The Atom 1962 #15 - reader copy - $5.00
Paulette Breen (real-life winner of the Palisades Amusement Park's Miss American Teenager contest) tells Bob and his friends that girls don't like guys who smoke.
A friend of Ray Palmer accidentally invents a machine that can create powerful illusions and two criminals try to steal it for their own purposes.
The Hyper-Thief brags to the Ivy Town police that he can travel through hyperspace and steal anything he wants=, but the Atom proves that he is a fraud.
On-sale date from copyright registration.
- Smoking Is for Squares! - On the inside front cover. Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
- Illusions for Sale! - Story in two parts of 7.67 pages and 3.67 pages.
- - At the bottom of page 8 of the previous story sequence.
- - On the page immediately following page 8 of the previous story sequence.
- - On the page immediately preceding page 9 of the previous story sequence.
- - letters from: Norman R. Doerner, Kenneth S. Gallagher, Vincent C. Stuart II
- - Inside back cover.
- - Back cover.
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