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Issue: Sword of the Atom #1

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Publication Date: September 1983

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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues (12 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/23/1983

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893111209

Price: $0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Dick Giordano; Gil Kane

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: 4-issue miniseries

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Variants3

2 Sword of the Atom #1 [Direct]

Sword of the Atom #1 [Canadian]

Sword of the Atom #1 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Gil Kane

Inker(s): Gil Kane

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Todd Klein (series logo design)

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Feature(s): Sword of the Atom

Character(s): Atom [Ray Palmer]

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-488

Notes: Logo design credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

Book One: Stormy Passage

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Jan Strnad

Penciller(s): Gil Kane

Inker(s): Gil Kane

Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Feature(s): Sword of the Atom

Character(s): Atom [Ray Palmer] (origin recap); Paul Hoben; Jean Loring; Princess Laethwen (Introduction); Taren; Caellich

Synopsis: Ray and Jean agree to a temporary separation and Ray heads to the Amazon to find a piece of white dwarf matter he believes crashed in the Amazon. When his plane crashes he is stuck at six inches tall and discovers a race of tiny people who live in the Amazon.

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Pages: 23

Job Number: J-8619

Star Frontiers

Advertisement on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Larry Elmore (signed)

Inker(s): Larry Elmore (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): TSR

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Pages: 1

Notes: Advertisement for the Star Frontiers role-playing game.

Move Out!

Advertisement on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Sgt. Rock; Remco

Character(s): Sgt. Rock

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for Sgt. Rock action figures. Letters credit from Todd Klein.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Dick Giordano; Bob Rozakis

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Meanwhile...

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Pages: 1

Action Pin-Up No. 1

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Gil Kane (signed)

Inker(s): Gil Kane (signed)

Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Feature(s): Sword of the Atom

Character(s): Atom [Ray Palmer]; Princess Laethwen

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Pages: 1

Job Number: J-8943