Interesting nobody ever comments that Ronnie Raymond is where Conway's Peter Parker dialogue went. But then, Firestorm himself is an inversion of Spidey. For instance, he's a high school jock who's victimized constantly by an intellectual hipster nerd.
I like him around this time. Though years of grimdark have perhaps made it seem tame, there was a bit in the early 80s, until that awful League he created(Vibe and all), that Conway's stuff had a nice, dramatic edge of danger to it. Like the SSOV story with Killer Frost where the League and JSA are taken down brutally.