Young King Cole (1945 Novelty/Premium/Curtis) Vol. 3 #9
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Published Apr 1948 by Premium Group.$26.00
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Cover by Wayne Boring (credited as Jack Harmon). Stories and art by Hy Gage, Milt Hammer, Nina Albright, and Wayne Boring. Bespectacled, eccentric detective "King" Cole Jr. takes over his father's detective agency. Investigating the murder of a broker, Young King Cole winds up strapped to a barber's chair and menaced by a homicidal hairdresser. Toni Gayle stumbles on a crime in a Texas border town, in a story with art by Superman artist Wayne Boring. Goatee'd criminologist Dr Doom (no relation to Victor) encounters killers amid the upper-crust of the city's elite. Toni Gayle action-girl cover by Superman artist Wayne Boring (credited as Jack Harmon). Young King Cole; Toni Gayle; Hammertoones; Blackmail; Foxy; Inspector Klooz: Crime On the Half Shell; Dr. Doom. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.