Captain Atom Archives

Now, it seems The Atom Project has been created to restore them all to their rightful owners, But what if they don't want them? Both Captain Atom and The Atom have been on the cover of Justice League Unlimited #1… but not on the others So what's going on? DC Comics looks to answer that[...]

Sounds like a lot of Marvel superhero origins in general, and the creation story of the Incredible Hulk in particular.  But over a year before Marvel would use variations on this theme repeatedly, creators Steve Ditko and Joe Gill would use it to excellent effect in Space Adventures #33, cover-dated March 1960 from Charlton Comics. [...]

There's a copy of Captain Atom's first appearance and origin in Space Adventures #33 CGC 4.0 Off-white pages up for auction in today's session of the 2021 May 9-10 Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation & Art Weekly Online Auction #122119 from Heritage Auctions. Interior panels from Space Adventures #33 featuring the first appearance of Captain Atom, Charlton[...]

There's a copy of Captain Atom's first appearance and origin in Space Adventures #33 CGC 6.5 Off-white pages up for auction in today's session of the 2021 March 21-22 Sunday & Monday Comics, Animation & Art Weekly Online Auction #122113 from Heritage Auctions. Space Adventures #33 featuring the first appearance of Captain Atom, Charlton Comics 1959. Steve[...]

Two new books I hear coming down the line, open for pitches and proposals at DC Comics, Booster Gold and Captain Atom. Booster Gold was given much importance during Convergence, travelling from domain to domain, with a version of himself transformed into the Waverider character from the Armageddon 2001 series from decades ago An earlier version of Booster[...]

but he could have been worse. Captain Atom # 79 Today we're going to look at Doctor Spectro! Now that is a name you'd only get in the 60's He was created to fight Captain Atom in issue #79 back when Charlton Comics owned the series The issue was written by Joe Gill and drawn by Steve[...]

And eBay likes it too! Captain Atom is more of an enigma It skirted the first cancellations of the Second Wave, despite selling less than certain books that were dropped And it always seemed to have a plan, as certain issues began to dovetail into earlier events, travelling in time, with the rules of causality getting[...]

I also understand there is a new Keith Giffen project in the works. Aside from the already cancelled Captain Atom, Justice League International, Voodoo and Resurrection Man, the lowest selling titles are Grifter, DC Universe Presents, Blue Beetle and Fury Of Firestorm before you get to the still-surviving-into-2013 Savage Hawkman.  Four titles were chopped last time,[...]

And no title could probably deserve it more. Captain Atom has dodged the executioner's axe before, when it sold less than Hawk & Dove, but it was still Rob Liefeld's title that was cancelled But it is gettine one month more than Justice League International and swelling the monthly title count to opver the magic 52. But[...]

And some wondered if they might be the three newly Liefeldised comic books Hawkman, Deathstroke and Grifter. It's not. Rob Liefeld has just tweeted; Hawkman #0, Deathstroke #0 and Grifter #0 on the way in September! DC ZEROmonth has great revelations for all our titles!#keepmomentumgoin And not only that but; Did I forget to mention I wrote Hawk and Dove #0 as[...]

Nothing else in the DCU really fits. Captain Atom #9 feels more and more like they are creating the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail, and I'm wondering if, All You Zombies style, if everyone is going to end up being Captain Atom. FuryMAX #2 takes us straight into bed with Nick Fury, and apparently[...]

ShirtWatch: Threadless launch a new Normalmanish T-shirt… BoomWatch: Boom are running a new teaser campaign for an upcoming comic labeled "You Are Illegal On This Earth". AwardWatch: The French comics festoival Chamberry has announced a new annual comics award especially for Taiwanese artists. ValentineWatch: Two sides of a bad romance – Plastique and Captain Atom. WebWatch: The Image comic[...]

Why not collect them all? Captain Atom #4's artist, Freddie Williams excels this issue, his art style loosening up even further, so when people, things are destroyed by radiation, by energy, whatever, they just fall apart, they crumble, and you can just feel the debris under your fingernails It's a rather disturbing feeling for a comic[...]

This is the book that you don't think you like, and I think you might be wrong. Captain Atom #3, and clearly he has become Doctor Manhattan on far more than just a physical level This is a philosophical debate about the responsibilities of being a god, from a mind that hasn't quite got there yet[...]

 Born November 2, 1927, Ditko began working in comics in 1953 and went on to create or co-create characters such as Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Captain Atom, Hawk & Dove, The Creeper, and others, and has left his mark on countless other characters with an incredible range of stories from Marvel, DC, Charlton, and other publishers. Stephen[...]

Oh look, they took my advice… Captain Atom #1 by JT Krul and Freddie Williams III This is the journey from Captain Atom, a man who can fly around, absorb energy and blast stuff… into Doctor Manhattan, god of all he surveys. This seems quite explicit Manhattan was based on the Charlton character Captain Atom in the first[...]