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4 unusual facts about Zero Hour


Arthur Hailey

This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour!, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight (ISBN 0-440-17546-1).

Flight into Danger

In 1957, it was adapted into the feature film Zero Hour! and, more famously, parodied in the 1980 comedy, Airplane!.

Zero Hour: Crisis in Time

Finally, contributing to a plot point not fully explored in Batman: Year Three, Dick Grayson was legally adopted by Wayne.

In this version, Batman never caught or confronted the killer of his parents (thus rendering Batman: Year Two non-canonical), and more importantly, Batman was thought of as being an urban legend.


Gilda Dent

Due to the success of The Long Halloween, the events of the story have generally been accepted into continuity as the "official" story of Batman's early years, given that Zero Hour retconned the events of Batman: Year Two and rendered them non-canonical.

Micro Lad

This version of Micro Lad was originally part of the pre-Zero Hour DC Universe but is now known also to be part of the main continuity/main Earth in the current DC Multiverse.

Terror in the Sky

Terror in the Sky is a low budget 1971 television movie remake of 1957's Zero Hour!, which itself was based on the 1956 television play Flight into Danger.

Timestream

The timestream was mainly used by Waverider during Armageddon 2001, Death of Superman, and Zero Hour events.


see also

Beat Records

The Plimsouls- Zero Hour E.P.- Great Big World/Zero Hour/Hypnotized/How Long Will It Take?

Fiona Bloom

After working at EMI, Bloom served as the Director of Media Relations at Zero Hour Records, where she was the Director of Media Relations, publicizing artists such as alternative rockers Varnaline and Swervedriver, experimental rockers Space Needle band and Notwist, songwriter Steve Wynn, and John Wesley Harding.

Resident Evil: Zero Hour

Resident Evil: Zero Hour is the novelization of the game 2002 Resident Evil Zero published in 2004 by S. D. Perry.

Sun-Eater

This led into the Sun-Eater's first post-Zero Hour appearance, in the Final Night miniseries (1997) (set in the present day, rather than the Legion's future).

Vincent Calvino

The third novel in the Vincent Calvino series Zero Hour in Phnom Pehn (original Cut Out) won the 3rd place of 2004 German Critics Award for Crime Fiction (Deutscher Krimi Preis) in the international crime fiction category.

Zero-hour contract

90% of McDonald's workforce in the UK - 82,000 staff members - are employed on a zero-hour contract.