Lighting is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, a bolt of lightning can travel at speeds of 130,000 mph and capable of generating a temperature approaching 30,000 °C (54,000 °F). Such is the power controlled by several thunderous thugs, such as Whirlicane and Lightning of Earth-One and Thunderbolt of Earth-Two, each having faced the Supermen early in their careers.
Emilio Storme was a scientist at S.T.A.R. Laboratories with a dangerous obsession towards Superman of Earth-One. He first adopted the alter ego of Whirlicane using tornado styled equipment, and later returned with an android with two settings, as Lightning and Thunder. During his second encounter with Superman, Storme's android self destructed seemingly also destroying his master.
His counterpart was an inventor known as Thunderbolt on Earth-Two, a criminal mastermind who utilized his stylized lightning bolt emitting ray fun to lead a gang of crooks on some larceny. This incurred the attention of Superman’s fellow action ace, Mister America. After an initial confrontation between the two wherein the villain has the upper hand, shortly thereafter Mister America turned the tables on his foe by shocking Thunderbolt and his gang using a pool of water on the ground to conduct the current from the hooded hoodlum’s gun.
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