Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #1

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Zero Hour Part IV

**2 Hours, 12 Minutes Ago**: In Coast City, Warrior), Steel), Supergirl) and Batgirl) attempt to escape the entropy, fresh from their own adventure through time.

Extant) looks at the entropy, and wonders how all of it could have been created without his knowledge. The true hand responsible steps out and reveals himself: Parallax). Parallax tells Extant that he has been responsible for all of the chaos, and blasts Extant into submission.

**1 Hour, 58 Minutes Ago**: In the 30th Century, the Legion of Super-Heroes) stand with their time paradox counterparts) and the Time Trapper), waiting to be consumed by entropy. They sacrifice themselves into oblivion so that there can be another tomorrow). After the Legion is gone, Parallax shows up and murders the Time Trapper... again.

**53 Minutes Ago**: In New York City, Wonder Woman) helps Power Girl) through her pregnancy. Heroes from the future, like Impulse) and Booster Gold) begin disappearing as the times they've come from cease to exist.

**40 Minutes Ago**: Jay Garrick) pleads with the Spectre) to get involved in the Crisis. As Garrick fades away, the Spectre realizes that there is a human hand coordinating the events, and tells Jay that his death will be avenged.

**29 Minutes Ago**: As chaos consumes New York City, Metron) takes a select number of heroes to Vanishing Point, to seek temporary haven where time does not exist, and regroup themselves.

**24 Minutes Ago**: Metron, along with Superman), Green Lantern), Donna Troy) and the Atom) arrive at Vanishing Point and find the Linear Men) still in stasis. Lacking the ability to travel through time with the precision they require, they intend to convert Matthew Ryder), a man from the future, into a Waverider like his counterpart) from a another timeline was.

**14 Minutes Ago**: Alan Scott) and Starman) preside over their injured friends in the hospital. Having grown too old to continue his career, Starman passes his legacy onto his son, David).

**13 Minutes Ago**: Finding them hiding in one of the last remaining pockets of reality, Extant brutally murders the Leymen.

**7 Minutes, 34 Seconds Ago**: Extant shows up in New York City and confronts the last heroes left alive. Batman) is killed as an entropy fissure opens right on top of him. As the heroes prepare a last stand, the new **Waverider)** shows up to fight Extant. The Atom tries to get inside Extant's head, but instead is aged backwards to 18 years old. Superman engages Extant as well, but the mastermind behind the entire Crisis reveals himself to everyone.

**60 Seconds Ago**: **Parallax)** announces that he has engineered everything, believing that the Timestream is not right, and has to be changed. But to recreate the universe... he first has to obliterate it.

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Batgirl/Barbara Gordon (Alternate Timeline)) * Metron) * Steel) * Superman) * Warrior (Guy Gardner)) * Waverider/Matthew Ryder (Alternate Future)) Mutated Waverider * Wonder Woman) **Supporting Characters:** * The Atom (Ray Palmer)) * Captain Atom) * Darkstar) (Donna Troy)) * The Flash (Jay Garrick)) * Green Arrow) * Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)) * Kara Zor-L) * Batch SW6 Legion) Merges with Legion of Super-Heroes (Glorithverse)) See Notes ** Cosmic Boy) ** Lightning Lad) ** Saturn Girl) * Legion of Super-Heroes (Glorithverse)) Merges with Batch SW6 Legion) See Notes ** Cosmic Boy) ** Lightning Lad) ** Saturn Girl) * Linear Men) ** Liri Lee (Unknown Future)) * Nightwing) * The Ray) * Robin (Tim Drake)) * The Spectre) (Jim Corrigan)) * Supergirl (Pocket Universe)) * Time Trapper)/Rokk Krinn (Unknown Future)) **Antagonists:** * Extant (Hank Hall)) * Parallax) (Hal Jordan)) Real identity revealed **Other Characters:** * Alpha Centurion (Unknown Timeline)) * Amazing Man) * Aquaman) * Batman) * Booster Gold (Pre-Flashpoint)) * Despero) (L-Ron)) * Elongated Man) * Geo-Force) * Green Lantern (Alan Scott)) * Hawkman) * Impulse (Pre-Flashpoint)) * Leymen ** Donovan ** Kryssing * Martian Manhunter) * Mister Miracle (Scott Free)) * Starman (Ted Knight)) ** David Knight) ** Jack Knight) * Starfire) * Ted Grant) * Triumph) * Angela Adam) * God * Professor Hyatt) * Peggy Adam) * Randall Adam) * Vril Dox) * Waverider/Matt Ryder (Armageddon 2001)) **Locations:** * Hypertime ** Glorithverse *** 30th Century **** Pocket Earth Displaced ** Timestream *** End of Time **** Void at the End of Time ** Vanishing Point *** Library of Time ** Armageddon 2001 Timeline ** Bart Allen's Future *** 30th Century ** Booster Gold's Future *** 25th Century * Multiverse ** New Earth *** Earth **** Coast City **** Gotham City ***** Gotham General Hospital ***** Old JSA Headquarters **** New York City ***** Sanctuary of Doctor Mist ***** United Nations Building * Oblivion **Items:** * Alpha Centurion Armor * Batsuit ** Utility Belt * Bio-Belt * Booster Gold Exo-Armor * Bracelets of Submission * Chronoscopes * Darkstar Exo-Mantle * Dilustel * Gravity Rod * Green Arrow's Bow ** Trick Arrows * Green Lantern Ring * Guy Gardner's Exo-Armor * Hermes' Helmet * Legion Flight Ring * Linear Device * Mobius Chair * Mother Box * Steel's Second Armor * Starheart * Time Probe * Wonder Woman's Tiara **Vehicles:** * GCPD car **Events:** * Crisis in Time ** The "Death" of the Legion's Future **Concepts:** * Lantern Energy * Magic * Metahumans * Possible Futures * Time Travel ** Chronal Rifts) * Wave of Entropy)

| Notes = * Although the "death" of the Legion's future is only partially glimpsed in this story, the events of Legion of Super-Heroes Vol 4 61 reveal that the two iterations of the Legion merged together to ensure that a new Legion) in a new future will be born. ** Time Trapper claimed that "*he had one more thing to do?*" after the union of the Legions, which is a reference to his meeting with Parallax from this story. * New Earth is erased from existence in this issue. ** The destruction of Metropolis and New York City are respectively shown in Action Comics Vol 1 703 and Justice League International Vol 2 68. ** The death of Gotham City is also shown in Catwoman Vol 2 14. * This issue is reprinted in: ** Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (Collected); ** Zero Hour: Crisis in Time 25th Anniversary Omnibus (Collected); ** DC Finest: Events: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time Part Two (Collected). | Trivia = * The reading order for this limited series counts down backwards beginning with issue #4 and ending with issue #0. * *Zero Hour: Crisis in Time* was shipped on a weekly publishing schedule. | Recommended =

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Creative credits

Writers: Dan Jurgens

Interior art: Dan Jurgens

Color: Gregory Wright

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