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: "Stowaway on a Hot-Air Balloon"
Pages: 11

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

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

Reprinted From:
Atom #27 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Atom (last appearance in Atom #27; next appearance in Justice League of America #52)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alpheus V. Hyatt (last appearance in Atom #21; next appearance in Atom #35)

Villain(s)

• Two unnamed assassins (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier (inventors of the balloon; no further appearances)
• Benjamin Franklin (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #187; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Atom uses the Time Pool to visit 18th century France. He overhears two men conspiring to murder Ben Franklin, so he intervenes. After stopping the killers, Atom learns that Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, the inventors of the hot air balloon, will be sending a balloon carrying animals into the sky. In order to return through the Time Pool, the Atom hitches a ride on the balloon carrying a pair of Franklin's bifocals back with him.