Radioactive Man First Edition #1
Graphic motion art
"Radioactive Man has been portrayed in many media since his debut in "Radioactive Man" #1 in 1952*. In addition to comic books, he was featured in at least one 1940s or 1950s era black-and-white serial, sponsored by Laramie Cigarettes. The serials featured fictional actor Dirk Richter (a parody of Adam West and George Reeves) as Radioactive Man, and Buddy Hodges played Fallout Boy. Richter, reportedly born in 1922 (he was said to be 73 years old (and dead) in 1995), was apparently shot to death in a bordello sometime in the 1960s (a reference to the mysterious death of George Reeves, the first actor to portray Superman on television, but...