One character I remember with fondness is Tommy Tomorrow, first seen in Real Fact Comics 6 (January-February 1947). After four appearances there Tommy spent the 1950s as back up to Superman in 125 issues of Action Comics then back up to Superman and Batman in 23 issues of World's Finest Comics until finally ending in 5 issues of Showcase in 1963. The stories are rarely reprinted but the first story is available in the 1999 collection Pulp Fiction Library: Mystery in Space. A later story from Action Comics 186 (November 1953) is also reprinted here. Another Tommy story from World's Finest Comics 116 (November 1960) is reprinted in DC Super Stars 6.
Tommy has a new story in another of DC Comics odd 1970s reprint series - DC Special. Issues 1 through 26 were reprints but the final three issues were new stories. Tommy is the blond gentleman on the cover below. There is an interesting text piece in this issue about the history of Tommy.
Pulp Fiction Library: Mystery in Space - 1999
DC Special 27 - April-May 1977
DC Super Stars 6 - August 1976
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