Thread:Tupka217/@comment-24845073-20140726113351/@comment-3419446-20140727124205

Re COIE: Your quote and all other dates in that title (as well as in all Earth-One/New Earth titles for that matter) emphasize the Topical Present Day typical for most comic books. Newspaper dates, time codes, captions, or even word valloons etc. mentioning a specific date more or less concurrent with the publication date are examples of the Topical Present Day (I like that term). Which means that in a 1985 comic book set on Earth-One a flashback to "1983" does not necessarily define the time of said flashback event as 1983 CE, but rather that said event happened "two years" before the story you were reading took place.