Showcase, #36
Published: January-February 1962
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Issue Contents:
Prisoner in a Test Tube!
Characters
- Atom [Ray Palmer]
Credits
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Treasure Chest of Fun
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Prisoner in a Test Tube!
"When Professor Anton Kraft came to the United States to help build a strange new weapon for the..."
Storyline
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.
Characters
- Atom [Ray Palmer]
- unnamed secret agent
- Professor Anton Kraft
- Professor Loring
- Jean Loring
- enemy agents
- FBI and CIA agents
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
A Cold War story. Pages 8 and 12 are only 0.67 story (0.33 house ads).
For the Very Best in Comics Reading
Storyline
House ad for Green Lantern #10 and Flash #126 placed at bottom of p. 8 of 1st Atom story.
A Mesa and a Butte?...
Storyline
Educational info, mesas vs. buttes.
Story Notes
On the page immediately following page 8 of the previous story sequence.
Story Notes
On the page immediately following page 8 of the previous story sequence.
Watch for the Fourth Superman Annual!
Featuring Superman
Storyline
House ad for Giant 80-Page Superman Annual #4, "Featuring Superman's Most Famous Adventures in Time, Space, and on Alien Worlds!"
Story Notes
On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the previous story sequence.
"Roam the black gulfs of interplanetary space..."
Storyline
House ad for Mystery in Space #73 placed at bottom of p. 12 of 1st Atom story.
Credits
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
"Dear Editor: In eight years of comic book reading, I've never seen anything like the first Showcase issue of The Atom."
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz
Story Notes
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](https://www.comics.org/creator/6324/), and 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."
"If the entire atomic energy in a single kernel of corn..."
Storyline
Educational info about atomic energy and atoms.
The "Disappearing Act" Robberies!
"Some mysterious force propelling me upward!"
Storyline
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!
Characters
- Atom [Ray Palmer]
- Jean Loring
- Alma Wilson Barnes
- Jim Barnes
- Greg Phillips (villain)
- Mayor Andrews
- Jason Saunders (flashback)
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino (uncertain)
Story Notes
Series continues in Atom (DC, 1962 series) #1.
For the Very Best in Comics Reading
Featuring Strange Adventures; Justice League of America
Storyline
House ad for Strange Adventures #136 and Justice League #9.
Another Giant Batman Collection!
Featuring Batman
Storyline
House ad for Giant Batman 80-Page Annual #2, "Featuring Batman and Robin's Most Thrilling Action Roles!"
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.