Comic Title: JSA All Stars Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: October 17, 2007 Direct Market Date October 17, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Direct Market Date October 24, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #6 (#222)

Cover Price: $59.99
Page Count: 256

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Introducing the Mighty Atom"
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Atom (Al Pratt of Earth-2)

Writer: Bill O'Connor
Penciller: Ben Flinton
Inker: Leonard Sansone

Reprinted From:
All-American Comics #19 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (next appearance in All-American Comics #20)

Supporting Character(s)

• Mary James (next appearance in All-American Comics #20)
• Joe Morgan (first appearance; last appearance in All-Star Squadron Annual #1; next appearance in All-American Comics #20)

Villain(s)

• A gang of kidnappers and a hold-up man (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A police chief (no further appearances)

Comments:
Atom does not appear in costume in this story.

Synopsis:
Al Pratt is humiliated by his college classmates because of his short stature. When a hold-up man mugs him in front of his girlfriend Mary James, she dumps him.

Depressed, Al meets a former boxing trainer Joe Morgan who is homeless. Al helps out Joe in exchange for training. After a year of exercise and weight training Al becomes a pint-sized powerhouse.

Al decides to pay a visit to his former girlfriend, only to witness a gang of kidnappers abduct her. Al barges in and knocks out the entire gang. Mary never sees here rescuer, because she is blindfolded. Al telephones police and leaves a calling card using the name the Atom.