Tommy Tomorrow
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| Tommy Tomorrow | |
 Tommy Tomorrow and the Planeteers, art by Lee Elias |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Real Fact Comics #6, (January 1947) |
| Created by | Jack Schiff (writer) George Kashdan (writer) Bernie Breslauer (writer) Virgil Finlay (artist) Howard Sherman (artist) |
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| Team affiliations | Planeteers |
| Abilities | Trained law enforcement officer. |
Tommy Tomorrow was a long-running science fiction hero published by DC Comics in several of their titles from 1947 to 1963. He first appeared in Real Fact Comics #6, (January 1947), he was created by Jack Schiff, George Kashdan, Bernie Breslauer, Virgil Finlay, Howard Sherman.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Tommy Tomorrow, is a Colonel in the Planeteers, a police force in the 21st Century. Meant to be a sort of 'future everyman', he was slowly changed into a future policeman character, and moved to other titles. In these stories, Tommy, assisted by Captain Brent Wood, in their purple with yellow trim uniforms (that included short pants!), flew around the space lanes in their patrol spacecraft "Ace of Space". Most of his stories were written by Otto Binder and drawn by Jim Mooney.
After a short hiatus, Tommy was retooled and appeared in Showcase #41 (1962), but did not get his own series again. This version dropped Captain Wood, giving Tommy an alien from Venus as a partner. Writer Arnold Drake and artist Lee Elias produced this version.
In the aftermath of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, it was shown that the Great Disaster that created Kamandi's world did not happen, and the boy who would have grown up to be Kamandi instead grew up to become Tommy Tomorrow.
Tommy Tomorrow and the Planeteers have not been seen since.
[edit] Other versions
In 1990, an alternate Tommy Tomorrow was a major character in Howard Chaykin's mini-series Twilight, which tried to bring in all of DC future science/space characters into one series (despite the fact that many occurred in different time periods). Because Tomorrow did not know who his parents were, he was unbalanced, and he ran the Planeteers very autocratically, using them against his enemies, such as their rivals, the Knights of the Galaxy.
A young version of Tommy appears in Legion of Superheroes #94, as a regular visitor to the Metropolis Space Museum in an undisclosed time period (but before Booster Gold steals the museum's chronosphere).
According to Starman One Million, one of the historically significant bearers of the Starman name is Tommy Tomorrow II.
[edit] Brief bibliography
He first appeared in short 'stories' in Real Fact Comics #6, 8, 13, 16 (1947-48). He then appeared in Action Comics #127-251 (1948-59), then moved to World's Finest #102-124 (1959-62). Showcase #41, 42, 44, 46, 47 (1962-63),
