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electric rays like magnets by, to climb building

voltage and grounding and

electromagnet

electromagnetic pulse

electromagnetic radiation

electromagnetic spectrum

measuring temperature using

neon lights and

night-vision goggles and

ultraviolet and infrared ends of

visible light and

electromagnetic waves

brain waves and

broadcasting and

frequency and wavelength of

sun’s generation of

X rays vs. visible light and

electromagnetism

four basic forces and

force of static electricity

light and

superheroes and villains with powers of

problem of glowing hot object and need for quantum mechanics

electron-anti-electron particle pairs

electron beams

electronic devices

electrons.
See also
atoms; chemical bonds

atomic physics and

Big Bang and

chemical bonds and

compression of, and supernova

degenerate, and low energy quantum states

electromagnetic waves and

electrostatics and

electric current and

internal magnetic field of

light or photon emitted by

magnetism and

material science and chemical bonds and

microwave oven and

quantum theory and discrete energy levels of

quantum theory, Schrödinger equation, and probability and location of

semiconductors vs. metals and insulators and

static electricity and

telephone travel and

transistors and

tunneling phenomena and

electroreceptors

electrostatics

defined

gravity and

metal shaping and

pulmonary surfactant and

Element Lad

elements

synthesis of, in stars

wavelengths of light emitted by

Elkins (Atom foe)

Elongated Man

energy.
See also
conservation of energy; kinetic energy; potential energy;
and specific types

Big Bang and

defined

efficiency and

electro magnetic pulsed energy weapons

E=mc
²and

fluid mechanics and laminar flow, and no-slip zone

food and

Iron Man’s need for

kinetic vs. potential

phase transitions and

quantum physics, Planck’s constant and discrete levels of, for electrons

solar, and plants

thermodynamics and

waste heat and

energy density

energy gap

Entertaining Comics (EC)

entropy

erg, unit of energy

escape velocity

Euler, Leonhard

evaporation

evaporation cooling

Everett, Bill

Everett, Hugh

evolution

eyes.
See also
vision

Famous Studios

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four
,

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four
,

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four
,

Fantastic Four Annual
,

Fantastic Voyage
(Asimov)

Fantastic Voyage
(film)

Fantastic Voyage II
(Asimov)

Faraday, Michael

Faraday’s Law

Fawcett Publications

Fermi, Enrico

Ferro Lad

ferromagnetic materials

Fielding, Henry

Fin Fang Foom (foe)

fish

swim bladder

telepathy and

Flash (Barry Allen, Wally West)

anti-vortex created by

aura of

Bernoulli effect and

bomb launched by

breathing of

bullets caught by

contact electrification and

costume of

death of

electrical power generated by

food and energy needs of

friction and heat and

Golden Age Flash visited by

origin of

parallel worlds and

reintroduction of

running near speed of light and

running on surface of ocean

running up side of building

shock front created by

solid barriers passed through by

sonic boom created by

sound, hearing, and pitch and

speed of

speed of, and not burning up

static charge, friction, and magnetic fields and

Superman vs.

time travel and

turned into marionette by Abra Kadabra

vibration by, to escape from blocks of ice

vortex created by, to slow objects or levitate crook

Flash (Jay Garrick, Golden Age)

tunneling and

Flash
(Golden Age)

Flash (Vol. 2)

Flash
,

Flash

Flash
,

Flash (Vol. 2)

“Flash of Two Worlds,”

Fleischer, Studios

floating

fluid mechanics

fluids, resistance of

flying

Angel and

birds and

cars and

Superman and

food, energy provided by

force.
See also
electromagnetism; energy; gravity

angular momentum and

atomic and chemical

centripetal acceleration and

cube-square law and

due to gravity

electric field and

electromagnetism and

electrons and atoms and quantum mechanics and

electrostatics and

fluid mechanics and

four basic, defined

friction and

impulse and momentum and

magnetic field and

motion and

needed to deflect bullet

Newton’s law of gravity and Coulomb’s expression and

per unit area (pressure)

simple harmonic motion and

thermodynamics and

torque and rotation and

work and conservation of energy and

force fields, invisible

Fox, Gardner

freeze ray gun

frequency

electromagnetic waves and

pendulum and

sound waves and

friction

drag and sound and

electrostatics and

force and motion and

fulcrum

Full, Robert

Funnies on Parade

G-8 and His Battle Aces

Gaines, Maxwell C. (M.C.)

Gaines, William

Galactus (cosmic menace)

galaxies

Galileo

gamma rays

gases

exchange, in lungs

phase transition and

gas giants

Gauss, Carl Friedrich

gecko lizard

genetic manipulation

geology

Germanium

Germer, Lester

Giant-Man (Henry Pym) .
See also
Ant Man; Goliath

bones of

stability of

Whirlwind vs.

Gibbons, Dave

Gladiator (Marvel Comics hero)

glass

compression underwater

quartz vs.

stained

glow curve of hot object

Golden Age of comic books

Goodman, Martin

Googam (villain)

Gordon, Flash

Gormuu (Fantastic Four foe)

Graham, Neill

grandfather paradox

graphite

Graviton (Avenger foe)

gravity

core of large planet or star and

Earth’s vs. Krypton’s

electrostatics and

force and motion and

magnetic repulsion counteracting

missing mass in universe and

Newton’s law of

nuclear fusion in sun and

pendulum and

planets and moons and

potential energy and

quantum theory and

Greek Fire

Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)

archery equipment of

Silver Age

Green Goblin (Spider-Man foe)

Green Lantern
,

Green Lantern

Golden vs. Silver Age

Iron Man and

moon on string and

origin of

reinvention of, in

yellow ring of

Greer, Alex (Superman foe)

Grey, Jean (X Men)

grounding

gyroscopes

Hale, Nathan

halflife

Halflife (Avenger foe)

Hawkeye

Hawkgirl

Hawking, Stephen

Hawkman

hearing

Ant Man and

Atom and

Superman and

Hearst, William Randolph

heat

flow of.
See
thermodynamics

light and

heat ray

heat vision

Heck, Don

height

cube-square law and

force and motion and

Heisenberg, Werner

helicopters

helium

nucleus, mass of

hematite

hemoglobin

Hex, Jonah (Western hero)

High Field Magnetic Laboratory (University of Nijmegen)

Hijacker (Ant Man foe)

Hourman (Rex Tyler)

Hulk (Bruce Banner)

battle with Iron Man

costumes of

lifting buildings

origin of

skin of

strength of, and adrenaline

Human Top (Dave Cannon).
See
Whirlwind

Human Torch

Hyatt, Alpheus V. (physics professor)

hybrid-engine technology

hydrogen

hydrogen bomb

hydropower

hypnosis

hypnotic ray

“I, the Iceman,”

Iceman (Bobby Drake)

freeze rays of

ice slides and ladders of

icy covering of

impulse and momentum

angular momentum and

Conservation of Linear Momentum and

impurity

electric light and

semiconductors and

impurity ions

Incredibles, The

inertial guidance systems

Infantino, Carmine

infrared radiation

insulators

thermal

Invisible Woman (Sue Storm, Susan Richards)

ions

iron

magnetism and

melting weapon

Iron Man (Tony Stark, Shellhead)

costume of

flying by

Melter foe of

Melter’s weapon vs.

origin of

repulsor and reverse magnetism rays of

shrapnel-damaged heart of

solar energy and

transistorized weapons of

Iron Man
,

Ironman
(film)

Janosik, George

Jenkins, Paul

JLA Classified

Jordan, Hal (Green Lantern)

Jor-El (father of Superman)

Joule, James Prescott

Joules, unit of energy

Journey into Mystery

Juggernaut (X-Men foe)

Justice League of America (JLA,
later
Justice League)

Justice League of America
,

Justice League of America

Justice League of America
,

Justice Society of America

Kang the Conqueror (Avengers foe)

Kanigher, Robert

Kefauver, Sen. Estes

Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord

Kid Flash (Wally West,
later
Flash)

kinetic energy

air molecules

conservation of energy and

convection and

defined

matter-waves and

nuclear fusion and

phase transitions and

thermodynamics and

water flow and no-slip zone

Kirby, Jack

Krypton

Kryptonite

Lagrange, Joseph- Louis

laminar flow

Landau, Lev

Lane, Lois (Superman’s girlfriend)

Langer, Robert

lasers

Lash, Bat (Western hero)

“Last Days of Superman, The” (
Superman
)

leaping

Spider-Man and

Superman and

Lee, Stan

Legion of Superheroes (Vol. 5)

Legion of Super-Heroes

Lemaris, Lori (Superman’s mermaid friend)

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