(Spectre III #20 (fb)) - Thunderbolt and several other mysterymen were battling a German fleet trying to cross the British Channel, but the fight was going against them until the Spectre arrived. He turned the tide, and every German soldier died screaming. The mysterymen were in awe at Spectre's power.

(DCU Holiday Bash #2) - <December 24, 1944> The Justice Society put on the Justice Society Canteen for troops home for the holidays, with Johnny and the Thunderbolt providing entertainment with a comedy act. Nazi saboteurs tried to blow up the canteen, but were foiled thanks to the help of Ensign James Gordon.

(Spectre III #20 (fb)) - <1945> At the end of WWII Starman and the Justice Society visited Auschwitz and learned the full extent of the Nazi's genocide. Spectre raged, and wanted to destroy every German in sight, but the Justice Society talked him down, telling him he had to rely on the justice of the Nuremberg war trials.

(Flash Comics Miniature) - <1946> Johnny was knocked out by some crooks and suspended from a flagpole. With Thunderbolt's help he escaped his predicament and caught the crooks in the middle of a bank robbery.

(Flash Comics #70) - Johnny Thunder took Peachy Pet to a museum exhibit on ancient Egyptian history, but she was unimpressed, calling it history’s junkyard. Johnny studied the flight stone, an artifact found in an ancient Egyptian prison, and Peachy speculated that Egyptian cops used it to hit prisoners over the head. A thief ran into security at the museum, and hid inside Tuto-Toniah’s sarcophagus. It was enchanted, and once he entered he disappeared, only to reappear on the flight stone. He fled, and Johnny wanted to tell the security guards what he saw, but Peachy forbade him, saying they’d think he was crazy. She said she knew he was crazy but she didn’t want other people to know too. The next morning Johnny read a newspaper report that said Tuto-Toniah’s sarcophagus had been stolen, and Johnny summoned the Thunderbolt to get to the bottom of the case. They found the same thief Johnny had seen at the museum in a bank loading money into the stolen sarcophagus. He opened it, showing Johnny the money was gone before locking Johnny inside. Johnny reappeared at the flight stone, which the thief had also taken and stashed in his hideout. The thief's gang tied Johnny up, but he chewed through his gag and summoned Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt brought the flight stone to the police station, and the next time the thief tried to make a getaway by hiding in the sarcophagus he found himself under arrest.

(Flash Comics #71) - Peachy Pet demanded a horse, and when Johnny said no she threw a tantrum that only stopped when Johnny locked her in her room. She threatened to burn the house down, and tried to escape out her window but Johnny caught her. He summoned Thunderbolt, who helped him board Peachy’s windows shut. Peachy knew Shocko could help her, and started mentally concentrating on him. Shocko was arguing with his mom that none of the other kids would play with him, and he begged to go to Earth and play with Peachy, but his mom said no. He started thinking about Peachy and when their thoughts met Peachy said “Sez me,” summoning Shocko. He blasted the boards off her windows, and helped her steal a horse from a farmer. She said she had a great hiding spot where Johnny would never find her new pet. Thunderbolt came to Earth in a tizzy, and when Johnny asked him why he was there, saying he wasn’t summoned Thunderbolt reminded Johnny he had a life of his own, and was upset that his son was missing. Thunderbolt saw the evidence that Shocko had busted Peachy out of her room and scoured the world until he found his son. Johnny found Peachy’s horse taking a shower, but when Thunderbolt returned with his son and asked Johnny is he should return the horse to the farmer Johnny said the horse seemed pleasant enough and he didn’t want to interrupt his shower. Thunderbolt wondered what he ever did to deserve being saddled with such a fool as a master.

(Flash Comics #72) - Johnny Thunder’s dad was worried about him because he couldn’t hold down a job, and suggested he go into business for himself. Johnny thought that was a grand idea, and got a gig as a door-to-door salesman for the Useless Novelty Co. His first sale was ruined because a cat started scratching him, and as he went to the next likely customer’s house more cats started following him. The woman that answered the door had a mouse problem, and bought the cats from Johnny, and Johnny was soon on a roll, selling cereal to another customer, who promised to pay him the next day. When Johnny returned the next day the cats he sold missed his company and started following him again. The enraged owner called the police, accusing Johnny of fraud, and the cereal customer was furious because Johnny had absentmindedly sold her birdseed. Johnny called for help from Thunderbolt, but Thunderbolt thought Johnny was doing fine by himself and didn’t really feel like helping out anyway.

(Flash Comics #73) - Thunderbolt and his wife were playing pool, and Mrs. Thunderbolt asked her husband to bring Shocko to work with him because he was getting to be a handful for her, and she couldn’t get him out of the house because the other 5th Dimensional children wouldn’t play with him. Johnny said the magic word, and Thunderbolt relented, bringing his son to work, even though he complained Johnny was enough of a pain for him while he was trying to get things done. Johnny built a dollhouse for Peachy Pet’s birthday, but managed to get his head stuck between two planks of the roof, and was in danger of choking to death before Thudnerbolt freed him. Shocko took the distraction as an opportunity to sneak away, wanting to go to Peachy’s birthday party instead of returning to the 5th Dimension. He thought the party’s magician was boring so he turned into a giant rabbit and stuffed him in his own top hat, alarming the children at the party. Thunderbolt chased his son back home, and Peachy’s friends all said they were never coming over her house again. During all the commotion Johnny managed to get his head caught in the dollhouse again.

(Flash Comics #74) - Johnny Thunder told his folks and Peachy Pet that he was sick of his life going nowhere, and went out to find a career. He went to the Spunk Publishing Company to apply for an editor job when he crashed into O.H.M.I. Bright, who’d just been tossed from the Spunk office. Johnny tried to sell himself to bright, saying he was the famous Johnny Thunder who controlled the magic Thunderbolt, and Bright was convinced he’d found someone nuts enough to be his agent. Bright wrote a memoir of everything he’d learned in his life, but refused to show his book to anyone until a publisher paid him $50,000 for the rights to the book. Thunder went to the Julis Sheldall Book Company, and Sheldall immediately recognized him as a dope and tossed him out. Johnny wasn’t about to be dissuaded from being a successful agent and summoned Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt flew them into Sheldall’s office while Johnny banged a drum advertising Bright’s book, and flew them out the window again. Thunderbolt helped Johnny continue his antics until Sheldall broke down and agreed to buy the rights to the book if only they’d leave him alone. Johnny and Sheldall cracked open the book and realized it was completely blank. Shelldall’s entirety of life’s knowledge was nothing, so he hadn’t written anything in his book. Sheldall was furious with Johnny, who complained that he’d been duped as well.

(Flash Comics #75) - Peachy Pet was supposed to bring Mr. Thunder his morning paper, but Johnny said she was out playing. Johnny's father yelled at him, saying he was raising a lazy child, and demanded Johnny get his paper. Johnny got the paper, but some men nearby were raising a safe, and when the pulley lifting it snapped it landed on Johnny’s head. Johnny was seemingly unhurt but the men decided to take Johnny to the hospital, and Peachy, who’d witnessed the accident, insisted on tagging along. The doctor wanted to see if Johnny's nervous system was intact, and tapped his knee with a hammer. Johnny’s knee shot out at kicked the doctor through the roof, so the men decided Johnny should be taken to the Scientific Bureau. Johnny got fed up with being poked and prodded and said “Say you!” summoning the Thunderbolt. Johnny didn’t recognize Thunderbolt or Peachy Pet, and Thunderbolt, quite insulted, returned to the 5th Dimension. Peachy was worried about her foster father because the bureau scientists seemed like sadists, shooting Johnny to find out if he’d be harmed, but the scientist aiming ended up hitting his colleague’s head mirror. They put Johnny in a freezing tank and Peachy summoned Shocko to save him. Shocko messed with the controls and freed him. Johnny had enough of the scientists, and flicked one of them away form him with a snap of his fingers. Another safe landed on Johnny’s head, returning him to normal, and he returned home. He’d been gone a day so his father was furious that he’d brought him yesterday’s news.

(Flash Comics #76) - Crooked taxidermist Si Heavily gave his burglar pal Harry Ferret a dogsuit he could slip on to commit crimes unnoticed. They went into a bank to so Si could exchange old bills for new ones when Ferret swiped the bills, but gave himself away when he congratulated Si on a job well done. They ran away from the police and split up  when Johnny Thunder and Peachy spotted Ferrett and Peachy demanded they take him home, hoping there’d be a reward for a lost dog. Ferret quickly tired of Peachy, who treated him too rough and rode him around the Thunder house. A news report came on about the bank robbery and Ferret fled back to Si’s shop, but Johnny summoned the Thunderbolt who rounded them both up.

(Flash Comics #77) - Johnny Thunder announced to his folks and Peachy Pet that he’d finally come up with a foolproof get rich plan, dressing up Thunderbolt, over his objections, as a mysteryman he named Hypochap and offering his services for a fee. Sockitaway Bank hired Hypochap to wash their windows, but while Hypochap was working the bank got robbed. Johnny said that for an additional fee Hypochap would catch the robbers, but before he could cash in Flash caught the crooks, and Johnny was sore that business was snatched from under his nose. The Fabulous Fur Corp. Hired Hypnochap as a night watchmen, and when their warehouse was robbed Thunderbolt said he did his job because he’d watched. Johnny tried to get extra money for Hypochap pursuing the thieves, but they were apprehended by Hawkman and Hawkgirl. A woman hired Thunderchap to rescue her kidnapped daughter, but the Ghost Patrol came to the rescue and kicked the tar out of the kidnapper. Johnny was fed up and visited the office of Flash Comics, telling the editor that if Flash et al. Didn’t stop messing with him he’d start interfering in their comic book stories.

(Flash Comics #78) - Johnny Thunder decided he had a heart of gold and told Peachy Pet he was going to show how civic-minded he was by solving the city’s transit issues. He summoned Thunderbolt and said anytime he saw someone hail  a taxi he was to grab the customer and instantaneously take them to their destination. Thunderbolt not only started a panic, but couldn’t keep up with the customers in the city, so he summoned Shocko, who summoned his mom, who summoned their extended family members. The taxi drivers were furious that business was being stolen from them, so they alerted the mayor, who realized the city was in crisis, with people being grabbed by Thunderbolts all over the city every time they tried to hail a taxi. Johnny became a wanted man, and called off the whole scheme, and had Thunderbolt take him to the 5th Dimension so he could lay low for a while.(JSA #72) - <October 30, 1951> Johnny Thunder and the time-travelling J.J. Thunder needed the Thunderbolt to defeat Per Degaton, who was trying to alter history by assassinating President Truman. They finally realized the Thunderbolt could only exist in one time, so they said their magic words together and summoned the Thunderbolt, who aided the Justice Society and the time-travelling JSA in defeating Degaton.

(Flash Comics #84) - Peachy Pet went to the market to get fish for supper when the market was frozen in a snowstorm and crooks robbed the customers. When she unfroze Peachy told Johnny Thunder what happened, and he laughed, thinking she was lying because she lost the 78 cents she’d been given and thought Johnny was gullible. She dragged Johnny to the market to prove she was telling the truth, and Johnny summoned Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt visited every house in town until he found the crook responsible. Little Joey invented a freezing machine and was using it in a crime spree. Johnny Thunder demanded his 78 cents back, and Joey froze Johnny, Peachy and Thunderbolt and shoved them in a furnace. Thunderbolt saved them by flying out a chimney and short-circuited Joey’s machine. Johnny still wanted fish, but Peachy had no appetite and told him to go fishing.

(Flash Comics #86) - A costumed woman approached Johnny Thunder, saying she was going to a masked ball but forgot her mask and asked him to retrieve it for her from a nearby building she’d propped a ladder against. Johnny got the mask and tossed it to her, but she yanked away the ladder. Johnny hung from the window and summoned Thunderbolt. He was too proud to admit he needed help and just asked for advice, to which Thunderbolt replied he advised him to get his head checked out before flying away. The crooks who lived in the apartment grabbed Johnny and accused him of stealing their mask for Black Canary, a thief who only robbed other crooks. They tried to beat up Johnny, but as he clumsily stumbled around they ended up knocking each other out. Thunderbolt returned to the scene to make sure Johnny was okay, and learned from the crook’s files that they had masks that served as an invitation to mobster “Socks” Slade’s ball. They planned on stealing the Kooblin Diamond from him, which he’d earlier stolen from Mrs. Van Eft. Black Canary gained entry to the ball with her mask and found the safe where the diamond was kept. “Socks” spotted her and drew his gun. Johnny and Thunderbolt arrived on the scene and “Socks” had his men hold them at gunpoint as well. Black Canary tossed a book at “Socks” disarming him and Thunderbolt shocked his underlings. Black Canary vanished, returning the diamond to its’ rightful owner. Johnny Thunder told Thunderbolt he was falling for black Canary and hoped to see her again. Thunderbolt said it was cliché for a hero to fall for a villainess, and besides which he wasn’t much of a hero anyway.

(Flash Comics #88) - Johnny got a pie delivered to his home and Peachy Pet was eager to dig in. Johnny cut the pie, and a black canary flew out, so he pursued it all the way to a junkyard. Goons knocked Johnny out and tied him up next to the captive Black Canary. She’d been on the crooks trail after they stole from a charity drive, stole the map to their loots, and sent it to Johnny in the pie. The crooks put the duo in a cage, flew them up in a helicopter and dropped them. Johnny summoned Thunderbolt, who saved them, but only after expressing that Johnny was still palling around with Black Canary, who he disapproved of. They rushed to Johnny’s home, where the crooks were ransacking it looking for the map. The heroes easily beat them, but Thunderbolt couldn’t act quickly enough to stop Peachy from devouring the pie. Fortunately Black Canary’s black canary had held on to the map.

(Flash Comics #90) - Johnny Thunder was on his way to catch the bus when a photographer from a new photoshop took his picture, offering to mail it to him for free. They witnessed a bank robbery, and the crooks got away. Back at home Johnny received his photo, which was of an old man and went to the photoshop to see what the mix-up was. He found Black Canary standing over the photographer, who’d been murdered. The police arrived and had a photo from the shop of Black Canary and Johnny pulling off the bankjob. They figured the duo killed the photographer to keep him quiet. Johnny protested that he was there to see why he’d gotten a photo of an old man, but when he presented the photo to the police it was a duplicate of him robbing the bank. Banko Jim and his gang showed up and held the cops at gunpoint, claiming Black Canary was their boss, and drove her and Johnny off. Jim had committed the bank robbery, and when he found out the photog had accidentally documented his crime he altered the photo, superimposing Canary and Johnny over his gang, and putting a temporary exposure of the old man on a copy of the photo to lure Johnny in. Johnny and Canary fled the crooks, but ended up locked in a gas tank. Johnny summoned Thunderbolt, who saved them, even though he caused an explosion when he touched the gasoline. The heroes returned to the photoshop, where Banko had his bank loot stored. Johnny stumbled into flash bulbs, blinding the crooks and giving Black Canary the opportunity to pull a gun and demand Jim and his gang turn themselves in to the police.

(Flash Comics #91) - Johnny took a hike in the woods and saw kids tearing up trees and throwing them. Johnny had stumbled on a gang’s airstrip, which they kept hidden with cardboard trees. The crooks committed their robberies with a plane, but Black Canary foiled their last job by warning their target “Fireworks King” Peters and having him set up high voltage wires above his estate. Canary was stowed away on their plane, but made her presence known to save Johnny. The crooks took Canary and Johnny hostage, saying they were going to parachute Canary down to Peters estate and demanding she rob him or see Johnny get pushed out of their plane. Canary said she’d comply, but while she was meeting Peters they pushed Johnny out of the plane anyway. Canary hadn’t actually robbed Peters, she just filled the satchel the crooks gave her with bricks. Johnny summoned Thunderbolt to save himself, and Thunder grounded the crooks’ plane with lightning bolts. The plane crashed and hit a lightning rod, which struck Thunderbolt, grounding him and leaving him unconscious. The crooks tied Thunderbolt, Johnny and Canary to giant bottlerockets they found on Peter’s estate and lit the fuses. Thunderbolt recovered, saved his friends and made short work of the crooks.

(JLA #29-31) - Flash gave Jakeem an autograph and the pen he signed it with, one borrowed from Johnny Thunder. Flash never knew that the pen housed the 5th-dimensional genie Thunderbolt that aided Johnny for decades. J.J. released the Thunderbolt from his pen, and thinking it was a demon, he immediately had it return. 5th Dimensional genie Lkz invaded Earth, and after a lot of prodding from the JLA and JSA J.J. summoned the Thunderbolt, who began a titanic battle with Lkz. Qwsp revealed himself as the instigator of the battle between Lkz and Thunderbolt, a battle that threatened to throw the 5th Dimension into chaos and destroy Earth. Representatives of the 5th Dimension arrested Qwsp, because only mischief was allowed in the 3rd Dimension, and he d gone way past that. Captain Marvel and Green Lantern convinced Thunderbolt and Lkz to merge into one being, ending their war. The Justice Society agreed to tutor J.J., who d decided he wanted to use the revamped Thunderbolt to be a hero.

(JSA #78-80) - Johnny Thunder and the Thunderbolt were separated when the Spectre hurled them into the 5th Dimension. Qwsp possessed J.J. Thunder and waged war in the 5th Dimension. Thunderbolt, Saradin, Shocko and Peachy Pet fought valiantly against J.J. s forces, but were outclassed, and J.J. kidnapped Peachy. Hourman, Mr. Terrific and Stargirl came to the 5th Dimension to rescue J.J., and sided with Thunderbolt when they saw the chaos. The JSAers allowed themselves to be captured by J.J. s hounds with Thunderbolt an Shocko hidden in liquid in Terrific s mouth. As they approached J.J. s throne Shocko couldn't control himself at the sight of his captive wife and attacked. J.J. easily defeated the heroes and commanded Thunderbolt to kill them. Thunderbolt shook off J.J. s commands and attacked him. The fight ended when Saradin separated Qwsp from J.J. and bound Qwsp to his service. Saradin disliked Thunderbolt s hostility toward him, an ol grudge from when Saradin was his master. Saradin promised that one day Thunderbolt would again be in his service. The JSAers brought J.J. back to Earth, where he summoned the Thunderbolt to banish Mordru.

(JSA #81) - Thunderbolt and the JSA were called to Philadelphia when Liberty Belle lost control over her powers after an attack by the Society. Stargirl showed her that her daughter Jesse was there, and was worried about her mother. This allowed Belle to focus and regain the use of her powers.

(52 / WWIII Part Three: Hell Is For Heroes #1) - <Week 5, Day 5> Thunderbolt and the JSA went into action after Black Adam decimated Pisa, Italy during WWIII, aiding the survivors.

(52 / WWIII Part Four: United We Stand #1) <Week 50, Day 7> Black Adam arrived in China, and prepared to destroy the entire country. He defeated China's superhero team the Great Ten before China allowed Thunderbolt and the American superhero community to square off against him. Black Adam was a god with nothing left to lose, and each punch he threw was intended to kill. His savagery was winning the day until Martian Manhunter reappeared and flooded his brain with his own loss, the death of the entire Martian species. Black Adam was distracted long enough for Captain Marvel to hurl a Shazam bolt at him. Theo Adam was powerless, and left with amnesia. He staggered away unnoticed from the end of WWIII.

(JSA #83-87) - <one year later> Thunderbolt and the JSA had their first get-together in many months. Gentleman Ghost appeared to the JSA and told them that they would all soon die by his hand. Thunderbolt assured the JSA that the Gentleman Ghost wasn't an illusionist like they believe, but an honest ghost. J.J. asked the Thunderbolt to show him the spirit world, and was attacked by the Gentleman Ghost and a gang of ghosts loyal to the Ghost. The Thunderbolt summoned the spirits of Atom, Mr. Terrific, Jade, Sandman and the pre-Crisis Batman of Earth-2 to drive off the Gentleman Ghost and his gang. J.J. was confused because the Batman he knew wasn't dead, but all the Thunderbolt could tell him was that it was complicated. J.J. asked Batman how they could beat the Ghost, and he told him to seek the Ghost in England, and that only one of royal blood could destroy the Ghost. J.J. shared what he learned with the JSA, and the team headed for London. Thunderbolt and the JSA confronted the Ghost in the royals castle. The Gentleman Ghost was trying to fulfill an old gypsy prophecy that said he could return to life if he slew his enemies in the royal castle. The Ghost summoned an army of spirits to kill the JSA and their fight led to a chapel in Winsor, where an army of ghost knights arose and battled Ghost s army for daring to defile the temple. Wildcat destroyed the Ghost, who was only vulnerable to those of royal blood, and the JSA returned home.

Thunderbolt had cameos in JSA #55, 56, 69, Spectre III #21, 24.

A statue of Thunderbolt was seen in the JSA Museum in JSA #82.

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