Captain Atom #1
Atlas Publications Pty. Ltd.
Australia
- Published
- March 1948
- Page count
- 32
- Cover price
- 6d [0-0-6 AUP]
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Matte colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- Branding
-
None
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/1131369
- Trove version
- trove.nla.gov.au/version/38427324
Credits
- Editing
- , editor
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled
(Captain Atom)
Cover, 1 page
"The Atom Man! The Greatest of Them All!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Captain Atom
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Art
- Arthur Mather, penciller
- Arthur Mather, inker
- Colours
- Arthur Mather, colourist
- Text
- , letterer
1Featuring
- Feature
- Captain Atom
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- White King; Princess Lais; Bikini; Atom-Man; the Prophet of Exenor
Credits
- Writing
- Jack Bellew, scripter [credited as John Welles]
- Art
- Arthur Mather, line art [credited as Mather]
- Colours
- Arthur Mather, colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
On a hidden atoll, Princess Lais finds one baby of twin boys born on Bikini island when the atom bomb exploded. The boy, now named Bikini, grows to adulthood in a few months. When a gang raids the atoll, he transforms into his twin brother, the superpowered Atom-Man, by speaking the word 'exenor'. The twins accept their mission to 'battle with the forces of evil to make the atomic era the glory of mankind'! When the gang returns, Lais' father is fatally wounded and he entrusts Atom-Man with the secret of the atoll. Down a secret path in a hidden cave, Atom-Man meets the Prophet of Exenor, custodian of the world's most terrible secret. In the distant past, a power greater than the atom destroys an entire civilisation. Atom-Man is offered the power's secret formula when need for the fight against evil. Atom-Man hijacks a plane to take Lais with him from the atoll and then diverts a battleship to destroy the gang who killed Lais' father. Unknown to Atom-Man, the gang leader escapes in a one man submarine.
2Featuring
- Feature
- A Dick Hawke Adventure
- Genre
- Adventure
- Characters
- Lawyer Squeers; Bobby Battersby; The Colonel; Aunt Adeline; the Duchess; Silas van Groot; Glamor Odell; Dick Hawke
Credits
- Writing
- Michael Trueman, scripter
- Art
- Michael Trueman, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Simon Montfries leaves his fortune to be divided equally among his surviving relatives after one year. The six beneficiaries decide to sail together to Africa. Aunt Adeline is the first to be thrown overboard. Then, one-by-one, the murders continue as Dick tries to find thw killer.
