Comic Title: Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes SC
Publisher: Crown/Harmony
Cover Date: August 1976
Approx. On Sale Date: July 1, 1976
Cover Price: $6.95
Page Count: 240
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: (The Origin of the 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.