Steel #11 – 13 (January-March 1995)

25 Thursday Feb 2021

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Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Cameo, Maxima, Steel

So, Steel has an adventure in space! And the newly-formed EXTREME Justice team is on hand. Again, it’s just a little cameo for Captain Atom. He really needed his own solo title again at this point.

Now, I like Steel as a character. There still aren’t enough heroes of color in comics. But, can we all agree as a society that comics in the mid 1990s kind of really sucked?

Some Justice League Cameo Appearances (1988-2006)

24 Wednesday Feb 2021

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Back when these would crop up, I used to wonder why they ever put Captain Atom on the team if they just didn’t know what to do with him.

Justice League International #20-21 (Dec 1988-Jan 1989)

Justice League International #24 (February 1989)

Justice League America #32 (November 1989)

Justice League America #53 (August 1991)

Justice League America #54 (September 1991)

Justice League Unlimited #7 (May 2005)

Justice League Unlimited #8 (June 2005)

Justice League Unlimited #9 (July 2005)

Justice League Unlimited #13 (November 2005)

Justice League Unlimited #20 (June 2006)

Justice League Unlimited #21 (July 2006)

Justice League Unlimited #22 (August 2006)

Justice League International Annual #3 (1989)

17 Wednesday Feb 2021

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“Around the World With the Justice League”

Writers: Keith Giffen & J.M. DeMatteis

Pencils: Mike McKone

Inks: Pablo Marcos

This really just amounts to a cameo appearance. Captain Atom appears on just two pages, looking like a metallic Roger Daltrey and being all angsty.

Total Justice (October-November 1996)

15 Monday Feb 2021

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Remember Total Justice?!?!?!

Me neither. But Captain Atom was in it. I’m tired of these cameos. When’s our next series? That’ll be the New 52, a good 15 years or so out….

Captain Adym (Legion Lost)

12 Friday Feb 2021

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This version of Captain Atom sprung from the pages of the New 52’s Legion Lost series. How he fits in with the New 52 Captain Atom is a bit strange. When we first meet him, he’s a captain in the science police stationed on the planet Zuun in the early 31st century. He displays no discernable powees. His partner calls him “Nate,” and he has an interest in the burgeoning “career” of the super-hero known as Timber Wolf.

The next time we see Nate Adym, it is much later in his career and he now has an ominous scar over his right eye. He is in charge of a branch of the science police called Echo, and has installed spies with the Legion of Super Heroes. After he finds Wildfire’s 1,000-year-old mask and Tyroc’s mysterious grave, he travels back to “present day” to make contact with the Legion Lost.

Joining the Legionaries in combat, he calls for backup while blasting baddies with his cool wrist lasers. However, one of his opponents seems to know a little too much about him.

In order to stop the world killer that is threatening the planet, Adym hatches a scheme to use his time bubble to detonate a singularity bomb. As it will result in countless deaths, the Legion opposes.

Harvest helps Adym return to his time bubble and gives him a null field that will shield him from the singularity. The bubble is damaged, however, and he cannot return to the 31st century. He can only go into the past. It is the last we see of Nathaniel Adym except for a curious epilogue…

In The Fury of Firestorm the Nuclear Man #15, the New 52 Captain Atom crashed into Firestorm, which apparently (temporarily) killed Cap. His consciousness was split across time and space and part of him was dumped in Metropolis in the 31st century. Already sporting the scar he obtained later in his life, he identifies himself as “Adym.” A real head-scratcher that was never adequately explained. Given the retconning of the whole New 52 line, it is unlikely to ever be fully explained.

*The Fury of Firestorm the Nuclear Man #15* – February 2013

Captain Atom Cameos (2001-2011)

09 Tuesday Feb 2021

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It has been a while since I updated the “Cameos” page of this blog. I’m currently laid up in bed after a pretty serious car crash and have little else to do with my time, so here’s a quick update.

Justice Leagues #5: Justice League of Aliens (March 2001)