Top Secret #1

(January 1952)

The Fifteenth Step (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

George Olesen

Inks:

George Olesen

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Damon Charters (chief of SSC); Cliff Lawrence (aide)

Synopsis:

Fifteen men have each been working on one step in the design of the super guided missile, "Operation Ladder". One man is missing from the report meeting, and all work is useless without the fifteenth man, so he has to be found.

Indexer Notes

Olesen is credited on pencils and ink on crime stories for Hillman by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. He can be spotted by his very bushy eyebrows and sharp eyes. He had many stories in "Hawk" and some in "G.I. Joe" for Ziff Davis.

A Word Here, and a Word There ..... (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Ely

Inks:

Bill Ely

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

The Ambassador's Brief Case! (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

spy

The Missing Part (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lee Ames ?

Inks:

Lee Ames ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

George Lukor (bicycle repairman); Brillhart (spy)

Synopsis:

A bicycle repair shop acts as cover for spying on a military engineering plant.

Indexer Notes

Hands and some faces very similar to Ames' work in Avon's "King Solomon's Mines", and he is credited on pencils and ink on crime stories for Hillman by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

You Can't Trust Benjamin (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Michael Becker

Inks:

Michael Becker

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Benjamin Frame (aircraft designer); Norton (spy); Carl Leeds (traitor)

Synopsis:

Mr. Frame was a brilliant aircraft designer, but found out his son-in-law were betraying him.

Indexer Notes

Becker is credited on pencils and ink on crime stories for Hillman by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The art here is similar to his signed work in Western Fighters #3.

The Attractive Smugglers (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Agent Twenty-One (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Prentice

Inks:

John Prentice?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy