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The Fury of Firestorm #2 by Pat Broderick

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Title:	The Fury of Firestorm #2 by Pat Broderick
Artist:	Pat Broderick (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	617
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	8
Added to Site:	8/12/2018
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A cover that I've wanted for years! It's just fantastic!

The Bludgeoning Black Bison Vs. Firestorm!

Black Bison storms the townhouse of Senator Reilly and kidnaps Lorraine Reilly. Firestorm battles an army of animated animal statues, brought to life by Black Bison's powerful medicine-magic. Firestorm fights Black Bison in Central Park.

Firestorm's Panel-by-Panel Story Summary (Spoiler Alert)

Riding his bicycle in Central Park while thinking of his new high score playing �Missile Command�, a youngster is startled to see Firestorm sitting in the classic thinker pose atop a large marble statue. Distracted, the youth swerves out of control and starts to fall. Professor Stein alerts Ronnie, and Firestorm reacts with a swift nuclear blast to turn the sidewalk underneath the falling bicyclist into a soft mattress. With danger averted, Firestorm returns to thinking of the recent appearance of Black Bison, a super-being that his history teacher John Ravenhair became after a mystical Native American spell (see issue 1). Ronnie mentions Black Bison�s weird costume and powers, and questions out loud about why fancy threads turn some folks goofy. Standing up nearby, the youngster notices his dented bicycle. He asks the �creep�, Firestorm, what he is going to do about the bike. Firestorm zaps the bike with nuclear energy, rearranging its form to good as new. Flustered, the youth jumps on and rides off fast, vowing to avoid Central Park and stick to the video game arcades.

Reviewing recent events, Ronnie recalls being at the New York Museum of Natural History on a field trip with John Ravenhair�s class. A new exhibit of Native American artifacts had just opened at the museum, with the prominent pieces donated by the benefactor who presided over the opening ceremony, Senator Walter Reilly. John was speaking to the class when he suddenly became dizzy and grabbed at his chest. At the same time in a park close by, John�s great-grandfather, who earlier gave John the golden talisman of the Bison Cult, is chanting a powerful Native American magic spell.

John�s girlfriend, school nurse Vanessa Tremont, took over the class as John stumbled to a nearby bathroom. Ronnie, distracted by arch-rival Cliff Carmichael�s antics then hears a thunderous noise coming from the bathroom as the form of John Ravenhair exploded out into the museum. John Ravenhair plowed through the students, and Ronnie quickly found a secluded spot to transform into Firestorm. On John�s trail, Firestorm finds him now wearing traditional headdress and holding a magical shaman coup stick, artifacts that John removed from a museum exhibit display case after shattering the glass. Using the coup stick, John reanimated the lifeless wild animals in a nearby exhibit, causing them to threaten Ronnie�s classmates in a wild stampede. Firestorm hastily diverts his attention to helping his classmates, including Doreen Day, who is cornered by an angry mountain lion. John Ravenhair jumps on the back of a reanimated white stallion and proclaimed that he is now Black Bison, the great and powerful shaman of the Bison Cult. He then galloped out of the museum and disappeared into nearby Central Park. Ronnie and Stein wonder just who and where Black Bison is.

With horse-drawn tourist carriages and horse trails criss-crossing Central Park, Firestorm�s efforts to find Black Bison have been unsuccessful. Stein suggests temporarily halting the search so he can return to his work at Concordance Research. Ronnie agrees, and Firestorm lands on the rooftop of Stein�s Manhattan office building for their separation transformation.

Entering the building, Ronnie and Stein are approached by Stein�s co-worker, Harry Carew, who asks about Stein�s sudden departure from the earlier meeting. Carew, thinking of Stein�s apparent sudden �illness� at the meeting, suggests that Stein get in shape and jogs off. In Stein�s office, he and Ronnie see TV news coverage of John Ravenhair�s bizarre transformation at the museum. Ronnie is surprised to see Doreen being interviewed on TV. She mentions that both John and Ronnie haven�t been seen since the incident. Ronnie swiftly departs. Stein laments never having memories of the events that occur while he is in the form of Firestorm, and continues to watch news coverage. The reporter turns from Doreen to Senator Reilly, who recounts his long history as a collector of Native American historical artifacts. Hoping that the artifacts taken by John will be returned unharmed, the Senator expresses his feeling that Native American heritage is common to all Americans and together must be preserved. Stein switches off the television.

At Bradley High, the students are still buzzing about the events at the museum. Doreen is worried about Ronnie�s whereabouts, which Cliff Carmichael dismisses by saying Ronnie is probably hiding in a bathroom. Vanessa, still shaken, sits in the school clinic being calmed by a nurse. Cliff suggests Doreen write off Ronn

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Bill J
Member Since 2009

Posted on 8/12/2018

AWESOME!!!

Duke Fleed aka #1 Groo Fan
Member Since 2013

Posted on 8/12/2018

Fantastic cover! Congrats.

Rick W
Member Since 2017

Posted on 8/12/2018

Wonderful, memorable cover! Congrats!

Vik V
Member Since 2016

Posted on 8/13/2018

Very cool cover, Nick! Congrats!

Ron S
Member Since 2007

Posted on 8/14/2018

Nice. This was a great time for the run.

J L
Member Since 2005

Posted on 1/29/2019

I love Firestorm as a kid. Congrats on this cool cover!!!!

Ross T. L.
Member Since 2004

Posted on 3/5/2023

A classic from a great title. Congratulations on picking this up.

Christopher Daley
Member Since 2019

Posted on 9/25/2024

A treasure. One of my favorite Broderick covers of all time. So glad this in your collection, Nick.

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