Crime Detective Comics Volume 2 (1950) 7

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Cover by Dan Zolnerowich. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Paul Parker, Lawrence Dresser, Gerald McCann, George Olesen and Bernie Krigstein. Tales of crime and mobsters, both true and fictional, a prime example of the genre that thrived in the years before the Comics Code. A gangster blackmails the husband of a famous actress with evidence of his criminal past. A successful executive and her jealous husband are bound by a childhood accident and her fear of fire, in a story with early art by EC legend Bernie Krigstein, by now displaying his recognizable style and signature. A US Savings Bonds PSA, with art by Crime Does Not Pay legend Charles Biro - a rare appearance of that artist in this comic. The Actress and Her Puppet; The Kind Right Arm; Uncle Sam Has a Green Thumb; The Shepherd Boy; The Fractured Mint; The Letter from Italy; The Price Tag; The Huckster's Castle. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.