Reading the older Fantastic Four I notice that Johnny is surrounded by asbestos. Asbestos Furniture, Clothes you name it. So why doesnt he have cancer? Would have been cool to do a storyline where all that asbestos made him sick.
Reading the older Fantastic Four I notice that Johnny is surrounded by asbestos. Asbestos Furniture, Clothes you name it. So why doesnt he have cancer? Would have been cool to do a storyline where all that asbestos made him sick.
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probably for the same reason Spider-Man shoots webs from his wrists and not his butt
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Asbestos? The cosmic radiation should have killed them all!
But that's not something we want to read about.
All of the asbestos stuff has been retconned out except for the Asbestos Man, who got cancer and died.
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Johnny's got some kind of thing happening when he flames on so he doesn't need to bathe and viruses die as per the latest Marvel Two-In-One series. I find it easier ot assume that protected him from any cancer.
A happy benefit from the cosmic radiation?
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It's probably for the same reason that they don't talk about Rick Jones being a ham-radio enthusiast and instead have him do computer stuff: anything obviously archaic is gradually retconned over time. When no one knew about the dangers of asbestos, the FF used asbestos. Once the dangers of asbestos became common knowledge, the FF quietly ceased to have ever used the stuff.
The same reason that Spider-man doesn't have cancer despite radiations, Daredevil didn't have cancer despite being hit by toxic waste, Hulk didn't have cancer despite being hit by a gamma bomb... The Marvel universe don"t have the same rules than our world, they are super-heroes with a different physiology than humans... and it's a comics.
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Something to note. Johnny may not have ended up with cancer, but Firestar, a character created as an expy of him for the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends cartoon, did, as her powers are actually radiation based, unlike Johnny's which are ignition based.
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