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 set 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, telling him the beast was a trained animal, but Tommy pointed out that the tame Dinomonster was headed towards a radioactive lake that would have given the actress radiation burns.

Comments: Created by Otto Binder & Jim Mooney.