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A science-hero team based in New Lancaster who were forced to try to maintain control after SMASH were left frozen in space and time in 1969. By the time the members of SMASH had been released from their captivity in 2000, they had aged and an original member, Tip, had died and been replaced by his
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Tim Roland: The Terror's loyal side-kick. His reflexes and strength have been augmented by energy-enhancing vapors discovered by Bob Benton.
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Mike Ellis (deceased): The young sidekick of Tom Strange. He was killed in 1969 when battling the invader from the Moon.
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for them, covering the time periods during which they were not actually being published. For the
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on the characters were not renewed upon 28 years of creation and so lapsed into the
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spin-off, Moore worked out plots with Peter Hogan, who then wrote the scripts.
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They encounter the revived heroes in the inverted city of 'Invertica':
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where he is kept safe and his predictions are recorded.
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in the 1940s. With the original publisher's collapse,
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