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: "Duel Between the Dual Atoms"
Pages: 23

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

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

Reprinted From:
Atom #36 (1968)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (of Earth-1; last appearance in Justice League of America #61; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #77)

Guest Star(s)

• Atom (of Earth-2; last appearance in Atom #29; next appearance in Justice League of America #64)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jean Loring (last appearance in Atom #35; next appearance in Atom #37)

Villain(s)

• Two gangs of crooks (Baldy named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Bill and Betty Roberts (friends of Al Pratt; no further appearances)
• Marion Thayer (a single woman; no further appearances)
• An unnamed scientist (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Al Pratt is set up on a blind date only to discover that his date has turned into a old woman. Other women on Earth-2 have also mysteriously aged. Unable to find a cause or a solution to the problem on his Earth, Al visits Earth-1 to see if a similar situation exists there.

Al tracks down the Atom of Earth-1, Ray Palmer and discovers that Ray is ten years younger and has no memory of his Atom identity. Al brings Atom to Earth-2 in hopes that Ray will be cured. Ray's proper age is restored, but he becomes violent and begins fighting Al.

As the fight between the two Atoms continues, Al decides to take Ray back to Earth-1. Unfortunately, the trip takes a detour into an world between dimensions. Al finally takes the upper hand and returns to Earth-1 with Ray, who once again becomes young.

The young Ray Palmer has no memory of his Earth-2 counterpart and runs away. At the top of Mount Ivy, Ray finds an unfamiliar satellite dish and smashes it. When he does, Ray is restored to normal. Both Atoms then return to Earth-2 and destroy a similar dish there. Both dishes were attracting cosmic radiation which had been responsible for the age effects.