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Showcase 34

SHOWCASE #34

Cover Date: September-October 1961
Cover Price: $0.10

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Murphy Anderson


Story: "Birth of the Atom!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
PencilsGil Kane
InksMurphy Anderson
EditingJulius 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)


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Second Story: "Battle of the Tiny Titans!" (15 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
PencilsGil Kane
InksMurphy Anderson
EditingJulius 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):

Jean Loring

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):

Ivy Town

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.


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