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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Charles J. Levy; Charles Santangelo
Notes editors listed in indicia

Cover Details - "Nobody Loves a Gunman"

Genre Crime
Pencils Art Gates (signed)
Inks Art Gates (signed)

1 page text article "How to be an Amateur Detective"

Genre Crime
Script Ken Brickley
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Notes two who-dunnit crime puzzles printed in black and white on inside front cover.

8 page story "Machine Gun George Grogan"

Characters George 'Machine Gun' Grogan; Mrs. Grogan (his wife)
Synopsis George Grogan is just a cheap hood, but his wife has ambitions and pushes him to greater and greater crimes, until a kidnapping ploy goes wrong for the both of them.
Genre crime

6 page story "Nobody Trusts a Gunman!!"

Synopsis A cop is murdered in the process of stopping a robbery, but wounds the perpetrator before he dies. A rookie cop gets called to go undercover to infiltrate the mob and find the killer.
Genre Crime
Pencils Art Gates (signed)
Inks Art Gates (signed)

5 page story "Diabolical Pipeline"

Synopsis Two Texas shysters have planned a deal to swindle money from investors, but the daughter of one of the men gets caught in a complicated web of love and jealousy, and soon, a murder takes place to keep the scheme a secret.
Genre crime

2 page text story "Uncertain of Death"

Genre Crime
Script Justin D. Triem
Letters typeset

5 page story "Murder Plays the Big Show"

Genre crime

6 page story "The Big Plane Hi-Jack"

Synopsis An elaborate scheme is set in motion to smuggle stolen nuclear material to a Latin American country who hopes to develop the bomb.
Genre crime

1 page How Clever Are You? filler "One fine Summer morning, Mr. Sourgrass and his wife set out..."

Genre Crime
Script Ken Brickley
Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Notes two who-dunnit crime puzzles printed in black & white on inside back cover.