War Against Crime (1948 EC) comic books 1948
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Issue #1
- Restored (see item notes)
- RESTORATION. Color touch, spine split seal, tear seal and piece fill. 4.75" Cumulative spine split.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories and art by Ed Moore, Graham Ingels, Lee J. Ames, and Johnny Craig. E.C.'s Pre-Trend early crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. The "true" story of Prohibition-era gangster Machine-Gun Kelly. A mastermind of crime seeks the secret evidence the police have against him, in a story by Johnny Craig. Modern-day train robbers become killers, in Graham Ingel's first story for EC Comics. Public Enemy…the Story of Machine-Gun Kelley!; Portfolio of Death!; The Ruby Stickpin!; Smokin Six-Guns! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #2
$550.00
View scans- Paper: Cream to off white
- Label #0065189001
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
- Oxidation. Chew.
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Graded by MCS, not consignor.
Other items consigned by humble cow
Stories and art by Frank Bolle, Lee J. Ames, Leonard Starr, Stan Aschmeier, and Graham Ingels. E.C.'s early Pre-Trend crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. A man becomes a vicious thug after his brother is killed by cops during a robbery. Benedict Arnold is the star of America's First Crime. A wannabe criminal gets a little too close to the real thing, with art by EC horror legend Graham Ingels. Hank Two-Gun Corley!; The Crystal Ball Killer; Americas First Crime; The Saga of Spotlight John! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #3
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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories and art by Lee J. Ames, Stan Aschmeier, and Al Feldstein. E.C.'s early Pre-Trend crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. Frisco Florrie, Queen of the Barbary Coast, specializes in shanghai - the crime of abducting sailors into slavery. A woman with malice on her mind uses a circus strongman to do her dirty work, in an Al Feldstein story. Tense car-chase cover by Johnny Craig. Frisco Florrie, Queen of the Barbary Coast!; The Case of the Savage Strongboy; The Deadly Habit; The Do-It Yourself Kid and the Dimpled Doll. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #4
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Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories and art by Gardner Fox, Howard Larson, Sheldon Moldoff, and Al Feldstein. E.C.'s early Pre-Trend crime title featured gangsters, gunplay and femmes fatale. Mobsters with machineguns go on a crime spree, in an Al Feldstein story. The train-themed story "Choo-Choo Jones" was created at the request of EC publisher and comics pioneer Max Gaines' request, shortly before his untimely death. An unusual piece of jewelry thwarts a band of thieves, with art by Howard Larson. The Machine-Gun Mad Mobsters; Choo-Choo Jones; The Robbery Ring. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
