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Johnny Dynamite (1955 Charlton) comic books

  • Issue #10
    Johnny Dynamite (1955 Charlton) 10

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    Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi, Nathaniel Nitkin and Sam Peel. Numbering continues from Dynamite (1953 Comic Media) #9. Charlton takes over publishing the adventures of hardboiled, one-eyed private eye Johnny Dynamite. After his old war buddy is murdered, Johnny tracks the man with the limp across Europe. Johnny narrates the story of Blackie Wall, who ruled others by blackmailing them with their darkest secrets. The reader is invited to find the clues and solve a jewelry store robbery; the story of the first electric burglar alarm; strange true crime facts. First issue to feature the Comics Code seal. Vengeance Be Mine!; Minit Mystery; The Great Electric Trap!; Murders Aren't Accidents; Facts About Crime; The King of Blackmail. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Johnny Dynamite (1955 Charlton) 11

    Cover by Pete Morisi. Stories and art by Pete Morisi and others. Charlton takes over publishing the adventures of hardboiled, one-eyed private eye Johnny Dynamite. Johnny escorts a nuclear scientist targeted by Communist agents, reflecting the Cold War concerns of a changing era. Secret agent Ed Wells must bring a secret cargo to the American embassy in London, but someone doesn't want him to arrive. Johnny meets his own private heart of darkness as he travels into the Vietnam jungles in search of a missing man and his daughter. The cover blurb describes the violent action as "Adult Reading," a rare distinction at the time. The Man of Many Faces; Lamebrain: In A Stew; The Shattered Alibi; Secret Agent From New York; Wilbur the Waiter Is Fowled Up; Ackley; Poison Jasmine. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Johnny Dynamite (1955 Charlton) 12

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    Cover by Dick Giordano and Vince Alascia. Stories and art by Bill Molno and Vince Alascia. Charlton takes over publishing the adventures of hardboiled, one-eyed private eye Johnny Dynamite. Johnny leaps into action when an old buddy is indicted for taking bribes, and Johnny knows he must have been set up. Johnny smells trouble when a bank teller is spending more on gambling than he makes on his salary. Custom-order car thieves make the mistake of heisting Johnny's Cadillac, in the classic "Hundred Cadillacs". The Fixer's Mob; The Maddened Teller; Trouble Through Tape; Parker Lane: The Case of the Royal Rubies; The Hundred Cadillacs. Final issue under this title; series continues as Foreign Intrigues (1956) #14. (There was no issue #13.) 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.