After years of study and research, the time for revenge has come at last. 
- — Chronos
Power of the Atom #6 is an issue of the series Power of the Atom (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1988.
Synopsis for "Time, Time, Time--See What's Become of Me"
Norm and Ray take in the Ivy Town Festival while sinister forces watch them. Ray becomes intangible, then disappears. An agent of Chronos has teleported Ray into a Transfer Tube in the back of a van, while C.I.A. Agents frantically look for him, their radios and vehicles dead.
The Atom wakes up back in the house he shared with Jean, and relives some his worst memories. Chronos has Ray Palmer Time Tripping inside the Transfer Tube, to shatter his mind. He wants revenge for past defeats, though those defeats taught him more about the nature of time.
Back when the Blue Beetle smashed his Geochronic Field Generator[1], Chronos had been trapped 200 million years in the past, and only barely managed to cobble together a Statis Belt out of his remaining costume's components. He went into stasis, and awakened seven years before he left, and plotted revenge on the heroes.
The Atom is reliving all his worst memories -- the death of his dog, his father, his past failures, but doesn't give up hope. The memory of Princess Laethwen fill Ray with hope, and the anger at losing New Morlaidh drive him back to consciousness, and he escapes the Transfer Tube. Technicians fall left and right as he fights his way to Chronos -- but Chronos has just seen the news from Australia: Invasion! and proposes an alliance.
Appearing in "Time, Time, Time--See What's Become of Me"
Featured Characters:
- The Atom (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Chronos (Flashback and main story)
- Chronos's Henchmen (Unnamed)
- Maureen (First appearance)
- Ron
- Atom Villains (Flashback only)
- Doctor Light (Flashback only)
- Mister Memory (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
- Molly (Single appearance)
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Agent Bailey
- Kevin Stevens
- Agent Ginsberg (Unnamed)
- Agent Hubbard (Unnamed)
- Blue Beetle (Flashback only)
- Jean Loring (Flashback only)
- Paul Hoben (Flashback only)
- Justice League of America (Flashback only)
- Aquaman (Flashback only)
- Black Canary (Flashback only)
- Flash (Flashback only)
- Green Arrow (Flashback only)
- Green Lantern (Flashback only)
- Martian Manhunter (Flashback only)
- Katarthans (Flashback only)
- Princess Laethwen (Flashback only)
- Voss (Mentioned only)
- Sue Palmer (Flashback only)
- David Palmer (Flashback only)
- Lucky (Ray's Dog) (Flashback only)
- Dr. Flint (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Connecticut
- Ivy Town
- Palmers' Residence (Flashback only)
- Ivy Town
- Justice League Embassy (Mentioned only)
- Virginia
- California (Unnamed)
- San Clemente (Unnamed)
- Hanesworth Estate (Unnamed)
- Chronos' Laboratory
- Hanesworth Estate (Unnamed)
- San Clemente (Unnamed)
- Australia (Mentioned only) (Invasion teaser)
- Brazil (Flashback only)
- Amazon Rainforest (Flashback only)
- Morlaidh (Flashback only) (In ruins)
- Amazon Rainforest (Flashback only)
- Prehistoric Era (Flashback only)
Items:
- Geochronic Field Generator (Mentioned only)
- Statis Belt (Flashback only)
Vehicles:
- Blue Beetle's Bug (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only)
- Moving Van
Notes
- The cover is an homage to The Atom #28.
- This issue contains flashbacks to The Atom #8, The Atom #28, Blue Beetle (Volume 6) #22, and Justice League of America #14.
- Molly the newstand lady bears an uncanny resemblance to Martha Kent.
- The Chicago Tribune headline read Mystery "Superman" Saves Spaceplane and Metropolis Miracle Stuns Crowd.
Trivia
The Chronos henchman named Ron in this issue is Ronald Morning. Ron is the father of Lori Morning a child who is cared for by the Legion of Super-Heroes Post-Zero Hour.