| RAY I (Happy Terrill) | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Will Eisner ? and Lou Fine |
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CHRONOLOGY
Ray first appeared in Smash Comics #14/4 (September 1940) [Quality].
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Ray 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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Ray Chronology
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| Smash Comics #14/4 (September 1940): [Origin of the Ray] |
| Ray Vol. 2 #9 (February 1995): "The Flying Gypsy" [Continuity Questionable] |
| Ray Vol. 2 #10 (March 1995): "The God Complex" [Continuity Questionable] |
| Smash Comics #15/5 (October 1940): [Cadava the Crumbler] |
| Smash Comics #16 (November 1940): [The Revenge of Bela Jat] |
| Smash Comics #17 (December 1940): [Music Hath Charm] |
| Smash Comics #18 (January 1941): [The Midget Train Robbers] |
| Smash Comics #19 (February 1941): [Slash Scraponi] |
| Smash Comics #20 (March 1941): [The Curse of the Marshwoods] |
| Smash Comics #21 (April 1941): [The Empire of Captain Blue] |
| Smash Comics #22 (May 1941): [The Return of Captain Blue] |
| Smash Comics #23 (June 1941): [The Beetle and the Tongs] |
| Smash Comics #24 (July 1941): [Spy in a Sawdust Ring] |
| Smash Comics #25 (August 1941): [Mitch Mouldin] |
| Smash Comics #26 (September 1941): [Cyanide and Sabotage] |
| Smash Comics #27 (October 1941): [The Atom Smasher] |
| Smash Comics #28 (November 1941): [Zimmerman's Spy Ring] |
| Smash Comics #29 (December 1941): [Terror in Texas] |
| Smash Comics #30 (January 1942): [The Von Ribboncounter Affair] |
| Smash Comics #31 (February 1942) |
| Smash Comics #32 (March 1942) |
| All-Star Squadron #31 (March 1984): "Uncle Sam Wants You" |
| All-Star Squadron #32 (April 1984): "Crisis on Earth-X! The Prequel" |
| All-Star Squadron #33 (May 1984): "The Battle of Santa Barbara -- Times Two" |
| All-Star Squadron #34 (June 1984): "The Wrath of Tsunami" |
| All-Star Squadron #35 (July 1984): "That Earths May Live" |
| Smash Comics #33 (May 1942) |
| Smash Comics #34 (July 1942): [Aiding the Budapest Underground] |
| All-Star Squadron #50 (October 1985): "Crisis Point" [Pre-Crisis Continuity Only] |
| All-Star Squadron #60 (August 1986): "The End of the Beginning!" |
| Smash Comics #35/6 (September 1942) |
| Smash Comics #36/6 (October 1942) |
| Smash Comics #37/6 (November 1942) |
| Smash Comics #38/6 (December 1942) |
| Smash Comics #39/4 (January 1943) |
| Smash Comics #40/5 (February 1943) |
| Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #4 (February 2011): "American Nightmare: Part Four!" [Flashback] |
| Justice League of America Vol. 2 #42 (April 2010): "Team History" [1944] |
| JSA #42 (January 2003): "Paradox Play" [April 1944] |
| Ray Vol. 2 #28 (October 1996): "Disclosure" [Flashback, mid-1945] |
| Ray Vol. 2 #18 (November 1995): "Monsters" [Flashback, before February 1954] |
| Ray Vol. 2 #28 (October 1996): "Disclosure" [Flashback, February 1954] |
| Ray Vol. 2 #0 (October 1994): "Missing" [Flashbacks Ray's Birth] |
| JLA: Year One #11 (November 1998): "Stalag Earth" |
| JLA: Year One #12 (December 1998): "Justice for All" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #0 (October 1994): "Missing" [Flashbacks Ray, Age 13] |
| Justice League of America #107 (September-October 1973): "Crisis on Earth-X" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Justice League of America #108 (November-December 1973): "Thirteen Against the Earth" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #1 (March-April 1976): "The Freedom Fighters" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #2 (May-June 1976): "Rampage" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #3 (July-August 1976): [No Title] [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #4 (September-October 1976): "The Left Hand of Oblivion" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #5 (November-December 1976): "The Rise and Fall of King Samson" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| DC Super-Stars #10 (December 1976): "The Great Super-Star Game" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #6 (January-February 1977): "Witching Hour for the Warrior Wizards" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #7 (March-April 1977): "The Emperor of the North Pole" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #8 (May-June 1977): "D-Day at Niagara" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #9 (July-August 1977): "Blitzkrieg at Buffalo" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #10 (September-October 1977): "Murder in Miniature" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #11 (November-December 1977): "Divided We Die?" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #12 (January-February 1978): "Bust-Out in the Big House" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #13 (March-April 1978): "The Amazing Origin / the Deadly Return / the Startling Secret of the Black Condor" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #14 (May-June 1978): "Sideshows of Doom" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Freedom Fighters #15 (July-August 1978): "Carnival of Death" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Black Lightning Vol. 1 #11/2 (September-October 1978): "The Rise and Fall of the Ray" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| DC Comics Presents #62 (October 1983): "Born on the Fourth of July" [Pre-Crisis continuity only] |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 (August 1985): "Worlds in Limbo" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #6 (September 1985): "3 Earths! 3 Deaths!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (October 1985): "Beyond the Silent Night" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #10 (January 1986): "Death at the Dawn of Time!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (March 1986): "Final Crisis" |
| DC Universe: Legacies #6 (December 2010): "Aftermath!" [Flashback; During Crisis] |
| Ray #1 (February 1992): "Grander Than Fire" |
| Ray #2 (March 1992): "That Old House" |
| Ray #3 (April 1992): "Ray Vs. the Volcano" |
| Ray #4 (May 1992): "Lies" |
| Ray #5 (June 1992): "Emerson Must Die" |
| Ray #6 (July 1992): "Day of the Ray" |
| Black Canary Vol. 2 #8 (August 1993): "The Fish" |
| Black Condor #9 (February 1993): "Where Monsters Walk!" |
| Black Condor #10 (March 1993): "Hero Sandwich" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #3 (July 1994): "The Man With No Lungs" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #4 (August 1994): "Free!" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #5 (September 1994): "The Wall" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #0 (October 1994): "Missing" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #11 (April 1995): "Light & Death" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #24 (June 1996): "The Fall" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #27 (September 1996): "Time & Tempest, Book 3: Requiem" |
| Ray Vol. 2 #28 (October 1996): "Disclosure" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #1 (November 2007): "Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #5 (March 2008): "Be Careful What You Wish For" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #6 (April 2008): "Into the Unknown" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #7 (May 2008): "The Universal" |
| Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #8 (June 2008): "Let Freedom Ring" |
| Freedom Fighters Vol. 2 #8 (June 2011): "American Nightmare, Part Eight" |