DC's Vertigo Universe - Timeline

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The "Vertigo Universe" is a continuity or narrative that includes various interconnected stories in DC's New Earth continuity - and beyond!
(This is the pre-Flashpoint version of events; it does not include the "Sandman Universe" continuity of stories.)
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1847
????
The Dreaming #56 ("The First Adventure of Miss Catterina Poe")

1916
June 6
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 1-2)

June 10
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 3-12)

1920
June
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 13-14)

1926
August
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 15)

1930
November
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 16)

December
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 16-17)

1936
????
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 17)

1938
February
Sandman Mystery Theatre #1 ("The Tarantula (Act I of IV)")
Sandman Mystery Theatre #2 ("The Tarantula (Act II of IV)")
Sandman Mystery Theatre #3 ("The Tarantula (Act III of IV)")
Sandman Mystery Theatre #4 ("The Tarantula (Act IV of IV)")

February 26
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act One)" pg. 1-7)

March 1
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act One)" pg. 8-16)

March
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act One)" pg. 17-25)
Sandman Mystery Theatre #6 ("The Face (Act Two)" pg. 1-13)

March 4
Sandman Mystery Theatre #6 ("The Face (Act Two)" pg. 14-24)
Sandman Mystery Theatre #7 ("The Face (Act Three)" pg. 1-5)

March 5
Sandman Mystery Theatre #7 ("The Face (Act Three)" pg. 6-24)
Sandman Mystery Theatre #8 ("The Face (Final Act)" pg. 1-9)

March 6
Sandman Mystery Theatre #8 ("The Face (Final Act)" pg. 10-24)

1939
July
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 18)

1947
????
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 19)

1955
????
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 20-22)

1968
????
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 23)

1970
????
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 24)

1972
????
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 25)

1978
????
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 25)

1982
????
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 25)

1985
????
Swamp Thing (Volume 2) #49 ("The Summoning")
Swamp Thing (Volume 2) #50 ("The End")

1986
February
Swamp Thing (Volume 2) #51 ("Home Free")

1987
????
Hellblazer #1 ("Hunger")

1988
September 14
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 25-30)
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 31-32) [The Dreaming]

September 15
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 33)
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 34-39) [The Dreaming]
Sandman #1 ("Sleep of the Just" pg. 40)

November
Doom Patrol (Volume 2) #19 ("Crawling from the Wreckage")

1989
????
Doom Patrol (Volume 2) #23 ("The Butterfly Collector")
Doom Patrol (Volume 2) #24 ("The House That Jack Built")

April 1
Sandman #6 ("24 Hours" pg. 1-14)

April 2
Sandman #6 ("24 Hours" pg. 15-23)

April
Doom Patrol (Volume 2) #25 ("Imaginary Friends")

November
Sandman #14 ("Collectors")

1990
October
Hellblazer #40 ("The Magus")

October 30
The Books of Magic #1 ("The Invisible Labyrinth")

1991
December
Doom Patrol (Volume 2) #51 ("Magic Bus")

December 24
Hellblazer #49 ("Lord of the Dance")
Swamp Thing (Volume 2) #115 (2nd Story; "Papa Noël")

1994
January
Sandman #70 ("Which occurs in the wake of what has gone before") [The Dreaming]

1998
March
The Girl Who Would Be Death #1

1999
December 31
Hellblazer #250 (1st Story; "Happy New Fucking Year" pg. 1-7)

2000
January 1
Hellblazer #250 (1st Story; "Happy New Fucking Year" pg. 8)

November
Lucifer #1 ("A Six Card Spread")

2008
December 24
Hellblazer #250 (3rd Story; "All I Got for Christmas")

2009
????
Hellblazer #251
Hellblazer #252
Hellblazer #253
Hellblazer #254
Hellblazer #255
Hellblazer #256
Hellblazer #257
Hellblazer #258
Hellblazer #259

November 27
Hellblazer #260 ("The Long Crap Friday")

December
Hellblazer #261 ("India, Part One: White Man's Burden")
Hellblazer #262 ("India, Part Two: Untouchable")
Hellblazer #263 ("India, Part Three: No Dancing, No Singing")
Hellblazer #264 ("India, Part Four: Kali Yuga: The Night of the Demon")

2010
January
Hellblazer #265 ("No Future, Part One: Return of the Evil Ones")
Hellblazer #266 ("No Future, Part Two: Where There is Discord")

????
Hellblazer #267
Hellblazer #268
Hellblazer #269
Hellblazer #270

December
Hellblazer #271
Hellblazer #272
Hellblazer #273
Hellblazer #274
Hellblazer #275

2011
January
Hellblazer #276

????
Hellblazer #276
Hellblazer #277
Hellblazer #278
Hellblazer #279
Hellblazer #280
Hellblazer #281
Hellblazer #282
Hellblazer #283
Hellblazer #284
Hellblazer #285
Hellblazer #286
Hellblazer #287
Hellblazer #288
Hellblazer #289
Hellblazer #290
Hellblazer #291
Lucifer (Volume 2) #1 ("Cold Heaven, Part One: Prodigal Sons")
Lucifer (Volume 2) #2
Lucifer (Volume 2) #3
Lucifer (Volume 2) #4
Lucifer (Volume 2) #5
Lucifer (Volume 2) #6
Lucifer (Volume 2) #7
Lucifer (Volume 2) #8
Lucifer (Volume 2) #9
Lucifer (Volume 2) #10
Lucifer (Volume 2) #11
Lucifer (Volume 2) #12

December 25
Lucifer (Volume 2) #13 (1st Story; "Krampusnacht")
Lucifer (Volume 2) #13 (2nd Story; "Secret Santa")

2012
January
Lucifer (Volume 2) #14
Lucifer (Volume 2) #15
Lucifer (Volume 2) #16
Lucifer (Volume 2) #17
Lucifer (Volume 2) #18
Lucifer (Volume 2) #19
Hellblazer #292
Hellblazer #293
Hellblazer #294
Hellblazer #295
Hellblazer #296
Hellblazer #297

February
Hellblazer #298
Hellblazer #299
Hellblazer #300

????
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JudgeDreddpool said:
Roger. Which comic do you reckon I should focus on?
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I got a good one for ya because it's a specific time period but I need help on the passage of time & exact years/months:
dc.fandom.com

Sandman Mystery Theatre Vol 1

Sandman Mystery Theatre is an American comic book series published under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The series retells the adventures of the Golden Age vigilante, the Sandman. Sandman Mystery Theatre #1 Sandman Mystery Theatre #2 Sandman Mystery Theatre #3 Sandman Mystery Theatre #4 Sandman...
dc.fandom.com dc.fandom.com
 
selfishmisery said:
I got a good one for ya because it's a specific time period but I need help on the passage of time & exact years/months:
dc.fandom.com

Sandman Mystery Theatre Vol 1

Sandman Mystery Theatre is an American comic book series published under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The series retells the adventures of the Golden Age vigilante, the Sandman. Sandman Mystery Theatre #1 Sandman Mystery Theatre #2 Sandman Mystery Theatre #3 Sandman Mystery Theatre #4 Sandman...
dc.fandom.com dc.fandom.com
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Oooh, I've been needing a reason to get back into those comics. I'll see what I can do.
 
From Hellblazer #292 to #300 it is 2012...and it ends around Winter time, I would guess February 2012 or so.

So either Flashpoint happens in early-2012 in-universe or this hypertime'd out of that (which I doubt considered it MERGED with New Earth into Prime Earth) - this confirms more or less the former.
 
Textbox (Dian's writings, I believe) that lists the date for pages 1 to 7 as February 26th, 1938 (not sure if the year's an error, considering the Timeline dates issues 3 & 4 for 1939).
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Pages 8 to 16(?) (I'm presuming Sandman interrogating Wu Sung is the same night, but could be wrong) are dated for March 1st. Dian and Wesley are familiar with one another, and mention Catherine and the events of the Tarantula arc.
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Page 17 to 25 seems to be sometime later, with Dian in a new outfit when she sees Jimmy. Mentions of "Dinner Friday Night" on page 18, while page 22 mentions that the scene with Dian and Jimmy was during the afternoon.
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Hope this helps.
 
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JudgeDreddpool said:
Textbox (Dian's writings, I believe) that lists the date for pages 1 to 7 as February 26th, 1938 (not sure if the year's an error, considering the Timeline dates issues 3 & 4 for 1939).
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Pages 8 to 16(?) (I'm presuming Sandman interrogating Wu Sung is the same night, but could be wrong) are dated for March 1st. Dian and Wesley are familiar with one another, and mention Catherine and the events of the Tarantula arc.
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Page 17 to 25 seems to be sometime later, with Dian in a new outfit when she sees Jimmy. Mentions of "Dinner Friday Night" on page 18, while page 22 mentions that the scene with Dian and Jimmy was during the afternoon.
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Hope this helps.
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Okay so that has to be correct.
The 1939 came from the fact that the play two characters went to in #4 (the final part of The Tarantula arc) was based on a real life play...that was released a year later IRL.

So I guess in DC's world it was a year earlier. Or the writer was off a year during his research (Alan Moore would never make that mistake if it were him lol).
 
selfishmisery said:
Okay so that has to be correct.
The 1939 came from the fact that the play two characters went to in #4 (the final part of The Tarantula arc) was based on a real life play...that was released a year later IRL.

So I guess in DC's world it was a year earlier. Or the writer was off a year during his research (Alan Moore would never make that mistake if it were him lol).
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Ah, I see. Yeah, probably released a year earlier in the Veritgo universe compared to IRL.

Will do the rest of the Face arc later. Currently watching RoboCop.
 
Also, for the timeline:

1938
February 26th
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 1-7)
March 1st
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 8-16)
????
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 17-25)
 
JudgeDreddpool said:
Also, for the timeline:

1938
February 26th
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 1-7)
March 1st
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 8-16)
????
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 17-25)
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thanks!
 
JudgeDreddpool said:
Also, for the timeline:

1938
February 26th
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 1-7)
March 1st
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 8-16)
????
Sandman Mystery Theatre #5 ("The Face (Act I of IV)" pg. 17-25)
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Went ahead and finished "The Face" storyline while I had some free time.
Sorry to jump ahead. Carry on. :)
 
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