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: "The Oddest Man on Earth"
Pages: 13

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

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

Reprinted From:
Atom #2 (1962)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Atom #1; next appearance in Atom #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jean Loring (last appearance in Atom #1; next appearance in Atom #3)

Villain(s)

• Bart Tranter (a small-time crook; no further appearances)
• Two unnamed jewel thieves (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Oscar D. Dollar (Mr. Odd; no further appearances)
• Tim Kerr (a farmer; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Ray Palmer meets Oscar D. Dollar, Mr. Odd, who claims that strange million-to-one chance events occur in his presence. The claim is backed up when odd events such as a car horn that shatters windows and a barn fire occur.

A small-time crook, Bart Tranter, overhears the conversation and lures Oscar to the bank, where an earthquake takes place. Tranter robs the bank, and plans to use Oscar again, but Oscar is so upset he decides to rid himself of the silver dollar that he believes is the cause of the effect.

Oscar gives the silver dollar to Ray Palmer. Tranter tries to recover it, but Palmer stops him as the Atom. He also proves that the silver dollar was not the cause of the effect, but rather a small white dwarf stone, Oscar had found in the woods sometime earlier. Then the stone is oddly shot into space, ending the effect permanently.