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COVER DETAILS
Pencils:
Gaylord Welker (painting, signed)
Inks:
Gaylord Welker (painting, signed)
Colors:
Gaylord Welker (painting, signed)
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The Atomic Age
Synopsis:
Splash page; montage of nuclear applications
Pages:
1.000
Pencils:
L. B. Cole (signed)
Inks:
L. B. Cole (signed)
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Adventure North
Characters:
Commander William R. Anderson; unnamed submarine crewmen
Synopsis:
USS Nautilus, first nuclear-powered submarine, makes the first underwater passage of the Arctic Ocean and the North Pole (1958).
Pages:
11.000
Pencils:
Norman Nodel
Inks:
Norman Nodel
Letters:
typeset
Title:
The Smallest Particle
Characters:
Democritus; Aristotle; Galileo Galilei; Robert Boyle; Antoine Lavoisier; John Dalton; Amadeo Avogadro
Synopsis:
History of atomic theory from pre-scientific times to the early 1800s.
Pages:
9.000
Pencils:
Bruno Premiani
Inks:
Bruno Premiani
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Inside the Atom
Synopsis:
Basic facts about atomic structure and atomic energy
Pages:
4.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
The Atomic Furnace
Characters:
Enrico Fermi; Laura Fermi; Niels Bohr; Franklin D. Roosevelt
Synopsis:
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.
Pages:
13.000
Pencils:
Gerald McCann
Inks:
Gerald McCann
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Final page is a single panel of the first atomic bomb blast.
Title:
The Magic Mineral
Synopsis:
How uranium is formed, found, and mined.
Pages:
7.000
Pencils:
Sam Glanzman
Inks:
Sam Glanzman
Letters:
typeset
Title:
How to Build a Radiation Detector
Synopsis:
Illustrated activity guide to building an electroscope with simple household items.
Pages:
2.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma
Synopsis:
Explanation of nuclear fission and its byproducts, and the handling of radioactive materials.
Pages:
6.000
Pencils:
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks:
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Atoms for Power
Synopsis:
Explanation of how an atomic reactor generates electrical power, and the building of the first such plant, at Shippingport, Pennsylvania (1957).
Pages:
10.000
Pencils:
George Evans
Inks:
George Evans
Letters:
typeset
Title:
The Radioscope
Characters:
Irene Joliot-Curie; Frederick Joliot-Curie
Synopsis:
Description of radioisotopes, the Curies' discovery of radioisotopes, and the uses of radioisotopes.
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