COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Atom 28 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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4278356010
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #28 features a Chronos appearance. In "Time-Standstill Thefts!", while Ray is working in his lab on a device that will revolutionize space travel, the device suddenly vanishes. Examining the situation he realizes that he's also lost five minutes worth of time, and that whoever stole the device only stole one of its components and will likely be back. Suspecting that it's his old foe Chronos, Ray decides to become Atom, and hide within the second component and wait for his old foe to come back. Sure enough, Ray's suspicion proves correct at it is Chronos who stole the device, and comes back for the second component.
When he does, he inadvertently takes Atom back with him to his hideout. There Atom springs his attack; however, Chronos has a device, a flying buzz-saw, to counter Atom’s attack. Atom easily dodges this contraction and is ready to make a connecting blow when Chronos activates a device that freezes everyone except Chronos in time. He then moves out of Atom's path and shuts off the device, causing Atom to fall flat on his face, knocking him out. Chronos then ties the Mighty Mite to the hour hand of a watch, hoping that when the minute hand passes over the hour, Atom will be crushed to death. Chronos then goes out to steal a shipment of rare clocks found in an archeological dig, using his time freezing device to stop time and then call his sundial ship to aid him.
Atom comes around just as the minute hand is threatening to crush him, and uses his weight controls in his gloves to increase his weight to that the hour hand bends downward, saving Atom from being crushed. Atom escapes the trap just in time to hop aboard the sundial craft. Atom then surprises Chronos, and manages to smash the crooks time freeze device. During the fight, Chronos attempts to crush Atom with a Greek sundial. However, Atom shrinks down to size to hide in the dials molecules. Deducing what the Atom has done, Chronos then attempts to drown Atom by tossing the sundial into the ocean below, however, Atom then springs forth from the sundial as Chronos ducks out of the way, leaving him open to Atom landing a knock-out punch.
Our WP 9.8 copy of Issue #28 comes from the Pacific Coast Collection and is one of two highest graded, both of which we currently own, with no 9.6s. 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 from a friend and fellow collector in July 2023.*
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