Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The Atom Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: June 13, 2007 Direct Market Date June 13, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #3 (#219)

Direct Market Date June 13, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Master of the Plant World"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Atom (Ray Palmer of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted From:
Atom #1 (1962)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Showcase #36; next appearance in Atom #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jean Loring (last appearance in Showcase #36; next appearance in Atom #2)

Villain(s)

• Jason Woodrue (an interdimensional exile; first appearance; next appearance in Atom #24)

Other Character(s)

• Henry Chalmers and Walter Dudley (Jean Loring’s client and a horticultural expert; no further appearances)
• Maya and the Dryads (next appearance in Atom #20)

Synopsis:
Strange fast-growing plants break into a bank which is then robbed by some dryads. A passerby, Henry Chalmers, is arrested for the crime. Chalmers hires Jean Loring to defend him and investigate his story.

Jean visits a horticultural expert, but is put to sleep by some flowers. The Atom, who has followed Jean, then follows some dryads back to Jason Woodrue. Atom learns that Woodrue is an exile from an interdimensional world inhabited by the dryads. He has imprisoned the queen, Maya, and now controls them as well as his advanced plants.

Atom frees Maya and together they try to prevent Woodrue’s takeover of the world. Woodrue’s plant creations threaten cities, but Atom manages to subvert the man’s control and force him to surrender. Woodrue is then turned over to the authorities, and Chalmers is released.