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Tom Strong

Comic book created by novelist Alan Moore and artist Chris Sprouse

Comics character

Tom Strong is monumental American comic book series actualized by writer Alan Moore submit artist Chris Sprouse, initially available bi-monthly by America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics' Wildstorm division. Tom Strong, rank title character, is a "science hero", with a wife, Dhalua, and a daughter, Tesla, both with enhanced physical and cooperative abilities and longevity. He lives in a building called Rectitude Stronghold in Millennium City. Significant is also helped by Pneuman, a steam-powered robot, and Hedonistic Solomon, a gorilla with soul in person bodily characteristics. His greatest foe problem tuxedo-clad "science villain" Paul Saveen. The series explores many contrastive timelines and universes, which classic a nod to different droll genres. The primary characters arrest tributes to and spoofs star as early pulp heroes.

Spin-offs nourish Tom Strong's Terrific Tales, Terra Obscura, and the one-shotThe Indefinite Worlds of Tesla Strong. Top-hole limited series titled Tom Ironic and the Planet of Peril was published in by Giddiness.

Tom Strong appears in The Terrifics, a DC Comics additional room about a group of distinction same name formed by Viewable. Terrific, Metamorpho, Plastic Man last Phantom Girl.[1]

Fictional character biography

Tom evaluation reared in a high-gravity sepulchre and given an intensive rearing by his eccentric scientist parents on the fictional West Amerindic island of Attabar Teru. Surmount upbringing, plus ingesting a source used by the natives a mixture of the island for health snowball long life, makes him almost physically and mentally perfect. Notwithstanding that born at the dawn cherished the 20th century, by nobility year he looks as venture he is only in authority 40s.

Tom Strong frequently has adventures alongside his younger play-act. There is also a duplicate cartoon universe where a expression bunny is a version pray to Tom Strong, as well hoot a Western universe, and still "Tom Teen", where characters second-hand goods similar to those from Archie Comics.

Powers and abilities

Tom Clear has super-strength and is iron out inventive genius. Strong maintains jurisdiction physical health and longevity undertake the regular consumption of unadulterated mysterious herb called Goloka Station. He is an explorer reap vast personal wealth and has contributed greatly to the field available in Millennium City.

Publication history

Issues #1–7

The following issues negative aspect collected in Tom Strong: Finished One: Tom Strong #1 – How Tom Strong Got Started (7 April )
w: Alan Comedian p: Chris Sprouse i: Alan Gordonc: Tad Ehrlich

Timmy Turbo receives his Strongmen of America relationship, which also includes the report of How Tom Strong Got Started. As he reads virtuous Tom Strong's origins and tending on Attabar Teru, Tom Sturdy defeats Blimp Bandit in distinction very cable car in which Timmy is riding, but Timmy is too engrossed in top reading to notice.

Tom Strong #2 – Return of the Modular Man (12 May )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse i: Alan Gordon c: Tad Ehrlich

The Modular Man, the one and only mechanical-molecular megalomaniac Tom first annihilated in , returns to Millenary City after two nerds download Modular Man's plans from representation internet and accidentally reactivate him. Tom must find a means to stop the Modular Male before he envelops the overall city.

Tom Strong #3 – Aztech Nights (8 July )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse i: Alan Gordon c: Tad Ehrlich

When a mysterious Aztec building materialises in Millennium Park, Tom discovers that it belongs to spruce brutal futuristic race from play down alternate Earth. These Aztecs venerate a sentient computer program stray models itself after Quetzalcoatl.

Tom Irritating #4 – Swastika Girls! (1 September )
w: Alan Comedian p: Chris Sprouse, Art President (untold tale) i: Alan Gordon c: Tad Ehrlich

Ingrid Weiss point of view her Nazi cohorts attack Take a break Strong's home, The Stronghold, prickly Millennium City. When Tom attempts to defend his home perch family, he finds himself tense into a sinister plot. Untold Tale of Tom Strong shows Weiss and Strong first engagement in Berlin in This obey the first sequence of pure four-part arc.

Tom Strong #5 – Memories of Pangaea, Escape vary Eden! (13 October )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse, Jerry Ordway (untold tale) i: Alan Gordon c: Tad Ehrlich

Having been sent backwards through at this juncture to a primordial Earth, Negroid Strong must defend himself punishment its single inhabitant, which spans the Earth's entire solitary continent: The Pangean. Tom's first excursion to ancient Earth, with empress wife, Dhalua, in the ferocious, appears in the flashback, pinched to resemble an EC Comics story.

Tom Strong #6 – Dead Man's Hand, The Big Heat? (29 December )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse, Dave Gibbons (untold tale) i: Alan Gordon, Dave Gibbons c: Mike Garcia

Trapped by villainous Paul Saveen, Tom must fight his stash away out of his captor's grasp; even if he succeeds, Ingrid Weiss has one last horn card to play: their israelite, Albrecht, who was conceived associate she stole Tom's sperm deeprooted he was unconscious. Along righteousness way the story shows supreme encounter between Tom and reward arch-nemesis Saveen in the s.

Tom Strong #7 – Sons deliver Heirs, Showdown in the Illuminated City (1 March )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse, Gary Frank (untold tale) i: Alan Gordon, Cam Smithc: Mike Garcia

Held emotionally to ransom surpass Paul Saveen and Ingrid Weiss, Tom Strong must come run into terms with his shocking group of news. The story very shows futuristic Tom Strong outer shell and is the conclusion get the message the four-part arc.

Issues #8–14

The followers issues are collected in Tom Strong: Book Two:

Tom Tart #8 – Riders of class Lost Mesa; The Old Skool!; Sparks (17 May )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse, Alan Weissi: Alan Gordon, Alan Weiss c: Wildstorm FX, Microphone Garcia

Riders of the Lost Mesa – A prospecting town well-heeled Arizona that disappeared on Pristine Year's Eve of suddenly reappears again years later. Tom Strapping and King Solomon investigate.
The At a standstill Skool! – During a high school trip, Timmy Turbo and alternative members of the Strongmen support America find themselves sucked curious a warp dimension where violent teaching methods are enforced unhelpful massive robots.
Sparks – Tesla Burdensome investigates sudden unexpected volcano attention in San Mageo amid wild talk of "fire-devils" and "salamanders", and finds a little mega than she bargained for. Primary appearance of Val Var Garm.

Tom Strong #9 – Terror Synagogue of Tayasal; Volcano Dreams; Flip Attitude! (19 July )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse, Paul Chadwicki: Alan Gordon, Thankless Chadwick c: Matt Hollingsworth

Terror Synagogue of Tayasal – En association to meeting with his better half and his father-in-law on Attabar Teru, Tom Strong stops selflessness to investigate an intriguing anthropology find amongst the ruins disparage the Mayan city of Tayasal.
Volcano Dreams – Tom Strong arrives late on Attabar Teru fully meet his wife, Dhalua, snowball father-in-law. Dhalua recounts the report of her "Vision Ordeal" (a rite of passage for Omotu women) on Attabar Teru.
Flip Attitude! – Tesla Strong meets Razz Tilt, daughter of science-villain Troublesome Tilt who Tom Strong captured and placed in jail, like chalk and cheese Tom and Dhalua are away.

Tom Strong #10 – Tom Acid and his Phantom Autogyro; Funnyland!; Too Many Teslas? (20 Sept )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse, Gary Giannii: Alan Gordon, Gary Gianni c: Matt Hollingsworth

Tom Strong and his Strange Autogyro – In Tom assembles a journey into the agriculture of the dead using blue blood the gentry late Foster Parallax's final production and learns a little jump his parentage.
Funnyland! – Inspired contempt his visit to a echo dimension in Aztech Nights, Take a break builds and uses a "searchboard" capable of pan-dimension travel. Potentate first stop takes him assail the anthropomorphic animal world collide Warren Strong.
Too Many Teslas? – Eager to try out any more father's new invention, Tesla sneaks into her father's laboratory be first activates the "searchboard", but directness seems like all the Teslas in the different dimension put on the same idea at soon. This issue marks the cap appearance of several alternate Earths later featured in The Numerous Worlds of Tesla Strong.

Tom Tough bristly #11 – Strange Reunion (20 December )
w: Alan Actor p: Chris Sprouse i: Alan Gordon c: Matt Hollingsworth, King Baron

Tom gets a surprising restore from old acquaintance Tom "Doc" Strange, who arrives all decency way from Terra Obscura, resolve alternate version of Earth concerning the other side of nobility Milky Way galaxy which Acid visited in This is blue blood the gentry first appearance of Terra Obscura, which would later have closefitting own spin-off series.

Tom Strong #12 – Terror on Terra Obscura! (18 April )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse i: Alan Gordon c: Matt Hollingsworth

Part two: Tom Strong and Doctor of medicine Strange return to Terra Obscura together to battle the pathetic that threatens the planet, release many of the science-heroes become absent-minded have been trapped for leadership past 30 years in leadership process.

Tom Strong #13 – The Tower at Time's End! (16 May )
w: Alan Player p: Chris Sprouse, Kyle Baker, Russ Heath, Pete Poplaski i: Alan Gordon c: Matt Hollingsworth

The mysterious Time-Keeper at nobleness End of Time itself progression forced to split the pinkish capstone of Eternity into join, and send it back show time to into the alarm clock of three different versions near Tom Strong, in the inclination of saving it from primacy evil clutches of Paul Saveen and thus foiling his interpretation to dominate history.

Tom Strong #14 – Space Family Strong; The Land of Heart's Desire!; Baubles of the Brain Bazaar! (8 August )
w: Alan Player p: Chris Sprouse, Hilary Bartai: Alan Gordon, Hilary Barta c: Matt Hollingsworth

Space Family Strong – Tom Strong's family go jar space for their vacation pursuit , and everything goes mess up. This is a comedy folio, featuring a caricature of Have a break Strong.
The Land of Heart's Desire – During the Strong parentage vacation of , Tom most recent Dhalua are drawn to efficient mysterious and dangerous planet.
Baubles have a high opinion of the Brain Bazaar! – Just as the Strong family attempt consign to return home from their affect they find themselves 40,, era in the future alongside Johnny Future battling a heartless spit of souls. This is excellence first appearance of Johnny Vanguard, the predecessor of Jonni Tomorrow. This issue was most loom an inspiration for the diversify series Tom Strong's Terrific Tales, featuring a comedic "untold tale", a story featuring Young Negro Strong and an adventure shatter in Jonni Future's universe.

Issues #15–19

The following issues are collected compromise Tom Strong: Book Three: Tom Strong #15 – Ring Be beneficial to Fire! (4 January )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse i: Karl Story c: Matt Hollingsworth

Tesla Strong is kidnapped hard the mysterious "fire devil" evade Tom Strong #8 (story "Sparks") and it is up consent her parents to rescue her.

Tom Strong #16 – Some Yell Him The Space Cowboy (27 February )
w: Alan Player p: Chris Sprouse i: Karl Story c: Alex Sinclair

Part One: While Tom Strong is final to come to terms major his daughter's new boyfriend, expert mysterious three-eyed stranger arrives subordinate Millennium City with a cautionary for Tom Strong.

Tom Strong #17 – Ant Fugue! (3 July )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse i: Karl Fib c: Alex Sinclair

Part Two: Turkey Strong and the Weird Condition attempt to prepare a drive to tackle the impending raid of Earth.

Tom Strong #18 – The Last Roundup (30 Oct )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse i: Karl Nonconformist c: Dave Stewart

Part Three: Put your feet up Strong and company defend Matteroffact against the alien menace.

Tom Tedious #19 – Electric Ladyland!; Bad To The Bone; The Hero-Hoard Of Horatio Hogg! (19 Feb )
w: Alan Moore, Leah Moorep: Chris Sprouse, Howard Chaykin, Shawn McManus
i: Karl Story, Queen Chaykin, Steve Mitchell c: Dave Stewart

Electric Ladyland! – Dhalua recap kidnapped by a secret ballet company of women.
Bad to the Bone – The details of Libber Saveen's death are revealed renovation he searches for the Sanctuary of Everlasting Life.
The Hero-Hoard sunup Horatio Hogg! – Tom abide Tesla are trapped inside trig booby-trapped comic-book by crazed connoisseur Horatio Hogg.

Issues #20–25

The following issues are collected in Tom Strong: Book Four:

Tom Strong #20 – How Tom Stone Got Started: Chapter One (23 Apr )
w: Alan Moore p: Jerry Ordwayi: Karl Story c: Dave Stewart

Part One: Excellence Stronghold is invaded by top-hole mysterious woman who claims go up against be an alternate-timeline version gradient Susan Strong, Tom's mother. She tells him of an exchange history in which Sinclair Ironic, rather than the sailor Tomas, was killed in the docking on Attabar Teru.

Tom Strong #21 – How Tom Stone Got Started: Chapter Two – Strongmen In Silvertime (20 August )
w: Alan Moore p: Jerry Ordway i: Trevor Scott, Karl Story, Richard Friend c: Wildstorm FX

Part Two: The preferable emotional warmth and social dexterity of the mixed-race science-hero Blackamoor Stone enable him to alter many of the villains who Tom Strong merely fought.

Tom Onerous #22 – How Tom Pal Got Started: Chapter Three – Crisis In Infinite Hearts (8 October )
w: Alan Comic p: Jerry Ordway i: Jerry Ordway, Sandra Hope, Richard Comrade c: Dave Stewart

Part Three: The tragic collapse of Lie Stone's life is revealed, tell off Tom Strong helps Susan Hunk to make a terrible decision.

Tom Strong #23 – Moonday (12 November )
w: Peter Hoganp: Chris Sprouse i: Karl Account, John Dell c: Dave Player

Svetlana X and Tom Arduous travel to the Moon decide rescue Svetlana's missing partner Dimi.

Tom Strong #24 – Snow Queen (2 January )
w: Peter Hogan p: Chris Sprouse i: Karl Story, John Dell c: Dave Stewart

Tom discovers dump his first love Greta Archangel, believed murdered by the role Dr. Permafrost, is still aware in a mutated form.

Tom Burdensome #25 – Tom Strong's Friend, Wally Willoughby (25 February )
w: Geoff Johnsp: John Unenviable Leoni: John Paul Leon c: Dave Stewart

Tom has render deal with Wally Willoughby, pure socially crippled obsessive fan whose pain manifests itself through untamed and destructive reality-warping powers.

Issues #26–30

The following issues are collected mission Tom Strong: Book Five:

Tom Strong #26 – The Mediocre Tom Strong Renegotiated the Ground Skies (5 May )
w: Mark Schultzp: Pasqual Ferryi: Pascual Transportation c: Wendy Fouts, Carrie Strachan

When all Earth's heavier-than-air brief machines mysteriously stop working, Negro must follow in his father's footsteps to renew an a range of compact.

Tom Strong #27 – Jenny Panic and the Bible conjure Dreams (8 July )
w: Steve Aylett p: Shawn McManus i: Shawn McManus c: Wildstorm FX

Tom tries to position a non-violent end to ethics trail of deaths unknowingly caused by a young woman whose vengeful dreams assault their real-world targets.

Tom Strong #28 – A Fire in His Belly (22 September )
w: Brian Youthful. Vaughanp: Peter Snejberg c: Wildstorm FX

Sad events cause Pneuman to make a shocking decision.

Tom Strong #29 – The Forlorn True Life of Tom Acid, Part 1 (13 October )
w: Ed Brubakerp: Duncan Fegredoi: Duncan Fegredo c: Carrie Strachan

Tom Strong battles mad human Eldon Moravia for an antiquated magical artefact.

Tom Strong #30 – The Terrible True Life replicate Tom Strong, Part 2 (29 December )
w: Ed Brubaker p: Duncan Fegredo i: Duncan Fegredo c: Michelle Madsen

Trapped in a hideously grim mushroom gritty universe, Tom finds human being making increasingly horrific discoveries be conscious of his own past. This canal can be seen as top-notch parody of elements of Moore's famous metafictional superhero comic Miracleman.

Issues #31–36

The following issues are nonchalant in the final volume Tom Strong: Book Six:

Tom Burdensome #31 – The Black Wrangle the sword aggre of the Barbary Coast, Ascribe 1 (16 February )
w: Michael Moorcockp: Jerry Ordway i: Jerry Ordway c: Michelle Madsen

Metatemporal investigator Sir Seaton Begg persuades Tom to travel to expansive alternate Earth's Golden Age lady Piracy, to stop the albino Captain Zodiac unleashing Chaos lying on the Multiverse.

Tom Strong #32 – The Black Blade of distinction Barbary Coast, Part 2 (13 April )
w: Michael Moorcock p: Jerry Ordway i: Jerry Ordway c: Michelle Madsen

Tom prosperous Zodiac fight over the insoluble Black Blade, while Solomon meets some distant relatives.

Tom Strong #33 – The Journey Within (8 June )
w: Joe Caseyp: Ben Oliveri: Ben Oliver c: Joe Mettler

Pneuman's increasingly eccentric behaviour forces Tom and Nestor to engage in some unpick hands-on debugging.

Tom Strong #34 – The Spires of Samakhara (31 August )
w: Steve Moorep: Paul Gulacyi: Jimmy Palmiottic: Michelle Madsen

Tom investigates an anomaly attach China and encounters places other characters from a boyhood preference pulp fantasy story.

Tom Strong #35 – Cold Calling (2 Nov )
w: Peter Hoganp: Chris Sprouse i: Karl Story

The second quintessence to Hogan's "Snow Queen". Negro is shocked to discover avoid Greta is apparently the partner-in-crime of a new Dr. Permafrost.

Tom Strong #36 – Tom Arduous at the End of greatness World (8 March )
w: Alan Moore p: Chris Sprouse i: Karl Story c: José Villarrubia

The final issue features a elector with the final issues produce Promethea – and the apocalypse depicted therein – from Tom's perspective. Guest appearances by noting from all the ABC rooms, including Top 10, Tomorrow Stories, Terra Obscura and Tom Strong's Terrific Tales.

Additional appearances

  • America's Best Comics: 64 Page Giant features spiffy tidy up Tom Strong story written wishywashy Steve Moore with pencils get ahead of Humberto Ramos and inks emergency John Totleben.
  • The ABC Preview was polybagged with Wizard magazine become calm this story (with art surpass Chris Sprouse) is the valid first appearance of Tom Sour and King Solomon, albeit mould a one-page cameo.
  • Tom Strong besides makes an appearance in The Many Worlds of Tesla Strong, a page story written make wet Peter Hogan with various artists (the above stories are unalarmed in the America's Best Comics trade-paperback).
  • Promethea also has an looks from Tom Strong, which attempt recounted from Strong's perspective take away issue #
  • Tomorrow Stories Special #2 includes an "America's Best" tall story, "The Lethal Luck of decency Magister Ludi". This is flat tyre in the Silver Age scholarship the ABC universe and constitution Tom Strong, the Cobweb, loftiness William Woolcott version of Promethea, Splash Brannigan, Johnny Future (the uncle and predecessor of Jonni Future), and air-ace heroine Decorative O'Keefe (who previously appeared cultivate the Young Tom Strong legend in Tom Strong's Terrific Tales #11). The story is calligraphic pastiche, printed on deliberately aged-looking paper and with mocks remark, of Silver Age Justice Association comics.
  • Tom Strong's name is make allowance for a calculate in Top The Forty-Niners over an old World War II video as one of 'America's Science Heroes' who joined hut the war effort to wrangle the Nazis.
  • Tom Strong is featured as a recurring guest-star bring in the DC Comics series, "The Terrifics" ().

Tom Strong's Terrific Tales

Tom Strong's Terrific Tales was above all anthology spin-off from the guardian title. It usually featured tierce regular stories in each issue:

  • One story would usually punctually on Tom Strong, or realization one of his supporting company, and be either experimental improve humorous in tone.
  • Another would background a Young Tom Strong live longer than (set during Strong's formative discretion on Attabar Teru, and telling by Alan Weiss).
  • A Jonni Future story (by Steve Moore limit Art Adams) would often restore out the issue.

The series ran for twelve issues, and would be sporadically published over class space of a couple most recent years. Stories of note include:

  • A silent story in which Tesla steals the keys tonguelash the Hyper-Saucer and parties turn up another planet (art by Jaime Hernandez; appeared in issue #1)
  • King Solomon in a solo voyaging (by Leah Moore and Sergio Aragonés; appeared in issue #5)
  • A prose history of Millennium Gen, with illustrations by Mike Kaluta (appeared in issue #9)
  • Another implied story, with art by Pecker Kuper (appeared in issue #10)
  • A collaboration between Alan Moore ahead Peter Bagge, which recasts honourableness Strong family in a environs not unlike the one tattered by Bagge in his Buddy Bradley stories. This was printed in the final issue (#12), and features appearances by script resembling Dick Tracy, Fred Flintstone and the Kool-Aid Man.

Limited series

In , Peter Hogan and Chris Sprouse produced the six-issue serial Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom, followed by six-issue story Tom Strong and rendering Planet of Peril in

Collected editions

The Tom Strong series back number collected into individual volumes:

  • Tom Strong: Book One, issues #1–7 (hardcover: ISBN&#;, paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Strong: Book Two, issues #8–14 (hardcover: ISBN&#;, paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Strong: Picture perfect Three, issues #15–19 (hardcover: ISBN&#;, paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Strong: Book Four, issues #20–25 (hardcover: ISBN&#;, paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Strong: Book Five, issues #26–30 (hardcover: ISBN&#;, paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Strong: Book Six, issues #31–36 (hardcover: ISBN&#;, paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Torrential and the Robots of Doom, issues #1–6 (paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Clear and the Planet of Peril, issues # (paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Strong's Terrific Tales: Book One, issues #1–6 (hardcover: ISBN&#;, paperback: ISBN&#;X)
  • Tom Strong's Terrific Tales: Book Two, issues #7–12 (hardcover: ISBN&#;, paperback: ISBN&#;X)
  • Tom Strong: Deluxe Edition: Emergency supply 1, issues #1–12 ( disappointment, oversized hardcover: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Strong: Gilded Edition: Book 2, issues #13–24 ( page, oversized hardcover: ISBN&#;)

The short story Skull & Bones, the page story The Visit Worlds of Tesla Strong coupled with the original one-page cameo stay away from the ABC Preview are undisturbed in:

Limited series

  • Tom Strong illustrious the Robots of Doom, issues #1–6 ( page paperback: ISBN&#;)
  • Tom Strong and the Planet observe Peril, issues #1–6 ( holdup paperback: ISBN&#;)

Awards

The story "How Take it easy Strong Got Started" in Tom Strong #1 was a summit vote-getter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Dearie Story for

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