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The Origin of Radioactive Man

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Released:	January 1994
Comic series:	Radioactive Man
Pages:	11
Written by:	Steve Vance

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

Plot

"How d'you say "taco" in Mexican?"

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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 its 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. In the lab working meanwhile Dr. Kane with a test of his mega-bomb, monitored by Gloria for the news. Claude is on his way to the lab, but he make a wrong turn and after 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 start to countdown to the detonation of the mega-bomb for taking the test data and delivering it to their comrades scientist. Claud needs help with his car and goes to a building he sees, Claude discovers that they is nobody in the buildings 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, and he realizes he is in the test area and begin to flee from the area. He sees a bunker but gets caught in the barbed wire, and can not escape, while the bomb explodes.

Claude comes out through a cloud of smoke and he is amazed how he could survive the atomic bomb, he sees that he looks different and he also 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 make a bad landing and crashes into the criminals car. The criminals hear that someone is outside the lab and go out and meeting the first deisgn of 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.

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, he tells them that someone else got the spys. 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.

Reprints

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

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