Jeremy Wheeler

JEREMY WHEELER

Real Name: Jeremy Wheeler

Class: Human mutant

Occupation: None

Group Affiliation: Tomorrow Children

Known Relatives: Jeb Wheeler (unofficial adoptive father), Delta Wheeler (sister, deceased), Seth Wheeler (brother)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Prelude, Louisiana

First Appearance: (cameo) Swamp Thing I #13 (November-December, 1974), (full) Swamp Thing I #14 (January-February, 1975)

Powers: Jeremy and his siblings possessed the powers of telepathy, telekinesis, and telepathic empathy. They had mental control over a group of mutated giant ants.

History: (Swamp Thing I #14) - A secret project tried to speed up human evolution in human test subjects, and the Tomorrow Children were some of the project’s failures. The young children possessed telepathy, empathy, telekinesis and the power to bend nature to their will, but they were hideously deformed. The project locked them in a case and dumped them in a Louisiana swamp. They were discovered by Jeb Wheeler, who saw past their looks, and raised them as his own. He brought them to the town of Prelude, but the local children threw rocks at them and drove them off. The residents feared they were devil children, and after seeing their powers resident Taggert whipped the residents into a fury to destroy them. After Jeb died the Tomorrow Children fled to the swamp and made a home for themselves in nature. Swamp Thing stopped a mob that tried to kill Seth Wheeler, and the children told him their story. The residents also blamed them for the mutated animals running around the swamp, but they were mutated by radioactive canisters sunk into the swamp by the same project that spawned the Tomorrow Children. Swamp Thing was interested in the canister, which the children had recovered and hid in a tree hollow, hoping to examine it, and see if it held secrets that could return him to human form. He was dismayed when he saw the cannister’s chemicals had leaked away, but they had more pressing concerns when a Prelude mob came to finish off the Tomorrow Children. They burned the Children’s swamp home, but Jimbo, the only boy in town who’d befriended the Children, was trapped inside, having come earlier to try and warn his friends about the mob. Delta saved Jimbo, but sacrificed her own life in the process. The townsfolk finally realized the Children were not monsters, but Swamp Thing realized that their penance came too late. Jimbo begged his father to let the remaining Tomorrow Children live with them, but he told his son they would never be accepted in town. Swamp Thing was completely disgusted with the townsfolk, and shambled off into the swamp.

Comments: Created by David Micheline & Nestor Redondo.

Jeremy and the Tomorrow Children had a cameo in Swamp Thing I #13.