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'''''The Origin of Radioactive Man''''' is a comic story featured in ''[[Radioactive Man 1|Radioactive Man #1]]''.
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'''''The Origin of Radioactive Man''''' is a ''{{ap|Radioactive Man|comic book series}}'' comic story first printed in {{RM|1}}.
  
 
== Plot ==
 
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At a charity ball, [[Claude Kane III]], [[Zenith City]]'s playboy, asked [[Gloria Grand]] out. However, Gloria turns him down as he's just a frivolous socialite. Claude goes back home after the ball where his father, [[Claude Kane II]], asks him when he's going to make something out of himself. Claude then realizes that maybe Gloria and his father are right and he should do something more with his life. Claude then goes to [[WZEN News]], where Gloria works, and asks her out again. But Gloria decides to take an assignment at [[Blather Labs]] instead.
[[Claude Kane III]], [[Zenith City]]'s playboy, tries to date [[Gloria Grand]] but she would not go out with him for he is just a frivolous socialite. His father, [[Dr. Claude Kane II]], tells him that he should do something with his life; but Claude tells him that it's to early, he left school only five years ago. Claude is at a swanky nightclub and overhears two men talking about how they should dispose of Dr. Kane to get money from [[Dr. Crab]]. This causes Claude to remember that his father did not transfer his allowance this week, so he drives to his lab to retrieve it. Meanwhile, in the lab Dr. Kane works with a test of his mega-bomb, monitored by Gloria for the news. Claude is on his way to the lab, but he makes a wrong turn, and a few miles outside the city his car tires get stuck in the sand.
 
  
Meanwhile, the men from the club arrive at the lab and bind Dr. Kane, his co-worker, and Gloria; they then start the countdown to the detonation of the mega-bomb for taking the test data and delivering it to their comrade scientists. Claud needs help with his car and goes to a building he sees; he discovers that there is nobody in the building, so he climbs up in a tower to see if he can see where he is. When he comes up to the tower, he discovers that the mega bomb is placed there. He realizes that he is in the test area, and begins to flee. He sees a bunker but gets caught in the barbed wire and can not escape while the bomb explodes.
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At a swanky nightclub, Claude overhears two men talking about his father and money. This conversation reminds Claude that he hasn't gotten his allowance for the week so he goes to his father's lab to ask him for it. However, he takes a wrong turn and gets lost. Meanwhile, the men who Claude overheard had broken into the lab and planned to detonate the mega-bomb they were working on there, and steal the test data.
  
Claude comes out through a cloud of smoke and is amazed at how he could survive the atomic bomb. He sees that he looks different and he feels a little dizzy. Claude goes to his car and tries to push it out of the sand, but starts to lift it instead; he realizes he has super powers and begins to fly to the lab, but makes a bad landing and crashes into the criminals' car. The criminals hear that someone is outside the lab and go out, meeting the first design of {{ch|Radioactive Man}}. They start to shoot at him, but the bullets studs and he strikes them down with his fist. Claude binds the guys and puts on one of their hats to hide the flash as he got into his head.
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Claude eventually hits a dead end and his car gets stuck, so he wonders towards some buildings, not noticing the fact that it's a nuclear test site. In the test site, he notices a tower and climbs it to try and see where he is. When he gets to the top of the tower, he finds the mega-bomb and tries to run away and hide from it. However, his trousers got caught on some barbed wire as the bomb explodes.
  
Claude goes into the lab and removes the ropes. He was thinking to reveal what he had done, but the criminals tell them that if they meet the man who beat them down again, they will kill him and all his friends and family. So Claude decides to not tell what he had done, but he tells them that someone else got the spies. Claude is back home and realizes that with his new powers, he might do something good with his life like his dad and Gloria wanted, but to protect them, he must take an alias: he decides to become Radioactive Man.
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After the smoke clears, Claude realizes that he's still alive. When he gets back to his car, he manages to lift it up whilst trying to get it unstuck. He then realizes that he can fly as well. Claude then flies towards Blather Labs but lands in a convertible car and gets stuck. The armed thugs come out and shoot at Claude, only to have their bullets bounce off him. He then knocks out the thugs and ties them up. He then runs into the lab to find his father and Gloria safe.
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Outside, the thugs don't realize who it was who took them down. Claude then says that he doesn't know either, after one of them threatens to kill his attacker, his family, his friends and his dog if he ever finds out. Later, Claude decides that he needs a disguise to protect his identity, thus protecting his loved ones. So, he becomes {{Ch|Radioactive Man}}.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:18, April 27, 2023

The Origin of Radioactive Man
The Origin Of Radioactive Man.png
Comic Story information
Released: January 1994
Comic series: Radioactive Man
Pages: 11
Written by: Steve Vance
Cindy Vance


The Origin of Radioactive Man is a Radioactive Man comic story first printed in Radioactive Man #1.

Plot[edit]

At a charity ball, Claude Kane III, Zenith City's playboy, asked Gloria Grand out. However, Gloria turns him down as he's just a frivolous socialite. Claude goes back home after the ball where his father, Claude Kane II, asks him when he's going to make something out of himself. Claude then realizes that maybe Gloria and his father are right and he should do something more with his life. Claude then goes to WZEN News, where Gloria works, and asks her out again. But Gloria decides to take an assignment at Blather Labs instead.

At a swanky nightclub, Claude overhears two men talking about his father and money. This conversation reminds Claude that he hasn't gotten his allowance for the week so he goes to his father's lab to ask him for it. However, he takes a wrong turn and gets lost. Meanwhile, the men who Claude overheard had broken into the lab and planned to detonate the mega-bomb they were working on there, and steal the test data.

Claude eventually hits a dead end and his car gets stuck, so he wonders towards some buildings, not noticing the fact that it's a nuclear test site. In the test site, he notices a tower and climbs it to try and see where he is. When he gets to the top of the tower, he finds the mega-bomb and tries to run away and hide from it. However, his trousers got caught on some barbed wire as the bomb explodes.

After the smoke clears, Claude realizes that he's still alive. When he gets back to his car, he manages to lift it up whilst trying to get it unstuck. He then realizes that he can fly as well. Claude then flies towards Blather Labs but lands in a convertible car and gets stuck. The armed thugs come out and shoot at Claude, only to have their bullets bounce off him. He then knocks out the thugs and ties them up. He then runs into the lab to find his father and Gloria safe.

Outside, the thugs don't realize who it was who took them down. Claude then says that he doesn't know either, after one of them threatens to kill his attacker, his family, his friends and his dog if he ever finds out. Later, Claude decides that he needs a disguise to protect his identity, thus protecting his loved ones. So, he becomes Radioactive Man.

Reprints[edit]

Comic issue Release date Country
Simpsons Comics #34 November 4, 1999 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
Simpsons Comics #35 December 4, 1999 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
Simpsons Comics #36 December 30, 1999 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
The Best of The Simpsons #9 March 4, 2004 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
The Best of The Simpsons #10 April 29, 2004 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
The Best of The Simpsons #11 May 27, 2004 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repository Volume One July 17, 2012 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
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Bart & Co. #8 June 19, 2014 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png
Simpsons Comics #61 April 27, 2023 800px-Flag of the United Kingdom.svg.png


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