All True All Picture Police Cases (1952) comic books 1955 or before

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Gene Colan, Matt Baker, and Enrico Bagnoli. Remaindered St. John pre-Code crime comics, collected into a squarebound anthology. This issue features Authentic Police Cases (1948) #16 and #17, and Fugitives from Justice (1952) #1. Believing that "juvenile delinquency must be stamped out!" patrolman Bob goes undercover in the city's teen gangs, in a story with early art by future Marvel legend Gene Colan. Crooked contractors commit murder after murder to conceal the truth about the sub-standard houses they're selling to veterans, in a story with art by good-girl art legend Matt Baker. Blonde bad girl Millie has a scheme to get her hands on the money from the bank job, even if it means turning her companions against each other, in the sort of story that a young Frank Miller's parents might have read to him at bedtime. Cover by Baker. Mystery Man of the Death House; The Moll Who Gambled on Murder; Teen-age Gangs Tangle With Cops!; Cover Up For Murder; Hit-and-Run Killer!; The Killer Who Played CORPSE; The Trigger-Squeeze Trap; Five-Alarm Torch!; 9,000 Miles to the Noose!; Daily Doubles Death Trap; The Angel Mob; Blackmail Photography; . Other variants exist. 100 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.