(W) Jim Shooter (A) Dennis Calero, Roger Robinson (CA) Michael Komarck. Empowered by a thermonuclear catastrophe* Doctor Solar commands the awesome forces of the universe. But in the aftershock of the cataclysm that created the Man of the Atom* ripples throughout space-time imbue one Whitmore Pickerel with the power to create life-which he uses to serve his selfish desires and reckless ambitions. But some of Pickerel's creations have power beyond his dreams and hungers beyond his control!