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Issue Details

Issue #[nn - 1]
Published 1952
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 100
Editing Sol Cohen
Notes Issue reprints stories from Murderous Gangsters #3, Prison Break #3 and Police Lineup #3, all Avon Comics.

Cover Details

Genre Crime
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Issue reprints stories from Murderous Gangsters #3, Prison Break #3 and Police Lineup #3, all Avon Comics.

1 page credits "Table of Contents"

Pencils Tex Blaisdell (signed)
Inks Tex Blaisdell
Letters typeset
Notes inside front cover; black and white.
Reprinted from Prison Break! (Avon, 1951 series) #3

7 page story "Killer Bait"

Genre Crime
Pencils Michael Becker (signed)
Inks Vince Alascia (signed)
Reprinted from Murderous Gangsters (Avon, 1951 series) #3

1 page text story "Blind Man's Buff"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Murderous Gangsters (Avon, 1951 series) #3

7 page story "Brothers In Crime"

Genre Crime
Pencils Gerald McCann
Inks Gerald McCann
Reprinted from Murderous Gangsters (Avon, 1951 series) #3

4 page story "Jed Hawkins---Cold Blooded Killer"

Genre Crime
Inks Vince Alascia?
Reprinted from Murderous Gangsters (Avon, 1951 series) #3

2 page text story "The Imperfect Crime"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Murderous Gangsters (Avon, 1951 series) #3

6 page story "Nick Marek--Shakedown Racketeer"

Genre Crime
Pencils Ed Goldfarb (signed)
Inks Bob Baer (signed)
Reprinted from Murderous Gangsters (Avon, 1951 series) #3

7 page story Killers on the Loose! Francine O'Connor -- "The Empress of Crime"

Synopsis "Francine O'Connor used her cunning brain and fantastic physical strength to drench the pages of crime with the misery and blood of her victims!" (from Table of Contents)
Genre Crime
Pencils Tex Blaisdell [as Tex] (signed)
Inks Tex Blaisdell [as Tex] (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Prison Break! (Avon, 1951 series) #3

7 page story "Sonny Terhune Machine-Gun Madman!"

Synopsis "He had money for women and liquor -- an inherited fortune! He did not have to prey upon his fellow man in order to exist. But this ruthless killer was a maniac who destroyed for pleasure!" (from Table of Contents)
Genre Crime
Pencils Ed Goldfarb [as Goldfarb] (signed)
Inks Bob Baer [as Baer] (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Machine-Gun Madman is in all lower case letters in the title.
Reprinted from Prison Break! (Avon, 1951 series) #3

7 page story "Lina Foyle... Gunmoll!"

Synopsis "To get the life of luxury of which she had always dreamed, redheaded Lina Foyle and her trigger-happy boyfriend went on a spree of robbery and shooting that finally ended in --- murder!" (from Table of Contents)
Genre Crime
Pencils Joe Orlando?
Inks Vince Alascia?
Reprinted from Prison Break! (Avon, 1951 series) #3

1 page text story "Cleveland's Butcher of Death"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Prison Break! (Avon, 1951 series) #3

1 page text story "Two-Dollar Murder"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Prison Break! (Avon, 1951 series) #3

4 page story "Death Comes Laughing"

Synopsis "Too many rich old men had died at the mysterious Dr. Rolf's mountain sanitorium! Beautiful Janice Greer found herself battling the weird menace of the house where 'Death Comes Laughing!'" (from Table of Contents)
Genre Crime
Pencils Sid Check [as SID] (signed)
Inks Sid Check [as SID] (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Prison Break! (Avon, 1951 series) #3

7 page story "Killer At Large"

Genre Crime
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert
Reprinted from Police Line-Up (Avon, 1951 series) #3

7 page story "Louie Gruber Czar of the Underworld"

Genre Crime
Pencils Mort Lawrence (signed)
Inks Mort Lawrence
Reprinted from Police Line-Up (Avon, 1951 series) #3

5 page story "The Unseen Murderer"

Genre Crime
Pencils Howard Larsen (signed)
Inks Howard Larsen
Reprinted from Police Line-Up (Avon, 1951 series) #3

1 page text story "Death Danced the Samba"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Police Line-Up (Avon, 1951 series) #3

1 page text story "Mystery of the Headless Corpse"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Police Line-Up (Avon, 1951 series) #3

6 page story "Leech McCoy the Incendiary Killer"

Genre Crime
Pencils Gerald McCann
Inks Gerald McCann
Reprinted from Police Line-Up (Avon, 1951 series) #3

1 page credits "Table of Contents"

Pencils Tex Blaisdell?
Inks Tex Blaisdell
Notes inside back cover; black and white.
Reprinted from Murderous Gangsters (Avon, 1951 series) #3

1 page Contents page (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Genre Crime
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler (signed)
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes Back cover; monochrome (blue and white)
Reprinted from Police Line-Up (Avon, 1951 series) #3