Comic Title: Captain Atom #9
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1987
On Sale Date: August 25, 1987 Newsstand Date August 25, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #42

Newsstand Date July 28, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #123
Listing erroneously uses the date for #8

Shipping Date July 7, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #123
Listing erroneously uses the date for #8

Shipping Date August 4, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Copyright Date August 4, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Blood and Betrayal"
Pages: 22

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

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

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Atom (last appearance in Booster Gold #22; next appearance in Justice League International #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wade Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #8; next appearance in Millennium #3)
• Martin Allard (last appearance in Captain Atom #7; next appearance in Captain Atom #10)

Villain(s)

• Bolt (last appearance in Hawkman #14; next appearance in Starman #2)
• General Lemar (dies in flashback; no further appearances)
• Harry Hadley (an Air Force officer; next appearance in Captain Atom #10)

Other Character(s)

• Corporal Hart, Alfred Gargan and his wife (no further appearances)
• Henry Yarrow (an Air Force colonel; first name not revealed in this story; next appearance in Captain Atom #20)
• Several USAF officers (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Jeff Goslin (in flashback to Vietnam)

Synopsis:
Cameron Scott begins tracking down participants in the court martial of Nathaniel Adam. He hopes to question them to uncover the truth about why he was framed. The first witness, Alfred Gargan is murdered by Bolt just before he is to meet with Scott.

Scott tracks the next man, Corporal Hart, to Los Angeles. Hart claims to have no memory of anything relevant to the court martial, but he later calls Scott and tells him about a secret drug smuggling operation in Vietnam. Before their conversation is over, Bolt kills Hart.

Scott then visits Las Vegas to meet Colonel Yarrow, his defense council during the court martial. Bolt strikes again, but this time Captain Atom saves Yarrow's life. Yarrow then admits he took a bribe to cover up the smuggling operation.

Captain Atom deduces the General Eiling will be Bolt's next target. He arrives in time to save the General who has been keeping tabs on Scott. Eiling admits that he always believed that Adam was guilty, but recent events have raised questions. He promises to keep an open mind, and Yarrow agrees to help Scott find the person responsible for framing Nathaniel Adam.