When Does "DC: The New Frontier" #1 "Our Fighting Forces" (2004) Take Place?
"DC: The New Frontier" #1 "Our Fighting Forces" is a superhero comic-book written by Darwyn Cooke and released January 21st, 2004.
It takes place on the fictional DC Comics Universe timeline in the years:
We know this because the first "chapter" ("Analog Heroes") opens with a time and place setting floating text that reads "THE PACIFIC 1945" in the second panel. This chapter makes up half of the first issue.
1945 AD - 1953 AD
We know this because the first "chapter" ("Analog Heroes") opens with a time and place setting floating text that reads "THE PACIFIC 1945" in the second panel. This chapter makes up half of the first issue.
This chapter includes a short epilogue that opens with its own time and place setting title card text reading "EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE SPRING - 1948" in the third panel of its first page. So we know this is 1948 AD.
The second "chapter" of the series ("State of the Union Suit") is essentially a short interlude that catches the reader up on a series of fictional DCU events from the end of World War II to 1952 AD. It opens immediately with this time and place setting text: "GOTHAM CITY–1952" over a nighttime scene. The newspaper article that follows (written by Barry 'The Flash' Allen's romantic interest and journalist Iris West) references the famous and tragic Alger Hiss espionage case (1948 AD - 1950 AD) and US Senator Joseph McCarthy's spurious investigations into spies from the Soviet Union in the United States of America (1950 AD - 1954 AD) as both being recent developments.
"CHAPTER THREE" ("Heavy Traffic in MIG Alley") depicts the hours after the ceasefire that ended the famous and tragic Korean War, in 1953 AD. We know this without a doubt because free floating text presents us a US Air Force mission report that includes the phrase "Which brings us to the date in question: JULY 27, 1953.", the story that follows mirrors it, and the real-world Korean War did indeed end with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27th, 1953 AD.
This comic-book was retroactively collected into a "DC: The New Frontier" volume 1 paperback as well as a complete hardcover.
It is a chronologically midway comic in the DC Comics Universe multiverse timeline.
