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Issue: The Atom #3
Publication Date: October 1962
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 08/21/1962
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (2 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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The Time Trap!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Chronos (hands)
Reprinting
FlagThe Atom Archives #1 published August 2001
as [Cover - The Atom #3]; The Time Trap! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: The Atom #1 published August 2007
as Atom #3 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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For the Best in Comics Entertainment

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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various (illustrations)
various (illustrations)
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Inside front cover; house ad for DC comics
The Time Trap!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Jean Loring; Chronos [David Clinton] (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
FlagSuperman #245 published December 1971
as The Time Trap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagDC 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-7 published December 1972
as The Time Trap [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAll Star Adventure Comic #79 published February 1973
as The Time Trap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Atom Archives #1 published August 2001
as The Time Trap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: The Atom #1 published August 2007
as The Time Trap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
14.33
Story in two parts of 5.67 and 8.67 pages.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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0.33
At the bottom of page 6 of the previous story sequence.
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Superman
Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey.
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0.5
On the page immediately following page 6 of the previous story sequence.
207 Stamps

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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0.5
On the page immediately following page 6 of the previous story sequence.
Nature's Prize Pupil!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
non-fiction, opinion
Humans have managed to copy some of the best protective attributes of animals.
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On the page immediately preceding page 7 of the previous story sequence.

Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.

Previously appeared in DC comics cover-dated June 1958.
[untitled]

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I’m a fudge judge!
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0.33
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
non-fiction, science and technology
If an atom of oxygen were placed...
Educational info about atomic energy and atoms
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1
The Last Days of Superman!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
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1
House ad for Superman (DC, 1939 series) #156
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Congratulations on the first issue of The Atom.
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1
Letters submitted by Earl Dill; PFC Ellis R. McDaniels; Don Hauptman; Lew Litziner III
The Secret of "Al Atom's" Lamp!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Professor Alpheus V. Hyatt (introduction); Abdul the Thief (villain); Hassan; Ayesha
Atom helps out Hassan, Sinbad's grandson, by pretending to be "al Atom," the genie of Sinbad's old lamp. At the end of the story, the Atom speculates that the words "al Atom's lamp" were corrupted into "Aladdin's lamp", prompting the whole Aladdin's Lamp story. [synopsis by Michael Torregrossa]
Reprinting
FlagThe Atom Archives #1 published August 2001
as The Secret of "Al Atom's" Lamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: The Atom #1 published August 2007
as The Secret of "Al Atom's" Lamp! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
9.67
First Time Pool story
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
See the little gray spots at each corner of the black squares?
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0.33
Reward $9,985.50

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Miscellaneous
1
Ad for coin catalogue.
Learn to Play Guitar the Chet Atkins Way!

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Subject Matter
Chet Atkins (photo)
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Josely Company guitar course ad.
Frontier Cabin

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Polyethelene kid’s playhouse cabin sold by Frontier Cabin for $1.00.
Boys, Girls, Men, Women

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (ad copy)
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?; ? (photos)
typeset
?
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Miscellaneous
1
Ad soliciting Christmas card salespeople.
Inside back cover.
204 Revolutionary War Soldiers

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typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
From Lucky Products.
Back cover.

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