Wikipedia has this to say about the above situation - Schwartz wrote Bails on January 6 saying he had already been planning a new version of the Atom, in the vein of National's reimagined Golden Age superheroes the Flash and Green Lantern, and had already asked artist Gil Kane to sketch designs. This is all talk, mind you, nothing definite." t the present moment the intent is to make him a college student rather than the scientific experimenter you have in mind. I have seen art samples of how he will look. Your own suggestions are excellent and most especially the one about the atomic compression of his body, which is to be a feature of the "new" Atom. I am trying to cook up some "new" super-powers for him in. ".so that I might write and let you know that okay okay okay (this is hush-hush) an Atom book may get under way in the next month or so. Gardner Fox, who would eventually becomes the chief scribe for the Atom wrote Bails on January 1, 1961, stating that Schwartz passed along Bails' letter to him. Future Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Roy Thomas and Bails supposedly collaborated on a suggested version that incorporated elements of the Golden Age hero, Doll Man, published by Quality Comics. Comic lore, as it goes, tells us that early super fan Jerry Bails wrote to the National Comics (DC) editor Julius Schwartz in December 1960 detailing an idea to update Al Pratt, the Golden Age Atom.
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