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Edgar Allan Poe was a 19th Century writer.

The Atom was visiting his colleague Alpheus Hyatt who was once more testing his Time Pool. When Hyatt is otherwise engrossed in his work, Ray sneaks away to change into the Atom and sneak into the Time Pool once more. The Atom finds himself transported to Baltimore in the year of 1849 and is witness to a gold robbery.

He secretly helps a public carrier in clearing his name, the carrier calls in his old friend, writer Edgar Allan Poe to help solve the mystery. During the course of the adventure, it's learned that the gold was never delivered to the horse carriage that carried it. An elaborate hoax perpetrated by the shipping company who gave a false trunk instead of the one filled with gold.

After everything is sorted out, the Atom returns to his own time, taking a railroad schedule off a tack to leave for Alpheus Hyatt the next day.


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  • This character is a fictional representation of Edgar Allan Poe, a real person. More information on this person can be found at Wikipedia.org.

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