Ray Palmer is the Atom, the Mighty Mite,
a superhero with the ability to shrink to incredible sizes while
retaining his full mass and density. This makes him a formidable
combatant. He was a member of the original Justice League of America,
where he gained a great deal of respect from his peers. Aside from his
crime-fighting career, he is also one of the world's top scientific
minds, a brilliant physicist. He is capable of shrinking to subatomic
sizes, and explores the universe on a frontier unknown to any other man.
Ray Palmer would grow up in Ivy Town, Connecticut where he would study physics at Ivy University, studying under such such renown scientists such as Alpheus P. Hyatt[1]. He began dating law student Jean Loring[2],
and the two would eventually see each other exclusively. Both
graduating and working in their professions, Ray would frequently ask
Jean to marry him, however she would always decline, wanting to
establish herself as a lawyer before getting married and settling down.
While a physics graduate student, Ray Palmer discovered a tiny
fragment of white dwarf star material that had fallen to Earth.
Investigating matter compression, Ray theorized that if he were to grind
a lens from this fragment and focus ultraviolet light through it, he
could shrink anything struck by the light down to a fraction of its
original size. Ray rushed off to his laboratory, tried the experiment,
and found that it worked exactly as he had imagined, with one tiny
little catch: the objects he shrunk became unstable and exploded moments
later.
A couple of days later, a disillusioned Ray and some friends
became trapped in a cave-in while out spelunking; Ray was forced to risk
instability and use the shrinking lens on himself in order to escape
the cave and save the lives of his friends. For some reason, however,
Ray didn't explode and returned to his normal height. In fact, the
shrinking lens worked on his body much better than he had expected, and
he developed a set of control devices that gave him limited control over
his weight as well as his size. Ray later hypothesized that some
unknown "x-factor" in his genetic makeup prevented his atoms from
becoming unstable, though many scientists now believe that Ray's ability
to shrink was actually made possible by the "Metagene", which is the source of many superhumans' powers.[3]
Keeping his discoveries a secret, even from his girlfriend Jean Loring, Ray would create the identity of the Atom
and begin a career of crime fighting in Ivy Town. In his first recorded
adventure, the Atom would stop the crook Carl Ballard from exploiting
the tiny alien Kulan Dar, to commit his crimes. Foiling this plot, the
Atom would become a trusted hero in Ivy Town, and establish a great
working relationship with the local police[4]. Next, the Atom would defend the wealthy Doctor Gordon Heath from a plot against him orchestrated by his caretaker, Bates[5].
The Atom's heroics would make him an ally of the CIA, who would send him overseas to rescue Professor Anton Kraft from foreign spies[6]. Returning home he would foil crooked newspaper reporter Greg Phillips from stealing valuable chess pieces.[7]. The Atom would meet his first super-villain when battling Jason Woodrue,
an exile from the Floral Dimension, who would attempt to take over the
Earth with specially bred plants. The Atom would defeat Woodrue with the
help of Maya Queen of the Dryads that live in the Floral Dimension[8]. Atom next stops jewel thief Bart Tranter with the help of the self proclaimed Mr. Odd[9] and recaptures Carl Ballard when he masters Kulan Dar's teleportation abilities [10].
The Atom would next be used in a bizarre plot by Amos Fortune and other villains to destroy the Justice League of America,
using a de-memorizor ray to pit the Atom against the League. With the
aid of the Atom, the team of heroes would defeat Fortune and his minions
and elect the Atom as a member of their group[11]. Next, the Atom would have his first clash with Chronos, a criminal obsessed with time[12].
The Atom's costume is invisible when he is at normal height, only becoming visible again when he shrinks in size
Reconnecting with Professor Hyatt, Ray would learn of Hyatt's experiments with the Time Pool,
a device of Hyatt's creation allowing him to "fish" for items out of a
tiny portal that can bring items through time. As the Atom, Ray would
travel back time to ancient Middle East where he would help a young boy
named Hassan best a group of thieves and bring back a golden Dinar for
Hyatt's study[13]. When Simultaneous nuclear explosions on Earth-One
and a parallel world causes the two to merge, the Atom helps the JLA
prevent the inhabitants of that world from destroying three major cities
on Earth to prevent the cataclysm and work together to revolve the
problem[14].
When visiting Happy Harbor, Rhode Island
to give a lecture as Ray Palmer, the Atom comes to the rescue of Entron
Kol a visitor from a Sub-Atomic world who is trapped on Earth and uses a
wish fulfillment device to try to draw help to his plight[15].
Returning to Ivy Town, the Atom foils an attempt by a crooked
photographer named Elkins from framing Tom Parks for crimes he did not
commit[16].
Ray would next attend a JLA meeting were the team would ponder how to
get out of a dangerous scenario posed by one of their fans[17].
When Ray's colleague the world-traveling Ted Ralston is turned
into diamond by a strange stone he brought back from one of his
expeditions, Ray would travel into the microscopic world inside the gem
where he would clash with the Atlantean tyrant Karl Jat[18].
Next he would foil jewel thief Fred Harris' plot to rob a lake side
community using local folklore to hoax the people into thinking the
thefts were perpetuated by a ghost[19]. The Atom would next be targeted with the rest of the JLA by the Tornado Tyrant[20].
In another adventure with the Justice League, Ray would aid the League
in liberating the people of the micro-world of Starzl, who's three
android defenders had turned evil[21].
Back in Ivy Town, Atom would foil a plot by stage manager Howard
Crane from framing former astronaut Peter Venner for crimes he did not
commit[22] and in a Time Pool adventure travels back to 18th century London to foil Dick Turpin from stealing the kings gold[23]. The Atom and the rest of the JLA would next be forced into exile from the planet Earth due to the manipulations of Dr. Density, however the JLA would foil this plot, ending their exile[24]. When preventing an invasion of Earth from the Thalens, the Atom would team up with extraterrestrial lawman Hawkman and his partner Hawkgirl, forming a long lasting partnership between the trio[25].
On another Justice League case, the Atom and his fellow JLA members would clash with Spaceman X[26]. Later the Atom would be present with the JLA in their first team up with the Justice Society of America, their counterparts from Earth-Two, against the Crime Champions, a group of villains from both universes[27][28]. While on the home front, Ray would battle an escaped Dr. Light[29], stop Alfred Trask an art gallery employee working the masterpieces his employer has on display[30], would battle an evil doppelganger created of himself created out of a lab experiment gone awry[31] and thwart an attempted kidnapping of the king of France during a Time Pool adventure to the year 1609[32]. His next meeting with the JLA would be less eventful with the group relating their battle against Queen Bee while Ray would tell them of his encounter against Dr. Light[33].
Working with the CIA once again, the Atom would go to Vienna to collect the plans for a new anti-gravity metal, however exposes it as a communist plot to destroy America[34], and back home foils Doro Briggs' theft scheme involving hoaxing people into believing that she can transform into a swan[35]. The Atom aids his fellow Justice League colleagues in once more defeating and capturing their old foe Kanjar Ro[36] and Kraad the Conqueror, tyrant ruler of a sidereal dimension[37].
One of Ray Palmer's unsuccessful proposals to Jean Loring.
Back
home, Ray would attend a Ivy University ten-year reunion, where he
would foil Jack Archer's attempt to use hypnosis to steal a priceless
Buddha statue[38], followed by a cruise with Jean Loring where he would stymie invaders from Randath[39]. Next Atom and a number of his fellow JLA members would be rapidly aged by Despero, but later restored to normal following Despero's defeat at the hands of his fellow JLA members who were unaffected[40].
On the home front, Ray would find his powers being used for crime
when he is temporarily the prisoner of a crook who uses his body as a
power source for a ray gun[41] and later uses the Time Pool to travel to Baltimore circa 1849 where he helps Edgar Alan Poe solve a mystery involving stolen gold coins[42]. Atom would next aid the Flash in stopping an invasion of Earth by Attila-5[43].
Later the Atom and his friends in the Justice League would be
manipulated by the ultra-galactic "I", an evil being who's very
existence was threatened by the JLA's continued success[44].
In Ivy Town, Ray would clash once more with Chronos[45] and clear the good name of his civilian identity when he is accused of a crime he did not commit[46]. Back with the Justice League, the Atom is present when Green Lantern relates a solo adventure to the group [47] and would be among the super-powered members of the League to go on "strike" following a UN sanction preventing them from using their powers, all a plot orchestrated by the evil Headmaster Mind[48]. Still with the League, he would be present when a video created by Superman's father Jor-El, regarding the other planets he considered sending his son prior to Krypton's destruction[49].
Resuming his activities in Ivy Town, Ray would battle his own costume when it briefly gained sentience[50] and aid Doc Magnus in rebuilding the Metal Men and stop the evil Uranium[51].
When visiting his old classmate Ed Thayer, Atom would get caught up in
an attempt by foreign spies trying to steal Thayer's Illusion-Maker
device[52] and foil the teleporting Hyper-Thief's robberies[53]. Atom is also present when the Justice League invites his ally Hawkman into the group[54] and in attendance of Aquaman's marriage to Mera[55].
Next, while on vacation the Ray becomes the temporary pawn of criminal inventor Andrew Frost[56], battles Brain Storm with the JLA[57], crushes the Hooded Hijackers[58], and uses the Time Pool to travel to the 19th Century, where he comes to the rescue of writer Jules Verne[59]. Atom would become an unwilling pawn of the Endless One, and is forced to fight some of his fellow JLA members[60] and when restored to normal becomes a victim in one of Dr. Destiny's plots to get revenge against the JLA[61].
The Atom would have to combat side-effects of his Time Pool adventures when battling the evil Phantom Mask[62],
and spend a brief time thinking he was a flea in a flea circus when
spies attempt to replace Ray Palmer with one of their own agents[63]. He would next aid Zatanna search for her missing father on a micro-world ruled by the Druid[64]. Later, joins with the Justice League in once more battling Brain Storm[65]. Going solo, Atom prevents crooks from benefiting from his "stool-pigeon" computer[66]
and with the aid of Maya and the Dryads posing as Leprechauns, convince
Arthur Ennis to fill a witness report with the police following a
robbery[67]. During his next team up with Hawkman, and Hawkgirl against Matter Master, the trio of heroes would trust their secret identities to each other[68]. Atom and his fellow JLA members would team up with the JSA against the evil Johnny Thunder of Earth-One who has manipulated the Thunderbolt into creating Earth-A and the Lawless League, criminal versions of the Justice League[69][70].
The CIA once more hires the Atom to stop a group of Russian spies who are attempting to manipulate Jean Loring's father in an attempt to get at the Atom[71],
and on another Time Pool to 18th century London where the Atom prevents
one of Professor Hyatt's ancestors from being thrown in debtors' prison[72].
Atom would also aid his fellow JLA members in preventing global
disaster and conflict inadvertently created by Andrew Helm's
Corti-Conscience machine[73]. Acting solo, he stops a common thug named Eddie Gordon from enslaving the Bat-Knights of the Elvaran people[74]. Atom next helps Batman, Robin, and Elongated Man capture "Numbers" Garvey and his gang[75].
The Atom also aids the Justice League in defeating the Key during his attack[76].
Returning to Ivy Town, the Atom makes up a story about alien invaders
to make the return of a radion-ball sound like a more exciting adventure[77] and foils a robbery plot orchestrated by groundskeeper Billy Knowels[78]. Atom's powers are briefly pilfered by Professor Ivo
in a plot against the Flash, when the Flash relates the story to his
fellow JLA members including the Atom, they are unaware as they are not
using their powers at the time[79]. Next Atom would join the Justice League and Metamorpho in battling the Unimaginable[80].
After liberating the Floral Dimension and Earth from destruction at the hands of Jason Woodrue[81], the Atom would join the JLA in curing Batman, Green Lantern, and Flash from a plague infected upon them by the Unimaginable[82]. Atom would return to Ivy Town, to foil a series of robberies orchistrated by Bill Jameson, the so-called "Man in the Ion-Mask"[83]. Working with the CIA once more, the Atom would travel to Russia to foil Boris Kalumchuk's plot to poison America with irradiated gold[84]. Ray would next join the Justice League of America in their battle against the Shaggy Man[85].
Engagement to Jean Loring
Back in Ivy Town, the Atom would earn a new villain in the Bug-Eyed Bandit.
During this adventure Jean accepts proposal for marriage for fear that
Ray would eventually become too absorbed in his work to ask her anymore[86]. When both Earth-One and Earth-Two are threatened by the Anti-Matter Man, the Atom would be one of the Justice League and Justice Society members gathered to combat the threat[87][88].
Going solo in Ivy Town once more, the Atom would crush the Panther Gang[89] and going on another Time Pool journey to 18th century France where he foils an assassination attempt against Benjamin Franklin[90]. Returning to the JLA, the Atom would aid them in stopping the Lord of Time from manipulating Vietnam war hero Sgt. Eddie Brent[91]. Returning home, Atom would clash with once more against his old foe Chronos[92].
Later, when the entire population of Ivy Town suddenly shrinks, Ray
learns that a chunk of white dwarf star landing in the city water supply
is the cause, and cures the people with no ill side effects[93]. Ray would next work together with his Earth-Two counterpart in foiling a plot by the Thinker to rob Earth-One and escape to Earth-Two[94].
At a JLA meeting, Atom, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Batman and Elongated
Man would all learn that of Zatanna's success in freeing her father with
the help of magical proxies that she created of the heroes following
her respective encounters with each of them[95].
Ray would return to Ivy Town where he would stumble upon and foil
another plot by Eddie Gordon to manipulate the Elvarian Bat-Kights[96]. He is also present when the JLA must face the evil Mastermind, who has turned many of the League members weapons against them[97].
Atom would team-up with Hawkman once more to search for the missing
Johnny Burns, a reformed crook, to reunite him with his sick mother.
During the encounter, they battle Toyboy, Johnny's evil half brought to
life when Mrs. Burns is briefly endowed with mental powers following a
scientific accident[98]. Rejoining the JLA, Atom would foil the Royal Flush Gang's attempt to destroy the League[99].
When paralyzed in a lab accident, Ray manages to get Jean to
activate his size-control devices causing him to shrink to microscopic
size, freeing him of the paralysis. Before returning to Earth, he would
save the sub-atomic people of Palonds from the evil Honds[100]. The Atom would also be present to cheer on a UN-sponsored charity race between Superman and the Flash[101]. He would later team-up with Aquaman against the plankton creature called Galg the Destroyer[102]. After a rematch against the Bug-Eyed Bandit[103], the Atom would team-up with the Elongated Man against Chronos[104]. After battling the Big Gang[105], witnessing another race between Superman and the Flash[106], foiling "Smarts" and his gang[107], Atom has another Time Pool adventure to London to prevent Colonel Tom Blood from stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London[108].
The Atom is one of the members of the Justice League enslaved by Queen Bee, until they are saved by Batgirl[109].
In another revenge plot against the Justice League, Dr. Destiny briefly
switches the League's bodies with some of their greatest foes. For a
time, Atom would be forced to trade bodies with Jason Woodrue, until Dr.
Destiny's ultimate defeat[110].
When twin transmitter towers on Earth-One and Earth-Two cause people to
rapidly age either forward or backward, Earth-Two's Atom would have to
briefly battle a young and hot-headed Ray Palmer before destroying the
towers and returning everyone back to normal[111]. Atom would next work with Batman in foiling the Cannoneer from robbing the Brotherhood Express[112].
The Atom would also be involved in a Justice League case where the
group would get embroiled in a gang war between the Pyrotekniks and the
Bulleteers in a complex scheme hatched by mobster Leo Locke[113].
The Atom would soon gain an unusual ally in his next adventure, Major Mynah, a mynah bird that he meets foiling a group of Viet Cong soldiers from raiding a Cambodian
temple while on an archeological dig in the region. With the bird
injured in the battle, Atom takes the helpful creature to Hawkman who
replaces the bird's broken wings with mechanical ones. Major Mynah
becomes Ray's pet, following him in both his civilian and costumed
identities. After helping the Atom capture crooks, Major Mynah's
involvement almost tips Jean off to Ray's secret identity and so he
comes up with a method of disguising Mynah for future adventures.[114]. The Atom would return to the Justice League and foil the Key's plot of using Superman to destroy the JLA[115] and later battle Dr. Anomaly[116].
Ray and Major Mynah would next go into action to stop an invasion from
the alien Physalians from feeding on the humans they have captured[117]. The Atom is one of the JLA members seemingly killed by T.O. Morrow, he is restored to life following Morrow's defeat at the hands of the JSA, their new ally Red Tornado and surviving members of the JLA[118].
Justice League Mainstay
As time would go on, Ray would eventually get involved in less
frequent solo adventures, often teaming up with either Hawkman or
getting involved in many of the Justice League's cases.
Ray joins Carter and Sheira Hall on vacation in Mexico City and battles Telka and his followers[119].
With the Justice League, the Atom battles the laughable Generalissimo
Demmy Gog of Offalia, in a pathetic attempt to conquer the world[120]. The Atom next is hired by the FBI
to break up a spy ring. He succeeds thanks to the intervention of Major
Mynah. This would mark the Atom's last use of Major Mynah. The bird's
ultimate fate is unknown[121].
Atom also finds himself involved in a revenge plot enacted by criminal
Jason Madden, who attempts to kill his former accomplice Chuck Wheeler[122]. Atom aids the Justice League in clearing Green Arrow's name in a murder frame-up plotted by Headmaster Mind and the Tattooed Man[123]. Ray is involved in a Justice League investigation of the new costumed vigilante known as the Creeper[124].
While attending a science convention with Carter Hall, Ray and
Carter are attacked by a man resembling Carter. This gets them embroiled
in a battle against the Shiva, Hindu goddess of destruction, who with
her army of Nether-Men is attempting to win back worship of humanity.
Through the efforts of the Atom, Hawkman and Hawkgirl the plot is
thwarted[125]. The Atom would join his fellow Justice League colleagues in traveling to Mars and aiding their comrade Martian Manhunter against the evil Commander Blanx, a battle ends in J'onn J'onzz's resignation from the team[126].
Ray next goes into action as the Atom to foil a plot by rival
university professor Horace McByrd to discredit Ray among his peers[127].
Ray next joins the JLA and Hawkgirl in saving Hawkman who has been
turned into salt by a group of demons, fighting off their minions a
biker gang known as the Gruesome Ghouls in the process[128].
When
Professor Heinrich Von Rilk is almost assaulted by Ivy University
students for destroying an electron-microscope, Ray learns that Von Rilk
did it to prevent an invasion from a microscopic world. Investigating
the claims as the Atom, Ray confirms Heinrich's story, and stops the
invasion by defeating its vanguard, a creature known as Ag[129].
Atom would be among the members of the Justice League and Justice
Society who would ban together to save both universes from the threat of
Aquarius, a living star creature bent on revenge for being exiled by his superiors[130][131].
When Jean Loring is kidnapped by the people of Jimberen, a
microscopic world who believe that she is the descendant of their ruler,
Atom and Hawkman team-up to rescue her. However, due to the radiation
the people of Jimberen expose Jean to, she is driven insane from the
ordeal. With technology on Hawkman and Hawkgirl's homeworld of Thanagar making it possible to cure Jean, Atom would entrust her to the care of Hawkgirl[132].
Focusing on Justice League business, Atom would be one of the
members who would accidentally have an evil duplicate of himself created
out of his ego, which would battle new Justice League member Black Canary[133]. When an influential man named John Dough would attempt to turn the United States government against the JLA, manipulating Snapper Carr into betraying the group, the Atom would be involved in the conflict, which would reveal Dough to be none other than the Joker[134]. Atom and the Justice League would soon setup shop in a new base, an orbital satellite above the Earth[135].
During this time, Atom and the other members of the JLA would team up with the Vigilante against the Doomsters, aliens who threatened to pollute the Earth[136][137].
Ray would ultimately learn that Hawkgirl's quest to restore
Jean's sanity on Thanagar was met with trouble when both women's souls
were stolen by Norch Lor,
a scientist from Thanagar who's misguided intention to save the
universe from the coming "end of all things" was attempting to collect
the souls of all living beings in a Ghenna Box. With the help of Tomar-Re of the Green Lantern Corps, Ray and the Justice League would restore Hawkgirl and Jean's souls to their bodies, Jean however would still remain insane[138].
Atom and Hawkman would travel together en route to Thanagar to try and
get Jean the help she needs, and along the way run into the threat that
Norch Lor was attempting to protect them from: The insane Jest-Master,
who leaves all those in his path completely mad. With the help of the
Justice League, Atom and Hawkman would defeat the Jest-Master. In the
aftermath of the battle, Jean's constant exposure to Jest-Master's
insanity rays would restore her sanity to normal[139].
Returning to Earth, the Atom would once more join the Justice League
and the Justice Society in preventing another threat to both Earth-One
and Earth-Two. This time coming from a being called Creator2, whom by
utilizing Red Tornado's connection to both realities, would attempt to
merge the two universes together, threatening to destroy both. Atom and
his colleagues would foil this plot, however the Spectre would seemingly perish in the process[140][141].
Sword of the Atom
Ray and Jean's marriage would become strained over time as Jean's law
practice and Ray's devotion to both science and super-heroics would take
time over their romance. Sword of the Atom-era
Soon, Jean would begin an affair with her fellow lawyer Paul Hoben,
which Ray would stumble upon one night. Realizing their marriage was on
the rocks, Ray would decide to investigate White Dwarf star radiations
he detected out of South America
and decide to investigate it without Jean. Taking a flight with some
drug runners, he would learn too much about an illegal cocaine field and
prompting the pilots to attempt to kill Ray. However, the pilot would
be shot and Ray would jump ship and shrink down to Atom size. Ray would
be struck by lightning trapping him at a height of six inches. The plane
would crash, and because one of the men aboard stole one of Ray's
rings, the world would presume him dead and Jean would go on with her
life and pursue her relationship with Paul. Ray meanwhile would find
himself captured by aliens known as the Morlaidhans,
small aliens who's ancestors were left on Earth centuries ago and live
in a world of high technology and barbarism. With a revolt immanent, Ray
would be captured along with members of a resistance led by Taren[142].
Forced into gladiator battles, Ray would learn the Moralaidhans'
language and befriend Taren and learn that he hoped to overthrow their
leader Caellich and marry princess Laethwen. The two men would become unknowing pawns of Deraegis
who would seek to cause the people to revolt against Caellich so that
he could rule. To this end, he would blind Taren, causing the people to
protest. Taren, Atom, and Laethwen would escape the arena and flee into
the jungles where they would reunite with the rebels[143].
Knowing his end is near, Taren would turn over leadership of the rebels
to Atom, and perish while the group fled an army of carnivorous ants.
Atom and Laethwen would soon fall in love with each other. Atom would
lead the warriors on to Moralaidh to launch a revolution[144].
In the final battle, both Caellich and Deraegis would be slain, but not
before Deraegis would activate an old star drive powered by a white
dwarf star fragment. Attempting to save his newly adopted people, Ray
would dive into the plant to try and stop the reactor from exploding.
However the white star radiation would cause him to grow as it
irradiated him and smash his way through. Growing to near human height,
Ray would frighten the people away before the reactor exploded. Restored
to his normal height and in a delirium caused by radiation exposure,
Ray would pass out and be found by rescuers. Waking up in the hospital,
Ray would come to realize that he no longer had an interest in returning
to his old life and have moved on from Jean. Having learned that Jean
had come to South America looking for him he would decide to finalize
their divorce and try to find Laethwen again[145].
Returning to Ivy Town to settle his affairs, Ray would realize
that there wold be no way to rekindle his romance with Jean. In
repairing his size change belt, Ray would find that the process of
shrinking would cause him great pain due to his absorption of massive
amounts of white dwarf radiation and would fear that constantly changing
his size could eventually kill him. Finalizing his divorce from Jean,
Ray would put his money on an expedition back into South America, taking
along with him writer Norman Brawler
to chronicle the experience. The two men would run afoul of drug
dealers and Ray would shrink down to Atom, giving up his normal height
seemingly for the last time to help destroy the drug operation. Finding
the Moralaidh tribe and being reunited with Laethwen, Ray would leave
Norman to find his own way back. Norman would publish the tale in a book
called Atom's Farewell, which would become a best seller[146].
Ray would lead Laethwen's people in building a new New Moralaidh
and rebuilding the alien societies lost technology, he and Laethwen
would become wed as well. However, his past life could not stay away, as
when Jean would marry Paul Hoben and when the newly weds would clear
out Ray's lab she would accidentally shrink herself. In order to restore
her to her normal height, Paul would have Norman Brawler lead him and
Jean to find Ray. However, along the way, Jean would be captured by
minions of rebel leader Torgul
who had captured many of the Moralaidhian women including Laethwen. Ray
would lead a mission to rescue the captured women, which would end in
Torgul's death, and the freedom of his people. With Jean restored to her
normal height, Ray and Laethwen would wish them farewell, Ray leaving
Paul with his old size changing belt[147].
Ray would remain New Moralaidh's champion but would come at times to aid his old allies in the Justice League of America.
When the evil Anti-Monitor attempted to destroy the entire multiverse, his opposing force the Monitor
would sacrifice his life to shunt the five surviving realities into
limbo, however they were slowly merging together causing chaos on all
worlds and threatening their destruction in the process[148]. Alexander Luthor, Jr. of Earth-Three and the Harbinger
would gather heroes and villains from all realities in an attempt to
rally their support in saving what was left of the multiverse. Atom
would be among their numbers and would agree to aid in the effort[149].
Ray would be called in to examine the Red Tornado, who is
recaptured by the heroes following a lengthy captivity under the
Anti-Monitor who converted the android into an engine of destruction.
However, despite the best efforts of the Atom and T.O. Morrow, the Red
Tornado would self destruct, causing massive damage to the JLA
Satellite, and apparently destroying the Red Tornado[150].
Later on in the Crisis, when a united group of super-villains
from each surviving reality would attempt to conquer each earth, Atom
would be among a group of super-heroes dispatched to Earth-S to attempt to quell the uprising in that reality[151].
Although the heroes there were made prisoner, the Atom would be part of
a counter attack of heroes that were uncaptured, and would succeed in
freeing Billy Batson allowing the boy to change into Captain Marvel and turn the tides of battle[152].
Changes Caused By Crisis on Infinite Earths
Following the defeat of the Anti-Monitor, the surviving parallel
worlds were combined to create a new universe. While, much of the Atom's
Pre-Crisis history remains the same, many of his past adventures may
have been altered or erased from existence entirely. In particular,
Atom's encounters with Hawkman may be different (if they still exist)
given the extensive changes of Hawkman's origins. The Thanagarian Katar
Hol is replaced in Post-Crisis history with Earth native Carter Hall the Hawkman formerly from Earth-Two.
In addition, due to the massive changes in the histories of his fellow JLA colleagues Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman,
the Atom's history may have been altered by proxy and many of his
adventures alongside these heroes no longer be part of history.
In addition, many of the adventures that the Atom had with the
Justice League of America that involved traveling to other universes,
particularly their encounters with the Justice Society of America on
Earth-Two, likely no longer exist, or if they do, in a vastly different
manner such that the multiversal threat was simply a threat to a single
unified universe.
Lastly, the Atom's encounters with his Earth-Two counterpart may
no longer be part of history, or if they are, they have been altered in
such a way to accommodate the notion that these adventures only happened
in a single universe as opposed to having occurred on Earth-One and
Earth-Two.
The Katarthans and their village were soon wiped out by a horrible
fire and the Atom returned to Ivy Town, only to find that one of his
friends had written a book exposing Ray's secret identity in his
absence.[153] After battling various foes, such as Strobe, Humbug,
and Swarm, Ray learned that a US Government agency had engineered the
destruction of the Katarthans, in order to induce his return to the
States.[154] He avenged the Katarthans by permanently reducing the agents responsible for the massacre to six inches in height.[155] Ray returned to Ivy Town just long enough to bid his friends farewell, and then briefly went into hiding.
Suicide Squad
The shrunken agents, now calling themselves the Micro Squad, vowed
revenge on Ray. Ginsburg, one of their number, made an attempt on Ray's
life, but died in the attempt. Ray approached Amanda Waller, who convinced him to fake his own death and secretly join the espionage unit known as the Suicide Squad.[156] As a part of this mission, Ray went undercover and Adam Cray served in the Suicide Squad as the new Atom. Adam was killed by Blacksnake and Ray resumed the role of the Atom.[157] Later still, he joined the then-current Justice League on a semi-active basis.[158]
Teen Titans
Al Pratt, the original Atom, died during a battle against Extant in Zero Hour.[159] During this event, Ray was also hit with a blast of chrono-energy that de-aged him into a youth again.[160] He would go on to become a member of the Teen Titans.
Identity Crisis
In time, Ray and Jean were able to be friends again. In the divorce
she had received half of his patents. As a gesture of friendship, Jean
decided to sign them back to him. Little did he know that this was but
one of many facets to Jean's deadly scheme to win Ray back. Since their
divorce, Jean had somehow become seriously deranged and believed that
the only way to be reunited with Ray was to force the issue. Incredibly,
she devised an elaborate plan to endanger Sue Dibny,
wife of Elongated Man Ralph Dibny. Jean was privy to the fact that
every year on her birthday, Ralph would be absent solving a
custom-tailored mystery devised by Sue. She bypassed the Dibnys'
security by shrinking down and traveling via the phone lines into their
home. She then entered Sue's body and obstructed the blood flow to her
brain. To cover up this evidence, Jean scorched Sue's body.[161]
Jean knew that this event would send all the heroes scrambling to
protect their loved ones and — hopefully - drive Ray back into her arms.
Jean employed two other schemes to cover her tracks. First, she faked
an attempt on her life[162], then she hired Captain Boomerang to kill Robin's father Jack Drake.
She supplied Drake with a gun to defend himself, hoping that Boomerang
would be killed and that everyone would believe he was Sue's killer as
well. Eventually, Dr. Mid-Nite's
autopsy of Sue's body revealed the truth, and the Atom himself elicited
a confession from Jean after she inadvertently spilled the beans when
asking about a letter sent to Jack along with the gun. Ray managed to
put two and two together because Batman had taken the letter away from
the crime scene even before the police arrived, so only he and the
Leaguers were supposed to know of its existence. She was promptly
admitted to Arkham Asylum[163].
With Jean's incarceration, Ray was overwhelmed with despair, and shrank
continuously until he vanished completely into a microscopic or
subatomic world.
Ray's legacy would continue on with Ryan Choi utilizing a version of his costume and shrinking device to become the current Atom for a short time.
Countdown
During the missing year following the events known as the second Crisis, Palmer's technology is employed by Supernova to shrink and grow in size in order to enter and exit the bottle city of Kandor.
Ray took refuge the Nanoverse, and met a young mystic who told him about the new reformed existence of the Multiverse. He traveled through different realities and find himself in Earth-51,
where its heroes eradicate supercrime and create a utopian Earth. There
he witness his Earth-51 counterpart's death and took his role in this
reality including marrying this world's Jean Loring.
While there he study much about his Earth-51 counterpart and
discover he never became the Atom and acted as a scientist consultant to
the Earth-51 Justice League. Also this Ray gifted with the ability to
be immune to all kinds of diseases and viruses. Furthermore, the
Earth-51 Palmer worked on preventing the deadly Morticoccus Virus,
and knowing that in every reality of the Multiverse there is deadly
chance that the virus would appear decided to travel the Multiverse and
inoculate each inhabitants with his immune system. Realizing the
importance of his counterpart's work, Ray carry on Earth-51 Ray's work
and travel to different worlds inoculating each denizen of every Earth
with a resistance to the Morticoccus Virus.
Unknowable to Ray the Monitors and the Challengers from Beyond (Kyle Rayner, Donna Troy, Jason Todd and Bob the Monitor) were scouring the reformed Multiverse for him as they believe that he maybe the one to prevent a cataclysm known as the Great Disaster.
Eventually the Challengers discover him and learns his history on
Earth-51. Shortly afterword Bob reveals his intention in killing Ray.
With the Challengers' help, Ray escapes but witness the death of his
Earth-51 friends and his alternate wife.
Despite what the Challengers were told by the Monitors, Ray
reveals to them that it was the Ray Palmer of Earth-51 who was meant to
stop the Great Disaster.
After joining the Challengers, teaming up with Jimmy Olsen, Forager, Harley Quinn, Holly Robinson, Mary Marvel, and Firestorm on Apokolips, Ray discovers that Karate Kid was infected with the Morticoccus Virus. Following the damages to the planet by the Pied Piper and Brother Eye, Ray secretly eavesdropped on Monitor Solomon and Darkseid,
learning that Darkseid wanted to remake reality and Solomon wanted the
Great Disaster to happen. Alerted by this, Ray returned to the others
and was pressured into curing Karate Kid.
Ray and the others were then teleported back to the reconstructed Earth-51 and seek advance medical attention from Project Cadmus; however, once they were at Cadmus Karate Kid was already dead.
Ray helped the scientists at Cadmus in finding a cure to the Morticoccus Virus after the virus was released to the world.[164] Despite everything he has done, the Great Disaster prevailed forcing Ray and his friends to return back to their Earth.[165]
After returning to their world, Jimmy Olsen is kidnapped by Mary Marvel, who has been corrupted by Darkseid.[166]
Ray hitches a ride from within Jimmy. When Darkseid takes control of
Jimmy's powers, Ray locates and shuts down the control sphere inside
Jimmy's brain, but is then swarmed by Apokoliptian antibodies. While
escaping this onslaught, Ray discovers the "battery" containing the New God spirit energies.[167] Ray removes it from Jimmy's head and shatters it, releasing the energies.[168]
Ray later (after much cajoling) joins Donna, Kyle, and Forager in
their new mission as border guards to the Multiverse, realizing that
there is nothing left for him on New Earth anymore.[169]
However, Palmer returns to New Earth one more time, upon realizing that
his old nemesis Chronos had taken his identity to mislead a young
pretender to his identity, Ryan Choi. After helping his successor to
once again save Ivy Town, he returns to the Multiverse with a new sense
of fulfillment, leaving his town in the hands of a new, capable hero.[170]
During the Final Crisis, Ray returns to New Earth and works with Choi again to aid in the efforts to evacuate the last free humans.[171]
Blackest Night
During the events of the Blackest Night,
Ray asks Hawkman to visit his wife Jean Loring's grave to be honored as
a fallen member of the community, but Hawkman refuses because of what
she did in Identity Crisis.[172] Ray later called Hawkman again, over the phone (unaware that his friend has been killed and resurrected as a Black Lantern).
Atom is then invited to visit Carter in order to discuss his heartache
over his wife which the deceased Carter planned on killing him.[173] Indigo Tribe
Arriving at Carter's house, he was attacked by the Black Lantern Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and only escaped by miniaturizing himself and hiding in Carter's Black Lantern Ring. Ray did a thorough exploration of the ring, discovering that it was nothing like Hal Jordan's power ring, instead made of dark matter with micro-wormholes sending energy to an unknown source.
Jumping out, he helped Hal and Barry Allen fight off the Black Lantern
Justice Leaguers, with his compassion attracting the Black Lantern
Dibnys. Ralph mocked Ray for still being love with Jean after she killed
Sue, but the two Dibny Lanterns were destroyed by the Indigo Tribe, the wielders of the indigo light of compassion, then teleporting the three living Leaguers to the Hall of Justice, where they met up with Firestorm Jason Rusch and Mera. After Indigo-1,
leader of the Indigo Tribe, explained that the Black Lanterns were
expressions of darkness which considered the living to be invaders,
Barry and Hal pointed out that Ralph and Sue had no reaction to each
others' attack, leading Ray to conclude that the Black rings were some
sort of organic computer that rebooted the body without restoring their
essences. Before they could plan a proper counter-attack, the Black
Lantern League arrived and attacked, and the Indigo Tribe teleported Hal
away, leaving Ray, Barry, and Mera without a means to effectively fight
the Black Lanterns.[174] Ray had almost been turned into a Black Lantern by a reanimated Batman but ultimately been protected by an unknown force. Ganthet inducts him into the Indigo Tribe as a deputy for his strong compassion.[175] Ray Palmer as a member of the Indigo Tribe
Indigo-1 claims that she can teleport the armies of each Lantern
Corps onto Earth, if given time to meditate. So, the responsibility
falls to Ray to protect her while she does so. Before she enters her
trance, she reveals to Ray that the indigo staff and his overwhelming
compassion allows him to mimic the other powers of the Lantern Corps;
she demonstrates this by temporarily becoming a Red Lantern and vomiting
corrosive blood all over an attacking company of Black Lanterns. She
then enters her trance, while Ray fights off Black Lanterns Hawkman and
Hawkgirl by temporarily becoming an Orange Lantern, loudly proclaiming
"I want my friends back!" He then summons two orange energy duplicates
of Khufu (New Earth and Chay-Ara
to help him fight off his and Indigo-1's attackers. He is briefly
successful. But then Jean shows up to torment him, and she leaps into
Indigo-1's ring. Ray follows her. He ends up reliving Sue Dibny's death,
and is then attacked by various Black Lantern Morlaidhans, the
miniscule race he befriended during his time in the Amazon jungle years
before. He fights them off and--summoning the powers of a Green
Lantern--destroys Jean. Indigo-1 manages to summon the various armies
and thanks Ray for his help. He tells her to keep his involvement in the
deployment of the troops a secret, and asks that she help him find a
way to legitimately resurrect Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
Ray Palmer is the Atom, the Mighty Mite,
a superhero with the ability to shrink to incredible sizes while
retaining his full mass and density. This makes him a formidable
combatant. He was a member of the original Justice League of America,
where he gained a great deal of respect from his peers. Aside from his
crime-fighting career, he is also one of the world's top scientific
minds, a brilliant physicist. He is capable of shrinking to subatomic
sizes, and explores the universe on a frontier unknown to any other man.
Ray Palmer would grow up in Ivy Town, Connecticut where he would study physics at Ivy University, studying under such such renown scientists such as Alpheus P. Hyatt[1]. He began dating law student Jean Loring[2],
and the two would eventually see each other exclusively. Both
graduating and working in their professions, Ray would frequently ask
Jean to marry him, however she would always decline, wanting to
establish herself as a lawyer before getting married and settling down.
While a physics graduate student, Ray Palmer discovered a tiny
fragment of white dwarf star material that had fallen to Earth.
Investigating matter compression, Ray theorized that if he were to grind
a lens from this fragment and focus ultraviolet light through it, he
could shrink anything struck by the light down to a fraction of its
original size. Ray rushed off to his laboratory, tried the experiment,
and found that it worked exactly as he had imagined, with one tiny
little catch: the objects he shrunk became unstable and exploded moments
later.
A couple of days later, a disillusioned Ray and some friends
became trapped in a cave-in while out spelunking; Ray was forced to risk
instability and use the shrinking lens on himself in order to escape
the cave and save the lives of his friends. For some reason, however,
Ray didn't explode and returned to his normal height. In fact, the
shrinking lens worked on his body much better than he had expected, and
he developed a set of control devices that gave him limited control over
his weight as well as his size. Ray later hypothesized that some
unknown "x-factor" in his genetic makeup prevented his atoms from
becoming unstable, though many scientists now believe that Ray's ability
to shrink was actually made possible by the "Metagene", which is the source of many superhumans' powers.[3]
Keeping his discoveries a secret, even from his girlfriend Jean Loring, Ray would create the identity of the Atom
and begin a career of crime fighting in Ivy Town. In his first recorded
adventure, the Atom would stop the crook Carl Ballard from exploiting
the tiny alien Kulan Dar, to commit his crimes. Foiling this plot, the
Atom would become a trusted hero in Ivy Town, and establish a great
working relationship with the local police[4]. Next, the Atom would defend the wealthy Doctor Gordon Heath from a plot against him orchestrated by his caretaker, Bates[5].
The Atom's heroics would make him an ally of the CIA, who would send him overseas to rescue Professor Anton Kraft from foreign spies[6]. Returning home he would foil crooked newspaper reporter Greg Phillips from stealing valuable chess pieces.[7]. The Atom would meet his first super-villain when battling Jason Woodrue,
an exile from the Floral Dimension, who would attempt to take over the
Earth with specially bred plants. The Atom would defeat Woodrue with the
help of Maya Queen of the Dryads that live in the Floral Dimension[8]. Atom next stops jewel thief Bart Tranter with the help of the self proclaimed Mr. Odd[9] and recaptures Carl Ballard when he masters Kulan Dar's teleportation abilities [10].
The Atom would next be used in a bizarre plot by Amos Fortune and other villains to destroy the Justice League of America,
using a de-memorizor ray to pit the Atom against the League. With the
aid of the Atom, the team of heroes would defeat Fortune and his minions
and elect the Atom as a member of their group[11]. Next, the Atom would have his first clash with Chronos, a criminal obsessed with time[12].
The Atom's costume is invisible when he is at normal height, only becoming visible again when he shrinks in size
Reconnecting with Professor Hyatt, Ray would learn of Hyatt's experiments with the Time Pool,
a device of Hyatt's creation allowing him to "fish" for items out of a
tiny portal that can bring items through time. As the Atom, Ray would
travel back time to ancient Middle East where he would help a young boy
named Hassan best a group of thieves and bring back a golden Dinar for
Hyatt's study[13]. When Simultaneous nuclear explosions on Earth-One
and a parallel world causes the two to merge, the Atom helps the JLA
prevent the inhabitants of that world from destroying three major cities
on Earth to prevent the cataclysm and work together to revolve the
problem[14].
When visiting Happy Harbor, Rhode Island
to give a lecture as Ray Palmer, the Atom comes to the rescue of Entron
Kol a visitor from a Sub-Atomic world who is trapped on Earth and uses a
wish fulfillment device to try to draw help to his plight[15].
Returning to Ivy Town, the Atom foils an attempt by a crooked
photographer named Elkins from framing Tom Parks for crimes he did not
commit[16].
Ray would next attend a JLA meeting were the team would ponder how to
get out of a dangerous scenario posed by one of their fans[17].
When Ray's colleague the world-traveling Ted Ralston is turned
into diamond by a strange stone he brought back from one of his
expeditions, Ray would travel into the microscopic world inside the gem
where he would clash with the Atlantean tyrant Karl Jat[18].
Next he would foil jewel thief Fred Harris' plot to rob a lake side
community using local folklore to hoax the people into thinking the
thefts were perpetuated by a ghost[19]. The Atom would next be targeted with the rest of the JLA by the Tornado Tyrant[20].
In another adventure with the Justice League, Ray would aid the League
in liberating the people of the micro-world of Starzl, who's three
android defenders had turned evil[21].
Back in Ivy Town, Atom would foil a plot by stage manager Howard
Crane from framing former astronaut Peter Venner for crimes he did not
commit[22] and in a Time Pool adventure travels back to 18th century London to foil Dick Turpin from stealing the kings gold[23]. The Atom and the rest of the JLA would next be forced into exile from the planet Earth due to the manipulations of Dr. Density, however the JLA would foil this plot, ending their exile[24]. When preventing an invasion of Earth from the Thalens, the Atom would team up with extraterrestrial lawman Hawkman and his partner Hawkgirl, forming a long lasting partnership between the trio[25].
On another Justice League case, the Atom and his fellow JLA members would clash with Spaceman X[26]. Later the Atom would be present with the JLA in their first team up with the Justice Society of America, their counterparts from Earth-Two, against the Crime Champions, a group of villains from both universes[27][28]. While on the home front, Ray would battle an escaped Dr. Light[29], stop Alfred Trask an art gallery employee working the masterpieces his employer has on display[30], would battle an evil doppelganger created of himself created out of a lab experiment gone awry[31] and thwart an attempted kidnapping of the king of France during a Time Pool adventure to the year 1609[32]. His next meeting with the JLA would be less eventful with the group relating their battle against Queen Bee while Ray would tell them of his encounter against Dr. Light[33].
Working with the CIA once again, the Atom would go to Vienna to collect the plans for a new anti-gravity metal, however exposes it as a communist plot to destroy America[34], and back home foils Doro Briggs' theft scheme involving hoaxing people into believing that she can transform into a swan[35]. The Atom aids his fellow Justice League colleagues in once more defeating and capturing their old foe Kanjar Ro[36] and Kraad the Conqueror, tyrant ruler of a sidereal dimension[37].
One of Ray Palmer's unsuccessful proposals to Jean Loring.
Back
home, Ray would attend a Ivy University ten-year reunion, where he
would foil Jack Archer's attempt to use hypnosis to steal a priceless
Buddha statue[38], followed by a cruise with Jean Loring where he would stymie invaders from Randath[39]. Next Atom and a number of his fellow JLA members would be rapidly aged by Despero, but later restored to normal following Despero's defeat at the hands of his fellow JLA members who were unaffected[40].
On the home front, Ray would find his powers being used for crime
when he is temporarily the prisoner of a crook who uses his body as a
power source for a ray gun[41] and later uses the Time Pool to travel to Baltimore circa 1849 where he helps Edgar Alan Poe solve a mystery involving stolen gold coins[42]. Atom would next aid the Flash in stopping an invasion of Earth by Attila-5[43].
Later the Atom and his friends in the Justice League would be
manipulated by the ultra-galactic "I", an evil being who's very
existence was threatened by the JLA's continued success[44].
In Ivy Town, Ray would clash once more with Chronos[45] and clear the good name of his civilian identity when he is accused of a crime he did not commit[46]. Back with the Justice League, the Atom is present when Green Lantern relates a solo adventure to the group [47] and would be among the super-powered members of the League to go on "strike" following a UN sanction preventing them from using their powers, all a plot orchestrated by the evil Headmaster Mind[48]. Still with the League, he would be present when a video created by Superman's father Jor-El, regarding the other planets he considered sending his son prior to Krypton's destruction[49].
Resuming his activities in Ivy Town, Ray would battle his own costume when it briefly gained sentience[50] and aid Doc Magnus in rebuilding the Metal Men and stop the evil Uranium[51].
When visiting his old classmate Ed Thayer, Atom would get caught up in
an attempt by foreign spies trying to steal Thayer's Illusion-Maker
device[52] and foil the teleporting Hyper-Thief's robberies[53]. Atom is also present when the Justice League invites his ally Hawkman into the group[54] and in attendance of Aquaman's marriage to Mera[55].
Next, while on vacation the Ray becomes the temporary pawn of criminal inventor Andrew Frost[56], battles Brain Storm with the JLA[57], crushes the Hooded Hijackers[58], and uses the Time Pool to travel to the 19th Century, where he comes to the rescue of writer Jules Verne[59]. Atom would become an unwilling pawn of the Endless One, and is forced to fight some of his fellow JLA members[60] and when restored to normal becomes a victim in one of Dr. Destiny's plots to get revenge against the JLA[61].
The Atom would have to combat side-effects of his Time Pool adventures when battling the evil Phantom Mask[62],
and spend a brief time thinking he was a flea in a flea circus when
spies attempt to replace Ray Palmer with one of their own agents[63]. He would next aid Zatanna search for her missing father on a micro-world ruled by the Druid[64]. Later, joins with the Justice League in once more battling Brain Storm[65]. Going solo, Atom prevents crooks from benefiting from his "stool-pigeon" computer[66]
and with the aid of Maya and the Dryads posing as Leprechauns, convince
Arthur Ennis to fill a witness report with the police following a
robbery[67]. During his next team up with Hawkman, and Hawkgirl against Matter Master, the trio of heroes would trust their secret identities to each other[68]. Atom and his fellow JLA members would team up with the JSA against the evil Johnny Thunder of Earth-One who has manipulated the Thunderbolt into creating Earth-A and the Lawless League, criminal versions of the Justice League[69][70].
The CIA once more hires the Atom to stop a group of Russian spies who are attempting to manipulate Jean Loring's father in an attempt to get at the Atom[71],
and on another Time Pool to 18th century London where the Atom prevents
one of Professor Hyatt's ancestors from being thrown in debtors' prison[72].
Atom would also aid his fellow JLA members in preventing global
disaster and conflict inadvertently created by Andrew Helm's
Corti-Conscience machine[73]. Acting solo, he stops a common thug named Eddie Gordon from enslaving the Bat-Knights of the Elvaran people[74]. Atom next helps Batman, Robin, and Elongated Man capture "Numbers" Garvey and his gang[75].
The Atom also aids the Justice League in defeating the Key during his attack[76].
Returning to Ivy Town, the Atom makes up a story about alien invaders
to make the return of a radion-ball sound like a more exciting adventure[77] and foils a robbery plot orchestrated by groundskeeper Billy Knowels[78]. Atom's powers are briefly pilfered by Professor Ivo
in a plot against the Flash, when the Flash relates the story to his
fellow JLA members including the Atom, they are unaware as they are not
using their powers at the time[79]. Next Atom would join the Justice League and Metamorpho in battling the Unimaginable[80].
After liberating the Floral Dimension and Earth from destruction at the hands of Jason Woodrue[81], the Atom would join the JLA in curing Batman, Green Lantern, and Flash from a plague infected upon them by the Unimaginable[82]. Atom would return to Ivy Town, to foil a series of robberies orchistrated by Bill Jameson, the so-called "Man in the Ion-Mask"[83]. Working with the CIA once more, the Atom would travel to Russia to foil Boris Kalumchuk's plot to poison America with irradiated gold[84]. Ray would next join the Justice League of America in their battle against the Shaggy Man[85].
Engagement to Jean Loring
Back in Ivy Town, the Atom would earn a new villain in the Bug-Eyed Bandit.
During this adventure Jean accepts proposal for marriage for fear that
Ray would eventually become too absorbed in his work to ask her anymore[86]. When both Earth-One and Earth-Two are threatened by the Anti-Matter Man, the Atom would be one of the Justice League and Justice Society members gathered to combat the threat[87][88].
Going solo in Ivy Town once more, the Atom would crush the Panther Gang[89] and going on another Time Pool journey to 18th century France where he foils an assassination attempt against Benjamin Franklin[90]. Returning to the JLA, the Atom would aid them in stopping the Lord of Time from manipulating Vietnam war hero Sgt. Eddie Brent[91]. Returning home, Atom would clash with once more against his old foe Chronos[92].
Later, when the entire population of Ivy Town suddenly shrinks, Ray
learns that a chunk of white dwarf star landing in the city water supply
is the cause, and cures the people with no ill side effects[93]. Ray would next work together with his Earth-Two counterpart in foiling a plot by the Thinker to rob Earth-One and escape to Earth-Two[94].
At a JLA meeting, Atom, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Batman and Elongated
Man would all learn that of Zatanna's success in freeing her father with
the help of magical proxies that she created of the heroes following
her respective encounters with each of them[95].
Ray would return to Ivy Town where he would stumble upon and foil
another plot by Eddie Gordon to manipulate the Elvarian Bat-Kights[96]. He is also present when the JLA must face the evil Mastermind, who has turned many of the League members weapons against them[97].
Atom would team-up with Hawkman once more to search for the missing
Johnny Burns, a reformed crook, to reunite him with his sick mother.
During the encounter, they battle Toyboy, Johnny's evil half brought to
life when Mrs. Burns is briefly endowed with mental powers following a
scientific accident[98]. Rejoining the JLA, Atom would foil the Royal Flush Gang's attempt to destroy the League[99].
When paralyzed in a lab accident, Ray manages to get Jean to
activate his size-control devices causing him to shrink to microscopic
size, freeing him of the paralysis. Before returning to Earth, he would
save the sub-atomic people of Palonds from the evil Honds[100]. The Atom would also be present to cheer on a UN-sponsored charity race between Superman and the Flash[101]. He would later team-up with Aquaman against the plankton creature called Galg the Destroyer[102]. After a rematch against the Bug-Eyed Bandit[103], the Atom would team-up with the Elongated Man against Chronos[104]. After battling the Big Gang[105], witnessing another race between Superman and the Flash[106], foiling "Smarts" and his gang[107], Atom has another Time Pool adventure to London to prevent Colonel Tom Blood from stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London[108].
The Atom is one of the members of the Justice League enslaved by Queen Bee, until they are saved by Batgirl[109].
In another revenge plot against the Justice League, Dr. Destiny briefly
switches the League's bodies with some of their greatest foes. For a
time, Atom would be forced to trade bodies with Jason Woodrue, until Dr.
Destiny's ultimate defeat[110].
When twin transmitter towers on Earth-One and Earth-Two cause people to
rapidly age either forward or backward, Earth-Two's Atom would have to
briefly battle a young and hot-headed Ray Palmer before destroying the
towers and returning everyone back to normal[111]. Atom would next work with Batman in foiling the Cannoneer from robbing the Brotherhood Express[112].
The Atom would also be involved in a Justice League case where the
group would get embroiled in a gang war between the Pyrotekniks and the
Bulleteers in a complex scheme hatched by mobster Leo Locke[113].
The Atom would soon gain an unusual ally in his next adventure, Major Mynah, a mynah bird that he meets foiling a group of Viet Cong soldiers from raiding a Cambodian
temple while on an archeological dig in the region. With the bird
injured in the battle, Atom takes the helpful creature to Hawkman who
replaces the bird's broken wings with mechanical ones. Major Mynah
becomes Ray's pet, following him in both his civilian and costumed
identities. After helping the Atom capture crooks, Major Mynah's
involvement almost tips Jean off to Ray's secret identity and so he
comes up with a method of disguising Mynah for future adventures.[114]. The Atom would return to the Justice League and foil the Key's plot of using Superman to destroy the JLA[115] and later battle Dr. Anomaly[116].
Ray and Major Mynah would next go into action to stop an invasion from
the alien Physalians from feeding on the humans they have captured[117]. The Atom is one of the JLA members seemingly killed by T.O. Morrow, he is restored to life following Morrow's defeat at the hands of the JSA, their new ally Red Tornado and surviving members of the JLA[118].
Justice League Mainstay
As time would go on, Ray would eventually get involved in less
frequent solo adventures, often teaming up with either Hawkman or
getting involved in many of the Justice League's cases.
Ray joins Carter and Sheira Hall on vacation in Mexico City and battles Telka and his followers[119].
With the Justice League, the Atom battles the laughable Generalissimo
Demmy Gog of Offalia, in a pathetic attempt to conquer the world[120]. The Atom next is hired by the FBI
to break up a spy ring. He succeeds thanks to the intervention of Major
Mynah. This would mark the Atom's last use of Major Mynah. The bird's
ultimate fate is unknown[121].
Atom also finds himself involved in a revenge plot enacted by criminal
Jason Madden, who attempts to kill his former accomplice Chuck Wheeler[122]. Atom aids the Justice League in clearing Green Arrow's name in a murder frame-up plotted by Headmaster Mind and the Tattooed Man[123]. Ray is involved in a Justice League investigation of the new costumed vigilante known as the Creeper[124].
While attending a science convention with Carter Hall, Ray and
Carter are attacked by a man resembling Carter. This gets them embroiled
in a battle against the Shiva, Hindu goddess of destruction, who with
her army of Nether-Men is attempting to win back worship of humanity.
Through the efforts of the Atom, Hawkman and Hawkgirl the plot is
thwarted[125]. The Atom would join his fellow Justice League colleagues in traveling to Mars and aiding their comrade Martian Manhunter against the evil Commander Blanx, a battle ends in J'onn J'onzz's resignation from the team[126].
Ray next goes into action as the Atom to foil a plot by rival
university professor Horace McByrd to discredit Ray among his peers[127].
Ray next joins the JLA and Hawkgirl in saving Hawkman who has been
turned into salt by a group of demons, fighting off their minions a
biker gang known as the Gruesome Ghouls in the process[128].
When
Professor Heinrich Von Rilk is almost assaulted by Ivy University
students for destroying an electron-microscope, Ray learns that Von Rilk
did it to prevent an invasion from a microscopic world. Investigating
the claims as the Atom, Ray confirms Heinrich's story, and stops the
invasion by defeating its vanguard, a creature known as Ag[129].
Atom would be among the members of the Justice League and Justice
Society who would ban together to save both universes from the threat of
Aquarius, a living star creature bent on revenge for being exiled by his superiors[130][131].
When Jean Loring is kidnapped by the people of Jimberen, a
microscopic world who believe that she is the descendant of their ruler,
Atom and Hawkman team-up to rescue her. However, due to the radiation
the people of Jimberen expose Jean to, she is driven insane from the
ordeal. With technology on Hawkman and Hawkgirl's homeworld of Thanagar making it possible to cure Jean, Atom would entrust her to the care of Hawkgirl[132].
Focusing on Justice League business, Atom would be one of the
members who would accidentally have an evil duplicate of himself created
out of his ego, which would battle new Justice League member Black Canary[133]. When an influential man named John Dough would attempt to turn the United States government against the JLA, manipulating Snapper Carr into betraying the group, the Atom would be involved in the conflict, which would reveal Dough to be none other than the Joker[134]. Atom and the Justice League would soon setup shop in a new base, an orbital satellite above the Earth[135].
During this time, Atom and the other members of the JLA would team up with the Vigilante against the Doomsters, aliens who threatened to pollute the Earth[136][137].
Ray would ultimately learn that Hawkgirl's quest to restore
Jean's sanity on Thanagar was met with trouble when both women's souls
were stolen by Norch Lor,
a scientist from Thanagar who's misguided intention to save the
universe from the coming "end of all things" was attempting to collect
the souls of all living beings in a Ghenna Box. With the help of Tomar-Re of the Green Lantern Corps, Ray and the Justice League would restore Hawkgirl and Jean's souls to their bodies, Jean however would still remain insane[138].
Atom and Hawkman would travel together en route to Thanagar to try and
get Jean the help she needs, and along the way run into the threat that
Norch Lor was attempting to protect them from: The insane Jest-Master,
who leaves all those in his path completely mad. With the help of the
Justice League, Atom and Hawkman would defeat the Jest-Master. In the
aftermath of the battle, Jean's constant exposure to Jest-Master's
insanity rays would restore her sanity to normal[139].
Returning to Earth, the Atom would once more join the Justice League
and the Justice Society in preventing another threat to both Earth-One
and Earth-Two. This time coming from a being called Creator2, whom by
utilizing Red Tornado's connection to both realities, would attempt to
merge the two universes together, threatening to destroy both. Atom and
his colleagues would foil this plot, however the Spectre would seemingly perish in the process[140][141].
Sword of the Atom
Ray and Jean's marriage would become strained over time as Jean's law
practice and Ray's devotion to both science and super-heroics would take
time over their romance. Sword of the Atom-era
Soon, Jean would begin an affair with her fellow lawyer Paul Hoben,
which Ray would stumble upon one night. Realizing their marriage was on
the rocks, Ray would decide to investigate White Dwarf star radiations
he detected out of South America
and decide to investigate it without Jean. Taking a flight with some
drug runners, he would learn too much about an illegal cocaine field and
prompting the pilots to attempt to kill Ray. However, the pilot would
be shot and Ray would jump ship and shrink down to Atom size. Ray would
be struck by lightning trapping him at a height of six inches. The plane
would crash, and because one of the men aboard stole one of Ray's
rings, the world would presume him dead and Jean would go on with her
life and pursue her relationship with Paul. Ray meanwhile would find
himself captured by aliens known as the Morlaidhans,
small aliens who's ancestors were left on Earth centuries ago and live
in a world of high technology and barbarism. With a revolt immanent, Ray
would be captured along with members of a resistance led by Taren[142].
Forced into gladiator battles, Ray would learn the Moralaidhans'
language and befriend Taren and learn that he hoped to overthrow their
leader Caellich and marry princess Laethwen. The two men would become unknowing pawns of Deraegis
who would seek to cause the people to revolt against Caellich so that
he could rule. To this end, he would blind Taren, causing the people to
protest. Taren, Atom, and Laethwen would escape the arena and flee into
the jungles where they would reunite with the rebels[143].
Knowing his end is near, Taren would turn over leadership of the rebels
to Atom, and perish while the group fled an army of carnivorous ants.
Atom and Laethwen would soon fall in love with each other. Atom would
lead the warriors on to Moralaidh to launch a revolution[144].
In the final battle, both Caellich and Deraegis would be slain, but not
before Deraegis would activate an old star drive powered by a white
dwarf star fragment. Attempting to save his newly adopted people, Ray
would dive into the plant to try and stop the reactor from exploding.
However the white star radiation would cause him to grow as it
irradiated him and smash his way through. Growing to near human height,
Ray would frighten the people away before the reactor exploded. Restored
to his normal height and in a delirium caused by radiation exposure,
Ray would pass out and be found by rescuers. Waking up in the hospital,
Ray would come to realize that he no longer had an interest in returning
to his old life and have moved on from Jean. Having learned that Jean
had come to South America looking for him he would decide to finalize
their divorce and try to find Laethwen again[145].
Returning to Ivy Town to settle his affairs, Ray would realize
that there wold be no way to rekindle his romance with Jean. In
repairing his size change belt, Ray would find that the process of
shrinking would cause him great pain due to his absorption of massive
amounts of white dwarf radiation and would fear that constantly changing
his size could eventually kill him. Finalizing his divorce from Jean,
Ray would put his money on an expedition back into South America, taking
along with him writer Norman Brawler
to chronicle the experience. The two men would run afoul of drug
dealers and Ray would shrink down to Atom, giving up his normal height
seemingly for the last time to help destroy the drug operation. Finding
the Moralaidh tribe and being reunited with Laethwen, Ray would leave
Norman to find his own way back. Norman would publish the tale in a book
called Atom's Farewell, which would become a best seller[146].
Ray would lead Laethwen's people in building a new New Moralaidh
and rebuilding the alien societies lost technology, he and Laethwen
would become wed as well. However, his past life could not stay away, as
when Jean would marry Paul Hoben and when the newly weds would clear
out Ray's lab she would accidentally shrink herself. In order to restore
her to her normal height, Paul would have Norman Brawler lead him and
Jean to find Ray. However, along the way, Jean would be captured by
minions of rebel leader Torgul
who had captured many of the Moralaidhian women including Laethwen. Ray
would lead a mission to rescue the captured women, which would end in
Torgul's death, and the freedom of his people. With Jean restored to her
normal height, Ray and Laethwen would wish them farewell, Ray leaving
Paul with his old size changing belt[147].
Ray would remain New Moralaidh's champion but would come at times to aid his old allies in the Justice League of America.
When the evil Anti-Monitor attempted to destroy the entire multiverse, his opposing force the Monitor
would sacrifice his life to shunt the five surviving realities into
limbo, however they were slowly merging together causing chaos on all
worlds and threatening their destruction in the process[148]. Alexander Luthor, Jr. of Earth-Three and the Harbinger
would gather heroes and villains from all realities in an attempt to
rally their support in saving what was left of the multiverse. Atom
would be among their numbers and would agree to aid in the effort[149].
Ray would be called in to examine the Red Tornado, who is
recaptured by the heroes following a lengthy captivity under the
Anti-Monitor who converted the android into an engine of destruction.
However, despite the best efforts of the Atom and T.O. Morrow, the Red
Tornado would self destruct, causing massive damage to the JLA
Satellite, and apparently destroying the Red Tornado[150].
Later on in the Crisis, when a united group of super-villains
from each surviving reality would attempt to conquer each earth, Atom
would be among a group of super-heroes dispatched to Earth-S to attempt to quell the uprising in that reality[151].
Although the heroes there were made prisoner, the Atom would be part of
a counter attack of heroes that were uncaptured, and would succeed in
freeing Billy Batson allowing the boy to change into Captain Marvel and turn the tides of battle[152].
Changes Caused By Crisis on Infinite Earths
Following the defeat of the Anti-Monitor, the surviving parallel
worlds were combined to create a new universe. While, much of the Atom's
Pre-Crisis history remains the same, many of his past adventures may
have been altered or erased from existence entirely. In particular,
Atom's encounters with Hawkman may be different (if they still exist)
given the extensive changes of Hawkman's origins. The Thanagarian Katar
Hol is replaced in Post-Crisis history with Earth native Carter Hall the Hawkman formerly from Earth-Two.
In addition, due to the massive changes in the histories of his fellow JLA colleagues Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman,
the Atom's history may have been altered by proxy and many of his
adventures alongside these heroes no longer be part of history.
In addition, many of the adventures that the Atom had with the
Justice League of America that involved traveling to other universes,
particularly their encounters with the Justice Society of America on
Earth-Two, likely no longer exist, or if they do, in a vastly different
manner such that the multiversal threat was simply a threat to a single
unified universe.
Lastly, the Atom's encounters with his Earth-Two counterpart may
no longer be part of history, or if they are, they have been altered in
such a way to accommodate the notion that these adventures only happened
in a single universe as opposed to having occurred on Earth-One and
Earth-Two.
The Katarthans and their village were soon wiped out by a horrible
fire and the Atom returned to Ivy Town, only to find that one of his
friends had written a book exposing Ray's secret identity in his
absence.[153] After battling various foes, such as Strobe, Humbug,
and Swarm, Ray learned that a US Government agency had engineered the
destruction of the Katarthans, in order to induce his return to the
States.[154] He avenged the Katarthans by permanently reducing the agents responsible for the massacre to six inches in height.[155] Ray returned to Ivy Town just long enough to bid his friends farewell, and then briefly went into hiding.
Suicide Squad
The shrunken agents, now calling themselves the Micro Squad, vowed
revenge on Ray. Ginsburg, one of their number, made an attempt on Ray's
life, but died in the attempt. Ray approached Amanda Waller, who convinced him to fake his own death and secretly join the espionage unit known as the Suicide Squad.[156] As a part of this mission, Ray went undercover and Adam Cray served in the Suicide Squad as the new Atom. Adam was killed by Blacksnake and Ray resumed the role of the Atom.[157] Later still, he joined the then-current Justice League on a semi-active basis.[158]
Teen Titans
Al Pratt, the original Atom, died during a battle against Extant in Zero Hour.[159] During this event, Ray was also hit with a blast of chrono-energy that de-aged him into a youth again.[160] He would go on to become a member of the Teen Titans.
Identity Crisis
In time, Ray and Jean were able to be friends again. In the divorce
she had received half of his patents. As a gesture of friendship, Jean
decided to sign them back to him. Little did he know that this was but
one of many facets to Jean's deadly scheme to win Ray back. Since their
divorce, Jean had somehow become seriously deranged and believed that
the only way to be reunited with Ray was to force the issue. Incredibly,
she devised an elaborate plan to endanger Sue Dibny,
wife of Elongated Man Ralph Dibny. Jean was privy to the fact that
every year on her birthday, Ralph would be absent solving a
custom-tailored mystery devised by Sue. She bypassed the Dibnys'
security by shrinking down and traveling via the phone lines into their
home. She then entered Sue's body and obstructed the blood flow to her
brain. To cover up this evidence, Jean scorched Sue's body.[161]
Jean knew that this event would send all the heroes scrambling to
protect their loved ones and — hopefully - drive Ray back into her arms.
Jean employed two other schemes to cover her tracks. First, she faked
an attempt on her life[162], then she hired Captain Boomerang to kill Robin's father Jack Drake.
She supplied Drake with a gun to defend himself, hoping that Boomerang
would be killed and that everyone would believe he was Sue's killer as
well. Eventually, Dr. Mid-Nite's
autopsy of Sue's body revealed the truth, and the Atom himself elicited
a confession from Jean after she inadvertently spilled the beans when
asking about a letter sent to Jack along with the gun. Ray managed to
put two and two together because Batman had taken the letter away from
the crime scene even before the police arrived, so only he and the
Leaguers were supposed to know of its existence. She was promptly
admitted to Arkham Asylum[163].
With Jean's incarceration, Ray was overwhelmed with despair, and shrank
continuously until he vanished completely into a microscopic or
subatomic world.
Ray's legacy would continue on with Ryan Choi utilizing a version of his costume and shrinking device to become the current Atom for a short time.
Countdown
During the missing year following the events known as the second Crisis, Palmer's technology is employed by Supernova to shrink and grow in size in order to enter and exit the bottle city of Kandor.
Ray took refuge the Nanoverse, and met a young mystic who told him about the new reformed existence of the Multiverse. He traveled through different realities and find himself in Earth-51,
where its heroes eradicate supercrime and create a utopian Earth. There
he witness his Earth-51 counterpart's death and took his role in this
reality including marrying this world's Jean Loring.
While there he study much about his Earth-51 counterpart and
discover he never became the Atom and acted as a scientist consultant to
the Earth-51 Justice League. Also this Ray gifted with the ability to
be immune to all kinds of diseases and viruses. Furthermore, the
Earth-51 Palmer worked on preventing the deadly Morticoccus Virus,
and knowing that in every reality of the Multiverse there is deadly
chance that the virus would appear decided to travel the Multiverse and
inoculate each inhabitants with his immune system. Realizing the
importance of his counterpart's work, Ray carry on Earth-51 Ray's work
and travel to different worlds inoculating each denizen of every Earth
with a resistance to the Morticoccus Virus.
Unknowable to Ray the Monitors and the Challengers from Beyond (Kyle Rayner, Donna Troy, Jason Todd and Bob the Monitor) were scouring the reformed Multiverse for him as they believe that he maybe the one to prevent a cataclysm known as the Great Disaster.
Eventually the Challengers discover him and learns his history on
Earth-51. Shortly afterword Bob reveals his intention in killing Ray.
With the Challengers' help, Ray escapes but witness the death of his
Earth-51 friends and his alternate wife.
Despite what the Challengers were told by the Monitors, Ray
reveals to them that it was the Ray Palmer of Earth-51 who was meant to
stop the Great Disaster.
After joining the Challengers, teaming up with Jimmy Olsen, Forager, Harley Quinn, Holly Robinson, Mary Marvel, and Firestorm on Apokolips, Ray discovers that Karate Kid was infected with the Morticoccus Virus. Following the damages to the planet by the Pied Piper and Brother Eye, Ray secretly eavesdropped on Monitor Solomon and Darkseid,
learning that Darkseid wanted to remake reality and Solomon wanted the
Great Disaster to happen. Alerted by this, Ray returned to the others
and was pressured into curing Karate Kid.
Ray and the others were then teleported back to the reconstructed Earth-51 and seek advance medical attention from Project Cadmus; however, once they were at Cadmus Karate Kid was already dead.
Ray helped the scientists at Cadmus in finding a cure to the Morticoccus Virus after the virus was released to the world.[164] Despite everything he has done, the Great Disaster prevailed forcing Ray and his friends to return back to their Earth.[165]
After returning to their world, Jimmy Olsen is kidnapped by Mary Marvel, who has been corrupted by Darkseid.[166]
Ray hitches a ride from within Jimmy. When Darkseid takes control of
Jimmy's powers, Ray locates and shuts down the control sphere inside
Jimmy's brain, but is then swarmed by Apokoliptian antibodies. While
escaping this onslaught, Ray discovers the "battery" containing the New God spirit energies.[167] Ray removes it from Jimmy's head and shatters it, releasing the energies.[168]
Ray later (after much cajoling) joins Donna, Kyle, and Forager in
their new mission as border guards to the Multiverse, realizing that
there is nothing left for him on New Earth anymore.[169]
However, Palmer returns to New Earth one more time, upon realizing that
his old nemesis Chronos had taken his identity to mislead a young
pretender to his identity, Ryan Choi. After helping his successor to
once again save Ivy Town, he returns to the Multiverse with a new sense
of fulfillment, leaving his town in the hands of a new, capable hero.[170]
During the Final Crisis, Ray returns to New Earth and works with Choi again to aid in the efforts to evacuate the last free humans.[171]
Blackest Night
During the events of the Blackest Night,
Ray asks Hawkman to visit his wife Jean Loring's grave to be honored as
a fallen member of the community, but Hawkman refuses because of what
she did in Identity Crisis.[172] Ray later called Hawkman again, over the phone (unaware that his friend has been killed and resurrected as a Black Lantern).
Atom is then invited to visit Carter in order to discuss his heartache
over his wife which the deceased Carter planned on killing him.[173] Indigo Tribe
Arriving at Carter's house, he was attacked by the Black Lantern Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and only escaped by miniaturizing himself and hiding in Carter's Black Lantern Ring. Ray did a thorough exploration of the ring, discovering that it was nothing like Hal Jordan's power ring, instead made of dark matter with micro-wormholes sending energy to an unknown source.
Jumping out, he helped Hal and Barry Allen fight off the Black Lantern
Justice Leaguers, with his compassion attracting the Black Lantern
Dibnys. Ralph mocked Ray for still being love with Jean after she killed
Sue, but the two Dibny Lanterns were destroyed by the Indigo Tribe, the wielders of the indigo light of compassion, then teleporting the three living Leaguers to the Hall of Justice, where they met up with Firestorm Jason Rusch and Mera. After Indigo-1,
leader of the Indigo Tribe, explained that the Black Lanterns were
expressions of darkness which considered the living to be invaders,
Barry and Hal pointed out that Ralph and Sue had no reaction to each
others' attack, leading Ray to conclude that the Black rings were some
sort of organic computer that rebooted the body without restoring their
essences. Before they could plan a proper counter-attack, the Black
Lantern League arrived and attacked, and the Indigo Tribe teleported Hal
away, leaving Ray, Barry, and Mera without a means to effectively fight
the Black Lanterns.[174] Ray had almost been turned into a Black Lantern by a reanimated Batman but ultimately been protected by an unknown force. Ganthet inducts him into the Indigo Tribe as a deputy for his strong compassion.[175] Ray Palmer as a member of the Indigo Tribe
Indigo-1 claims that she can teleport the armies of each Lantern
Corps onto Earth, if given time to meditate. So, the responsibility
falls to Ray to protect her while she does so. Before she enters her
trance, she reveals to Ray that the indigo staff and his overwhelming
compassion allows him to mimic the other powers of the Lantern Corps;
she demonstrates this by temporarily becoming a Red Lantern and vomiting
corrosive blood all over an attacking company of Black Lanterns. She
then enters her trance, while Ray fights off Black Lanterns Hawkman and
Hawkgirl by temporarily becoming an Orange Lantern, loudly proclaiming
"I want my friends back!" He then summons two orange energy duplicates
of Khufu (New Earth and Chay-Ara
to help him fight off his and Indigo-1's attackers. He is briefly
successful. But then Jean shows up to torment him, and she leaps into
Indigo-1's ring. Ray follows her. He ends up reliving Sue Dibny's death,
and is then attacked by various Black Lantern Morlaidhans, the
miniscule race he befriended during his time in the Amazon jungle years
before. He fights them off and--summoning the powers of a Green
Lantern--destroys Jean. Indigo-1 manages to summon the various armies
and thanks Ray for his help. He tells her to keep his involvement in the
deployment of the troops a secret, and asks that she help him find a
way to legitimately resurrect Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
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