Let's See It Again! The Origin of Radioactive Man/References

References/Trivia

Cultural references[edit]

Claude Kane III mentions getting a utility belt, a reference to Batman from DC Comics.
The story is not just a retelling of Radioactive Man's origin, it's also a deliberate homage to the first Captain Atom story, "Introducing Captain Atom" by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko from Charlton Comics' Space Adventures #33. Many panels in the story are homages to Ditko's panels in the Captain Atom story; for example, the first page of the Radioactive Man story is sequenced similarly to the first page of the Captain Atom story, with the opening panel showing the hero in the same pose of the cover, the middle sequence with a long caption and a panel sequence that ends with a close-up on the hero's eye, and an almost-similar panel of people watching the accidental situation of the hero from a distance.
The Radioactive Man parody cover is actually a parody of Strange Suspense Stories #75's cover, which reprinted the first Captain Atom story five years after Space Adventures #33's release.