| ORION | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Jack Kirby |
Orion by Walter Simonsen
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CHRONOLOGY
Orion first appeared in New Gods Vol. 1 #1 (February-March 1971): "Orion Fights for Earth!".
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Orion in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Orion Chronology
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| Orion #3/2 (August 2000): "Tales of the New Gods: Nativity" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #7 (February-March 1972): "The Pact" |
| DC Special Series #10/2 (1978): "This Light A-Borning" [Flashback] |
| Forever People Vol. 1 #7/2 (February-March 1972): "Lonar of New Genesis and His Battle-Horse Thunderer" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #1 (February-March 1971): "Orion Fights for Earth" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #2 (April-May 1971): "O' Deadly Darkseid" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #3 (June-July 1971): "Death is the Black Racer" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #4 (August-September 1971): "O'Ryan Gang and the Deep Six" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #5 (October-November 1971): "Spawn" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #6 (December 1971-January 1972): "The Glory Boat" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #8 (April-May 1972): "The Death Wish of Terrible Turpin" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #9 (June-July 1972): "The Bug" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #10 (August-September 1972): "Earth--the Doomed Dominion" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #11 (October-November 1972): "Darkseid and Sons" |
| Mister Miracle Vol. 1 #18 (February-March 1974): "Wild, Wild Wedding Guests" |
| First Issue Special #13 (April 1976): "Lest Night Fall Forever" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #12 (July 1977): "Prelude to a Holocaust" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #13 (August 1977): "Let Loose the Hounds of War" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #14 (October 1977): "A Child Shall Leave You" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #15 (December 1977): "The Apocalypse Child" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #16 (February 1978): "The Titan and the Hunter" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #17 (April 1978): "The Memory Machine" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #18 (June 1978): "The Song of the Source" |
| New Gods Vol. 1 #19 (August 1978): "The Secret Within Us" |
| Adventure Comics #459/4 (September-October 1978): "Climax of Chaos" |
| Adventure Comics #460/3 (November-December 1978): "Pursuit to Eternity" |
| Justice League of America #183 (October 1980): "Crisis on New Genesis, or Where Have All the New Gods Gone?" |
| Justice League of America #184 (November 1980): "Crisis Between Two Earths, or Apokolips Now" |
| Justice League of America #185 (December 1980): "Crisis on Apokolips, or Darkseid Rising" |
| Adventures of Superman #426 (March 1987): "From the Dregs" |
| Action Comics #586 (March 1987): "The Champion" |
| Warlord Annual Vol. 1 #6 (1987): "When the Gods Make War" |
| Cosmic Odyssey #1 (1988): "Discovery" |
| Cosmic Odyssey #2 (1988): "Disaster" |
| Cosmic Odyssey #3 (1988): "Decisions" |
| Cosmic Odyssey #4 (1988): "Death" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #1 (February 1989): "Hordes" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #2 (March 1989): "Tales of Times Past and Future" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #3 (April 1989): "Tests and the Truth" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #4 (May 1989): "The Armageddon Trap!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #5 (June 1989): "Extermination!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #6 (July 1989): "People Too Stupid to Die!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #7 (August 1989): "Bloodline Part One" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #8 (September 1989): "Bloodline Part Two" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #9 (October 1989): "Bloodline Part Three" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #10 (November 1989): "Bloodline Part Four" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #11 (December 1989): "Bloodline Part Five" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #12 (January 1990): "Bloodline Part Six" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #13 (February 1990): "The Daily Decision" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #14 (March 1990): "Your Worst Nightmare" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #15 (April 1990): "Savage Soul!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #16 (May 1990): "Super Ego!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #17 (June 1990): "Advent of Darkness" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #18 (July 1990): "Life Infinite" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #19 (August 1990): "Homecoming!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #20 (September 1990): "The Author of My Being!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #21 (December 1990): "Patricide" |
| Justice League America #47 (February 1991): [Glory-Bound, Part 2] "General Glory Fights Again!" |
| Mister Miracle Vol. 2 #25 (March 1991): "Bad N' Beautiful: The Babes of Bodyslam!" [Between panels of Justice League America #47] |
| Justice League America #49 (April 1991): "Glory-Bound, Part 4: Glory and Shame" |
| Justice League America #50 (May 1991): [Glory-Bound, Part 5] "A Blaze of Glory!" |
| Mister Miracle Vol. 2 #27 (May 1991): "Party Up!" |
| Armageddon 2001 #2 (October 1991): [No Title] |
| War of the Gods #3 (November 1991): "Casualties of War" |
| War of the Gods #4 (December 1991): "In the Beginning... There Was the End" |
| Superman Vol. 2 #65 (March 1992): [10] "Panic in the Sky! Second Strike: Head Man" |
| Adventures of Superman #488 (March 1992): [11] "Panic in the Sky! Third Strike: Counter Strike!" [Behind the scenes] |
| Action Comics #675 (March 1992): [12] "Panic in the Sky! Fourth Strike: Divide and Conquer" [Behind the scenes] |
| Superman: The Man of Steel #10 (April 1992): [13] "Panic in the Sky! Fifth Strike: Tidal Wave!" |
| Superman Vol. 2 #66 (April 1992): [14] "Panic in the Sky! Final Strike: Our Army at War" |
| Adventures of Superman #489 (April 1992): [15] "Panic in the Sky! Epilogue: Hail the Conquering Heroes" |
| Superman: The Man of Steel #20 (February 1993): [5] "Funeral for a Friend Part 3: Funeral Day" |
| Showcase '94 #1/3 (January 1994): "The Wall of Souls" |
| Eclipso #16 (February 1994): "Fallout" |
| Eclipso #17 (March 1994): "Big Game" |
| Eclipso #18 (April 1994): "Works of Darkness" [Behind the scenes] |
| Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3 (September 1994): "Zero Hour" |
| Superman Vol. 2 #95 (December 1994): [46] "The Zero Effect" |
| Action Comics #705 (December 1994): [48] "Bodies & Motion" |
| Superman: The Man of Steel #40 (January 1995): [1] "Mind Games" |
| Guy Gardner: Warrior #29 (March 1995): "It's My Party and I'll Fight If I Want To" |
| Showcase '95 #7/3 (August 1995): "A Shadow Over Eden" |
| Outsiders Vol. 2 #22 (September 1995): "The Armagetto Quest!" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #1 (October 1995): "Attack on the Source!" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #2 (November 1995): "The Source of the Beast!" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #3 (December 1995): "After the Fall" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #4 (January 1996): "The Flowers of Hell" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #5 (February 1996): "Descent into Madness" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #6 (March 1996): "Destruction of the Beast!" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #7 (April 1996): "The End of the Gods" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #8 (June 1996): "Sins of the Fathers" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #9 (July 1996): "The Lord of Destruction" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #10 (August 1996): "Sacrifice of the Gods" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #11 (September 1996): "Restoration" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #13 (December 1996): "Night of the Falling Sky" |
| New Gods Vol. 3 #14 (January 1997): "The Gathering Storm" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #4 (June 1997): "Back from the Source" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #5 (July 1997): "A Choice of Gods" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #6 (August 1997): "Schism" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #7 (September 1997): "The Way of the Warrior" |
| Genesis #1 (October 1997): "Resonance" |
| Genesis #2 (October 1997): "Edge of Destruction" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #8 (October 1997): "Childhood's End" |
| Genesis #3 (October 1997): "Event Horizon" |
| Genesis #4 (October 1997): "Last God Standing" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #9 (November 1997): "Sons of the Father" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #10 (December 1997): "AfterMath" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #11 (January 1998): "Fire & Ice" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #12 (February 1998): "Wednesday's Child" |
| JLA Secret Files #2 (August 1998): "Heroes" |
| New Gods Secret Files #1/3 (September 1998): "Lost Pages: [Orion and Big Barda Join the JLA]" |
| JLA #17 (April 1998): "Prometheus Unbound" |
| JLA #18 (May 1998): "Synchronicity" [Behind the scenes] |
| JLA #19 (June 1998): "Seven Soldiers of Probability" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #17 (July 1998): "Blood War" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #18 (August 1998): "O Deadly Darkseid" |
| JLA #20 (July 1998): "Mystery In Space" |
| JLA #21 (August 1998): "Strange New World" |
| Jack Kirby's Fourth World #19 (September 1998): "Genesis Rising" |
| JLA #23 (October 1998): "Conquerors" |
| JLA #24 (December 1998): "Executive Action" |
| JLA/Titans #1 (December 1998): "One of Ours" |
| JLA/Titans #2 (January 1999): "The Generation Gap" |
| JLA/Titans #3 (February 1999): "All in the Family" |
| Adventures of Superman #566 (April 1999): [14] "...And Lose His Soul" |
| Action Comics #753 (April 1999): [15] "A Law Unto Himself" |
| Adventures of Superman #567 (May 1999): [19] "The Pathway to Oblivion" [Behind the scenes] |
| Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #13 (spring 1999): [16] "Madness!" |
| JLA #32 (August 1999): "Inside Job" |
| JLA #33 (September 1999): "Altered Egos" |
| JLA #34 (October 1999): "The Ant and the Avalanche" |
| JLA 80-Page Giant #2/6 (November 1999): "Outside the Box" |
| JLA #36 (December 1999): "World War Three, Part 1" |
| JLA #37 (January 2000): "World War Three, Part 2" |
| JLA #38 (February 2000): "World War Three, Part 3" |
| JLA #39 (March 2000): "World War Three, Part 4" |
| JLA #40 (April 2000): "World War Three, Part 5" |
| JLA #41 (May 2000): "World War Three, Part 6: Mageddon" |
| Orion #1 (June 2000): "O Beautiful for Spacious Skies..." [Flashback] |
| Orion #1 (June 2000): "O Beautiful for Spacious Skies..." |
| Orion #2 (July 2000): "...For Amber Waves of Grain!" |
| Orion #3 (August 2000): "...For Purple Mountain Majesties!" |
| Orion #4 (September 2000): "Above the Fruited Plain..." |
| Orion #5 (October 2000): "Day of Wrath" |
| Orion #6 (November 2000): "The King is Dead...Long Live the King!" |
| Orion #7 (December 2000): "Tough Love!" |
| Orion #8 (January 2001): "The Righteous Treacheries of Desaad! Or Orion Rules!" |
| Orion #9 (February 2001): "The Electro Death of Honour!" |
| Orion #10 (March 2001): "Sirius Business! or Dog is God Spelled Backwards!" |
| Orion #11 (April 2001): "Orion Rules!" |
| Orion #12/2 (May 2001): "The Ordering of Apokolips" |
| Orion #13 (June 2001): "The Ordering of Earth!" |
| Orion #14 (July 2001): "The Ordering of the Cosmos!" |
| Orion #15 (August 2001): "At the Edge of the Abyss!" |
| Orion #16 (September 2001): "The Abyssmal Plane!" |
| Orion #17 (October 2001): "Being and Nothingness" |
| Orion #18 (November 2001): "The Return of the Prodigal!" |
| Justice Leagues: Justice League of Aliens #1 (March 2001): "Brother's Keepers" |
| Justice Leagues: JLA #1 (March 2001): "Justice Leagues, Part VI: Dawn's Early Light" |
| Orion #19 (December 2001): "Laugh, and the World Laughs With You!" |
| Orion #20 (January 2002): "None Are So Blind!" |
| Orion #21 (February 2002): "The Lightless Path" |
| Orion #22 (March 2002): "Just Another Night in the Big City!" |
| Orion #23 (April 2002): "The Walls of Jericho...!" |
| Orion #24 (May 2002): "The Eyes of the Hunters!" |
| Orion #25 (June 2002): "Children of the Pact!" |
| JLA #112 (May 2005): "Syndicate Rules Part Six: Divided" |
| JLA #113 (June 2005): "Syndicate Rules Part Seven: Worlds in the Balance" |
| Firestorm, the Nuclear Man Vol. 2 #33 (April 2007): "Old Gods and New" |
| Firestorm, the Nuclear Man Vol. 2 #34 (May 2007): "The Chaos Equation" |
| Firestorm, the Nuclear Man Vol. 2 #35 (June 2007): "The End Is Here" |
| Death of the New Gods #1 (early December 2007): "So Begins... the End" |
| Death of the New Gods #2 (late December 2007): "Celestial Genocide" |
| Death of the New Gods #3 (January 2008): "Armageddon Tarantella" |
| Death of the New Gods #4 (February 2008): "Bearing Witness" |
| Death of the New Gods #5 (March 2008): "Mistakes" |
| Death of the New Gods #6 (April 2008): "Sacrifice" |
| Death of the New Gods #8 (June 2008): "The End" |
| Countdown #2 (June 2008): "Darkseid Equals Death" |
| Final Crisis #3 (September 2008): "Know Evil" [Flashback] |
| Final Crisis #1 (July 2008): "D.O.A.: The God of War!" |
| Final Crisis #7 (March 2009): "New Heaven, New Earth" |
Chronology UncertainIt is currently uncertain where these stories fit into the character's internal chronology. |
| Armageddon: Inferno #2 (May 1992): "Sea of Troubles" |
| Armageddon: Inferno #3 (June 1992): "The Last Hope" |
| Armageddon: Inferno #4 (July 1992): "The Gathering of Heroes" |
| Day of Judgment #1 (November 1999): "The Summoning" |
| Day of Judgment #3 (November 1999): "Choosing Sides" |
| DC Universe Holiday Bash #1/2 (1997): "A Highfather Christmas" |
| Green Lantern Vol. 3 #103 (early September 1998): "Emerald Knights, Part 3: Strange Bedfellows" |
| Green Lantern 80-Page Giant #3 (August 2000): "A Lantern Against the Dark: A Forgotten Tale of the Green Lantern Corps, Chapter 2: A Twice-Told Tale" |
| Hardcore Station #5 (November 1998): "Revenge" |
| Hardcore Station #6 (December 1998): "Retribution" |
| Hourman #7 (October 1999): "The Human League" |
| JLA in Crisis Secret Files #1 (November 1998): "The Flash's Infinite Crises" |
| Justice League America #40 (July 1990): "Hell on Earth" |
| Justice League America #42 (September 1990): "Solicitations" |
| Justice League America #43 (October 1990): "If You Play Your Card Right..." |
| Justice League America #44 (November 1990): "Pastiche" |
| Justice League America #45 (December 1990): "A Date With Density, Part 2: Hell On Ice!" |
| L.A.W. (Living Assault Weapons) #1 (September 1999): "Avatar Rising" |
| Martian Manhunter Vol. 2 #7 (June 1999): "My Brother's Keeper" |
| Martian Manhunter Vol. 2 #8 (July 1999): "Abandon All Hope" |
| Martian Manhunter Vol. 2 #9 (August 1999): "The Burning Grave" |
| Martian Manhunter Vol. 2 #13 (December 1999): "Rings of Saturn, Episode 1" |
| Mister Miracle Vol. 3 #1 (April 1996): "Stone Walls Do Not A Prison Make" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #23 (February 1991): "Lingering Melody" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #24 (March 1991): "Matter of Survival!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #25 (April 1991): "The Second Pact!" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #26 (May 1991): "Gods Never Die" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #27 (July 1991): "Memories of a Stranger" |
| New Gods Vol. 2 #28 (August 1991): "More Deaths than One Must Die!" |
| Power of Shazam! #45 (January 1999): "Friends in High Places" |
| Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #8 (March 2000): "Crisis in Blue Valley" |