In His Own Image
In His Own Image
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Comic Information
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In His Own Image is a comic story featured in Radioactive Man #1000. The comic was later reprinted in Radioactive Man: Radioactive Repository Volume One.
Synopsis
Dr. Crab has become the Pawn and for manage to become his old self again he must capture Radioactive Man, and to that he taking help from a worm.
Plot
Claude Kane III tries to remember what happened before he became Radioactive Man but he can hardly remember anything, and he start to believe it is because the light in his head. Radioactive Man then goes to visit Bug Boy at the headquarters. Rod Runtledge tells his brother that he if not the clock was eight, he should followed Radioactive Man. Dodd tell him that Claude is really weird but his father is even more stranger for he is currently trying to searching after his missing wife on an island in the South Pacific. Prawn, former know as Dr. Crab meets a worm and tell him at he needs his help to get his revenge. Bug Boy tells Radioactive Man about his theory why he has lost memory and he have made a machine that can remove the flash safely but then it turns out to be some type of helmet so decides Radioactive Man not to test the machine. Radioactive Man will then have a visit from the Government Oversight Group, which tell him at to bring in more money for the Super Squad, they have a new sponsor who has decided at Radioactive Man will wearing a new cape that they give him. Radioactive Man fly then to the TV station to meet Gloria Grand where Gloria Grand rapporting at Pawn threatens to shut down all TV and radio channels in the U.S. unless he receive $ 50 million and he challenges Radioactive Man trying to find him. Gloria goes off air and meet Claude who heard the news and he leaving Gloria after she see someone flying past the house and believes at that is Radioactive Man which searcing for Dr. Crab.
Radioactive Man begins to search for Dr. Crab and find the person who flew by, Radioactive Man, the New and Improved Model. He tell him that the market boy has let him take over his job and he is the only one left of the squad, the rest are in the Bloody Heart's Hero-Owned Super-Team. The new model fly away and tell him that they sees again soon. It is almost midnight when Radioactive Man starts to fight with Pneumatica but he manages to defeat her. Radioactive Man flying over Zenith City and see that there is bright light from a block and it turns out that Pawn is there that has a regresso ray that and he turn it against him when Radioactive Man start to attack, the machine takes the power of Radioactive Man and restores then Pawn to his old self and Radioactive Man will also be transformed and will now be 50 years younger and he call himself for Radio Man. Dr. Crab start then to activate the Airwave silencer but Radio Man manage to broken the machine and defeat Dr. Crab again and he discovers that he worked for the nazist. Radio Man are thinking to go home when Radioactive Worm, which were exposed to the same mega-bomb explosion, appears he tell him that he has made a mind controller as a first step that the worms become rulers of the Earth but to get the mind controller would work on Radioactive Man he fixed the machine so that Radioactive Man becomes younger for his antenna is now straight and not bent as before, when he ask him to bend his knees for the worm he stumbles on Dr. Crab and hits with his head on the machine. Radioactive Man becomes himself again, and the worm realizes that he did not get enough of the ray, but he tell him at he will pay for it. Radioactive Man begins then to attack the worms which becomes fried when it stumble into a broken cable. Radioactive Man are now happy that this adventure is over, but so wrong he, Pnematica is back but his dad appears and stop him, Pnematica recognize Dr. Kane and Radioactive Man realizes that her is his mother. She tell her that her plan was overthrown by the Japanese and Dr. Crab found the body and the placed her brain into a robot body and her brainwashe her so she become evil but the ray brought her memory back. The new model of Radioactive Man comes then to finish Radioactive Man, but he instead let him see his lawyer for he is using a trademark.
Radioactive Man then goes home with his father and mother while Dr. Crab continues in his lab with new inventions and have the president's head in a can.
