COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Atom 24 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Twin Cities
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Certification #:
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4242420006
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #24 features an appearance by Maya. In "The Atom-Destruction of Earth!", Jason Woodrue, the “Plant Master” has broken out of the Ivy Town prison, however his escape does not go unnoticed and the prison guards quickly deploy to capture him. Making his daring escape, Woodrue stops and picks up specific plant types creating the correct combination of crushed pedals to gain access to the Floral world through a tree, pulling out a female Dryad in the process. The guards trail leads to a dead end and the lone Dryad flees from the guard dogs hoping not to be discovered.
Two days later, Ray spots Maya, who explains that Jason Woodrue has escaped from prison and has transported himself to the world of Floria. However, before she could exile Woodrue again, she learned of one of her Dryads being trapped on Earth. Leaving her realm she saved the Dryad and sent her home and decided to seek out Atom's help in saving the world of Flora from Woodrue's machinations.
Agreeing to accompany Maya to the plant world, they travel through a portal in one of Jean's house plants into the world of Floria. Arriving in Floria they are attacked by two satyrs who proclaim that the realm has been conquered by Jason Woodrue. Maya is shocked to find that her control over plants and the creatures of Flora has been removed and Atom and Maya are easily over powered. The two diminutive liberators are taken to Woodrue's base of operations and put in a special chemical bath that is slowly turning them into plants.
Left to their fate, Atom realizes that he's been placed under a fruit bearing plant and uses his breath to blow loose a fruit that knocks his bowl over. Atom then uses his size controls to shake off the rest of the solution, turning back to normal and saves Maya from the same fate that he was doomed to by Woodrue.
The pair then fight through various plant traps, including a web-weaver plant, and swamp with gripping plant tendrils to get to Woodrue. Jason reveals that he intends to bombard the Earth with a radioactive plant seed that will turn the Earth into a desolate wasteland. When the specially made plants eject the seeds, Atom smashes them unaware that this is playing into Woodrue's hands that when Atom returns to Earth it will cause the deadly radiation fallout due to the seeds being crushed into his uniform.
Returning Woodrue to his jail cell on Earth, Atom takes Maya to the Ivy University lab where botanist Professor Perry comes up with a cure for Maya's condition. Once more in tune with her world she becomes aware of the danger threatening the Earth caused by Woodrue's seeds and she and Atom thwart this plan by contacting all the Dryads to come to Earth and catch the radioactive fallout in special flowers, thus ruining Woodrue's plot and saving the Earth. From his prison cell, Woodrue looks out waiting for the destruction to begin, but when the fated hour passes he wonders what could have possibly gone wrong.
Our 9.8 comes from the Twin Cities Collection and is currently the single highest graded example in the census. We acquired the book in the 10/26/2020 Heritage Auction.*
2024 Update: Apologies for not updating this one earlier, but there are now two 9.8s in the Census. As mentioned in the set description, we lost four single highest graded Atoms over the past year, as there have been a number of high-grade copies emerging from CGC of late. Ours is still a WP pedigree, so unless they start cranking our 9.9s, we are good.
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