This is a list of every active character/series that's active at the point of the order we're at (early 1937). I'll try to keep it updated.
-Doctor Occult
Created By: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Description: Doctor Occult is your average "Dick" from the Golden Age (more the Platinum Age, at that point), but with a twist! Instead of Gangsters and other crooks, he fights supernatural threats! (Hence the "Occult" but you probably figure that one out already...) He has all sorts of anti-ghost paraphernalia (actually, just a poker chip) and an assistant that rarely even showed up named Rose Psychic (yes, those are actual names). His foes did turn out to be mad scientists and insane murderers a lot of the time, a la scooby doo, but he also gets an actual paranormal threat sometimes.
Doctor Occult busted ghosts in New Fun Comics (later More Fun Comics) for some time in the late 30s.
Why it's part of the order: The Golden Age Doctor Occult didn't last too long, probably due to Siegel and Shuster being busy with a relatively small character known as Superman. I don't know, doesn't sound important, maybe someone has heard of him? Anyway, the Doctor was brought back in the 80s in a series that featured many other Golden Age DC heroes, and later became a "regular" DC character and crossed over with many other better-known characters.
First appearance: New Fun Comics (1935) #6 [M Story]
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-Federal Men
Created By: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Description: More like Federal Man, Federal Men follows the adventures of Steve Carson, an FBI agent, with the occasional guest appearance of some of his colleagues. This doesn't really seem like a very interesting strip, and if you hand-pick some of the stories, you would be right to call it "generic" even. But then you have the occasional issue where Steve pilots a huge robot and uses it to fight two other equally big robots, just to go back to chasing after some low-life idiot gangster the very next day. It's pretty hard to peg down, this one, but when Siegel and Shuster let their imagination flow, it can be really fun!
Steve Carson battled crime (and robots!) for a good stretch of the late 30s and through the early 40s in New Comics (later New Adventure Comics and even later Adventure Comics)
Why it's part of the order: Steve Carson, the main Federal Man, had a small cameo appearance (along with other DC detectives) in a relatively new Detective Comics issue (starring Batman of course). Sometimes, this is all it takes to be part of the DCRO...
First Appearance: New Comics (1935) #2 [AD Story]
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-Scribbly
Created By: Sheldon Mayer
Description: Scribbly is definitely a departure from your average Golden Age superhero (or detective/plain hero, at this point), in that he's not a superhero at all! Hell, Scribbly is closer to "Friends" than he is to "Avengers: Infinity War", and I kind of dig that... Anyway, his one-page adventures usually follow his exploits as he strives to become the youngest (successful) cartoonist to have ever lived, all of that through a comic strip format that works decently well but can be hit-or-miss sometimes. It's overall pretty heartwarming and it occasionally even manages to make me laugh.
Scribbly scribbled and doodled away on the pages of various magazines until he found his home on All-American Comics in the 40s, with occasional appearances in other mags and eventually even getting his own in the 50s!
Why it's in the order: Scribbly himself is not important at all to the DCU. However, there is a side character of his strips who became a superhero and met the JSA, so there's that.
-The Clock
Created By: George Brenner
Description: As opposed to all of the previous ones, The Clock is actually your average crime-buster, but with some stuff to spice things up. First, he might be the first comic-book masked hero, which is definitely worth something. Then, he has some quirks that make him stand out. He's not exactly an "ally of justice": the police hate him as much as criminals do. You could say he makes his own justice, which is something I definitely dig, but... it manifests in different ways with him. Sometimes, he gives the money he gets from the criminals to the poor, instead of returning it to the asshole filthy rich "legitimate" owners. Sometimes, he risks his own life to make sure he can give a murderer a cruel death. Yeah... he can get pretty brutal. But despite the character being way more interesting than anyone else in the order so far, the stories themselves are pretty bland... He's the polar opposite of Steve Carson, in that way. Also, he has this calling card gimmick with a clock motif (hence his name) which I think is supremely stupid.
The Clock clocked criminals in the face (yeah!) in various magazines in the late 30s until he found his permanent home at Crack Comics in 1940.
Why it's in the order: While The Clock has had crossovers with other Golden Age characters who are bigger than him in the DC universe, the man himself has barely been mentioned in modern comics, but that is enough to make him part of the DCU.
-Why Big Brothers Leave Home
Created By: Sheldon Mayer
Description: This is barely even a series. I'd call it a Scribblt spin-off but even that would be too much. In-universe, it's the strip that's granting Scribblt his rise to fame. In real life, it's a (poor) attempt to add the "comedy" to the "comic" strip that Scribbly's supposed to be (while ripping some kids off along the way). Anyway, you can tell that most of the ideas are probably sent in by actual kids because they're so bad! And I just noticed I have just been complaining and I haven't even mentioned what the strip is about: Scribbly's little brother tortures him in every way imaginable. That's it, moving on.
I don't know how long this will be a part of Scribbly's comics, but I do hope it stops relatively soon.
Why it's in the order: Obvious connection to Scribbly. However, I do wonder if the incidents depicted here did actually happen or are just a product of the boy's imagination. In-universe, I mean... Actually, I also wonder if they happened to the kids that sent in the ideas...
And that's it for now, I'll add the new characters as they show up!
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