Showcase #36 The Atom Curator pedigree (DC, 1962) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $4,780.00

Sold: Feb 24, 2012

Showcase #36 Values

Publisher: DC, 1962

About Showcase #36

The third Silver Age appearance of the Atom. Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson cover and art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Prisoner in a Test Tube!

Characters: Atom [Ray Palmer]

Pencils: Gil Kane

Inks: Murphy Anderson

Letters: Ira Schnapp

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Prisoner in a Test Tube!

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.

Pages: 11.330

Script: Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils: Gil Kane (credited)

Inks: Murphy Anderson (credited)

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Notes: A Cold War story. Pages 8 and 12 are only 0.67 story (0.33 house ads).

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."

Pages: 2.000

Script: Julius Schwartz

Letters: Typeset

Title: The "Disappearing Act" Robberies!

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!

Pages: 12.670

Script: Gardner Fox (credited)

Pencils: Gil Kane (credited)

Inks: Murphy Anderson (credited)

Letters: Gaspar Saladino ?

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

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	11	9	14	30	24	23	23	32	31	36	29	14	12	5	6	4	0	0	0	309
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	3	1	2	1	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	18
Total	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	1	11	10	14	30	26	24	24	35	32	38	30	16	15	7	6	4	0	0	0	330

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