The Periodic Table of Comic Books

Click on an element, and find a listing of some comic books in which that element was used/mentioned, with scans of the pages.

I was previously unaware that there was a Ricky Nelson comic, nor that he claimed to be fascinated with the subject of the atomic world and nuclear fission. Too bad he didn’t know a proton from a protein.

This comic book is an obvious attempt to cash in on Ricky Nelson’s immense popularity in the late 1950’s. His All-American image was cultivated and his musical career was nurtured in the Nelson family television situation comedy, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which ran on the ABC Television Network from 1952 until 1966.