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No.112$8.95 Firestorm TM & © DC Comics 1 82658 00358 6 ™ with MARK BAGLEY • PAT BRODERICK • GERRY CONWAY • RON FRENZ • RAFAEL DAVE GIBBONS Hulk UK interview • Nova • Dr. Manhattan • Radioactive Man • Bongo’s Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy • Holo-Man & more explosive features! KAYANAN • TOM MANDRAKE • BILL MORRISON • FABIAN NICIEZA • JOHN OSTRANDER “Nuclear Issue” starring THE FURY OF FIRESTORM! 8.95 $ June 2019 June No.112 Firestorm TM & © DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. Rights All Comics. DC © & TM Firestorm Relive The Pop Culture You Remember when Saturday morning television was our domain, and ours alone? When tattoos came from bubble gum packs, Slurpees came in superhero cups, and TV heroes taught us to be nice to each other? Grew Up With! Those were the happy days of the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties— our childhood—and that is the era of TwoMorrows’ new magazine RETROFAN! #5: Interviews with MARK HAMILL and Greatest American Hero’s WILLIAM KATT! 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John Morrow DESIGNER Rich Fowlks COVER ARTIST Pat Broderick COVER DESIGNER Michael Kronenberg PROOFREADER Rob Smentek SPECIAL THANKS Mark Arnold Fabian Nicieza Cary Bates Luigi Novi Pat Broderick John Ostrander Gerry Conway Amanda Powers DC Comics Tom Powers Cecil Disharoon Gage Skidmore Steve Englehart Roger Stern Robb Epps Bryan D. Stroud Gary Frank Roy Thomas Reader advisory: Contains mild nudity Dave Gibbons Steven Thompson in Dr. Manhattan article (with sample images from Watchmen) Grand Comics Mark Waid Database John Wells INTERVIEWS: The Firestorm Interviews . 2 Robert Greenberger Michael Zeno We duck, cover, and roll with enough Firestorm creators to crowd a fallout shelter Hal Halbert Jack C. Harris BRING ON THE BAD GUYS: Radioactive Man . 26 Heritage Comics Is he a Master of Evil or a Thunderbolt? The story of Marvel’s Chen Lu Auctions John Higgins UNKNOWN MARVEL: The Incredible Dave Gibbons . 33 John Joshua The Watchmen co-creator discusses his early work on the UK Hulk comic Claude Kane III Donald Kasen ROUGH STUFF . 38 Rafael Kayanan Bask in the irradiated glow of glorious graphite Paul Kupperberg James Heath Lantz ONE-HIT WONDERS: Meet Microwave Man . 45 Dave Lemieux Remember Cary Bates’ short-lived Superman villain? Tom Mandrake Robert Menzies WHAT THE--?!: Holo-Man. 50 Al Milgrom From the company that brought you Peter Pan Records came this colorful ’70s superhero Bill Morrison BEYOND CAPES: The Dr. Manhattan Project . 54 A blue man’s group of scholars dissects Watchmen’s god-hero; includes interviews with Don’t STEAL our Dave Gibbons, John Higgins, and Gary Frank Digital Editions! FLASHBACK: Lo, There Shall Come a… Radioactive Man! . 67 C’mon citizen, Bill Morrison shares recollections of the Simpsons Universe’s nuclear knucklehead DO THE RIGHT THING! 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All characters are © their respective companies. All material producing great publications like this one! © their creators unless otherwise noted. All editorial matter © 2019 Michael Eury and TwoMorrows. Printed in China. FIRST PRINTING. Nuclear Issue • BACK ISSUE • 1 PART ONE: THE COMING OF THE NUCLEAR MAN 1977: A new DC Comics hero explodes from his first issue cover—a smiling, scintillating super-being with… his head on fire? Welcome to Firestorm the Nuclear Man #1 (Mar. 1978). We’re flying from the heart of his inception, exploring the bonds of the creators at his core. How will this newest mystery man transmute the comics world? How will he become the elemental and terrifying outlaw of a transformed DC Universe? Which of his unique rogues will go on to multimedia stardom? Well, our hero’s story begins with… oh… C.R.A.P.! The reading public could start with the Kirby-flavored Al Milgrom cover. But it wouldn’t be Gerry Conway-era Firestorm without a few laughs, right? The Coalition to Resist Atomic Power recruits the new kid in town, an athletically gifted teenager named Ronnie Raymond, who’s been bouncing from town to town with his father. All Ronnie’s trying to do is to impress conducted by this cute girl he’s met, Doreen Day. He’s not really a Cecil Disharoon dumb jock, but his rival for the girl, Cliff Carmichael, is both a brain and a bully, and undermines Ronnie from the start. Ronnie’s constantly overshadowed by Carmichael in class, since the teacher, Mr. Taubman, has little sense of balanced classroom management. Now, what’s up with the principal who’s keeping an eye on Ronnie is a story tied directly to that town-to-town gyro-vagueness, and one day, we’ll know why! Ronnie’s easy to get behind, for anyone who’s been the outsider… and as we’ll quickly see, he’s in over his head in every way. So the Coalition bunch presents themselves as protesters, and hey, here’s a way to make a difference! Away Ronnie sneaks into the night, invading the latest nuclear facility, designed by a buttoned-down fellow named Dr. Martin Stein. Along with his assistant Danton Black, Stein’s created the safest clean-energy facility in the world. In fact, it’s fully automated! Black, however, has sought an injunction to keep it from ever going online. The protesters turn out to cross a line from being Luddites to actual terrorists, who meet Stein’s rebuke with violence. They leave Stein and Black to their fate when they trigger the facility’s destruction. Ronnie Raymond’s left behind to become the proverbial fall guy. And then… something wonderful happens. Something born in the fervent imagination of Gerry Conway. FIRESTORM CREATOR AND ORIGINAL WRITER GERRY CONWAY Always a storyteller and reader, Conway made his own comics from childhood.
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