Spy and Counterspy #1 Values

Publisher: American Comics Group, 1949

About Spy and Counterspy #1

Origin and first appearance of Jonathan Kent, Counterspy.

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COVER DETAILS

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Characters: Jonathan Kent (intro; origin)

Synopsis: Jonathan Kent joins the American intelligence service and goes undercover behind the Iron Curtain to recover plans for an atomic bomb detonator.

Pages: 15.000

Script: Richard Hughes ?

Pencils: Charles Sultan

Inks: Charles Sultan

Notes: Script credit: Martin O'Hearn suggests at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2011/10/hawkman-writers-1967.html "Oh-hhhh!" as a Hughes indicator and this story includes an example.

Title: Operation China!

Characters: Lin Yat; R-416; Yo Tsin

Synopsis: American agent R-416 goes undercover in communist China to rescue a kidnapped Nationalist Chinese leader.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Richard Hughes ?

Pencils: John Belfi (signed)

Inks: John Belfi (signed)

Notes: Script credtis: Martin O'Hearn suggests at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2011/10/hawkman-writers-1967.html "Oh-hhhh!" as a Hughes indicator and this story includes a "Ah-hhhh!"

Title: Man Hunt from the East

Characters: Kurt Riner; Michael Riner; Betty [Operative X]; Mrs. Crowdon; Sergei; Dmitri

Synopsis: Kurt Riner, a Czech scientist specializing in antibiotics, is kidnapped by US agents. Communist agents pursue Riner in an effort to get a soil sample he is carrying which contains bubonic fever [sic] spores.

Pages: 9.000

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4

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