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Showcase #36 (1962) · The Collector

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Showcase (1956)
#36

DC Comics#36

Showcase

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Showcase #36

Prisoner in a Test Tube! / A Mesa and a Butte?... / The "Disappearing Act" Robberies!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: January 1962
On sale: Nov 30, 1961
Cover price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino

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Grand Comics Database issue 16711

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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.

Covers

Gil Kane, Murphy Anderson

Editor

Julius Schwartz

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Characters

Alma Wilson Barnes
Atom
enemy agents
FBI and CIA agents
Greg Phillips
Jason Saunders
Jean Loring
Jim Barnes
Mayor Andrews
Professor Anton Kraft
Professor Loring
unnamed secret agent

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