| Additional Information |
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| Publication | January 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr Collection. |
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| Credits | Pencils: Mort Lawrence | Inks: Mort Lawrence | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War |
| Notes | Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr Collection. |
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| Advertisement | Trade In Your Job For Excitement (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Don't stay just a name on the payroll, become a criminal investigator. |
| Featuring | Institute of Applied Science |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Tin Fish from Nowhere (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A U.S. destroyer has a job to clear a Korean harbor of strange torpedoes. |
| Credits | Script: Kim Aamodt? | Pencils: Mike Suchorsky | Inks: Mike Suchorsky |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Cpt. Bert Radford; Adm. Karr; Bill Dawson (frogman); Kim Tagoya (frogman) |
| Notes | Suchorsky is credited to Frogman in Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and this work are identical to his "Sea Witch" stories in "Pirate Comics", also credited by Bails. He can be noticed by his rounded ears and lips, and detailed inking. Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr has him credited too.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Mr. "Q" of North Sea (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The crew and frogmen of a U.S. destroyer in the North Sea are all curious about an odd passenger, Mr "Q", of O.S.S., who is to be escorted on a special mission. |
| Credits | Script: Kim Aamodt? | Pencils: John Daly? | Inks: John Daly? |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Dick Cornis (frogman); Frank Mulligan (frogman); Cpt. Foley |
| Notes | John Daly is credited to war stories at Hillman 1952-53. The art has similarities with signed Daly work in Hillman's Western Fighters, but not certain. Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr Collection has one unknown artist spelled McAArole and Savage. Compared with Bill Savage work at Atlas/Marvel, I can't find much identical inking. |
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| Advertisement | Electric Jig Saw (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Make useful, practical and artistic things at home for fun and profit with the Electric Jig Saw. |
| Featuring | Imperial Sales |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Mississippi Frogmen (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | U.S. frogmen are to stop gun smuggling to rebels in a small Latin American republic. |
| Credits | Script: Kim Aamodt? | Pencils: Lorence Bjorklund | Inks: Lorence Bjorklund |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Al Marino (frogman); Walt Webb (frogman); Musky Le Beau |
| Notes | Bjorklund is credited to war stories at Hillman in 1952-53 by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He drew "Tex Granger" for Parents Magazine, and can be recognised by his faces with marked jaws and sketchy ears with large lobes. |
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| Text Story | Diary of the Ice (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Testing of a new Arctic underwater suit some 500 miles from the Pole. |
| Credits | Script: Kim Aamodt? | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Griff Early (frogman); Cmd. Matthew Stark |
| Notes | Aamodt is the only writer credited to Frogman 1952-53, but there may have been others. |
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| Comic Story | Operation Back Door (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | An American specialist in tunnel work has disappeared in Tokyo and is supposed to have been abducted by North Koreans. |
| Credits | Script: Kim Aamodt? | Pencils: Gerald McCann | Inks: Gerald McCann |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Robert Lloyd (tunnel expert); Lt. O'Hara |
| Notes | McCann is credited to war stories at Hillman 1952-53, and this is him with a lot of black inking, old faces with long noses, no chin and pointed ears. Even the caps are pointed in front and there is not much movement. |
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| Comic Story | Frogman to the Gulf (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | TNT and blasted drilling derricks brings a government investigator to Tideland Oil of the Gulf to stop it. |
| Credits | Script: Kim Aamodt? | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Dan Zolnerowich |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Adventure | Characters: Dave Brent (boss driller); Jim Perry (underwater demolition man) |
| Notes | Art ID from JVJ Collection. Zolnerowich worked for Hillman, but Nicholas is not credited by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Advertisement | Get These Dresses (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Make fine extra money even in your spare time by getting orders for dresses from friends. |
| Featuring | Harford Frocks |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Advertisement | Free...10 Hitler Stamps (1 page) |
| Synopsis | 10 scarce stamps all different sent free. |
| Featuring | Littleton Stamp Co. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
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| Advertisement | Hey Skinny (1 page) |
| Synopsis | How would you like to gain 56 pounds of mighty muscles? |
| Featuring | Jowett Institute |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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