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Issue: Kent Blake of the Secret Service #8

- Attribution History

Publication Date: July 1952

Issue #8
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- #3
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- ✔ #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
- #13
- #14
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Issues: #8 of 14 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Stan Lee

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

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1 Content Item
- Out-of-Date Spies [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Kent Blake

Reprinting

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Pages: 1

Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

Passage to Peril!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bernie Sills ?

Inker(s): Tom Gill

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, war

Feature(s): Kent Blake

Character(s): Kent Blake

Synopsis: Colonel Kruger sends Blake to find out how the Chinese were finding US forces in Kuwong. Investigating, he discovers a hidden passage under the village with concealed men using a radio. He fights off rats in the pit and finally kills the Chinese and destroys the radio.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: 9974

Notes: Previous indexer credited Tom Gill pencils.

Out-of-Date Spies

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

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In Content Item: Flag

Spy Thrillers #2 published January 1955
as To Catch a Spy! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: 9985

Notes: Contains an illustration clipped from an unidentified comic

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bernie Sills ?

Inker(s): Tom Gill

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, war

Feature(s): Kent Blake

Character(s): Kent Blake

First Line: A body lies on a hill in Korea...

Synopsis: Blake joins the air force to find out why planes are disappearing; it turns out the man assigned to him as co-pilot is a Communist agent and men like him have been hijacking them for the Chinese. Blake overpowers the spy and exposes the scam.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Job Number: A-328

One is a Traitor

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Norman Steinberg ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, war

Synopsis: Four men running a radio installation meet Captain Kelsey, who tells them a traitor is sending information to the Communists. They begin to turn on each other, but Frank realizes Kelsey is the enemy agent because he had information they couldn't get on their radio.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Job Number: A-45

The Unseen Death

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Tom Gill

Inker(s): Tom Gill

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, war

Feature(s): Kent Blake

Character(s): Kent Blake

Synopsis: Blake is sent with the beautiful Lee Tsui to find and destroy a factory where the North Koreans are preparing a bacteria weapon called the "unseen death." They succeed, but Tsui dies the next day; she had been exposed to the virus earlier and knew she would soon die.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: A-253

Notes: Pencils credit suggested by http://www.atlastales.com
Shop pencils assist probably. JVJ