Comic Title: Atom Archives Vol. 2 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2003
On Sale Date: October 15, 2003 Direct Market Date October 22, 2003
Source: Previews, Vol. 13 #8 (#176)

Direct Market Date October 15, 2003
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 216
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Ride a Deadly Grenade"
Pages: 13

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

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

Reprinted From:
Atom #10 (1963)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Atom #9; next appearance in Atom #10)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jean Loring (last appearance in Atom #8; next appearance in Atom #10)

Villain(s)

• Ferdinand Alt (a scientist working for a foreign power; no further appearances)
• Two agents of a foreign power (last appearance in Showcase #36; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A CIA agent (last appearance in Showcase #36; no further appearances)
• An American consul (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The CIA contacts the Atom, sending him to Vienna to collect an anti-gravity metal hidden inside a toy store. Foreign agents intercept the Tiny Titan and try to exterminate him by attaching him to a grenade. Atom escapes the trap and returns to defeat the agents. He returns to America with the anti-gravity metal, but warns the government that he suspects it is a bomb developed by the foreign power. Tests reveal, the substance would have destroyed the country had it been used.