Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The Atom Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: August 20, 2008 Direct Market Date August 13, 2008
Source: Previews, #236

Direct Market Date August 20, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Eye-Popping Perils of the Insect Bandit"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Sid Greene

Reprinted From:
Atom #26 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Justice League of America #45; next appearance in Justice League of America #46)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jean Loring (last appearance in Atom #25; next appearance in Atom #28)

Villain(s)

• Bug-Eyed Bandit (Bertram Larvan; next appearance in Atom #33)

Other Character(s)

• Ed Thayer (last appearance in Atom #15; no further appearances)
• Alice Morse (Ed's wife; no further appearances)
• Jimmy Rogers and Clifford Rogers (Jean's nephew and an importer; no further appearances)

Comments:
Jean Loring and Ray Palmer become engaged in this story.

Synopsis:
Police contact Ray Palmer after an importer is robbed by a robot insect. Ray investigates as the Atom and battles the insect. Though he fails to stop the bug or its master on two occasions, his investigation leads him to Bertram Larvan, an entomologist. Larvan is really the bandit and sends the robot insect to kill Ray. It fails, so Ray confronts Bertram as the Atom. Larvan dons his own costume as the Bug-Eyed Bandit. He has also deduced Ray's secret identity. Atom defeats his foe, then uses the special gas from one of the robot bugs. The gas causes Larvan to forget Ray's secret.