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Showcase #36 (Dec. 1962):
“Prisoner in a Test Tube!”
by Gardner F. Fox, Gil Kane, Murphy Anderson

Showcase #36

Title: “Prisoner in a Test Tube!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1962

Publisher: DC
Written by: Gardner F. Fox
Art by: Gil Kane, Murphy Anderson


7 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
The Atom The Atom (Ray Palmer)
(lead character)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: U Jewish (lapsed)
Super Friends; The Justice League DC 1,086
Jean Loring Jean Loring supporting character villain
  [ex-wife of Atom (Ray Palmer)] DC 127
Anton Kraft supporting character scientist
  [1st app: Showcase #36 (Dec. 1962)] DC 2
Professor Loring supporting character scientist
  [Jean Loring's father] DC 3
unnamed CIA agent supporting character
  CIA DC 2
unnamed Soviet agents villain
CBR Scale: R Communist
[abducted Anton Kraft and replaced him with double] DC 2
Prof. Kraft's double villain
CBR Scale: R Communist
[tried to replace scientist as part of part of Soviet plot] DC 1