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| The adverts are as interesting as the comic. 'Joan the Wad' and 'Body Sculpture Club' No advertising standards authority in those days |
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| Publication | Price: 1/- [0-1-0 GBP] | Pages: 1 |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Airboy [David Nelson II] |
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| Advertisement | Joan the Wad (1 page) |
| Featuring | Joan the Wad |
| Notes | Inside Front Cove.
Ad to send for a 'History of the Cornish Piskey folk'. |
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| Comic Story | The Giant Ants (13 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Airboy [David Nelson II]; giant ants (villains, all die) |
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| Comic Story | Cactus Speedway (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
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| Comic Story | Tomb of the North (5 pages) |
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| Comic Story | Blackbeard and the Vulture (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Text Story | The Chemical Kid (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Voodoo and Vengeance (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two assistants to Mr. Stanley plot to stir up the Zutas to a point where they will assist them in capturing the steamer "Resolute" and the trading post of Ungala. When that occurs, the pair will take control of the territory, unaware that each of them plans to kill the other and become sole ruler! |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Ther Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Captain "Ivory" Williams (steamer Captain); MacPherson (steamer engineer); Oonook (Zuta Elder); un-named Chief of the Zutas; Mr. Stanley; Stanley's assistants [Dalton; Fenwick] (villains, both die) |
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| Comic Story | Who Has the Ball? (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
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| Comic Story | Frogman's Warning (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A U.S. destroyer with American and British frogmen finds a creature off the coast of Scotland. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Cmd. Barton; Lt. Jamie Jamison |
| Notes | Art ID from JVJ Collection. Both Roy and Abel are credited to war stories 1952-53 at Hillman by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, while Woromay is not credited to Hillman.
This reprint includes the indicia at the bottom of the page like the original issue. |
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| Comic Story | The Sawdust Target (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two enemy spies are copying an important formula at a defence plant. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Krainin (spy); Draper (spy) |
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| Comic Story | Frogman's Confetti (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Four Army transport ships are sabotaged in Sea of Japan during the Korean War. |
| Content | Genre: Spy; War | Characters: Tom Lacey (frogman); Stoddard (Ordnance Officer) |
| Notes | Zolnerowich is credited to working at Hillman by by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and this art is exactly identical to his credited story "Color Blind" in Hillman's Crime Detective v1 #10. Compare face and nose page 3 panel 5 with page 1 panel 3 in "Color Blind". |
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| Comic Story | The Riders of the Warheads (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Enemy frogmen have planted mines on the hull of the U.S.S. "Dakota". |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy; War | Characters: Cmd. Johnny Parsons; Jason (frogman) |
| Notes | Art credits from JVJ. Ross Andru is credited to war stories at Hillman by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Text Story | The Ice Frogs (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Cpt. Wright; Cmd. Carew |
| Notes | Aamodt is the only writer credited to Frogman 1952-53, but there may have been others. |
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| Advertisement | Boys! become Men! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Body Sculpture Club |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside Back Cover.
Ad for bodybuilding kits for juniors. |
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| Publisher advertisement | 68 Big Pages of Fantasy at 1/-! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back Cover.
House Ad for 'Adventures into Weird Worlds' (68 pages) and 'Black Magic'. |
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