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  • Doctor Hmmm? January 22, 2010 at 2:35pm
    One of these days, I'm a'gonna bite my tongue clear off.
  • Martin Gray January 22, 2010 at 2:38pm
    Oh heck, was it my inability to spell 'Atom' in the header?
  • The Baron January 22, 2010 at 2:41pm
    I thought perhaps it was something about the "loggers" who "razed her little kingdom"... But maybe that says more about me...
  • Martin Gray January 22, 2010 at 2:43pm
    See, that just goes over my head.

    (I knew I should have joined the SJs)
  • The Baron January 22, 2010 at 2:46pm
    Martin Gray said:
    See, that just goes over my head.

    (I knew I should have joined the SJs)

    Many things that I say do not necessarily mean all that much.
  • Martin Gray January 22, 2010 at 2:52pm
    But you're fascinating and fun, that's the main thing.

    Now, how's your knowledge of midget women?
  • The Baron January 22, 2010 at 2:56pm
    Not nearly as extensive as I'd like.
  • The Baron January 22, 2010 at 2:59pm
    More seriously - I do remember reading that Atom story, but I'll be blssed if I remember how it ended.
  • Martin Gray January 22, 2010 at 3:02pm
    All I remember is that the boring miniature jungle folk were flashbacked away in the first Power of the Atom, but I can't recall the specifics, and the wider internet doesn't care :(

    In other news, thank you to whoever fixed the header :)
  • Martin Gray January 22, 2010 at 3:06pm
    Oooh my continuing 'researches' have given me a great nugget of info I never knew, thank you Don Markstein's Toonopedia:

    The Ray Palmer character did have a predecessor, of sorts, at DC, even tho the 1940s Atom wasn't it. The 86th issue of House of Mystery (Apr-May 1959), one of their science fiction/fantasy titles, ran a story titled "The Atom Detective", in which private eye Vic Randall is reduced to six-inch size, and busts up a crime ring in that form. Some of his "atom-size" schticks, such as launching himself through a window by grabbing hold of a shade cord, were adopted by The Atom. The story was drawn by Bill Ely (Rip Hunter, Time Master), but the writer's identity is unknown. Was this an early trial for the concept? Did writer Gardner Fox lift the idea from this story? Or is the confluence of name and motif simply a coincidence?

    I bet everyone else knew this!
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