The Atom's 1970's Appearances

The Atom

Summary

The seventies were an age of team play for the World's Smallest Hero. The Atom participated as a member of the JLofA in most of their cases and even managed to get married to Jean Loring (finally). Although he had no books of his own, he made several guest appearances in Action, The Brave and the Bold, and Detective Comics, starring in various reprint stories, a few original solo shots, and some team-ups. The mid-seventies were a time for the resurgence of comic book popularity, and the industry obliged by making JLofA a monthly title, as well as introducing several new titles around this time. The Atom did not make a comeback in this decade, waiting until the eighties to test the waters.

Year 1970

Justice League of America #78 (February) "The Coming of the Doomsters"

Justice League of America #79 (March) "Come Slowly Death, Come Slyly"

Justice League of America #80 (May) "Night of the Soul-Stealer"
Concludes the storyline first started from the Atom and the Hawkman series.

Justice League of America #81 (June) "Plague of the Galactic Jest-Master"

Justice League of America #82 (August) "Peril of the Paired Planets"
JLA/JSA Team-up.

Justice League of America #83 (September) "Where Valor Fails... Will Magic Triumph?"
JLA/JSA Team-up.

Justice League of America #84 (October) "The Devil in Paradise"

Justice League of America #86 (December) "Earth's Final Hour"

Year 1971

Aquaman #55 (January) "Return of the Alien"
Atom cameo.

Justice League of America #87 (February) "Batman - King of the World"

Justice League of America #88 (March) "The Last Survivors of Earth"

Justice League of America #89 (May) "The Most Dangerous Dreams of All"

Justice League of America #90 (June) "Plague of the Pale People"

Justice League of America #91 (August) "Earth - The Monster Maker"
JLA/JSA Team-up.

Justice League of America #92 (September) "Solomon Grundy - The One and Only"
JLA/JSA Team-up.

Action Comics #404 (September) "The Specter of 3000-Moons Lake"
Reprinted from Atom #5

Justice League of America #94 (October) "Where Strikes Demonfang"
JLA w/Deadman vs. the League of Assassins

Action Comics #406 (November) "Challenge of the Expanding World" (part one)
Reprinted from The Brave and the Bold #53
The Atom and the Flash are manipulated into aiding a mad scientist, Dr. Willis Stanton

Action Comics #407 (December) "Challenge of the Expanding World" (part two)
Second part of the story originally printed in The Brave and The Bold #53

Justice League of America #95 (December) "The Private War of Johnny Dune"

DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-7 (December 1971-January 1972) "The Time Trap"
Reprinted from "The Atom" #3

Year 1972

Action Comics #408 (January) "The Atom's Phantom Double"
Reprinted from Atom #9

Justice League of America #97 (March) "The Day the Earth Screams"
JLA vs. Starbreaker

Justice League of America #98 (May) "No More Tomorrow"
JLA vs. Starbreaker

Justice League of America #99 (June) "Seeds of Destruction"

Justice League of America #100 (August) "The Unknown Soldier of Victory"
JLA, JSA, and Seven Soldiers of Victory

World's Finest #213 (August-September) "Peril in a Very Small Place"
Superman and the Atom.

Justice League of America #101 (September) "The Hand That Shook the World"
JLA/JSA/Seven Soldiers of Victory team-up

Justice League of America #102 (October) "And One of Us Must Die"

Year 1973

Justice League of America #104 (February) "The Shaggy Man Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out"

Detective Comics #432 (March) "Suddenly... the Witness Vanished!"
The Atom in a Time Pool story.

100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-14 (March) "Battle of the Tiny Titans"
Reprinted from Showcase #34.

Justice League of America #105 (April) "Spectre in the Shadows"
Elongated Man joins the League

Justice League of America #106 (July) "Wolf in the Fold"
Red Tornado II joins the League

Action Comics #425 (July) "13 Old Men Who Run the World!"
Second Story: The Atom fights thugs of Crime-Lord Declemente

Action Comics #427 (September) "The Time Thief Strikes But Once!"
Second Story: The Atom vs. Chronos.

Detective Comics #438 (Dec 73-Jan 74) "World of the Magic Atom"
Reprint from the Atom #19

Action Comics #430 (December) "Bus-Ride to Nowhere!" and "Up Pops the Atom"
Second Story: Ray takes Jean's nephew Freddy to the amusement park and becomes entangled with a pair of international spies (Joey and Benjy).

Year 1974

Justice League of America #109 (January) "Doom of the Divided Man"

Detective Comics #439 (February) "The Gold-Hunters of '49!"

Superman #272 (February) "The Other Side of the World!"
Reprinted from Green Lantern #42. Part 3 of Zatanna's quest to find her father, Zatara.

Action Comics #433 (March) "The Man Who Was Buried on Page 64!" and "The Affair of the Bouncing Chair"
Second Story: The Atom helps an insect creature from a microscopic world return home.

Action Comics #435 (May) "xxx"
The Atom in the second story.

Justice League of America #111 (May) "Balance of Power"
JLA vs. the Injustice Gang

Justice League of America #112 (July) "War with the One Man Justice League"
JLA vs. Amazo

Action Comics #438 (August) "A Monster Named Lois Lane" and "The Man Who Tape-Recorded the Atom"
First Story: Superman vs. a mutated Lois Lane
Second Story: The Atom faces off against his scientific near-equal in Dr. Miles Adrian

Action Comics #439 (September)"Too Big to Live" and "Danger in Two Dimensions"
First Story: Superman and Captain Strong
Second Story: The Atom vs. Dr. Adrian

Justice League of America #114 (October) "The Return of Anakronus"

The Brave and The Bold #115 (October) "The Corpse Wouldn't Die"
The Atom teams with Batman and helps the Darknight Detective solve a case after the detective is 'killed'

Justice League of Americe #115 (December) "The Last Angry God"

Action Comics #442 (December) "The Little Man from Mars"

Batman #259 (December) "Two Batmen Too Many"
Reprint from Batman #177

Year 1975

Justice League of America #117 (March) "I Have No Wings and I Must Fly"

Justice League of America #118 (May) "Takeover of the Earth-Masters"

Action Comics #447 (May) "The Girl with the 245-Karat Dreams!"
Enrichetta Negrini (last appearance in Atom #35) returns and is turning everything she thinks about... to gold!

Justice League of America #119 (June) "Winner Takes the Earth"

Action Comics #448 (June) "Don't Get Off on the 13th Floor!" and "Nightmare in Gold"
First Story: Superman
Second Story: Part two - the Atom tries to save Enrichetta Negrini as her dreams are turning everything to gold

Justice League of America #120 (July) "The Parallel Perils of Adam Strange"

Action Comics #449 (July) "My Friend the Super-Spy" and "The Atomic Flea" and "The Mystery of the Giant Arrows"
80-Page Giant issue. First Story: Superman
Second Story: Reprinted from Atom #18.
Third Story: Green Arrow

Justice League of America #121 (August) "The Hero That Jinxed the Justice League"
Wedding of Adam Strange and Alanna

Justice League of America #122 (September) "The Great Identity Crisis"
JLA reveal their secret identities to each other

Wonder Woman #220 (October-November) "The Man Who Wiped Out Time"
The Atom acts as observer while Wonder Woman defeats Chronos

Action Comics #453 (November) "Superman's Fantastic Face-Saving Feat" and "Danger: Thoughts at Work"
First Story: Superman
Second Story: The Atom takes on a device called the Actualizer

Action Comics #454 (December) "The Campus that Swallowed Itself"
The Atom saves Ivy Town University from ivy vines that are crushing the buildings (because of the Actualizer).

Year 1976

Action Comics #455 (January) "Junkman -- the Recycled Superstar!"
Team up with Superman, Green Arrow, and the Atom. The Atom does research in Kandor, and a power surge draws power from the Kryptonian lab he is working in to the outside world. It animates a pile of junk (Junkman) and Superman and Green Arrow battle the robot. It is finally shrunk to a small size and sent to Kandor.

Justice League of America #126 (January) "The Evil Connection"
JLA vs. the Weaponers of Qward

Justice League of America #128 (March) "Death Visions of the Justice League"

World's Finest #236 (March) "Killers Come in All Sizes"
Superman, Batman, and the Atom battle a sentient alien virus

Justice League of America #129 (April) "The Earth Dies Screaming"

Justice League of America #130 (May) "Skyjack at 22,300 Miles"

Justice League of America #131 (June) "The Beasts Who Thought Like Men"

Justice League of America #132 (July) "The Beasts Who Fought Like Men"

Justice League of America #133 (August) "Missing - One Man of Steel"

Justice League of America #134 (September) "Battle at the Edge of Forever"

Detective Comics #463 (September) "Crimes By Calculation"
Second Story: The Atom battles the Calculator. And wins... or does he?

The Brave and the Bold #129 (September) "The Claws of the Emperor Eagle"
The Atom teams up with Green Arrow and Batman to stop the Joker and Two-Face.

The Brave and the Bold #130 (October) "Death at Rainbow's End"
The Atom and Batman team up to prevent catastrophe from falling on Green Arrow as he tries to take possession of a cursed relic, the Emperor Eagle! And to make matters worse, the Joker and Two-Face have already stolen the Emperor Eagle! Part two of a two-part Brave and the Bold story.

Year 1977

DC Special Series #1 (January) "The Telephone Tangle"

Justice League of America #139 (February) "The Cosmic Conspiracy Against Adam Strange" and "The Ice Age Cometh"
Atom appearance in second story only.

Justice League of America #142 (May) "Return From Forever"
JLA faces the Construct

Justice League of America #143 (June) "A Tale of Two Sattelites"

Super-Team Family (V3) #11 (June-July) "The Other Side of Doomsday"
Flash/Supergirl/Atom team-up. Jean Loring is kidnapped by T.O. Morrow.

Super Friends #6 (August) "The Menace of the Menagerie Man"
The Super Friends vs. the Menagerie Man, who uses a piece of white dwarf star matter to shrink animals. Guest Starring the Atom.

Super-Team Family (V3) #12 (August-September) "The Eternity Pursuit"
Green Lantern/Hawkman/Atom team-up. The heroes pursue Jean as she is teleported across the galaxy.

Justice League of America #146 (September) "Inner Mission"
JLA vs. the Construct

Secret Society of Super-Villians #10 (October) "Triumph and Treachery"
The Atom pursues Jean, who has fallen into the hands of the SSOSV.

Super-Team Family (V3) #13 (October-November) "Ragnarok Night"
Aquaman/Captain Comet/Atom team-up. SSOSV #10 crossover. Jean ends up back on Earth, but falls into the hands of the SSOSV.

Secret Society of Super-Villians #11 (December) "A Changing of the Guard"
Primarily a cameo appearance.

Year 1978

Super-Team Family (V3) #14 (December 1977-January 1978) "The End of the Quest"
Wonder Woman/Atom team-up. SSOSV #10 crossover. Jean is finally rescued.

Justice League of America #150 (January) "The Key or Not the Key"
JLA vs. the Key

Justice League of America #151 (February) "The Unluckiest League of All"

Action #480 (February) "Amazo's Big Breakthrough"

Justice League of America #154 (May) "I'll Kill You in Your Dreams"
JLA vs. Dr.Destiny

Showcase #100 (May) "There Shall Come a Gathering"

Justice League of America #155 (June) "Under the Moons of Earth"

Justice League of America #156 (July) "The Fiend with Five Faces"

Justice League of America #157 (August) "Till Doom Do Us Part"
Ray Palmer marries Jean Loring

Action #487 (September) "The Miniature War of the Bat Knights"
Jean and Ray (now married) return to Giant Caverns in Ivy Town during their honeymoon - and encounter the Bat Knights.

Justice League of America #159 (October) "Crisis From Yesterday"
JLA/JSA vs. the Lord of Time

Justice League of America #160 (November) "Crisis From Tomorrow"
JLA/JSA vs. the Lord of Time

Action Comics #489 (November) "Krypton Dies Again!" and "Where There's a Will... There's a Fray!"
Second Story: The Atom investigates an unusual theft at a reading of the will.

Justice League of America #161 (December) "The Reverse Spells of Zatanna's Magic-cigaM"
Zatanna joins the JLA

Year 1979

The Brave and The Bold #152 (July) "Death Has a Golden Grab"
Batman and the Atom team up

DC Comics Presents #15 (November) "Plight of the Giant Atom!"
The Atom develops a phobia to shrinking and Superman helps him regain the nerve to shrink again.

Unresearched Issues

Justice League of America. Annual 2

Flash (V1) #171 (GL/Atom Flashbacks?), #175 (JLA Cameo-2nd Flash/S-Man race),#276-277 (Death of Iris Allen?)

Wonder Woman #212 (June-July 74) "The Man Who Mastered Women"
JLA appearance as Wonder Woman begins a series of trials.

Wonder Woman (V1) #291

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