OFFICIAL JUSTICE INC. TIMELINE
This is a chronological list of the events and adventures that Justice Inc. has participated in or that had an impact on the team.
HISTORY
- Enforcers of Justice form, Tarantula is one of the members
- Quiksilver, Azure Star, and Elemental form Justice Inc. after they defeat one of Darkseid's Pursuers that was hunting Elemental.
- Metalmorph joins when the group faces the Killer Clowns from Outer Space
- Quiksilver establishes Mercury Inc and purchases Titan's Island in the East River. The island is renamed Hero's Island and construction begins on the Hall of Justice Museum. Work also begins covertly on repairing the surviving sub-basements of Titan's Tower and converting them into a secret headquarters for Justice Inc
- Hall of Justice opens, Alexander Red Talon is hired as curator.
- Zero Hour
- Justice Inc faces Father Lucifer and Lucifer's 6. Firestrike's body is nearly killed.
- Mimic, his Mike Donavan personality having faded with time, kidnaps the metahuman members of the original Enforcers and, using technology based on Ivo's Amazo robot, permanently copies their powers while retaining his own shapeshifting capabilities.
- Justice Inc and Ameriforce battle the reactivated Amazo
- Cockroach makes his NYC debut, attempting to attract the attention of his hero Tarantula
- Elseworld Saga
- Tarantula & Quiksilver journey through time to rescue Rip Hunter, accompanied by Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, and Blue Devil. They accidentally create an alternate timeline and are only able to return to their proper timeline after Rip once again becomes trapped in the past.
- Underworld Unleashed
- Elemental is possessed by a sliver of Darkseid's soul and sets off to conquer his former homeworld, Desaad strips Azure Star of his powers.
- Foxspirit returns to his tribe in Northern Canada to continue his shamanic studies.
- Tempest is called back to her people to combat the evils unleashed by Neron.
- Metalmorph leaves the team, forced to move to Wichita with his parents.
- Mindblade joins.
- Quiksilver, Tarantula, Mindblade, and Angela Night journey to Hell to rescue Arachnia from Neron's control and free Firestrike's soul from the demon M'l'khan. Angela takes the code-name Impact, and she and her now-recovered brother join Northguard.
- Jonathan Law Sr. (Tarantula I) becomes new curator of Hall of Justice
- Justice Inc. battle Thrasher and the Backbeat. Video & Amplifier are allowed to go free.
- Cockroach returns, using young psychic Timmy Pierce to spread chaos around NYC.
- Nemesis joins. Justice Inc. battles the new Fearsome Five. (Dead Heat).
- In an effort to bring his sister out of her coma Mindblade, against the advice of Quiksilver and Tarantula, seeks help from Monarch. Monarch successfully brings her out of her coma, but to Mindblade's dismay his sister chooses to stay with Monarch.
- Alex Hawkins (Sandy the Golden Boy) begins training the Justice Subs.
- Justice Inc battles the Injustice Syndicate and the Ultra-Humanite. Unknown to them at the time, Overlord escapes his other-dimensional prison and possesses STAR Labs scientist Dr. Albert Michaels.
- Alex Hawkins adopts the identity of Sandstone.
- Justice Inc battles a surviving splinter group of H.I.V.E.. Uktena, Arclight, and Cat join.
- A new organization called SKULL makes its presence known in NYC.
- Tarantula discovers that the woman he thought was Arachnia is in fact a demonic Atlantean spider-goddess that Arion had imprisoned millennia ago. The real Arachnia accidentally freed her during an archaeological dig and the demon, Aranea the Death Weaver, had assumed her form and identity. Aranaea is captured and imprisoned at Belle Reve while Tarantula rescues the real Arachnia.
- Battleground: NYC
- Using SKULL as a starting point, Overlord builds up a new army of Pseudo-Men and conquers New York. Justice Inc, along with the new Conglomerate, Galahad and the Justice Subs are able to defeat him.
- Extant's manipulations of the timestream cause several versions of Tarantula from divergent timelines to enter the "mainstream" timeline. Death Spider arrives in the present and breaks Aranaea out of Belle Reve. Extant's plan is thwarted and the divergent Tarantulas return to their proper timelines. Death Spider and Aranaea ambush Justice Inc. and, in single combat, Death Spider nearly kills Tarantula. Tarantula and Arachnia assume new identities, reasoning that as long as Death Spider and Aranaea are free their lives are in danger.
- Arclight, in her civilian identity, enters the Witness Relocation Program and moves to New Orleans. As a result she is forced to take a leave of absence from the team.
- Quiksilver and Jesse Quick track down the World War I hero Crusader and with his help and that of Hawkman, Justice Inc. thwarts Vandal Savage's attempt to channel and control the so-called "Avatar Energies".
- Mysterious hero Zodiak appears in New Orleans, but does not cross paths with Arclight.
- Cat and Nemesis go on their first date
- Final Night
- Justice Inc., along with Shadow Walker, battle Shadow Thief and a resurrected Eclipso and Ian Karkull.
- Justice Inc stop a string of robberies by the Graveyard Shift, a team of meta-powered thieves assembled by the Gentleman Ghost. One of the thieves, an alleged vampire calling himself Night Flick chooses to reform and help Justice Inc. defeat the Ghost. He is not arrested with the other members of Graveyard Shift.
- Cockroach returns in the identity of Silverfish with his own ersatz version of Justice Inc. He is stopped when most of his team side with Justice Inc. against him.
- Quiksilver discovers the carcinogenic properties of Mercurialite
- The sorceror Kheth-Amon is awakened in the present. He summons his servants Jackal and Mastabah. Anubis, a servant of the Egyptian god, is awakened to combat Kheth-Amon.
- Justice Inc, Anubis, and Fate battle Kheth-Amon and his allies, including Black Adam in an extra-dimensional realm. Kheth-Amon is defeated but Quiksilver is killed. Quiksilver's soul is saved by being transferred into the body of a small black and grey kitten thanks to a mystic amulet given to Cat by the goddess Bast.
- Project: Cadmus clones a body from Quiksilver's original body and his soul is transferred into it. The cloned body has no powers and the original body (and the Mercurialite it contains) is stolen.
- After some training, Quiksilver chooses to adopt the identity of the Tarantula.
- Arclight returns to help rescue Father Kelly from his former teammates
- Justice Inc, along with Shadow Walker, battle the Femmes Fatales, including new members Equinox, Ventura, and Sirocco & Zephyr.
- Felicia Albrecht joins the Monster Hunters and begins her relationship with Desmond Farr.
- The Hyperclan destroy the Justice League orbital headquarters in their attempt to invade Earth. As a result the quantum jamming device that Extreme Justice had been using to halt Monarch's scheme is also destroyed.
- Monarch begins to implement his plan to create an army of quantum-controlled slaves.
- Mindblade heads to the island nation of Zandia, now controlled by Monarch, to find his sister. There he meets up with Captain Atom, who is under cover tracking Monarch.
- Quiksilver leaves Justice Inc. and joins Manhunter to search for his stolen body and the Mercurialite it contains.
- Cat temporarily adopts the Dark Stalker identity and begins targeting New York's criminal element. She teams up with the reformed Night Flick and together they terrorize the New York underworld.
- Justice Inc., with Night Flick now a full member, join forces with Extreme Justice to thwart Monarch's attempt to create an army of quantum powered slaves. At the end of the battle, Monarch and Captain Atom are thrown into the time stream, and the entity called Mindshadow is created and escapes through the timestream. Mindblade's sister assumes leadership of Monarch's forces and control of Zandia.
- Quiksilver and Manhunter are attacked in Hub City and separated. Manhunter returns to Pacific City, believing that Quiksilver was killed, while Quiksilver continues his search for his original body.
- Mindblade assumes leadership of Justice Inc.
- To save his life, Justice Inc. take Bobby Specter (formerly Azure Star) to the Megaverse to restore his powers. After restoring Azure Star, Elemental transports Justice Inc. to Apokalips where they battle the Female Furies.
- Galahad, now calling himself Paladin, returns to the present from his journey through the timestream. He heads for New Orleans to tell Arclight what he has learned about Omega. Arclight and Paladin are joined by the mysterious Zodiak. They learn that Vandal Savage has Quiksilver's original body and is using the Mercurialite to create a new version of the Velocity 9 drug called Velocity '97. They destroy the drug production facility but the body and Mercurialite is stolen by Death Spider.
- Tempest rejoins the team
- Paladin and members of the Guardians team up with Quiksilver to battle Vandal Savage in Central City. With Paladin's help Quiksilver regains his speed powers and enters the Speed Force to stop Savage from destroying Central City.
- Zodiak, Felicia Albrecht, and Nightflick join Paladin and the Guardians to defeat Omega.
- Nemesis is kidnapped by agents of Kei Manga Corp, who re-engineer him to correct any damage done by Omega's nanites.
- The former Enforcer named Lupin comes to NY and informs Cat she is the crown princess of the kingdom of Bastia, located where present-day Egypt is but several centuries in an alternate future, where humanoid animals are the dominant species. Cat and Justice Inc., along with Catwoman, Lionmane, Cheetah, and Pantha are taken to this future by tiger soldiers and Gorilla Grodd. Cat is reunited with her family, but still has no memory of them. She learns her true mother is the cat goddess Bast, who awakens Cat's full potential. Grodd and the tiger armies are defeated and the team and their allies return to the present.
- Uktena vanishes, having been bound and controlled by a mad shaman.
- H.I.V.E. kidnaps Pantha thinking she is Cat (H.I.V.E. still believes that Cat is the result of one of their experiments). Along with Redstar, Justice Inc. attack several H.I.V.E. bases, ending in a climactic battle aboard a H.I.V.E. space station in orbit.
- Revelations
- A Thanagarian shuttle arrives at Earth to warn of the approaching Nemesis planetoid.
- Uktena, still under the control of the shaman, attacks New Orleans. Felicia Albrecht is nearly killed but is saved by Zodiak, who gains new powers due to latent magic energy left in him by Rift's Zodiac Amulet.
- Edgerunner joins Justice Inc.
- As the Nemesis planetoid draws nearer to Earth, Nemesis' powers begin behaving erratically.
- After the confrontation with Brimstone in New Jersey, Nemesis' powers vanish completely, leaving him human. Nemesis, Night Flick and Edgerunner head to Japan to investigate Kei Manga Corps and hopefully find a way to restore Nemesis' powers.
- Serina, aka Soldier Moon of the Solar Scouts, transports the rest of Justice Inc.
to Kei's interdimensional HQ to help Nemesis and the others. In a battle with a pair of engineered Nemesis clones (one male and one
female) the team is pulled into a dimensional vortex.
- Justice Inc. are pulled through a number of parallel worlds before finalling returning to their home dimension.
- Battle of Armageddon
- Justice Inc. return to Earth in the midst of the climax of the Revelations saga. Nemesis retakes the leadership of his people, and Justice. Inc defeats the Antithesis in a battle at the UN. They then join forces with the Guardians to face Kristallnacht and his forces. In the epic battle that follows much of Empire City is destroyed and Tempest is killed, but the heroes are victorious.
- In the aftermath of Revelations, Arcangel again leaves the team, as does Nemesis who reluctantly heads off into space to help his people find a new home.
- The team meets the Ebony Banshee when Klarion the Witch Boy wreaks havoc in New York.
- Genesis
- Forces from Apokalips invade Elemental's homeworld. Darkseid reclaims the portion of his soul that had possessed Elemental and he strips Elemental of the X-element, robbing him of his powers. Darkseid then lays waste to the planet. Elemental and a handful of survivors from that world are saved by the Guardians.
- In the culmination of his plan of vengeance, Vandal Savage captures all of the members of Justice Inc., as well as the Ebony Banshee, and exiles them to the far side of the galaxy. He destroys Hero's Island and most of the world believes Justice Inc. to have been killed.
- With Justice Inc believed dead Torch, Metalmorph, Amplifier, and Video form new a team based in New York called Generation 2000, or Gen 2K for short.
- Space Odyssey
- Justice Inc. are able to free themselves from their prison, but are still trapped light years from Earth. They begin their long trek home.
- At a spaceport, Ebony Banshee finds a fragment of what he believes to be a powerful mystic artifact. Telling the team that the artifact may have the ability to get them home, the Banshee convinces them to search out the remaining fragments.
- Felicia is mortally wounded by space pirates. To save her, Night Flick turns her into a vampire. They try to keep this fact from the rest of the team for as long as possible.
- Magic Wars
- When they finally assemble the artifact, the team find themselves on the planet known as Zerox, the Sorceror's World. There Justice Inc. find themselves allied with a sorcerer named Wrynn. It is all a trick when they learn that the artifact actually frees the bound mystic energies of a powerful sorcerer. Wrynn is transformed into the sorceror Mordru. Mordru easily defeats Justice Inc. He siphons the vampiric essence from Night Flick and Felicia, restoring them to human form, and uses it to empower his ally Vrykos.
- Sensing Mordru's release Auric heads for the Sorceror's World.
- Also sensing the cosmic disturbance caused by Mordru's release, Nemesis sends the newly-recruited Azure Star to investigate.
- Guy Gardener and the Monster Hunters learn from Lobo and Fate that Justice Inc. are still alive but stuck on the far side of the Milky Way. They immediately begin planning a rescue mission.
- Mordru turns the Sorceror's World into his base of operations and, allied with the Khunds, begins the swift conquest of nearby star systems. Meanwhile, Justice Inc. and Auric go into hiding on the surface and begin covertly searching for a way to defeat Mordru.
- Azure Star reports back to Nemesis, who heads off to join him when he learns that Justice Inc. are involved.
- Using a borrowed Darkstar cruiser a rescue squad leaves Earth to find Justice Inc. The rescue squad consists of Guy Gardner, Buck Wargo, Rita Muldoon, Desmond Farr, Arcangel, and Lobo. En route they are joined by Nemesis and Azure Star.
- Justice Inc. and the Rescue Squad are able to defeat Mordru, who is imprisoned by the Conclave (a group of magicians). Before he was defeated, though, Mordru had banished the Ebony Banshee to Hell.
- Justice Inc. return to Earth. They are accompanied by Nemesis and Azure Star, and by Auric, who adopts the hero name Goldstar while on Earth.
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Desmond and Felicia are married at Warriors. The service is performed by Father Kelley.
- Arcangel and Paladin's wedding is interrupted by Death Spider, who kidnaps Father Kelley and forces him to perform the ceremony for his wedding to Aranaea. Arcangel, Paladin, and Justice Inc. battle Death Spider and his newly formed "Enforcers of Injustice". Night Flick is mortally wounded but he is revived by Felicia, who finds a way to jump start his dormant vampiric powers. Arcangel apparently kills Death Spider, but the body is revealed to be a second generation, non-powered clone of Will Talbot (Quiksilver). This leads to speculation that Death Spider may not be Jonathan Law from a future timeline, but in fact a clone of Will Talbot from the future.
- Nemesis and Cat's wedding is stopped when the Fates exile Nemesis to Limbo as punishment for his inaction during the battle with Death Spider.
- Justice Inc. travel to Hell to rescue the Ebony Banshee. The Banshee is grateful, but does not stay with the team, instead he heads off to uncover the truth behind his purpose and powers.
- Sarge Steel recruits Justice Inc. into government service with the promise of helping the team members restore their civilian identities, which were declared missing presumed dead during their 3-month exile in space. The deal is refused when Mindblade enlists Metalmorph's help in re-establishing the team members' identities.
- During his absence, Mindblade's financial resources had continued to increase, the net result being that he is now a multi-millionaire. No longer bothering to conceal his civilian identity, Mindblade purchases a building in midtown Manhattan, has it demolished, and arranges for the rapid construction of a 40-story modern skyscraper, setting aside the top 10 levels as a new headquarters and residence for Justice Inc.
- A newly re-organized and re-equipped H.I.V.E. kidnap Streaky in an attempt to reverse engineer the mutagen that created her and Cat. Justice Inc. rescue Streaky but Night Flick is captured and Goldstar's energies are disrupted. Auric's current host, the alien Rogatta, is killed but the Auric energies survive by finding a new host, a reporter from New York.
- Cat teams up with Frostbite from the Guardians and they rescue Night Flick and Dr. Kimiyo Hoshi (Dr. Light II) from a H.I.V.E. base in Japan.
- When Justice Inc. arrives in Japan to help Night Flick, they learn of a mysterious entity attacking Kei Manga Corps resources. Investigating, they find an entity claiming to be the vengeful revenant of Arasaka Konei on a mission to destroy Kei. In the resulting battle, Kei's dimensional generator is destroyed, sending some of their pocket universes spiralling into other dimensional planes while merging others into the mainstream universe. What effect this has had on the timeline has yet to be completely determined. His mission of vengeance complete, the revenant disappears.
- Zodiak successfully tracks Death Spider to his headquarters in the Rocky Mountains. Zodiak summons Renegade, Solitaire, Mindblade, Arcangel, and Cat and together with Metalmorph, Torch, and Zodiak's sometime ally Ghost they attack Death Spider and the "Anti-Enforcers". The villains are defeated and Death Spider is killed. He manages to survive with the assistance of his new ally OMEGA, who transfers Death Spider's consciousness into a computer file and uploads him to the Net.
- The SKULL organization resurfaces in New York, secretly backed by H.I.V.E.. They attempt to take over the New York underworld by starting an arms race between the mob families that they hope to escalate into open warfare. SKULL would then move in and pick up the pieces. The plan is thwarted by Justice Inc. when Mindblade successfully negotiates a truce between the families and reveals SKULL's plan.
- H.I.V.E., using several kidnapped scientist, successfully reverse engineers the mutagen that hyper-evolved Cat's ancestors. The substance turns out to be cortexin, the mutagen created by Dr. Michael Grant for the top secret Project: Moreau in the late 1940's. H.I.V.E. begins the creation of an army of humanoid animal slaves in their hidden lab in South America.
- In an effort to isolate and destroy Justice Inc., H.I.V.E. sends metahuman agents working for SKULL to attack the team's allies. Warriors is destroyed, but the villains are defeated and Justice Inc. decide to put an end to H.I.V.E.'s plans.
- Cat, Torch, and Metalmorph are able to free the hyper-evolved animal slaves from the H.I.V.E. base in South America. The rest of Justice Inc. defeat H.I.V.E.'s methuman forces. Goldstar is again nearly destroyed by H.I.V.E., but this time the host body is saved by ex-Justice Inc. member Elemental who uses his connection to the Source to draw the Auric power into himself.
- In the aftermath of H.I.V.E.'s defeat, Cat leaves the team choosing instead to assume leadership of the newly freed humanoid animals. With Desmond Farr's help, she takes them to the hidden valley of the Tiger-men and they make it their new home. With Cat gone, Night Flick also chooses to leave the team. To fill the gap left by the departing members Elemental and Metalmorph rejoin, as does Azure Star, and Torch is invited to join as well.
- A few months later, the team's lineup again went through a major change. Nicholas Coal, the former host of the Goldstar powers, developed metahuman powers of his own and reluctantly began accompanying Justice Inc. on missions, eventually taking the name Power Star. A vengeful H.I.V.E. struck back against Cat and her people and Justice Inc., along with Paladin, came to help. In the battle that followed H.I.V.E.'s submersible base was destroyed, many of its key members were taken into custody, and the H.I.V.E. Queen was forced to flee by Adeline Wilson who takes over the organization to use as a tool against all super-heroes. The Queen later forms a new organization, Tarot, with those H.I.V.E. members who remained loyal to her. In the aftermath, the surviving member's of Cat's people were relocated to the remote Pacific island that was the location of Project: Moreau (the US Government project that H.I.V.E. based its own experiments on). For political reasons Cat was not able to join her people on the island so she has returned to New York and rejoined Justice Inc.
- When the Weaponers of Qward allied with Entropy in an attempt to create a new Anti-monitor the battle to stop them was fought on two fronts. While Metalmorph, Elemental, and Azure Star accompanied the new Enforcers of Justice and the Sovereign Seven into the anti-matter universe, the remaining members of the team joined with Paladin to battle Entropy and a group of Qwardians armed with Sinestro-style power rings at the former site of Coast City. While both groups were victorious, the victory came with a price as Azure Star and the Enforcer named Mercy were killed and Elemental chose to join a group of starfaring aliens to explore the galaxy. Shortly after this adventure Torch left the team to join the newly re-formed Guardians.
- Vampire Wars: General Glory joins and Night Flick rejoins the team to help stop an evil vampire from leading the vampires of the world into a war against humankind.
- Elemental comes to Earth to enlist Justice Inc.'s aid in combating the world destroyer Mageddon. While unable to stop it the team does slow its progress, giving the Justice League time to prepare. After being captured by Mageddon, Superman later escapes with the aid of Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Mindblade, and destroys the Warbringer.