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The Atom Archives#1
Cover: Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson
The Atom Archives #1
“Birth of the Atom!”
writer Gardner Fox · artist Gil Kane · inker Murphy Anderson · colorist Digital Chameleon · cover Gil Kane, Murphy Anderson
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Full credits
writer Gardner Fox
artist Gil Kane
inker Murphy Anderson
colorist Digital Chameleon
cover pencils Gil Kane
cover inks Murphy Anderson
Full plot ⚠ may contain spoilers
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Atom helps out Hassan, Sinbad's grandson, by pretending to be "al Atom," the genie of Sinbad's old lamp. At the end of the story, the Atom speculates that the words "al Atom's lamp" were corrupted into "Aladdin's lamp", prompting the whole Aladdin's Lamp story. [synopsis by Michael Torregrossa]
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).