Friday, August 15, 2025

JET DREAM & HER STUNT-GIRL COUNTERSPIES "Captive Jet"

An indication of just how effective a leader you are...
...is how the team functions when you are incapacitated...or kidnapped!
"Jet-A-Reeno"???
Well, it ain't no "Hawkaaa!" (the Blackhawks' battle cry), but it'll do.
It's good to know they can function without Jet's leadership when necessary.
Script for this tale from Gold Key's Man from U.N.C.L.E. #18 (1968) by Dick Wood, with vastly-improved art by Joe Certa.
We can finally tell which StuntGirls are which!
Jet Dream Will Return...on Monday!
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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

JET DREAM & HER STUNT-GIRL COUNTERSPIES "Day of Infamy"

Is one of the Stunt-Girl CounterSpies a traitor?
Jet Dream must discover the truth in only four pages before it tears the team apart...or worse!
Didn't Ting-a-Ling do something similar because her family was threatened several issues ago?
Script for this story from Gold Key's Man from U.N.C.L.E. #16 (1968) by Dick Wood (who also wrote the earlier tale so he should have remembered), art by Joe Certa.
(To be fair, Ting wasn't a member of the StuntGirls at that point...nit-pick, nit-pick...)
Jet Dream Will Return Tomorrow at Crime & Punishment!
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Monday, August 11, 2025

JET DREAM & HER STUNT-GIRL COUNTERSPIES "Splash-Down to Death"

Usually we see Jet in action solo or with the entire team...
...but here we get to see her kicking evildoer butt with the newest member of the team at her side.
Script for this short, but effective, tale from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #14 (1967) by Dick Wood, with art by Joe Certa.
The one problem I had with the story is that Certa has difficulty visually-differentiating Jet and Ting, who look very similar (almost generic) in most panels!
Mike Sekowsky was able to make their faces different enough in Ting's intro tale (as seen HERE) to make it easy, even in group shots, to see who was who.
Jet Dream Will Return Tomorrow at Crime & Punishment!
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Friday, August 8, 2025

JET DREAM & HER STUNT-GIRL COUNTERSPIES "Powder-Puff Derby Caper"

Jet Dream meets up with her evil counterpart...
...and can someone tell me why there's always an evil counterpart to a hero/heroine?
This one even has her own team of female assassins...
Raven Red will return!
(And, she's the only villain in this series to do so!)
Script for this tale from Gold Key's Man from U.N.C.L.E. #12 by Dick Wood, art by Joe Certa as he assumes his position as the permanent artist on Jet Dream, except the very next issue, featuring the return of Mike Sekowsky, which we already presented on our "sister" blog True Love Comics Tales™!
Jet Dream Will Return...on Monday!
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

JET DREAM & HER STUNT-GIRL COUNTERSPIES "Ting-a-Ling--Enemy Agent!"

Our fave femme fatales are on the beach...
...unfortunately, not in bikinis!
(Aren't those jumpsuits really warm?)
It's too bad these stories were limited to 4 pages at a time, posing a real challenge for writer Dick Wood.
This tale from Gold Key's Man from U.N.C.L.E. #10 (1966) would've benefited from another 2-4 pages of kick-assery in the inimitable penciling style of Mike Sekowsky, who, sadly, did only one more Jet Dream tale (Which we present today on our "sister" blog, True Love Comics Tales™).
For the record, Mike Peppe provided the inking!
Joe Certa illustrated most of the remaining stories, including the one-shot full-length comic, with Jack Sparling contributing our next Jet Dream tale, which you'll see tomorrow at...
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Monday, August 4, 2025

JET DREAM AND HER STUNT-GIRL COUNTERSPIES "Spider and the Spy"

Let's welcome back Silver Age Comics' longest-running female James Bond...
...in another short, but sweet comic adventure!
It's amazing how much story writer Dick Wood and artists Mike Sekowsky & Frank Giacoia can cram into only four pages!
Gold Key ran very few ads in their books, so they had to provide editorial content to fill out the 32 pages of material.
Issues 1-6 of Man from U.N.C.L.E. had 32-page stories (Yes, 32 pages of story, not 18-22 story pages with 10-14 pages of ads!)
From #7's into of Jet Dream to the end of the book's run, the lead U.N.C.L.E. story ran 27-28 pages with Jet Dream running 4 pages and, if needed, a one page spy-themed text or filler page.
And all these stories were self-contained.
No ongoing plotlines!
No cliffhangers!
You could jump in at any point and follow the stories perfectly, as you saw in today's tale from Gold Key's Man from U.N.C.L.E. #8 (1966)!
See Another Startling Spy Story Tomorrow at Crime & Punishment!
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Friday, August 1, 2025

JET DREAM "Spy in the Sky"

 The very first Jet Dream tale...
...from Gold Key's Man from U.N.C.L.E. #7 (1965).
Jump in and enjoy!

This never-reprinted opening tale by writer Dick Wood, penciler Mike Sekowsky, and inker Frank Giacoia was not related to U.N.C.L.E. in any way, except being spy-themed!
You'll note it's only four pages!
Every Jet Dream tale until the book-length one-shot was the same length.
As a result, characterization and back-story are at a minimum and the stories race along at a maniacal pace!
The team is, like the Blackhawks, international, with members from the US, Germany, England, France, and an unspecified Pacific island.
They're all expert aircraft pilots, all can handle weapons and know various marital arts, and each has unique talents.
Unlike the Blackhawks of the era, they are mercenaries, hiring out to the highest bidder...as long as they're not Commies or an evil organization like SPECTRE or THRUSH!
There's no origin story, we're introduced to them as an already-organized and fully-equipped team.

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Monday, July 14, 2025

MODESTY BLAISE Part 9

...thanks to Modesty and Willie, Gabriel now has possession of the diamonds!
But, also thanks to Modesty and Willie, he won't have them much longer...
Appropriately-enough for a kitchen setting, we'll leave with the adage "Out of the frying pan, into the fire"!
To Be Concluded Tomorrow at Crime and Punishment!
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Thursday, July 10, 2025

MODESTY BLAISE Part 7

Modesty and Willie are Ready...

...to infiltrate Gabriel's organization.
But to do so in a way that will make Gabriel believe he's in control of the situation will require them to render themselves totally, convincingly, helpless...
















Adapted by Peter O'Donnell from his 1965 novelization of his screenplay for the 1960s movie Modesty Blaise (of which less than 5% was actually used in the film), which, in turn, was based on the 1963 introductory plotline of the Modesty Blaise comic strip illustrated by Jim Holdaway.
Illustrated by Dick Giordano over layouts by Dan Spiegle.

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