Tom Swift

Tom Swift using the Flammarion engraving as a rudimentary time machine to explore the year 1888 AD.

Tom Swift (? - ?) is a mad scientist and best-selling author.

He is also the murderer of H. P. Lovecraft, and would-be summoner of the Elder Gods.

Murder of H. P. Lovecraft

See H. P. Lovecraft.

Flammarion engraving (nonfiction)

Swift uses the Flammarion engraving as a scrying engine, and even as a rudimentary time machine.

As a result, multiple incompatible timelines are known to exist in Swift's mind, driving him to insane genius.

Tar-Baby 9000

In April 2016, Swift approached Tar-Baby 9000 about a crime team partnership.

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  Tar-Baby 9000 uploads Turpentine delight into Brer Rabbit.

Fiction cross-reference

• Lubin Manufacturing Company
• Time bomb
• Tom Swift and His Elder Gods Communicizer
• Tom Swift and his Electro-Dragnet

John Brunner working undercover as Mihkail Kaufman, investigating rumors of posthumous criminal activity in Lubin Manufacturing Company's secret laboratories.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Elder Gods (nonfiction)
• Mad scientist (nonfiction)
• Tom Swift (nonfiction)