$0.00 0 items

Auction in progress, bid now! Weekly Auction ends Monday December 22!

Crime Smashers (1950-53 Trojan) 3 CGC 4.5

  • Item #48628415
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Front Cover
    Actual item pictured; not a generic image.
    Zoom Back Cover
    Crime Smashers (1950-53 Trojan) #3 CGC 4.5
    Published Mar 1951 by Trojan Magazines.
    CGC 4.5
    SOLD
    $384.00
    or Best Offer
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #1497629004
    • This item has sold.

    Cover by Myron Fass. Stories and art by Robert Leslie Bellem, Adolphe Barreaux, Gene Leslie and Newton H. Alfred. Despite the title, not true "crime" comics, but mystery comics featuring detective heroes. Sally the Sleuth goes undercover to infiltrate a blackmail ring that uses pretty girls to capture compromising photos. Gail Ford, Girl Friday goes undercover as a cocaine dealer's girlfriend to catch drug kingpin Spade Samson. Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (who dresses like '50s-era Jimmy Olsen in these stories) finds multiple suspects after a blackmailing starlet is murdered on a movie set. Gail Ford, Girl Friday: Doubling For a Moll; Sally the Sleuth: Dirty Politics; Ray Hale, News Ace: Body on the Roof; Dan Turner Hollywood Detective: Blackmail Bump-Off. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10. Grade: CGC 4.5 explanation of grade Condition: Used (collectible)