Time Masters

    (DC, 1990)
™ and ©1990 DC Comics, Inc.

This mini-series was a post-Crisis on Infinite Earths updating of the Silver Age comic Rip Hunter…Time Master. Co-written by science-fiction novelist Lewis Shiner, it features Rip and his team battling the Illuminati, a centuries-old, ultimate secret society behind any number of conspiracy theories, to prevent an upcoming nuclear war. It includes cameos by other DC universe heroes, including Superman, and the leader of the Illuminati is a long-time DC villain.

While intended to define time travel and its limitations in the post-Crisis universe, many of those aspects were quickly ignored, such as the one-time-trip method of time travel per person. The post-Crisis Rip Hunter had previously appeared in Booster Gold, and there was suspicion that the Linear Man (from Superman and Zero Hour) named Hunter was in fact an older Rip Hunter.
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  • 1
    Feb 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
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    Feb 1990
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  • 2
    Mar 1990
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    Mar 1990
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  • 3
    Apr 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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    Apr 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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  • 4
    May 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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    May 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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  • 5
    Jun 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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    Jun 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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  • 6
    Jul 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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    Jul 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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  • 7
    Aug 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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  • 7/NS
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    Aug 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Time travel
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  • 8
    Sep 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Final issue; Time travel
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    Newsstand Edition with cover by Art Thibert
    Sep 1990
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    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert
    Final issue; Time travel
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  • Bk 1
    Oct 1990
    Cover: $19.99
    W: Bob Wayne, Lewis Shiner  ·  A: Art Thibert, José Marzan Jr., Timothy Truman
    Collects TIme Masters #1-8 and Secret Origins (3rd Series) #43; Inroduction by Geoff Johns; Time travel
    1 copy for $11.50