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Art by Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson from Showcase #34 (October 1961).ĭuring a spelunking expedition, Palmer and his students, along with his girlfriend, lawyer Jean Loring, find themselves trapped in a cave. Ray Palmer with his girlfriend and later wife, Jean Loring. Compression destabilizes an object's molecular structure, however, causing it to explode. Using a mass of white dwarf star matter he finds after it lands on Earth, Palmer fashions a lens that enables him to shrink any object to any degree he wishes. Raymond 'Ray' Palmer, is a physicist and professor at Ivy University in the fictional city of Ivy Town, somewhere in New England, specializing in matter compression as a means to fight overpopulation, famine and other world problems.

Fictional character biography Silver Age His alter ego, Ray Palmer, is an homage to science-fiction magazine editor Raymond A. Fox said in 1979, 'I doubt that any feedback from Bails or Thomas had very much of an influence, though always kept their ideas in the back of our minds.' He added that he and Fox together plotted the early stories of this new Silver Age Atom. Schwartz, after seeing the drawings, had the belt added, a detail Kane said he disliked since 'it broke up the costume lines.' Schwartz said he had not wanted to reuse the Golden Age Atom, Al Pratt, and had read about dwarf stars and thought a fragment of one could power the new hero's miniaturization.

Kane, who lived in Jericho, New York, on Long Island, at the time, drove to the nearby Hicksville home of DC production person Tom Nicolosi, who colored the drawings using St.

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Kane, unaware of Bails' suggestions, said he did 'a series of drawings' on large illustration boards, including a depiction of the new Atom riding a German shepherd dog and another of a pistol firing at the Atom, who wore the costume he eventually would in his comic debut but without a belt. Schwartz wrote Bails on January 6 saying he had already been planning a new version of the Atom, in the vein of National's reimagined Golden Age superheroes the Flash and Green Lantern, and had already asked artist Gil Kane to sketch designs. This is all talk, mind you - nothing definite. t the present moment the intent is to make him a college student rather than the scientific experimenter you have in mind. I have seen art samples of how he will look. Your own suggestions are excellent and most especially the one about the atomic compression of his body, which is to be a feature of the 'new' Atom. I am trying to cook up some 'new' super-powers for him in. so that I might write and let you know that okay okay okay (this is hush-hush) an Atom book may get under way in the next month or so. Eventual Atom writer Gardner Fox wrote Bails on January 1, 1961, stating that Schwartz passed along Bails' letter to him. Bails and future Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas collaborated on a suggested version that incorporated elements of a Golden Age hero, Quality Comics' Doll Man. Early comics-fandom pioneer Jerry Bails wrote to the National Comics editor Julius Schwartz in December 1960 outlining an updated version of Al Pratt, the company's 1940s Golden Age Atom. 1961) from the DC Comics precursor, National Comics. The Atom debuted in Showcase #34 ( cover-dated Oct. 2.5 Brightest Day and Adventure Comics co-feature.2.2 Sword of the Atom, Power of the Atom, and Teen Titans.His character first appeared in the third season of Arrow. He was played by Brandon Routh in Legends of Tomorrow in the shared DC Arrowverse on The CW.

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The Atom has been played in various TV series by Alfie Wise and John Kassir. The Atom was one of the first superheroes of the Silver Age of Comic Books and debuted in Showcase #34 (October 1961). The character was created by editor and co-plotter Julius Schwartz, writer Gardner Fox and penciler Gil Kane. Raymond Palmer) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Robert Kanigher, Gardner Fox, Denny O'Neil ( Brightest Day: The Atom Special): One-shot ( Atom, Atom and Hawkman, Power of the Atom): Ongoing series Cover art by Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson. Showcase #34 (October 1961), debut of the Silver Age Atom. Maintains strength of normal size in shrunken state Cover art by Steve Dillon for Atom Special #1 (1993)Ībility to shrink and grow his body and other objects to varying degrees (including the subatomic level) while manipulating his weight to his advantage