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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published October-November 1962
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details - "The Time Trap!"

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Chronos (hands)
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Murphy Anderson
Reprinted in The Atom Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 (June 2001); in Showcase Presents: The Atom (DC, 2007 series) #1

15 page Atom story "The Time Trap!"

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Jean Loring; Chronos [David Clinton] (villain, intro)
Genre superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Murphy Anderson
Reprinted in DC 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1971 Series) #DC-7; in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #245 (December 1971-January 1972); in Atom Archives, The (DC, 2001 series) #1 (June 2001); in Showcase Presents: The Atom (DC, 2007 series) #1

10 page Atom story The Secret of "Al Atom's" Lamp!

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Professor Alpheus V. Hyatt (intro); Abdul the Thief (villain); Hassan; Ayesha
Synopsis Atom helps out Hassan, Sinbad's grandson, by pretending to be "al Atom," the genie of Sinbad's old lamp. At the end of the story, the Atom speculates that the words "al Atom's lamp" were corrupted into "Aladdin's lamp", prompting the whole Aladdin's Lamp story. [synopsis by Michael Torregrossa]
Genre Superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes 1st "Time Pool" story.
Reprinted in The Atom Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1 (June 2001); in Showcase Presents: The Atom (DC, 2007 series) #1