and Khandaq, due to his relationships with the Justice Society and Black Adam he’s more willing to forgive Black Adam’s particularly violent and isolationist actions than most U.S. In the aftermath of his rebirth, Atom Smasher serves as an uneasy go-between in communications between the U.S. (Some things make more sense in the comics themselves, freed of such explanation.) After a period of estrangement from the Justice Society, he’s drafted into a mission with the team and attempts to reclaim his position as a superhero, only to sacrifice his life saving Khandaq from the near-omnipotent threat of the Spectre - although he was immediately revived by Black Adam, using his magic lightning. The two eventually left the team and, along with other anti-heroes, overthrew the government of Black Adam’s home country of Khandaq, installing Black Adam as the country’s leader. To say the two were a poor fit for each other is an understatement after Atom Smasher was responsible for the death of the supervillain Extant - the man who had killed his father - he and Black Adam increasingly chafed against what they saw as unnecessary moral boundaries that prevented them from preventing civilian casualties. ![]() ![]() Black Adam, who had spent the majority of his career as a supervillain, attempted to reform by joining the Justice Society in the 1999 comic book revival of the property this brought him into contact with Rothstein, who had by this point adopted the Atom Smasher identity in tribute to his recently deceased father, who went by the superhero identity “the Atom.”
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