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CAPTAIN ATOM #1
Cover Date: March 1987
Cover Price: $1.00
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Cover Credits:
Art: Pat Broderick (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Cary Bates |
| Pencils | Pat Broderick |
| Inks | Bob Smith |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Colors | Carl Gafford |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Captain Atom (Nathaniel "Nate" Christopher Adam; first post-Crisis appearance; in 1968 and present; last in flashback in issue #9; see Comment)
Supporting Character(s):
- Doctor Heinrich Megala (first appearance; in 1968 and present; last in flashback in issue #36; in flashback in issue #36, then flashback in issue #12, and then flashback in issue #36 in between 1968 and main story in this issue)
- Babylon (Robert Long; first appearance; last in flashback in issue #36; next in issue #4)
- Angela Adam (later Angela Eiling; first appearance; Nate's wife; as Angela Adam in 1968; revealed to have died in 1984; last in flashback in issue #6; next, as a spirit, in issue #17)
- Randall "Randy" Adam (first appearance; Nate and Angela's son; as a child in 1968 following flashback in issue #6; revealed to have joined the Air Force, and change in name to Randall Eiling in his next appearance; next in issue #7)
- Margaret "Peggy" Adam (first appearance; Nate and Angela's daughter; as a child in 1968; also, behind the scenes, in the present; revealed to have father issues and name changed to Margaret Eiling in her next appearance; next in issue #3)
- Sgt. Jeffrey "Goz" Goslin (first DCU appearance; in 1968; last in flashback in issue #9)
Villain(s):
- General Wade Eiling (first DCU appearance; as a colonel in 1968 and in the present; last in flashback in issue #36; in flashback in issue #36, then flashback in issue #12, then flashback in issue #36, and then JLA: Year One #1 in between 1968 and main story in this issue)
- Lieutenant Martin Allard (first appearance; last in flashback in issue #12; next in issue #4)
- Harry Hadley (first appearance; a scientist who works on the Captain Atom Project; see Comment; next in issue #9)
- Wade Eiling's unnamed hired assassin (first appearance; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Lieutenant Douglas Eliot (mistaken for Harry Hadley, first appearance; a loyal but uninformed Air Force assistant of Wade's on the Captain Atom Project; next in issue #10)
- President Ronald Reagan (last in Green Lantern Corps #210)
- Maverick (first appearance; an F-111 pilot at Winslow Air Force Base)
Comment(s):
- Nate's date of birth is given as May 3, 1940, and he was 28 years old at the time of this story (barring his quantum leap).
- Harry Hadley is originally identified as a bespectacled gray-haired scientist, but later is consistently identified as a bald, glasses-less man.
- Angela Adam is revealed to have married Wade Eiling in 1971, and lived from 1938 to 1982.
- Nate is mistakenly given the middle initial J. by Lt. Martin Allard once in this story.
- Nate identifies Martin Luther King's death as having happened "six to seven weeks ago" from his point of view (from before the leap).
- Dates and places referred to pre-Nate's jump (in this issue's case, the 1960s, had to have happened in the 1960s because so many future events are dependent on the Vietnam era, war and those historical events). Difficulty does arise later with things like his children's ages, as well as other dates, but these will have to be credited to Hypertime.
- There could also be additional problems thanks to Monarch II, who revealed himself to be Nathaniel Adam, and the man who is Captain Atom to be his "quantum clone" (see Extreme Justice #8). If that is truly the case, then all Nate's flashbacks before the jump would apply to Monarch II, not Captain Atom. For the sake of the Captain Atom chronology, Nate and Captain Atom will be considered one and the same. Monarch II may be either "Captain Atom's darkness" from Captain Atom Vol. 3 #55-#57, some alternate Captain Atom (see Armageddon 2001 #2), or simply another Hypertime version of Nathaniel Adam.
Solicitation:
- In order to have his treason sentence commuted, Captain Nathaniel Adam takes part in a secret government experiment in 1968…and gets thrust 18 years into the future in "Point Of Origin."
Synopsis: - Sentenced to prison for a crime he did not commit, Nathaniel Adam "escaped" to the Captain Atom Project, where he was quantum jumped from May, 1968 to the here and now. Faced with a world no longer his own, and aided by his quantum powers, this moral man of the past has to fight the corruption of the present, as well as unravel the mysteries of his own creation. Along the way, he will be "disguised" as a super-hero, to use his powers to aid mankind, the United States government, and Wade's own hidden agenda.