TNT (DC)
TNT is a male comic superhero who features in DC.
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Biography
Thomas N. Thomas was a male human who was born in the modern age. By adulthood, he came to be a teacher at a high school who served as a coach in physical sports and taught chemistry. During this time, he came to note a young and promising student named Dan Dunbar where he decided to be his mentor. The pair worked both on the physical tracks with Dan also aiding Thomas in the laboratory for his chemistry experiments. One day, they were working on an experiment in releasing energy from radioactive salts as a means of generating powers. Unknown to the pair, their bodies had been absorbing the atomic energy generated from their experiments and they accidentally touched it resulted in a transformation that gave them superpowers. Thus, by making physical contact, their respective currents triggered their transformation and the two decided to keep their discovery a secret. However, Dan felt that they should use their achievement to aid society and the two decided to become masked crime fighters. Thus, Thomas became known as TNT and Dan became known as Dan the Dyna-Mite. (Star-Spangled Comics v1 #8)
The pair late moved to stop the criminal operation of the Dwarf where the superhero team were briefly captured but managed to escape. They later confronted the criminal mastermind and brought him into custody. (Star-Spangled Comics v1 #7) Afterwards, the pair faced a new criminal mastermind by the name of the Parrot whose goons killed Mrs. Van Torney to steal her jewels. TNT and Dyna-Mite then confronted the gang but were rendered unconscious by sleeping gas. The criminals went on the Parrot's boat headquarters where they dumped TNT into the water to drown him and intended to ransom Dan but Dunbar jumped overboard as well. He managed to find TNT and their contact energised their powers thus freeing them where they succeeded in apprehending the criminals. They came to uncover the Parrot who was revealed to be 'Handsome Harry Hicks' who was a singer that had taken a life of crime after he learnt he was dying. (Star-Spangled Comics v1 #8) The next crime wave they responded to was from the Mother Goose Mob who managed to escape the two heroes by starting a fire at one of their crime scenes thus forcing the masked duo to put it out and letting the criminals escape. They later tracked Mother Goose to the Ritz where they were ambushed and captured though the two managed to escape. During a confrontation with Mother Goose, they apprehended the criminal and came to learnt that 'she' was actually ex-millionaire George E. Ready who after losing his fortune went to a life of crime to recoup his lost fortune. (Star-Spangled Comics v1 #9)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Thomas and his student Dunbar both gained their powers from experiments involving radioactive salt. This resulted in radioactive vibrations passing into their bodies with him and Dan having the positive and negative components. It was only through physical contact did these generate power. According to their work, mixture of these components could lead to a world damaging catastrophe. However, if they made brief contact, they could supercharge their systems thus giving the pair superpowers. They were able to send atomic energy from their gloves into their target. (Star-Spangled Comics v1 #8)
He used to wear a ring that contained an oppositely charged element that reacted with a similar ring worn by Dyna-Mite. When the signal 'contact' was given, the pair would connect the rings where the positive and negative reactions combined to create a secret chemical reaction. A detonation then erupted where their outer clothing burst into flaming fragments as they emerged in their superhero costumes. (Star-Spangled Comics v1 #7) The energy from the transformation could also set off volatile substances such as triggering explosives thus preventing him from turning into TNT. (Star-Spangled Comics v1 #9)
Their clothing was treated with a special solution and consisted initially of shock-proof asbestos suits. (Star-Spangled Comics v1 #8)
Notes
- TNT was created by Paul Norris where he made his first appearance in Star-Spangled Comics v1 #7 (April, 1942).
Appearances
- Star-Spangled Comics v1: (1942)
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