Comic Title: Atom Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2001
On Sale Date: June 13, 2001 Direct Market Date May 16, 2001
Source: Previews, Vol. 11 #3 (#147)

Direct Market Date June 13, 2001
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 13, 2001

Direct Market Date June 13, 2001
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: June 13

Direct Market Date June 13, 2001
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of June 14, 2001

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Secret of 'Al Atom's' Lamp"
Pages: 10

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

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

Reprinted From:
Atom #3 (1962)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Atom #3; next appearance in Justice League of America #15)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alpheus V. Hyatt (inventor of the time pool; next appearance in Atom #6)

Villain(s)

• Abdul and a confederate (thieves; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Hassan (a young arab boy; no further appearances)

Comments:
This is the first Time Pool story. The Time Pool, invented by Professor Hyatt, is a tiny hole of white light into which small objects can placed to travel backwards in time. The Time Pool becomes a regular method for the Atom to time travel and have adventures in the past.

Synopsis:
Ray Palmer visits another scientist, Professor Alpheus V. Hyatt, at his lab. Hyatt has developed the Time Pool, a hole in time-space created by light. The professor is able to send objects into the hole and bring them back, much like fishing. The hole is too small for people to travel in however.

Atom is able to fit into the Time Pool, so he rides the professor’s fishing line into the past. Disoriented by the experience, Atom takes a nap inside a lamp. The lamp belongs to an arab boy, Hassan. Atom emerges and is thought to be a genie. He helps the boy locate a family treasure and protects it from thieves. Then Atom makes a return trip through the Time Pool, bringing a gold dinar with him as proof of his trip into the past.