Unofficial Showcase Index |
SHOWCASE #34
Cover Date: September-October 1961
Cover Price: $0.10
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Murphy Anderson
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Credits:
Story | Gardner Fox |
Pencils | Gil Kane |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Atom II (Ray Palmer; first appearance; a graduate student and research physicist; creates a shrinking device; chronologically last in flashback in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29; also in flashback to three months before this story, where he finds the White Dwarf Star fragment)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jean Loring (first appearance; Ray Palmer's fiancée and a newly graduated lawyer)
Location(s):
- Ivy Town (first appearance; also called Ivytown)
- Ivy University (first appearance)
- Giant's Cavern (first appearance; cave system near Ivy Town; next in Atom #22)
Credits:
Story | Gardner Fox |
Pencils | Gil Kane |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Atom II (reveals his costume and Atom Size-Changing Belt; made with material from the White Dwarf Star Fragment; next in JLA: Year One #2)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Carl Ballard (first appearance; a small time crook who controls Kulan Dar to steal for him)
Other Character(s):
- Kulan Dar (first appearance; a tiny humanoid from the planet Julnar; has the ability to teleport over interstellar distances)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- This issue also contains a two page text article "Inside the Atom" giving a brief history of the Golden Age Atom and a brief mention of the Justice Society of America and an explanation of how The Atom travels through phone wires.