5/1/2023 0 Comments Dc universe a.t.o.m.![]() Fate finds the Spectre, now under the mental domination of Kulak, who possesses the Ring of Life. The Atom is hospitalized for radiation poisoning. This issue contains Jerry Ordway reproduction of the cover of All-Star Comics #3 and a reprint of the page from All-Star Comics #11 in which the JSA members join the armed forces. The radiation to which the Atom is exposed later gives him super-strength. NOTES: Cyclotron does not die immediately he was thrust forward to the time of the Crisis (see All-Star Squadron #54) and returned to the instant he left. The Secret Society and Infinitors return to their own era and Firebrand takes custody of Terry Curtis's infant daughter, Terri. The Atom is irradiated by Cyclotron, who turns on Ultra, apparently destroying them both. The All-Stars and Infinitors take on Ultra and the Secret Society of Super-Villains. The Flash, Green Lantern were frequently depicted together on the covers of Comics Cavalcade, but appeared in separate stories inside. NOTES: The war bond rally in this story was inspired by the cover of Comics Cavalcade #2 (1943). ![]() "Socker" Smith, Nat Mulligan), now possessed by a sphere of evil energy. The Atom, the Guardian and Wildcat discover that they were all trained by the same man: Joe Morgan (a.k.a. He also mentions that the Seven Soldiers of Victory are ready to serve the Squadron. A*SQ Annual #1 (1982)Ĭalvin University studnight returns to England to become Winston Churchill's bodyguard. This is his first chronological appearance. NOTES: In his other personas, "Nat Milligan" later trained Ted Grant (Wildcat) and, as "Joe Morgan," Al Pratt (the Atom). Harper is unaware that Milligan suffers from multiple-personality disorder. In Metropolis's Suicide Slum, young Jim Harper is taken in by Nat Milligan, who teaches him boxing and gymnastics. In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Atom I lived on Earth-2. Starman brought his brother Starman VIII to a banquet in limbo attendedīy Atom and several other deceased mystery men. Atom's body could not take the shock,Ītom befriended Starman VI in the afterlife. ( Nuklon/ Atom-Smasher), the grand son of the reluctant super-villainīirth to a child, but Vandal Savage killed Mary and abducted the child.Īl was heartbroken, and he assumed that his child was dead.ĭuring Zero Hour the villainous Extant advanced Al did, however, become the godfather of Albert Rothstein Grant did not discover his true parentage until after Al's deathĭuring Zero Hour. Of Savage's employees and grew up under the name Grant Emerson (now the neophyte That she and the baby died in childbirth. Was murdered by Savage shortly after the child's birth. Of an experiment in genetic engineering conducted by Vandal Savage. They had one child, who, unbeknownst to Al, became the subject To teaching at Calvin College and spending time with his wife Mary James.Īl Pratt married his college girlfriend, Mary James, sometime after the JSAĭisbanded in 1951. The JSA breakup in the 1950s, Al Pratt retired the Atom from full active dutyĪnd only donned his costume on special occasions. ![]() During the war he fought an atomic-powered man namedĬyclotron, and would later gain superhuman powers from this encounter. He left the thugs with a calling card for the police, calling himself " The Atom." (All-American Comics #19)Ītom joined the Justice Society of America, and would serve on the All-Star ![]() He returned to Calvin College in time to save Mary from kidnappers. In the first public test of his newfound strength, Al flipped a man into the air, and then broke the knob off a door! It seemed as if the training had unlocked super-strength in Pratt. He built his body to become his strongest. Al left college and for a year he trained with Joe at a family farm. Joe returned Al's kindness by training the boy. ![]() and Mary was appalled by his lack of masculinity.Īs fate would have it, Al then met a down-on-his-luck boxing trainer named Joe Morgan. Al had no choice but to give over all his money. One day he asked Mary James to the prom and the two were approached by a mugger. Young, diminutive "Atom Al" Pratt was a student at Calvin College who struggled with self-confidence. Greenstein aka " the Mighty Atom"! The hero's early adventures were titled that way, exactly, though the character bore no resemblance to Greenstein. There is strong evidence that National's super-hero, the Atom, was inspired by a real-life strongman, Joseph L. 1940) by Bill O'Connor, Ben Flinton and Leonard Sansone. The Original Atom In his first appearance, "the Mighty Atom" defeated ? with his natural strength, but never donned a costume. ![]()
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