Comic Title: Action Comics #408
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1972
On Sale Date: November 30, 1971 Newsstand Date November 30, 1971
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #407, Page 46

Copyright Date November 30, 1971
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1972

Newsstand Date November 30, 1971
Source: Etcetera, V1 #9

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Murray Boltinoff

Title: "The Atom's Phantom Double"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted From:
Atom #9 (1963)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Atom #8; next appearance in Atom #9)

Villain(s)

• A phantom Atom (destroyed in this story; no further appearances)
• Three unnamed crooks (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
An accident in Ray Palmer’s lab causes a phantom version of Ray to materialize. The phantom possesses all of Ray’s memories and wishes to become real. While the real Ray pursues some crooks as the Atom, his phantom double develops a method to become solid and in so doing destroy his counterpart.

The phantom Atom follows the real one and tries to use an opal ring to exchange places with his counterpart. The real Atom foils his plan, destroying the ring in a fire. Then he breaks the phantom’s size controls, leaving his double to shrink out of existance.