I want it to be like Frankenstein v Dracula. Except it can’t obviously be either of those, so more sort of invisible man but visible. What’s the title got to do with anything?
That penlight isn’t going to help at all. If he had one of those D-cell lights, maybe.
So I’m guessing “atomic” refers to bandaged and gloved guy horribly tormented by radiation, causing him to run amok at the “secret plant”. As opposed to vomiting, getting weak, and generally lying around helpless.
@ARY: Admiring the manicure is why the guy on the bottom has his hand in an ineffectual position to ward off bandaged maniac.
@fred: I’m going with bad tailoring and 1.5 elbows. Atomic mutation!
@Tag/Admin: fred’s link shows an original US publication date of 1947; this copy obviously has to be pre-1971.
ISFDB says Digit Books ran from 1956-1966, and this one was their very first publication, in 1956.
Radiation is amazing stuff. Bandage guy seems to have obtained the mutant skill of accurately clubbing people across the chin while staring off into space (or possibly through the fourth wall. )
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August 10th, 2021 at 9:02 am
“It does too hide my weak chin!”
August 10th, 2021 at 10:21 am
But on the bright side, you gotta admire those impeccably clean and groomed fingernails.
August 10th, 2021 at 10:55 am
H.G. Wells didn’t go there – but Leonard Gribble went there. The Visible Man!
August 10th, 2021 at 12:00 pm
He has two elbows and one shoulder or one elbow and two shoulders or the most poorly tailored suit in the history of suits.
August 10th, 2021 at 12:06 pm
Atomic murder: it’s more radioactive than regular murder, but you’ll be dead anyway, so who cares?
Is bandage man wearing a glove, but only on his clubbing hand?
August 10th, 2021 at 1:24 pm
I want it to be like Frankenstein v Dracula. Except it can’t obviously be either of those, so more sort of invisible man but visible. What’s the title got to do with anything?
August 10th, 2021 at 2:29 pm
So, very very very very very very small murder, then.
August 10th, 2021 at 2:53 pm
People are getting real militant toward those who won’t wear masks.
August 10th, 2021 at 3:34 pm
Internet copy of the book. It looks like a Scotland Yard procedural and not pure pulp as suggested by the cover.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.350382/mode/2up
August 10th, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Since when is splitting atoms considered murder?
August 10th, 2021 at 4:52 pm
Inspector Gadget, 1950s style. (And very unlikely to be from 1980 if the price is in shillings). Or maybe ‘Dixon f Dock Green’ gone very badly wrong.
August 10th, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Who knew violent death and arson could be so much fun?
August 11th, 2021 at 12:09 am
Never go to a club fight with a penlight, I always say….
August 11th, 2021 at 12:41 am
That penlight isn’t going to help at all. If he had one of those D-cell lights, maybe.
So I’m guessing “atomic” refers to bandaged and gloved guy horribly tormented by radiation, causing him to run amok at the “secret plant”. As opposed to vomiting, getting weak, and generally lying around helpless.
@ARY: Admiring the manicure is why the guy on the bottom has his hand in an ineffectual position to ward off bandaged maniac.
@fred: I’m going with bad tailoring and 1.5 elbows. Atomic mutation!
@Tag/Admin: fred’s link shows an original US publication date of 1947; this copy obviously has to be pre-1971.
ISFDB says Digit Books ran from 1956-1966, and this one was their very first publication, in 1956.
QED.
August 11th, 2021 at 7:40 am
Radiation is amazing stuff. Bandage guy seems to have obtained the mutant skill of accurately clubbing people across the chin while staring off into space (or possibly through the fourth wall. )