When Does "Showcase" #74 (1968) Take Place?
"Showcase" #74 v1 "It Could Be You!" is a comedy historical fiction comic-book written by Howard Post that released March 3rd, 1968. So when is "Showcase" #74 set?
It takes place roughly in the year:
We know this because Anthro appears and is very young so it must be quite some time before his death in "Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne" #1 (2010), which takes place around the year 30000 BC.
~30000 BC
We know this because Anthro appears and is very young so it must be quite some time before his death in "Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne" #1 (2010), which takes place around the year 30000 BC.
Anthro's parents are Homo neanderthalensis (neanderthals) but he is Homo sapiens; this is why he is often billed as "the first boy". Homo sapiens, the final species of human, first appeared 300,000 years ago in the real world.
It is a chronologically early comic in the DC Comics Universe multiverse timeline (a first chronological story to feature Anthro, the first boy) and can be read at its timeline point or as part of an extended flashback before "Final Crisis" #1 (2008) or before the "Tales of the Unexpected" v2 "Doctor Thirteen" (2006) back-up stories.
