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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published April-May 1965
Frequency Bi-Monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details - "The Hole-in-the-Wall Lawman!"

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]
Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Murphy Anderson

14 page Atom story "The Hole-in-the-Wall Lawman!"

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]; The Black Phantom (villain); Professor Morton Oldham; Jean Loring
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.

Half page Our Strange Universe story "Galaxies in the Universe"

Synopsis A spiral-type galaxy colliding with an elliptical-type Galaxy and the constellation Cygnus.
Notes Two panels, in between pages 6 and 7 of sequence 1.

Half page What's the Difference Between .. filler "What's the Difference Between.. Mend... Darn... Patch..."

Genre fact
Script Julius Schwartz
Pencils Morris Waldinger
Inks Tom Nicolosi
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (May 2007).

1 page letters page "Inside the Atom"

Script Julius Schwartz [as The Editor]
Letters Typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers Paul Bakulski and Guy H. Lillian III, with replies from Schwartz.

10 page Atom story "The Atomic Flea!"

Characters The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Jean Loring; Hightop Harry (villain); Melissa
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.
Reprinted in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #449 (July 1975)

Half page statement of ownership "Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation"

Letters Typeset
Notes Shares the page with page 11 of sequence 5.