If you are familiar with these characters, the parallels are extremely easy to spot. When Alan Moore originally planned out Watchmen, the characters were all from Charlton Comics. In the case of Allen Adam, he was deleted and replaced with an entirely new version of Captain Atom.īefore DC got around to relaunching Captain Atom, he was almost used in another monumental DC publication. When Crisis concluded, the entire Multiverse was collapsed into a single Earth with a new history that either erased elements of other realities or remixed them. This had the classic DC Heroes teaming up alongside Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, Peacemaker, Nightshade, The Question, and Judomaster. In 1985, during the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, we were introduced to Earth-4, where the Charlton events took place. Eventually, the company folded and sold their IPs to DC Comics. Atom was often partnered with other Charlton creations like Blue Beetle and even had a romantic interest in Nightshade.įor the next fifteen years, he would pop up sporadically as Charlton dealt with financial troubles. The character had a long life, especially for a non-DC or Marvel character, with his own solo title lasting for 89 issues until 1967. He was able to reform his body now, having powers that made him godlike and became the nuclear age hero Captain Atom.
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The rocket is accidentally launched with Adam onboard and exploded atomizing him. The Charlton Comics version of Allen Adam, a technician on a highly advanced new space rocket. He was created by writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko (Spider-Man, Doctor Strange) in the pages of Space Adventures #60 (March 1960). But who is Captain Atom? He’s hardly a household name to people outside of comics fandom.Ĭaptain Atom was initially owned by the now-defunct Charlton Comics. In particular, he was at the center of Invasion! in command of Earth’s forces against the alien alliance and Armageddon 2001, where he was intended to be the face behind the villainous Monarch until editorial changes. A pattern I picked up on was that in almost every occasion, the character Captain Atom was present and often played a critical role.
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In the summer of 2019, I read through almost every major DC Comics crossover event of the 1980s, 1990s, and up to Infinite Crisis/52 in the mid-2000s.