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: "Good Man, Bad Man – Turnabout Thief"
Pages: 23

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

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

Reprinted From:
Atom #31 (1967)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #74; next appearance in Justice League of America #54)

Guest Star(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Action Comics #350; next appearance in Hawkman #20)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jean Loring (last appearance in Atom #30; next appearance in Atom #32)

Villain(s)

• Toyboy (Johnny Burns; no further appearances)
• A group of masked crooks (no further appearances)
• Johnny's gang (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Justice League of America #53; next appearance in Hawkman #20)

Other Character(s)

• Mrs. Burns (a cleaning lady; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Atom stops a gang of crooks that are attempting to rob Ray Palmer's lab. During the battle Mrs. Burns, a cleaning lady, is injured. Ray takes her to the hospital where she is treated with a photonoscope. As she recovers, Mrs. Burns calls out for her son Johnny.

At the same time Hawkman and Hawkgirl battle a gang of crooks led by Johnny Burns. In the middle of the fight, Johnny unexpectedly reconsiders his evil ways and reforms. He helps Hawkman defeat his gang and turns himself in.

Later after Atom and Hawkman relate their stories to one another, Hawkman brings Johnny to see his mother. During the reunion, Hawkgirl sends a distress call to Hawkman, who is joined by the Atom in answering the call.

Atom and Hawkman then battle Toyboy, a costumed crook with power over toys. After disabling the crook, they unmask him and discover that it is Johnny Burns. Hawkman theorizes that the photonoscope treatment of Mrs. Burns caused her thoughts to divide her son's good and evil halves into two separate individuals.

After another fight with Toyboy, the heroes take their prisoner to the good Johnny Burns. When the two are brought together again, they reform into a single person with the good self triumphing over the evil.