1:2 ST met Sgt. Rock during WWII in issue SWAMP THING #82.

1:3 ST met Enemy Ace (Hans Von Hammer) in issue SWAMP THING #83.

2:1 The Time Sphere is manned by it's creators: Rip Hunter (first appeared in SHOWCASE #20, 1959) and Jeff Smith. In issue #5 of the 1990 TIME MASTERS series, Rip finds slimy residue on the Time Sphere as a result of this collision. The TIME MASTERS miniseries involves the Holy Grail which is a key element in SWAMP THING #87 and the aborted Jesus story.

4:1 "Manifest Destiny" was the U.S. philosophy of expansion which actually didn't become popular until a decade or two into the 19th century, when Mexico won independence from Spain.

4:2 Gotham is, of course, Batman's city.

4:3 Tomahawk (a.k.a Tom Haukins) and Dan Hunter first appeared in STAR SPANGLED COMICS #69 (1947). In 1953, Tomahawk became a regular in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS. Miss Liberty (a.k.a. Bess Lynn) first appeared in TOMAHAWK #81 (1962). She is an ancestor of the WWII heroine Liberty Belle (Libby Lawrence) of the All-Star Squadron and her speedster daughter Jesse Quick (Jesse Belle Chambers ).

4:4 Quebec was ?????????

6:3 Lord Gerald Shilling first appeared in TOMAHAWK #28 (1954).

7:1 "Stanhope House" is a real blues club in New Jersey.

7:3 Tom's not the only one down on his luck, as we see by the American Indians here.
What's he talking about - Bess' secrets?

7:4 Transvaal was a province in South Africa. Johannesburg was it's largest city.

7:5 "Thorne's House of Glamor" is a reference to Frank Thorne, who was artist on the TOMAHAWK series when Tomahawk's son Hawk was introduced. The TOMAHAWK series was eventually retitled HAWK, SON OF TOMAHAWK..

8:2 Stovepipe (a.k.a. Leroy Johnson) first appeared in TOMAHAWK #97. He often wore a stovepipe hat.

9:4 Jason Blood is the immortal Demon Etrigan.

9:7 Wise Owl first appeared in ALL-STAR WESTERN #2 when he was responsible for giving the paralyzed Lazarus Lane the ability to turn into the athletic hero El Diablo. Wise Owl turned out to be a villain in last issue.

Moon Fawn first appeared in HAWK, SON OF TOMAHAWK #131.

10:4 "dingies" are ?????

13:2 Fleet Street is major street in London, historically famous as the location of many publishers. The legendary Sweeney Todd was the "Demon Barber of Fleet Street".

14:1 This cave under Wayne Manor will obviously become the Batcave. (See Factoid sidebar.)

14:2 Shilling's reference to his "later infirmity" indicates that he doesn't die in this incident.

17:4 "All the world's a stage" is a quote from Shakespeare's play "As You Like It".

19:6 Link to 20:1 "beget a son" / "pregnancy"

20:1 Liz read the book last issue.

20:2 We saw the tent with this sign in issue 81, page 4.

23:1 Grey Wolf previously appeared in 1970's TOMAHAWK #129. There's a story called "Gray Wolf's Revenge" in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #74 from 1955, so that may be his first appearance?
Some Native American tribes referred to themselves as "Human Beings".

23:2 Quartz mineral deposits really exist in the western states (among other places in the world?) and under rare seismic events can produce brief electrical charges.

23:4 Alec Holland did indeed catch a great explosion in ST's origin.

23:6 That meeting was shown in the previous issue.

23:1 Grey Elk first appeared in HAWK, SON OF TOMAHAWK #137.

COMMENT: 1972's HAWK, SON OF TOMAHAWK #137-138 tells how Tomahawk and Moon Fawn fell in love, and thus takes place within the timeframe of this story.

COMMENT: Is Rip Hunter, Time Master related to Dan Hunter? Well, according to Adam "Omega" Arnold:

In the post-crisis timeline, Dan Hunter is Rip's rich cousin who finances Rip's time research after the
Metropolis Research Center booted Rip and Jeff after
a bomb took out their department.  From the events
in the now out of continuity TIME MASTERS mini-series (blame Zero Hour for that) Dan was sent by Rip Hunter to discover some information about the Illuminati (no relation to Marvel Comics' ILLUMINATI) in the year 1770.  During his first mission he meet up with Tomahawk and he ended up falling in love with a Native American girl and refused to return to the present.  The fate of what happened to Dan Hunter was told in Swamp Thing #86 when Tomahawk said that he "died tied to a tree-skinned like a varmint!"

Comment: Issues #82 and beyond have not yet been reprinted in a trade paperback.