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Issue Details

Issue #26
Published August-September 1966
Frequency Bi-Monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]; The Bug-Eyed Bandit
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane (signed)
Inks Gil Kane (signed)

24 page Atom story "The Eye-Popping Perils of the Insect Bandit!"

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]; The Bug-Eyed Bandit (intro, villain); Clifford Rogers; Jean Loring; Jimmy Loring; Ed Thayer; Alice Thayer
Synopsis Ray Palmer and Jean Loring are engaged.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Sid Greene
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

2 page The Atom illustration "A Handful of Wishes, the Atom"

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane (signed)
Inks Gil Kane (signed)
Notes Appears between pages 13 and 14 of the main story.

Half page AMT Corporation advertisement "AMT Makes the Party"

Characters Jim; Eddie; Bill; AMT Kat
Notes Placed between pages 18 and 19 of sequence 1.

1 page letters page "Inside the Atom"

Script Julius Schwartz [as The Editor]
Letters Typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers James Flanagan, Guy H. Lillian III, Marcy Slyh and Irene Vartanoff, with replies from Schwartz.

1 page Adventures in the GIJoe Club advertisement "A Front Line in the Back Yard!"

Characters Andy; George
Notes Inside back cover.

1 page Mattel's Switch 'N Go Battle Set advertisement "Command Your Own Missile-Firing Tank in Battle"

Notes Back cover.