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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published Fall 1971
Cover Price $0.50
Pages 52
Editing Jack Kirby

Cover Details - "The Roaring 30's Come Alive"

Genre Crime; Adventure
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Jack Kirby

4 page Gangsters story "Welcome to Hell!"

Characters Warden Fry
Synopsis Introduction to the stories ahead by Warden Fry.
Genre Crime; Adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta

15 page Ma Barker story "Ma's Boys"

Characters Ma Barker
Genre Crime; Adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta

12 page Al Capone story "Bullets for Big Al"

Characters Al Capone
Genre Crime; Adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta

3 page text story "The Breeding Ground"

Synopsis This is a text story with photographs about life in the 1930's.
Genre Crime; Adventure
Letters typeset
Notes Subtitle: America of the Thirties - sick - broke - and white!

2 page text story "Funeral For a Florist!"

Genre Crime; Adventure
Script Mark Evanier; Steve Sherman
Letters typeset

8 page Pretty Boy Floyd story "Kansas City Massacre!"

Characters Pretty Boy Floyd
Genre Crime; Adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta

2 page Country Boy story "Method of Operation!"

Characters Country Boy
Synopsis How the police caught Country Boy.
Genre Crime; Adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta

2 page story "Kill Joy Was Here"

Genre Parody; Satire; Crime
Script Sergio Aragones
Pencils Sergio Aragones
Inks Sergio Aragone

4 page John Dillinger illustration "Wanted: John Dillinger"

Characters John Dillinger
Synopsis Wanted poster stapled to the center of the issue.
Genre Crime; Adventure
Notes This is a photo reproduction of an actual Wanted poster.