When Does "The Kents" #9 (1998) Take Place?
"The Kents" #9 "To the Stars by Hard Ways" Part 1 is a western historical fiction comic-book written by John Ostrander that released February 4th, 1998. So when is "The Kents" #9 set?
It takes place on the fictional DC Comics Universe timeline in the year:
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1865 AD - 1866 AD
We know this because .
More specifically, a textbox presents us: ‘From the journal of Nathaniel Kent: "May 23,1865’. So presumably it is May of 1865 AD.
Later, another textbox contains part of a letter that reads, "It is now January 1866 and Happy New Year to you, Lucy my ghurl." So it is explicitly January of 1866 AD by this point.
Finally, near the end of the issue another excerpt from Nathaniel "Nate" Kent’s journal is dated for "July 1, 1866" so we can assume the plot has moved into July of 1866 AD at the end.
Additionally, the issue includes a prologue? with Jonathan "Pa" Kent writing to Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman set in ‘the present’ of the DC Universe. This is unplaceable at this time.
It is a chronologically early comic in the DC Comics Universe multiverse timeline and can be read at its timeline point after the previous issue, "The Kents" #8 (1998).
