ATOM ANNUAL
Publishers: ATLAS PUBLISHING
Dates: 1967
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A new find for me as at Dec 2015. Never seen this one before in all my travels. One of the DC remaindered comics bound-together annuals (like Showcase Annual or Hawkman Annual). Features Atom #30, World's Finest #163, Superman #196, Lois Lane #74, World's Finest #164, Detective Comics #358.
For other annual in this series, see also Aquaman, Atom, Brave and the Bold, Blackhawk, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Mystery in Space, Showcase and Wonder Woman Annual. And have a look at any Double Double Comics for fun.
Some thoughts from comics' historian and collector Peter Hansen:
1 - The comics in every single annual were all DC comics, no Marvel at all.
2 - The vast majority of the annuals had only uncirculated issues. Two or three only had one of what must have been a return as they had a pence stamp on the cover.
3 - Every annual had six comics in it, with only one or two relating to the title character or group on the cover.
4. Every annual had at least one and sometimes two issues in the annual that did not match with the duplicate annual I have of that same annual. This practice seems to me to be completely random, and I wouldn't be surprised if no two annuals are the same in this regard.
5 - All comics are either 1966, or 1967 DC Comics issues.
6 - No annual had any kind of indicia relating to who published the annuals? and I wonder if DC even knew T&P were doing this?
7 - No annual had a price on it either printed or even a sticker?
Total value for all issues of this title listed:
| Condition |
PR 1.0 |
FR 1.5 |
GD 2.0 |
VG 4.0 |
FN 6.0 |
VF 8.0 |
VF/NM 9.0 |
NM- 9.2 |
NM 9.4 |
MINT 10.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total £ | 5.00 | 10.00 | 15.00 | 30.00 | 60.00 | 125.00 | 150.00 | 175.00 | 200.00 |
Note: some PR issues may have no value. Selected issues in FN, VF or VF/NM may not exist in some titles.
