COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Atom 7 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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Pacific Coast
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Certification #:
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0987338002
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #7 features the first Hawkman crossover. In the story, the Earth is plagued by a series of strange tremors that also effects the migratory patterns of birds, which gains the attention of Ray Palmer and Jean Loring (both avid bird watchers) and Hawkman.
As Ray stops some crooks who use helium balloons as getaway methods as the Atom, Hawkman determines that the trouble is caused by radiation, which has been given off by a weapon known by Thanagarian science as a Cosmitron device. After the Atom busts up most of the crooks, a few manage to get away on a boat, and Atom goes after them by making himself light enough to travel on the sea breeze. However the breeze works against him and he is saved in the nick of time by Hawkman, who lets the Atom round up the last of the crooks together.
When Hawkman finds the Cosmitron, he is attacked by its owners: aliens of the Thalen race, who invented the device, which absorbs radiation from a planet. It also allows them to take pictures that can be put together to make a scale model of the planet in question. Any damage done to this replica are mirrored on the Earth.
Completing a model of the Earth, they threaten to destroy the planet unless the leaders of the Earth surrender, to which the world leaders refuse. Hawkman sends the Atom to the Thalen's ship and stops them from destroying the Earth. They then return to the Earth's surface and battle the Thalens there and recapture the Cosmitron device. They reverse all the damage done to the Earth before destroying the Cosmitron.
Later by coincidence, the Atom and Hawkman meet again but are unaware of it because this time they meet in their civilian guises. Ray Palmer, Carter Hall, Jean Loring and Sheira Hall all go bird watching together, and become fast friends.
Our WP 9.8 is another gem from the Pacific Coast Collection and is tied with two others for highest graded. Considered the greatest Silver Age collection to ever surface, the Pacific Coast collection was brought to market by Robert Roter after he discovered portions of it for sale on eBay in 1999. The books were marketed through PCE over the next several years and contained over 7,000 comics and magazines that included Marvel, DC, and Gold Key among others, covering a time span between 1961 and 1977. Many of the highest graded Marvel and DC issues from the early '60s hail from this collection with exceptional page quality. The books do not exhibit any distinguishing markings.
We acquired the book in a swap of 9.8s from a friend and fellow collector in May 2023.
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