Comic Title: Captain Atom #36
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1989
On Sale Date: November 7, 1989 Shipping Date November 7, 1989
Source: Previews, #8

Shipping Date November 7, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #173

Shipping Date November 9, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #10

Copyright Date November 7, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "The Secret Origin of Everyone"
Pages: 21

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

Writer: Cary Bates
Writer: Greg Weisman
Penciller: Rafael Kayanan
Inker: Romeo Tanghal
Letterer: John E. Workman, Jr.
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Atom (last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Justice League Europe #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Silver Shield (last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Captain Atom #37)
• Major Force (last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Captain Atom #39)
• Heinrich Megala (last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Captain Atom #39)
• Anton Sarrok (last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Captain Atom #37)
• Wade Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Captain Atom #37)
• Babylon (last appearance in Captain Atom #35; next appearance in Captain Atom #39)

Other Character(s)

• Damon and Ashana Long (in flashback; last names revealed; last appearance in Captain Atom #35; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Captain Atom #35.

Synopsis:
Silver Shield is revealed to be sentient. Captain Atom and Major Force communicate with it telepathically and learn how it came to Earth. While it recovered, Megala and Sarrok took pieces of it and used it to create Captain Atom and Major Force. Now it is restored and has taken humanoid form.

Silver Shield explains that it cannot return to the quantum field from where it came, but it is eager to learn about Earth. Fearing that Eiling will want to experiment on it, Captain Atom convinces Silver Shield to fake his return into space. Eiling is angry, but he believes the story. Captain Atom then provides Silver Shield with a place to stay and a television with which it can learn about Earth.