As noted last time, i spent years thinking that
Jet Dream And Her Stunt-Girl Counterspies #1 was the only appearance of Jet and her team. Also noted: I was wrong.
I had long given up on seeing more of Jet's team. Another decade and more passed until, one day while digging through old UK Annuals, i ran into this story -
My brain melted. How did this come to be?
The hunt was on!
My first mistake in looking for more of Jet Dream was looking to the future after her comic - much of her stories took place before her comic was released. The second mistake was not digging through old back-up strips.
Jet Dream and her team had another 15 adventures beyond the two we've seen. They ran as a break between acts in
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. comic from
Gold Key.
(The tale above was found in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'s 1970 UK Annual - pointing us to the original source. It was actually the team's 9th adventure.)
The first tale appeared in TMFU #7 and she appeared every issue through #22, the final issue. Oddly enough, she never seems to have shown up in
The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. despite seeming to be a natural companion piece. A pity, because that would have meant more stories.
Here's her introductory tale, scripted by
Dick Wood, with art by
Mike Sekowsky &
Mike Peppe -
For balance, here's the final Jet Dream story from TMFU #22. Like The Set-Up Sultan that opened this post, artwork is by
Joe Certa; the writer is unknown on both -
These days those short little tales would each be decompressed into a 3 issue mini-series, but i enjoy those old stories that packed all they could into just a few pages.
Want more Jet Dream?
Join us this weekend when we'll be revisiting old friends including Jet, Joe, Koppy and Ulysses.
Jet Dream pages by Dick Wood, Mike Sekowsky, Mike Peppe, and Joe Certa for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #s 7 & 22 and 1970 Annual (UK) (1966, 1969, 1970)
