MIKE STONE
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Full Name: |
Mike Stone |
Codename: |
Lone Wolf |
Nationality: |
British |
Organization: |
British Military Intelligence |
Occupation |
Agent |
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Creator: |
Unknown
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Time Span: |
1963 - 1964 |
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ABOUT THE SERIES
Mike Stone is an agent with British Intelligence.
It is likely, since his actions take place during WWII, it is with Military Intelligence but since I know virtually nothing about this individual, that is speculation.
Interestingly, approximately five years before we are told of these two adventures of Mike Stone, one of which dealt with a "Secret Enemy" and the other with very large mechanized fighting machines apparently dubbed "Sand Spiders", there was released in another publication owned by the same company two tales nearly back-to-back about an agent codenamed who had to tussle first with a "Secret Enemy" and then with "Sand Spiders". Now only from the words about Spy 13 do we know that the first adventure dealt with finding a very powerful but very well hidden mole in British Intelligence, planted there years before WWII started, and that the second adventure had to do with a powerful weapon the Germans had for desert warfare. That said, I cannot say for sure whether Mike Stone had to go up against similar or the same adversaries and if they did, did one not get the job done well enough?
All conjecture, of course.
The only information we really have so far is Mike Stone is a Secret Agent and he is either blond (as he appears in the first picture) or strawberry-blond (as he looks in the second). He certainly looks like he is in very good shape and gives off the aura that he can take care of himself in the second picture, not so much in the first. Oh, he is right-handed, too.
COMIC BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
Number of Stories: | 2 |
First Appearance: | 1963 |
Last Appearance: | 1964 |
In 1963, Fleetway Publications unveiled a new title line, Valiant Picture Library(VPL), building off the name of another recently started line, Valiant, and a line existing for several years, Thriller Picture Library (TPL). Like that one, it would have one story per issue but would vary from issue to issue what topic and character would be presented.
I mention this because the two adventures of Mike Storm - Secret Agent would have connection to TPL in two ways. Not only would it appear in a magazine with a similar concept and a similar name, it would involve two stories which, going by the names, are rewrites of two stories in the other. In TPL there was a recurring operative named who had as his first challenge a "Secret Enemy" and who, two adventures later, went up against "Sand Spiders". Mike Storm did the same thing except he faced the Spiders one issue earlier.
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Mike Stone and the Secret Enemy
Published by Fleetway Publications Ltd.
Copyright: 09/1963
From Valiant Picture Library #7 - [plot unknown]
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Mike Stone and the Sand Spiders
Published by Fleetway Publications Ltd.
Copyright: 01/1964
From Valiant Picture Library #15 - [plot unknown]
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