Chen Lu / Radioactive Man first appeared in Journey into Mystery #93 (June 1963), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

4 #3 (June 2005) and was created by Reginald Hudlin and John Romita Jr.[citation needed] Radioactive Man's debut story begins with Thor's alter ego Donald Blake providing medical care for Indian soldiers injured in clashes with Chinese soldiers in the Himalayas.

[4] Chen exposes himself to small doses of radiation until he is able to endure a massive barrage, becoming a living "Radioactive Man".

[8] Radioactive Man and his teammates appear once again during a Halloween parade and are defeated by a coalition of superheroines called the Lady Liberators.

[9] Chen escapes and travels to Vietnam, where he joins Soviet villains Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo as part of a team called the Titanic Three.

Acting as crime fighters in Vietnam, the trio is duped by a con man and petty thief called the Slasher and end up battling the Avengers until the deception is uncovered.

[27] The radiation eventually subsides, but Norman Osborn convinces him to retain the suit to distract the American public from his clearly Asian features and quell any lingering fears about his radioactivity.

Osborn arranged for Chen to be deported back to China, leading to a bittersweet departure involving himself and Songbird.

[36] Radioactive Man reappears in The Mighty Avengers as part of People's Defense Force, China's indigenous group of metahumans.

The group makes an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the vibranium mound located at the heart of Black Panther's kingdom.

His powers include heat, "hard" radiation (inflicting opponents with nausea, dizziness, and extreme disorientation), EMP emissions to deactivate all machinery, and a hypnotic light.

[volume & issue needed] Green Death, a character inspired by Radioactive Man from the pocket dimension Eurth, appears in Avataars: Covenant of the Shield.

[53] An alternate universe variant of Chen Lu / Radioactive Man from a pocket dimension created by Franklin Richards appears in "Heroes Reborn" as a member of Loki's Masters of Evil.