T.O. Morrow of Earth-One was a genius level scientist who invented a device allowing him to pull items from the future, which he would then claim to invent. Using this tool to become a super villain, Morrow first faced the Flash and Green Lantern, who found a way to defeat him. Seeking a manner to escape, his method led him from is native world of Earth-One to Earth-Two. A similar event occurred with this Morrow's Earth-Two counterpart, the latest incarnation of the heroic Immortal Man, who journeyed to Earth-One in pursuit of his arch-enemy Vandal Savage.
On this new world and a parallel plane of existence, this Morrow utilized a super computer to create an android which would defeat his new world's Justice Society as well as his old foes' Justice League teammates. The Red Tornado was Morrow's means of infiltrating the Society and destroy them. After seemingly succeeding, Thomas turned his attention to the League with similar results. However, the remaining members of the Society assisted the League with the assistance of Red Tornado in once more vanquishing his creator.
On this new world and a parallel plane of existence, this Morrow utilized a super computer to create an android which would defeat his new world's Justice Society as well as his old foes' Justice League teammates. The Red Tornado was Morrow's means of infiltrating the Society and destroy them. After seemingly succeeding, Thomas turned his attention to the League with similar results. However, the remaining members of the Society assisted the League with the assistance of Red Tornado in once more vanquishing his creator.
Then there was a T.O. Morrow appeared on Earth-Two... who was also a counterpart to the more well known "Tomorrow Man". How is this so? Well, this Morrow was a bald headed scientist who was really a charlatan, employing various gadgets and gimmicks to portray himself as a man from the future. When his duplicity was exposed by the Shining Knight, the golden age Morrow was defeated and jailed.
Getting back to Earth-One's T.O. Morrow, after his second encounter with the Justice League after he recovered his prized creation Red Tornado and rebuilt him, something strange happened to him. His future computer predicted that had he met defeat with the League, he would cease to exist, and this seemed to be the case as Morrow disappeared.
In fact, he was split into two beings, one was the original who was shunted off into an extra-dimensional world. Another version of him was mutated into Tomorrow the Future Man, a mental mastermind with tremendous powers of the mind. However, this condition caused his life to accelerate and his life would soon be extinguished. Battling the Tornado for control of the android's body which he could implant his mind into, Future Man was once more defeated and perished, and it was this version that was the cosmic twin of Earth-Two's Morrow.
And after this Morrow's second attempt to turn the Red Tornado against the Justice League failed, his computer jettisoned him into another dimension in exile. There, he obtained a power staff allowing him to control reality on his new world, with which he battled the League's Flash and Atom as well as Supergirl. The trio defeated him and brought him back to his home world, although he soon resurfaced to attempt taking control of his android "son". Instead, Morrow unleashed a Tornado Tyrant that had initially merged with the original Red Tornado, and was once more imprisoned at the conclusion of this conflict,
During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, while Morrow was recruited by the League to assist in reassembling the Red Tornado who once more had his inner Tyrant unleashed, and when this failed the criminal quit while he was ahead... just as his golden age bald headed doppleganger had decades earlier!
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