...'cause no one should have to live through this kind of pain twice. 
- — Tipper
Terra Obscura (Volume 2) #3 is an issue of the series Terra Obscura (Volume 2) with a cover date of December, 2004. It was published on October 20, 2004.
Synopsis for "I Was a Teenage Sidekick!"
"Tim" and Diana had dinner at the Black Terror's former H.Q., the former sidekick told the blonde about his time with the Black Terror and she noticed that the twitch in his mouth had stopped. Tom Strange was greeted good morning by Princess Pantha before Adam The Ape contacted him from Antarctica and the science hero told the ape that he would be going away for a while and that he should contact Peggy before he entered Mike's older quarters, found the Four Comrades inside, and told them that they were in the future. Their conversation was interrupted when Baron Nacht attacked them, but Tom Strange punched his death ray and when it shattered, the villain, as well as the Four Comrades, faded away, back to their own time.
"Tim" continued to tell stories about his time as the Black Terror's sidekick to Diana, as they drank champagne before the two ended up kissing. At her home, Carol vented to her dead father about her jealousy for Tim. Then, Carol phoned the present-day Tipper, as she and her teammates met their past counterparts and she was hesitant to tell the young Tip that he ended up dying. Tom Strange and Princess Pantha took off in his ship while "Tim" recalled going to Grauman's Hindu Theater with Diana, leading her to learn that he was actually Bob and took over the real Tim's body after he died of an overdose. Bob revealed that he took Tim's body for himself, so that he and Diana could be lovers "again", although she refused and claimed that he was only a one night stand. Then, he chased her into a room where he revealed that Andrew Bryant or his ship was causing all of the timeslips and that he planned to steal the ship and learn how to control time to make things the way he wanted them to be.
Appearing in "I Was a Teenage Sidekick!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Adam The Ape
- Four Comrades
- Pudge
- Buzz
- Tommy
- Tipper
Antagonists:
- Baron Nacht (time travel)
- Tim Roland (Flashback and main story)
Other Characters:
- Kid Terror (time travel)
- Four Comrades (time travel)
- Pudge (time travel)
- Buzz (time travel)
- Tip (time travel)
- Tommy (time travel)
- Virginia (Mentioned only)
- The Relativist (Mentioned only)
- Ticktock Man (Mentioned only)
- Tempus Fugitive (Mentioned only)
- The Clock (Mentioned only)
- Rob Banks (Mentioned only)
- Fighting Yank (Mentioned only)
- Carol Carter's mother (Mentioned only)
- Colonel Future (Mentioned only)
- Space Detective (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth-ABC
- New Lancaster
- Invertica City
- Comrades
- Grauman's Hindu Theater (Mentioned only)
- Antarctica
Items:
Vehicles:
- Hypersaucer
- Thunderbolt (Mentioned only)
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