The Fury of Firestorm 1982 #1 Direct ed. - 4.0 - $6.00

John Ravenhair is turned into Black Bison by a spell cast by his grandfather and rampages thru a museum during a school field trip. Ronnie changes to Firestorm and attempts to stop him but Black Bison escapes into Central Park.

Letters page but as this is the first issue, an article on the history of Firestorm.

On-sale date from copyright registration. Contemporaneous house ads list the on-sale date as March 4.

• Day of the Bison - Origin and career recap. Characters created by Gerry Conway & Al Milgrom.