#A.t.o.m. super hero series#

When Ray returned home, he stopped Greg Phillips from stealing chess pieces, and fought Jason Woodrue, an exile who wanted to take over the world. He became an ally of the Ivy Town police and the CIA, who sent him overseas to rescue Professor Kraft from spies. The Atom became a trusted hero in Ivy Town after stopping Carl Ballard from exploiting Kulan Dar, a tiny alien who Carl wanted to use to commit crimes. Ray decided to become a crime fighter named The Atom in Ivy Time, and decided to keep his identity a secret from Jean and his colleagues. Ray theorized that an unknown factor in his genes contributed to allowing him to shrink, but many scientists believed that 'Metagene' was the reason he was able to survive. Ray didn't explode as result of shrinking, and he developed a set of control devices that gave him control over his weight and size. One day, Ray and his friends went spelunking in a cave, and became entrapped into it, and he was forced to use his shrinking lens on himself to escape the cave and save his friends. Ray experimented on his theory, and found that it worked, but saw that the objects he shrunk became unstable and would explode. He theorized that if he were to grind a lens with the white dwarf fragment and focus ultraviolet lights through it, he could shrink anything that was struck by the lights down to a fraction.

He began to date Jean Loring, a law student, whom he would frequently ask to marry him, but she would decline.Įventually, Ray discovered a tiny fragment of a white dwarf star that had fallen to Earth, and investigated the matter compression. In his youth, Ray studied physics at Ivy University, and was under tutelage of scientists such as Alpheus Hyatt. Raymond 'Ray' Palmer was born in Ivy Town, Connecticut to David and Susan Palmer, and has a brother named Daniel, and is the godson of Ted Ralson. In the Arrowverse, he is portrayed by Brandon Routh, who also played Superman in Superman Returns and voiced David 'Hesh' Walker in Call of Duty: Ghosts.

#A.t.o.m. super hero series#

The character is also one of the supporting characters in animated series and comics, Batman: The Brave and the Bold.Īl Pratt was created by Ben Flinton and Bill O'Connor, and Ray Palmer was created by Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox and Gil Kane. Ray Palmer, and the later two were Adam Cray and Dr. There are multiple incarnations of the character, the first and original was Albert 'Al' Pratt, and most well known is the second incarnation, Dr. The Atom is a superhero from the DC comics and universe, where his main ability is to shrink in size.

you're the only one I can trust with this.

But you're also the only one who knows my tech and what I do with it as the Atom as well as I do. You hate the outdoors and you're afraid of heights.