Comic Title: Captain Atom #13
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1988
On Sale Date: December 8, 1987 Shipping Date December 8, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #46

Shipping Date December 8, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #130

Newsstand Date December 31, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #130

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

Title: "We Three Kings..."
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Cary Bates
Plotter: Greg Weisman
Penciller: Patrick R. Broderick
Inker: Robert Allen Smith
Letterer: Duncan Andrews
Colorist: Nansi Hoolahan

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Atom (last appearance in Captain Atom Annual #1; next appearance in Captain Atom #14)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wade Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom Annual #1; next appearance in Captain Atom #14)
• Randy Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom Annual #1; next appearance in Captain Atom #15)
• Margaret Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #8; next appearance in Captain Atom #14)
• Martin Allard (behind-the-scenes; on the telephone; last appearance in Captain Atom Annual #1; next appearance in Captain Atom #15)

Villain(s)

• Edmund Wiley (a corrupt businessman; first name not revealed in this story; next appearance in Captain Atom #29)
• Chester King (an arsonist; first appearance; next appearance in Captain Atom #29)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Nightshade (as Eve Eden; last appearance in Suicide Squad #12; next appearance in Captain Atom #14)
• Enemy Ace (in flashback during World War I; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #83)

Other Character(s)

• Harris Eiling (Wade's father; first name not revealed in this story; next appearance in Captain Atom #30)
• Bonnie King (Chester's wife; next appearance in Captain Atom #38)
• Bubba and several other homeless people (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Major Force (in flashback)
• Heinrich Megala (in flashback)

Comments:
This story reveals that Wade Eiling's father fought against Enemy Ace during World War I.

Synopsis:
Having resigned his commission, Captain Atom returns to Washington, D.C. free of Wade Eiling's control. However he feels out of place in the city. Most of his associates are out of town with family for the holidays, including Randy and Margaret who are vacationing in Colorado with Eiling and his father. The elder Eiling tells Adam's children about a battle he fought against Enemy Ace in World War I. He tells them that only now does he understand Von Hammer's code of combat in which how you fight is more important than winning. This change of heart angers Wade and provokes an argument.

Meanwhile in D.C., Cameron Scott drowns his sorrows in a pub. Suddenly, a condemned hotel down the street erupts into flame. The building was firebombed by another man in the bar for the insurance money. Captain Atom acts to save many of the homeless squatters inside the building. Only one of them is killed, which leads the bomber to question his own actions. Captain Atom is the celebrated by the bar patrons. One of them, Eve Eden, introduces herself and leaves the bar with Atom.