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LLance43 Member |
posted April 25, 2003 01:06 PM
  
I'm waiting for the first Atom Archive to come in the mail that I recently won on e-bay. I also won issues 9, 10, 11 14, and 16. Aside from reading the Atom's origin in an old 60's Secret Origins giant I don't believe I've read any of these stories. Anybody care to comment on these early stories? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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NecessaryImpurity Member |
posted April 25, 2003 01:19 PM
Volume 2 will be out this fall, and should contain 6-13. The Atom has a wide range of adventures, from detective stories to super-villains, science-fantasy to high adventure. Certainly, a more consistent and diverse set of tales than can be found in the first volumes of Flash or GL. I'm really looking forward to that second volume! IP: Logged |
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Lightning + Chemicals Member |
posted April 25, 2003 04:18 PM
I really liked the Atom SA stories. They were grounded in the Gardner Fox psuedo-science and had the solidly spectacular Gil Kane art. Fox excellently exploited the physics implications of the Atom's abilities, and used that as a launching pad for time travel, microscopic worlds and the ever popular size/weight mismatch fight scenes. To me the Ray Palmer back story -- Ivy League physics professor with beautiful lawyer girlfriend -- has always been ripe for story-telling (probably moreso today than forty years ago). DC has drastically twisted, and or destroyed, the continuity of all of the SA Schwartz characters -- to me it is the biggest shame to waste the potential of the Ray Palmer Atom. I was pleased to see Frank Miller give a nod (and a significant part) to Ray Palmer in DKSA -- complete with a microscopic world sequence!
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LLance43 Member |
posted April 25, 2003 07:17 PM
I remember enjoying the Atom's part in DKSA as well. IP: Logged |
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silveragesuperfan Member |
posted April 25, 2003 08:01 PM
Atom issues from the 60s are wonderful, prime silver age fantasies and can't be recommended enough. I liked it a little less when the later issues featured Hawkman as well, but they were still interesting. I really did like the Sword of the Atom update too, and may be in the minority in that. IP: Logged |
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LLance43 Member |
posted April 26, 2003 03:01 PM
I enjoyed Sword of the Atom as well. IP: Logged |
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KryptoSuperDog Member |
posted April 26, 2003 09:18 PM
Me too...they were still Gil Kane, so ya can't complain. IP: Logged |
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LLance43 Member |
posted April 28, 2003 10:27 PM
What about that teenaged Atom? What a fiasco! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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