Captain Atom ─ The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom

Captain Atom is dead...but his story is just beginning.

Nathaniel Adam is one of Earth’s most powerful heroes...and one of the most dangerous. As Captain Atom, his body is in a constant state of nuclear flux. He’s always one bad day away from a complete nuclear meltdown...until that one bad day arrives.

Now, the world thinks Nathaniel Adam is dead, destroyed in a blast that also claimed innocent lives. But in reality, Adam took a quantum trip through time and ended up powerless, 20 years in the past. But before he can make a new life and a happy ending for himself, his future is about to catch up to him.

Captain Atom lived a hero, and he died a villain. What will he become when he gets a second chance at life...and what will the world make of him?

Written by comics author Cary Bates (SUPERMAN) and Greg Weisman (YOUNG JUSTICE) with art from Will Conrad (CYBORG), THE FALL AND RISE OF CAPTAIN ATOM reimagines the classic hero for the Rebirth Era of the DC Universe...and the rebirth of Captain Atom! Collects issues #1-6.

Cary Bates is a comic book and animation writer. He was born in Pennsylvania in the United States. Bates began submitting ideas for comic book covers to DC Comics at the age of 13, and a number of them were bought and published, the first as the cover to SUPERMAN #167 (February 1964). Bates began to sell stories to DC when he was 17.

Bates is best known for his work for DC Comics on such titles as ACTION COMICS, CAPTAIN ATOM, THE FLASH, LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES and SUPEMAN. He began working for the publisher in 1963 and continued to do so up until the early 1990s. His other work includes the comic strips The Lone Ranger (1980-1983), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1981-1983), and Disney's Gargoyles during the 1990s. Bates appeared in his own comics several times alongside superheroes like the Silver Age version of the Flash and the Justice League of America.