretched "Hal Jordan-as-Parallax" deal. Major contribution: the rebooting of the continuity-muddled "Legion of Superheroes", and the Zero Hour timeline, which A) declared that their entire universe's events/stories set in the present have happened within a 10-year (nowadays, supposedly a 12-year) timeframe since Superman's debut, and B) apparently moving up Superman and Batman's ages from their traditionally being perpetually 29 years old to being 35 years old (presumably to make up for the various Robins Bats has gone through, seeing as they still look pretty young and all...). But all in all, still IMO a complete waste of tree pulp (save maybe for the Superboy ZH issue) ;-)

-B.
Who normally doesn't go for such lame "you suck d00d"-type of put-downs, but figures the lameness that "Zero Hour" isn't worth coming up with something more creative...

[DisneyBoy]

Though I know next to nothing about the "Zero Hour" event, I just thought I'd add that I picked up an issue of Catwoman that featured the "Zero Hour" title. In the story, Gotham (or whichever city she's living in at the time) returns to a sort of prehistoric-jungle state. She spends the issue running around with a saber-tooth tiger and a half-naked jungle man, only to bump into a mirror and see in the reflection all of her past incarnations and costumes. Then she and Tarzan kiss, and the panel fades away.... :confused:

Like I said, I have no idea what it means or how it fits into things...but it was an interesting romp :p

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

You can get a synopsis and (opinionated) review of Zero Hour at http://members.tripod.com/~MitchellBrown/xover/dc_zerohour.html

-- Ed/Ace