Tex Thompson

Tex Thompson
Tex Thompson (far left) as Mr. America, the Americommando, in Action Comics #52.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Action Comics #1 (June 1938)
Created by	Ken Fitch Bernard Baily
In-story information
Alter ego	Harry "Tex" Thompson (originally Thomson)
Team affiliations	All-Star Squadron OSS Hero Hotline
Notable aliases	Mr. America, Americommando, The Coordinator
Abilities	Detective skills Espionage training Expert marksman Skilled with explosives Expert with whip Cape capable of flight Expert hand-to-hand combat Martial artist

Harry "Tex" Thompson (Thomson pre-1993) is a superhero owned by DC Comics who later became the masked crime-fighter Mr. America and then became an espionage operative called Americommando. He was often aided by his best friend Bob Daley, who for a brief time operated as his costumed sidekick "Fatman". Created by Ken Fitch and Bernard Baily, Tex debuted in Action Comics #1 (June 1938), the same comic that introduced Superman.^[1] During his original stories of the 1940s, several of his enemies were based on Yellow Peril stereotypes. Several of his earliest stories featured Gargantua T. Potts, a character based around minstrel show stereotypes about African-Americans.

The "Tex Thomson" series in Action Comics featured Tex and his friend Bob Daley investigating various crimes and mysteries, sometimes alongside law enforcement. When Tex took on the identity Mr. America, he used a whip as his weapon of choice. Later on, he used a scientific experiment to endow his cape with the power of flight. When he joined the Office of Strategic Services as the Americommando, he became a trained spy and field operative, gaining skills in combat, weapons, explosives, and military vehicles.

The 1993 DC Comics mini-series The Golden Age featured Tex. The story's writer James Robinson misspelled his last name as "Thompson". All later comics followed this spelling.

The 1999 comic The Justice Society Returns: National Comics #1 heavily implies Americommando died in 1945 in Dresden, Germany, during its bombing by Allied forces.