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Issue: Kent Blake of the Secret Service #8
Publication Date: July 1952
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Issues: #8 of 14 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kent Blake
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
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Passage to Peril!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernie Sills ?
Inker(s): Tom Gill
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, war
Feature(s): Kent Blake
Character(s): Kent Blake
Synopsis: Colonel Kruger sends Blake to find out how the Chinese were finding US forces in Kuwong. Investigating, he discovers a hidden passage under the village with concealed men using a radio. He fights off rats in the pit and finally kills the Chinese and destroys the radio.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: 9974
Disclose Notes: Previous indexer credited Tom Gill pencils.
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Out-of-Date Spies

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
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In Content Item: FlagSpy Thrillers #2 published January 1955
as To Catch a Spy! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 2
Job Number: 9985
Disclose Notes: Contains an illustration clipped from an unidentified comic
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernie Sills ?
Inker(s): Tom Gill
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, war
Feature(s): Kent Blake
Character(s): Kent Blake
First Line: A body lies on a hill in Korea...
Synopsis: Blake joins the air force to find out why planes are disappearing; it turns out the man assigned to him as co-pilot is a Communist agent and men like him have been hijacking them for the Chinese. Blake overpowers the spy and exposes the scam.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: A-328
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One is a Traitor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Steinberg ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, war
Synopsis: Four men running a radio installation meet Captain Kelsey, who tells them a traitor is sending information to the Communists. They begin to turn on each other, but Frank realizes Kelsey is the enemy agent because he had information they couldn't get on their radio.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: A-45
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The Unseen Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tom Gill
Inker(s): Tom Gill
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, war
Feature(s): Kent Blake
Character(s): Kent Blake
Synopsis: Blake is sent with the beautiful Lee Tsui to find and destroy a factory where the North Koreans are preparing a bacteria weapon called the "unseen death." They succeed, but Tsui dies the next day; she had been exposed to the virus earlier and knew she would soon die.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: A-253
Disclose Notes: Pencils credit suggested by http://www.atlastales.com
Shop pencils assist probably. JVJ

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