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| This isn't the best Don Heck ever. But it's good and I love the colors. Worth adding! |
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| I don't care what the GCDB says. Don Heck definitely inked the lead story, but it was pencilled by Pete Morisi. |
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| Crash, I think you are right. The panel layouts and the lettering are very Pete Morosi.
I wonder about some of the 'Jerry Bails' and GCD identifications. They seem to be based on ' somebody recollects' 'or a witness says so, rather then the evidence of their own eyes. Somebody who is an artist like yourself or has visual art training and/or has a 'eye' for artists styles and idiosyncrasies is usually a better judge.
I would imagine, from his work at this time, that Don Heck was of the generation of artists for whom the pinnacle of ambition was getting your own newspaper strip. Which didn't happen, as that field was drying up. He was one of several important artists for whom (in the Silver Age) superheroes was all they had to work with and it just didn't suit their temperament. Heck didn't just work for Marvel as most suppose. He did some very nice work for DC, when he could get it, but some of his best Silver Age work was for Gold Key and King.
Why there exists a tendency for fans who don't know any better to despise Don Heck's work, is something I don't understand. Apparently the 80's bullpen treated him contemptibly also. But then, they did the same to Kirby. |
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| It might be significant that Don Heck signed the cover and two of the other stories, but didn't sign the first story, which suggests (as mentioned above) that he didn't pencil it. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1954 [May 1954] | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
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| Cover | Intrigue |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Duke Douglas |
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| Comic Story | Ransom in Oil (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Duke Douglas travels to the Middle East to secure an oil contract for the United States. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Duke Douglas; Neja; Sheik Haroun-El-Khali; Fritz Fallon (villain, death); Al-Mahout (villain) |
| Notes | Don Heck has many stories and covers in this series and he is credited by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The inklines in the faces compare to be identical to his signed stories in this issue. |
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| Text Story | Racket Man (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Duke Douglas; Miguel Rondo; Jack Stoner (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Intrigue (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Duke poses as a Russian secret agent in London to get information on Soviet spies. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Duke Douglas [also as Kurt Brann]; Beatrice Cashmann; Tommy Holmes; Frank Venner (villain); Kurt Brann (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Cold Hate (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Daniels; Mike Oliver; Evelyn Bancroft; Tom Bancroft; Hank Ferguson (villain, death) |
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| Text Story | Dedication (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Duke Douglas; Nick Burns (death); Newkirk (death); Bevans; Wilton Armstrong (villain, death) |
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| Comic Story | Escape (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Virgil Stagg; Dr. Robert Morrison; Julius Russ (villain) |
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