The Unofficial Biography of...

TNT was created by Mort Weisinger and ?

Alter Ego:Thomas N. "Tex" Thomas
Occupation: High School Chemistry teacher
Marital Status: presumed single
Known Relatives: none
Group Affiliation: All-Star Squadron
Base of Operations: Washington D.C.
Current Status: deceased
Height: 5'11" Weight: 175 lbs.
Eye Color: brown Hair Color: Brown
First Appearance: World's Finest Comics# 5, 1941.

.....While working on chemical experiments with his young friend and student, Dan Dunbar, "Tex" Thomas accidentily discovered that he and Dan were asorbing chemical reactions. When the two came into contact with each other, they caused a violent chemical explosion that also left them charged with increased speed and strength and resistance to harm for a short time. .....The two decided to use this newfound ability to fight crime, like so many in the news in that era, and so became TNT and Dyna-Mite.

..... After only about six months of crime fighting, TNT and Dyna-Mite received a summons to meet with other heroes in a government sponsored super-group called THE ALL-STAR SQUADRON. They met several times with the group and were on a mission to check into possible sabatoge activity in Colorado in late April, 1942, when TNT was killed by the Norse villainess Gurda the Valkyrie. Despondent that his crimefighting career was over, Dan kept the ring that the two had each worn to activate their powers, and when he slammed the two together, Dyna-Mite found that he could still activate his powers. TNT was posthumously given the Presidential Medal of Honor.

.....At first, TNT and Dyna-Mite were "positivly" and "negativly" charged, so that when each touched the rings that each wore together, it activated their powers, which included increased strength, speed and resistance to injury. They have been shown to be able to transfer these charges to other objects. They could also project electrical charges from their hands. After TNT's death, Dyna-Mite could affect the change by hinself using both rings. The electical blasts became more concussive explosion, so there may be a possible link to QRX-27, The Human Bomb's origination of his powers. Their costumes may have been made of a form of "fibro-wax", which whistood The Human Bomb's blasts. Both were very good athletes, and good hand-to-hand combatants.

Listing of Comic Book Appearances

World's Finest Comics# 5
Star-Spangled Comics# 7-23
All-Star Squadron# 31-32 February 22-23, '42
Star-Spangled(v1)#
ASSq# 60 April 15, '42
Star-Spangled(v1)# -23
Young All-Stars# 1 April 30, '42
The following appearances are no longer part of continuity...
Superman Family# 193
Super-Friends# 12

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