![]() ![]() ![]() Like his comic book namesake after him, Greenstein was small of stature and weak, until a wrestler (a boxer, in the comic book version) took him under his wing and helped him train to peak physical condition as a strongman and fighter. But throughout the decades of the 1930s, 1940s and beyond, the name "The Mighty Atom" was in use by an extremely popular strongman performer on the American and European vaudeville circuit named Joseph L. The Golden Age version of The Mighty Atom character was created by creators Bernard Flinton and William O'Connor, possibly with Leonard Sansone in 1940. "Spilling the Atoms with RAP" art for column header of Raymond Palmer's column in the fanzine "Fantasy Magazine", January 1934. He first reported on these events in the October, 1947 issue of Astounding Stories, and by early the next year had co-founded a magazine called Fate to report on what we'd consider from the present perspective as X-Files territory. Maury Island, Mount Rainier, and Roswell in quick succession (among other reports and incidents) primed the public's interest in UFOs, and the fast-thinking Palmer positioned himself to take full advantage of this interest. The FBI later found that Raymond Palmer was in contact with all of these men soon after. Two days later, aviator Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen nine UFOs flying in formation near Mount Rainier, Washington. During the Maury Island Incident, two men claimed to have seen UFOs - among other things– in the sky over Maury Island, Washington. Roswell was actually preceded by two weeks by two other events, on June 22 and June 24, 1947. What we know of that role comes largely from the files of the FBI. Throughout the late 1940s and beyond, Palmer played a central role in the development of Roswell-era UFO conspiracies. One well-known instance of this was his promotion of what is known as " The Shaver Mystery" series which dominated Amazing Stories in the late 1940s, and built up a mythology around an ancient and advanced civilization that had developed deep below the surface of the Earth. Palmer himself eventually became the editor of staple science fiction pulp Amazing Stories, where he had a penchant for scientific hoaxes, blending fact and fiction, and promoting the notion that some stories he ran in the pulp might have a firm basis in reality. Palmer had been hit by a truck as a child and suffered a spinal injury that inhibited his growth. ![]() The real-life Raymond Palmer was a longtime friend, science fiction fan, and fanzine collaborator with eventual DC Comics editors and writers such as Schwartz, Mort Weisinger, and Otto Binder. Raymond Palmer was the secret identity of the Silver Age version of The Atom, created by Gardner Fox, Gil Kane, and Julius Schwartz. ![]()
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