Super Secret Stealth Agent Captain Atom
109. Captain Atom #7 by Cary Bates and Pat Broderick
Captain Atom hasn’t quite found its footing on what it wants to be about, and this issue definitely shows it. The main story threads are all pushed by the wayside as Cameron Scott (that’s Captain Atom’s current secret identity) is sent on a mission to Cambodia alongside Colonel Steve Trevor and two other agents, all to find a device called the X-Ionizer, which can apparently make things like paper razor sharp.
This mission isn’t from General Eiling, but instead an intelligence operation. Neither his superiors nor his companions know he’s secretly Captain Atom.
The attempt to get the X-Ionizer is of course one fraught with peril. The person transporting it back to the Americans is murdered. Plastique and a Cambodian soldier in a suit of powered armor (who is alternately called Warlord and Swordsman in the book) end up in a battle over the device. This leads to a three-way battle as Captain Atom gets involved.
Trevor and another agent get away with the X-Ionizer, but the agent reveals himself to be a mole working for an unnamed foreign power. Trevor slices open the other man’s throat with a knife, but not before one of the Stealth fighters they came in on is destroyed.
