{"id":4037,"date":"2022-05-18T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2024-10-31T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:43:42","slug":"728-captain-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/728-captain-atom\/","title":{"rendered":"728 – Captain Atom!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Space Adventures #33, January 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Charlton’s Space Adventures #33 (January 1960) introduces a new super-hero: Captain Atom<\/a>! Created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko, Captain Adam was a physics prodigy, chemist, and ballistics genius but woops, he drops a screwdriver and is trapped on a rocket carrying an atomic bomb that detonates in space. He rematerializes soon after back near the launch pad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Another<\/a>
Another panel from Space Adventures #33, Jan 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He explains that he disintegrated and is able to re-integrate any time he wants, but that he is lethally radioactive. The army fashions him a blue-ish suit made of”diulustel shielding”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Captain<\/a>
Captain Adam given shielding in Space Adventures #33, Jan 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Adam also demonstrates that he has powers and can turn a tiny portion of his body mass into an enormous amount of energy and take flight, achieving speeds upwards of 20,000 miles per hour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Yet<\/a>
Yet another panel in Space Adventures #33, Jan 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He is given a flashy blue\/silver suit and a codename, Captain Atom! I’m not sure why the cover has a red-gold suit while the interior story shows a blue-silver one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Captain<\/a>
Captain Atom’s suit in Space Adventures #33, Jan 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Captain Atom was morphed into Doctor Manhattan<\/a>, a pivotal character in Alan Moore’s Watchmen epic in the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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