Well, finally!
I've been waiting for hours to be able to use the system, sadly in part due to operator error. I set some system maintenance to running before heading off to sleep. I woke up to find a confirmation button waiting since about 2 minutes after i blacked the screen.
Amusingly enough, the seemingly eternal wait has relevance to today's topic. Once again, fingers wiggle and affect things half a world away. Kid recently posted about a Black Max collection (among other things). I finally caught up to it, and had to go digging back into Thunder for what we both perceived to be missing - Adam Eterno.
Let me first say that Thunder, despite the name, was quite quiet when it cracked onto the scene. Little might one suspect what lurked within from that first cover...
Somehow i doubt a great number of you would rush out to grab Phil The Fluter comics, unless perhaps the flute was metaphoric. I assure you, it was quite literal.
The second issue might have grabbed your attention. Instead of Ozzie, The Amazing Jumping Kangaroo being the highlight, they offered Black Max's Bat -
The cover for #3 offered Free Peelers (sorry, folks on this side of the water - those are stickers, not strippers) and from #4 onward the cover featured Famous Firsts (worth coming back to take a gander). But of Adam Eterno there was never a hint; somewhat appropriate for a man moving invisibly through history.
Fortunately, we're not limited to covers. Here are the first two short tales introducing our second Adam-Out-Of-Time from the UK -
Next time up in Thunder #s 5 & 6, Adam Eterno: Cowboy.
After that, This Guy -
I suppose we should follow along, eh?
page art by Tom Kerr from Thunder #s 1-4 (1970)
