Showcase #36

(January-February 1962)

Prisoner in a Test Tube! (Table of Contents)

Atom / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

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Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Gil Kane

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Murphy Anderson

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Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Atom [Ray Palmer]; unnamed secret agent; Professor Anton Kraft; Professor Loring; Jean Loring; enemy agents; FBI and CIA agents

Synopsis:

A master spy assumes the identity of a scientist to get close to Professor Loring, who builds "super weapons". Jean checks his fingerprints and finds a fraud. Ray Palmer offers to contact "our friend, The Atom." The Atom telephone-ports to Budapest and find the real Professor Kraft. Escaping a test tube and flypaper, he jump-punches and weight-changes the spies into submission.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in All Favourites Comic (K. G. Murray, 1960 series) #32 ([August 1962])
• in The Atom Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 ([June] 2001)
• in Showcase Presents: The Atom (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([June] 2007)

Indexer Notes

A Cold War story.

[Roam the Black Gulfs of Interplanetary Space...] (Table of Contents)

Mystery in Space (Adam Strange) / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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Synopsis:

House ad for Mystery in Space #73.

For the Very Best in Comics Reading (Table of Contents)

Green Lantern; Flash / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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Genre:

Superheroes

Synopsis:

Half-page house ad for Green Lantern #10 and Flash #126.

What's the Difference Between... (Table of Contents)

Science / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

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Genre:

Science

Synopsis:

Educational info, mesas vs. buttes.

Watch for the Fourth Superman Annual! (Table of Contents)

Superman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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House ad for Giant 80-Page Superman Annual #4, "Featuring Superman's Most Famous Adventures in Time, Space, and on Alien Worlds!"

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Inside the Atom / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

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Content Information

Synopsis:

Letters on the first Showcase appearance of The Atom from Harold L. Nussdorf, Richard C. West, Woodrow Harano, John H. Fahey, Frederick Norwood, Mike Price, Shern Gilbe, Paul Seydor, Jerry Bails, Steve Umstead. The Editor notes, "don't pay any attention to the coincidence... with Ray Palmer, former editor of Amazing Stories [who] happens to be of short stature."

Strange Realm of the Atom! (Table of Contents)

Science / filler / 1 page (report information)

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Genre:

Science

Synopsis:

Educational info about atomic energy and atoms.

The "Disappearing Act" Robberies! (Table of Contents)

Atom / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Gil Kane

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Murphy Anderson

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Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Atom [Ray Palmer]; Jean Loring; Alma Wilson Barnes; Jim Barnes; Greg Phillips (villain); Mayor Andrews; Jason Saunders (flashback)

Synopsis:

Ray once again proposes to Jean, but she's distracted by "invisible robberies" of jewelry all over town. The Atom attends a chess match with a platinum chess set and hides in a rook. The entire set is whisked up and away "invisibly". Greg Philips, feature writer for the Ivytown Herald, has gained "mind over matter" with pills invented by a deceased scientist. The Atom escapes a poison-fumed box, telephones to the crime in progress, and scotches Philips. But Jean still won't marry him!

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in The Atom Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 ([June] 2001)
• in Showcase Presents: The Atom (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([June] 2007)

Indexer Notes

Series continues in Atom (DC, 1962 series) #1

For the Very Best in Comics Reading (Table of Contents)

Strange Adventures; Justice League of America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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Synopsis:

House ad for Strange Adventures #136 and Justice League #9.

Another Giant Batman Collection! (Table of Contents)

Batman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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House ad for Giant Batman 80-Page Annual #2, "Featuring Batman and Robin's Most Thrilling Action Roles!"