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Issue: Top Secret #1

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Publication Date: January 1952

Issue v1 #1

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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Hillman

Brand: A Hillman Publication

Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Edward Cronin

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: one-shot

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Content Items (8 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: espionage

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Pages: 1

The Fifteenth Step

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Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Damon Charters; Cliff Lawrence

Synopsis: Fifteen men have each been working on one step in the design of the super guided missile, "Operation Ladder." One man is missing from the report meeting, and all work is useless without the fifteenth man, so he has to be found.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Olesen can be spotted by his very bushy eyebrows and sharp eyes. He had many stories in Hawk (Ziff-Davis, 1951 series) and some in G.I. Joe (Ziff-Davis, 1951 series).

A Word Here, and a Word There .....

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): Bill Ely (signed)

Inker(s): Bill Ely (signed)

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Genres: espionage

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Pages: 6

The Ambassador's Brief Case!

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: espionage

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Pages: 2

The Missing Part

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): Lee Ames ?

Inker(s): Lee Ames ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): George Lukor; Brillhart

Synopsis: A bicycle repair shop acts as cover for spying on a military engineering plant.

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Pages: 3

Notes: Hands and some faces very similar to Ames' work in King Solomon's Mines (Avon, 1951 series) [nn]

You Can't Trust Benjamin

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Penciller(s): Mike Becker

Inker(s): Mike Becker

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Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Character(s): Benjamin Frame; Norton; Carl Leeds

Synopsis: Mr. Frame was a brilliant aircraft designer but found out his son-in-law were betraying him.

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Pages: 6

Notes: The art here is similar to Becker's signed work in Western Fighters (Hillman, 1948 series) #3.

The Attractive Smugglers

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Genres: espionage

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Agent Twenty-One

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Penciller(s): John Prentice

Inker(s): John Prentice?

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Genres: espionage

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Pages: 6