Comic Title: Captain Atom #40
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1990
On Sale Date: March 6, 1990 Shipping Date March 6, 1990
Source: Previews, #12

Shipping Date March 6, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #177

Shipping Date March 8, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #14

Copyright Date March 6, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "(Borrowed) Venom"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Captain Atom (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Cary Bates
Writer: Greg Weisman
Penciller: Rafael Kayanan
Inker: Romeo Tanghal
Letterer: John E. Workman, Jr.
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Atom (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; next appearance in Justice League Europe #13)

Supporting Character(s)

• Heinrich Megala (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; no further appearances)
• Babylon (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; next appearance in Captain Atom #43)
• Jeff Goslin (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; next appearance in Captain Atom #43)
• Martin Allard (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; next appearance in Captain Atom #43)
• Wade Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; next appearance in Captain Atom #41)
• Major Force (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; next appearance in Captain Atom #43)
• Doctor Spectro (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; no further appearances)
• Starshine Stone (last appearance in Captain Atom #35; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Ghost (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; next appearance in Captain Atom #43)
• A Cambodian warrior (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; no further appearances)
• Charles Hendel (last appearance in Captain Atom #39; no further appearances)
• Cult of the Faceless One (named in this story; last appearance in Captain Atom #39; no further appearances)
• Cecille Montgomery (name revealed; dies in this story; last appearance in Captain Atom #39; no further appearances)
• Kobra (last appearance in Suicide Squad #33; next appearance in Suicide Squad #45)
• Kobra's followers (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story takes place on April 13-14, 1990.

Synopsis:
The Ghost sends operatives to kidnap Babylon, Allard, and Goslin. He then breaks Kobra out of Belle Reve and arranges for Kobra to take credit for the kidnappings. Captain Atom, Major Force, and Doctor Spectro are then sent to rescue the hostages. Kobra used dopplegangers of the Allard and Babylon to fool Captain Atom, then kills them. He even uses a doppelganger of himself which is destroyed by Captain Atom. After the battle, not enough remains of the dead hostages to identify. Allard and Babylon are believed dead, but the Ghost still has them as hostages. He plans to turn them and Goslin against the Atom Project.