COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Showcase 36 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Western Penn
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Certification #:
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4190257002
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Showcase #36 features Atom’s third and last appearance in Showcase.In the cover story, "Prisoner in a Test Tube!", Professor Anton Kraft, who is scheduled to travel to America to work with Jean Loring's father, is replaced by foreign agents to learn American secrets. Suspecting this as a possibility, the CIA sends Atom across the ocean to Hungary -- home of Professor Kraft, to see if this is what truly happened.
Traveling to Kraft's home, Atom finds the spies about ready to take the real professor back to their home country. After a brief battle, Atom trips himself up and gets caught on fly paper, making him a prisoner of the spies. However, they make the mistake of trapping Atom in a test tube not knowing that Atom could make himself small enough to escape the trap.
When they board the plane, Atom springs into action knocking out the crooks and piloting the plane back to America, where the spy's plans are exposed and are turned over to the authorities.
As with Issues #34 and #35, our 9.6 copy of Issue #36 comes from the Western Penn Collection and is tied with two other books for highest graded in the census. We acquired it from a friend and fellow collector in February 2023.
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