Comic Title: Power of the Atom #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1988
On Sale Date: May 31, 1988 Shipping Date May 31, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #4

Shipping Date June 2, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #140

Newsstand Date June 25, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #140

Copyright Date May 31, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 31, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Newsstand Date June 14, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760

Newsstand Date June 13, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Just Like Starting Over"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Atom (Ray Palmer Post-Crisis)

Writer: Roger Stern
Penciller: Dwayne Turner
Inker: Keith Stan Wilson
Letterer: Bill Oakley
Colorist: Nansi Hoolahan

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Power of the Atom #1; next appearance in Power of the Atom #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Norman Brawler (last appearance in Power of the Atom #1; next appearance in Power of the Atom #3)
• Enrica Negrini (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Power of the Atom #3)

Villain(s)

• Five terrorists (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Alvin Jeffries (a physician; no further appearances)
• Kevin Stevens (a CIA agent; first name revealed in Power of the Atom #18; first appearance; next appearance in Power of the Atom #3)
• Everett Bailey (a CIA director; first name not revealed in this story; first appearance; next appearance in Power of the Atom #3)
• Amir Lashgary (nephew of the Qurac president; no further appearances)
• Sheryl Newman (a tv news anchor; no further appearances)

Comments:
This is the first post-Crisis appearance of Enrica Negrini. The Earth-1 version of the character, who first appeared in Atom #12, was named Enrichetta.

Synopsis:
After his return to Ivytown, Ray Palmer remains stuck at a height of three feet tall. He is examined by a doctor who can find nothing physically wrong. Ray then visits his former research assistant Enrica Negrini at Ivy University. Ray pulls an all-night session in the lab and solves the problem of his size control.

In the morning, terrorists take over the school library. Ray goes into action as the Atom and defeats them. In the process, he rescues a diplomat who was attending the University under CIA protection. The Atom wants his return kept private, but the CIA leaks the news to the media.