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Atomic Knight is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, and was briefly a member of the Outsiders team. He is sometimes depicted as one of a group of Atomic Knights, which first appeared in Strange Adventures #117 (June 1960) and ran quarterly in that monthly comic up through #160 (January 1964). Sergeant Gardner Grayle was portrayed by Boone Platt in the live action Arrowverse series Black Lightning in the third season.

During an interview, co creator John Broome discussed the genesis for the idea. "I remember, in the beginning, we both got the feeling that it had something to do with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. We thought if we could make a modern version of that spirit and the feeling, that would be a new kind of comic that hadn't been done and we would enjoy doing it. So we worked out a third World War where life was almost destroyed and crime was all over. And the Atomic Knights stand for justice and faith and all that. So that is the way the story began."

The Atomic Knights appeared in every third issue of Strange Adventures in the early 1960s, beginning with #117 (June 1960) and running through #160 (January 1964). In all there were 15 early 1960s Atomic Knights stories created by writer John Broome and artist Murphy Anderson; they were a band of heroes living in and protecting the post apocalyptic future of 1992. Following the catastrophic Hydrogen War of 1986, a petty tyrant named the Black Baron ruled a small section of the Midwestern United States with an iron fist. He was opposed by Sgt. Gardner Grayle and the Atomic Knights, who wore medieval suits of armor that were impervious to the Baron's energy weapons, the armor having been irradiated in the war. The other Knights were twins Wayne and Hollis Hobard, Bryndon Smith, the last scientist left on Earth, and brother and sister Douglas and Marene Herald. The group became a symbol of hope to the survivors of the cataclysm. The 15 Atomic Knights stories in Strange Adventures took place in "real time" (three months usually passed between the events of each story as well as in the real world) and generally dealt with post holocaust recovery, as the Knights would fend off menaces and attempt to rebuild the area around their home base of Durvale, though they also managed to travel to Los Angeles, Detroit, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, D. C.

The Atomic Knights concept then lay dormant for more than a decade, until Cary Bates used the Knights as guest stars in the mid 1970s series Hercules Unbound, beginning with #10 (April–May 1977). Hercules, Kamandi, and the Atomic Knights all inhabited the same comics universe, one in which the Great Disaster had taken place (references to 1986 became less and less frequent as that date actually approached). Crisis on Infinite Earths: Absolute Edition had two Great Disaster realities: Earth 86 (where the Great Disaster was an atomic war) and Earth 295 (where the Great Disaster was natural). Since the Great Disaster on Earth 295 was natural that reality had no Atomic Knights. The entire Great Disaster concept has since been declared to be out of continuity in the current DC Universe, although one of the Post 52 alternate Earths (Earth 17) does feature the world of the Great Disaster. DC Comics Presents #57 attempted to retcon the Atomic Knights by 'revealing' them to be the dream of Gardner Grayle in a state of suspended animation (during which dream Superman attempts to prevent Grayle from causing a nuclear war). This story is not held to be canon in terms of the Earth of the Great Disaster, and little reference has been made to it after publication. The 15 Atomic Knights stories were reprinted in Strange Adventures #217 231. In 2010 they were collected into a single DC hardcover volume; their appearances in Hercules Unbound and DC Comics Presents had not been reprinted until a 2014 volume entitled Showcase Presents The Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights.

On Earth One, Gardner Grayle was a sergeant in the army. His platoon was the infamous Platoon 13 and its symbol was a knight. Feverishly opposed to nuclear war, Grayle volunteered for a virtual reality experiment to see how people would react to a post atomic war world. Within this experiment, Grayle believed that the adventures of the Atomic Knights were only a dream. After emerging from the experiment, Grayle donned a S. T. A. R. Labs battle suit and declared himself a modern knight in shining armor, briefly becoming the second Shining Knight and serving with the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

In Countdown: Arena #2 (2007) an alternate version of Captain Atom appears who is the leader of that world's Atomic Knights.

A variation of Gardner Grayle appears in Black Lightning, portrayed by Boone Platt. This version is an A. S. A. sergeant. Following a minor appearance in the episode "The Book of Resistance: Chapter Two: Henderson's Opus", in the episode "The Book of Resistance: Chapter Three: The Battle of Franklin Terrace", Grayle allows Lynn Stewart to escape when the A. S. A. 's headquarters, the Pit, is locked down following Black Lightning's duel with Commander Carson Williams. In the episode "The Book of Markovia: Chapter One: Blessings and Curses Reborn", Major Sara Grey tasks Grayle and fellow operative Specialist Travis with bringing Jennifer Pierce to high ranking agent Odell. However, Grayle allows her to escape after incapacitating Travis. In the episode "The Book of Markovia: Chapter Two: Lynn's Addiction", Grayle pre records a message for anyone to find if anything happens to him before helping Lynn sneak Tobias Whale out of the Pit before they are attacked by a Markovian operative and teleported to Markovia by the teleporting mercenary Instant. In the episode "The Book of Markovia: Chapter Three: Motherless Id", Grayle contacts Black Lightning about what happened to Lynn and arranges a parley with Major Grey for a temporary truce to handle the matter. In the episode "The Book of Markovia: Chapter Four: Grab the Strap", Grayle assists Black Lightning and his allies in rescuing Lynn from the Markovians. Along the way, he stops Brandon Marshall from killing Helga Jace and evacuates them. In the third season finale "The Book of War: Chapter Three: Liberation", Grayle assists in evacuating metahumans out of the Pit, only to be stopped by Gravedigger. The Gardner Grayle incarnation of Atomic Knight will appear in Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two, voiced by Keith Ferguson.