Tom Strong - Tom Strong's Terrific Tales

Tom Strong's Terrific Tales was an anthology spin-off from the parent title. It usually featured three regular storylines in each issue:

• One story would usually focus on Tom Strong, or on one of his supporting cast, and be either experimental or humorous in tone;
• Another would be a Young Tom Strong tale (set during Strong's formative years on Attabar Teru, and illustrated by Alan Weiss);
• A Jonni Future story (by Steve Moore and Art Adams) would often round out the issue.

The series ran for twelve issues, and would be sporadically published over the space of a couple of years. Stories of note include:

• A silent story in which Tesla goes out on the town to party (art by Jaime Hernandez; appeared in issue 1)
• King Solomon in a solo adventure (by Leah Moore and Sergio Aragonés; appeared in issue 5)
• A prose history of Millennium City, with illustrations by Mike Kaluta (appeared in issue 9)
• Another silent story, with art by Peter Kuper (appeared in issue 10); and
• A collaboration between Alan Moore and Peter Bagge, which recasts the Strong family in a milieu not unlike the one used by Bagge in his Buddy Bradley stories. This was printed in the final issue (#12), and features appearances by characters resembling Dick Tracy, Fred Flintstone and the Kool-Aid Man.