Tag: #Comic books

Warhol / Wayne / West

You know Warhol did a Batman film in 1964? Issue 109 of 34th Parallel https://www.34thparallel.net/ has my “nerd noir” story about the origins of 1960s Batmania: “Warhol / Wayne / West.”

Firestorm and Ergs

DC managed to have an interesting a physics problem in the debut of Firestorm in his/their origin story Firestorm the Nuclear Man #1 (Mar 1978): “A million ergs of radiation pour through…” Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein.  We’ve seen similar amounts of energy before when we talked about Hulk falling.  An erg is a g-cm2sec-2 which […]