After the transition to the elemental Firestorm, all of the main characters from the series vanished from the comics for some time after the cancellation of the "Firestorm" comic in 1990. Raymond eventually returned in the pages of "Extreme Justice". Raymond, at the time undergoing treatment for leukemia, regained his original powers after a chemotherapy session. It took the combined might of the Justice League led by Captain Atom, and the returned elemental Firestorm, to restore Ronnie's health. Firestorm began to appear regularly in a number of DC titles, though lacking the guidance and knowledge necessary to use his skills wisely. Firestorm was drafted by Batman into a "replacement" Justice League that was commissioned in case something befell the original team (in this case, being stranded in the distant past in ""The Obsidian Age"" storyline). After the original team returned, Firestorm stayed on as a reserve member and participated in events such as a team-up with the Justice Society of America (in "JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice") and the intercompany crossover "JLA/Avengers". He was also briefly a member of the Power Company.