Atom and Hawkman

    (DC, 1968-1969, 2010)
™ and © DC Comics

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, DC Comics reinvented several of their Golden Age icons for the Cold War and atomic era, ushering in what has come to be called the Silver Age of Comic Books. Two of those reconfigured heroes were the Atom: reborn as scientist Ray Palmer, who harnessed the energy of a dwarf star to shrink to microscopic size – and Hawkman: no longer a reincarnated Egyptian prince, but an alien policeman. Shortly after their debuts in Showcase and The Brave and the Bold, respectively, each hero received his own title, but flagging sales in the late 1960s led to the combining of the two series into this one, which assumed the numbering of the slightly longer-running Atom book. Some of the issues paired up the Tiny Titan and the Winged Warrior to take down a common foe, while others featured shorter solo stories. Either way, all the action took place behind fantastic covers by comics’ industry legend and longtime Hawkman artist, Joe Kubert.

— Thomas Moudry

			Notes	Writer	Artist
	#39 Date:  11/1/1968 Cover Price:  $0.12 NM Guide Price:  $38.00 8 copies available from $2.50		Series continued from Atom 38 and Hawkman 27; Irene Vartanoff L.O.C.	Robert Kanigher, Julius Schwartz	Murphy Anderson
	#40 Date:  1/1/1969 Cover Price:  $0.12 NM Guide Price:  $37.00 3 copies available from $8.95			Gardner Fox, Julius Schwartz	Dick Dillin, Murphy Anderson
	#41 Date:  3/1/1969 Cover Price:  $0.12 NM Guide Price:  $43.00 6 copies available from $3.50		Peter Sanderson L.O.C.	Gardner Fox, Julius Schwartz	Dick Dillin, Joe Kubert
	#42 Date:  5/1/1969 Cover Price:  $0.12 NM Guide Price:  $49.00 5 copies available from $5.00		Martin Pasko L.O.C.; Klaus Janson L.O.C.	Denny O’Neil, Julius Schwartz	Dick Dillin
	#43 Date:  7/1/1969 Cover Price:  $0.12 NM Guide Price:  $43.00 4 copies available from $14.00		Origin of Gentlemen Ghost; Martin Pasko L.O.C.; Klaus Janson L.O.C.	Gardner Fox, Denny O’Neil, Julius Schwartz	Murphy Anderson, Dick Dillin
	#44 Date:  9/1/1969 Cover Price:  $0.15 NM Guide Price:  $39.00 4 copies available from $5.00		Versus the Gentleman Ghost; Bill Mantlo L.O.C.; Martin Pasko L.O.C.	Robert Kanigher, Denny O’Neil, Julius Schwartz	Murphy Anderson, Dick Dillin
	#45 Date:  11/1/1969 Cover Price:  $0.15 NM Guide Price:  $43.00 6 copies available from $11.50		Final Issue; Mike Barr L.O.C.	Denny O’Neil, Julius Schwartz	Dick Dillin
	#46 Date:  4/1/2010 Cover Price:  $2.99 NM Guide Price:  $2.25 9 copies available from $0.99		Blackest Night Tie-in	Geoff Johns	Ryan Sook