PLANET PETE

Real Name: Pete (last name unrevealed)

Class: Human

Occupation: Crimeboss

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile, 2057AD

First Appearance: Action Comics I #231 (August, 1957)

Powers: Planet Pete had a devious, scheming mind and controlled a criminal empire.

History: (Action Comics I #231) - Space-TV announced the nominees for the Academy Awards of Space, a celebration of space-feats by Planeteers. Tommy Tomorrow was nominated for a mercy mission delivering spacecillin to an offplanet colony best by plague, saving Earth from a stray comet by blowing it up with an H-bomb, as well as most space-criminals captured. Notorious crimeboss Planet Pete told his gang he;'d ruin Tommy's big night by causing him to foul up, which would result in the Academy awarding him a boner certificate and getting demoted. Pete removed signs indicating a condemned ship being wrecked, and when Tommy saw the ship on fire he put it out. The wreckers were initially angry, but Tommy pointed out a valuable jewel on the ship he'd spotted from space, and they thanked him. Pete's next trap was a smokescreen around a movie set, obscuring the view so Tommy only saw a Dinomonster threatening an actress, and paralyzed it with his raygun. The crew chided him, but Tommy pointed out that the tame Dinomonster was headed towards a radioactive lake that would have given the actress radiation burns. Pete was in a huff about being foiled, and covered a robot in soot so Tommy would mistake it for human and prevent it from mining a lightning crater. Tommy made it up to the prospector by using the robot as a shield from the lightning and recovering the mines' jewels himself. Tommy realized someone was playing him, and after identifying Planet Pete and his gang, he tracked them down and arrested him. Tommy received his rewards, and handed Pete his very own boner certificate for trying to outwit him.

Comments: Created by Otto Binder & Jim Mooney.