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#50
(May-June 1964)
DC,
1956 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1964-03-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Larry Nadle (credited as Lawrence Nadle) (editor)
Issue Notes
Features King Faraday; some stories are reprints from the Danger Trail book.
On-sale date from copyright registration.
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
I Spy / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (uncredited)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (uncredited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp (uncredited)
- Genre
- spy
- Characters
- King Faraday
- Reprints
in 
I -- Spy!
I Spy / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher (uncredited)
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (uncredited)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (uncredited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- spy
- Characters
- King Faraday
- Synopsis
- King Faraday accepts a position as a top spy, codename “I-Spy”, despite a roomful of top U.S. government and military personnel trying to persuade him not to.
Indexer Notes
New material; segues into the reprints.
Spy Train
King Faraday / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher (uncredited)
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (uncredited)
- Inks
- Sy Barry (uncredited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp (uncredited)
- Genre
- spy
- Characters
- King Faraday; Major Johnny Lester; Alonzo P. Davis; Vina Flora
- Synopsis
- King Faraday, on the trail of a killer, rides the Orient Express, where he meets a movie starlet and a camera-happy tourist. Though two attempts are made on his life, he finds no clues as to the identity of the killer. Only when the photographer overplays his hand does Faraday realize he is behind the attacks and using his camera to transport pictures of a more sensitive nature than the candids he has been taking. Faraday puts a permanent end to the photographer in a fight atop the train.
- Reprints
-
from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #64 (May-June 1953)
-
Hangman's House!
King Faraday / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher (uncredited)
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (uncredited)
- Inks
- Joe Giella (uncredited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (original editor, uncredited)
- Genre
- spy
- Characters
- King Faraday; Jimmy West; Arnold Leroy; Colonel Danby
- Synopsis
- King Faraday is sent to Europe to rescue an elderly scientist whose knowledge must not fall into the enemy’s hands.
- Reprints
- from Danger Trail (DC, 1950 series) #2 (September-October 1950)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
I Spy -
1.
132 Pc. Roman Soldier Set
Roman War Soldiers -
2.
I -- Spy!
I Spy -
3.
Spy Train
King Faraday -
4.
["Be first in your neighborhood..."]
-
5.
Espionage — Top Secret!
-
6.
Hangman's House!
King Faraday -
7.
["Be my guest at America's greatest amusement park"]
Palisades Amusement Park Admission -
8.
["Curious coins! Odd paper money!"]
Littleton Coins -
9.
100 Pc. Toy Soldier Set
100 Toy Soldiers -
10.
["Boys! Men! My secret new dynaflex method..."]
Mike Marvel Scientific Isometric Dynaflex System -
11.
["Make money get prizes with fast selling American seeds"]
American Seeds
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Dave Marchand
- Donald Dale Milne
- Allen Ross
- Per Sandell
- Douglas Sederberg
- Jim Stangas
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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