Same trusty old DCUC packaging, consisting of a huge bubble on a slab-o-cardback. Atom comes packaged in a fairly simple pose with a wide stance and arms up. He fills out the bubble nicely. It’s hard to tell from the package shot, but he does come with pieces for the C&C figure STRIPE. The head and pelvis are snugly concealed uner the insert at the bottom. Amazingly enough, even though The Atom is packaged in a fairly neutral position from the waist down, my figure still came out of the package with some joint issues. In this case the hinge on his left hip joint is all loosey-goosey. It’s the first time I’ve had that problem with a DCUC figure, but sadly not the last time I will have joint issues with figures in this wave.

                                                                        

Of all the figures in Wave 19, The Atom features the least amount of unique sculpting. He’s basically a standard buck with most of his detail achieved through paintwork. He does, however, sport some sculpted arm bracers and a simple blue cape, which is permanently anchored to his back between the shoulder blades. The paint apps are pretty good, with a little bit of grunge here and there. This version of The Atom’s design has an admittedly strange color ensemble with brown, yellow, red and blue, but it is certainly faithful to the comic art. Them JSA members had some odd ideas of fashion.                                                       

The Atom features standard DCUC articulation which includes: A ball jointed neck, ball jointed shoulders, swivels in the biceps and wrists, and hinged elbows. His legs feature universal movement in the hips, swivels in the thighs, and hinges in the knees and ankles. He has the standard ab crunch in the torso. Even with the bum hip hinge, my Atom can stand ok, but it doesn’t take much to send him toppling. Hopefully this is an isolated issue and not one that’s going to plague the entire run of Atomseses.

If your an old school Justice Society fan than you are probably already sold on picking up Atom here. I am not so much, but I certainly didn’t mind having to buy him in order to get the C&C parts for STRIPE. He’s a solid treatment of the character and a nice addition to my DC shelves. I’ll keep the DCUC train rolling along tomorrow with a looksy at The Sandman.