Comic Title: Atom #9
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Oct/Nov 1963
On Sale Date: August 22, 1963 Copyright Date August 22, 1963
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1963

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Atom's Phantom Double"
Pages: 13

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

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

Reprinted In:
Action Comics #408 (1972)
Atom Archives Vol. 2 HC (2003)
Showcase Presents:The Atom Vol. 1 TPB (2007)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Atom #8; next appearance in Atom #9)

Villain(s)

• A phantom Atom (destroyed in this story; no further appearances)
• Three unnamed crooks (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
An accident in Ray Palmer’s lab causes a phantom version of Ray to materialize. The phantom possesses all of Ray’s memories and wishes to become real. While the real Ray pursues some crooks as the Atom, his phantom double develops a method to become solid and in so doing destroy his counterpart.

The phantom Atom follows the real one and tries to use an opal ring to exchange places with his counterpart. The real Atom foils his plan, destroying the ring in a fire. Then he breaks the phantom’s size controls, leaving his double to shrink out of existance.