(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.

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(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.

(Flash Comics #79) - Johnny Thunder’s mother ran out of baking powder, and she asked him and Peachy to borrow some from Aunt Jenny. Jenny wasn’t home, so Johnny figured his mother must have meant his other Aunt Jenny, his father’s sister. Peachy reminded him that that Jenny lived in Pine Hollow over 250 miles away, but Johnny was convinced he was right, and bought a bus ticket. At a rest stop Peachy decided to see if she could operate a bus, and Johnny was happy to assist her. They ended up getting boarded by the Barefoot Bandit, who was on the run after a robbery. He held Johnny at gunpoint, but Peachy made him drop his gun by tickling his feel. Peachy gave Johnny to hold the gun on him, but Johnny thought she said “for him” and gave the dangerous criminal his weapon back. The Barefoot Bandit was sick of Johnny and Peachy and kicked them off the bus. Peachy hopped back on, hiding in the baggage compartment, but Johnny was too big to fit in and had to run alongside the bus. The police caught up with the bus, and initially thought Johnny was the bandit because his shoes had worn off, but Peachy set them straight. Johnny forgot why they were even on their way to Pine Hollow, and Peachy berated him for his stupidity.

(Flash Comics #80) - Johnny Thunder read Peachy Pet bedtime stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The next day Peachy and her friend Herman were playing in Central Park when a police officer yelled at them, telling them to stay off the grass. Merlin was relaxing in the park and lured them to him, sending them to an alternate world where Central Park and NYC were ruled by  King Arthur. Sir cop captured Peachy and Herman after he saw them playing on the grass, and King Arthur sentenced them to death. Peachy demanded a trial by combat, but no one volunteered to be her champion. Herman couldn’t fit in knight’s armor, so she summoned Shocko. Shocko made short work of sir Cop in a joust, and Merlin realized his jest had got out of hand, so he sent Peachy, Herman and Shocko back to their own world. Peachy told Johnny all about her adventure, but he thought she  was telling stories.

(Flash Comics #81) - Johnny Thunder got a new neighbor when child star Gloria Glider moved into the neighborhood. She was know for her movie roles and her skating ability, but Peachy Pet boasted that she was a far better skater and would prove it. Her friend Herman was unconvinced, and had a crush on Glider until she spotted him hanging around outside her house and called him dirty and grubby. Herman fumed, saying she thought she was too good for the neighborhood, and a reporter, hearing him boast about how Peachy could outskate her, made a story of it. Glider and Peachy agreed to have a race around the block and Peachy won when Herman’s cousin Fauntleroy distracted Glider, fawning over her and asking for an autograph. With her reputation at stake Glider called for a rematch at the skate Palace with fancy skating rules. Herman put glue on Glider’s skates, but felt bad when she schmoozed him, saying he could be her co-star. Glider and Peaxchy both performed horribly, but when Herman came running with new skates for Glider they both felt betrayed and gave him a walloping.

(Flash Comics #82) - Peachy Pet had a brainstorm for an invention and set up her chemistry lab, but Hoiman interrupted her causing the kit to belch out bubbles. She chased him away and told Johnny Thunder she needed peace and quiet. Her next experiment got ruined when he mom’s friends were making a racket downstairs, and it produced a rapidly growing houseplant that filled the entire house. The last straw was her cousin Tinfoil leaving her baby at the house and Peachy couldn’t stand his screaming. She hitched a ride to a lighthouse for some peace and quiet, setting up cannons and signs warning people to stay away. Her experiment was a success, she created self-replicating geese in her lab. Unfortunately the geese soon numbered in the millions and she had to flee back home. Johnny asked her how her work was going and she didn’t feel like discussing it.

(Flash Comics #83) - Johnny Thunder tried to fix his mother’s can opener by slamming it with a hammer. He broke it further, but claimed he was a mechanical genius, and when she kicked him out of her house he was determined to prove his abilities. He saw a man trying to change a tire, and insisted on helping, but the man was a mobster and not keen on a civilian interfering in his business. While the crook argued with Johnny Peachy Pet changed his tire. The crook was convinced that Johnny had to be a genius, changing his tire without being seen, and brought him back to his hideout to meet his gang. He told him to get to work on a car whose radiator was full of bullet holes, but Johnny once again just succeeded in hitting it repeatedly with a hammer. The gang was furious, so Peachy hopped in the car and drove Johnny to safety. They ran into a police officer who said the car was stolen, so Peachy hit the gas again, only to hit a bunch of officers in a policeman’s parade. They drove back to the gang’s hideout with a number of officers stuck to their car, hoping to return the vehicle. The officers arrested the crooks and crowned Peachy a hero. Peachy took the opportunity to browbeat Johnny for thinking he had any mechanical skills.

(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 #85) - Johnny Thunder went on a picnic with Peachy, but they were being watched by an ornery goat. The goat tried to ram Johnny, but he was stung in the bottom by a bee and leapt over the goat. He tried to catch a butterfly for Peach and fell into a goat just as the goat charged at him again and jumped over him. The goat made one more go of it and rammed his head into Johnny’s, but Johnny had a thick skull, and he was unharmed but the goat was dazed. The goat’s owner saw Johnny had a way with him, and asked Johnny and Peach to enter him in the county fair. The goat’s owner was feuding with his neighbor, who threatened to beat him up if he saw him at the fair. The neighbor recognized the goat and roughly escorted Johnny and Peachy out of the fair. Johnny dressed up as a woman and returned to the fair, flirting with the neighbor so he wouldn’t pay so much attention to the goat. The goat won the blue ribbon, and the neighbor realized he’d been duped. He went after Johnny swinging, but the goat, who’d come to like Johnny, came to his rescue, ramming the neighbor.

(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 #87) - Johnny Thunder read the paper and saw an article about Black Canary having committed a theft that had the police baffled. Black Canary showed up at his home and gave him a package to hold onto, saying she was framed. Goons came to Johnny’s and took the package from him, but Canary dropped a note on him saying he had to catch them because the package was dangerous in the wrong hands. Johnny accidentally stepped on a kid’s roller skate, enabling him to catch up to the crooks getaway car and hang on until they got to their boss’ manor. Johnny crowed to himself about how cunning and brave he was, attracting the criminal’s attention. They tossed him into a bag and lowered him into a pit filled with alligators. Black Canary arrived at the manor, but was captured and put in the same predicament. Johnny had a Boy Scout knife on him and freed them both. Canary revealed that the package she’d stolen contained a stuffed owl with the diary of the crime boss hidden inside, and she intended to use it to have him charged for his crimes. Johnny went after the crooks, closing his eyes because he was scared of bloodshed, and managed to knock over a coat of arms and a knight’s armor that crashed on the crooks. Black Canary cleaned up the last one standing, and thanked Johnny for his help. She gave him the stuffed owl as a keepsake of their adventure and hoped they’d work together again soon.

(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 #89) - Johnny saw a window-washer fall from a building and vanish into thin air. He went to the office where the washer fell, a jewelry business, finding Mr. Bijou and his secretary Philip looking for the valuable Enka Ruby. Johnny had the ruby on his hat, and the window-washer reappeared, claiming Johnny was a gangster Rat-Face Louie, and dragged him off. Philip was in cahoots with the window-washer, who’d dropped into a camouflage net after stealing the ruby from Bijou. At Philip’s hideout they put Johnny in a greasetrap and parked their car over him, hoping to kill him with carbon monoxide poisoning. A cat knocked the greasetrap lever that controlled the treads, knocking the car on its’ side, and Johnny promised the cat he owed him one. Johnny’s usual clumsy antics allowed him to knock out the criminals and he returned the ruby to Bijou. Bijou asked him if there was anything he wanted, and Johnny said all he wanted was to mind his own business.

(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.

Johnny was hexed by the High Priest, and his control over Thunderbolt faded. He stepped down from the JSA.

(JSA #67) <October 17, 1951> Johnny Thunder tried to convince Atom to keep the Justice Society going, but Atom told him the war was over and they lost. He told Johnny to always remember the good times they had with the Society.

(JSA #69-72) <October 28-30,1951> Johnny sat heartbroken outside of the closed down JSA brownstone. The time traveling J.J. Thunder found him and told Johnny he was his favorite JSAer. Johnny cracked a smile, no one had ever told him that before. He took J.J. to a soda shop, where J.J. told Johnny he was from the future and tried to convince Johnny to get back into action to stop Per Degaton, who was going to alter history to make sure the Justice Society legacy permanently ended in 1951. Johnny didn’t buy J.J.’s story, but after they left the soda shop J.J. was attacked y some roughnecks. Johnny was in shock to discover he couldn’t summon the Thunderbolt, but nonetheless jumped in to fight off J.J.’s attackers. Johnny and J.J. got bruised and bloody but won the fight. J.J. told Johnny he was trained by Wildcat, and convinced him to meet up with the rest of the reformed Justice Society and the time-traveling JSA at the Justice Society brownstone. Hourman informed them Per Degaton was going to assassinate the President. The Justice Society and JSA went to Washington to warn Truman that his life was in danger. Degaton and the Red Morgue attacked Washington, but the teams were ready for him. Degaton used a time-disc to speed up Atom’s metabolism and turn him into a nuclear bomb ready to go off. If he exploded millions would die, but J.J. Thunder and Johnny Thunder summoned the Thunderbolt to turn Atom back to normal. The heroes defeated Degaton, who fled into the timestream. The resulting time distortion caused Thunder and the other Society members to forget their adventure with the JSA.

(Spectre III #20) - Prof. Nicodemus Hazzard interviewed former members of the Justice Society to learn more about the Spectre after the Wrath of God had threatened to judge the world. Johnny was having trouble remembering the past, especially since he remembered people he had adventures with who no longer existed.

(Flash II #134) - Johnny developed Alzheimer’s and forgot how to summon Thunderbolt. Flash I visited Johnny to ask him if he knew where the Thinker’s Thinking Cap was, as Johnny used to be in charge of JSA souvenirs, but Johnny couldn’t focus on the conversation. Flash eventually realized that Johnny was using the Thinking Cap as a vase.