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Captain Atom
One of many "atomic " themed heroes, Captain Atom was originally a character in Charton Comics 1960's super hero lineup, where he basically functioned as their Superman.
In the 80's Dc bought he rights to all of Charlton's super hero characters.They were first intorduced to DC Continuity in their original Charlton forms during the Crisis on Infinite Earths where they were shown to come from an alternate Earth (Earth-4 I think).After the Crisis, their world was merged witht eh other suriving Earths to form what we now call "New Earth" and they were revamped now that DC's writers were allowed to monkey with their histories.
Captian Atom was given a new comic by DC which I used to collect regularly.In my opinion it was very well written, and also very well drawn, at least while Pat Broderick was drawing it.
One clever thing about the series is that they managed to preserve his Charlton stories in the new continuity, but as part of a false history the Government created for the hero. He eventually joins the Justice League and for several years is the leader of it's European divison.
Captian atom has recently been turned into a villian, which I think is a shame, but it's something DC has for some reason (I think mainly because they can't think of what to do with him since his series was cancelled) been itching to do for years, ever since the"Armaggedon 2001"crossover event in 1990, where he was originally supposed to be the villain Monarch, which is who he is now, almost 20 years later.
His greatest legacy may be in acting as the inspiration for the character "Doctor Manhattan" in the classic graphic novel, "the Watchmen" which is set to become a movie next year and looks AMAZING!
Captain Atom
One of many "atomic " themed heroes, Captain Atom was originally a character in Charton Comics 1960's super hero lineup, where he basically functioned as their Superman.
In the 80's Dc bought he rights to all of Charlton's super hero characters.They were first intorduced to DC Continuity in their original Charlton forms during the Crisis on Infinite Earths where they were shown to come from an alternate Earth (Earth-4 I think).After the Crisis, their world was merged witht eh other suriving Earths to form what we now call "New Earth" and they were revamped now that DC's writers were allowed to monkey with their histories.
Captian Atom was given a new comic by DC which I used to collect regularly.In my opinion it was very well written, and also very well drawn, at least while Pat Broderick was drawing it.
One clever thing about the series is that they managed to preserve his Charlton stories in the new continuity, but as part of a false history the Government created for the hero. He eventually joins the Justice League and for several years is the leader of it's European divison.
Captian atom has recently been turned into a villian, which I think is a shame, but it's something DC has for some reason (I think mainly because they can't think of what to do with him since his series was cancelled) been itching to do for years, ever since the"Armaggedon 2001"crossover event in 1990, where he was originally supposed to be the villain Monarch, which is who he is now, almost 20 years later.
His greatest legacy may be in acting as the inspiration for the character "Doctor Manhattan" in the classic graphic novel, "the Watchmen" which is set to become a movie next year and looks AMAZING!