When Does "The Kents" #1 (1997) Take Place?
"The Kents" #1 "Bleeding Kansas" Part 1 is a western comic-book written by John Ostrander that released June 4th, 1997. So when is "The Kents" #1 set?
It takes place on the fictional DC Comics Universe timeline in the years:
We know this because the main action begins with a textbox presenting an excerpt of writing from an ancestor of Jonathan Kent’s that reads, ‘From the journal of Silas Kent -- "April 3, 1854’ and, near the end of the issue, there’s another textbox reading ‘-- "March 1, 1855’ at the start of another excerpt.
1854 AD - 1855 AD
We know this because the main action begins with a textbox presenting an excerpt of writing from an ancestor of Jonathan Kent’s that reads, ‘From the journal of Silas Kent -- "April 3, 1854’ and, near the end of the issue, there’s another textbox reading ‘-- "March 1, 1855’ at the start of another excerpt.
Additionally, the issue opens with a frame prologue and a later awkward quick interlude merely labeled with a textbox telling us it’s "Metropolis, today." So the frame story and the interjected scene with Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman are set in ‘the present’ of the DC Universe.
It is a chronologically early comic in the DC Comics Universe multiverse timeline and can be read at its timeline point.
