Classics Illustrated Special (1955) 156A

The Atomic Age. Painted cover by Gaylord Welker. Stories and art by Sam Glanzman, John Tartaglione, Angelo Torres, L. B. Cole, George Evans, Norman Nodel, Gerald McCann, Bruno Premiani, and Everett Raymond Kinstler. The semiannual Specials from Classics Illustrated were educational comics on science, history and American culture. This issue focuses on the history and science of radioactivity, with an emphasis on beneficial uses such as power, medicine and science, and downplaying its use in warfare, a topic much in mind during the 1950s. Featuring art by legends L. B. Cole, Sam Glanzman, George Evans, and Everett Raymond Kinstler, including the science and history of atomic power plants by Evans; the science of nuclear fission by Kinstler; and nuclear medicine featuring art by future Mad magazine artist Angelo Torres. The Atomic Age; Adventure North; The Smallest Particle; Inside the Atom; The Atomic Furnace; The Magic Mineral; How to Build a Radiation Detector; Alpha, Beta, and Gamma; Atoms for Power; The Radioscope; Atoms and Industry; Atoms and Agriculture; Atoms and Medicine; The Healing Rays; The Atom Tomorrow; The Ages of Energy; The Search for Uranium. 96 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.35.