Thorndyke Tompkins

A genuine artifact of comics' earliest days, Thorndyke Tompkins stepped onto the page in Adventure Comics #54 in 1940, co-created by the legendary Jerry Siegel during the electric dawn of the Golden Age. His brief but real slice of DC history finds him sharing adventures alongside some remarkable company — Rex Tyler, The Sandman, and other icons of that formative era. With only a handful of catalogued appearances across 1940–1941, Thorndyke is the kind of rare, blink-and-you'll-miss-him figure that makes deep-diving collectors feel like true archaeologists, unearthing a name that time nearly swallowed whole.