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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published October 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes PRISON BREAK, Oct. 1952. Vol. 1, No. 5, published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. -- from indicia. Story synopses from table of contents page. This issue indexed from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

Cover Details - "The Escape King!"

Genre Crime
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Notes PRISON BREAK, Oct. 1952. Vol. 1, No. 5, published quarterly by REALISTIC COMICS, INC., 575 Madison Ave., New York 22, N.Y. -- from indicia. Story synopses from table of contents page. This issue indexed from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Prison Break!"

Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Notes Table of contents with short story summaries. Includes story summary for story not in this issue, "Escape to Death!" On inside front cover.

7 page story "Lugs" Malone... the Escape King

Synopsis "Lugs" Malone -- the Escape King planned the perfect break! And with snarling hatred and flaming guns he carried it through!
Pencils Mort Lawrence
Inks Mort Lawrence
Letters typeset
Notes Art ID from index of reprint.
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #5

6 page story "No Jail Could Hold Him"

Synopsis A brutal, cold-blooded killer, and champion jail-breaker, Danny Morgan blasted his way to freedom! --But he had an inevitable date with death when he thought that--"No Jail Could Hold Him!"
Genre Crime
Pencils Carmine Infantino (signed)
Inks Vince Alascia (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #5; in Crime Machine, The (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 (May 1971)

1 page text story "Tunnel of Death"

Pencils ? (illustration)
Inks ? (illustration)
Letters typeset

6 page story "Mike Bayner... The Scorpion"

Synopsis Dubbed as "The Scorpion," cocksure and arrogant Mike Bayner strong-armed his way to violence and terror -- killing and crushing his enemies!
Pencils Michael Becker (signed)
Inks Vince Alascia (signed)
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #5

1 page text story "The Lipstick Murder Case"

Letters typeset

6 page story "Easy Money"

Genre Crime
Pencils Michael Becker (signed)
Inks Vince Alascia (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Sensational Police Cases (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #5; in Crime Machine, The (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 (May 1971)