Digital Comic Museum - Spy and Counterspy 001


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23-March-2008 6:34 pm	\|
Username:	octal
Comment:	Nice scan.
7-November-2010 2:45 pm	\|
Username:	glammazon
Comment:	The disease contracted by Michael Reiner after smelling Sample 452 is described as being bubonic fever, yet that disease is spread by rats, not contact with soil, and takes several days to take effect. The writer seems to have confused bubonic fever with anthrax, which does lie dormant in soil and can survive in that state for centuries.
19-March-2011 3:50 pm	\|
Username:	docsavage
Comment:	Now we know what Jonathan did for a living before he met Martha, went farming... and found superbaby!
11-January-2012 12:27 am	\|
Username:	harlanames
Comment:	Not only do we have a guest appearance by Chopstick Joe (looks more like the Wunder version than the Caniff), but also in the last story Pat Ryan plays the lead.
23-August-2020 8:56 am	\|
Username:	ghmcleod
Comment:	Thank You

Issue: #1
Published: August-September 1949, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes]
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Jonathan Kent, Counterspy

Comic Story (15 pages)
Featuring:	Jonathan Kent, Counterspy
Synopsis:	Jonathan Kent joins the American intelligence service and goes undercover behind the Iron Curtain to recover plans for an atomic bomb detonator.
Credits:	Script: Richard Hughes ? \| Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Jonathan Kent (intro Origin)

Text Story (1 page)	Docket #4123-W
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (7 pages)	Operation China!
Featuring:	Report to the Nation
Synopsis:	American agent R-416 goes undercover in communist China to rescue a kidnapped Nationalist Chinese leader.
Credits:	Script: Richard Hughes ? \| Pencils: John Belfi (signed) \| Inks: John Belfi (signed)
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Lin Yat R-416 Yo Tsin

Text Story (1 page)	Cosmic Menace
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	Operation: Peril
Synopsis:	Prof. Barlow develops a new I.F.F. device for the United States that is the object of the espionage mission of a Nazi exile group.
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Professor Barlow Jerry Lawton Phyllis Rogers Heinrichs [Simon] Miss Swift

Comic Story (4 pages)	Beautiful Betrayer: The Story of Mata Hari
Synopsis:	The story of World War I German spy, Mata Hari.
Genre:	Non-fiction Spy
Characters:	Mata Hari [Margaretha Zelle] Montessac General Schnupel Le Doux Hanna Wittig Captain Von Kroon

Comic Story (9 pages)	Man Hunt from the East
Synopsis:	Kurt Riner, a Czech scientist specializing in antibiotics, is kidnapped by US agents. Communist agents pursue Riner in an effort to get a soil sample he is carrying which contains bubonic fever [sic] spores.
Characters:	Kurt Riner Michael Riner Betty [Operative X] Mrs. Crowdon Sergei Dmitri

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