Assignment: Earth #1 – Brighter Than a thousand Suns – 3 months after ‘Assignment: Earth’ which is set in April 1968; so July 1968

1968

C. APRIL – 1968

Assignment: Earth #1 – ‘Brighter Than A Thousand Suns’ pg. 1 concurrent with the epilogue of ‘Assignment: Earth’.

C. JULY – 1968

Assignment: Earth #1 – ‘Brighter Than A Thousand Suns’ pgs. 2–22 – 3 months after ‘Assignment: Earth’ which is set in April 1968; so c. July 1968. Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln stop the detonation of an enhanced fusion bomb called ‘Hercules’. A similar device destroyed the entire civilization of Delphi Centaurus VI.

1969

JULY – 1969

Assignment: Earth #2 – ‘Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow – Concurrent with the events of ‘Tomorrow Is Yesterday’. Told from the perspective of Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln. Think ‘Trials and Tribble-ations’. July 1969.

1970

MAY – 1970

Assignment: Earth #3 – ‘My Name Is Legion’ pgs. 1–20 – Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln have been on campus three weeks at the beginning of the story. Professor Eckhart and General Cory have created an army of clones to ‘sweep across Southeast Asia and drive the enemy into oblivion’. The clones, all 250 of them, are transported to an Earth-like planet in the Vega system and General Cory and Professor Eckhart have their minds erased. (Note: Both ‘Star Trek: Crew – Shadows Of The Past’ and ‘Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor – Ghosts’ say that this issue takes place in 1969. However research on the Illinois State University website says that the only major protest to occur on the campus was during the week of May 4-8, 1970 in response to the Kent State killings as noted by Roberta’s boyfriend Curtis. Gary Seven asks what will happen when the clones turn on the General after they realize that mankind is an imperfect specimen. This could be taken as an oblique reference to the upcoming Eugenics Wars, which Seven might have some foreknowledge of.)