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ATOM #27

Cover Date: October-November 1966
Cover Price: $.12

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Cover Credits:
Art: Gil Kane (signed)


Story: "Beauty and the Beast-Gang!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
PencilsGil Kane
InksSid Greene
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Atom II (last in Justice League of America #47)

Villain(s):

The Panther Gang (first appearance; costume wearing gang of robbers; Joe Tinker named; head of gang is photography editor of the Ivy Town Courier)

Other Character(s):

Willie Farr (first appearance; love-smitten photographer)
Dawn Hudson (first appearance; a secretary and the object of Willie's affection)

Location(s):

Ivy Town

Comment(s):

This story takes place in the spring.

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents: The Atom #2 (2008)


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Second Story: "Stowaway on a Hot-Air Balloon!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
PencilsGil Kane
InksSid Greene
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Atom II (uses the Time Pool to travel to September 17th-19th, 1783; appears in flashback in Justice League of America #50 during this story; next in flashback in Justice League of America #52, then pg 24 of Justice League of America #50)

Supporting Character(s):

Professor Hyatt (last in Legends of the DC Universe #40; next in issue #35/2)

Villain(s):

revenge seeking Tories (first appearance for both; men seeking revenge on Benjamin Franklin for his part in the Revolutionary War)

Other Character(s):

Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier (first DCU appearance for both; inventors of the hot-air balloon)
Benjamin Franklin (first DCU appearance?; a secretary and the object of Willie's affection)
a duck, a rooster and a ram (first DCU appearance for all three; first living creatures to ride in a balloon)

Location(s):

Ivy Town
Passy, France (in 1783)

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents: The Atom #2 (2008)


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