(Detective Comics I #349) - Elongated Man went on vacation with Sue in Vermont, and he looked forward to fishing in Lake Cherokee. He was distressed when Sue said she was joining him, and debuted a fashion plate lady angler outfit. They found the lake bone dry, but when Ralph saw a man fishing in the dry lake his nose twitched, sensing a good mystery. Sue knew she was out of her element, and left for town. Ralph saw that the man was fishing with a magnet, and snagged something. Ralph followed the man to the old Ewell house, where he knocked out a caretaker, and used the key he fished out of the lake to open the grandfather clock, that led to a secret room. Elongated Man followed, and was subjected to a beating from spring-loaded boxing gloves, the deceased Ewell's idea of a security system. When he recovered he followed the crooks tire tracks to a rented cabin. The criminal, Chuck, was explaining to his old gang that he first learned of Ewell's treasures and security system when he was busted for trying to rob the place, but with the clock key he pulled off the robbery untouched. Elongated Man had heard enough, and used his fantastic powers to make short work of the gang. Ralph returned to his cabin, and Sue announced that tired or not, he was going with her to Lake Indian Head. She'd asked the locals, and it had good fishing. Ralph still wasn't sure he liked his wife sharing his interests.

(Detective Comics I #360) - Elongated Man was invited to put on a performance for the Queen, and traveled to London with Sue. Mysteriously Big Ben started running backwards, and Sue told him he could investigate his little mystery, but he'd better not be late for his audience with the Queen. Ralph stretched up to Big Ben, and found it had been tampered with by a gang of British mods. Ralph defeated them, and handed them over to the police. He deduced that they were in competition with their arch-rivals the Rockers to pull off outrageous stunts. He knew the Rockers would target another landmark, and he found them raising London Bridge during rush hour. The Rockers proved better opponents than the mods, but Ralph defeated them with minutes to spare before his performance. His royal show was a hit, and Sue was proud of him for holding back on his "comedy" and acting like a gentleman around the Queen.

(Detective Comics I #372) - Elongated Man and Sue were out for a drive when they saw a young man carrying around a horse on his shoulders. Ralph was intrigued, and wanted to know if a mystery was afoot. The man Sam Sonntag dreamed of being a strongman, and had built up his muscles carrying his horse, building more mass over the years as the horse grew larger. Ralph and Sue told him they'd cheer him on at the county fair. He won the strongman contest, and afterward Ralph saw a criminal pickpocket his prize money. Ralph caught the crook, who let it slip that his gang had something big planned that night. Sam was hired as a strongman for the fair, and that night he was working out with dumbbells when the rest of the gang attacked him. They tried to steal the dumbbells, using man-amplifier suits so they could carry the great weight. Ralph and Sam teamed up to stop them, and discovered that the weights had valuable jewelry hidden in them, clearly illegally gotten.

(Detective Comics I #382) - Elongated Man stopped two robbers with the 'assistance' of Elongated Kid Billy Warner. Sue and Elongated Man paid a visit to the Warners and learned that Billy had been receiving gifts every day of the week. Billy said he's gotten a magic coin from a guru that let him make wishes, but Elongated Man found that it was bugged. Thieves were listening to Billy's conversations with his gem-cutter grandfather Fred Warner and stole the Star of Calcutta diamond he'd been working on. Elongated Man pursued them, and almost captured them, but Billy was following him, and the thieves took the opportunity to knock the hero silly with a tree branch and make good their escape.

(Flash II #224) - Elongated Man pursued Captain Boomerang after the villain had committed a robbery. The time-traveling Flash Wally West and Zoom were battling through the timestream, and a bolt of energy from the cosmic treadmill they were riding struck Boomerang, causing him to disappear into the future.

(DC Comics Presents #21) - Elongated Man and Sue were driving through New England to visit Sue’s mother. They stopped in Stevenson, CT, where Elongated Man saved a group of children from a runaway truck. He signed autographs for the children, but was confused as to why no adults were interested in his heroics. Sue said he was just being vain. He insisted it was a mystery, and Sue insisted that they were on vacation. Elongated Man snooped around town and uncovered an alien plot to overrun Earth by a group working for the Master, who infected humans with their DNA causing the human race to assimilate with them. Elongated Man confronted the aliens, but they infected him, and when he returned to his hotel he found that hi wife hd already succumbed to the alien DNA. A raving and ill Elongated Man went to Metropolis and waited for Superman in Clark Kent’s office. Fearing an alien disease, he took Elongated Man to his Fortress of Solitude to isolate the contagion. Elongated Man, mad with sickness, went berserk and tried to destroy the Fortress, but Superman restrained him. Superman took Elongated Man to hi medi-chamber and cured him, and the recovered hero told his story. Superman watched news broadcasts from his Fortress, and saw that the alien plot was well underway. The heroes went to Stevenson, and defeated the aliens, and Superman found that the Gingold in Elongated Man’s body made him immune to the alien virus. After synthesizing the element in Gingold that acted as a cure he promised Elongated Man they’d track down the Masters.

(Identity Crisis #2 (fb)) - Elongated man and the JLA defeated Hector Hammond, and then received a distress call from Sue Dibny from the JLA satellite. They found Sue being savaged by Dr. Light and quickly defeated him. Elongated Man comforted Sue and took her to the hospital, while the rest of the JLofA made the decision to mindwipe Dr. Light to make him relatively harmless.

(Justice League of America I #117) - Hawkman applied for readmission into the JlofA, and Elongated Man and the other Leaguers unanimously voted yes.

Elongated Masn (Justice League of America I #118, 119) - Hawkman hit the JlofaA emergency signal when the Adaptoids targeted Earth, but Elongated Man was unable to respond. When the Adaptoids decided that the entire human race was viral, spreading too fast and destroying the planet Earth, they promised to exterminate the human race to save the planet, and broadcast their intentions on a TV transmission. Batman, Atom, Elongated Man and Green Arrow tried to defeat hem, but were bested and teleported back to the JlofA satellite alongside their fellow beaten Leaguers. The Adaptoids started toppling world governments when Hawkman arrived from Thanagar, along with Hawkgirl, and teleported the Adaptoids to their satellite. The League questioned his motivations, but his plan soon became clear. Hawkgirl’s Equalizer Disease that made everyone around her equal gave the JlofA the edge over the aliens, enabling them to defeat the Adaptoids and imprison them on an abandoned planet halfway between Earth and Thanagar. Thwe Adaptoids settled into their new home, building cities and prospering, while Hawkman and Hawkgirl vowed to monitor them.

(Justice League of America I #127) - The Anarchist kidnapped several world leaders in the name of bringing chaos to the world’s governments, and challenged the JlofA to stop him from kidnapping a group oif U.N. delegates. Superman, Green Arrow, Flash and Red Tornado responded, but the Anarchist and his cronies fought them to a standstill and snatched the delegates, leaving the U.N. furious with the Justice League. Clark Kent covered a performance by Simon Elis, faith-healer, and was convinced that he was the Anarchist. The JlofA followed Elias, but he foiled them with a burst of energy, and managed to teleport away with League members Batman, Black Canaery and Elongated Man. Green Lantern told Superman that someone was mind-controlling him, forcing him to recharge his power ring and siphoning off the energy, and they deduced that the Anarchist was the culprit. The next time the Anarchist tried to make GL recharge, GL convinced Superman to knock him out with a punch. The JlofA tracked down the Anarchist, and he revealed that he was using Green Lantern’s powers and creating chaos so that he could restore the world order as Simon Elis and become a dictator. Without GL’s power to draw off, the Anarchist and his cronies were easy pickings for the League.

(Swamp Thing II #46) - Elongated Man was among the number of heroes teleported to the Monitor’s satellite by Alexander Luthor, Jr., who explained his plan to make sure reality survived the Crisis.

(Green Lantern III #25) - Elongated Man and the Justice League were on hand to watch Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner battle to determine who'd become Earth's one Green Lantern. The League initially wanted to interfere, but the Green Lantern Corps held them back, saying the fight was necessary Corps business. Hal won, and the Justice League rejoiced.

(Green Lantern III #30, Flash II #69) - Elongated Man and the JLE moved their possessions into the JLE's new headquarters.

(Adventures of Superman #442) - Superman contacted Elongated Man, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman and Captain Marvel after his powers were stolen by Psi-Phon and Dreadnaught, a pair of alien invaders. They stole the powers of Elongated Man and the others, but the amount of energy it took overloaded them and they surrendered.

(Green Arrow III #16 (fb)) - Elongated Man and Sue attended Oliver Queen's funeral.

(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Elongated Man was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan.

(JLA #27) - Elongated Man was called in as a JLA reservist to battle Amazo. Amazo was programmed to acquire the powers of the JLA, so when Elongated Man and a number of other heroes temporarily joined the JLA to battle him it just made Amazo more powerful. Amazo decimated the JLA reservist, and was only defeated when Superman officially disbanded the JLA, leaving Amazo powerless.

(JLA #38-40) - Elongated Man stopped the Royal Flush Gang from detonating a cobalt bomb in Washington. He was then summoned by the JLA, along with a number of other superheroes, to quell worldwide outbreaks of warfare that were incited by Mageddon.

(Flash II #208, 209) - Elongated Man and the JLA summoned Flash to the JLA Watchtower, demanding to know why they no longer remembered his secret identity. He initially refused to talk to team, and ran away, but after Superman talked to him he returned. He revealed that the Spectre erased the world’s knowledge of his secret identity to protect his family, but he was ready to reveal himself as Wally West to his friends.

(Identity Crisis #1-3) - Sue sent Elongated Man out of the house so she could plan his “birthday mystery.” Elongated Man went on stakeout with Firehawk, waiting for small-time hoods Benny Addison and Trey Williams to sell Lex Luthor’s battle armor to Bolt. While they waited Firehawk asked Elongated Man about how he met his wife. After some fond reminiscing they had to go into action when the hoods deal with Bolt went bad and they shot the villain. Elongated Man got a panicked call from Sue, and demanded Firehawk fly him home. He found his wife brutally murdered, and two days later he was at her funeral. He tried to give a eulogy, but instead broke down in tears. Afterwards Green Arrow, Hawkman, Black Canary, Zatanna, Atom, and Elongated Man, the surviving Satellite Era JLA, met in a private chapel. They believed Sue’s murderer was Dr. Light, the man who savaged Sue years before. Flash and Green Lantern noticed they’d stayed behind and overheard their conversation, so they told the story of what D r. Lightd id to Sue. Elongated Man learned that after he went to the hospital with Sue the other JLAers magically lobotomized him to make him a minimal threat. They confronted Dr. Light, but he was prepared for them, he’d hired Deathstroke as a bodyguard. They fought, and Dr. Light’s memories of what the JLA did to him returned. He unleashed his powers on the heroes, striking them unconscious, and fled. Superman wanted to know why they were pursuing Light, and Flash told him Elongated Man had a run-in with him years back, but didn’t give details.

(Identity Crisis #4) - Elongated Man got a call about his wife’s life insurance policy, but he didn’t answer it because he was too depressed.

(Identity Crisis #6) - Elongated Man learned of the death of Jack Drake, Robin’s father, and continued mourning Sue.

(Identity Crisis #7) - Elongated Man learned that Jean Loring had killed Sue in an attempt to bring her ex-husband Atom back to her. He went to see Jean in Arkham Asylum to get closure but she was too medicated to talk to him. Following Green Arrow’s advice he started talking to Sue, positive that wherever she was she could hear him.

(JLA #115-117) - Despero restored the memories of former Secret Society of Super-Villains members Wizard, Chronos, Felix Faust, Floronic Man, Matter Master and Star Sapphire, who’d been mind-wiped years ago by the JLA after learning the secret identities of the heroes. They sought vengeance on the JLA for tampering with their minds, first picking off Red Tornado in Happy Harbor and Ralph Dibny in Opal City. This got the JLA’s attention, and they defeated the JLA and then confronted Batman, presenting him with the unconscious bodies of the JLA. The JLA revived, and the villains chose to retreat. The JLA confessed to Batman, but he already knew they’d manipulated his mind. He was in a rage and decked Hawkman, who was very much behind all the JLA’s actions. The JLA presumed that the former Society members who had their minds intact remembered their secret identities, and went to look in on their loved ones.