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Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Colorist(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; British officer

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North America 1775

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Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

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Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical

Character(s): Hangman

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Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; British soldiers

First Line: One Dead Spy: The Life, Times, and Last Words of Nathan Hale, America's Most Famous Spy

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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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First Line: Cataloging-in-publication data has been applied for and may be obtained from the Library of Congress.

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Notes: Front matter

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Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

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First Line: For Mindy

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Notes: Dedication

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Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

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Character(s): Hangman

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost

First Line: September 22, 1776

Synopsis: While waiting for the provost to arrive with written orders, captured spy Nathan Hale and his hangman chat amicably until Hale is swallowed by a huge book of American history. When the book returns him to the gallows, Hale knows all of the country's future.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Chapter 1. In addition to such obvious humorous fantasies as the giant book, the historical story is highly fictionalized, or at least speculative.

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Yale students

First Line: Your friends were right, you WILL die by hanging, as all spies do.

Synopsis: Hale tells his story: after he loses 21 hands of cards in a row, Hale's fellow students review his life and acclaim him the unluckiest man at Yale.

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Notes: Chapter 2

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost

First Line: So what's this war about?

Synopsis: Nathan Hale and the provost debate the causes, rights, and wrongs of the American Revolution.

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Notes: Chapter 3

"Have there been any good battles in this war?

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Sergeant Hempstead; Henry Knox

Synopsis: Hale and the provost describe the siege of Boston and the Battle of Bunker Hill from their own perspectives. Hale describes his frustration at always just missing the actual fighting.

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Pages: 9.75

Notes: Chapter 4

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; Sergeant Hempstead

First Line: Captain Hale, Captain Hale!

Synopsis: Hale's starving troops are frustrated when an artillery round blows a cow to shreds.

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Pages: 1.25

Notes: Chapter 5

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold

First Line: This story starts with a group called 'the Green Mountain Boys.'

Synopsis: Led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, the Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga. Allen launches an ill-advised attack on Montreal, but is taken prisoner.

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Notes: Chapter 6

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Henry Knox

First Line: No, no.

Synopsis: Henry Knox struggles mightily and ingeniously to move the great guns of Fort Ticonderoga through winter weather to reach George Washington outside Boston.

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Pages: 8.75

Notes: Chapter 7

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Henry Knox; George Washington

First Line: I'm tired of this siege!

Synopsis: Knox delivers the heavy guns to Washington, but the British troops in Boston are out of range. Washington orders a fort prefabricated, then moves it and the guns to Dorchester Heights under cover of darkness. Once the guns open fire on Boston below, the British quit the town.

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Notes: Chapter 8

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, humorous

Character(s): Nathan Hale; Henry Knox

First Line: Well, men, should we go visit the city we spent the last eleven months sieging?

Synopsis: American soldiers enter Boston at last. Henry Knox's bookshop has been vandalized, but the army is ordered to New York anyway.

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Notes: Chapter 9

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; Sergeant Hempstead

First Line: Now hold on a minute.

Synopsis: After being transferred to New York City by sea, Hale plans and leads a cutting-out expedition that captures a laden supply vessel from under the guns of a British man-o-war.

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Pages: 3.5

Notes: Chapter 10

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Ben Talmadge; George Washington

First Line: We won the race for New York and set to work building forts.

Synopsis: Americans dig in on Long Island, hoping to offset the British tactical and numerical advantage. Nathan Hale's Yale classmate Ben Talmadge joins the army, and Washington reads the Declaration of Independence to the assembled troops.

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Pages: 4.5

Notes: Chapter 11

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; Ben Talmadge; Thomas Knowlton

First Line: No sign of them yet.

Synopsis: The British invasion fleet arrives at last. Colonel Thomas Knowlton, hard-bitten veteran of Bunker Hill and the French and Indian War, recruits Nathan Hale as a ranger and a spy.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Chapter 12

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; Thomas Knowlton; Sergeant Hempstead; Ben Talmadge

First Line: What's got everyone so excited?

Synopsis: Nathan Hale and Sergeant Hempstead skirmish with British troops attacking Long Island. The outnumbered and outmaneuvered American army panics, breaks, and runs.

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Notes: Chapter 13

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Ben Talmadge; Henry Knox

First Line: The Battle of Long Island was the biggest of the war.

Synopsis: The British pen the American army into Brooklyn Heights. Taking advantage of night, fog, and rain, Washington surreptitiously evacuates the entire army to Manhattan.

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Notes: Chapter 14

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Thomas Knowlton; Henry Knox; Sergeant Hempstead; George Washington

First Line: The British are closing in.

Synopsis: Realizing that Manhattan can be threatened from any direction, Knowlton asks his rangers for a volunteer to spy out British intentions. The rangers refuse, either deigning to spy or regarding the mission as suicidal. Although ill with fever, Hale volunteers, receives his orders from George Washington, and sets off on his mission.

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Notes: Chapter 15

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Sergeant Hempstead; Captain Pond; Major Robert Rogers

First Line: Sir! Sir!

Synopsis: Hale and Hempstead make their way to Connecticut, then make the surreptitious crossing of Long Island Sound. Once at Long Island Nathan Hale disembarks alone to begin his spying mission, never recking that he is observed from landing by Major Robert Rogers.

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Notes: Chapter 16

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Major Robert Rogers

First Line: Major Robert Rogers... how should I describe him?

Synopsis: Disguised as a schoolmaster seeking work, Hale wanders Long Island taking notes on British dispositions, his mission now pointless as they have already invaded Manhattan. Major Rogers convinces the naive Hale that he too is an American spy, and arranges a meeting with other "spies."

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Notes: Chapter 17

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Thomas Knowlton; George Washington

First Line: The enemy is everywhere!

Synopsis: Outnumbered four to one, Knowlton and his rangers slow down advancing British until the main American army drives them off at Harlem Heights. Knowlton is killed in the battle.

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Notes: Chapter 18

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost; Major Robert Rogers; General Howe

First Line: Wait, wait!

Synopsis: Rogers captures Nathan Hale and hales him before General Howe, who orders the inept spy hanged according to the rules of war. Since he has seen the future in the giant history book he assures the provost and hangman that despite its disasters, America wins and becomes a world power. The provost and hangman agree to delay the hanging, and Hale begins to tell more stories from the history that will be.

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Notes: Chapter 19

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Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

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Notes: Symbol for Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales

A Little More Biographical Info About...

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: biography, historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale; Henry Knox; Thomas Knowlton; Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold; Robert Rogers; Stephen Hempstead; Benjamin Talmadge; hangman

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Notes: Short bios include spot art of Hale and the hangman, along with close-ups from historic art.

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: non-fiction

Character(s): Nathan Hale (the author/illustrator); Maggie; Chad; Justin; research babies; correction baby

First Line: Thank you for reading Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy.

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Notes: Background on the research and production of the book, and notes on historically uncertain events in the story.

Crispus Attucks: First to Defy, First to Die!

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

Letterer(s): Nathan Hale

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Genres: historical, non-fiction

Character(s): Crispus Attucks; Captain Preston; Henry Knox; Redcoats; Boston mob; Nathan Hale; hangman; provost

Synopsis: Crispus Attucks tells his tale. As Bostonians and occupying British troops resent each other, conflicts flare until violence breaks out on March 5, 1770. Attacked by a mob, British soldiers open fire, killing five Bostonians, including Crispus Attucks.

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Notes: A Hale's Hazardous History Mini-Comic

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Writer(s): Nathan Hale

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Character(s): Nathan Hale

First Line: The spy Nathan Hale was executed in 1776.

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Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

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Character(s): Hangman

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Notes: Map. Repeat of Sequence 1.

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Penciller(s): Nathan Hale

Inker(s): Nathan Hale

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Character(s): Nathan Hale; hangman; provost

First Line: 'I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.'

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Notes: Back cover. Includes thumbnail of cover for Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Big Bad Ironclad!