T.O.Morrow is only a day… and a universe…away

Habitat was the major theme exhibition of the 1967 Montreal World Exposition. As a landmark state-of-the-art project, it pioneered a vision for urban housing. Based on this revolutionary design, another far grander metropolitan complex would be developed in Quebec, Canada, one that drew the attention of the most ancient adversary of antiquity and fearsome foe of the future. The experimental City of Tomorrow… which one monster sought to destroy and one madman sought to plunder. And each city, along with its tremendous technology, impacted crisises on Earths One and Two which the Greatest Heroes of Parallel Planets had to face together.

On Earth-One, the City of Tomorrow was the target chosed by the ancient adversary of humanity, King Kull, to be the start of his devastating attack on that world. Having tried to use his wonderous weaponry and supervillain sycophants to destroy Earth-Two and his native Earth-S, in both instances having failed, Kull focused all his attention on the homeworld of the Justice League. Installing a mechanism designed to speed up Earth-One's rotation in order to disrupt its gravity, Kull's device was disassembled by both Earths' Green Lanterns with aid from their Earth-S counterpart Ibis the Invincible. Together with the Flash and Mercury/Kid Eternity of three Earths, Kull's mechanical menaces Brainiac and Mister Atom were also disabled, allowing the League, Society and Earth-S' Squadron of Justice to finally confront and defeat King Kull himself at the Rock of Eternity.

Years earlier on Earth-Two, a visiting sinister scientist known as T.O. Morrow used his time scanner which peered into the future of that world along with his fourth-dimensional grappling hook (devices previously discovered by the Nazi inventor Helmut Streicher*) to steal gadgetry from the City of Tomorrow found in that planet's Quebec. With these cutting edge devices, Morrow and his minions engaged in a cross-dimensional crimewave. Peering once more into the future, he replicated a sentient computer to service his nefarious needs. Morrow developed an army of androids including Red Tornado to eliminate first the Justice Society and later his old foes in the Justice League on his home world . Despite temporary victories against members of both teams, Morrow was defeated thanks to the timely intervention of his creation Red Tornado, who joined the Justice Society. Years later, this amazing android would migrate to Earth-One, and join the Justice League.

Why T.O. Morrow, when using his temporal vision device to peer into the future, could only see the city on Earth-Two rather than his own Earth-One is unknown. It may be because, at that time, the sentinent Construct II** was disrupting Morrow's technology on Earth-One so it could horde these scientific secrets all for itself. In the process, Morrow discovered the Construct's Earth-Two counterpart in the sentient computer he later used to design Red Tornado*. Ironically, after that android was destroyed following his move to Earth-One, Construct III reconstituted the cyclonic cyborg's body to become a new version of Red Tornado. Thankfully, the original consciousness of Tornado asserted itself over Construct III and purged it from his mind.

* It seems the structural design of Red Panzer and Red Tornado were both borrowed from Streicher and Morrow’s time scanners they each built on Earth-Two and Earth-One.

** The Earth-Two doppelgängers of Earth-One’s Constructs I, II, III and IV were: Hourman’s Crime-Caster, Morrow’s Computer, Red Tornado, and the computer from the City of Tomorrow (while Morrow briefly brought over his computer to Earth-One, it was later absorbed onto Construct IV’s consciousness before Red Tornado destroyed it).

Chronal Copies Temporal Twins

The physics differed drastically in the  divergent dimension of Earths One and Two, and among these was the affect on time with living beings. In one universe, a temporally displaced individual could not exist in the same time as the past or future version of themselves. In another universe, an individual could exist as multiple copies of themselves at the same time. However, in that second reality, it was impossible to create a chronal clone of themselves while in the first it was entirely possible.

Two time tyrants discovered these core principals in their native realms and more than once manipulated these quirks in physics to their own amoral agendas. These villains were T.O. Morrow of Earth-One, and Per Degaton of Earth-Two, and both men were persistent foes of the Justice League and Justice Society, respectively. 

T.O. Morrow first appeared in Central City, when he spawned three chronoal counterparts of Hal "Green Lantern" Jordan, complete with identical power rings. These three synthetic beings were sent by their creator to steal precious items from the Louve in Paris, the Statue of Liberty in New York City, and London. This terrible trio  taunt Green Lantern and his Justice League teammate the Flash, who each pursue one of the fake Lanterns in Paris and New York, and then the pair seemingly teammup in London the Flash determines that his partner is one of the fakes. The real Lantern was defeated in New York City, and after freeing his friend, the Leaguers track down Morrow at his headquarters while the psuedo-Lanterns fade from existence. Although initially tricked by the T.O. Morrow temporal clone, the heroes discover this rouse and corner the real Morrow. Seeing no way out, the villain seemingly falls to his death in an underground pit.

Per Degaon hatched the third of this history-altering schemes when he recruited the Crime Syndicate of Earth-Three to accompany him to Earth-Prime, where the rogues stole nuclear weapons from Cuba. Bringing them back to Earth-Two in 1942, Degaton sought to blackmail the world into accepting his authoritarian rule, which in one future timeline was successful until the early 1980s. However, the Justice League of Earth-One travelled back to that era and teamed up with the All-Star Squadron to oppose him, and soon found their friends from the future appear in the skies above one of Degaton's nuclear detonation demonstrations at sea. These were the 1980 versions of 1940s Justice Society members Green Lantern, Starman and Doctor Fate... along with superheroines Power Girl and Huntress. The three male Society members were the chronal counterparts of Morrow's initial two Green Lanterns and himself (while the 1980s Power Girl, who also existed in the 1940s, was the chronal counterpart of Supergirl's Satan Girl/Nightflame clone from the 1970s). 

The third of Morrow's Green Lantern temporal twins had a counterpart in the Conqueror's synthetic Green Lantern, which he used against the original and his Justice Society allies. Years later, T.O. developed chronal clones of Steve Trevor, Mera, Hawkgirl, Jean Loring and a girl name Midge... in order the ensnare Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Hawkman, Atom and Snapper Carr into accepting their paralyzing kisses. Once they accomplished their evil deeds for their master, these being like the lethal Lantern trio faded from existence.

During Per's previous time traveling case, he brought back to 1941 future versions of Wotan, Professor Zobar Zodiak, Sky Pirate, King Bee and the Monster (as well as Solomon Grundy, whose Earth-One counterpart was the artificial Grundy clone created by the Parasite in his war against Superman). These chronal clones existed during the same time period as their earlier version, who were unaware that their future selves were engaged in battle with the All-Star Squadron. This scheme, as with all of Degaton's schemes, failed miserably.

Years later, T.O. Morrow reappeared and disgarded the use of chornal clones, and once more manufactured Red Tornado androids modeled after the original, who turned against his master and joined the Justice Society (and later the Justice League). These Tornado androids were made of the same temporal technology as the living chrononal clones, but unlike these being they were made of silicon chips and hardware.

Twice-Told-Tales: Green Gladiators' Gather

The Green Lanterns of Earths One and Two, Hal Jordan and Alan Scott, had on occasion interacted with other Green Lanterns.. And early in their career, this caused Hal and Alan grief when confronted with their noble-minded namesakes, while attempting to uncover a duplicitous scheme by a felonious foe.

Jordan's colleagues were official members of the Green Lantern Corps. They summoned Hal to a tribunal presided by veteran Corps member Tomar-Re, with his fellow Green Lanterns Chaselon, Xax, Larvox, Medphyll, Stel and the Corpsmen from planets Aeros and Rojira. Their concern and the reason for this impromptu trial involves three incidents over a 24-hour span, when Hal acted out-of-character by leaving a bank vulnerable for theft, creating a disturbance at an event and endangering the life of a fall victim. The tribunal ruled giving Jordan only a stern warning, while he adamantly asked for a guilty verdict.

Scott's fellow emerald gladiators were not officially sanctioned. These men clad in colorful costumes mimicking Green Lantern, each man armed with flashlight battery modified power rings, responded to an emergency radio broadcast summoning the caped crusader to the Explorer’s Museum. Perhaps motivated by fame or financial reward, the faux-Green Lanterns each presented himself as the real deal, in order to offer their assistance to the prestigious Explorers’ Club. Several of its members disguised themselves as either wildlife or cavemen, attacking the various Lanterns with only one able to stand up to them. Once he was identified as authentic, Green Lantern was presented with an assignment, locating the missing explorer Simon Ghent.

Hal-Lantern acted strangely due to mental influence exerted by his arch-enemy Sinestro. Exiled to the Anti-Matter Universe of Qward following the guilty verdict upon him, Hal was welcomed by his foe who offered him a partnership which the hero declined. He was then captured by Sinestro, who possessed a spare yellow power ring which replaced his original ring lost during their previous encounter.

Alan-Lantern along with his pal Doiby Dickles tracked down where Ghent was said to have been held, in a local Gotham City cemetery. Once helping them to enter into the towering chapel within the cemetery, the Club turned on Lantern and Dickles… knocking them out then capturing them. Their scheme in fabricating the fictional Ghent was to trick Green Lantern into helping them retrieve star witness May Leeds, set to testify in a court tribunal against a prominent crime syndicate, who were the Explorer’s Club members present.

Meanwhile, another inspired by Alan Scott’s alter ego was Abigail “Ma” Hunkle, who created the persona of the original Red Tornado (just as Hal Jordan inspired Katma Tui to become her world’s  Green Lantern). She would herself inspire her daughter and a neighborhood boy to become the Cyclone Kids. All three would have wooden mannequins made of them, made using once living trees. These wooded Red Tornado and Cyclone Kids’ counterparts in the Corps were Stel, Medphyll, and Chaselon … with the mannequins brought to life by Ma’s 4th-wall breaking abilities.

The remaining Green Lanterns from the tribunal secretly followed Hal to Qward, and although they too were captured, the Corps escaped Sinestro’s snare and ensnared him instead. Likewise, Alan and Doiby were able to free themselves and May from the Syndicate, thanks to Alan having been tipped off from the beginning that the Club was bogus and criminals… since he is the actual president of the actual Explorers’ Club!

Twice-Told-Tales: Bald Bad Boys vs Red Tornado

The Weaponers of Qward had a long-standing emnity towards inhabitants of Earth-One, seeking to invade that world using a portal that bridged the gap between the positive-matter universe of Earth with the anti-matter universe their world resided within. Seeking to conquer this planet, making it a base of operations from which to launch attacks again their rival dopplegangers, the Guardians of the Universe from the planet Oa, the Qwardians nearly succeeded thanks to their mastery of the Q-Force. This energy was other universe's correspondencing fundamental force to the emerald energy which the Guardians manifested in their reality.

A similar tale was told years earlier, when sinister scientist T.O. Morrow of Earth-One traveled to Earth-Two to plunder and conquer that world. Utilizing his time grapple and future viewer, he replicated a sentient computer which provided him with the humaniztron. This device could take inorganic material and replicate into human-like authorized beings, from which he built a subservient army of faceless androids. Among these was his greatest creation, the Red Tornado, whom Morrow implanted with the Justice Society to betray them from within. After felonious forays first of Earth-Two and soon after on Earth-One versus the Justice Society and Justice League, the latter of whom he temporarily disabled with deadly clones* of the Leaguer's romantic partners. Morrow's ultimate plan nearly came to fruition when he attempted to launch a war between both Earths with his android forces as the catalyst for this cosmic conflict.

Just as with Morrow and his menacing mechanoids, the Weaponer warlord Kaman and his fellow Qwardans’ schemes were overturned by the Red Tornado. Reddy soon revived and recruited the Justice League and Justice Society to repel the faceless armies staged in Inter-dimensional limbo, he also led the attack against the Qwardians after freeing their captive, Superman who along with Tornado helped revive their fellow Leaguers and Earths population kept comatose by Q-Energy.

As for the raw material which Morrow used as building blocks to build his amazing android army, these were fragments of Earth-One’s Meteor Crater. The Flash of Earth-Two transported this meteor to his world in order to absorb deadly radiation emitted from that world’s sun, after a comet collided with it. While the meteor located within the Meteor Crater of Earth-Two negated the radioactivity lingering in its atmosphere, a second dose was needed from the meteor’s Earth-One doppelgänger. This irradiated meteor dust would have the necessary properties for Morrow’s humaniztron to bring his synthetic creations to artificial life.

Despite having access to awesome power derived from Q-Force irradiated twin suns in Qward's Universe and from an atomic sun in the Limbo realm between universes, neither Kaman and his Weaponers nor Morrow and his androids triumphed. While most of these adversarial androids were evidentially left behind in the Atlantis of Earth-Two, the 1279 Qwardians now on Earth-One made a new home within the Australian outback of Earth-One, in a secluded village named New Qward.

* Morrow used his Futurenergy to create energy duplicates of five friends (Steve Trevor, Jean Loring, Shayera "Hawkgirl" Hol, Midge and Mera Curry) and one foe (Doctor Light) of the League, while Per Degaton's time machine created six temporal duplicates of the Society's old foes (Per Degaton, Wotan, Professor Zodiak, King Bee, Monster and Sky Pirate) from 1948 in 1941. The original friends and foes of these heroes existed separate and simultaneous to their "chronal-clones" on these occasions.

Energized Elemental Entities Exude Evil

The Red Tornado lived through many highs and lows in his robotic existence. After saving Earth-Two from the Iron Hand's massive world-encircling nebuloid hand, the Tornado was jettisoned to Earth-One where he was repaired by his original creator, T.O. Morrow.

Not long after, Red Tornado's android body was destroyed ny an alien and months later was reassembled by the computer entity known as the Construct. Like Morrow's predictive computer on Earth-Two, Construct sought to use the Tornado for its own twisted ends. When Morrow tried yet again to defeat the League by manipulating his greatest creation, it was revealed that Red Tornado and the Tornado Champion were one and the same, suppressing their computer programming and the Tyrant persona.

Despite this outside interference, the Red Tornado stayed loyal to his human friends and remained an invaluable ally, particularly on the occasion when all of Earth-One's native heroes were paralyzed in comas induced by a reluctant Thunderbolt from Earth-Two, leaving the Society along with former members and current Justice Leaguers Black Canary and Red Tornado to save there friends. It is interesting that, although reassembled twice after being destroyed by Nekron and Morrow, the Thunderbolt distinguished that Red Tornado was still a native of Earth-Two, despite having lived and been rebuilt on Earth-One.

Then during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, yet another evil entity in the Anti-Monitor transformed Red Tornado back into his Tornado Tyrant personality, only this time as a mindless lackey. When the Tyrant was defeated at the hands of his former allies in the Justice Society, he reverted back to Red Tornado and was left seemingly lifeless... now stripped of his once noble personality. Or would he return at some later point in time?

During this same time period, the Tornado Tyrant/Champion's counterpart… the Thunderbolt named Mzzttexxal that merged with detective Jonni Thunder… was reawakened to life.  At first adopting Jonni’s heroic personality before reasserting its own evil disposition, Mzzttexxal attempted to destroy the human that it bonded with. The Anti-Monitor unleashed both the Tornado Tyrant on Earth-One and this Thunderbolt on Earth-Two simultaneously. The elemental bolt would attack members of Infinity, Inc. before eventually being defeated, alongside her mate "Sky-Bolt" who had a symbiotic relationship with her much as the Tornado Tyrant and Tornado Champion had with each other. 

Parallel Planes Phasing Physics: Vibratory Frequencies of the Multiverse

Piercing the dimensional barrier between universe involves syncing one's body to the precise vibratory frequency of one's destination dimension. In other words, individuals inherently have a vibratory rate that matches that of their native realm, and even with traversing and entering a new phase of existence they would still have the same natural frequency which when relaxed could draw them back to their home world.

In 1965, Hal Jordan in his Green Lantern alter ego adopted the means to transport himself from his native Earth-One into that of Earth-Two, using cyclical forces similar to those first discovered by his teammate Barry "Flash" Allen. Sometime in 1968, the elemental force from the planet Rann-One known as the Tornado Champion similarly utilized this technique to travel to Earth-Two. Merging its cyclical body with the android body of the Red Tornado, this combined being joined the Justice Society, the heir to the original Red Tornado aka Ma Hunkle.

Still later, he was used as a pawn by Creator2 to draw Earth-Two of his universe together with Earth-One... with the goal of destroying the merged planet which he intended to reshape into a new world. Although this failed, it became readily evident that these vibrational-shifts could do more than move an object or entity between universes... it could have potentially devastating consequences.

Years later, when the criminal Iron Hand spawned his world-encircling hand construct composed of Nebuloid-energy, it was only thanks to the intervention of the Red Tornado with a Nebula Rod which destroyed this threat to Earth-Two. However, the Nebuloid energy seemed to counteract vibratory powers, as Red Tornado was now unable to return to his android body's home universe. Instead, he was now tied to his cyclical body's native universe of Earth-One, which he was thrown into following the Nebula Hand's destruction. Despite his desperate attempts to return to Earth-Two, until the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Red Tornado remained on Earth-One.

In the subsequent years following the Flash of two Earths, Barry Allen and Jay Garrick ... and later Green Lantern and Red Tornado's... journeys to each other's universes, more would follow. In addition to dozens of crossovers on both Earths by the Justice League and Justice Society, their enemies would venture into the parallel planet of their homeworld seeking to succeed in their sinister schemes. And others would later permanently trade places, migrating to the other Earth: These included:

• Black Canary and M'La
• The Spectres of two Earths
• Terrible trios who battled the Green Lanterns
• T.O. Morrow and the Immortal Man
• Others during the Crisis on Infinite Earths

Heirs to Red Tornado: Traya Smith & Little Arthur

John Smith appeared on Earth-One in August of 1973, a man with no past yet an eventful future. Originally an android known as Red Tornado, Smith found himself on a new world with a new humanoid appearance.

Previously, the Tornado protected his home of Earth-Two from the Iron Hand and his massive energy hand, which was beginning to crush the planet, by launching a nebuloid rod at its core. This jettisoned Reddy into a universe where a portion of his essence had originated. This composite being, sentient air-elemental named Ulthoon the Tornado Champion and the android Red Tornado, now had a new life on Earth-One. 

On Earth-Two, young genius Little Arthur “developed” a prototype suit based on the Red Tornado. Known as the Tornado Tot, Arthur's costumed career was short-lived as the outfit was claimed by his frenemies, the babies Sugar and Spike.

Smith discovered that upon entry into this new world, Reddy was found by his creator T.O. Morrow, who refashioned his faceless form to give him human features. T.O. installed a secret program into the android's mainframe, with the intent of unleashing Tornado on Morrow's foes the Justice League. However, Reddy as John Smith found love when he met Kathy Sutton, whom he met at an unemployment office. And he would reunite with her later, after Smith's body was reassembled by the artificial intelligent known as the Construct, following Reddy's destruction by an alien creature. Tornado would later adopt a Mideast war orphan named Traya, whom he and Kathy would raise together.

Eventually, tragedy struck as John Smith's psuedo-life among humanity ended, following his capture by the Anti-Monitor. The evil entity of the Anti-Matter Universe stripped the Tornado Tyrant persona from the android Smith form, ending Red Tornado's career, with the Tyrant now used as a pawn by Anti-Monitor against Reddy's former teammates in the Justice Society and Justice League. What became of Arthur, who would now have been a young adult, is unknown.

Tinman Tornado... Tragic Traitor? Triumphant Titan?

The android Red Tornado had a long arduous history as a member of the Justice Society, and then Justice League. Born an elemental entity named the Tornado Tyrant that attacked the planet of Rann, this being turned heroic and adopted the name Tornado Champion, creating a synthetic version of the League to battle is evil Tyrant persona. This League with its Champion eventually banished the Tyrant to the Anti-Matter Universe, then learned of the existence of Earth-Two. There he found the android whom the Champion decided to merge with.

Modeled after the original Red Tornado, the costumed alias of Ma Hunkle from decades earlier, this android duplicate was constructed by T.O. Morrow to infiltrate and destroy both teams he would eventually join. Each time, Tornado was loyal to his heroic peers. He joined the Justice Society as a probationary member for a time.

During one adventure, Tornado used the Nebula Rod constructed by the Seven Soldiers of Victory to destroy a Nebula Hand that held Earth-Two in its destructive grasp. Destroying it, Tornado was then exiled to Earth-One.

Soon after joining the Justice League, Reddy was destroyed once more by an alien known as Nekron. He was later reassembled by the cosmic computer labeled Construct III, an electronic entity with a goal of enslaving Earth while itself becoming the revitalized Red Tornado.

Still later, Reddy traveled with Superman to the Anti-Matter Universe to battle the Weaponers of Qward, Red Tornado inadvertently and unknowingly merged once more with his exiled Tornado Tyrant persona (which had resided in that reality for years following its initial defeat at the hands of the Justice League). What activities the Tyrant was engaged in during his time on Qward are inknown, although he silently observed the sinister nature of Qward’s inhabitants, reinforcing his own tenacious tendencies.

Once more in his native universe now on Earth-One, the Tornado Tyrant sought revenge against the League when the android's creator T.O. Morrow tampered with Tornado’s robotic shell. Yet again, the Tornado Champion defeated the Tyrant, although this evil entity remained dormant, awaiting a future occasion when he would be awoken once more.

This opportunity arrived during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, when the Anti-Monitor unleashed the Tyrant once more. This Monitor became aware of this Tornadic creature during its years residing in Qward's universe, and saw it as a key to destroying the positive-matter universes who vexed him.

Although the combined might of the Justice Society were able to subdue the Tornado Tyrant, neither it nor its split persona the Champion ever resumed the Red Tornado identity, seeking to remain as the elemental entity it once was and desiring to be left alone.

Merging of Doppelgängers: The Cosmic Treadmill's Strange Power

The Cosmic Treadmill was a device invented by Barry “Flash” Allen powered by cosmic energy. This device enabled Flash to travel through time, with positive radiation drawing him into the future and negative radiation drawing him back into the past, coordinated by pulsations emanating from its cosmic ray-powered clock. 

During the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry along with fellow Justice Leaguers and members of the Justice Alliance of Earth-D constructed a larger version of the Threadmill. The became an interdimensional transport for millions of inhabitants of that world, which were being destroyed by the anti-matter wave destroying the Multiverse. Working with his counterpart Tanaka Rei, Barry created another treadmill, with the ability to merge doppelgängers!

Barry shared this invention with his nephew Wally "Kid Flash" West and his counterpart Jay "Flash" Garrick of Earth-Two. Jay later created his own version of the Threadmill, the Time Vortex. This mechanism similarly allowed for guided time travel, as well as fabricating period-specific clothing for individuals using it. Star-Spangled Kid suspected it manipulated cosmic energy like his  cosmic converter belt and Starman's cosmic rod.

While on Earth-Prime, Barry created another treadmill allowing him to return to Earth-One. Now realizing it bend time and space, upon Tanaka's suggestion they modified the Earth-D version. Those individuals of Earth-D travelling through its portal merged with their "genetic doppelgängers" on Earth-One. Of course, some like Barry and Tanaka weren't genetic counterparts, and so would've remained separate.

A similar occurence happened years earlier, when the Aquaman of Earth-One encountered the city of Necrus, which shifted from its native universe to another from time-to-time. On this occasion, the beam that brought Necrus to his world also struck the King of the Seas, causing a doppelgänger of his appear to be splitting off from him. In fact, this was the long lost Aquaman of Earth-Two, whom Arthur Curry's mind was connected with during this process. Together they defeated Mecrus' leader Mongo and his evil forces attempting to invade Atlantis and attack the surface world, although at the cost of the second Aquaman's life.

The device causing Necrus and the golden age Aquaman to shift from universe to universe was a "dimensional time reflex" machine created by a scientist from a doomed world in space. While merged, the Aquaman pulled into Earth-One's universe was mentally tied to that planet's native Aquaman, as would the Earth-D citizens with the Earth-One twins.

Even the transmatter cubes, created by the Justice League and Justice Society to travel to one another's worlds annually, was used to this effect. When Earth-One was invaded by the creature known as Krogg, who had resided in the Limbo realm between universes for centuries. the Kal-El and Kal-L used the device to become a composite Superman. Just as they doubled their own power, the two felt each other's minds slowly become one.

Something similar probably occured with the Freedom Fighters of Earth-Two, recruited by Uncle Sam to protect Earth-X. Each member may have merged with their Earth-X doppelgänger, which had near identical lives to their own (aside from not being superheroes themselves) and allowing them to carry on their wartime adventures chronicled in Quality Comics.

Perhaps the most widespread effect of this occuring was when the alien Creator2 tried to merge Earth-Two and Earth-One together using the android Red Tornado's dimension-travelling ability. On this occasion, all of the worlds' citizens met their doppelgängers of he other world for a brief period.

What effect this merging had on the minds and bodies of those of Earth-One who now gained the lives and experiences of their Earth-D doppelgängers in unknown.

Comic Cartoonists Created Costumed Crimefighters

Nick Stevens* was an aspiring young artist while still attending Fairfax High School. His primary interest was in creating superheroes for his handmade comicbooks. In 1982, he became friends with fellow students Vicki Grant and Chris King, who themselves were superheroes thanks to the power dials they mysteriously inherited a year earlier. He, and they, discovered that somehow his creations influenced the dials, causing Chris and Vicki to transform into those specific heroes and heroines. After briefly being mentally manipulated by the mysterious Master to use this ability to manufacture supervillains, Nick regained his senses and helped his schoolmates. 

It was then revealed that the Master was really Robbie Reed, the original Dial H for Hero. After dialing "S-P-L-I-T" in order to become both himself and a superhero in order to save Earth-One, this turned him evil. His heroic alter ego created the two additional power dials then given to Vicki and Chris, after which he was hunted down by Reed. After regaining his sanity and morality, Robbie bequeathed his Dial to Nick. Stevens remained a creative civilian instead of a costumed crimefighter.

On the parallel planet of Earth-Two, another young cartoonist was himself heavily involved with actual superheroes since the 1940s. This lad, Scribbly Jibbet**. lived in a neighborhood where his own younger sister Sisty and her best friend Dinky were secretly the Cyclone Kids***, sidekicks of local superheroine Red Tornado****... herself Ma Hunkle the mother of Dinky. During their various adventures, Scribbly tapped into the metaphysical aspects of his reality through Earth-Prime artist Sheldon Mayer whom they all met.

Among Scribbly's greatest inspirations towards his career chronicling costumed crimefighters was Superman, and years later the revived Seven Soldiers of Victory who returned after having disappeared for decades into past eras. This led Scribbly in his late 40's into a job at Metropolis News, illustrating the city's many prtoectors such as the Man of Steel, the Soldiers, Power Girl and some members of the Justice Society. Jibbet also supplemented this with reporting on their tales as a beat reporter. This led him to become friends with the Shining Knight, who recruited Scribbly to be his partner and newest teammate of the Seven Soldiers, or Law's Legionnaires which was their other team name. During the Convergence event on the world of Talos, they saw the other Soldiers losing their lives save for the Knight and Star-Spangled Kid.

In the intervening years between his boyhood days and those as a Legionnaire, Jibbet ended up marrying and fathering a son named Scribbly Jr. His son became friends with Sugar Plumm and Cecil "Spike" Wilson who, like Sisty and Dinky, at times were secretly heroes... although these kids gained various abilities or devices. These kids, like Vicki**** and Chris, were local legends. 

* Nick Stevens’ Earth-Two counterpart was Bernie the Brain, a super-genius infant who created various devices which he and his friend Sugar and Spike used in several of their adventures.

** Robbie Reed's Earth-Two counterpart Scribbly Sr. may have been the creator of the cartoon brought to life known as "Burp the Twerp" which like Chris’ heroic Dial aliases was multi-talented. 

*** The Cyclone Kids Sisty and Dinky's Earth-One counterparts were Justice League junior members Paco "Vibe" Ramone and Cynthia "Gypsy" Reynolds.

**** Red Tornado aka Ma Hunkle's Earth-One counterpart was Katma Tui who like Ma was inspired by Green Lantern, with Katma becoming the Green Lantern of her space sector.

***** Vicki Grant's greatest power is her hairs' superhuman ability to stay as pigtales at all times!!!

Legendary Legacy Lads and Lasses of the Justice Society

The year 1940 saw the dawn of superhero teams, with the debut of the Justice Society of America. For the next decade, they would be the standard bearers that would imspire other such teams. On their Earth-Two these included Law's Legionnaires or Seven Soldiers of Victory, the Blue Boys, All-Star Squadron, Freedom Fighters, among others.

Their stories would be relayed on other Earths in the form of comicbooks, with writers of those worlds having their minds "attuned" to the frequencies of the Multiverse which provided them the material to chronicle these adventures. On Earth-One especially, several heroes debuted there having adopted alter egos of Justice Society members. Perhaps most notable was police scientist Barry Allen, who after gaining the power of superspeed, decided to live out his boyhood dream and imitate the JSA member known as the Flash, aka police scientist Jay Garrick. Just prior to their historic meeting, Barry-Flash joined other heroes to form the Justice League of America.

And so, various other masked men also appeared to be the next generation of superheroes, carrying on the traditions of the originals. Such ones as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Atom, Hawkman, Hawkgirl... each new version mirrored the first version years earlier.

However, on Earth-Two, a new generation of heroes was already appearing in the mid-1950s. The first to appear was Tornado Tot, secretly the infant pair of aspiring heroes known as Sugar Plumm and Cecil "Spike" Wilson, who borrowed a flying costume created by a neighborhood kid. They were of course inspired by the wanna-be Justice Society member, Ma Hunkle aka Red Tornado. Within a year after the Tot had their first, and last, case... yet another Red Tornado appeared. This one, however, was an android created by criminal mastermind T.O. Morrow with the intent of sabotaging the Justice Society from within. Thankfully, this android Tornado proved honorable, and helped them defeat his creator and join their ranks. After a few years, Tornado moved to Earth-One to join the Justice League.

The next legacy hero to appear did so secretly at first. This occured in 1969 after a tragic tale involving the death of Dinah and Larry Lance, as they alongside the Justice Society and Justice League defeated the cosmic being known as Aquarius. As Dinah, also known as Black Canary, was dying from extensive radiation exposure, she recalled a daughter kept in suspended animation within the Thunderbolt Dimension for decades. This child had been given a dangerous sonic power, which unlike the girl's counterpart Silver Swan who gained this ability as an adult, was unable to master as such as young age. With Johnny Thunder and Superman's help, the mother's memories were implanted into those of her sleeping daughter, now an adult... and this younger Dinah became the new Black Canary. Joining the Justice League's membership on Earth-One, she honored her mother's legacy.

Soon after this, another blonde bombshell arrived on Earth-Two after the previous one had departed. This lass was Kara Zor-L, the long-lost cousin of Kal-L aka Superman, who had been traveling through space for several decades while slumbering within her Symbioship as she experience a virtual reality Kryptonian existence. She would be welcomed into her cousin Kal/Clark Kent's home, and would form a strong bond with Clark's wife Lois Lane Kent. However, unlike her counterpart of Earth-One Kara Zor-El, she did not adopt a legacy alias of Supergirl. Instead, she broke the mold and named herself Power Girl, years later joining the Justice Society and becoming a key member.

In the late 1970s and early 1970s, several more legacy heroes appeared as the children and protégées of the Justice Society approached adulthood. First among them was Helena "Huntress" Wayne, daughter of Batman and Catwoman. She like Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon of Earth-One, proved every bit as adept as her male mentor.

Others included: Hawkman and Hawkgirl's son Hector "Silver Scarab" Hall, Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor's daughter Lyta "Fury" Trevor, Green Lantern's children Jennie Lynn "Jade" Hayden and Todd "Obsidian" Rice, and the godsons of Atom and Hawkman in Albert "Nuklon" Rothstein" and Norda "Northwind" Cantrell, as well as Hourman’s son Rick Tyler.

Alongside these original members of Infinity, Inc., additional members such as Hourman's son Rick Tyler, Wildcat's goddaughter Yolanda Montez, and Doctor Mid-Nite's protegee Beth Chapel each adopted the alter egos of their mentors somewhat later. They would mirror the New Teen Titans, led by Dick "Robin" Grayson who like his Earth-Two counterpart was the first such legacy hero. 

However, the Titans were composed more of sidekicks such as Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Speedy... which were also present on Infinity Inc.'s world and were their own distinct type of legacy hero. While the golden age Holliday Girl Donna Troy, Johnny "Johnny Quick" Chambers and Neptune Perkins were less connected to their world's Wonder Woman, Flash, and Aquaman, they were still carrying on the torch of these legends with their own heroic spirit in the face of danger.

Q-Energy: Mysterious Radiation from Another Universe

Kryptonite is the most harmful substance a superhumanly powered Kryptonian can encounter, as extended exposure to it can be fatal. However, this is not the only deadly radiation that can cripple a Superman. There is also... Q-Energy!

The Superman of Earth-One first encountered Q-Energy in February 1968, shortly after a prominent scientist named Lorraine Lewis discovered it. She had on three separate occasions tried to assist the man whom she secretly loved, Superman, using her intelligence and her inventions. However, each time, it was three other women with double L initials... Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris... who ultimately helped him and outshined Lorraine. Seeking revenge, she devised a trap harnessing the Q-Energy that would kill Superman, although this backfired as he escaped... and it killed her instead.

However, when explaining this mysterious radiation to Superman, Lewis said that it came from "another dimensional universe". And a few years later, some agents sent by the Weaponers of Qward from the Anti-Matter Universe used weapons charged with Q-Energy to immobilize Superman, and then use him as a conduit to mentally mesmerize the entire population of Earth-One in order to control and colonize it. Thankfully, the android Red Tornado proved immune to this energy, and destroyed Qward's device freeing humanity. During this encounter, Kaman who led the Weaponers, was curious as to why Tornado was immune to it. Part of this was due to his android nature, part due to his origin.

Red Tornado originated in the Earth-Two universe, having crossed over to Earth-One while saving the world of his "birth". Interestingly, another resident from his universe, Princess Ramia of the planet Myrg, possessed this energy. Ramia brought Q-Energy with her in June 1966 to Earth-One, while being pursued by her tyranical suitor Prince Peril, using it to enable Doiby Dickle's cab Goitrude to fly. Ramia, Doiby and Peril returned to Earth-Two's universe... with the latter defeated by the Green Lanterns of both Earths... while the former two ended up marrying. However, some of Ramia's Q-Energy remained on Earth-One*, later discovered first by Lorraine. Meanwhile, Kaman’s technicians on Qward harnessed a version of Q-Energy in their universe to empower the Thunderers’ Qwa-Bolts..

Q-Energy's properties include, but are not limited to: anti-gravity or flying, mind-control, potent energy blasts. It seems this may be the Earth-Two universe's equivalent to the emerald energy harnessed by the Guardians of the Universe and their Green Lantern Corps... a portion of which they sent to Earth-Two's universe to stabilize this subsection of the multiverse. It seems, that the Q-Energy arriving from Earth-Two to Earth-One helped rebalance both universes... as each had the others' energy**. As would the Anti-Matter universe of Qward.

* After the taxi cab Goitrude was injected with Q-Energy by Ramia, the energized form of Sinestro entered the taxi and absorbed the energy from it. Sinestro was then restored to his physical form and became a carrier of the energy, spreading it both throughout Earth-One’s plane of existence and that of Qward’s, where he periodically returned to on occasion. 

This was prior to the time when two warring alien races used Q-Energy on Superman, and shortly thereafter when the Qwardians’ invasion of Earth-One which Red Tornado thwarted in 1978. It may be that, due to the prevelance of alternate emerald energy from Earth-One's universe sent by the Guardians, this surpressed the amount of Q-Energy present in the Earth-Two universe where it originated.

** Q-Energy also existed in Existence Level 24 in the 86th planet known as Gobdor which like Earth-Two was in a parallel dimensional plane to that of Earth-One. A tele-vis director used a device to manipulate this energy against the Flash of Earth-One, controlling molecular bonds in water and causing the speedster to become super-heavy. Similarly, the Thinker and later Vandal Savage used a heavy ray device versus his arch-enemy, the Flash of Earth-Two. Undoubtedly, this was most probably powered by Q-Energy. As for the Earth-One Flash being a carrier of Q-Energy prior to Princess Ramia's appearance on Earth-One, this seems improbable as the Scarlet Speedster had complete control over his molecules, and returned to normal following his encounter with the Gobdor people.

Twice-Told-Tales: Tyrannical Tales of T.O. Morrow

Originally a foe of the Flash and Green Lantern... in order to escape defeat at their hands, T.O. Morrow traveled to Earth-Two. There, he used his 4th-dimension grapple beam and future monitor to pluck devices of later eras into his time period. Among these was a sentient computer based on Hourman's Crime-Caster, which created androids to battle the Justice Society and Justice League.

For the Society, Morrow utilized faceless android assassins, for the League, he used replicas of the League's love interests*. Encountering these automatons, five Leaguers and Socialites were placed in a death-like coma due to exposure to Morrow's Futur-Energy. And a key factor in his grand scheme was the creation of the android Red Tornado, implanted with false memories and thus believing himself to be the original Red Tornado who had tried to join the Society decades earlier. Due to his unpredictable nature, the Tornado's attempts at saving his fellow members would backfire against them.

On Earth-Two, Morrow's atomic clouds... used in the theft of ancient artifacts at the 20th Century museum... mixed with radiation from Starman's cosmic rod animated four giant Egyptian statues in the forms of a cat, eagle, ram and lion. 

While Tornado was able to defeat this quartet with his vortex powers, their potential perhaps inspired Morrow into creating equally massive animal pawns in the form of a dragon, a griffin, a man-monster, and the automaton Super-Duper (who combined Wonder Woman, Hawkman, and Flash into one synthetic being) from within the League's Cave headquarters.

Unlike the four statutes that faced the Society, the four beasts on Earth-One took considerable effort for the League to defeat, although they like their Society counterparts succumbed to the Futur-Energy. Now all of Morrow's foes were disabled... except one!

And that one, Red Tornado, fought against his programming... tracking the radiation from his master's weaponry back to Earth-One. There, he found the immobilized Leaguers, and surmised from Morrow's own recordings how to save them. Using the real love interests of the five Leaguers initially captured to revive them through "a kiss", they accompanied Red Tornado to the secret base of T.O. Morrow. 

There, in dimensional Limbo between the two universes, Morrow planned to start a war between his native Earth-One and adopted Earth-Two. Beaming energy-rays into both worlds designed to agitate their inhabitants and then opening portals between both planets that would cause chaos on each. The villian theorized that by doing this, he would ultimately be the victory. However, his own computer calculated that the only way he could be defeated is by the intervention of his greatest creation, the Red Tornado!

After Red Tornado and the five Leaguers overcame the sinister scientist's synthetic army and destroyed his equipment, they captured Morrow and returned with him to Earth-One. There, Tornado used a rifle powered with the Futur-energy to restore mobility to the remaining Leaguers.

Following this, Tornado then journeyed back to Earth-Two where he did the same for the Justice Society, updating them on what had transpired. At this point, the awesome android proved both his naivite and his ingenuity... leading to him being granted a probationary membership into the Justice Society. However, over the years, Red Tornado never truly felts as if he fit in with this team, and when ultimately sacrificing his life to save Earth-Two from the Iron Hand.

Instead, he ended up being pulled back to Earth-One where he would be found by Morrow, using him in another scheme to destroy the Justice League. When this failed, Tornado instead adopted the “human” alter ego of John Smith and joined the Justice League as a long-serving and honored member. He even gained a girlfriend in Kathy Sutton and an adopted daughter in a girl named Traya whom he rescued from a war torn middle eastern country.

Although he would face future tragedies involving alien entities attempting to manipulate him, Red Tornado’s indomitable heroic spirit kept him grounded to humanity, who unlike his human creator, he sought to be a constructive part.

* Morrow used his Futurenergy to create energy duplicates of five friends (Steve Trevor, Jean Loring, Shayera "Hawkgirl" Hol, Midge and Mera Curry) and one foe (Doctor Light) of the League, while Per Degaton's time machine created six temporal duplicates of the Society's old foes (Per Degaton, Wotan, Professor Zodiak, King Bee, Monster and Sky Pirate) from 1948 in 1941. The original friends and foes of these heroes existed separate and simultaneous to their "chronal-clones" on these occasions.

Crimson Comets' Lost Lady Loves

Iris West Allen and Joan Williams Garrick were well known for their legendary romances with the Flashes of Two Worlds, as were other examples of legendary loves such as Superman and Lois Lane, Batman and Catwoman, Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. But for every heartfelt coupling, there were also tales of tragic relationships. 

Both Hal Jordan and Alan Scott had a litany of loveaffairs such as with Carol Danvers and Irene Miller, Olivia Reynolds and Molly Maynne. Alan and Molly found their way back to each other after decades apart. Sadly, Hal and Carol were torn apart by their alter egos.

While Joan and Jay Garrick, the original Flash, remained together to have long lives in love... the modern Flash, Barry Allen, lost his wife Iris when his arch foe Professor Zoom murdered her. After dealing with his loss, Barry fell in love with neighbor Fiona Webb. However, before they could wed, Zoom once more tried to ruin Allen's love life. In order to protect his bride, Flash in the spur of the moment accidentally slain Zoom. As a result, Barry disappeared while his alter ego tried to clear his name of the murder charge against the Flash.

The Fiona of a parallel world, Gloria Giles, was the fiancee of Hank Heywood, until Hank adopted the alias of Steel when his life was saved by her father's bio-retardant formula. Gaining superhuman abilities including enhanced speed, Steel became an early "mystery man" of Earth-Two, as superheroes were then known.

Objecting to Steel's exploits and Hank's military career, Professor Giles insisted that Hank sever his ties with Gloria. Honoring Giles' dying wish, he and Gloria parted.

Other romances, while sincere and on firm foundations, were torn apart by circumstances beyond the couple's control. Such was the case for John Smith, the super-fast android known as Red Tornado, and his unemployment advisor turned girlfriend Kathy Sutton. Seeing how lost John seemed, in fact he had been stranded on her Earth-One when he saved his native Earth-Two from a cosmic calamity, Kathy formed a bond that touched Smith's artificial heart. Over the years, these two would draw close together, only be be pulled apart due to the Tornado's heroic career. This first occured when Red Tornado was temporarily destroyed while facing the alien Nekron, although once he is restored to synthetic life by the omnious Construct, Smith seeks out Kathy once more. Revealing his true nature, she accepts him and together they adopt the orphaned middle-eastern girl,Traya. For a few years, the three form a familial bond, until the Crisis on Infinite Earths, when the Anti-Monitor once more has Red Tornado destroyed, in order to unlease the Tornado Tyrant inside him. In some alternate futures, he once more becomes John Smith and reunited with Kathy.

Then there was the Earth-Two version, Kathy Kulhammer, daughter of a congressman. Although romantically attached to publisher Edward Runyon, this Kathy began to form feelings for Steel. However, before she could meet his alter ego Hank, Heywood was pulled into a secret mission in Europe which kept him away for years. Eventually, Steel left for Earth-One, while this Kathy presumably continued her relationship with Runyon.

Timmy Tinkle: Tenacious Troubleshooting Tech

Timmy Tinkle was like Red Tornado and Stel a robotic creation. While it seemed his origin was benevolent, in actuality his creator had like Tornado's architect T.O. Morrow attempted to trick his unwitting victims into trusting the automaton for his own greedy gains. Inserting Timmy into television station WHIZ, the station owner Morris wholeheartedly accepted the newly "freed" robot to apply for a job there.

And in fact Tinkle performed some heroic deeds causing first news anchor Billy Batson and, soon thereafter, his superhero alter ego Captain Marvel into befriending the bot. When it was discover that Timmy has stolen items from the station, Cap was determined to disassemble the droid until he saw a radio transmitter implanted in the erratic electronic. 

After capturing the culprit, the inventor himself, Tinkle was cleared of all charges and gained employment at WHIZ.

While not having massive power like Red Tornado of Earth-Two (later of Earth-One) and the inferior Red Tornado replica of Earth-One's universe, as that level of energy emissions was exhibited in another robot of Earth-S named Mister Atom who fought Captain Marvel repeatedly, Timmy Tinkle was still every bit as dynamic.

Legacies of the Lantern: Scarlet Super-Sisters

While Hal Jordan of Earth-One and Alan Scott of Earth-Two were the standard bearers of the Green Lantern identity, their lasting legacy would endure and promote others to follow their steadfast example. Among these were Katma Tui and Ma Hunkel, legends as well.

Katma Tui was an inhabitant of planet Korugar in Sector 1417, who was given the power ring and battery following her successors' downfall. The previous Green Lantern of her sector, also from her world, was a hero turned dictator in Sinestro. Soon after beginning her career as Green Lantern of her sector, she decided to quit in order to pursue a romantic relationship. To that end, the Guardians of the Universe who discharged the Lanterns to their duties sent Hal to convince her to remain a superheroine. She did, and years later when Jordan himself retired, Katma was assigned the task of training the next Green Lantern of his Sector 2814, John Stewart. Very shortly thereafter, the two fell in love, eventually married, and remained together on Earth-One. 

Abigail Ma Hunkel was a resident of a big city on Earth-Two during World War II, in a community besieged with terror from the criminal element. When you daughter and another youth mentioned to her of how their Green Lantern, this one Alan Scott, would have cleaned up crime were he there... she became inspired to follow his example. As the original Red Tornado, Ma did not have his power ring nor his power battery, but did possess his heroic disposition. Eventually, Hunkel even ascertained where the Justice Society of America were meeting, and sought membership to their group. When this attempt failed, although Ma was granted posthumous honorary membership to the team, she returned to battling evil on her own. She would have a team of her own, allied with her daughter and a neighborhood boy who became her sidekicks, known as the Cyclone Kids.

Tornado Tyrant… or Cyclone Champion?

The superhero known as the Red Tornado was not always such... originally he, or rather it, was spawned on the planet Rann as a sentient wind storm that went by the alias Ulthoon the Tornado Tyrant. Ulthoon terrorized that world until a native from Earth-One named Adam Strange did what he often would do while visiting Rann, save it from its latest threat. However, despite his best efforts Adam failed to destroy Ulthoon... instead he caused something to happen to his former enemy that had a far more profound effect. The Tyrant became a Champion as he gained a conscience.

After observing Strange alongside the Justice League of America defeating space dictator Kanjar Ro, and doing so nobly, the now Tornado Champion decided he needed to turn over a new leaf by mirroring the heroism he had just witnessed. In fact, creating a visual imitation of the Justice League on another world, it seemed he would be more successful as a hero than a villain. That was, until his alter ego the Tornado Tyrant split off from him and seemingly defeated his League. Seeking out the real League, he learned from observing them how to beat his split persona and absorb the Tyrant back into himself... although this evil entity rears his ugly head once more much later.

He realized he needed to start over, not on Rann nor Earth-One where the League were operating, but by journeying to Earth-Two. There, he encountered another individual from his home dimension, evil scientist T.O. Morrow who was in developing an android to destroy that world's Justice Society. And coincidentally, the android Morrow created was to be known as the Red Tornado, harnessing the powers of wind much as the Champion himself had possessed.

Since this occurred on Earth-Two twenty years prior to when the winsome wind had just left Earth-One, due to the slower vibratory rate between universes, Red Tornado had actually preceded the birth of the Tyrant! In any event, when the Champion entered the android's body, its formerly malevolent programming was then altered by the combination of two minds into the benevolent Red Tornado that would ultimately choose good over evil. And, in fact, this is what he had done after first being manipulated into seemingly slaying the Justice Society and Justice League in two separate but related incidents. 

Having revived the assembled heroes, Tornado aided in the defeat of the android's creator... although Morrow would return. Now as new being merging the Earth-One Tornado Champion and the Earth-Two Red Tornado, who would endure tragedy again and again. Years later, both Earth’s Supermen merged to defeat a near unstoppable foe. However, this melding proved too much for the Men of Steel, as their psyches were overwhelmed with the flood of thoughts and emotions each experienced. It is worth noting that the Tornados had a stronger mental fortitude that allowed them to become a better person due to the melding of each entity into the other. This would be borne out in the weeks, months and years to follow.

Over the next several years, having been made a member of the Justice Society, it seemed that Red Tornado's career on Earth-Two was as much as failure as was his pseudo-League earlier. In his next recorded case with the team, he was shunted aside by his allies during a battle with Aquarius, then sent to Earth-One to recruit the League to aid their counterparts. On his next adventure, Reddy ended up used as a pawn by another alien known as Creator2, who was trying to merge both Earths together within the same physical space. Years later, when the evil Iron Hand had Earth-Two imprisoned within a gigantic Nebulon hand, it was the Tornado who delivered the special rod weapon necessary to destroy this hand, although at the cost of his own life. However, as would often be the case with this scarlet clad hero, reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated.

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In fact, he was merely thrust into Earth-One* instead, where a recently escaped convict known as T.O. Morrow found his former creation. As with his past caper, the villain was obsessed with eliminating his adversaries. Once more, Morrow failed, failing to account for the x-factor within the android, the melded personality of computer and sentient wind. Now stranded on Earth-One, Red Tornado joined the Justice League. However, the reason behind his being stranded wasn't readily determined, since he previously had the ability in both his forms to travel between universes. This time he decided to adopt a human alias, John Smith, rather than relying on a false alter ego like he tried to use on Earth-Two as the original Red Tornado, Ma Hunkel. Building a life for himself which included a girlfriend in Kathy Sutton and soon after a step-daughter in the war orphan known as Traya, John had finally seemed to succeed as a true champion among his powerful peers. 

The original android eventually encountered two Red Tornado androids built by a revitalized T.O. Morrow, with the goal of finally defeating the Justice League and determining the true nature of his first automaton creation. He noticed that the two Tornado replicas, despite having similar cyclonic powers and sentience, lacked the spark of life which the first Red Tornado manifested during their brief operational existence. These faux-Tornados mirrored a few of Morrow's Earth-Two androids who also spinned above Atlantis.

A young lad inspired by the Ma Hunkle Red Tornado was a boy inventor  named Little Arthur who created the alter ego of Tornado Tot. This childhood associate of Sugar and Spike was the Earth-Two counterpart of the orphan girl whom John Smith adopted, Traya.

Without realizing that an outside influence originating from planet Rann that spawned this combined cyclonic creature, Morrow inadvertently unleashed both the Tornado Tyrant and the Tornado Champion, destroying Reddie’s cybernetic body. Thanks to Firestorm, this Red Tornado was reconstituted into a merged entity… as had happened years earlier when the aforementioned Construct restored the android’s body to house its mind for a time. The original Earth-Two Red Tornado android was the doppelgänger of the Construct Red Tornado replica, with the Construct's mind based on previous Constructs just as Tornado's mind was based on Morrow's predictive computer of the future which he replicated in the 20th century. 

Eventually, a final confrontation between Red Tornado and the Construct led to the latter's permanent erasure prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earths. And it was during the Crisis when the Anti-Monitor stripped away Tornado Champion/Tyrant from Red Tornado's body and used him as a weapon to devastate Earth-One... just as he had with the Tornado Tyrant's counterpart in Jonni Thunder's Thunderbolt which he unleashed upon Earth-Two at the same time. Neither elemental entity, both former heroes succumbing to their base evil natures, succeeded in their tasks thanks to the interventions of both Earths' superheroes.

* One interesting aside as to how the cosmos balances itself... the Earth-One heroine known as Zatanna who had control over weather would not have existed had not her father Zatara moved from his native Earth-Two to her home world and met her mother. Similarly, the wind-powered  heroic Red Tornado would not have existed on Earth-Two had not the Tornado Champion traveled to Earth-Two and altered the androids programming from the sinister computer that mirrored the Tornado Tyrant to the artificial man that would join the Society. And, in fact, both Zatanna and Red Tornado would be teammates in the League, and on one occasion journeyed to Earth-Two's past in a case together showing how the two characters were linked.