Kent Blake of the Secret Service #6
Marvel Comics
United States
- Published
- March 1952
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Silver Age size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/203111
Credits
- Editing
- Stan Lee, Editor
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Genre
- War
Credits
- Art
- , line art
- Sol Brodsky , penciller
- Colours
- Stan Goldberg, colourist
Notes
Possible Brodsky pencils per Michael Dewally via atlastales.com
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
1Featuring
- Feature
- Kent Blake
- Genre
- Spy
- Code
- 9343
- Characters
- Kent Blake; Walter H. Kruger; Herman Schendel
Credits
- Writing
- Richard Kahn, scripter
- Art
- Tom Gill, penciller
- , inker
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Blake goes to New York to investigate a communist plot where Schendel is being forced to manufacture counterfeit money. A communist agent disguised as treasury agent Frank Belden leads Kent into a trap at Coney Island but Kent rescues Schendel and captures the spies.
Notes
Info per Tom Lammers via atlastales.com
Writing credit by Martin O'Hearn at martinohearn.blogspot.com/.../...ter-at-atlas.html
2Featuring
- Genre
- Spy
- Code
- 9514
Credits
- Writing
- , author
- Text
- , typeset
3Featuring
- Feature
- Kent Blake
- Genre
- Spy; war
- Code
- 9344
- Characters
- Kent Blake; Walter H. Kruger; Lt. Farnam; John Preston
Credits
- Writing
- Richard Kahn, scripter
- Art
- Tom Gill, penciller
- , inker
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Just after catching the communist counterfeiters Kruger reveals he's joined G-2 and recruits Kent. Kent is sent to Korea where he goes behind enemy lines and rescues Preston, a captured scientist before he can be broken by interrogation and reveal US atomic secrets.
Notes
Info per Tom Lammers via atlastales.com
Writing credit by Martin O'Hearn at martinohearn.blogspot.com/.../...ter-at-atlas.html
Beginning with this story Kent's adventures are set in the Korean War and become a composite of war and spy tales.
4Featuring
- Genre
- Spy
- Code
- 9484
- Characters
- Colone Ferris
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- , line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- Artie Simek , letterer
Reprint history
Synopsis
Two spies capture Ferris for the government secrets he's carrying, but Ferris informs them he's a mere decoy - the real documents are with another person and his bag contains nothing but a bomb. The spies doubt Ferris and open the bag, setting off the bomb.
5Featuring
- Feature
- Kent Blake
- Genre
- Spy; war
- Code
- 9465
- Characters
- Kent Blake; Andy Blake (dies)
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- , line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Kent is sent to stop a US soldier who has been selling secrets to the enemy. Kent kills the man in the dark, then discovers the traitor was his own brother Andy.
6Featuring
- Feature
- Kent Blake
- Genre
- Spy; war
- Code
- 9381
- Characters
- Kent Blake; Walter H. Kruger; Mystic Marlo [Karl Marlo]; Fran Marlo
Credits
- Writing
- Richard Kahn, scripter
- Art
- Tom Gill, penciller
- , inker
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Kent discovers the Marlos are using their vaudeville act as a cover for smuggling secrets from US territory. Kent kills Karl and captures Fran.
Notes
Credits per Michael Dewally and Tom Lammers via atlastales.com
Writing credit by Martin O'Hearn at martinohearn.blogspot.com/.../...ter-at-atlas.html
Indicia
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