Al Pratt, the diminutive scrapper known as the Atom was a founding member of the Justice Society of America.
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History
FIRST APPEARANCE: All-American Comics #19 (October, 1940)
APPEARANCE OF DEATH: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3 (September, 1994)
FIRST APPEARANCE (POST-FLASHPOINT): Justice League Vol 4 #30 (August, 2019)
APPEARANCE OF DEATH (POST-FLASHPOINT): Dark Nights: Death Metal #2 (July, 2020)
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Al Pratt was born in 1920. Pratt was a sophomore at Calvin College in 1940 and suffered many indignities due to his short stature. This led to him becoming the target of harassment and bullying, and referred to as "Atom Al" by his tormentors. Due to this, he felt he was unable to impress Mary James, the girl of his dreams. One day, feeling sympathetic, he bought dinner for a vagrant who turned out to be Joe Morgan, a former boxing champ. Morgan promised Pratt the young man could be made into a muscular man with the right training. In under one year Pratt became a massively strong fighter with unbelievable strength, and he decided to use his new ability to protect the oppressed as the "mystery man", The Atom.