COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Atom 30 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Rocky Mountain
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Certification #:
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1010107006
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
In "Daze of the Bat-Knights”, Ray and Jean stop at Giant Caverns for a picnic, where they are suddenly attacked by the Elvaran Bat-Knights. Overwhelmed, Ray orders everyone to flee into the tunnels, while he fights off the creatures. When everyone is gone, Ray changes into Atom and engages into areal combat while wondering what has caused the Elvarans to once more renew hostilities against humans after his last encounter with them when he saved them from the slavery of common crook Eddie Gordon. During the fight, the Atom is knocked out and taken to the Elvarans new masters, two costumed criminals of human stature. The masked crooks order the Bat-Knights to execute Atom before he can wake up and cause trouble.
Left alone, the two criminals unmask, one turns out to be Eddie Gordon. Following his release from prison, Gordon had teamed up with his cellmate Luke Preston, a criminal scientist who after hearing Gordon's tale of the Bat-Knights built a device to once more put the miniature people under their control with a special ultra-sonic wave device, while wearing special costumes to make them immune to the devices effects.
The Bat-Knights meanwhile, have carried out their orders, dumping Atom in the Inescapable Pit of Desolation, a water filled pit where Elvarans that are executed are left to drown. While this may be an inescapable pit for Elvarans, Atom easily escapes from the trap when he regains consciousness by returning to his normal size and climbing out of the pit.
Returning to his Atom size, Ray travels the tunnels and finds Hestera, the daughter of his Elvaran friend Olin Parr. Hestera, being unaffected by the device, explains the situation to Atom, who agrees to go and destroy the sonic boomer device that keeps the Bat-Knights under Eddie and Luke's control. Traveling through the tunnels on a bat, Atom has to fight past a Guacharo, Salamander and a spider to get to the sonic boomer. However, as the hero gets closer, its sonic waves begin to weaken him making him prey once more for the Salamander. Atom manages to fight off the creature with a stick and then use the same stick to knock over the sonic boomer. With the device disabled, Atom examines it and devises a way to track Gordon and Preston down by homing on the other sonic boomer device they use to keep the Bat-Knights under their control.
Atom then easily defeats the two crooks and frees the Bat-Knights from their control. However, when the Elvarans instinctual hatred of human beings cause them to want to kill their former enslavers, Atom has to use the same device to stop them and make them aid him in turning Gordon and Preston over to the authorities.
Our 9.8 copy of Issue #30 comes from the Rocky Mountain Collection. This pedigree was assigned to a large Marvel and DC Silver Age collection originally auctioned by Comiclink in 2008. The Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and X-men runs were first auctioned without pedigree, but due to high collector interest the decision was made by CGC to classify the collection as a pedigree. Subsequently those three runs were retroactively given the Rocky Mountain notation. Hailing from Colorado, the collection numbered around 5,000 books, initially stored in a basement in similar conditions to the Mile High collection. None of the books exhibit identifying marks, but are easily traceable back to Comiclink.
Our book is currently the single highest graded example in the census. We acquired the book in a private transaction from a friend and fellow collector in May 2023.
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