Why has Earth been assigned so many Green Lanterns? Learn all the secrets! Witness all the battles! Prepare yourself for the startling ending of the greatest epic in the history of Green Lantern!
The celebration of 1, issues of Action Comics continues with a new, Deluxe Edition of the amazing comic that won raves when it hit comics shops in April! But even Black Hand is unaware of the true power he holds that will connect him to the Blackest Night! Discover this villain's connection to death and the Black Lantern Corps!
Marv Wolfman returns to the Titans! He also fought Killer Frost , who was forced by the Psycho-Pirate to fall in love with him during the Crisis. After the Crisis, Firestorm was pitted against the world, as the hero, acting on a suggestion from a terminally ill Stein, demanded the United States and the Soviet Union destroy all of their nuclear weapons. After tussles with the Justice League and most of his enemies, Firestorm faced off against a Russian nuclear man named Pozhar in the Nevada desert, where they had an atomic bomb dropped on them.
When the smoke cleared, a new Firestorm was created who was made up of Raymond and the Russian, Mikhail Arkadin the Russian superhero Pozhar , but controlled by the disembodied amnesiac mind of Stein. Stein, no longer part of the composite at all, continued to play a role, but the focus was on this radically different character. It was during this phase that Firestorm met and befriended Shango and the Orishas, the elemental gods of Africa. This was also the situation in which the Shadowstorm entity first appeared.
Stein soon learned that he was destined to be the true fire elemental and would have been were it not for Ronnie Raymond also being there by circumstance. Raymond and Arkadin were returned to their old lives, and Stein, now Firestorm, was accidentally exiled to deep space in the process of saving the Earth. He thereafter spent many years traveling through space as a wanderer, returning to earth on only two occasions: the War of the Gods , and again in Extreme Justice, where Stein cured Raymond of his leukemia and allowed Raymond to retain the original Firestorm persona on his own.
After this Ronnie continued to be Firestorm on his own in Earth, but lacking the wise advices of Stein. Firestorm is among the nine heroes chosen by Batman to be members in this new Justice League. While a member of the JLA, Raymond acts as a junior member and is constantly cautious of upsetting his teammates and making mistakes in the field; he states vocally a few times that he is afraid of losing his position.
While in the League, Ronnie developed a close friendship with Manitou Dawn while he was attempting to teach her the English language. Raymond was killed during the Identity Crisis. The magical sword ruptured the nuclear man's containment field, resulting in Firestorm's body exploding and his residual essence funneling into the body of Jason Rusch , the new host of the Firestorm Matrix. He then attacks Jason Rusch the current Firestorm , and absorbs him into his own version of the Firestorm matrix.
Then, using Jason's unique abilities, turns Gehenna into table salt, simultaneously ripping her heart out with a smile. He uses the Firestorm Matrix to absorb Jason's anger over Gehenna's death, providing the Black Lanterns with even more emotional energies. Then, he goes on to attack Barry Allen and co.
Jason then briefly asserts himself, allowing the heroes to escape. Regaining control, Ronnie proceeds to absorb Jason's willpower. Like other Black Lanterns, the undead Firestorm mimics the personality of Ronnie Raymond, often wisecracking and exhibiting other stereotypical teenage behavior.
In the final battle against Nekron, Ronnie is restored to life alongside Jason, the two separating from Firestorm. Ronnie, however, apparently has no memory of doing so. During the Brightest Day , Ronnie, still clad in casual clothing from a wild party the night before, arrives at Jason's apartment with Professor Stein and Ray Palmer to attend Gehenna's funeral. The result of a physics experiment fusing two different people into one super-powered "Nuclear Man", Firestorm is a living testament to the power of cooperation.
They say "two heads are better than one," and that old adage was never more true than in the case of Firestorm, one of Earth's most powerful Super-Heroes, as he is literally two beings fused into one body. When teenager Ronnie Raymond was caught in a nuclear accident with the brilliant Professor Martin Stein, their atoms fused together, creating a powerful metahuman who could emit deadly nuclear fire, and alter inorganic matter into whatever form he could imagine. The brash teenager Ronnie had control of Firestorm's conscious mind, while the Stein portion existed in his mind, guiding his actions.
Becoming the youngest member ever admitted into the ranks of the Justice League up until that time, the flame-haired Nuclear Man served alongside the likes of Superman and Batman for many years, earning the respect of the old guard of heroes, while forging his own path for a new generation of heroic icons. Although he'd undergo many different permutations as time went on, adding the Russian hero Pozhar to the Firestorm matrix, and later, teenager Jason Rusch, Firestorm always remained one of the Earth's most staunch defenders, not to mention one of the most powerful beings on the planet.
Ronnie Raymond was a carefree and popular high school student, who cared more about sports and cars than fixing the world's problems. But he joined an anti-nuclear activist group, all in order to impress a far more socially conscious girl who he had a crush on. When Ronnie and the group showed up to protest an experimental nuclear power facility, the protesters became violent and sought to destroy the plant, and Ronnie attempted to stop them.
At the plant was its designer, Dr. Martin Stein, whom the anti-nuclear activist group knocked Stein unconscious, they also tied up Ronnie Raymond after he attempted to stop their plans, leaving them both to die in the ensuing explosion. The explosion then breached the nuclear reactor, and caused an atomic blast.
But instead of killing them, the incident fused Raymond and Stein into one immensely powerful metahuman being. Ronnie became the one who physically controlled the new, fused body as he was the only one conscious during the accident, but Prof. Stein was also active inside of his mind, "talking" to Ronnie and guiding his actions mentally. Ronnie quickly realized the accident had given them incredible super powers. He now had flaming hair and pale white eyes, could emit so-called fusion blasts from his hands, phase through solid objects, and re-arrange atomic matter, with the exception of anything organic.
They decided to use this newfound power as Firestorm, and became a prominent Super-Hero. Firestorm quickly gathered a roster of enemies, like the sociopathic Killer Frost. At first, Martin Stein did not recall any of his time as Firestorm, with only Ronnie retaining a conscious memory of it. This would lead Stein confused as to his "missing time," but Ronnie eventually explained to him what was happening, and soon, Stein would remember their merging.
Still, at first only Ronnie could initiate the Firestorm matrix to form, as he was the one who conscious during the creation. Moreover, it allows Firestorm to draw upon an unlimited amount of energy to fuel himself, granting him unlimited endurance.
Further, his ability to reformulate molecules grants him superhuman durability. For example, he can conceivably transform a block of lead into a block of kryptonite , which also alludes to how powerful and influential he could be.
Whatever he transmutes retains that form, so although his ability to affect organic material has flip-flopped across continuities over the years, if he ever did transform a group of people into glass , they would remain that way until he transmuted them back. Conceivably, and with enough time in study and practical application, Firestorm could achieve a God-like status on par with Dr.
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