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Top Spot #1

Oct 1958 · Amalgamated Press · 4.5p [0-0-4.5 GBP]
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Top Spot #1 is an anthology of picture-strips featuring "man-sized adventures." The issue includes a feature on jazz history titled "Your Kind of Music," a Western story depicting Dan Daring confronting a marshal and outlaws at an Indian crossing, a celebrity column by David Roberts covering "A Night Out with Diana Dors," and comic strips including "Enrico the Rake" and "Cools Off."

Contains 10 stories
Untitled Drama story
3.5 pp · Drama, Crime
Detective-Sergeant Steve BradyDetective Constable Jigs RaffertyTanya FultonCharlie Hart (villain)
Devotion to Duty
3 pp · Aviation, War
Flight Sergeant MiddletonFlight Sergeant HyderPilot Officer Skinner

On a bombing run to Turin in November 1942, Flight Sergeant Middleton pilots a Stirling bomber through fierce Italian anti-aircraft fire—but a shell splinter destroys his right eye and tears open his face, leaving him barely conscious. Despite catastrophic injuries and mounting pain, Middleton regains command of the crippled aircraft, guiding his wounded crew homeward with ice-cold resolve and skillful flying as fuel runs dangerously low.

Untitled Drama story
3 pp · Drama, Sports
Bill JonesPatsy BatesBob ArnoldVera Vayle
Bargain in Blood
2 pp · Crime
John DillingerAnna Sage
He Walked with a Gun
3 pp · Western-Frontier
Marshal Rafe LanyardBarbara WellsCharlie Owens (villain)

Marshal Rafe Lanyard commands respect throughout Indian Crossing, a small frontier town on the Chisholm Trail, but his reputation rests entirely on the speed of his gun hand—and the woman he loves believes that legacy will eventually cost him everything. When trouble erupts in town, Lanyard must confront the gap between the man the townspeople admire and the man she needs him to be. This tense western explores whether a reputation built on gunplay can ever give way to something deeper.

Last Kill
2 pp · Non-Fiction, Sports
Manolete [Manuel Rogriguez]

Spain's greatest matador Manolete, who had killed over a thousand bulls in his legendary career, faces what will become his final encounter in the arena—a dangerous beast with a treacherous right horn. This 1958 account chronicles the collision between a master of his craft and the unpredictable forces that even skill and experience cannot always overcome, capturing a pivotal moment in bullfighting history.

...Cools Off
0.25 pp · Humor
Enricoyoung lady
One Round + Three Punches
2 pp · Non-Fiction, Sports
Jack DempseyLuis Firpo
Casanova's Luck
3.5 pp · Adventure, Historical
Giovanni Casanova
The Target
0.2 pp · Humor, Children
Fauntleroyyoung lady

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