DC has a superhero called the Atom, a superhero can shrink in size to fight crime.
And before anyone says he rips off Ant man, the Atom came first, and Atom rips off Dollman, who was also a superhero who would shrink in size.
funnily enough, DC would go on to own the rights to Dollman years later when the company that created him when out of business.
anyhoo, like with green lantern and the flash, the atom was revamped for the silver age of comics by DC by making his powers scientific and giving the mantle of Atom to another character.
the character being Ray Palmer and he also shares the same name as a sci-fi named Raymond Alfred Palmer.
portrait of mr. palmer, circa 1930.
mr palmer had a long career writing stories for comics and pulp mags, if you give af about his career, then go look him up on wikipedia.
what is important is that when mr. palmer was 7, he got hit by a truck which broke his back.
after a failed operation to fix his spine, his physical growth had been stunted, he never grew past 4 foot.
Raymond Palmer's "friends" would all joke around with him about his small size, one of those "friends" was another writer named Julius Schwartz.
And when Schwartz was put in charge of revamping the atom, he named him Ray Palmer, after the real Raymond Palmer.
he felt like it would be appropriate for a superhero who had the power of being small named after Raymond Palmer.
Apparently, the real Palmer had a tolerant sense of humour and appreciated the homage.
btw, Ray Palmers official height is 6 foot, while the real palmers height was 4 foot due to his stunted growth.
if raymond palmer was alive today and went through that same injury that fucked his growth, he would be a mod on here rn.
he even tried coping with politics, astrology and magical thinking
as you can see on his wikipedia page.
even jestermaxxed and hobbymaxxed too, but he was right in believing the education and religion brainwashes people, pretty based right there.
he also spent fuck loads of money simping for foids, but he did date 2 foids and got married to one, but the marriage was annulled.
they were very likely only interested in him for his money tbh.
but he did eventually marry a 2nd woman and had 3 children with her, as you can see from this screenshot from his wikipedia page.
Raymond A. Palmer died in 1977, but it sounds like he had an okish life despite his stunted growth, simpery, jestermaxxing, being heightmogged and teased by his friends and being used as a betabux.
he did what most of IS can't do, get a foid, reproduce and pass our genes down.
it kinda goes to show how easier people had it in the past and how foids were slightly less hypergamous than compared to now.
And before anyone says he rips off Ant man, the Atom came first, and Atom rips off Dollman, who was also a superhero who would shrink in size.
funnily enough, DC would go on to own the rights to Dollman years later when the company that created him when out of business.
anyhoo, like with green lantern and the flash, the atom was revamped for the silver age of comics by DC by making his powers scientific and giving the mantle of Atom to another character.
the character being Ray Palmer and he also shares the same name as a sci-fi named Raymond Alfred Palmer.
portrait of mr. palmer, circa 1930.
mr palmer had a long career writing stories for comics and pulp mags, if you give af about his career, then go look him up on wikipedia.
what is important is that when mr. palmer was 7, he got hit by a truck which broke his back.
after a failed operation to fix his spine, his physical growth had been stunted, he never grew past 4 foot.
Raymond Palmer's "friends" would all joke around with him about his small size, one of those "friends" was another writer named Julius Schwartz.
And when Schwartz was put in charge of revamping the atom, he named him Ray Palmer, after the real Raymond Palmer.
he felt like it would be appropriate for a superhero who had the power of being small named after Raymond Palmer.
Apparently, the real Palmer had a tolerant sense of humour and appreciated the homage.
btw, Ray Palmers official height is 6 foot, while the real palmers height was 4 foot due to his stunted growth.
if raymond palmer was alive today and went through that same injury that fucked his growth, he would be a mod on here rn.
he even tried coping with politics, astrology and magical thinking
as you can see on his wikipedia page.even jestermaxxed and hobbymaxxed too, but he was right in believing the education and religion brainwashes people, pretty based right there.
he also spent fuck loads of money simping for foids, but he did date 2 foids and got married to one, but the marriage was annulled.
they were very likely only interested in him for his money tbh.
but he did eventually marry a 2nd woman and had 3 children with her, as you can see from this screenshot from his wikipedia page.
Raymond A. Palmer died in 1977, but it sounds like he had an okish life despite his stunted growth, simpery, jestermaxxing, being heightmogged and teased by his friends and being used as a betabux.
he did what most of IS can't do, get a foid, reproduce and pass our genes down.
it kinda goes to show how easier people had it in the past and how foids were slightly less hypergamous than compared to now.
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