The Fury of Firestorm #1 [Direct]
(June 1982)

DC, 1982 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982-02-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Joe Orlando (credited) (editorial director); Dick Giordano (credited) (managing editor); Len Wein (credited) (editor); Carl Gafford (credited) (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration. Contemporaneous house ads list the on-sale date as March 4.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Firestorm / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Pat Broderick (signed as Broderick)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed as Giordano)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Job Number
C-876
Genre
superhero
Characters
Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Martin Stein]; Hyena; Multiplex; Black Bison; Killer Frost; Cliff Carmichael; Jackson
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Day of the Bison (Table of Contents: 1)

Firestorm / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script
Gerry Conway (credited)
Pencils
Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks
Rodin Rodriguez (credited)
Colors
Gene D'Angelo (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)
Job Number
J-7994
Feature Logo
The Fury of Firestorm The Nuclear Man
Genre
superhero
Characters
Firestorm [Ron Raymond; Martin Stein]; Black Bison [John Ravenhair] (intro, villain); Lorraine Reilly (intro, later Firehawk); Jackson; Cliff Carmichael; Doreen Day; Multiplex [Danton Black] (flashback; cameo); Killer Frost (flashback, cameo); Hyena (flashback, cameo); Vanessa Tremont; Black-Bison-As-Midnight-Sky (John Ravenhair's grandfather, death); Quentin Quale; Senator Walter Reilly
Synopsis
John Ravenhair is turned into Black Bison by a spell cast by his grandfather and rampages thru a museum during a school field trip. Ronnie changes to Firestorm and attempts to stop him but Black Bison escapes into Central Park.
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Indexer Notes

Origin and career recap. Characters created by Gerry Conway & Al Milgrom.

Just Your Average Hot-Headed Hero (Table of Contents: 2)

Nuclear Reactions / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Gerry Conway (credited)
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1047
Feature Logo
Nuclear Reactions
Synopsis
Letters page but as this is the first issue, an article on the history of Firestorm.
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Firestorm
  2. 1. Day of the Bison
    Firestorm
  3. 2. Just Your Average Hot-Headed Hero
    Nuclear Reactions
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