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1000BC: Whisked back in time from the year 1985AD, the Batman, Geo-Force, Black Lightning, Katana, Metamorpho & Sapphire Stagg land in Egypt in the era of the Priest Ahk-ton. Ahk-ton uses Metamorpho in an attempt to overthrow the Pharaoh Ramses.
BATO #17-18, 
1-2/85
1939AD: Millionaire Bruce Wayne adopts the costumed identity of Batman to wage war on crime to avenge his murdered parents.
Detective Comics #27,
5/39
1965: Adventurer Rex Mason is exposed to radiation from a meteor buried within an Egyptian tomb and is transformed into Metamorpho, the Element Man.
Brave & Bold #57,
1/65
1977: Jefferson Pierce adopts the costumed identity of Black Lightning in order to battle the crime syndicate called the 100.
Black Lightning #1,
5/77
Maseo Yamashiro and his children murdered in Japan. His wife Tatsu survives the attack and takes the identity of Katana to hunt down her family's killers.
BATO #12, 
7/84
1983: Violet Harper is murdered in Markovia by the assassin Syonide.
BATO #20, 
5/85
Batman leaves the JLA in a dispute over a rescue bid for his friend Lucius Fox, who has been kidnapped in the European principality of Markovia. He enlists Black Lightning to assist him, and they encounter Katana & Halo.
Prince Brion of Markovia gains 'Geo-Force powers' as a result of scientific experimentation. He, along with Metamorpho, is apparently killed by revolutionaries commanded by Baron Bedlam. 
Joining forces, the heroes overcome Bedlam and agree to form a team.
BATO #1-2, 8-9/83
The Outsiders establish themselves in Gotham City, with a hq in the Wayne Enterprises building. They battle & defeat terrorist Agent Orange. BATO #3 10/83
The Outsiders prevent a terrorist gang from freeing its leader, Miklos, from custody in Gotham. Brave & Bold #200, 7/83
The Outsiders are tricked into battling escaped convict Meltdown, but save his life & uncover a plot by the prison warden to kill prisoners.  BATO #4, 11/83
When the Fearsome Five kidnaps Dr Jace, the woman who created both Geo-Force & Terra (his sister), the Outsiders team with the New Teen Titans to save her.
New Teen Titans #37 
& BATO #5, 12/83
 vs the Fearsome 5, with the new Teen Titans
1984: The Outsiders battle the Cryonic Man, then team with the JLA to defeat Zeta & the Pantheon.
BATO #6-7, 1-2/84
World's Finest #300, 2/84
 The Phantom Stranger enlists the Outsiders to help stop his old foe, Tannarak.
BATO #8, 3/84
from BATO #9 The Masters of Disaster kidnap Black Lightning to execute him, on a contract from the mother of a bystander who was killed during one of his battles. 

Halo reaches out to the MoD's Windfall.

BATO #9-10, 4-5/84
When Katana's sword, the soultaker, is stolen by an intruder, the Outsiders travel to Japan to help her recover it from the man who murdered her husband and two children ~ her brother-in-law!  During the battle, Batman is wounded by a poison dart.
BATO #11-12,
6-7/84
The Force of July, and ultra-nationalist group, plots to subvert democracy in the US.
BATO Annual #1,
9/84
 Maxie Zeus and the New Olympians take over the 1984 L.A.Olympics.
BATO #14-15,
10-11/84
Bruce Wayne hires P.I. Jason Bard to track down the amnesiac Halo's true identity. She is identified as Violet Harper & returned to her parents ~ but there's more to Violet's past than is immediately apparent! more on Violet Harper
BATO #16,
12/84
When Metamorpho is severely injured by the Orb of Ra, Sapphire Stagg & the Outsiders rush him back to Egypt in the hope that exposure to the meteor which turned him into Metamorpho can revive him. It does ~ but they are all transported back to ancient Egypt, with Metamorpho under the influence of Ahk-ton, a priest plotting to overthrow the Pharaoh.
BATO #16-18,
12/84-2/85
Geo-Force battles Superman when he tries to take revenge on the man who pushed Denise Howard to attempt suicide.
BATO #19,
3/85
1985: Tobias Whale & Syonide kidnap Halo to learn a secret taken to her grave by Violet Harper. Harper is revealed to have been a psychopathic killer, until her apparent death at the hands of Syonide. The Outsiders rescue Halo, but not before Harper's parents are killed by Syonide.
BATO #20,
4/85
Batman brings the Outsiders on board the derelict JLA satellite hq to have Dr Jace run some tests on Halo. The result is the return of Halo's memory ~ and the revelation that she is, in fact, an alien life-form known as an Aurakle who took over the form of Violet Harper after Harper's death. The remaining Aurakles kidnap Halo, but she is rescued by the Outsiders.
BATO #22-23,
6-7/85
Secret Origins 6,
9/86
Halo runs away to come to terms with her new identity and winds up on a commune, which turns out to be a front for Kobra! Kobra assumes that she has been sent by Batman, and sends agents to kill the Outsiders to prevent them from interfering with his plan to seize control of the Star Wars missile defence system and sell it to Russia! detail from cover of BATO 27
BATO #24-27,
8-11/85
Mr IQ turns Alfred Pennyworth back into the Outsider to use in a revenge plot against Batman & Superman. The Outsiders team with Superman to defeat both villians.
DC Comics Presents #83, 7/85
On her wedding day, Sapphire Stagg is kidnapped by an insane rival of her father's, Maxwell Tremayne, who has hired the Masters of Disaster as bodyguards. He uses two of his creations against the Outsiders ~ a chameleon android and a giant robot insect called Mantis.
When bank teller Emily Briggs is kidnapped in front of her friend Tatsu Yamashira, the Outsiders track her kidnappers to the Swiss alps. The trail leads underground, where they encounter Metamorpho, who has become a mindless slave of the underground people known as the Abyssians. The Abyssians have kidnapped Emily to turn her into a consort for their King ~ a 'makeover' which transforms her into Looker!
BATO #28-31,
12/85-3/86
1986: The Outsiders split from Batman when he withholds information about a new crisis in Markovia from Geo-Force in order to keep the Outsiders in Gotham to help him on a case.
BATO #32,
4/86
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 from BATO #32
The Outsiders arrive in Markovia to find it under seige by Baron Bedlam, supported by the Masters of Disaster and the Soviet army, using the Bad Samaritan as attache. Bedlam, cloned after his death in the previous Markovian war, is using Madame Ovary to clone Adoph Hitler! The Outsiders are captured by the MoD, but rescued by Looker, who manages to convince Windfall to change allegiances during the battle. After the battle is won, the Outsiders, except for Looker, agree to become agents of the Markovian Govt. In their new role, the Outsiders re-locate to Los Angeles; Looker makes a last-minute decision to join them, after leaving her husband.
ATO #33-36,
5-8/86
The Outsiders encounter the Marine Marauder during a sea cruise to LA, and establish themselves on their new hq, Station Markovia, a converted oil rig off the coast of California.
ATO #37-38,
9-10/86
As the Outsiders settle in LA, a madman dying of radiation poisoning creates a group of androids (the Nuclear Family) in the image of his dead family in order to destroy LA in a nuclear explosion.
Outsiders #1-2
11-12/85
The Bad Samaritan steals the plates to print US currency and heads back to the Soviet Union with them.  As the Outsiders give chase, they are attacked by the Force of July, who blame them for the theft and accuse them of working with the Samaritan. Tracking the Samaritan to Russia, the teams eventually join forces to win back the plates. Force of July
Outsiders #3-4
1-2/86
The Outsiders pull a 'Christmas Carol' scam on a mobster's accountant to get him to reveal information needed to prosecute the criminal. detail from cover of Outsiders #5
The Duke of Oil, a disembodied brain within a robot body, attempts to kidnap Dr Jace from Station Markovia in an attempt to have his humanity restored. When the Outsiders reveal that he is, in fact, completely robotic, he 'suicides'.
Outsiders #6-7
4-5/86
When his ex-wife is kidnapped back to Africa by the dictator of Mozambia, Black Lightning enlists the Outsiders to rescue her. They are surprised and overwhelmed by a new Russian super-team, the People's Heroes, who, with the Bad Samaritan, are supporting the dictator. Debilitated, they are placed in a labour camp and tortured, until Looker manages to free them. They defeat the People's Heroes and escape the camp, only to have their plane shot down over the sea by the Bad Samaritan as they attempt to return home. Surviving the crash, they are stranded temporarily on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.
Outsiders #9-13
7-11/86
When Looker is framed for murder, the remaining Outsiders track down the real killer.
Blackmailed into stealing US nuclear weaponry, Kobra enlists the aid of his foes, the Outsiders, to overcome the man who is using his twin brother to control him. In the midst of the case, the Outsiders meet up once again with Batman.
The People's Heroes are freed from their captivity on Mozambia by new member Fusion. When they learn that he has become a renegade who wants to destroy the Statue of Liberty and spark a war with the USA, the Russian Govt despatches the People's Heroes to assist the Force of July to stop him. The Outsiders assume both groups to be up to no good and attempt to stop them, but eventually, the three teams join forces to thwart Fusion.
The Firefly, defeated previously by Looker and Halo, returns for revenge against the Outsiders.
Outsiders #16, 2/87
1987: The cult of the People of the Night on the island of Diablo kidnap Dr Bruce Gordon to turn him once more into Eclipso (thought destroyed in Green Lantern #186). Eclipso establishes a permanent eclipse of the sun in order to boost his power, until the Outsiders re-team with Batman to defeat him.
The Masters of Disaster escape their prison in Markovia, and New-Wave makes plans for a new assault on the Outsiders. Ex-member of the MoD Windfall arrives at Station Markovia soon after to warn the Outsiders, and is welcomed into the team. His suspicions aroused, Batman executes an elaborate scheme which saves the Outsiders from New-Wave's trap, when Windfall is revealed as a traitorous clone of the real Windfall. In a tough battle, the MoD are defeated, the clone is killed, and the real Windfall takes her place in the Outsiders.
Kobra creates a new Strike-Force ~ Clayface IV, Zebra-man, the Elemental Woman & Planet-Master to help him take over the Stagg Enterprises laboratories to run an experiment to harness light forces. When the experiment goes wrong, he inadvertantly turns one of his agents into the Spectrumonster.
Strike Force Kobra, Outsiders #21
Under the influence of a renegade 'super-patriot' in the US, the Psycho Pirate, masquerading as Baron Bedlam, takes control of the government of Markovia. It takes the combined forces of the Outsiders and Infinity Inc to overcome the Pirate, especially when the Force of July intervenes to try to stop them.
Outsiders special #1
Infinity Inc special #1,
7-8/87
Fusion returns with a plan to murder the President of the USA. The Outsiders defeat him in a battle at Camp David. Later, the US Govt attempts to detain several of the Outsiders, who are under suspicion despite their success at saving the President.
Outsiders #24-25,
10-11/87
Dr Jace begins work to restore Metamorpho to human form, but appears to have ulterior motives. Gardner Grayle, the Atomic Knight (last seen in DC Comics Presents #57), visits Station Markovia to seek assistance from Dr Jace, but when Major Disaster invades the Outsiders HQ, he joins the Outsiders to defeat the threat. In the ensuing battle, the Station is destroyed, leaving the Outsiders without a headquarters.
Outsiders #25,
11/87
Geo-Force is summoned back to Markovia, where he is framed for the murder of his brother, the king, by Dr Jace! The remaining Outsiders travel to Markovia to free him from prison, but the team is captured by Dr Jace, who reveals herself as an agent of the Manhunters. She uses Metamorpho, whom she gained control of while 'helping' him to return to normal, to defeat the Outsiders, then tries to trap them in the Atomic Knight's dream world of the post-WWIII holocaust. Looker helps them to escape, but in the ensuing battle, both Metamorpho and Dr Jace are killed. Millenium #1, 1/88
Outsiders #26-27,
12/87 - 1/88
Millenium #1, 1/88
Summoned to Abyssia, Looker leads the Outsiders into a trap, set by the Manhunters. In freeing the Abyssians from the grip of the Manhunters, Looker loses her powers and reverts to her original identity of Emily Briggs, while Halo is left comatose. With these blows, and the death of Metamorpho, the remaining Outsiders decide to cease operations.
Millenium #3 & 5,
1&2/88
Outsiders #28,
2/88
1989: When Looker is recorded participating in a bank holdup in Gotham, Batman traces her for an explanation. She suggests that the culprit may have been her one-time impersonator Lady Clayface, then heads to Gotham to assist Batman to take on the Mud Pack... a team of the four Clayfaces. (no explanation at this point of how Looker regained her powers after Outsiders #28)
Detective Comics #604-607,
9-10/89