Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Joe Gill--After the Human Torch, What?

This is one of the features Joe Gill wrote at Timely/Atlas after the Human Torch revival. The only story in Spy Thillers that I can't make out as his is the backup in #4, which is actually a war story--it may have been brought over from one of the battle mags.

'This is' in Spy Thillers 1, 3 captions
"This is" in captions is one of  the clues to Joe Gill--here you see it in "The Double Identities" and "Oil!" In the same tier in the latter you see it in the past tense too, as you're more likely to see it in Gill's Charlton scripts.

Rick Davis in Spy Thrillers—Written by Joe Gill

Nov/54 #1  The Double Identities
The Purple Pyramid
The Eyes of Death [MISC SPY]
The Ticking Death
Jan/55 #2  The Whirl of Death
The Unseen Killers
Incident [MISC SPY]
The Telltale Machines
Mar/     #3  Safari of Death
The Moon Rocket
Oil! [MISC SPY]
The Hatchet Man
May/     #4  The China Doll
The Tiger's Claws
The Deadly Dutch Plates

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