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"Report to the Nation / Operation China" features a guest appearance by Chopstick Joe from "Terry and the Pirates" as Lin Yat. Belfi uses George Wunder's version of the character. The swipe is so obvious I suspect Belfi did it as a joke. |
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Publication | August-September 1949 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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Featuring | Jonathan Kent, Counterspy |
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Synopsis | Jonathan Kent joins the American intelligence service and goes undercover behind the Iron Curtain to recover plans for an atomic bomb detonator. |
Featuring | Jonathan Kent, Counterspy |
Credits | Script: Richard Hughes? | Pencils: Charles Sultan | Inks: Charles Sultan |
Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Jonathan Kent (intro; origin) |
Notes | Script credit: Martin O'Hearn suggests at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2011/10/hawkman-writers-1967.html "Oh-hhhh!" as a Hughes indicator and this story includes an example. |
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Text Story | Docket #4123-W (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | Operation China! (7 pages) |
Synopsis | American agent R-416 goes undercover in communist China to rescue a kidnapped Nationalist Chinese leader. |
Featuring | Report to the Nation |
Credits | Script: Richard Hughes? | Pencils: John Belfi (signed) | Inks: John Belfi (signed) |
Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Lin Yat; R-416; Yo Tsin |
Notes | Script credtis: Martin O'Hearn suggests at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2011/10/hawkman-writers-1967.html "Oh-hhhh!" as a Hughes indicator and this story includes a "Ah-hhhh!" |
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Text Story | Cosmic Menace (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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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. |
Featuring | Operation: Peril |
Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Professor Barlow; Jerry Lawton; Phyllis Rogers; Heinrichs [Simon]; Miss Swift |
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Comic Story | Beautiful Betrayer: The Story of Mata Hari (4 pages) |
Synopsis | The story of World War I German spy, Mata Hari. |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Spy | Characters: Mata Hari [Margaretha Zelle]; Montessac; General Schnupel; Le Doux; Hanna Wittig; Captain von Kroon |
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Comic Story | Man Hunt from the East (9 pages) |
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. |
Content | Characters: Kurt Riner; Michael Riner; Betty [Operative X]; Mrs. Crowdon; Sergei; Dmitri |
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