The Ultimate Atom Collection
Atom 35
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Atom 35
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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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Certification #:
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1215336014
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
In "Plight of the Pin-Up Atom!”, a gang of crooks is seeking to enlist the aid of a master planner named Smarts to organize their next heist. However, Smarts is notorious for being an obsessive collector of items. This day is no exception as he suddenly decides that he wants a bottle collection and refuses to aid the crooks unless they steal him the finest collection of bottles they can find.
The next day, Ray arrives at his lab to find his assistant Enrichetta Negrini in tears. Asking her what's wrong, he learns that while her landlords have been in the hospital, their home had been broken into and their historical bottle collection had been stolen.
Meanwhile, Smarts has given up his obsession over bottles and now wants a collection of American Primitives. Realizing that there was one such painting in the Arzoni home that they robbed the night before the crooks return to cut the painting from the wall. They happen to arrive before Atom shows up to search for clues. This leads to a fight between the crooks and Atom. Although the Mighty Mite puts up a good struggle, he is knocked out when one of the crooks uses the reverse flow of a vacuum sending the Atom crashing into a painting.
When the painting is brought back to Smarts, he notices Atom is still stuck on the painting and pins him in his butterfly collection. However, when Atom revives, he smashes out and easily subdues the crooks and Smarts by using Smarts' collection of stolen collectibles to trip up the crooks. Later when relating the story to the chief of police, the Atom remarks that Smarts made the same mistake many criminals have in the past: No realizing that Atom has his size control device built into his gloves and no longer needs to use his belt.
Our 9.8 is the single highest graded copy in the census as of 11/2020. We acquired the book from the 11/8/2020 Heritage Auction.
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