Nathaniel Adam (Earth-22)

Captain Atom
Kingdom Come‎
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Real Name	Nathaniel Adam
Main Alias	Captain Atom
Affiliation	Justice Battalion
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Secret Identity
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Crimefighter
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Origin
Universe	Earth-22 · Earth 22
Creators	Joe Gill · Steve Ditko
First Appearance	Kingdom Come #1 (May, 1996)
Appearance of Death	Kingdom Come #1 (May, 1996)

Captain Atom was one of the members of the Justice Battalion team led by Magog, who sought to permanently defeat all known supervillains.

History

He and several Justice Battalion members were in the process of apprehending the Parasite in Kansas. The Parasite pleaded for mercy, but his pleas went ignored, so instead he attacked by grabbing and ripping apart Captain Atom, which unleashed a massive amount of quantum energy that took out most of the team except for Magog and Alloy, and devastated the entire region of Kansas with the exception of Keystone City, leaving it a barren wasteland and throwing the entire United States into economic chaos due to the devastation destroying acres of agriculture used in food production.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Quantum energy contained within a metallic skin covering

Notes

• Nathaniel Adam/Captain Atom was created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko, first appearing in Space Adventures (Volume 2) #33. However, the Earth-22 version of Nathaniel Adam/Captain Atom first appeared in Kingdom Come #1 by Mark Waid and Alex Ross.
• According to character supplement in Kingdom Come / Revelations Captain Atom was made to look as similar to his Charlton Comics incarnation and his role is similar to Doctor Manhattan of Alan Moore's Watchmen and thereby "holds an intriguing presence in a miniseries of a similar mold."
• Atom's depiction in the cover of Kingdom Come #1 is shown with his eyes close and his head hung in shame in which Alex Ross deliberately stated as symbolic of his death.
  

Trivia

• So far, this version of Captain Atom has died twice. First in Kingdom Come #1, and the second in Countdown: Arena #4 while fighting Monarch among the Captain Atom Brigade.
• In Captain Atom: Armageddon, the mainstream Captain Atom's appearance changes to that of his Earth-22 counterpart for the duration of that story.

Related

• 9 Appearances of Nathaniel Adam (Earth-22)
• 3 Images featuring Nathaniel Adam (Earth-22)
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• Character Gallery: Nathaniel Adam (Earth-22)

Footnotes

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