Comic Title: Firestorm the Nuclear Man #91
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1989
On Sale Date: September 12, 1989 Shipping Date September 12, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #171

Shipping Date September 14, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #9

Direct Market Date September 14, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #115, #116

Copyright Date September 12, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dan Raspler

Title: "Confrontation"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Firestorm (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John Ostrander
Artist: Thomas Mandrake
Letterer: Duncan Andrews
Colorist: Nansi Hoolahan

Feature Character(s)

• Firestorm (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #90; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #92)
• Mikhail Arkadin (behind-the-scenes in the Firestorm matrix; last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #90; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #92)
• Svarozhich (behind-the-scenes in the Firestorm matrix; last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #90; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #92)

Guest Star(s)

• Red Tornado (last appearance in Captain Atom #17; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #92)

Supporting Character(s)

• Simon LaGrieve (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #89; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #92)

Villain(s)

• Naiad (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #90; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #92)
• Dr. Clement Morrison (mostly behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #88; next appearance in Firestorm #94)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Nathaniel Adam (chronology forthcoming)
• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #90; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #92)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Justice League (in flashback to the satellite era)
• Batman (pictured with the Justice League)
• Flash (pictured with the Justice League)
• Green Lantern (pictured with the Justice League)

Comments:
The Elemental War Act Two

This story is continued from Firestorm the Nuclear Man #90 and continues in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #92.

Synopsis:
Firestorm confronts the new water elemental Naiad. When they each find their powers unable to affect the other directly, Naiad creates a wave to strike at the fire elemental indirectly. As Firestorm is pulled underwater, another elemental has been drawn into the fray, the Red Tornado. He begins fighting Naiad.

Firestorm recovers and realizes that the oil from the damaged platform is spilling into the sea. He closes the drill hole, uses his transmutation powers on the oil, and puts out the fire. With the spill contained, Naiad calms down considerably.

The three elementals then converse. Naiad wants to destroy humanity for polluting the environment. Red Tornado is compelled to agree. Firestorm is the voice of dissent. He believes they should guide humanity. However, Naiad has rejected her own humanity, and the Red Tornado, as an android, never had any. They unite against Firestorm, burying him. They then head to Japan to destroy it.

Elsewhere Simon LaGrieve is gunned down after he connects Killer Frost's creation to a mysterious virus.