[10] The work appeared in the exhibition entitled 'The New Realists' at the Sidney Janis Gallery[11] from November 1 to December 1, 1962.

Although the text is limited to one four-letter word, the narrative is unnecessary owing to the eminent realism presented.

[14] Like Blang (1962) and Varoom (1963), Blam's onomatopoeia explodes "like a violent central sun over the entire composition".

[15] Lichtenstein has revised the original source so that the aircraft and its explosion are the joint foci from which the painting radiates.

Unlike the original, which had substantive narrative content, Lichtenstein's version has more formality and a linear pattern, but a more simplified surface.