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- Gerald McCann
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- Gerald McCann
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- non-fiction; math & science
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- Enrico Fermi; Laura Fermi; Niels Bohr; Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- Enrico Fermi rises from childhood and the death of his beloved brother through scientific education, the Nobel Prize, and flight from Mussolini, to build the first atomic pile.
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- Alamogordo; Atom; atomic bomb; atomic energy; atomic pile; atomic power; atomic reactor; Chicago; fact; Manhattan Project; Mussolini; Nobel Prize; nuclear bomb; nuclear energy; nuclear pile; nuclear power; nuclear reactor; World War II
Final page is a single panel of the first atomic bomb blast.
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- George Evans
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- George Evans
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- non-fiction; math & science
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- Speculative future uses for atomic power
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- Atom; atomic energy; atomic power; fact; nuclear energy; nuclear power
Last page (also last page of the comic section) is a full-page montage with warning on the opportunities and the dangers of the atomic age.
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- History of energy sources
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Small illustration of stylized machinery.
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- Information on prospecting for uranium
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- Atom; fact; prospecting; uranium
Small illustration of prospector and mule
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
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- Promo and order coupon for subscriptions to "The World Around Us"
Black-and-white thumbnails of several covers.
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- Promo and order coupon for back issues of "Classics Illustrated" -- H.R.N. 154
Thumbnail of cover for issue 149, "Off on a Comet"