El Head Chronology




1871. March-July Head off on the Vengeance Trail
1871 July- August 6, 1874 RYAN'S PSALM. The well deserved if horrible demise of Donegal Ryan.
1871 July "Black Rain" a Hopi folk tale,  
1871 September first part of  "Head Man Tames the Crows" An Apache Folktale.
1872 October "Head Man Breaks the Iron Horse" A Navaho folk tale. El Head wrecks a train trespassing on Navaho lands and obtains some gold being shipped back east.  
1874 April "The Gay Vaqueros Last Fandango" Tale of two ruthless homosexual vaqueros whose rumpage of terror is stopped by El Murceilago, The Bat.
1874  September  DRAW OF THE LUCK  begins. This recounts the merited, if grotesque demise of Davidovich.  
1874 October El Head encounters Emperor Norton in San Francisco.
1874  December "Vengeance of El Diablo Cabeza" (Vengeance of the Devil Head) A Hispanic folktale set in Nevada.  
1874 December "Land Pirates" El Murceilago fights against a fleet of marauders who have shaped their wagons to resemble pirate ships.  
1875 January "Medicine Head Man". An Apache Folk tale  
1875 January DRAW OF THE LUCK  ends
1875 January Davidovich and El Head in Virginia City, Nevada.  
1875 January "Sheik Down in the Desert" A Western tale about a Lost Arabian Prince in the Great American Desert.  
1875 January to October BATTER'S UP! BATTER'S DEAD!! ( The brutal, yet poetic justice of Ross Irving .
1875 February "Caballeros De La Cabeza" (Riders of the Head) A Hispanic folk tale detailing the exploits of the riders of El Head.  
    Publication of the dime novel, Wild Bill and the Horror of Hays City by Ned Buntline, it is most likely the first description of El Head ever printed.
1875 September "El Jefe and the Cabelllo Diablo" (The Head and the Devil Rider) A Hispanic Folktale.
1875 "The Last Conquistadore: A tale of El Murcielago"
1875-1876 January to March 1876. UNMASKED The Unnecessary, but satisfying demise of Bear Marks.
1875 (Months unknown) "El Head and the Morning Star" El Head has some trouble with the Custer boys.  
1875 January ""The Horseless Head Man" A Renegade Headsman steals El Head's Horse and leaves him in the Desert.
1875 April "El Head and the Red Ghost" A Western tale. A camel from the Camel Corps is found and tamed by El Head.
1876 March " El Muerte Dello Murceilago" (The Death of the Bat)  
1876 July "El Head and the Greasy Grass" El Head's Revenge upon the Custer Boys.
1876 Events of "Head of the Game", later made into a Lone Ranger radio serial
1877 Month unknown "Screaming Headlines" One of El Head's Hunters goes renegade and becomes a serial killer. El Head tracks him down.
1877 El Head first meets Billy the Kid.
1877  Shuba-Cabra: A tale of El Head El Head butts heads with an Old One of the Mythos
1877 Ned Buntline published Buffalo Bill trails the Devil Head, a dime novel.
1879 Ghost Horse of the West, a dime novel written by Ned Buntline is published. It concerns Brimstone, El Head's horse.
1880 Late March "Head Busting On the Circle K". El Head acquires the famed Circle K ranch by terrorizing the owners. El Head's Men pose as masked night riders. El Head offers to drive away the marauders by using his Headsmen as a security force.  
1880 May "Circle K Squeeze Out" Once in place El Head's security forces drive Missy Karan and her elderly Father Rance away from the ranch. Missy Karan swears revenge.
1880 Jesse James and the King of Thievesa dime novel is published, it is written by Coleman James. El Head figures prominently in it.
1881 September "El Head and the Brooklyn Cowboy" El Head's encounter with Henry McCarty .
1881 Month Unknown "Head Strong Indians" El Head's ruthless acquisition of land soon ran him against the Indians. El Head was forced to do personal combat with the Hikowa champion, a half German named War Lance Schmiddner. El Head used many advanced technological tricks to defeat his foe  
1882 April "Broken Arrow Head Man" A Hopi folk tale. El Head recovers in a Hopi pueblo after receiving an arrow through his skull.
1882 Month unknown "El Head's Stones" Upon acquiring the Circle K, El Head becomes a ruthless land baron, acquiring ever increasing plots of land, usually by terrorism and forced buy outs. He becomes a law unto himself and spends much of his time tinkering with various and sundry inventions.  
1883 Month Unknown "Head Full of Steam" Details El Head's most inventive period, including his improvements on the Babbage Analytical Engine and a steam driven automobile  
1884 Month Unknown "Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Dracula, The Hunchback and El Head Share a Campfire One Night in Arizona.
1884 Month unknown "El Head and the High Yellow Rots of Texas or the Zombie King from Down Galveston Way."  
1886-April  second part of "Head Man Tames the Crows" An Apache Folktale.
1886 May "Body Thief Revenge" An Apache Folk tale. While experimenting with refrigeration, El Head has his body stolen. He uses ruthless means to recover it. El Head's downfall in the late eighties is attributed to the thievery of his body which weakened him considerably, although most of it was recovered.
1887 El Head travels with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show in Europe.
1888 Months Unknown "Shrinking Head Hunters" Head's Hunters begin deserting him and finding other employment.
1888 Months Unknown."Fight For the Head Lands" El Head is ousted from the Circle K by a band of Marshals at the behest of Missy Karan.
1889 Months Unknown." A Hundred Bucks A Head" El Head flees from bounty hunters among which are many former Head Hunters.
1889 Months Unknown." A Price on the Head" El Head the fugitive.
1889 Months Unknown. "Head Hunter" The story of one persistent bounty hunter one of El Head's top Hunters  
1890 Months Unknown "Fuego Lagarto y El Jefe" A Hispanic folktale. This is the final El Head story according to his chronicler Lizard Boy. El Head apparently finds some method of destroying himself but as is later revealed the death scene was an illusion created by El Head. His reason was to cut ties with Lizard Boy so that Dio could have a chance at a normal life  
1896 The Newest Testament turns up in the possession of serial killer H.H. Holmes of Chicago. Book is sent to Vatican.
1899 Billy the Kid and the Western Ghost, a dime novel by Dustine Rhodes is published.
1899 El Head leaves the United States on a troop ship bound for the Philippines.
1900 August "The Bugle Crows Thrice"
1900 Pirates and Barons: A Tale of El Murceilago a dime novel by Dustine Rhodes is published.
1901Western Justice: A Tale of El Muceilago, a dime novel by Dustine Rhodes is published.
1902 Months Unknown "Second Louis Blues" El Head takes control of a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army stationed in the Philippines. This Second Lieutenant one day becomes Army Chief of Staff and President of the United States.
1902 Brimstone and Thunder, A Tale of El Head a dime novel by Dustine Rhodes is published.
1902 Devil's Workshop, A Tale of El Head a dime novel by Dustine Rhodes is published.
1903 Lost Dutchman, El Head and the Mystery Mine a dime novel by Dustine Rhodes is published.
1913 Months Unknown "El Head, King of the Jungle" El Head has a run in with a man claiming to be the Lord of the Jungle.
1916 British secret weapon, known as Skunk Man haunts the German trenches of the Great War. He emits a deadly gas that kills or maims its victims. It rare cases it also activates a victim's Curie factor.
1918 Adolf Hitler is gassed by the Skunk Man. His Curie factor is activated.
1920 Months Unknown "Piracy, Head Hunting and other Recreations."  
1923 Word famous scientist, Marie Cure is discovered to have been turned into a vampire by radiation and has been living as the Vampire Queen of Paris, since her supposed death.
1925 "Devil Head Blues" a blues song by Lightning Hopkins is first performed.
1926  Murder rampage of  Earle Leonard begins. He is known as the Gorilla Killer for his habit of shape shifting into the form of a gorilla prior to killing.
1933 June  "A Head of the Game"A Month long episode about El Head appears on the Lone Ranger Radio program.
1935 General Douglas MacArthur forms Company X, a covert armed forces unit that acts as law enforcement, espionage and sabotage units. It is made up of superpowered mutants.
1936 Pope sends Newest Testament to Germany to aid in fight against Communism
1937 Monogram studios releases Devil of the West a film based on the Legends of El Head.
1944 Fall of Berlin, Newest Testament ends up in the hands of Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's right hand man.
1944 August"Diablo Cabeza"Three day episode concerning El Head appears on the Zorro Radio program.
1945 August "El Head, the Bugle Man, the Little Boy and the Big Lizard"
1945 Eagle-Lion Studio begins filming the serial Phantom Head of the West but it is never finished. Quaker Oats El Head Bowl  premium is distributed at theatres for other Eagle-Lion westerns.
1946 1100 Quaker Oats El Head Bowls distributed to Japanese War Orphans.
1947 Rough Riding Tom and the Head of Havana Crime. Two week storyline on the Tom Mix Radio program.
1950 Colony of giant mutated ants discovered in Sonoran Desert of California. Incidents later used in film Them!
1951 This was the year of giant mutant creatures, some blamed the continuous atomic testing in the U.S desert and the Marshall Islands. But the U.S. had an outbreak of giant grasshoppers, giant black scorpions, several giant tarantulas, two giant preying Mantis and swarms of giant wasps and moths. These incidents were dramatized for various films.
1953 Tokyo City is destroyed by a radioactive dinosaur known as Gojiro or as the American press dubbed  it Godzilla.
1954 Matteo Toys produces 1500 copies of the El Head Board Game, it is not a success.
          Ed Gein, the supervillian known as the Necromancer begins his first foray into crime in the Milwaukee area. Assuming the guises of recently dead men and women for a various of nefarious purposes.
    Film Godzilla is released with actual footage from the destruction of Tokyo.
1955 Fall of Stalin. Newest Testament locked away as a religious artifact.
1961 Expatriate American Lee Oswald acquires the Newest Testament and brings it to America.
1967  Actor who had bought the Newest Testament from Marina Oswald is  killed by male prostitutes. Newest testament is found among his possessions.
1967 A Price on the Head, first of a film trilogy starring Burt Lancaster as El Head is released.
1968 Head Hunters of the West, second of a film trilogy starring Burt Lancaster as El Head is released
1968 Charles Manson and members of the Satanic cult named the Process, make thirteen copies of the Newest Testament and then divide the Newest Testament  into thirteen segments, each becoming one of the chapters in the thirteen copies.
1969 The Vengeance of El Head, third of a film trilogy starring Burt Lancaster as El Head is released.
1970 El Diablo Cabeza Contra Lo Faz Dello Demonio A Lucha Libra El Head tale
1973 El Head and Lizard Boy a film by Francis Ford Coppola is released
1974  Having been diagnosed with a activated Curie Factor, Alejando Fuerte, creator of the El Head Board game commits suicide.
1977 New York's reign of terror ended when the Son of Don killer, David Berkowitz is apprehended. He had in his possession one of the thirteen copies of the Newest Testament.
    Incident at Three Mile Island, Harrisberg PA.
1977 Demons and Desperadoes, David Lynch's ten hour film epic of El Head is released theatrically at 2 hours.
1979 Newest Testament, a theme album by Aphrodite's Child is released
1980 Weird, Weird, West a film by Wes Craven is released
1985  Edward Gein, the Necromancer is destroyed in atomic fire by the Superhero the Stove.
1986 April 26,  Chernobyl
1989-1992 Dahmer, the Zombie King terrorizes the midwest.
1994  The Memoirs of Paul Crane, the Notorious El Head are discovered in a  safe in Stout, Colorado
1995 After initial release of some of the El Head memoirs, Dr. Hermann Blodgett, releases a patient's interview that relates she had met and witnesses the destruction of El Head at Hiroshima.

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