The Origin of Radioactive Man

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The Origin of Radioactive Man

Comic Story information 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.

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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 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.

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 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, 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.

Reprints

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