He took over Ray's position, and discovered that Ray left him his shrinking technology, allowing Ryan to become the new Atom and to have some very cool adventures of his own that really captured the core of what made the original Atom stories so cool. Ryan Choi was a young physics professor, and a former student and colleague of Ray's. During that interim a new Atom is introduced. When it's revealed that Ray's ex-wife Jean Loring is responsible for the tragic events of Identity Crisis, Ray disappeared into the microverse for a good while. His time as a full member of the Justice League, however, means we have all the room we need for all his heroic escapades.Īlso: in the comics, Atom was de-aged and was briefly the leader of the Dan Jurgens Teen Titans we chose to reference that briefly by making him the science advisor to the Roy Harper-led Titans. We can essentially say that for most of his career, his time is spent devoted to research and exploration of the various microscopic realms he discovers, which allows him to do things like discover the original JSA trapped in Ragnarok and work to free them, or to take on Karen Beecher as a lab tech. So how do you find that balance?įor our purposes, the best delineation was around his actual League membership. Of course, as a long-time League member he often absolutely IS a superhero. He's more of an adventurer, exploring the unknown microscopic worlds that only he can access. This doesn't necessarily mean he needs to be acting like a superhero all the time. The Atom is always at his best when his stories center around a solid science fiction premise that is tackled with the sensibilities of a 60's era drive in movie. This seemingly mundane plot detail would wind up being used as a crux of the mystery in the 2004 miniseries Identity Crisis, it would lead to Ray abandoning his role as The Atom, and passing it on to a new character, Ryan Choi. While the book is VERY good and leads to its own ongoing series Powers of The Atom, it does include one detail that went on to have surprisingly lasting repercussions: the divorce of Ray Palmer and his love interest, Jean Loring. Trapped in the Amazon jungle in tiny form, Ray had a series of John Carter-style adventures among stranded aliens. This is by far where the bulk of Ray's appearances happened, and his character was really established here for decades until he starred in a Gil Kane miniseries in 1983 called Sword of The Atom. The Atom joined another Gardner Fox ongoing series in 1962 when he became one of the earliest characters to join the Justice League. This continued as Atom went on to star in his own ongoing series he was less a traditional superhero and more a platform on which a wide variety of high-concept sci-fi stories could be told. GIven that as a jumping off point, The innovation to make him a scientist who develops shrinking technology makes a certain amount of sense, and when you read that original story it actually reads like a fairly competent science fiction premise. The difference here is that the original hero had no powers at all, he was literally just a short guy. Like other new Silver Age heroes like the Flash or Green Lantern, he's a reimagining of a Golden Age hero. Atom is another creation Gardner Fox, debuting in issue 34# of Showcase in 1961.
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