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Issue: T. V. Picture Stories #OSS/5

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Publication Date: February 1959

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Issues: #OSS/5 of 57 Issues (60 Printings)

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Publisher: Flag

Pearson

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Indicia Publisher: C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd.

On Sale Date: 02/1959

Volume:

Pages: 68

ISBN:

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Price: 10.0 pence GBQ 0-0-10

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Issue code from last page: OSS/5/2/59 (OSS #5, February 1959).

The advertisement in this issue for T.V. Picture Stories #1 - William Tell (and subsequent issues) indicates that this is the final issue with the original numbering scheme where issues are numbered by feature.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: pocket size (125mm x 185mm)

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: squarebound

Publishing Format: ongoing

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Content Items (5 total)

O.S.S. Operation Sweet Talk

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Colorist(s): ? (photograph)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): O.S.S.

Character(s): Frank Hawthorn (photo of Ron Randell); Klaus (photo of Jerold Wells)

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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First Line: Your real self revealed by the stars

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Notes: Ad for Madame Tajana (Studio 200), 111 Old Bond St., London, W.1.

Operation - Sweet Talk

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? (adaptation); Paul Dudley (original story)

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Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): O.S.S.

Character(s): Captain Frank Hawthorn; Chief; Nick Oliver; Kyro Caro; Heinz; Fischer (villain, dies); Klaus (villain); USAF General Allison

Synopsis: Inspired by Axis Sally. the Office of War Information recruits Kyro Caro to play Ilse. German agents attempt to kill her with a bomb, timed to go off during a Luftwaffe bombing of London.

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Pages: 62

Notes: O.S.S -- "Operation Sweet Talk" -- Scripted from an Incorporated Television Programme Co. Production.
From http://www.tv.com/shows/oss/operation-sweet-talk-327112/cast/
Aired Sunday 7:30 PM Nov 09, 1957 on ITV

Lionel Murton Chief
Ron Randell Frank Hawthorn
Edwin Richfield Fischer
Jerold Wells Klaus
Charles Irwin Oliver
Robert Perceval General
Laya Raki Kyro Caro

Paul Dudley Writer
C. M. Pennington-Richards Director
Peter Pitt Editor

Indicia on last page lists:
Printed by Cahill & Co., Ltd., in the Republic of Ireland, at Parkgate Printing Works, Kingsbridge, Dublin, for the Publishers, C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., Tower House, Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C.2.

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First Line: T.V. Picture Stories: William Tell

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Notes: Also advertising Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (#2): The Wild One, Sword of Freedom: Adriana (#4), The New Adventures of Charlie Chan: No Future for Frederick (#3), and O.S.S. - Operation Big House (#5).

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First Line: Clever Little Girl

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Notes: Ad for Co-Operative Insurance Society Ltd., 109 Corporation Street, Manchester 4