T-Man #1 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1951

About T-Man #1

Jack Cole and Chuck Cuidera art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: He's Smart! He's Tough!

Characters: T-Man

Pencils: Reed Crandall ?

Inks: Reed Crandall ?

Notes: The face of the girl and the crouching way of standing, and also the detailed gun similar to his drawing inside the cover, look like Crandall. He is credited on covers for Quality Comics.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: T-Man's Holiday

Characters: T-Man Pete Trask; T-Man Vittorio Alcini (death); Chief; Dr. Lontaro (villain); Marlita (villain)

Synopsis: At a dentist in Rome, Trask is having a tooth fixed. By a coincident Allied agents burst in to search the office for a micro film intended for communist spies. The dentist hides it in Trask's tooth, without anyone noticing.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Joe Millard

Pencils: Edmond Good

Inks: Joe Certa ?

Reprints: T-Man (Quality Comics, 1951 series) #31 (January 1956)

Notes: Script credit based on Martin O'Hearn's description of Millard's writing tics. Edmond Good is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, also by an art sample from #4 by these two artists. Same art as here.

Title: The Prince of Thieves

Characters: T-Man [Pete Trask]; Baron Rafsky (spy); Baroness Rafsky (spy)

Synopsis: A secret military code book is stolen from a security office in Washington by a baron with diplomatic immunity. To get it back, Trask is booked on the same liner to Europe as the baron.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Joe Millard

Pencils: Harry Anderson

Inks: Harry Anderson ?

Notes: Script credit based on Martin O'Hearn's description of Millard's writing tics. The round eyes and lines in the outer corners are very typical Anderson, and he is credited on all on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. The dccomicsartists.com has him only on pencils here.

Title: The Elephant Who Loved Flowers!

Characters: T-Man Pete Trask; Chief Adams; Gertie (an elephant); Count Volpu (villain)

Synopsis: A press for printing hate and lies about the USA in papers in India is secretly hidden in a mosque, and is revealed by a stampeding elephant.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Joe Millard

Pencils: Edmond Good ?

Inks: Harry Anderson ?

Reprints: T-Man (Quality Comics, 1951 series) #30 (December 1955)

Notes: Script credit based on Martin O'Hearn's description of Millard's writing tics. The face of Trask points to Anderson, but the very lively and crowded panels and some close up faces in side view look like Good. Both are credited on the feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

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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
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