Odic medium into an immortality drug, he has been transformed into a ghost-like entity that materialized in 1999 in Robo's office complex. In the fifth volume, the details of this experiment - and his defeat at the hands of Robo and Nikola Tesla - are revealed.
The CHOKAITEN are a rogue group of elite Japanese soldiers who seek to destroy North America with an "earthquake bomb" in 1951. They are the antagonist of The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific.
Collected editions
The series are being collected into
trade paperbacks
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardcover (hardback) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, ...
:
*''Volume 1: Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne'' (180 pages, June 2008, )
*''Volume 2: Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War'' (160 pages, March 2009, )
*''Volume 3: Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time'' (152 pages, January 2010, )
*''Volume 4: Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness'' (140 pages, September 2010, )
*''Volume 5: Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science'' (152 pages, July 2011, )
*''Volume 6: Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X'' (152 pages, June 2012, )
*''Volume 7: Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific'' (152 Pages, February 2013, )
*''Volume 8: Atomic Robo and the Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur'' (152 Pages, June 2014, )
*''Volume 9: Atomic Robo and the Knights of the Golden Circle'' (152 Pages, January 2015, )
*''Volume 10: Atomic Robo and the Ring of Fire'' (120 Pages, May 2016, )
*''Volume 11: Atomic Robo and the Temple Of Od'' (136 pages, April 2017, )
*''Volume 12: Atomic Robo and the Spectre Of Tomorrow'' (128 pages, June 2018, )
*''Volume 13: Atomic Robo and the Dawn of a New Era'' (144 pages, July 2019, )
IDW Publishing Collection, collecting three volumes of the paperbacks into one:
*''Atomic Robo: The Everything Explodes Collection
olumes 1-3' (354 pages, September 2015, )
*''Atomic Robo: The Crystals Are Integral Collection
olumes 4-6' (354 pages, February 2016, )
*''Atomic Robo: The Hell and Lightning Collection
olumes 7-9' (424 pages, August 2016, )
Roleplaying game
In July 2014,
Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. Chief among them is the free indie RPG, ''Fate'', which has won numerous awards.
History
Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghu ...
published a
roleplaying game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...
based on ''Atomic Robo'', written by Mike Olson with contributions from both Clevinger and Wegener. The game uses an implementation of Evil Hat's own
Fate Core system, and is a standalone game.
In 2015, the game was nominated for an Origins Award for Best Role Playing Game and for an ENnie Award for Best Game, and won the Silver ENnie Award for Best Family Game.
In 2016, Evil Hat published ''Majestic 12'', a supplement for ''Atomic Robo: The Roleplaying Game'', written by Olson and Clevinger, with several pieces of new art by Wegener.
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Interviews
Interview with Scott Wegener about Atomic Robo and his work for Marvel comics
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