(July 1952)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
20th Century Comic Corp.
Brand
Atlas [black & white]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Kent Blake / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
?

Indexer Notes

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

Cover Thumbnail for Kent Blake of the Secret Service (Marvel, 1951 series) #8
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Passage to Peril! (Table of Contents: 1)

Kent Blake / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bernie Sills ?
Inks
Tom Gill
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
9974
Genre
spy; war
Characters
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.

Indexer Notes

Previous indexer credited Tom Gill pencils.

Out-of-Date Spies (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
9985
Genre
spy
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Contains an illustration clipped from an unidentified comic

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Kent Blake / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bernie Sills ?
Inks
Tom Gill
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
A-328
First Line of Dialogue or Text
A body lies on a hill in Korea...
Genre
spy; war
Characters
Kent Blake
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.

One is a Traitor (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Norman Steinberg ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
A-45
Genre
spy; 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.

The Unseen Death (Table of Contents: 5)

Kent Blake / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tom Gill
Inks
Tom Gill
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
A-253
Genre
spy; war
Characters
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.

Indexer Notes

Pencils credit suggested by http://www.atlastales.com
Shop pencils assist probably. JVJ

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Kent Blake
  2. 1. Passage to Peril!
    Kent Blake
  3. 2. Out-of-Date Spies
  4. 3. ["A body lies on a hill in Korea..."]
    Kent Blake
  5. 4. One is a Traitor
  6. 5. The Unseen Death
    Kent Blake
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  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
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