Serious Question
What happens when you dynamite Uranium?
“Also, we’ve all been exposed to high amounts of radiation, most likely rendering us sterile. In your case Karen, that’s a blessing for all humankind.”
A Look at Some Odd Moments in Some Old Comics
April 29th, 2008 at 1:24 am
The “Horace Wakely Memorial Uranium Strike” was dedicated at an official ceremony one year later.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:12 am
I think you just get lots of little bits of radioactive uranium spread around, you need to take fairly specific steps to get it to explode. Still not _good_, though.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:37 am
I’m fairly sure you won’t get an atom-splitting reaction if that’s your concern. Just some lumps of uranium floating around – actually, considering how dense and heavy it is, and that it’s underwater, I’m not sure a stick of dynamite would even throw anything anywhere.
As to the radiation, this is the fifties right? Radiation is GOOD for you!
April 29th, 2008 at 3:56 am
After that “little incident”, there apeared numerous Hulk clones for Roy to debunk…
April 29th, 2008 at 4:02 am
“the government would surely pay me great honor”?
Is that dude supposed to be a comicbook “asian” type character? I’m guessing not, but who the hell else talks like that? And don’t worry about the radiation. I’m sure they’ll just get Spider Sense or be able to fly or something. Nobody ever dies from it in a comic book.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Actually, that’s just a practical joke Roy pulled. That’s not a rock in his hand, it’s a hunk of glowing poo Roy did after the all-you-can-eat buritto bar at Taco Place.
http://comixbearbarecomix.blogspot.com/
April 29th, 2008 at 6:08 am
“The “Horace Wakely Memorial Uranium Strike” was dedicated at an official ceremony one year later.”
Roy and Karen couldn’t make it as they were rampaging through Tokyo that day.
The uranium has affected Roy already. In the second panel, that glowing rock is still in his right hand, but his arm is stretching.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Guys? Uranium ore is only very slightly radioactive.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:41 am
It’s a set-up.
Roy handed the poor sap some fake uranium.
In a few weeks he’ll be back to debunk “Horace Wakely’s Uranium Strike” for his show.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:42 am
“Guys? Uranium ore is only very slightly radioactive.”
Then why is it glowing? :O
April 29th, 2008 at 9:00 am
The seagulls are getting closer to him. I bet next issue there´s an accident with the seagull and the radiation from the uranium turns him into… THE AWESOME SEAGULLMAN!!!
April 29th, 2008 at 9:51 am
“This week, Seagullman must face his biggest challenge yet: The malodorous Living Barge.”
April 29th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Sure, they paid Horace the great honor of naming it after him, but they paid Roy several million dollars for the mineral rights, after the wily TV detective legally staked his claim on the area. He then strapped Karen to a torpedo and shot it at Horace’s boat, sinking it just for cruel laughs.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
“THE AWESOME SEAGULLMAN!!!”
Surely this should be “The ORE-SOME SEAGULL MAN” ?
Is great honor.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
That’s not Uranium!!! Uranum is a silver-grey colour!! You idiots! You found all that gold that Martian Manhunter made!
April 29th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
“G-gosh! The government would surely pay me great honor for that!”
“It certainly would! Like naming a B-52 “Horace Wakely” and sending it with a bomb full of this here Uranium to send some godless Commies straight to hell!”
“What’s a Commie, Roy?”
“Karen… grown-ups are talking. Why don’t you send those pictures we took to Mr. Hefner, hmm?”
April 29th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Ahh, yes. The glorious 50′s when one could package a radioactive ore and sell it to the kiddies in hope of getting rid of the flu or backpains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu96STA5BDA
“Modern remedy” indeed.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Shortly after, the son of the late Horace Wakely (Who sadly passed away of some “strange” sickness shortly after returning from a very profitable sea jorney) became the world famous “Atom Boy”, hero of the one and only uranium flavored Bazooka bubble gum!!
October 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Yeah, I love how he’s more excited about getting something named after him than anything else.
Because in those days, being of use to the Government was its own reward. Kind of like teaching middle school is now. Poor bastards.