REAL NAME: Thomas Dore
OCCUPATION: Adventurer, bodyguard
IDENTITY: Public
CLASS: Mystically empowered human
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA
OTHER ALIASES: Tom, Thunder
PLACE OF BIRTH: Gleason, USA
MARITAL STATUS: Single
KNOWN RELATIVES: Missing parents
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Lha-I-Ha's lamasery, Protectors Inc.
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile
FIRST APPEARANCE: Silver Streak Comics #13 (August 1941)
HEIGHT: 6' 1"
WEIGHT: 195 lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blond
Tom Dore was an American orphan raised in the Lha-I-Ha monastery in Tibet. The blond-haired, blue-eyed young Westerner soon showed unusual prowess as a student of the art of Gom-Pa. He passed the Potala trials and proved that his chi power rivaled that of the monastery's abbot himself, a monk over 300 years old. Tom eventually left Lha-I-Ha to track down the demon Ching Kai, who had possessed a monk to steal a sacred scroll with which he planned to bring humanity to its knees. After stopping Ching Kai and returning the scroll to the monastery, Tom decided to come back to America to investigate his roots and what really happened to his parents. There he met Butch Benton, the Indestructible Man, with whom he befriended. Tom and Butch became partners and collaborated with the super team known as Protectors Inc. Tom established a lasting romantic relationship with heroine and secret agent Torchy Brown.
POWERS & WEAPONS
Tom has been trained in Gom-Pa, an ancient Tibetan martial art based on focusing his "chi" to perform superhuman feats. He can become incredibly fast and strong, much more than a normal human being. He has shown the ability to teleport great distances in the blink of an eye, telepathy, telekinesis, the ability to cast illusions, the ability to use the power of his chi to make himself immune to damage, or put himself into a state of suspended animation to survive being encased in ice, or placed in an airless vacuum.
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