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Issue: Tom Strong #1

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Publication Date: June 1999

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Issues: #1 of 36 Issues (37 Printings)

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Variant: Chris Sprouse / Al Gordon Cover

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Publisher: Flag

Brand: America's Best Comics

Indicia Publisher: America's Best Comics, LLC

On Sale Date: 04/07/1999

Volume: none

Pages: 44

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: 76194121937000111

Price: $5.50 CAD
$3.50 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; glossy interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants2

2 Tom Strong #1 [Alex Ross Cover]

Tom Strong #1 [Chris Sprouse / Al Gordon Cover]

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1 Content Item
- How Tom Strong Got Started! [Illustration on Cover, Front]0

reprinted 3 times as/in other Issues.

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Content Items (5 total)

How Tom Strong Got Started!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Subject Matter

Genres: Adventure

Character(s): Tom Strong; Dhalua Strong; Tesla Strong; Pneuman; King Solomon; Chief Omotu

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Tom Strong #1 published October 2000

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Tom Strong #1 published December 2006

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Tom Strong #1 published December 2006

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Pages: 1

How Tom Strong Got Started

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: Adventure

Character(s): Strongmen of America [Timmy Turbo]; Sinclair Strong; Susan Strong; Tomas (steersman); Pneuman (origin); Tom Strong (origin); Chief Omotu; Dhalua Strong; Paul Saveen; Tesla Strong (origin); King Solomon (origin); Brink Hinckley; Blimp Bandits

Synopsis: While his sky car is attacked by Blimp Bandits and saved by Tom Strong, Timmy Turbo reads about how Tom Strong got started. The origin: Scientist Sinclair Strong and his wife are marooned on Attabar Teru, where they build Pneuman and have a child, Tom, raising him following a scientific protocol. Tom's parents die when he is 11 and he is raised by the Ozu. He eventually grows up, defeats Paul Saveen, marries Chief Omotu's daughter Dhalua, gives intelligence to King Solomon, and has a daughter, Tesla.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 32

Notes: Story is told in three parts: "The Fabulous Island," "The Earthquake," and "His Early Years."

Tom Strong #2

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Tom Strong; Dhalua Strong; Tesla Strong; King Solomon; Pneuman; Modular Man

First Line: Artificial intelligence: Is there a down side?

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promo for next issue with cover preview.

Born with the Century: Tom Strong and His City.

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: Adventure

Character(s): President David Goodman Croley; Winsor McCay; Cole Porter; Quinta Desrault; Lazlo Camphor; Johnny Nectarine; Charley Bones [Charles Costanza]; Charade [Denby Jilks]; Vanilla Tuesday; Paul Dorian Saveen; Tom Strong; Mechanthrope; Dhalua Strong; Pneuman; Kirk Alyn; Tesla Strong; King Solomon; Modular Man; Aztech Empire

First Line: It was in the 'Mauve 'Nineties' at the end of the last century that an employee of the U. S. Patents office, allegedly...

Synopsis: A brief history of Millennium City and Tom Strong.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Also featured a four model-sheets & character designs by Chris Sprouse.