Before the Creeper, before Hawk and Dove, even before co-creating Spider-Man, one-of-a-kind comic book artist/writer Steve Ditko illustrated his first super hero; the Cold War adventures of the nuclear-powered CAPTAIN ATOM. Readers and fans now have a chance to own all the Charlton Comics' appearances of the original hero.
Collects Space Adventures (1952-1967 1st series) #33-42 and Captain Atom (1965-1967 Charlton) #78-82. Written by Steve Ditko, Joe Gill, and David Kaler. Art by Ditko, Rocke Mastroserio and Frank McLaughlin. Cover by Ditko. At the height of comics' Silver Age, artist Steve Ditko was winning praise for his spectacular work on Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. At the same time, Ditko was also creating powerful tales of another hero: Captain Atom, published by Charlton Comics as part of its "Action Hero" line! DC's first archive of Charlton material gathers some of Ditko's greatest Captain Atom adventures, originally published from 1960-1966.
