*DC: Following the success of DC’s revivals of the Flash and Green Lantern, another Golden Age hero was reinvented in Showcase #34 (October 1961). Whereas the Golden Age Atom was decidedly B-List – just a short guy who overcompensated by punching people a lot – the Silver Age Atom was given a sci-fi spin. Writer Gardner Fox created Ray Palmer, who upon discovering white dwarf matter, makes a suit out of it which enables him to control his size and density, shrinking as far as subatomic level (though his usual ‘fighting height’ was around 6″), while retaining his full-grown strength. It was a nonsensical concept, but Fox’s imagination and creativity – not to mention the glorious artwork of Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson – sold it to readers, and the ‘Tiny Titan’ gained his own series in short order, joining the Justice League of America soon after and becoming a mainstay of the DCU to this very day, where he helms the ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ TV series. This copy of the Atom’s premier appearance is a superior FN- cents copy with no UK price stamp or overprint, firm staples, deep cover colour with one short, light diagonal crease mid-cover edge. Flexible off-white interior pages. While many dealers would grade this even higher, we have marked it down slightly because of a minor pen mark on the bottle of our hero’s opponent on the front cover, which may be seen in the illustration. Nonetheless, a superior copy of a key issue, on sale at £300. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD