Comic Title: Captain Atom #8
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 1987
On Sale Date: July 28, 1987 Newsstand Date July 28, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #41

Newsstand Date July 28, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #121

Shipping Date July 7, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #41

Shipping Date July 7, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #121

Shipping Date July 7, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Shipping Date July 7, 1987
Source: Capital City Distributors, Orderpack June 1987

Copyright Date July 7, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date July 7, 1987
Source: Comic Shop News, #1

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Live or Let Die?"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Patrick R. Broderick
Inker: Robert Allen Smith
Letterer: Duncan Andrews
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Atom (last appearance in Captain Atom #7; next appearance in Booster Gold #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wade Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #7; next appearance in Captain Atom #9)
• Heinrich Megala (last appearance in Fury of Firestorm #63; next appearance in Captain Atom #10)
• Margaret Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #7; next appearance in Captain Atom #13)
• Randy Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #7; next appearance in Captain Atom #12)
• Babylon (last appearance in Captain Atom #5; next appearance in Captain Atom #10)
• Jeff Goslin (last appearance in Captain Atom #7; next appearance in Captain Atom #14)

Villain(s)

• Plastique (last appearance in Captain Atom #7; next appearance in Captain Atom #21)
• A Cambodian warrior (last appearance in Captain Atom #7; next appearance in Captain Atom #26)
• Several Cambodian soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Wonder Woman #8; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #1)

Comments:
This story is continued from Captain Atom #7.

Synopsis:
Captain Atom has been cut by the sword of a Cambodian warrior. Plastique thinks about killing her unconscious foe, but she elects to use him to help escape the country. Plastique carries him to safety then uses her own powers to cauterize the wound. Captain Atom then reverts to human form.

Plastique nurses Cameron Scott back to health. Together they make their way through hostile territory. Scott regains his strength and is able to change back into Captain Atom in order to save Plastique's life. They then combine forces to defeat the Cambodian warrior and complete their escape. Sgt. Goslin is waiting for Scott across the border, and Scott lets Plastique go free.