COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Atom 12 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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2087154011
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #12 features an Edgar Allen Poe Time Pool story. In the cover story, “Atom Hun at Work”, Ray introduces Jean to his new lab assistant: Enrichetta Negrini who joins them for supper, and Ray notices Jean's instant jealousy towards Negrini.
That night, Ray's lab is broken into and Ray goes into action as Atom to try and stop the thief. However, during the fight, Ray is bombarded with energy from a flashlights beam passing through a special screen. The Atom is then put in an experimental ray weapon. The crook realizes that the energy channeled through the Atom's body can make a destructive weapon.
The crook goes on a crime spree for a week, using Atom himself as his own weapon. However, Atom manages to break free and eventually bring the crook to justice. Worried that Jean is going to assume he spent the whole week with Enrichetta, Atom rushes to Jean's place just to learn that it was quarantined for the last week because her father was ill-lucky guy LOL.
In the Time Pool story, Ray visits Alpheus Hyatt who is once more testing his Time Pool. When Hyatt is otherwise engrossed in his work, Ray sneaks away to change into Atom and sneak into the Time Pool once more. Atom finds himself transported to Baltimore in the year of 1849 and is witness to a gold robbery.
He secretly helps a public carrier in clearing his name, the carrier calls in his old friend, writer Edgar Allan Poe to help solve the mystery. During the course of the adventure, it's learned that the gold was never delivered to the horse carriage that carried it. An elaborate hoax perpetrated by the shipping company who gave a false trunk instead of the one filled with gold.
After everything is sorted out, Atom returns to his own time, taking a railroad schedule off a tack to leave for Alpheus Hyatt the next day.
Our 9.6 is one of two highest graded as of June 2020. We acquired it from the ComicConnect auction of 6/12/2019.*
2021 Update: Now 1/3 highest graded.
2024 Update: And now there are four 9.6s. This feels like a book where we could see a 9.8 in the future, but for now our book is still tied for highest graded.
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