User blog:Nausiated/Countdown to Project 11/61 Update 1

So just a quick update on the progress I'm making before I start getting on Project 11/61. It's been about a month since I made announcement of my intention, and of course I still had the last of the Atlas Era stuff from 1956-1961. So far this is what I've accomplished:

Jungle Tales/Jann of the Jungle
I finished all the issues summaries of almost the entire Jungle Tales series and Jann of the Jungle. This has expanded the profiles for Jann of the Jungle, Pat Mahoney, Waku and Cliff Mason, White Hunter. These character profiles are almost all complete, with missing an issue or two I couldn't get a hand on. Jann's profile (minus the odd story I couldn't find) is complete all the way up to her last appearance.

Lorna the Jungle Girl
Finished going through the entire series, less a few issues I couldn't find. I also did profile updates for Lorna the Jungle Girl, Mikki and Greg Knight. As the characters have not appeared since the final issue of Lorna the Jungle Girl, their profiles are mostly up to date, missing only information on the odd issues I couldn't get access to.

Matt Slade
Again did the entire Matt Slade/Kid Slade, Gunfighter series. Plus a full profile for Matt Slade, who other than reprints of the original run has not appeared in any stories of late, so his profile is complete for now.

The Kid from Dodge City/The Kid From Texas
Both the Kid From Dodge City and the Kid from Texas were both short run western characters who only appeared in two issues each, both characters have full issue summaries and profiles.

Yellow Claw
Did the entire series. The Yellow Claw, Suwan, Karl von Horstbadden, and Jimmy Woo profiles have all been updated to catalogue all their appearances in the Yellow Claws series. In the case of the items revealed in the Agents of Atlas series in terms of the Atlas Foundation, I spliced them in. In the case of Yellow Claw I tried to add every bit of continuity of the character from his earliest chronological appearance to his first appearance in the modern age. With Karl von Horstbadden, I included his entire history up to his death in. With Suwan I also covered her history to her modern appearances, speculating what happened to explain her apparent death in and the fact that  that stated that she was living with the Great Wall during the decades since the 1950s.

Outlaw Kid
All issues of the original Outlaw Kid have been updated, Outlaw Kid's profile and the profiles of his supporting cast have been call updated to include all their appearances in the original run of Outlaw Kid. What's missing are the original stories in Outlaw Kid Volume 2 that was partially a reprint series and partially new material, also I think his appearances in Blaze of Glory could also be fleshed out.

Western Kid
All issues of the series have been covered Tex Dawson's profile has been updated (As have his animal pals) adding all his Western Kid adventures, what is missing is information in the Gunslinger series as well as his activities in Blaze of Glory.

Rawhide Kid
I have covered the first 22 issues of the original Rawhide Kid series this includes complete profiles of the original Rawhide Kid and his ward Randy Clayton. I also did all the Atlas era issues of the Jonathan Clay Rawhide Kid issues (issues through ) I also added this information to the Rawhide Kid issues to the Johnny Clay profile. I also cleaned up the store is where he encountered the Avengers, because whoever wrote them did a lousy job and just glossed over everything and didn't bother doing any research... But I digress.

What's Left
I only have a few characters to pile through to complete the Atlas Era run. I will complete the original Two-Gun Kid, I will be covering everything up to his final appearance in. Ringo Kid covering all his Atlas Era appearances, ditto for Kid Colt, Wyatt Earp and wartime heroes Rock Murdock and Torpedo Taylor one of the characters I forgot about in the shuffle.

Preparing for Project 11/61
When taking breaks from writing, I've been figuring out the "Pre-FF" history of each member of the Fantastic Four, digging up every early story of each Fantastic Four member and compiling them together, everything from actual full issue stories, limited series, right down to one panel flashbacks from various issues. It's been exhausting.

But here's a little sneak peek of what I've come across....

As many of you know Marvel's "modern era" operates on a sliding time scale and that event happen slower than in the real world. That technically about 10-13 years have passed since Fantastic Four #1. What makes this really interesting is the pre-Fantastic Four #1 timeline for both Reed Richards and Ben Grimm. Early issues of the Fantastic Four state that Reed and Ben fought in World War II. However this would not work and so the sliding time scale states that these were topical references, in that they served in the military but no specific conflict is mentioned anymore. What's interesting is that Reed appears in shows Reed fighting in Europe during World War II next to Nick Fury and  shows Ben Grimm fighting in the South Pacific with Captain Savage. I would speculate that with the sliding time scale, these appearances during the war could be attributed to relatives that -- you could say -- had the same first and last names. Or perhaps these appearances did happen and they are part of as an as yet untold time travel story (which I hope they would do which would make more sense, having Reed Richards and Ben Grimm during World War II -- also because it's been done before).