SPACE ADVENTURES Volume 7 Capt. Atom Hardcover

Blast off into space with arguably the best Steve Ditko hero of the Spider-Man era, created BEFORE Spidey! Here is his origin in #33 and first four adventures. Captain Atom is brilliantly drawn and a lot of fun, with adventures in space but also a secret identity on earth. Great super powers. He was created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko. After an atomic accident our hero finds himself with atomic-fueled superpowers! Shades of The Hulk, but much more handsome! These are GREAT stories! Ditko at his very best! Capt. Atom became the cover feature in Space Adventures f#33–40 (March 1960 – June 1961) and #42 (October 1961). Charlton began reprinting his short adventures in the anthology Strange Suspense Stories beginning with issue #75 (June 1965), renaming the title Captain Atom with issue #78 (December 1965) and giving the hero full-length stories and supervillain antagonists such as Dr. Spectro (previous stories involved Cold War anti-Communist missions or dealing with aliens). Captain Atom later teamed with the superhero Nightshade, with whom he shared a mutual attraction. The superhero the Blue Beetle starred in the initial back-up feature, later replaced by a Nightshade back-up series. Also here, a universe of space adventures back up stories from artists including Bill Molno, Bill Montes, Charles Nicholas and Rocco Mastroserio. Here's much more from Wikipedia about this fan-favorite Silver Age hero: Captain Atom first appeared in Space Adventures #33 (March 1960). He was initially created for Charlton Comics, but was later acquired by DC Comics and revised for DC's Post-Crisis continuity. In 2011, DC Comics relaunched its superhero comics and rewrote the histories of some characters from scratch, including Captain Atom, giving him a new origin, appearance and slightly altered powers. Captain Atom was the character inspiration for Doctor Manhattan, who was featured in the miniseries (and later live-action film adaptation) Watchmen, which would be connected to the DC Universe in the miniseries Doomsday Clock. Throughout the years, the character has been featured in several moderate-to-short-lived eponymous series, and has been a member of several different versions of DC's flagship superhero team, the Justice League. In all incarnations, the character initially served for the military. In the Charlton Comics continuity, he was a scientist named Allen Adam and gained his abilities by accident when he was seemingly "atomized" and then his body reformed, now existing as an atomic-powered being. In both DC Comics incarnations, he is an Air Force pilot named Nathaniel Adam, who was a test subject in a scientific experiment who seemingly disintegrated in the process, only to reappear later as the super-powered Captain Atom. Captain Atom has appeared in several animated television and film adaptations of Justice League and other DC storylines since the mid-2000s, where he is depicted as a powerful member of the Justice League whose abilities place him roughly on par with the franchise's flagship character Superman.