Who Is Radioactive Man? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Radioactive Man is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Chen Lu, with over 408 comic issue appearances. A nuclear physicist and Communist agent in the People's Republic of China, Chen Lu is a Chinese superhero who's nationality has seen him come into conflict with American heroes. He has the ability to control and emit deadly forms of radiation.

Who is Radioactive Man?

Origin Chen Lu Doctor Chen Lu specialized in nuclear physics and served as a nuclear physicist for the People's Republic of China. Respected in his high ranking specialist role, Doctor Lu was also well known for his research into how nuclear radioactivity may be in utilized to trigger and grant superhuman powers within humans. After hostile Chinese military presence and occupation in a part of India prompted the Asgardian thunder god Thor to intervene and push back the incursion single handedly, the Chinese government sought various means to able to contend with such superhuman power. Revising its strategies and looking into their military and scientific resources the Chinese government called upon Doctor Chen Lu hoping his expertise with both nuclear physics but more importantly experiments in superhuman enhanced power would be the key to opposing might like the Asgardian Thor. Doctor Lu was more than obliged to his new role, already having his own aspirations to be super powered, and having already spent months exposing himself to dangerous radioactive materials and substances. Immunized by his smaller experiments and now with the support of his government Chen Lu exposed himself.

Key facts

Radioactive Man is of radiation origin and first appeared in "The Mysterious Radio-Active Man!". The character is published by Marvel. With 408 recorded issue appearances, Radioactive Man ranks among the most featured characters in comics.