"Atomic Safety Matches, supplied to PO Eng Trading Manila P.I. by Hong Kong Match Factory, manufacturers."

For other examples of Atomic Age ephemera, see Super Atomic Supercharged Flashlight Crackers, Fire and Air Raid Signals / Survival Secrets for "A" Bombing, and The Original Canned Radiation, Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.

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"Super Atomic Brand. Supercharged Flashlight Crackers. Super size, super report, super power, super flash. Made in Portuguese Macau. Lay on ground, light fuse, get away quickly."

For another explosive advertising image, see Atomic Safety Matches.

Originally posted on Ipernity: Super Atomic Supercharged Flashlight Crackers.

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Oh no, Harry has an atom bomb in his closet!

That's what we're told on the back cover (see below) of The Smuggled Atom Bomb, a 1951 novel by Philip Wylie. The front cover (above) warns us about "an atomic plot against America" and poses the question, "Is the fate of America ticking away?"

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The back cover (above) of The Smuggled Atom Bomb (see below for the front cover).

Here's the dramatic back-cover blurb that sets the scene:

The fate of America is ticking away. Your friend Harry is above suspicion--you think. He's an everyday Joe--likable, respectable, good at bridge, average with the women. He wouldn't hurt a fly--you think.

Yet in his room is a closet. On the closet door is a lock. You're a sucker for gadgets and so, just for a gag, you jimmy it.

Inside is a box--heavy, lined with lead. And inside that--

IS AN ATOM BOMB!

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"Scotch 'n Soda presents Molecule Man: An Atomic-Zany Musical Satire, 1949, 7th annual production."

Cover of a wonderfully illustrated program for a college musical staged in 1949 by the Scotch 'n Soda Club, a student theatrical organization that's still in existence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The ticket order form (see below) for the show described the production as "a witty satire on comic book writers, [set] against a background of sparkling music."

Originally posted on Ipernity: Molecule Man: An Atomic-Zany Musical Satire, 1949.

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