Edited sentence: , a spoof master-minded by Marie Severin.Megaton Man also exploited Reagan-era Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union and anxieties over imminent nuclear war, sprinkling the overmuscled here's adventures with numerous pop-culture and arthouse cinema references.The series is noted for its parody of superhero conventions in the mold of Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood's "Superduperman" for Mad comics #4 (April-May 1953) and the fondly-remembered late-1960s Marvel Comics Group series Not Brand Ecch