This is where suspension of disbelief kicks in.
This is where suspension of disbelief kicks in.
I laughed hard when I read that issue a while ago, where Jonny stays in his home and says something like: I am so happy that Reed build me a home completely made of asbestos!
Reed, you super genius
Because it's a comic book.
Geezus Christus.
"Cable was right!"
Johnny is a cancer
Ignorance
The harmful effects of Asbestos weren’t well known when Lee was writing all those asbestos villains
I’m sure they’ve all been retconned into being some other substance by now.
Not the Asbestos Man or Lady, who both died from using their suits.
In ASM 76 & 77, Spidey is trying to capture the Lizard without hurting him, and along comes Johnny Storm, who tries to help. This pisses Spidey off because Torch won't listen to him and his webbing burns up when he tries using it. Lizard gets away, Spidey and Johhny have words, and split mad at each other. He goes back to his apartment to prepare for a rematch, and makes a batch of asbestos webbing and insulates his suit with asbestos, too. At the time, asbestos was the only fireproof substance anybody knew about. Nobody realized it could cause health problems later, so it was common everywhere.
I wouldn't say "nobody." The link between asbestos and asbestosis was known by the medical community in the 1930s. And court cases have found that the asbestos industry knew of this in the 1930s and concealed the dangers from the public. A decent Wikipedia entry on the subject
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