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Issue: Frogman Comics #7 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #7 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: A Hillman PublicationView Brand Images2
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: 12 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Edward Cronin
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions:  
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Mort Lawrence
Inker(s): Mort Lawrence
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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In Content Item: FlagJustice Traps the Guilty #42 published ?
as Daring Exploits With Today's Fish-Men... [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Trade In Your Job For Excitement

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Institute of Applied Science
Synopsis: Don't stay just a name on the payroll, become a criminal investigator.
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Pages: 1
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Tin Fish from Nowhere

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): Mike Suchorsky
Inker(s): Mike Suchorsky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Cpt. Bert Radford; Adm. Karr; Bill Dawson (frogman); Kim Tagoya (frogman)
Synopsis: A U.S. destroyer has a job to clear a Korean harbor of strange torpedoes.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Suchorsky is credited to Frogman in Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and this work are identical to his "Sea Witch" stories in "Pirate Comics", also credited by Bails. He can be noticed by his rounded ears and lips, and detailed inking.

Aamodt is the only writer credited to Frogman 1952-53, but there may have been others.
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Mr. "Q" of North Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): John Daly ?
Inker(s): John Daly ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Dick Cornis (frogman); Frank Mulligan (frogman); Cpt. Foley
Synopsis: The crew and frogmen of a U.S. destroyer in the North Sea are all curious about an odd passenger, Mr "Q", of O.S.S., who is to be escorted on a special mission.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: John Daly is credited to war stories at Hillman 1952-53. The art has similarities with signed Daly work in Hillman's Western Fighters, but not certain.

Possibly an unknown artist, spelled McAArole and Savage, is present here also. Compared with Bill Savage work at Atlas/Marvel, there is not much identical inking.
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Electric Jig Saw

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Imperial Sales
Synopsis: Make useful, practical and artistic things at home for fun and profit with the Electric Jig Saw.
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Pages: 1
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Mississippi Frogmen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): Lorence Bjorklund
Inker(s): Lorence Bjorklund
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Al Marino (frogman); Walt Webb (frogman); Musky Le Beau
Synopsis: U.S. frogmen are to stop gun smuggling to rebels in a small Latin American republic.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Bjorklund is credited to war stories at Hillman in 1952-53 by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He drew "Tex Granger" for Parents Magazine, and can be recognised by his faces with marked jaws and sketchy ears with large lobes.
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Diary of the Ice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Griff Early (frogman); Cmd. Matthew Stark
Synopsis: Testing of a new Arctic underwater suit some 500 miles from the Pole.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Aamodt is the only writer credited to Frogman 1952-53, but there may have been others.
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Operation Back Door

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): Gerald McCann
Inker(s): Gerald McCann
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Robert Lloyd (tunnel expert); Lt. O'Hara
Synopsis: An American specialist in tunnel work has disappeared in Tokyo and is supposed to have been abducted by North Koreans.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: McCann is credited to war stories at Hillman 1952-53, and this is him with a lot of black inking, old faces with long noses, no chin and pointed ears. Even the caps are pointed in front and there is not much movement.
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Frogman to the Gulf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kim Aamodt ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime
Character(s): Dave Brent (boss driller); Jim Perry (underwater demolition man)
Synopsis: TNT and blasted drilling derricks brings a government investigator to Tideland Oil of the Gulf to stop it.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Zolnerowich worked for Hillman, but Nicholas is not credited by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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Get These Dresses

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Harford Frocks
Synopsis: Make fine extra money even in your spare time by getting orders for dresses from friends.
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Pages: 1
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Free...10 Hitler Stamps

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Littleton Stamp Co.
Synopsis: 10 scarce stamps all different sent free.
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Pages: 1
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Hey Skinny

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jowett Institute
Synopsis: How would you like to gain 56 pounds of mighty muscles?
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Pages: 1
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