The Thunderbolt
- by unknown writers and Rafael Astarita
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction, Superhero
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Thunderbolt” by unknown writers and Rafael Astarita, in Doc Savage Comics #10, November 1942.
In the origin story of a superhero called the Thunderbolt, a scientist travels to the future where an even more scientific princess grants him powers to fight crime in his own time, but the hero was never heard from again. (Maybe he/she is lost in time.)
—Michael Main
With the aid of the mystic powers of Princess Ione, mistress of scientific wonders of the future, a present day doctor rises to become the world’s most dynamic crime fighter . . the Thunderbolt.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: Thunderbolt’s home time
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: a thousand years in the future
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Ships: Dr. Adams’s rocketship to the future
- Unexplained Time Travel Methods: We don’t know how Ione travels.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “The Thunderbolt” by unknown writers and Rafael Astarita, in Doc Savage Comics #10, November 1942.
Indexer Notes
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- Image—The title page includes a small inset with a racist propaganda drawing (common at the time) promoting war bonds and stamps. The image itself is from a reprint in Alter Ego #176 (TwoMorrows, July 2022), and we did an amateur restoration of cropped edges. The colors appear to be a close match to the 1942 original.
- Debut—The debut is the only story of this particular Thunderbolt.