Joe 90 - Top Secret - No 14 (1969)

Features are Agents' Fotofile (readers' photographs), Joe's Hobbies (The Story Of Space Travel Told In Stamps No. 14), a competition to win 100 Corgi Chevrolet SS 350 Camaro models, World Intelligence Network (quizzes and jokes), Champions Of Sport - Lester Piggot, The B.I.G. R.A.T. Tells The Story Of Helicopters, and Great Britain Eleven No. 4 Defender - Bobby Moore.

Joe 90 -Top Secret - Number 13 (1969)

Features are W.I.N. Field Agents Foto-File (readers' photographs), The B.I.G. R.A.T. Tells The Story Of Earthquakes, a competition to win 100 Corgi Commer Mobile Camera Vans, World Intelligence Network (quizzes and jokes),Champions Of Sport - Henry Cooper, Joe's Hobbies (The Story Of Space Travel Told In Stamps No. 13), and Great Britain Eleven No. 3 Centre Back - Mike England.

Joe 90: Episode 7 - Big Fish

"You are mad. Your son is mad. I am mad."

Joe 90 becomes one of the world's leading aquanauts and prevents
an international incident when a submarine breaks down in forbidden waters.

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An advanced two-man submarine is damaged through a missile outlet fault which allows an inrush of water. The crew are rescued by helijet, but unfortunately the sub has drifted into forbidden waters and now lies in Porto Guavan territory. This threatens a tricky international situation unless the sub can be moved without discovery.

Joe 90 is therefore given the brain patterns of the world's leading aquanaut, and he and Professor McClaine visit Porto Guava, ostensibly on a fishing trip.

But they attract the suspicions of a boatman, from whom they hire his craft.

The Porto Guavan Coastal Control is also suspicious, and sail out to make inquiries just as Joe is under-water, trying to get into the stricken sub. To make matters worse, he is trapped. The authorities, believing that he must have been deliberately drowned, arrest the Professor and the boatman on suspicion of murder.

Joe, however, succeeds in freeing himself and also getting the sub safely away from the forbidden area before arriving at the jail to prove that he certainly hasn't been murdered and that there is no case against his father and the boatman!

Joe 90 - Top Secret: No 12 (1969)

Features are Agents' Fotofile (readers' photographs), a competition to win 50 Corgi Gift Sets (Oldsmobile Tornado with Glastron Sportsman Speedboat), Joe's Hobbies (The Story Of Space Travel Told In Stamps No. 12), World Intelligence Network (quizzes and jokes), Champions Of Sport - Diane Towler and Bernard Ford, The B.I.G. R.A.T. Tells The Story Of Putting The Atom To Work, and Great Britain Eleven No. 2 Full Back - Eddie McCreadie.

Joe 90: Episode 6 - International Concerto

"Am rehearsing Rachmaninov's Eighth Symphony.

The Interesting Minor Melodic Interpretation Now Expected Next Tuesday."

Joe 90 receives the brain patterns of a world famous Pianist,

Who is also a top agent.

Igor Sladek is a world famous Concert Pianist, but why should the World Inteligence Network require his brain patterns? Professor McClaine is puzzled - until he makes the discovery that Sladek is, in fact, one of the WIN organisation's top agents!

The sensible precaution of taking his brain patterns becomes clear when the Pianist, during a concert tour of Eastern Europe, is detected by the authorities, and a coded message received in London warns that he hears he is about to be arrested.

The brain pattern is therefore transferred to Joe 90, who accompanies Professor McClaine to Europe just as Sladek's latest radio Concert is to begin, watched closely by the Authorities. Joe Succeeds in getting permission to turn over the music for the Pianist and Sladek asks for the baffle screens to be shifted slightly. In doing so, he knows he will be out of sight of those watching him. During the Concert, Joe puts on his special glasses, taking over the Pianist's brain pattern, then changes places with Sladek at the keyboard. It is impossible to detect any difference in the playing which makes it possible for Sladek to be smuggled out of the Broadcasting studio without anyone suspecting that Joe has taken over from him.

Professor McClaine drives him away in a car. A Border Guard is suspicious, but a telephone call confirms that the recital is still in progress and they are allowed through. But what of Joe 90? Will he be able to get away when the trick has been discovered?

Joe 90 Top Secret (No 11)

Joe 90 Top Secret Magazine No 11 was published on March 29th 1969. Features are Agents' Fotofile (readers photographs) The B.I.G. R.A.T. Tells the story of The Busiest Airport in the World. Joe's Hobbies (The Story of Space Travel Told in Stamps No. 11, a competition to win 50 Corgi 1912 Rolls-Royce "Silver Ghosts") World Intelligence Network (Information and Jokes) Champions of Sport - Jack Nicklaus and the Great Britain Eleven No. 1 Goal Keeper - Gordon Banks. There was also a full-page advertisement for Mac's Car From Kelloggs Sugar Smacks:

Joe 90: Episode 5 - Three's a Crowd

"I Know everything. Think of a number."

Joe 90 receives the brain patterns of a lovely girl

who has attracted his Father's attention but is suspected of being a spy!

In an episode originally entitled, "Think of a Number" Professor McClaine finds his heart ruling his head when an extremely lovely girl named Angela Davis comes along to see him, saying she is an American reporter. McClaine ignores the possibility that she may be an Agent working for a foreign country - which she is, in fact - and is both flattered and interested to find that she is knowledgeable about electronics and that she finds him attractive.

Joe 90 views the friendship with growing mistrust. So does Sam Loover, who is worried when given a report on their many meetings by the Security people who have Mac under surveillance.

When Sam speaks to Mac about it, he draws a blank. Mac insists that his personal life is no concern of Sam's. Sam, however, finds a willing ally in Joe 90, who is given Miss Davis' brain patterns. When Sam begins to question him, it is almost as if Joe can read Angela's mind and his story of what he thinks she intends to do reveals that she is definitely a spy! Joe can clearly see her taking photographs of the laboratory and stealing vital plans, then d riving to an aircraft waiting to take her to an unknown destination.

Dare Mac be told? It is Joe 90 who sees a way to outwit the scheming Angela.......

Joe 90 Top Secret (No 10)

Joe 90 Top Secret magazine no 10 was published on 22nd March 1969 and comprised of the following articles. Agents' Profile (readers' photographs) A competition to win 50 Corgi The Beatles Yellow Submarines. Joe's Hobbies (The Story of Space Travel as told in Stamps no. 10) Champions Of Sport - Graham Hill. World Intelligence Network (Information and jokes) The B.I.G. R.A.T. Tells the story of Bridge-Tunnel and Top Ten no 10 - Matra MS11 - V12.

Joe 90: Episode 4 - Operation McClaine

"Give him the scalpel. If you don't, the next bullet

will go straight through your patient's head."

Joe dons the mantel of a brilliant brain surgeon,

and carries out an operation which saves a man's life.

Maurice Estoral, one of the world's most famous writers, is facing a major brain operation, but the Specialist, Dr. Emil Kados, is seriously injured when the plane bringing him from Switzerland to England crashes.

The news reaches Professor McClaine, who is very concerned to save the life of the eminent Writer and fears that the less experienced Dr. Blakemore, who will now have to carry out the operation will not be able to succeed. He and Joe therefore pay a secret visit to the unconscious Dr. Kados to collect his brain pattern, which in turn, is transferred to Joe. Because it is obvious that the hospital would not permit a nine year old boy to operate, Mac himself receives the brain pattern of a WIN agent and accompanies Joe.

The patient is wheeled in to the operating theatre and Mac makes the dramatic move. He holds the hospital staff at gun point while Joe carries through the difficult operation. It is a triumphant success, but how can the secret be kept? Mac manages this by pointing out to the hospital staff that they will have to take the credit. After all, who would believe them if they said a nine-year old boy had carried out such an operation?

Joe 90: Episode 3 - Splashdown

"Joe, whatever happens, don't let that speedboat get near the sub

- or we may never see the Professor again."

Joe 90 becomes a superb Pilot when he encounters drama in the air

while investigating the deaths of two electronics experts.

Two major air crashes are complete mysteries, but they have one thing in common: In each case, an Electronics expert has disappeared and it is suspected that they were kidnapped before the crashes. The World Intelligence Network plan a trap to foil a third attempt by persuading Professor McClaine and Joe to fly to Istanbul. As a world electronics authority, the Professor will be the bait and Joe is given the brain pattern of a U.S. Army Air Force test Pilot.

Sure enough, Mac and Joe are tailed on their way to the airport and the flight is well under way and not far from Athens when a man named Kramer, with the help of the Stewardess, makes an appearance and drugs both the Pilot and Co-Pilot. Beneath them in the sea, a launch waits to transfer the Professor to a submarine. Mac is forced at gun point to escape by way of a parachuted cylinder, together with the Stewardess and Kramer, but Joe is left in the plane, which is now pilotless.

Joe dons his special glasses and takes over the controls. Returning to the spot where his Father was abducted and where the launch is preparing to contact the submarine, he produces some spectacular flying to prevent their joining up. The sub is forced to submerge. Mac is saved and a sinister death plot is revealed.

Joe 90 Top Secret (No 9)

Joe 90 Top Secret magazine No 9 was published on 15th March 1969 and comprised of the following articles. Fotofile (readers photographs) Joe's Hobbies (The Story of Space Travel as told in Stamps No.9) a competition to win 100 Corgi 'Safari' VW's, World Intelligence Network (Information & Jokes) Champions of Sport - Harvey Smith. The B.I.G. R.A.T. Tells the story of controlling the weather, and Top Ten No.9 - BRM V12.

Joe 90: Episode 2 - Hi-Jacked

"What's this? A badge........a transmitter, eh? They could almost be real."

Joe 90 tackles a dangerous gun-runner and smuggler and finds himself in dire peril

The World Intelligence Network decides that it's a mission for Joe when one of its agents is murdered whilst investigating a ruthless and dangerous gun-runner and smuggler named Colletti. The agent managed to record a message that Colletti will be hi-jacking a delivery of arms that very night.

WIN have to think of a way of gaining access to the Colletti hideout and Joe receives the brain pattern through BIG RAT, of one of WIN's top agents. Joe is placed in one of the crates in the consignment of armaments and finds himself taken to a remote barn which turns out to be the cover for Colletti's underground complex.

The alarm is raised when Joe walks through an unseen electric ray and is captured. In the battle, he loses his glasses and Colletti is more amused than worried when he discovers that the intruder is a nine year old boy. He simply laughs when Joe says he is a WIN agent and tells his men to take the boy home. Joe is locked in the boot of a car so that he won't have any idea where he is being taken from.

Colletti, on second thoughts decides that Joe knows too much and orders the men to dispose of him. He will be driven to a cliff edge and plunged to his death. Joe, however, uses his pocket transmitter to make contact with his Father. Professor McClaine and Sam Loover of the WIN organisation who tell him how to get out of the boot. Joe does so and leaves behind him a homing device that enables Sam and Mac to keep track of the car's movements and also able to trace the whereabouts of Colletti's complex.

Joe, making his way back to Colleti's office in search of his glasses, has a fierce fight with the crook and Joe is once again in deadly peril, until that is, Sam and Mac arrive!....

Joe 90 Top Secret (No 8)

This was Joe 90 Top Secret (No 8) and was first published on March 8th 1969. The magazine comprised of 20 pages with the following features; features on W.I.N. Agents in Action (readers sending in pictures of themselves on 'missions') Joe's Hobbies (The Story of Space Travel Told in Stamps No.8) Isle of Man TT, The B.I.G. R.A.T. Tells the story of Luxury Lifeboats, World Intelligence Network (Information and jokes) A competition to win 100 Corgi 'E' Type Jaguars and Top Ten Racing Cars No.8 - McLaren.

Joe 90: Episode One - The Most Special Agent

"You are trying to tell me that a nine year old boy climbed in to the cockpit

of the world's most advanced aircraft and flew it away?"

A remarkable invention turns a nine year old boy named Joe

into a Secret Agent and plunges him into a sensational career.

Joe McClaine, the adopted nine year old son of electronics expert Professor McClaine is a normal, healthy games-loving youngster with a sense of adventure, but little guessing the the Professor's latest invention is going to plunge him in to the sort of excitement packed life every boy dreams about. The Invention is called BIG RAT - which stands for, Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record and Transfer. It enables a recorded brain pattern to be transferred from one person to another. When it is shown to Shane Weston, Deputy Head of the World Intelligence Network, the Professor realises that Weston sees a way of using Joe as an Agent for WIN.

Weston explains how this could be done by outlining a story of the Russian development of the fastest and most heavily armed aircraft in the work, known as the MIG 242. It has upset the balance of World air power and the West has no weapons capable of stopping it. If Joe cold steal a MIG 242, Weston explains, its secrets would be revealed and the balance of world power restored.

A Russian Pilot who has flown this plane has visited London and BIG RAT has been used to record his brain pattern. This is later transferred to Joe, who has to wear a pair of glasses with built in electrodes enabling the transfer to work. With these glasses he will have all the knowledge and experience of the expert whose brain pattern he has received. The Professor and Joe travel to Russia for a special viewing of the MIG 242. Joe puts on his glasses and disappears. His absence is noticed, however, no one believes the Professor when he says his son is about to steal the new plane - but this is excatly what he is doing! Ho outmanoeuvres the jets which try to intercept him and reaches England. And no one of course, is going to believe that a nine year old boy is responsible!

The Professor is appalled at the idea of Joe carrying out such dangerous missions, but Weston has shown how it could be done and Mac finally has to agree that there are enormous possibilities for Joe as WIN's most Special Agent.