Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The Atom Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: June 13, 2007 Direct Market Date June 13, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #3 (#219)

Direct Market Date June 13, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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 From:
Atom #9 (1963)

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.