The Fury of Firestorm (later called Firestorm the Nuclear Man) lasted from 1982 until 1990.Īnother Firestorm series began in 2004 with a new character in the role of Firestorm, Jason Rusch after Ronnie Raymond was killed off in the pages of Identity Crisis. This led to a series of eight-page stories in the back of The Flash (issues 289–304 with art by George Pérez, Jim Starlin and others), and a revival of a monthly Firestorm comic in 1982. Writer Gerry Conway added Firestorm to the roster of Justice League of America. The sixth issue was included in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade. The first Firestorm series was short-lived, canceled after issue 5, a victim of the company-wide " DC Implosion". I liked the head-covering thing I said, "I'm stealin' it!" Publication history In an interview from 2019, Milgrom admitted: "The facemask on Firestorm, the way it comes around the chin, was probably inspired by Lightray more than anything. Jack Kirby's 1971 design for Lightray's costume influenced the look of artist Al Milgrom's creation of Firestorm in 1978. This led to… the multiple-people-in-one, Professor Stein/ Ronnie Raymond dynamic." The way I’d make that work: I’d bring him into contact with the smarter person, who would also share the powers. To do that, I wanted to flip it around: create a guy who wasn’t the brightest guy in the room, the not-terribly-smart guy who became a superpowered character. That was, I think, the major motivating force-I wanted to play on that trope. I’d been thinking about the tropes - one of which was the meek, mild alter ego, the brainy kid who, in wish fulfillment, gets superpowers, is extremely powerful… able to do things that he hadn’t been able to do before. In an interview Conway discussed his reasoning and influences while creating the character "I always loved the idea of the hair on fire, I think it goes back to Johnny Storm, The Human Torch, an entire flaming character, of course." Conway further elaborated, "I’d been playing around with the idea of a teenage superhero for DC, who could sort of fill the hole that had been left in my heart by leaving Spider-Man behind. 3) #1 (July 2004), and was created by Dan Jolley and ChrisCross.įirestorm was featured in The CW's Arrowverse, portrayed by Robbie Amell, Victor Garber, and Franz Drameh (as Jax Jackson) mainly in The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Jason Rusch debuted as a modern update of the character in Firestorm (vol. Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein fused together debuted as the first incarnation in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #1 (March 1978) and were created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom. The Fury of Firestorm the Nuclear Men 21įirestorm is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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