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Title: | Showcase |
Issue: | 36 |
Page Count: | 36 |
Publish Date: | January-February 1962 |
Volume: | |
Contributors: | Editor: Julius Schwartz |
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Showcase 36
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9.0
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Detailed information about the issue is listed below.
Story Title: | Prisoner in a Test Tube! - cover |
Features: | The Atom |
Pages: | 1 |
Pencils: | Gil Kane |
Inks: | Murphy Anderson |
Letters: | Ira Schnapp |
Genre: | superhero |
Characters: | Atom [Ray Palmer] |
Story Title: | Treasure Chest of Fun - advertisement |
Features: | Honor House Products Corp. |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | Prisoner in a Test Tube! - comic story |
Features: | The Atom |
Pages: | 11.33 |
Pencils: | Gil Kane (credited) |
Inks: | Murphy Anderson (credited) |
Letters: | Gaspar Saladino |
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 finds the real Professor Kraft. Escaping a test tube and flypaper, he jump-punches and weight-changes the spies into submission. |
Story Title: | For the Very Best in Comics Reading - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Green Lantern; The Flash |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Genre: | superhero |
Synopsis: | House ad for Green Lantern #10 and Flash #126 placed at bottom of p. 8 of 1st Atom story. |
Story Title: | A Mesa and a Butte?... - comic story |
Features: | What's the Difference Between... |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Genre: | non-fiction; math & science |
Synopsis: | Educational info, mesas vs. buttes. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Jaro Stamp Co.; Maxim Stamp Co. Inc. |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | Watch for the Fourth Superman Annual! - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Superman |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | superhero |
Synopsis: | House ad for Giant 80-Page Superman Annual #4, "Featuring Superman's Most Famous Adventures in Time, Space, and on Alien Worlds!" |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Mystery in Space; Adam Strange |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Pencils: | Carmine Infantino |
Genre: | science fiction |
Synopsis: | House ad for Mystery in Space #73 placed at bottom of p. 12 of 1st Atom story. |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - letters page |
Features: | Inside the Atom |
Pages: | 2 |
Letters: | Typeset |
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." |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - comic story |
Features: | Strange Realm of the Atom! |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | non-fiction; math & science |
Synopsis: | Educational info about atomic energy and atoms. |
Story Title: | The "Disappearing Act" Robberies! - comic story |
Features: | The Atom |
Pages: | 12.67 |
Pencils: | Gil Kane (credited) |
Inks: | Murphy Anderson (credited) |
Letters: | Gaspar Saladino ? |
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! |
Story Title: | For the Very Best in Comics Reading - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Strange Adventures; Justice League of America |
Pages: | 0.33 |
Genre: | science fiction; superhero |
Synopsis: | House ad for Strange Adventures #136 and Justice League #9. |
Story Title: | Another Giant Batman Collection! - promo (ad from the publisher) |
Features: | Batman |
Pages: | 1 |
Genre: | superhero |
Synopsis: | House ad for Giant Batman 80-Page Annual #2, "Featuring Batman and Robin's Most Thrilling Action Roles!" |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Best Values Co. |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | 100 Toy Soldiers |
Pages: | 0.5 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Jowett Institute of Physical Training |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
Story Title: | [ no title ] - advertisement |
Features: | Daisy B-B Gun |
Pages: | 1 |
Letters: | typeset |
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