Comic Title: Captain Atom #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1987
On Sale Date: December 26, 1986 Newsstand Date December 26, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #34

Newsstand Date December 26, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #106

Shipping Date December 2, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #34

Shipping Date December 2, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #106

Shipping Date December 2, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #111

Copyright Date December 2, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 40
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Point of Origin"
Pages: 40

Feature(s):
Captain Atom (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Patrick R. Broderick
Inker: Robert Allen Smith
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Atom (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Captain Atom #11; next appearance in Captain Atom #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wade Eiling (first appearance; next appearance in Captain Atom #2)
• Heinrich Megala (first appearance; last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Captain Atom #2)
• Jeff Goslin (first appearance; next appearance in Captain Atom #2)
• Martin Allard (Eiling's assistant; first appearance; next appearance in Captain Atom #4)
• Babylon (Megala's bodyguard; first appearance; last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Captain Atom #4)
• Randy Eiling (aka Randy Adam; first appearance; next appearance in Captain Atom #7)
• Margaret Eiling (aka Margaret Adam; first appearance; next appearance in Captain Atom #3)

Other Character(s)

• Angela Eiling (first appearance; next appearance in Captain Atom #42)
• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Green Lantern Corps #210; next appearance in Captain Atom #2)
• Several soldiers (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
In 1968, U.S. Army Captain Nathaniel J. Adam agrees to be the subject of a military experiment. The test involves an alien metal that has been discovered which is believed to shield nuclear radiation. Captain Adam has agreed to the test because he was wrongly convicted of treason and was sentenced to die anyway. As part of the test, Adam is sealed in a pod of the metal while a nuclear bomb is detonated on top of him. After the blast no trace of Adam, the metal, or any radiation is found.

Eighteen years later, Adam turns up again on the Army base melded with the alien metal. Dr. Megala the chief scientist on the project speculates that Adam was thrown into the future by the blast. Wade Eiling the officer in charge of the test seeks to eliminate Adam and Megala to cover his own part in the project. When his attempts to kill them fail, he conspires to bring Adam and his new powers under government control.

Adam agrees to work for the government on the condition that Eiling helps find his family. Eiling takes Adam to the grave of his former wife who died a few years earlier. Before her death she married Eiling. Captain Atom then becomes a secret government operative while privately he seeks to clear his name of the treason charge.