COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Atom 36 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Twin Cities
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Certification #:
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2087172008
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #36 features a duel between the GA and SA Atom. In "Duel Between the Dual Atoms", Atom springs into action to stop a group of crooks from robbing antique pistols, who suddenly get 10 years younger, their minds also forgetting the last ten years of their lives. The crooks, not recalling why they were there suddenly bolt out of the room while Atom has no memory of his super-heroic career, only able to recall that he is a young man about to go on his first date with Jean Loring. Trying to figure out how to get out of his current plight of being six inches high and in a strange costume, Ray runs into Al Pratt, Earth Two’s Atom, who has just arrived on Earth-One by means of a vibrational device. Al learns of the situation from Ray and explains to Ray that he is the hero known as the Atom. Activating the size-control device on Ray's costume, Al restores Ray to his normal height and is shocked to find that Ray is 10 years younger. Ray then blows off Al's request for help and goes off for his "date" with Jean Loring. Arriving at Jean's much older and a lot more intimate, Ray is further freaked out that she says that they are going to get married. Still thinking that they are about to go on their first date, Ray freaks out until Atom shows up and explains the situation to Jean.
Grabbing Ray, he uses his transportation device to bring them to Earth-Two where he finds that Ray has been restored to his proper age. However, when Ray changes into his Atom costume, he attacks Al, because whatever has caused Ray to become younger on his native Earth has made him hostile on Earth-Two. The two Atom's duke it out and during the battle, Al's dimensional transporter is activated, sending them to a strange alternate universe. When Al gets Ray caught up in a strange vine plant, Ray has to restore himself to his normal size, making him open for Al's knock out punch.
Taking Ray back to Ivy Town on Earth-One, Al finds that Ray has been reduced to his early teens. Believing that he is still in a high school group called the Scienceers, Ray rushes up Mount Ivy on the belief that he is late for one of their experiments. Finding a radio-transmitter up there that was recently built, the young Ray believes that it will ruin his "experiment" and begins trying to smash it with a rock. Al is unable to stop Ray before the young man damages the transmitter enough to disable it. To Al's surprise however, Ray is restored to his regular age and normal mental facilities. Realizing that Klaxon Woods has a similar transmitter on Earth-Two, the two heroes realize that this is the cause of the rapid aging on both worlds.
Traveling back to Earth-Two, the Atoms are stopped by a strange radiation barrier that has appeared around the radio transmitter. Knowing that he can pass through the barrier if he shrinks small enough, Ray has Al throw him through the energy field. Although Ray is jolted pretty bad, he is still able to reach the transmitter and shut it down long enough for Al to destroy it.
Our Twin Cities copy of this issue is the single highest graded example as of June 2020. We acquired it on March 25, 2019, from the Heritage Exchange.*
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