Pulp Hero (1910-1940)
The world is in the era of the great pulp adventure stories (and the gangster fighting Prohibition era). The level of magic in the world begins to take a slight upturn. Masked adventurers, more commonly known as "mystery men," abound, and the first true "superhumans" manifest toward the end of this period. Mystery, adventure, crime-fighting, the occult, science fiction, and more.
Golden Age Champions (1939 to 1945)
"Golden Age" superheroes helped to fight World War II and stop Hitler. Brightly-colored, lower-powered heroes, highly patriotic.
War Hero (1939 to 1945)
The world is in the grip of war. A game of military and espionage action set against the romantic/horrific backdrop of World War II.
1940's
- World War II begins. Lemuria secretly allies itself with the Axis. Its efforts have relatively little effect on the war, though it does control the Persian Gulf for its allies until forced to retreat in 1943.
- The Japanese Sorcerer called Iron Father works with the RSvKg to cast a series of spells protecting the Axis countries. Superpowered enemies of the Axis are unable to enter these nations' borders without succumbing to a "mystical weakness," losing their powers and eventually falling into comas.
- The Haynesville Project, the top-secret government program to study and employ superhuman powers, begins.
- The Defenders of Justice officially join the Army, along with several solo heroes, and are divided into two separate teams:
- The Defenders, who protect the homefront;
- The Freedom Battalion, who fight overseas (and are mostly made up of the sneakier mystery men and professional soldiers on the team).
- Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, drawing America into World War II.
- The first Russian superhero, General Winter, appears. The original Justice Squadron is founded by the Drifter to stop an attempted Lemurian invasion of California; it becomes inactive after the war.
- James Harmon III, the father of Defender, becomes a US Army Ranger and earns the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valorous conduct during the War. After hostilities ceased, he becomes an industrialist and quintuples the family's already considerable fortune.
- The monstrous Mardoom-Thah emerges from his tomb under the Antarctic ice; the original Justice Squadron battles and eventually re-imprisons him.
- Albert Zerstoiten
- 1942: Betrays his Nazi colleagues to the Allies.
- 1943: Betrays his allies in the French underground to the Wehrmacht. Later that year he's recruited to come to America to design weapons for the United States military.
Danger International (1950 to 1990)
Hudson City and the rest of the world during the post-World War II era and the many other turmoils that existed at that time. Beginning with the heyday of the likes of James Bond, Flint, and others, and the perils of the Cold War, it eventually segues into the rise of international terrorism, industrial espionage, conspiracies, drug lords. Police action-adventure, mercenaries, detectives, and so on. Closely tied, in many cases almost inseparably so, to Dark Champions.
1950's
- Shenandoah becomes the first superhero to endorse a product in an advertising campaign.
- The British government establishes Bureau S to study the country's superhuman resources and threats.
- Thirty evil men and women come together, swear an oath on the Serpent Lantern never to betray one another, and form VIPER.
- Etienne Ste. Germaine begins a comprehensive study of superpowers for the United Nations.
- MeteorMan II makes his first appearance.
- Preston Angel II founds Angelstone Laboratories, a think tank that will become known for its research and consulting work concerning superhumans and the Superhuman World.
- Five Americans, entering space in a homemade rocketship to protect Earth from a comet, are exposed to strange radiation and transformed into the Fabulous Five.
- An alien artifact transforms Jeffrey Sinclair into Vanguard, who as of 2010 is still considered the most powerful superhero to ever exist.