Timeline
Created in 1923, Atomic Robo’s life is long and strange. Here’s some of his exploits in chronological order.
1800s
18?? - ????: Nikola Tesla, Wong Kei-Ying, Annie Oakley, young Houdini, Charles Fort, and Winfield Scott Lovecraft (perhaps among others) were “cohorts”. It is unknown when or why the group disbanded. (Vol 3, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time)
1900s
1908, June 30: Nikola Tesla with the help of Charles Fort, young H.P. Lovecraft, and the Wardenclyffe Tower thwart an “alien” invasion over the Tunguska River region of Siberia. (Vol 3, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time)
1920s
1923, Sept 3: “The Atomic Robot”, the world’s first “automatic intelligence” is unveiled to the world by Nikola Tesla at a small press conference in New York City. A whirlwind of controversy surrounds Tesla and The Robot for months. Many scientists believe it to be a hoax. Many religious leaders decry it as an afront to God. Tesla and his Atomic Robot are a mainstay of newspaper headlines and scientific news for the next decade.
1924, June: Nikola Tesla’s Houston Street laboratory and home is severely damaged in an alleged confrontation between Atomic Robo and a “wizard” sent at the behest of Thomas Edison. (Atomic Robo #4)
1924, November: Tesla’s Atomic Robot formally adopts the name “Atomic Robo” after a year of being referred to by the press as “The Robot”, “The Atomic Robo”, and later “Robo”.
1926, April 3: H.P. Lovecraft and Charles Fort seek Nikola Tesla in NYC to defend the world against a threat from the “exoverse”. (Vol 3, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time)
1928, May: Atomic Robo earns a PhD in Physics from Columbia University.
1930s
1938, October 10: Atomic Robo’s first mission for the U.S. Army; Atomic Robo’s first encounter with Baron Heinrich von Helsingard; destruction of Helsingard’s secret Himalayan fortress laboratory. (Atomic Robo #1)
1940s
1940, May 7: Atomic Robo is officially granted full legal status as a human being and recognized as an American citizen by the United States Supreme Court. Some religious leaders protest the controversial desicion. In the years that follow Atomic Robo is recognized by the majority of Western nations as a human being under their laws.
1941, August: Atomic Robo joins the American Volunteer Group.
1943, January 7: Nikola Tesla’s laboratory/home is destroyed by an explosion presumed to be caused by a high-energy experiment gone wrong; however this is never conclusively proven.
1943, January 31: Atomic Robo founds Tesladyne. At this point it is little more than a corporate entity to hold the recently deceased Tesla’s patents and assets while Robo fights in World War Two.
1943, July - August: Atomic Robo is sent to destroy Laufpanzers, prototype mechanized troops, during the Invasion of Sicily. First of many encounters with Otto Skorzeny. (Vol 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War #1 - 4)
1943, August: Atomic Robo encounters British super spy known as “The Sparrow”. It could have gone better. (Vol 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War #3, #4)
1944, October: Atomic Robo and a team of British Commandos infiltrate Nazi occupied Guersney to destroy a battery of intercontinental electric cannons before they are completed, but the facility actually houses a device meant to weaponize weather. (Vol 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War #5)
1947, May: Atomic Robo disrupts an illegal rocketry experiment performed by Jack Parsons. (Atomic Robo #3)
1950s
June, 1950: Atomic Robo destroys a “giant robot” built by the Chinese and fielded by the North Korea military. It is likely that the war machine’s tremendous expense and total failure on the battlefield helped to steer the Cold War toward more conventional and cost-efficient technologies. (Vol 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War #4)
Mid-1950s: TOP SECRET (Vol 6, Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific)
1957, December: TOP SECRET (Vol 3, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time)
1960s
1961, October: Atomic Robo stops a rogue Russian scientist from detonating a nuclear weapon powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth.(Red 5 FCBD ‘08)
1970s
1971: TOP SECRET (Vol 3, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time)
1974: Atomic Robo meets Otto Skorzeny, now an old man dying of cancer, at a cafe in Madrid, Spain. (Vol 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War #5)
1975, August 10: NASA’s Viking I begins its ten month trip to Mars with top secret envoy Atomic Robo aboard. The mission is a success, despite the need to doctor or suppress a number of photographs of and from the Martian surface due to Robo’s “interference”. (Atomic Robo #4)
1980s
1989, Summer: Atomic Robo battles a giant sea monster off the coast of Clearwater, Florida. (Vol 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War #1)
1990s
199?: Atomic Robo meets Jenkins during a failed exploratory mission into the so-called “Vampire Dimension”. (Atomic Robo #6)
1997: Atomic Robo’s brain is temporarily hi-jacked by a disgruntled researcher developing a so-called “swarm hack” technology. (Atomic Robo #5)
1999: Atomic Robo confronts the creature known as “Dr. Dinosaur” for the first time. (Red 5 FCBD ‘09)
1999: TOP SECRET (Vol 4, Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness)
2000s
2002: Tesladyne strikes a deal with city, county, state, and federal agencies to move out of the Empire State Building in the wake of 9/11. Its new location is top secret.
2005, February: Atomic Robo, with the help of Action Scientist teams Alpha and Beta, investigates an underground facility in the Italian countryside. It is expected to belong to Baron von Helsingard. (Atomic Robo #5, #6)
2007, November 14: Tesladyne requested to investigate reports of an attack by giant ants near Reno, Nevada. Atomic Robo and a squad of Action Scientists quell the attack, but are at a loss to explain the cause. (Atomic Robo #2)
2007, November 15: Tesladyne requested to investigate reports of a “mobile pyramid” roaming Egyptian desert. (Atomic Robo #2)
2007, November 16: Tesladyne investigates the “mobile pyramid” only to find that the entire monument is a giant steampowered supertank operated by a waterclock program that took five thousand years to compute. It is perhaps the greatest archaeological find in Egyptian history. (Atomic Robo #3 - #4 & Vol 2, Issue #2)
2008, Summer: Jenkins goes on “vacation.” (Vol 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War #3)
2009: TOP SECRET (Vol 3, Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time)