Tommy Tomorrow
Tommy Tomorrow is a male comic superhero who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Tommy Tomorrow was a young orphan raised in a space orphanage located in a domed city on an asteroid. From a young age he showed scientific ingenuity and was a prodigy at inventing things. Supergirl, a hero from the past, was training using her powers, and broke through the time-barrier, ending up in the 21st Century. She witnessed a U.S. space probe from her own time crash through the asteroid city’s glass dome, and used her heat-vision to repair the damage. She flew to Tommy’s orphanage to save the kids from the falling probe, but Tommy used his latest invention, an anti-gravity gun, to deflect it. Supergirl had the misfortune to wander near a kryptonite meteor, and as it sapped her powers she collapsed into a nearby bush. Tommy took his friend Jik out to show him more of his latest inventions, and he used a changer ray to turn the kryptonite into ice, unwittingly saving Supergirl’s life. Supergirl was grateful and wanted to repay Tommy so she flew overhead, observing the boys. They ran into a large beast of prey, but Tommy handled it with a hypno-gun, and when they wandered into quicksand Tommy extricated them with his sky hook, and Supergirl realized she didn’t need to save Tommy, who was great at getting himself into and out of danger. The headmaster of the orphanage told Tommy a famous scientist and his wife wanted to adopt the boy with the best scientific mind, and he’d recommended Tommy. The orphan was overjoyed, and Supergirl finally got to pay him back by saving the scientist and his wife, whose ship had gotten trapped in a cluster of mirror meteors. Tommy was overjoyed to meet his adoptive parents, and took their last name as Tommy Tomorrow. Supergirl returned to her own time to write about meeting Tommy tomorrow in her diary. (Action Comics v1 #255)
Space bandit Dark Starr and his crew hijacked the ship of ad writer Al Todd, and had him change the wording of an asteroid billboard to direct people looking for spacecraft service to the Green Asteroid, the base of the bandits. Starr froze Todd solid with a gun so he could not rat him out to the Planeteers, and returned to the Green Asteroid, waiting to rob anyone coming looking to service their craft. Tommy Tomorrow and Captain Brent Wood found Todd's frozen body, and brought him to the hospital, but had no idea why he was attacked. Tommy carried out Todd's other signwriting missions, using a vacuum to make an ad in Saturn's rings and forming asteroids into a lettered ad among other assignments. He realized Al's add used red spray meant for other ads on the billboard for the Green Asteroid, and deduced Dark Starr's scheme. He found the space bandit camp and rounded them up. (Action Comics v1 #226) Tommy and his commandant went over the latest batch of Planeteer recruits, and were greeted by Jerry Hale, the first woman to apply. The commandant said he wouldn't stand for it, but she pointed out that there was nothing in the Planeteers charter that said women couldn't join, and the commandant admitted he never thought any would apply. Tommy took her on the Planeteer test flight to gauge her skills, and she effortlessly made her way past space icicles, a space mirage, a space hurricane and an electric rainbow, among other obstacles. They landed on the asteroid Little Earth at the end of the course, and Tommy said she'd passed with flying colors. She admitted that she wasn't really interested in being a Planeteer. Her father ran a space ferry from Earth to Little Earth, and she learned to fly from him. She only went on the recruitment drive to reach Little Earth to retrieve a valuable cargo her father once had to dump when his engine failed. Tommy helped her retrieve the treasure, undoing the only blemish on her father's records. Her performance changed the commandant's mind about women, and he decided to start a Girls' Corps of Planeteers, while Tommy found he could not get Jerry out of his head. (Action Comics v1 #227)
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Tommy Tomorrow was created by Jack Schiff, George Kashdan, Bernie Breslauer, Virgil Finlay, and Howard Sherman where he made his first appearance in Real Fact Comics v1 #6 (January, 1947).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Real Fact Comics v1: (1947)
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