Zero Hour

"Crisis in Time"

Cover Date September 1994

Issue #0

Pages 32

Type Cameo

Cover Price $1.50

Featured Character Hans von Hammer

Synopsis

Because the book is structured as a chronological countdown tracking the literal collapse of the spacetime continuum, it utilizes massive, highly detailed multi-character crowd sequences to illustrate the unravelling of history. Enemy Ace is featured inside a massive, silent two-page panoramic splash spread summarizing the temporal convergence of Earth's greatest warriors. Hans von Hammer is illustrated directly alongside a sprawling gathering of DC's historical, non-superhero properties, sharing the catastrophic visual landscape with Sgt. Rock, Easy Company, Jonah Hex, Tomahawk, and the Blackhawk squadron.

Collector Notes

The narrative layout explicitly uses his presence as a wordless, non-speaking visual baseline to establish that his distinct era of history was being pulled into the cross-generational entropy wave. Dan Jurgens's rendering of von Hammer in his classic, fur-lined leather flight gear and stoic expression stands as a significant historical crossover marker, proving that even during reality-rebuilding science-fiction events, DC's editorial architecture continuously honored the structural legacy of the "Hammer of Hell" within core canon.

Creative Team

Writer Dan Jurgens

Penciler Dan Jurgens

Inker Jerry Ordway

Colorist Gregory Wright

Letterer Gaspar Saladino