Chronos (comic series)

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Chronos (Greek "time") is the title of a comic series that the US publisher DC Comics published from 1998 to 1999.

Chronos was published between March 1998 and February 1999. The series reached 11 issues plus a special edition titled 1,000,000. The American John Francis Moore was the author of all issues in the series , while artists such as Paul Guinan and JH Williams III acted as draftsmen .

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Chronos tells of the experiences of a time-traveling Hallodris and petty criminal named Walker (Tristan) Gabriel , who with a high-tech suit that enables him to break the space-time continuum , the various epochs and locations of the so-called DC universe , the location of the comic series of the publisher DC (like Batman and Superman ): This includes both places and times that actually existed historically, as well as those that are only fictional.

In the course of the series, Gabriel visits, among other things, the Florence of the Medici era, attends the last appearance of the Beatles on the roof of a London house, discovers the city of Chronopolis , which is inhabited by the mysterious Fiorella Della Ravenna and her servant Mordecai and outside the Time exists, saves the life of a traveling showwoman (Alexandra "Alex" Damaskinos) in the Wild West, who accompanies him on his travels from now on, meets other time travelers like the scientist David Clinton and the "watchers of the stream of time", the so-called Linear Men. In In the final installment of the series, Gabriel erased himself from history but, due to the extratemporal nature of Chronopolis, continues to exist even though he was never born.