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| Obviously Pete Trask, T-Man, was unquestionably the major inspiration for Ian Fleming to create James Bond. What an agent! What an ascot! What a mustache! Who would ever expect an aging matinee idol gigolo is in reality not just a T-Man, but the greatest T-Man ever!
I have to admit I was on the edge of my seat during the climax, but thank God, (SPOILER), one of Pete’s fellow T- Men had dental training! Talk about lucky! And just in the nick of time! I’m so glad I had a paper bag to breathe into after reading this one as I couldn’t contain my excitement. |
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| All kidding aside, the comic is a lot of fun. Like many from this era, just check your reality at the door. And who among us would not yell “Gruunk!” when being tackled by balding teenagers? |
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| My favorite Quality Comics expression is "AWRRRK!" I suspect it's particular to Joe Millard but I'm not sure.
In my opinion Harry Anderson pencilled the second story but did not ink, and pencilled several T-Man faces in the last story but was otherwise not involved. |
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| Publication | September 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
| Notes | We formerly suggested Reed Crandall as inker, but Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill denied that attribution. |
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| Cover | He's Smart! He's Tough! |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: T-Man |
| Notes | We formerly suggested Reed Crandall as inker, but Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill denied that attribution. |
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| Comic Story | T-Man's Holiday (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | At a dentist in Rome, Trask is having a tooth fixed. By coincidence, Allied agents burst in to search the office for a microfilm intended for communist spies. The dentist hides it in Trask's tooth without anyone noticing. |
| Featuring | T-Man |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: T-Man Pete Trask; T-Man Vittorio Alcini (death); Chief; Dr. Lontaro (villain); Marlita (villain) |
| Notes | Script credit based on Martin O'Hearn's description of Millard's writing tics.
Edmond Good is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, also by an art sample from #4 by these two artists. Same art as here. |
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| Comic Story | The Teen Terrors (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Augie Moore |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Augie Moore (introduction); Marcie Blayne (introduction); Slope Carr (introduction); Red (introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Prince of Thieves (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A secret military code book is stolen from a security office in Washington by a baron with diplomatic immunity. To get it back, Trask is booked on the same liner to Europe as the baron. |
| Featuring | T-Man |
| Content | Characters: T-Man [Pete Trask]; Baron Rafsky (spy); Baroness Rafsky (spy) |
| Notes | Script credit based on Martin O'Hearn's description of Millard's writing tics.
The round eyes and lines in the outer corners are very typical Anderson. |
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| Text Story | The Broken Corpse (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Elephant Who Loved Flowers! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A press for printing hate and lies about the USA in papers in India is secretly hidden in a mosque and is revealed by a stampeding elephant. |
| Featuring | T-Man |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: T-Man Pete Trask; Chief Adams; Gertie (an elephant); Count Volpu (villain) |
| Notes | Script credit based on Martin O'Hearn's description of Millard's writing tics.
The face of Trask points to Anderson, but the very lively and crowded panels and some close up faces in side view look like Good. |
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