Comic Title: Captain Atom #21
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1988
On Sale Date: August 9, 1988 Shipping Date August 9, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #7

Shipping Date August 11, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #146

Newsstand Date September 3, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #146

Copyright Date August 16, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "The Captain's Word Is Law"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Cary Bates
Plotter: Greg Weisman
Penciller: Patrick R. Broderick
Inker: Steve Mitchell
Letterer: Carrie Spiegle (McCarthy)
Colorist: Shelly Eiber

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Atom (last appearance in Captain Atom #20; next appearance in Captain Atom #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wade Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #18; next appearance in Captain Atom #22)
• Heinrich Megala (last appearance in Captain Atom #18; next appearance in Secret Origins #34)
• Starshine Stone (last appearance in Captain Atom #20; next appearance in Captain Atom Annual #2)

Villain(s)

• Plastique (last appearance in Captain Atom #8; next appearance in Captain Atom #22)
• Communist soldiers (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Captain Atom #22)

Other Character(s)

• Witman Halsey (a soldier of fortune; last name also spelled Halsy; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Dwight Crane (a mercenary; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A group of freedom fighters (no further appearances)
• Billy (a young mercenary; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Billy's father (no further appearances)
• Harry and his partner (field reporters; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Captain Atom #22.

Synopsis:
Cameron Scott takes a job as a soldier for hire. His mission is to retrieve the son of his employer who has joined a group of freedom fighters battling communists in an unspecified Central American country. Scott and his team locate the boy soon after their arrival, but they are too late. He is already dead.

Scott joins the fight and meets up with Plastique who is fighting for the other side. Scott decides that he has had enough of the war, so as Captain Atom he will put an end to it. A news crew films the action, as Captain Atom tries to end the war.

Back in America, Wade Eiling worries that Captain Atom's actions will expose the entire project. Amanda Waller dispatches Nightshade to reign in the super-hero.