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The Atom's costume is invisible when he is at normal height, only becoming visible again when he shrinks in size After that, the Atom had his first clash with Chronos, a criminal obsessed with time. With the aid of the Atom, the team of heroes defeated Fortune and his minions, and elected the Atom as a member of their group. The Atom was 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.

Odd and recaptured Carl Ballard when he mastered Kulan Dar's teleportation abilities. Atom then stopped jewel thief Bart Tranter with the help of the self proclaimed Mr. The Atom defeated Woodrue with the help of Maya, Queen of the Dryads, who lives in the Floral Dimension. The Atom met his first super-villain when battling Jason Woodrue, an exile from the Floral Dimension, who attempted to take over the Earth with specially bred plants. Returning home, he stopped crooked newspaper reporter Greg Phillips from stealing valuable chess pieces. The Atom's heroics made him an ally of the CIA, who sent him overseas to rescue Professor Anton Kraft from foreign spies. Next, the Atom defended the wealthy Doctor Gordon Heath from a plot against him orchestrated by his caretaker Bates. Foiling this plot, the Atom became a trusted hero in Ivy Town, and established a great working relationship with the local police. In his first recorded adventure, the Atom stopped the crook Carl Ballard from exploiting the tiny alien Kulan Dar, to commit his crimes. Keeping his discoveries a secret, even from Jean, Ray created the identity of the Atom and began a career of crime fighting in Ivy Town.

The Atom activating his size change controls 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. 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. For some reason, however, Ray didn't explode and returned to his normal height. 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. Ray rushed off to his laboratory, tried the experiment, and found that it worked exactly as he had imagined, but the objects he shrunk became unstable and exploded moments later.Ī couple of days later, a disillusioned Ray and some friends became trapped in a cave-in while out spelunking. 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. Both graduating and working in their professions, Ray would frequently ask Jean to marry him, but she would always decline, wanting to establish herself as a lawyer before getting married and settling down.Īs a physics graduate student, Ray Palmer discovered a White Dwarf Star Fragment that had fallen to Earth.

He began dating law student Jean Loring, eventually becoming exclusive. Ray Palmer grew up in Ivy Town, Connecticut where he studied physics at Ivy University, under renowned scientists such as Alpheus P. 1.7 Changes Caused by Crisis on Infinite Earthsĭiscovering the white dwarf star material.