The Atom was used in a bizarre plot by Amos Fortune and other villains to destroy the Justice League of America, using a de-memorizor ray to pit the Atom against the League. Copy Edit Needed Shortly afterwards, Bob reveals his intention to kill Ray. [160] During this event, Ray was also hit with a blast of chrono-energy that de-aged him into a youth again. Investigating matter compression, Ray theorized that if he were to grind a lens from this fragment and focus ultraviolet light through it, he could shrink anything struck by the light down to a fraction of its original size. For a brief time, Ray Palmer went undercover and a man named Adam Cray stood in as the Atom. Ray Palmer is the youngest son of two scientists. However they were slowly merging together causing chaos on all worlds and threatening their destruction in the process[148]. However the white star radiation caused him to grow as it irradiated him and smashed his way through. Major Mynah became Ray's pet, following him in both his civilian and costumed identities. Ray joined the JLA and Hawkgirl in saving Hawkman who had been turned into salt by a group of demons, fighting off their minions - a biker gang known as the Gruesome Ghouls - in the process[128]. The Atom's civilian identity was included by Julius Schwartz as a homage to the notorious science fiction editor Raymond A. Palmer. Resuming his activities in Ivy Town, Ray battled his own costume when it briefly gained sentience[50], aided Doc Magnus in rebuilding the Metal Men, and stopped the evil Uranium[51]. Furthermore, the Earth-51 Palmer had worked on preventing the deadly Morticoccus Virus, and knowing that in every reality of the Multiverse, there is deadly chance that the virus would appear, he decided to travel the Multiverse and inoculate the inhabitants of each universe with his immune system. Ray remained New Moralaidh's champion, but sometimes returned to aid his old allies in the Justice League of America. Al Pratt, the original Atom, died during a battle against Extant in Zero Hour. The plane crashed, and because one of the men aboard stole one of Ray's rings, the world presumed him dead and Jean went on with her life and pursued her relationship with Paul. Returning to the JLA, the Atom aided them in stopping the Lord of Time from manipulating Vietnam war hero Sgt. In addition, many of the adventures that the Atom had with the Justice League of America that involved traveling to other universes, particularly their encounters with the Justice Society of America on Earth-Two, likely no longer exist, or if they do, in a vastly different manner such that the multiversal threat was simply a threat to a single unified universe. She then enters her trance, while Ray fights off Black Lanterns Hawkman and Hawkgirl by temporarily becoming an Orange Lantern, loudly proclaiming "I want my friends back!" Ray joined the Justice League of America in their battle against the Shaggy Man[85]. On July 7, 2014, it was reported that Routh would once again play a superhero for DC Comics as Ray Palmer / The Atom on The CW 's Arrow. The two men ran afoul of drug dealers and Ray shrunk down to Atom, giving up his normal height seemingly for the last time to help destroy the drug operation. Ray ultimately learned that Hawkgirl's quest to restore Jean's sanity on Thanagar was met with trouble when both women's souls were stolen by Norch Lor, a scientist from Thanagar, whose misguided plan to save the universe from the coming "end of all things" was attempting to collect the souls of all living beings in a Ghenna Box. Ray did a thorough exploration of the ring, discovering that it was nothing like Hal Jordan's power ring, instead made of dark matter with micro-wormholes sending energy to an unknown source. Ray helped the scientists at Cadmus to find a cure to the Morticoccus Virus after the virus was released to the world. Although the heroes there were made prisoner, the Atom was part of a counter attack of heroes that weren't captured, and succeeded in freeing Billy Batson, allowing the boy to change into Captain Marvel and turn the tides of the battle[152]. Before returning to Earth, he saved the sub-atomic people of Palonds from the evil Honds[100]. Atom next helped Batman, Robin, and Elongated Man capture "Numbers" Garvey and his gang[75]. Realizing the importance of his counterpart's work, Ray carried on Earth-51 Ray's work and traveled to different worlds, inoculating each denizen of every Earth with a resistance to the Morticoccus Virus. The Atom was hired by the FBI to break up a spy ring. 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