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Issue: Spy and Counterspy #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1949
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
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Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
Brand: American Comics Group ACGView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes]
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Feature(s): Jonathan Kent, Counterspy
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Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): Charles Sultan
Inker(s): Charles Sultan
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Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Jonathan Kent, Counterspy
Character(s): Jonathan Kent (intro; origin)
First Line: I'm one of that small band who risk their lives...
Synopsis: Jonathan Kent joins the American intelligence service and goes undercover behind the Iron Curtain to recover plans for an atomic bomb detonator.
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Operation China!

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Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): John Belfi (signed)
Inker(s): John Belfi (signed)
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Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Report to the Nation
Character(s): Lin Yat; R-416; Yo Tsin
Synopsis: American agent R-416 goes undercover in communist China to rescue a kidnapped Nationalist Chinese leader.
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Cosmic Menace

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Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Operation: Peril
Character(s): Professor Barlow; Jerry Lawton; Phyllis Rogers; Heinrichs [Simon]; Miss Swift
First Line: Locked away in the heavily-guarded files...
Synopsis: Prof. Barlow develops a new I.F.F. device for the United States that is the object of the espionage mission of a Nazi exile group.
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Beautiful Betrayer: The Story of Mata Hari

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Genres: espionage, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): Mata Hari [Margaretha Zelle]; Montessac; General Schnupel; Le Doux; Hanna Wittig; Captain von Kroon
Synopsis: The story of World War I German spy, Mata Hari.
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Man Hunt from the East

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Character(s): Kurt Riner; Michael Riner; Betty [Operative X]; Mrs. Crowdon; Sergei; Dmitri
Synopsis: Kurt Riner, a Czech scientist specializing in antibiotics, is kidnapped by US agents. Communist agents pursue Riner in an effort to get a soil sample he is carrying which contains bubonic fever [sic] spores.
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