Spy Smasher

The much smaller British comics industry introduced its own version of atomic heroes around the same time. The Atomic Age Comic (1947) featured "Atomic Tommy, the Bullet Proof Spy Smasher." This was soon followed by Atomic Comic and the weekly adventures of Mar-velman, whose alter ego had only to say "Kimota" before a lightning flash of atomic power turned him into mighty Marvelman. The British superhero was no fool. When faced with a villain firing an atomic bazooka, he astutely observed, "Now that s a nasty weapon." Simultaneously, the Adventures of Captain Atom (1950) boasted that its stories were based on "scientific facts and theories." ... 

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