Captain Atom #1 [Direct]
(March 1987)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
1.00 USD; 1.35 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages
44
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-12-02
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Denny O'Neil (credited as Dennis O'Neil) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #34.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Captain Atom / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Pat Broderick (signed as Broderick)
Inks
Pat Broderick (signed as Broderick)
Colors
?
Letters
Ken Bruzenak (logo design, see notes); ?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
After They Blow Him to Bits... ...The Adventure Begins!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Atom

Indexer Notes

Logo design credit from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting Comics Logos C #11: CAPTAIN ATOM on 7 July 2021.

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Point of Origin (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Atom / comic story / 40 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Bates (credited)
Pencils
Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks
Bob Smith (credited)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Atom [Nathaniel Adam]; General Wade Eiling; Doctor Heinrich Megala

Indexer Notes

Re-intro of Captain Atom. His supporting cast is also introduced, and the stage is set for the next 50 issues.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["After They Blow Him to Bits... ...The Adventure Begins!"]
    Captain Atom
  2. 1. Point of Origin
    Captain Atom
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