Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The Atom Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: August 20, 2008 Direct Market Date August 13, 2008
Source: Previews, #236

Direct Market Date August 20, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Atomic Flea"
Pages: 11

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Sid Greene

Reprinted From:
Atom #18 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Atom #18; next appearance in Atom #19)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jean Loring (last appearance in Atom #18; next appearance in Atom #20)

Villain(s)

• A gang of spies (one disguised as Ray Palmer; no further appearances)
• Hightop Harry and two henchmen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An arcade manager, the master of a flea-circus, and Melissa (a friend of Jean Loring; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Ray Palmer is called away on a mission for the government. On the way, he stops at a carnival to break up a robbery as the Atom. During the fight he is knocked out. A bizarre set of circumstances cause him to have amnesia, and he wakes up believing he is a flea in a flea circus.

Atom performs in the flea circus, until Jean Loring happens to pass by. Her familiar voice jogs Atom's memory. He also recalls that a gang of spies hypnotized him and plan on stealing secret government plans using a Ray Palmer imposter. Atom leaves the circus and tracks down the spies. He defeats them, then proceeds to eliminate an overdose of protonic radiation from his body. The radiation which was used to offset the chronal radiation in his body was responsible for causing his amnesia.