Volume: 1
Price: 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1982-02-09
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (editorial director); Dick Giordano (credited) (managing editor); Len Wein (credited) (editor); Carl Gafford (credited) (assistant editor)
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Firestorm / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:C-876
Characters:
Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Martin Stein]; Hyena; Multiplex; Black Bison; Killer Frost; Cliff Carmichael; Jackson
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Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration. Contemporaneous house ads list the on-sale date as March 4.

Day of the Bison
(Table of Contents: 1)

Firestorm / comic story / 25 pages

Script:
Gerry Conway (credited)
Pencils:
Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks:
Rodin Rodriguez (credited)
Colors:
Gene D'Angelo (credited)
Letters:
John Costanza (credited)
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-7994
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

Script:
Gerry Conway (credited)
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-1047
Synopsis:
Letters page but as this is the first issue, an article on the history of Firestorm.
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